Good Guys - LIVE From the US Open!

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

Mazel morons! In this very special bonus episode, we’re taking Good Guys courtside with our first-ever live podcast at the US Open! From joking about Novak Djokovic’s “Jewish king” alter ego to debating the proper ratio of raspberry vs. butterscotch on an in-flight sundae, nothing is off-limits. We riff on airline mishaps, tennis physiques, NYC borough rankings, and of course, the legendary Honey Deuce cocktails. Plus, we dream up ball boy alternatives, pitch ourselves as doubles partners , and test Vital Proteins live in front of a buzzing crowd. Let’s just say- it’s a perfect match. (Get it? Haha like a tennis match… No? It didn’t land? Okay I’m sorry. Who let me write this? What am I nuts?) Love ya and love TENNIS!  Leave us a voicemail here! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: Visit VitalProteins.com to learn more and where to buy. Get 20% off your next order by entering promo code goodguys at check out! 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

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. We want Josh. We want Josh and Ben. Can we get a we want Ben chant? This isn't fair. We want Ben. We want Ben. That's better.

That's better. Josh. Benny and Joshy at the U.S. Open. Benny and Joshy here in front of people that some know you but don't know me. Benny and Joshy being mad random. Guys, can you believe it? I'm Novak Djokovic. And I'm Billy Gene.

King, okay? That's us. We are here. We're here. Do you think if Djokovic was a Jewish king, he'd be Nova Jokovic? Novo Jokovic? Yes. By the way, the food here, unbelievable. Unreal. Here, put that close to you. After this, we need to really snack. We need to dive in. We're going to start, you know, they have coat, the Korean barbecue. They make those chicken fingers, they throw on caviar. Have you seen that here? I just can't believe that for 39 minutes we're going to have to ignore where we are. No, it's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. We're basically, we're at an airport. We're on the tarmac. But this is a gorgeous, I mean, tennis fans, let me just say to the people, you guys are attractive. Yes. You guys are lively. There's

an energy. You all look fit as a fiddle. You do. It's good for cardio. You do. Right? I do want to know what you do for work that you're here at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. Right? Like, I would like to know, do we all call in sick? Like, it's day one of the U.S. Open. So, you could have come in like 10 days right now. It's like 99 versus 9. So like, what are we doing? What do we do for work? That would be my question. I guess I could ask us the same.

What do we do for work, Josh? What do we do? This. Isn't that fun? Isn't that fun? We've hacked the system. We have, absolutely. And now we get to podcast at the U.S. Open.

You know where the first podcast ever at the U.S. Open. Did you know that? First ever. Biggest crowd ever. Biggest crowd at the history of the U.S. Open. It's huge. It's huge. And if you stick around for our 40-minute podcast, you might get a free bucket hat.

That's not true. No, we handed out the first. Too early. We handed out the merch too early. But yes, we are the Good Guys podcast. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. You can watch us on YouTube. Yes. So if you haven't heard of us before, welcome. We're going to start to ignore you and start to talk to each other. But it's, it's a real pleasure to be here. And as you know, this is the U.S. Open Mixed Doubles, Open Mixed Doubles, Open Mixed Doubles Championship. Yes, it is. Right? Sponsored by, oh, Vital Proteins. Have you seen these vital proteins? And Vital Proteins has a new RTD, 30 grams of protein folks. So much collagen. Let's do it. So much collagen. Listen, how about we do a live taste test, right? We should.

Because you know me, I don't lie. Give it a quick shake. They call me Joshi honesty here. Let's give it a taste. I'm a walking polygraph. That's delicious. Lechheim. That's delicious.

Cheers. That's delicious. This is chocolate milk with collagen and protein. And oh, no sugar. 30 grams of protein. No added sugar. I'm looking at this crowd and I'm sorry to say not everyone's hitting their protein minimum. I know it. I could see right through you

30 grams right here like it was nothing. Wow. And do you see this fan? You try this. You try this. I feel like I'm on drag race. You try this. This is amazing. Do you know what my drag name would be? What would it be? Delta variant. Hold on. Yes. Yes. Wow. Wait, wait, wait. Very good. And serve. Yes, queen. Sir, turn up your camera. Okay, turn it on. Yeah. All right, well...

By the way, give that away. Throw it. Oh, should we give this away? Yeah. All right, here. Throw it. This is like air conditioning here. Oh, very nice.

Did you know? I was once on an episode of, um, what's the one where you have to know how to sing the, um, what's that show? The Masked Singer? No, where you lip sync. Lipsink battle? Yes. With what's his name?

L.L. Cool J and Chris Eagan. You were on that show? I was on that show. I did incredible. Wow. And what has sort of... Don't forget the lyrics or that's different. It was a great show right after Family Feud.

Lipsink battle, right? Okay, I don't know. Maybe. All I remember is that we had these big inflatable beach balls on the stage. Yes. And L.O. Cool J. Couldn't be nicer. Yes.

Uncle L. The best. Sure. Uncle L. He tried to... Is he Uncle L. Like me and Chris DeStefano are friends? Totally.

Okay. cool. Just checking. No, we, he would not know me in a crowd, but he's Uncle L. Never. He would actively ignore me. If you saw him, you'd go, go Uncle, go Unk. Yeah, you would. Unk. Okay, cool. Yeah. And he'd be like, who are you? No, he'd be like, get this guy out of here. But we had these inflatable beach balls on the stage for, for a theme. Yeah. And he wanted to give them to the crowd. Fun. When I tell you, this guy dropped, kicked this into the audience. Like, it was like the championship of a kickball tournament. Wow. Did it pop? I'm pretty sure it definitely hit someone in their upper torso. Well, we'll do that at the end. If you stick around for the whole episode, we're going to pelt these at you.

Okay? You're going to run away. I'm going to be chucking it. And if I hit you in the back of the head, that's your prize. Yeah, you're welcome. So Josh, you flew in last night. I did. How was your flight? It was lovely. It's my first time being away. I have a seven-week-old little baby. Yes. One of three babies. Meyer. Meyer. Thank you. And Ben has a beautiful. three-month-old Ruby. Yes, thank you. God bless. Yes, they didn't clap for me, but yes, thank you. No, listen. Yeah, that's right. Our wives are so lucky that we have infants and we're here, you know. Yeah, how lucky are they? I know. I said, hon, I want to be here with the baby. Yes, but vital proteins called. And they said, we have a new RGD with 30 grams of protein

and a fuck ton of collagen and we need you to shill it. I said, listen, do you like hair, nail and skin benefits? Yeah. Collagen, hon. I do. I love it. Collagen, Dave. Do you see our hair? Do you see our nails and do you see our skin? Do I dye my hair? A little on the sides. Yeah. I know you didn't ask. Thank you. Shout out. I feel seen. I would say that it has a little to do with genetics, but a lot to do with collagen. Right. Collagen all day. I'm collagen forward. Me too. Me too. A collagen adjacent. So you said your flight was fine. That can't be true. Flights are always terrible. Something must have happened. I'll tell you exactly what happened.

I'm not going to mention the airline because I hope to work with them one day. JetBlue. I will say, we hope next year that this podcast is sponsored by, you know, JetBlue. Yeah, sure. They're basically right as we took off, the entire top panel above us fell. It's unbelievable. You know what it is, Josh?

They took the planes that they first. made in the 1960s, renovated the inside and thought that we wouldn't know. When I go to the bathroom and I see no smoking, I know. I know it's an old plane. Yes. People used to smoke on planes. But if it says no smoking, that means, Josh, that people were one smoking in that plane because they've the little ashtray. If you have an ashtray, you're on an ancient plane. Yes. Okay? Why can't we vape on planes? Thank you for team me up. I wanted to ask, because when you think tennis, you think vaping. For sure. Why isn't there a vape section of of Spirit Airlines.

Why can't you vape everywhere? What's wrong with it? Why can't you vape on the airlines? I'm provade. It doesn't smell like anything. You should be able to, can you smoke here? We're outside. Can somebody pass me my Marlboro lights?

Can we light up a cigarette in between having our vital proteins 30 grams of collagen? I'm sure they're going to love that. I think collagen counteracts the effects of smoking, right? I've heard that. I'm pretty sure that's not true. Okay. We can't say not true claims. That's us.

That's what podcasts are. Act check. Unsubstantiated claims. Is there an app that substantiates claims made on podcasts? Encyclopedia. There should be. Yeah. There should be like an AI bot.

Is this true? No. Right. You like it, right? Keep it to yourself, Theo Vaughn or whomever. Or Ben's offer. You like it, though. You like it.

So, okay, the whole top came down on the plane. The whole top came down. But what was redeeming was they did an ice cream. Sunday bar. Okay. Can you imagine this? On the plane, they brought you

vanilla ice cream and toppings. Thank you, God bless. If you leave, I'm not saying for a picture, after. We have about, we have 31 minutes left. Josh, there's audio.

I would leave too. Josh, it's okay. It's audio and video. Nobody left. There's at least 10,000 people watching us. They'll never know. Oh, right. Yes, the swarm of people is unbelievable.

The masses. This is incredible. Believe it. So many people. Yeah, so the ceiling fell. Yes. They made you ice cream. They did an ice cream Sunday bar with hot fudge. Amazing. Butter scotch. Let me ask you what, okay, so they presented to me. Yes. Hot fudge, buttercotch, a raspberry rumelad. Delicious. Okay. And then whipped cream nuts. Yes. What's your topic? I personally love a raspberry rumelad. I'm all in. I'm all in. I like the fruity flavors. I go, Claudia always makes fun of me. I go into an ice cream.

I'm immediately asking to try their raspberry soft serve. She's like, what are you nut? I think it's delicious. Yes. Delicious. That's my thing. Fecant, I don't really like the mixture of raspberry and chocolate. I would just go raspberry.

You definitely avoided the raspberry one for everything else, right? I went butterscotch, sure. Because I like to feel like I'm 90. It's too indulgent to the butterscotch. Is it? It's too, it's viscosity. It's through the roof. It's so thick.

Here's the hard questions that no one's willing to ask. What is butterscotch? I don't want to know. Me either. I don't want to know. Definitely sugar, which you will not find in here. No sugar in here. No sugar.

You won't find that in here. Not even close. No sugar. Yeah, it's definitely sugar. I'd assume some coloring. I wonder where that caramel color comes from. Maybe tar. Right?

Like something they were not going to want to know. Let me tell you, this. It's delicious. I don't know if these are going to be next. You know what the ball? There should be a vital protein's drink boy. Yes. Or girl.

Yes. And just, you know, whenever, like, Naomi Osaka's like, I'm parched. And hungry. Flying in. Boom. And hungry. A nice hit of collagen. It's fantastic. And protein.

30 grams of protein. That's good. You're Mr. Macro. Did you go to the gym this morning? Of course I did. You kidding me? You did.

Fantastic. What did you do? I did 30 minutes of cardio and I did 15 minutes of arms. Light, hotel workout. How much creatine did we take this morning? I did. I'm not like you. Okay.

I, I, you know what? I do a little bit of, uh, I'm not in a full-time thing. I'm like in a, how would you call it? Like, me and creatine, we just hang out. We're not in a relationship. We're dating. But I, I call creatine at 10 o'clock at night. You up?

Yeah. And then I'll, you know, take a couple. At night? You never know. That's crazy. How much creatine did you take to that? Five milligrams a day. By the way, vital proteins, throw some creatine in here.

That would be sick. Right? That would be sick. Yeah, five, five milligrams. It's good. I haven't worked out. Actually, no, that's not true. I worked out four days ago. We did a Soto method, me and Claudia. My legs were shot for three days. I'm in that rebuild phase where I need to do it more so that I feel less pain. But right now I'm in the pain phase. Pain phase. Tell me, since we're at the U.S. Open, what is your history with tennis? Have you played? Do you play? I love, professionally, of course. No, I dabble in racket sports, really enjoy it. It's definitely. It's definitely. It's definitely. Definitely exhausting. Like, if you've played singles tennis, it's exhausting.

Exhausting. Doubles is more my speed. We've been to the U.S. Open, like, probably 10 times. This is like a New York staple. Like, we're at the Mecca. They say it's Madison Square Garden. It's Arthur Ashe Stadium. Like, this is the story in history.

It's fantastic. We love it. And there's nothing better than great tennis. Great tennis. There's so much action. We love it. So you've been 10 times. We've been 10 times.

And let me tell you, You guys are here at the right time, okay? 12 o'clock, she's not here. I'm sorry, he's my wife. Her name is actually Claudia in case that's confusing. The great Claudia Oshry, the toe, shout out, God bless. Ruby's mom. Shut of Claudia.

And we have the lovely Zach here. We do have the lovely Zach here as well. He's here, he's here. You guys are here at the right time. 1220 on a Tuesday. It's not so hot. It's actually quite lovely, lovely, beautiful breeze. Let me tell you, if you catch the U.S. Open,

7 p.m. in there, it's like 109. Really? You feel the sweat dripping straight into your crack. It is so unbelievably hot, unbelievably hot, that it's a Woody and Notts. It's so funny you say that because I was observing in the beautiful vital protein suite, which what a spread, first of all. Unbelievable. You want to talk about a sponsor?

It's fantastic. The first ever collagen sponsor of the U.S. Open Mixed doubles. I'm not saying that right, but you get the gist. Yeah, we got it. Okay. This suite, I noticed, there were people dressed like us in ath leisure. Yes. Then there were some people in some wool Chanel suits.

By the way, it's nice to finally see you dressing like me. This is what I wear on every podcast. I'm always ready for a game of tennis. It's August in New York. I thought it was going to be 110. If you give it a couple of hours, it will be. The mornings, they're fantastic. This also is just a perfect day.

Perfect day. But what is the fashion for the U.S. Open? Is it like Wimbledon? What's it giving? Yeah, no, it gets fashionable, especially later at night. The later we go in the U.S. Open when it's really meaningful matches, people show up. Oh, yeah, people will show up. But you'll always catch me in this.

Always ready. It's so funny, I'm like that guy who brings his mitt to the baseball game. What am I expecting to go on the field? What am I expecting they're going to call me? Naomi Osaka goes down with a knee injury. God forbid! God forbid. And they slot me in?

Like, why am I dressed like this? Just in case I want to play? I want to be there with the guys. I want to be there with Tiafo or Al-Karaz. Just not in a coaching capacity, but in a height man capacity. Did you know Tiafo and Al-Karaz before we booked this? Or did you do your research? I want to know.

What's your real level of tennis fandom? These are, I will say, top 10 players in the world. They are. So I do know them. Okay. Yes. I feel like I try to be well-rounded about most things. Yes.

But if you go into like the details of the sport of tennis, I know a little less. Yes. We had the great fortune of seeing Tiafo live last year. This man, oof. Oh my God. He's a specimen. He's alpha. Fantastic.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Is he high tea like us? Yes, and a lot of testosterone. The physical, like the thighs on these guys, unbelievable. We're not going to objectify women. The thighs on these guys. Yes.

Through the roof. Yes. Through the roof. I like. the tennis physique. Yes. Because you have these, these pillars that they stand on,

right? You got these trunks. The gorgeous trunks. And then slender uppers. Yes. Right? It's like they're probably wearing size 38 pants and a 40 jacket.

Yes, exactly. Wow. That's a visual. Shoo. Yeah. We call them the pyramids. Did you know growing up,

I played tennis? Really? at 300 pounds. Did you? As a 12-year-old overweight boy, I went to a little something called the Randy Manny

tennis camp. Wow. That is... I'm trying to picture it. The problem is that I would get into it and they'd be like, wow, for, you know,

a very overweight tween, he's got quite the forehand. I said, thank you, Randy. Of course, seven minutes in, I would be so winded that I would have to

lay down on the court and they would put my feet up, I would look like, this is how overweight and me playing tennis, this is where you'd find me on the court like this. Just getting the blood back to your head. Yeah. I was in a trauma,

a trauma position. Yes, yes. Because I needed to catch my breath. The court is always hot. The sport is played outside. It's tough for an overweight team. It's tough out there. Yes.

It's tough. But yeah, okay, good forehand. I also had a good forehand. Okay? It's the back hand that's tough for me. It's hard. It's hard. Are you a two-hand back hand or a one hand? No, one hand. Lazy. There's no reason to do one hand. I think that that's like the problem. I would always go one hand. I think I could just whack it and whack it. But no, you need the two. Yes. Did that look coordinated? Everything you do is coordinated. Yeah. The better I get at golf, the better I get at tennis. And I found that they're the same. You use your core to get into it. the same way that you would hitting a golf ball. Isn't it interesting?

I just want to be, you know what I really dream about? Not playing in the U.S. Open, not being out there on the main stage. I want to be the loved one of someone who wins. Yes, sure. Like when Cocoa Gough won years ago and she goes into the stand, she hugs her gorgeous family, that should be me. It should. Okay, so how do we get Paige?

Page looks like a professional tennis player. Honestly, she does. So how do we get her into the game? Okay, wait. Let's act it out. Okay. I'll go first. Okay.

I'm going to be the loved one. Yes. Coach. Yes. Husband. Partner. Yes. Life partner.

Yes. Someone who just won the U.S. Open. Okay. And this is match point. Okay. How hot is that match point? I'm serving.

I'm serving. I'm serving. I'm on serve. And you got a win. You got an ace. For the win. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Now your turn. Okay. Now I'm the. Now you be the loved one. It'll look like what we just think before.

Ready? Hold on. Let me do my ready since. I'm going to do a couple points. So a couple rallies. Okay, okay, okay. And I'll tell you when I, on my third hit, it's going to be forehand. Okay.

Volley. And I win with a backhand cross court. Okay, okay. Who doesn't love an act out? I love it. I love it. I'm sure the listeners will hate it. And I was, they're like, what are they doing?

I can't see you. You were the father I never met. Oh, yeah. That would be fun. But I want to go back to getting Paige into tennis. Did she play? She plays, and you know, my sister-in-law, Taylor, is a big tennis player. She played this morning at 7 a.m.

These are tall, blonde women. They were born for this sport. Lanky, okay? Lanky. Gazelle-like. Yeah, she'd be great. I feel like she'd have a great forehand, great backhand. What else do you do besides four-hand?

Slices. Vollies. Bollies, sometimes between the legs. Oh, that's a cool move. That's a cool move. Let's take a guess. I'm going to say that that is a jet blue flight coming in from Milwaukee. I hope so.

I hope so. You know what? When they said the U.S. Open, I said, you had me at Queens. Yeah. Queens is great. I love Queens. Is Queens an underrated borough? No.

Thank you. Shout out. No, it's not. It's a great borough. It's not an underrated borough, though. Okay. It's a great borough. I think people love Queens.

We have Arthur Ashe Stadium. We have the city field. Sure. For this grab, we got to go Queens one, obviously. Queens one. Yes. But then we'll do it for real later, okay? No, Arthur Ash, we have City Field, we have Parkside.

We love Parkside. Josh and I go to Parkside for fun even when we're not in Queens. Corona Ices. Remember when we went to Corona Ices and the guy gave us a free ice and that made me give a $20 tip? That sucked. Do you understand how inconvenient it is to be given a free $5? I mean this famous. Because then you have no choice but to give a $20 tip, I would have preferred to pay $5 for the Ices. 100%. These are some of the trials and tribulations being celebrities.

Do you remember the other controversy after we got said free ice? Yes. What? What? Wait, I don't remember. You ridiculed me. What did I ridicule you for? Because I pick grape. That's a terrible flavor. I totally forgot. Raise your hand if you think grape is a terrible. terrible flavor for Ices. Raise your hand if you think peach is a delicious flavor for ICE. Okay, people like grape. You got a couple ringers in here. People like grape.

Who knew? Vital proteins. You got to come out with a grape smoothie collagen. 30 grams of protein, no added sugar, ton of collagen, mixed doubles, okay? You're mixing things up. Did you know that the U.S. Open there's a $1 million prize? For mixed?

For mixed dubs. Crazy. Yeah. I love that. That's great. Let's shorten it to M. Dub. By the way, why can't we participate?

What do you need to do to participate? Can't we participate? We're doubles. We're mixed. Yeah. Right? Yes. What qualifies mixed?

I guess it's men and women. Men's and women. Yes. Yeah. We were joking before. We were looking at the wall. There's Pete Samperson, Billy Jean King. And when I put on my glasses,

I look a little bit like Billy Jean King, don't I? A little bit. Right? Yeah. Queen. They don't agree. Yeah.

They don't agree. Love her. Who cares? I love Billy Jean. Do you see the movie? The one with Emma Stone? I don't know. Yes.

She played Billie Jean King. She was great. God, is she a great actor or what? Emma Stone? The range. She's fantastic. And then, wait, there was another one recently with Shia LaBuff played John McEnroe. You mean Shia Leboofstein?

Yeah. Shia Leboofstein. Yeah. Yeah. God bless him. Shia the Beef. The Beep. Did you know that my mom has a really, really deep crush on Rafa Nidal?

So much so it makes me uncomfortable? That should make you uncomfortable because you don't look that different. The more I see you in this environment, you look like a European tennis player. You look like you don't speak a lick of English. Thank you. And you're going to come here and you're probably ranked like 84 and you're going to make it far. You're going to make it far. Under some flag that has a little bit of red in it, you're going to make it far.

I'm better as a foreign tennis player. That's what you look like right now. Then I am with some American Schlock podcast. No, you look like a foreign tennis player and I look like you're Jewish agent. That's what it is. I'm here. We're going to get you a deal. Did you just close Cadillac for me?

Yes, of course. What do you mean? The number one sponsor of this random country's random athlete. You know what it's cool, though? It's because obviously basketball, baseball, American sports, amazing, right? They get killer contracts. Sure. But when you have a lot of it.

these European things like tennis, you know, even F1. Yes. They get those, they get the watch. Yes, they do. They get that hot watch. You see Sabalanka and a Rolex star? They do. They do get those. It's golf and tennis. They get those high-end deals. So Rock and a few-end. Fantastic. A Pat-Tech deal. That's class. Pay me and Pat-Tec-Filippe. That's what I want. Pay me and Pat-Tex. We get T-J-Max deal. Yes, we We do. We do. I'm fine with. Tag hewer. Is that what it's called? Sure. We get paid in tags. We're citizens. We are. We're getting citizens sponsors. What's the, the Casio? We get paid in Casios. Fine. We should be getting paid in Pat Tax. We just did a G-Shok campaign. Yes.

All right. So you're at the U.S. Open. You're here. Honey Deuses, Josh. We got to talk about the honey deuce. Yeah. I know. How many honey deuce have we had thus far today? Who would do? Who would fail a breath of? She would shout out. I'm guessing 0.09. Josh, they're holding honey deuses. BAC. You see them? They're on their 14th.

Good for them. 14th. 14th. Ma'am, can you go like this right now? Very good. She's fine. I'll let you drive my car. I won't be in it, but I'll let you drive them and then reporter is stolen and

claim the insurance money. What is the honey deuce? Okay. The honey juice is first and foremost, the most delicious cocktail. in the whole world. Okay? Honeydew belongs in alcohol. I didn't know it.

They make these melon balls. Okay, they're delicious. It's some kind of like a, I don't know if it's like a raspberry liqueur, but it's some type of fruity liqueur with just like some soda. It's fantastic. So good.

We read the stats a couple weeks ago. Do you know that last year the U.S. Open did $13 million in just honey-induced sales? You imagine that? From us. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And that's because it tastes so delicious. No one, no other sport has a drink.

No, no, no, none. No. None. None. I don't, none. They made it. I think it was originally a brand. I could be wrong. I feel like it was like an American Express or something.

Somebody made the honey deuce. Is that right? Who was it? Griegoose. Gregoose. She's right. Grey goose. Wow.

That's unbelievable. American Express. What am. Why would it be a critical company? Not an alcohol company. Gregoose. Obviously, thank you for the assist. Okay, please, let's start.

Let's try to figure out drinks for other major sports events, right? Okay, okay. So, like, maybe the master's margarita. Love it. I'm in. That's fun. Yeah, a little Casamigo Spalanco. Maybe we throw in some tahin. Tachin, tajin.

Maybe it's a little spicy, right? Or maybe it's a peach marg because it's in Atlanta. Oh, my God, Josh. Wow, that sounds fantastic. What's better than a Georgia peach? Nothing. Would you say that I'm your little Georgia peach? I would say so little.

Not so little. Medium. Excuse me. You're a medium. Excuse me. Yeah. Because I want a hearty peach. You do.

Succulent. You want a peach to feel like a nice caboose. I'm just thinking about it for the first time when you bite into a peach. You want it to be like you're biting into a fat, juicy tuchess. My, you know, my... What's more delicious? A fat juicy tuchus or a vital protein? 30 grams of it.

My God. I'd say vital proteins. Here's the thing about vital proteins is it's in the name. It's vital. You know what I like about when not just they're ready to make. What's that RTD? Ready to drink. Ready to drink. This is the man in the beverage space. He knows acronyms. This is ready to drink. Shake and enjoy. Make sure it's cold. But I've used their powders before. You know what I love about them? Tell me. How smart this is. Unflavored. Genius. No matter how. How matter how. How good the flavor is of your supplement, it's not great. No.

Unflavored, it takes on... Did you just see me go to push up my glasses? They're not there. I do that often. I really do. I really do. Yeah, no, unflavored is underrated. Because it takes on the taste of the juice, of the thing, of the smoothie that it's in.

It's not conflicting. It's just good. You're not going to make a better tasting flavor than like a gatorade. Why don't you just throw it in a gatorade? Kind of genius, right? Throw it in an orange juice. Throw it in your morning smooth. movie. Never thought about it.

It's unflavored is the move. Vidal proteins is on it. Vytoes is on it. They understand it. All right, so after this, what are we eating? I wanted to go to, well, you tell me, what are the main food staples here? You mentioned the... We have to get the chicken nuggets with caviar. Great. I think that's where we go. I think we beeline straight there. Explain how it's put together. It's a box. Right? Chicken nuggets, caviar, crem fresh, open it up,

scoop and do it all, Josh. Wow. This is it. Simon Kim at Coat, he thought of everything. Fantastic. $100? $200? How much is this?

Something like that. It's expensive. It's expensive for sure. But money doesn't exist here. Okay? Money doesn't exist here. It's like Disney World. It's like Disney World for tennis.

Disney World for Tennis. I heard Alex Garnashelli has a restaurant here. We got to check that out. We love her. This is an American Express event. Listen, if you spend money, you're getting points. Just charge it. What have you guys eaten?

What's the best food here? Anybody? Best food? I can't hear them. They're like honey deuses our food. I see a MoA over there. What other food is here? Chicken sandwich?

Steak. Steak sandwich, that sounds nice. It sounds okay. Get some ribeye on a chabada. I'm not a big steak sandwich guy. I don't think she steak's different where it's really cut up. But those thick, chunk. of beef. Yes. Right? It's crazy. It's hard to make a good steak sandwich at the U.S.

Open. I think. We'll try it. Like we're at, I feel like we're on the tarmac of JFK. We are. No, it's loud. But it's great. I love it. And the best part is you feel like you're on the tarmac, but you're not worried. You're not worried. Imagine a plane fucking crash right here. Would that be our biggest episode yet? Yeah. If we died? Well, it would be the most viewed. We're like Picasso. We would get millions of views after our death. of this episode. I think Picasso was pretty famous while alive. Was he?

I don't think so. I think very much. I don't think he didgo. I think none of the artists are really recognized until they're dead. I'll bite you on this. I think he was super famous. I think so. But I think when they die, obviously, then it limits the production.

Their value shoots up. Van Gogh wasn't famous at all. Interesting. Van Gogh cut off his ear. If you had to cut off an extremity, what would you cut off, Ben? Oh, that's a really good question. I actually did lose the tip of my thumb. I thought it would bother me more than it does.

It doesn't. It's fine. Was it when you cut it off? When I was, yeah. And your father brought you vodka sauce? Yes, yes. And Claudia was yelling at me. Finish my chicken before you go to the hospital.

That really happened. Did she do it? Yeah. She didn't think it was a big deal. Because it's like what? Like a little kitchen injury. This, I sliced it off. They had to carterize it.

If you've ever had anything carterized, this is the most painful thing of all time. Right. So painful, and she didn't even tell me. She's like, okay, one, two, three. Awful. Wow. Awful.

Awful. But yeah, my dad did meet me, and he did bring me Penaola vodka, homemade with a fork. I ate it when I got home. It felt like in poor taste eating it at the hospital. These other people are having jello. I'm having Penae al vodka. It would be in poor taste. That's a gift.

He's a giver. What are you going to bring a teddy bear? Flowers? You can't eat those things. I don't need carbs. Yes. I need carbs. To repair.

Yeah, fantastic. And you probably need some collagen, right, to rebuild the skin. So you should down some vital protein. You said that the tubes are unflavored. You could put it in your panayala vodka. You'd never know. Why don't you put it in food? Can you imagine vital proteins in carbon do a collab?

I love it. I'm in. They should put us on their marketing team. These are fantastic ideas. I think we're consultants at this point. These are fantastic ideas, Josh. So tell me, once this ends, okay, now you tell me, I love this.

I was watching the Netflix series about tennis, something. You know, they do a lot of these series. I was just say, which one? I have no idea. Who knows? And it was when Sabalenko won a big, big thing. Okay. Really big.

Big, big time. And my happiest moment was watching her and her coaches eat Domino's Pizza after. Fantastic. I said, well done. You deserve that slice. And there's nothing more relatable than when you see something like that. Like when Andy Reed wins the Super Bowl and he's so excited. excited to go grab a burger.

That's how you become America's sweetheart. You win and then you go and get fast food. That's how you become America's sweetheart. But what fast food? For you in and out. You win, you go to in and out. Me, honestly, we don't have great fast food in New York. We have the classic chains, the McDonald's, the burger kings, whatever.

Sure. I guess like a shake shack. Shake shack. Shake shack. Is that considered fast food? Maybe you go to a White Castle. White Castle sounds delicious. Yeah.

Even though they really got to ditch the clams. They advertise that out to the Hamptons. You'll see, we now have clams. Has anyone here I had a White Castle clam? Why do you now have clams? That's right. And she still walking. You like the clams at White Castle?

Shout out. She said it so, so. You're too risky. You're like my mom. My mom literally saw a sign that said there's Listeria in this deli. She's like, I'll take a turkey sandwich. I'm like, why? Why, Mom?

They told you there's Listeria in the meat. She's like, I don't care. I'm here. I want turkey. That's the same thing. You see clams are back at White Castle. Run! Run away.

They don't belong there. God bless, Ava. Right? And what am I going to become listerical? The turkey wasn't even close. Josh, you have a Waddya Nuts. By the way, our Waddya Nuts moment is the pinnacle of a classic good guys podcast episode. Of course.

Whatty and Nuts is our gruby and nuts. are gripes of people, places, and things. You were waiting in line and the lady in front of you isn't wearing any shoes. You're at the U.S. Open and she's barefoot. Woody and you nuts, that's strange. You have a what-a-nuts moment, Josh. My Woody-Nuts moment of the week,

inspired by the great U.S. Open shout-out, and I don't mean to be critical at all of my beloved U.S. Open. It's outdoors. I know. What are you nuts? I know. We have roofs.

I know. Make the whole thing. You know, you look at the court right now, half of it's in the shade. Yes. I say, And look, we all love the outdoors. Yes, tennis traditionally, almost always outdoors.

Embrace air conditioning. I agree. Especially with Arthur Ash. Just cover it so that you never get those 112 degree days. Yes. That's it. And in case you have a beautiful day like this, oh, retractable roof. Okay?

Perfect. Okay? Like, come on. My Woody and Nuts moment of the week, tennis inspired as well, is the ball boy. Okay? Growing up in New York, it was always a story tradition. If you can become a ball boy, what prestige. What prestige.

Unpaid, you get yelled at, you're running around, you're standing in the heat, you're going to get dinged by a tennis ball. Being the ball boy is a what are you nuts. I'm sorry, I'd rather be a patron. What, do you think that you could qualify to be a ball boy, or they might have said, sir, you're not what we're looking for. I think that right now, at this current weight, I could be a ball boy. At the age of being a ball boy, what is that, 15, 280,

No good. No good. I trip. This is me as a ball boy. Djokovic, will you get my legs? I'm overheated. I'm running out all of a sudden. I puke on the court. No good.

No good. There should be a ball, bro. And they just scream out and be like, hey, no back. Hell yeah, bro. Let's get it. Oh, my God. Oh, man.

You know what else is nuts, Josh? Not giving this podcast five stars. So true. Listen to us wherever you get your podcast. Watch us on YouTube. Share our clips. Again, we are the Good Guys podcast. Instagram and TikTok. We have huge followings there.

Go follow us there. Share our clips if you want to find funny moments. And again, this podcast is brought to you by vital proteins. Yes. They're new RTD, 30 grams of protein. Collagen, so much gorgeous collagen. They sponsored men's and women's mixed doubles. There's a chance to win a million dollars.

Huge. And they're shaking things up with this gorgeous RTD. And it's been great, right, Josh? Shout out to the U.S. Open. I want to say growing up, I used to go to the Arthur Ash Kids Day. I have a big brother from the Big Brother Foundation, the great Dan who I love dearly, and his father of the great Jonah, who we love dearly.

He's fantastic. And they support the Big Brothers Foundation, and we would come every year, have the greatest time. It's so nice to be back here. And what's even better than being here at the U.S. Open with you gorgeous people, some of you are in the bag, five honey juices deep, but I love you anyway, drink up kids.

And is that we're here and we're together at the U.S. Open and we're here with vital proteins. God bless. The U.S. Open brought us together. Folks, you've been an amazing audience. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you so much.

And yeah, we'll catch you next time. See you soon. See you soon. All right, who wants a ball? No, they're stuck. 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.