Good Guys - Look Mom! We Made It!

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

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The following podcast is a Dear Media production. Two Jews, both big and tall, no subject, too small for the good guys. A mother's dream, premium podcast team, make it your weekly routine. It's a good guys. And if you don't give us five stars, what are you nuts? What are you nuts? Yeah, we're the good guys. They're not the great guys.

We're just going to do to good guys. Hi, Ben. Speaking of making it, Josh. Yeah, yeah. You saw our billboard? You saw this billboard. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't bring it up sooner.

It is so epic. When I tell you, you have no idea how big this billboard is until you actually see it. If you guys haven't seen it, you missed it because we can't afford more than a week. And by a Ford, I mean, we got it for free, but we couldn't afford more than a week anyways. What? It's only one week? One week. It runs for one week. This is this ad. Well, there's two things, Josh, running at the same time. This ad in Times Square is right next to where the ball drops.

43rd and 7. We had a good guy's video with What Do You Nuts? Just What Do You Nuts vertically was running, Josh, 10 stories. The full video probably ran 30 stories. This is like a 40-story, massive Woody-Nuts. me and you being goons. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. And then separately, Link, NYC, you'll notice throughout the entire city is running the exact same ad on all of those used to be telephone areas that are now just screens.

Link NYC is running that video too. Both of them. Josh, we, God, we're killing it. Well, I don't want to be in a contest here, but we're also in my mother's assisted living's newsletter this week. sorry Ben I'm gonna need a picture of that I'm gonna need a picture of that Proofer it didn't happen Barbara our esteemed

resident her son is a bit of a Meshugga and he has a AM radio internet show with his other

Meshugger friend and they're both rotund God, I'm happy that we're doing Barb again. What a voice. It's so good. Once in a generation. Thank God.

Anyway, dude, can we do a best bite of the week real quick? Please. I have. I have one. Go. The other night, I went to a restaurant in Beverly Hills called La de Javilla. La Javier. I've heard.

I've heard. This place. This was. This was an institution in Beverly Hills for many years. And then I think they kind of did like a refresh. I mean, this was out of control. I went with my West Coast Ben, Len. We went and let me tell.

I'm going to walk you through this because I had already done what all Jews do, which is I pre-planned. Okay. I did homework on the restaurant. I got my intel. These people, they sit down and they peruse the menu for 30 minutes. It's not changing. You know, this is not SAT prep.

Order. Be ready. He's here. Order. So first beautiful breadbasket arrives. The vibe on this place, I feel like I was in the Lucchese crime family, allegedly. Then they do a table side, Caesar. You know we love table side.

The best. They're making it rain freshly grated Parmesan on this thing beyond. Then we do some apps. We do a shrimp fra Diablo, beautiful. And then, and these are really, these are proper shrimp. These are like, these are shrimp on those Barry Bond's drugs. You know, that good, good, right? All juiced up.

These shrimp, they had to get a bigger hat when they were in their mid-30s, which is normal. I'm not on steroids, MLB. As Ina Garten would call them 12-count shrimp, Josh, 12 to a pound. Okay, 12 to a pound. Continue. That's right. That's right. And then we order that.

And then we order. And this is not, this is, I think, really ubiquitous in, on the East Coast, but you don't see it as much in L.A. And shout out winter vegetables. We had an artichoke, but a stuffed artichoke. The best. Ah, in like a lemon butter type paccata. You think I'm done with paccata?

I'm not done with paccata. Then the mains. A limon bucotini and almost like a light cream lemon sauce. My favorite. That Bucatini, that Bucatini, that Bucatini, bullies spaghetti when no one's looking. That Pucatini has negative talk to spaghetti and goes, you call yourself a noodle.

Can we pause on lemon pasta, Josh? Lemon pasta, I'm sorry. Lemon pasta is it. It's it. Indeed is it. People don't talk enough about it. The way that the lemon cuts through the cream. That's right.

The lemon zest and the lemon juice in a full fat, creamy pasta, oh, God, chef's kiss. Beyond. And then we had a brandzino picata. Yeah, right? Yeah. Delish. From the waters in the Mediterranean, because otherwise, if it's not from the Mediterranean,

as my friend Max Shapiro would say, just sea bass. Just sea bass. It's not Brancino. And then the marquee item, we had a veal parmesan. Sounds fantastic. I need that in my belly. I recently, Josh, I was in the great state of Vermont. Love.

I was in Middlebury, Vermont. That is where we do Sprit Society production, did about a million cans. just saying, freezing news coming in March. Yeah, it was huge. It was huge. But in the middle of the day, Josh, I had to pop out and grab myself a bite. And I looked far and wide, and I found apparently the greatest sandwich shop in Vermont, happened to be in Middlebury, called Noonies.

And when I tell you, Josh, you walk in and you just know that what you're about to get is it, is it. They have the parchment paper. If you have a sandwich that's being made on parchment paper, you are in for a treat. A treat. I got Long Sub-Hogie, they call it, okay? I went tuna. They gave me Havardi. Havardi is an incredibly underrated cheese.

And if you're making sandwiches with the Havardi, you know what you're doing. Shredded lettuce, onions, tomatoes. Josh, they had curry mayonnaise. Curry mayo. Whoa. Fantastic. You just threw a weird wrench in this thing. It was fantastic.

I swear. A curry mayo? But don't say that like you're talking about, you know, the days of the week. This is a curveball. Have you had curry mayo? Never. Josh. Olivia, have you had curry mayo? I have not. Okay. The two of you need to go and buy a bottle of Hellman's mayonnaise and a pack of curry. Okay? And I want to see. Curry mayonnaise, you have to like curry. But if you like curry, this is, you're in for a ride. You're in for a ride. It was an unbelievable sandwich. Everything there looked amazing. For first time, curry mayo people, okay? I went crazy with the tuna.

Try it on turkey. Have a turkey sandwich, avocado, red onion, curry mayonnaise. Tell me your life hasn't changed. Outrageous. I believe you. Was there a chip? Did we involve a chip? No, I could have.

It felt so gluttonous. I have this huge sub. I'm not then going to also grab like a Howls or a... Is Hal's soda or Hal's chips? Soda, right? Yeah, I think it's East Coast, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wasn't going to go and grab a big fat bag of chips,

but it definitely would have been better with a little sun chips harvest cheddar. That's my favorite chip, man. So is my son. What's your favorite chip? Don't get me started. I like it all and I like it all under the sun, but I think they live in different worlds. You cannot compare a Frito to any other chip.

You can't compare a Dorito to any other chip. No, am I tripping? No, no, you're 100% right. Am I out of pocket? No. No, the Frito, the Frito is the world's most versatile chip as well. Yes. The Frito is a vehicle to a sauce where chips typically, you can't dunk a harvest cheddar

in anything. Otherwise, you're just a fatso, okay? But the Frito gives you the right to dunk. That's right. Yes. And Doritos. My mom loves a Frito. Loves.

I remember my mom, she would buy a bag of Fritos with some clam dip. You ever have clam dip? My mom would dunk. She would kill me. She would kill me if I'm telling you this. But she would dunk her fritos in that clam dip. Ooh, baby. She loved it.

Your mother, God bless this beautiful woman with her. It's insane that she doesn't have gout. You have no idea the things that she eats from where. She also can't leave for telling the story, but I'm going to tell it anyways. She goes into a deli, Josh. This is probably, I don't know, whenever the Listeria breakout was with Boar's Head, okay? She goes into a deli, okay? And on, there's a sign that says, but warning, there was a breakout here.

What does a normal person do, Josh? They avoid the board's head. They leave. If I see that there was a breakout in the deli, I'm gone. What does my mom do? Not going to happen to me. Yes. Gets herself.

Gets herself her meats, goes on her way. Has a terrible stomach ache. Okay? She could have died, Josh. She could have died. You don't fuck around with Listeria outbreaks. What are you nuts? She took it as a challenge.

And they call her Iron Tummy Ava on the streets, and you know this. Absolutely. She took it as a challenge. And all I got to say, folks, is don't mess around with bad food. This is not good. You don't need it. You don't need it. Okay?

Don't do it. Well, that's what I always hear because, you know, I'm on the prepper side of TikTok. Yes. Don't worry about it. I just want to see people's shelters. And this one guy who was a prepper who was showing his nuclear. fallout shelter under his house was like these best by dates are a total suggestion. Oh my God.

More than a year after you can go. I'm like a year. Like I don't believe a couple weeks. What is he talking about? What like what can you go a year later? Non-perishable Nutella. Nutella, I remember. He was like, oh, please, this will be good for another year.

I think I would agree with that. I would agree with that. Okay. For sure. Like a peanut butter, I'm not caring so much about a best buy date. That I totally agree with. You scared me. I was like, what about a yogurt?

Oh, that's absurd. Yeah, absurd. Honestly, I think the best by dates are too long. You ever pick up a like a jug of milk, use it for two week, check the best by date. And it's not for like another three months. And you're like, what's going on here? Ultra process. And that I'm not.

I like pasteurization. I don't like this ultra pass. That's crazy. No, I don't like it. I don't want it. What do you think of that raw milk, Josh? What do you think about raw? We've talked about this.

That's it. We're having a neuroprice. son. No, we haven't spoken with this like this. Yes, we haven't in this exact god. No, my memory is clear as day. He did. I love you, Olivia. I'm sorry, Thursday, Friday, I'm in Jacksonville.

Monday, Tuesday, I'm in Vermont. I have a busy week. I need no neurologist. I'm fine. So no, okay, no raw milk. We'll stop talking about it. No problem. Okay, dad. Jeez. We spoke about it. Hey, it's Josh and Ben, and we are here to

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Fine. What else can we talk about that has a best buy date? Wait, what were you doing? Were you working in Jackson Hole, too? In Jacksonville, I had a... Oh, Jacksonville. That's hard. I don't care.

I just stopped caring. These are very different places. Oh, yes. I don't care anymore. Have you been to Jacksonville, though? I'm sure it's fine. All that I have to say is to the great people of Jacksonville, you're lovely. It's an international airport.

It's only an hour and 45 minutes from the city. There is a beach. There's just also a lot of dirt and crime and mobile homes. But the beach is lovely. And I don't know why we don't use it more. It's very close. Just saying. Jacksonville's great.

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I love him. But it was a Netflix special that he shot in Jacksonville. He did 25 minutes at the top of his special crowdwork about Jacksonville. And I'm like, you know everyone doesn't live in Jacksonville, right? He's like, he's like, how about Davy Street? The crowd loves it. When you're like, God, I can't, I don't know what that is. I'm actually, I'm always so impressed though when comics are able to do that, not in Jacksonville.

Like, it's cool in Jacksonville, but like when you watch the Schultz stuff and he's in a different fucking country and he's making them laugh because of like random cultural references that he studied, like that's genius level. comedy. Genius. Yeah, it's also just like there is, whenever I would do a college gig and I've done quite a bit over the years, I would always do recon with the students. I'd be like, give me like two inside jokes on campus about like, and I could always like sort of lean on like where, where's the bar that you go drink? What's annoying? Let me guess parking. As far as I can tell, there's not good parking in any university in the great country of America. They don't like that and they don't like the food. And whenever I bring that up in front of the students and I figure out a way to hopefully make it funny, their faces melt. They're like, how the hell does Josh know about, you know, I don't know,

Olivia's here, Bear Cat Tuesdays, I don't know. Oh, yes. Shout out. How does he know? I know. Like, what would the inside joke be at the Yeshiva? Like, can you believe the to fill in on floor seven? Speaking of Yeshiva, you know my favorite restaurant in the world, Golan Heights. 185th in Amsterdam.

This is the place. I get a call from my parents. Ben, an old family friend passed away. We're going to go pay a Shiva call. Would you like to come? We'll get Golan first. I said I'm in. I'm in.

It's on the way up. I go. Will you explain what a shiva call is for our three people who listen who aren't Jewish. Yes. A shivacal is what you go to after somebody has passed away. They pass. You bury them in Judaism within 24 hours is the gold standard. And then you have a week or a little less than a week where people come in and are able to say hi to you. The body has been buried. This is not like awake. The body is not there. This is purely in service of memories and to comfort those that just lost a husband, a wife, a son, whatever it may be.

They bring food and... And it's called paying a shiva. And yes, there's tons of food. Tons of food. You bring whatever you can. But yes, Josh, we stopped at Golan Heights. And this should have been my best fucking bite of the week. Because Noonys got nothing on Golan.

The next time you're here, we're going to Golan. I got al-Alafa, for those that don't know, big fucking beautiful Pita. Jewish burrito. It's a Jewish burrito. Burrito. Jewish burrito, okay? Schnitzel. Beautiful fried chicken. Love.

We then got coleslaw. We then got thinly sliced pickles. We then got, I know it's crazy, beet salad. I love beats. No, it's good. It works. A little corn salad. And then what they got going on, Josh, is these sauces.

Garlic mayo, sweet chili, barbecue sauce, wrapped up. You're wild dog. You are a sauce wild man. Curry mayo and barbecue sauce and your loaf. Lafa, yo. It was fucking amazing. And I'm here realizing that the reason I'm up 10 pounds has nothing to do with, nothing to do with the creatine.

I had a big week. Ben calls me, he's like, I've gained five weight. Five pounds. I think it's from the creatine. And then he elaborates. Yeah, no, it's not from the creeteen. I had a big week. But yes, of course, you could go the classic schwarma, lafa, trina,

humus, Israeli salad, onions, etc. But if you want to go crazy, they have these gorgeous sauces. And Josh, oh my God. I was thinking about continuing our game from last week twofold, which is we were guessing calories for different wonderful things. Ooh, yes. Now, we did it for donuts, for the great crispy cream, for the great Dunkin' Donuts.

In fact, I have a good crispy cream story for our stories this week. But first, I like to play a game for our calorie counting day. how many calories are in Chick-fil-A items Bo-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-B-D-B-D-A-B-D-A-Livia as always, feel free to weigh in. We'll do five of the major Chick-fil-A offerings. First, their standard chicken sandwich.

Chicken sandwich. They're fried chicken sandwich. I was going to say fried, okay, fried. And there's some sauce on the sandwich, or this is bone-dry? I don't think they put sauce, right? It's just a pickle. Oh my. I think they put mayo.

It's always less than I think. 300. 300. Olivia. 425. Wow. Olivia dangerously close at 440. 440.

300, you guess. That's love. 440, though, is a lot because then you're going to put on that chick filet sauce. You're at 800. So funny, you should say, how many do we think is in the Chick-fil-A sows? All right, 80 calories. I think it's an ounce. 80 calories. Olivia.

One 10. Wow. Olivia, again, on a winning streak at 1.40. One small bag of chicken sauce. 140. Yeah, okay. A eight piece nugget, the crispy nugget, eight piece. 450.

Mm, Olivia. 410. An eight piece nugget coming in at only 250 calories. What the fuck? A real steel. A real steel. Wait, wait, let's back this up. Okay.

So they're claiming that it's 35 calories a nugget. I call bullshit. I'm sorry. 35 calories a nugget? No way. It's deep fried chicken. But they're little nugs. They're not like massive.

All right. For let's just say for variety, how about eight grilled nuggets? What do we think is the calorie count on the eight grilled nuggets? If they're the same size as the regular nuggets? Sure. 120. Yeah, 115. Wow.

Ben wins this one at 1.30, a snatched 1.30. That's a nice snack. You go and get an eight-piece grilled nugget. Go 12 piece of 200 calories? Fantastic. Great protein. 38 grams of protein? Are you kidding me?

Do you know how many people that were going in there looking to be healthy? And then they're saying, uh, whatever, I'll get a little chick-fil-A sauce. It doesn't matter. And then all of a sudden 200 turns into 900 and they don't even know it. I know. I'm that guy. Just saying. I'm constantly.

playing roulette with my calories. What about a, we can end it here with a, I would have loved a dessert, but I know their ice cream cones probably coming in at sub 250. What about, let's go with a large fry, a large waffle fry. 425. It's coming in at six. Sorry, I missed you, Olivia, but it's 600 calories. I would have gotten that so wrong.

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to dinner and you get to celebrate holidays with your friends if you just arrange for your little munchkins to marry each? other. I've been thinking about this, Josh. I've been thinking about this. It's a shame that you don't have a girl. If you had a girl, then perhaps we could exchange. And then all of a sudden, how easy is that? That's all I'm saying. I think that we think too much about the kids. What do the kids want? Who gives a shit? What do I want? I want to be able to hang out with somebody that I like. Josh, Olivia. This segment brought to you by the country of Iran. segment brought to you by the Iranian Tourism Board. Shout out. In Tehran, we do it a little different.

Stories? I will tell you, and you're going to find this. I know you will because you're a beauty and you're just like me. You're going to have your beautiful son and he's going to be playing with an adorable little girl one day and the parents of whomever, maybe not friends, just the parents will say, oh my God, they're so cute. You never know one day. And you'll be like, And in the back of your mind, you go, never, ever going to happen. Never. Your little nose picker will never be with my son. No, no, never, never.

No, our standards are high, Josh. Yes. They're incredibly high for our kings. Yes. B. A. Do you know how many people, Josh, sorry. Do you know how many people came up to me in Jacksonville and said B.H?

Really? Yeah, swear on my life. These are not Jews, obviously. No, there are no Jews in Jacksonville. I had like a couple hundred people at a meet and greet. Everybody, Ben, B.H, good to see you. I'm like, B.H. They're like, yeah, you told us to say B.H.

I'm like, oh, yeah, B.H. At least 15. I wonder if any of them meant butthole. They probably did. They probably did. Speaking of, as I mentioned, Krispy Kreme earlier, a baby born at Krispy Kreme gets sweet treatment from donut chain. It is an experience to remember.

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A glazing. A woman gave birth to her son in the crispy. In the crispy green parking lot. The couple couldn't make it to the hospital because of a winter storm that had as much as 11 inches of snow pummel parts of the state. and Krispy cream was closed because of the weather, but okay, can we get one of Krispy Cream down? Did it a closed Krispy Cream in a snowstorm in Alabama?

How they get in? No, in the parking lot. Oh, in the parking lot. Yeah, because they had to get off the road. It was snowing so bad. Oh, my God. This is a terrible story. Continue.

Crispy Cream is sweetening the families. Here we go again. A glazing celebration. By throwing Dallas a birthday party every year until he's all grown up. And that's going to include plenty of free delicious donuts. I mean, they hit the lottery, dude. It's nice for sure.

Great for the kid. That said, they didn't give anything to the mom. The mom's the one who in a snowstorm had to give birth in a back alley in Alabama outside of a crispy cream. But the son gets free donuts every year. Something's not right, Josh. Something's not right. I know.

And what about like when he's six and he wants to have his birthday at Charles Entertainment Cheese? Are they going to say like, yeah, but we didn't. give birth to you at a Charles entertainment cheese. We're going to the crispy. No, they're going to sign it. They signed something already. Josh, there's a non-compete. One day that kid's going to go to Duncan Donuts, eat a Dunkin' Donut, posted on social media and he's going to get sued.

Let's hear from, who knows, not me. This isn't working. Here we go. Hi, good guys. Asking for an opinion on some family drama. So it turns out that my dad, who managed finances for my mom, lied to her about a things. He said that he paid taxes in which he did not for the past five years. He also has accrued $40,000 in debt that she was unaware of and thinking that they were doing really well

with their finances. She comes to learn that they're not. Now, my dad is not the healthiest man. So I'm trying to balance how do I make sure that I maintain some sort of relationship with him before he unfortunately passes away, but also how do I hold him accountable for all the pain that he caused my mom because she is my ride or die. Looking for advice and opinions. Love the pod.

Thanks. You love the pod and you bring us this sad story. What am I supposed to do with this, Josh? I'm depressed. You have a dying father who fucked up. But he, look, when people make mistakes like that, all I'm going to say is it sucks. It doesn't make him a bad person.

I don't know him. I don't know him. All I know is that clearly the guy was in some hot water. If he's dying, love him and try and help your mom. But if he's dying, he's going to die. Don't make his last day on earth. Of course you should say to him like, Dad, you fucked up. This is no good.

I'm going to help mom. But then transition. Don't harbor resentment. Be there for him. Let him pass. And then be there to help your mom recover. Because it's terrible what he did. It's terrible.

I have to assume that there's some reason. Also, we don't know enough about the story. The mom thought that they were doing so well on their finances, but she hasn't checked to see if anybody filed a tax return in five years. She doesn't talk to the accountant. I'm not blaming her by any means. No means whatsoever. I'm just saying she sounds rather disconnected.

And if the guy is dying, I don't know. We don't know enough of this story. But if somebody's dying, I think you forgive them. Otherwise, you'll hate yourself forever. Totally agree. I totally understand her outrage. Anyone who doesn't file their taxes for five years and keeps it a secret and accrues 40,000, dollars in debt surreal you dad's a sick fuck he's sick it's okay he's just he's what are you nuts

and so try to have the same sympathy and grace that you would have for another sick person and yeah you can't not pay your taxes you also they'll get you and then you can't be cue on that like when you owe the IRS they will get their money forever all that being said I agree with Ben and I also think I understand you wanting to be defensive of your ride or die your your who you love so much and it's a beautiful thing. She's a big girl and so are you. And I would do your best to keep that separate. You know, so yes, you are entitled and 100% need to feel this.

And no, and this is one of the great things I've learned in sobriety is we learn to live with unresolved issues. We sometimes never get the resolution we want and we don't get the amends we think we deserve, but we do the best we can because that's life on life's terms. So, you know, I could imagine a scenario where your dad never even like apologizes about it because unfortunately people have their weird justifications for things that they do. But I agree, I don't think you'll regret loving him in the end. And you might regret sticking it to him till the end. It doesn't help anybody. Yeah. That's my perspective. Like harboring resentment only hurts you.

If you're trying to hurt him, it's a different story. But it sounds like you love him and you're sad that he's dying. That's what I took from that, Josh. Yeah. So if that's true, then you cutting that is only hurting you. Don't hurt you more. Totally. This episode of the Good Guys podcast is brought to you by our friends at Insurify. Folks, we know that I love to drive my car. I drive my car all over New York City, finding the most illegal place to park my car because I'm done using ride share. It's over. I'm not paying for it. I'd rather get the ticket. That said, folks, what if somebody were to break into my car? What if something were to happen on the road? You need insurance.

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Another one. Hey, good guys. Love you so much. Josh, I'm also to help on the new baby. And Ben, how are you? I wanted to ask you how you. you are because in the last episode you said that you would like to start hearing asking us asking you how you are in the speak pipes anyway i have a question for you something that i want to know your take

on so my boyfriend is jewish and as am i and he has a younger sister who she is 16 and when she was 13 She had a bat mitzvah. She had like the huge, you know, blowout party. You know how they do it now with the up and coming. They do a baby. These 13-year-olds. So she had the big bot mitzvah. And then now she's 16 and she is saying that she needs to have a or she's turning to 16.

Does the galaxy have two times speed jobs? And honestly, like I just think that's absurd. Like, I think that objectively, if you have a vomit. Cut it off. I got it. I got it. I'm playing it for two reasons. This is an example of the way you don't want to go about a speak pipe. This is, God bless her. So long. So long. So unnecessary. Could have easily cut out 60 seconds of that. I honestly, I could tell the entire speak pipe, Josh, in under five seconds. You ready for this? Yeah. You ready for this? My sister, when she was 13, had a bat mitzvah, a crazy big party. Isn't it crazy? that she also wants a Sweet 16? Perfect.

That's it. That was the entire thing. That said, love you, thank you for calling in. We appreciate you. But like, holy mother of God.

But thank you and we love you. And we would hate to lose you, but you're horrible at Speak Pipes. You cannot have, you cannot, not that you cannot have, you can have as many parties as you'd like. But Sweet 16s are definitely not a,

in my opinion. You just had a blowout party. You don't need to blow out party. parties within three years. So I personally agree that if you had a big blowout bat mitzvah, you can probably skip the big blowout suite 16. But if you have means and you love to party, why not to each their own? Josh? I completely agree with you. I think it's ridiculous. The idea of having two massive parties in a row. I think you can definitely make it special. But I think if the bat mitzvah is at the shul and the hall and the DJ and the stations and the thing,

You go for 16, we're going to do something amazing in the backyard, you know. Totally. And we're going to spend, you know, a tenth of what we did on the bat mitzvah. Like maybe there's some world. And what were you going to say? What are the origins, Josh, of the Sweet 16. Do we know? That's a great question.

Let's see. We have the internet. Why don't you use the AI feature, Josh, on that galaxy? Try and stop me. Try and stop me. Use Gemini, voice to speak. You can try and stop me, but it won't work. What are the origins of sweet 16?

Oh, I just got transferred to the FBI. I'm Googling something to do with 16-year-olds. The term sweet 16 is multiple origins. The celebration may have originated with Queen Elizabeth I, whose reign marked the beginning of the Middle Ages, and may also have originated as a way to introduce girls to social skills and host the scene. Now, what about a quinceaniera, Josh?

The difference between a sweet 16 and a quinceaniera. But that's beautifully cultural and that's 15. 15. 15. 15. 15. Oh, I didn't even realize. Kinsenia.

Yeah. That's nice. I agree. But it seems like you're also welcoming her into girlhood. Is that the idea? Because if that's all of these ideas, that's what about mitzvah is. Okay. So we've come full circle here.

You want a b'at mitzvah. No sweet 16. Does it? No, you did it. It's done. You're a woman. Olivia? Yeah, it seems like double dipping a little bit. But I also agree with your point, Josh, that like you can do one up real big and then do one, you know, a little smaller on a budget to celebrate.

But yeah, seems like a little bit of a double dip. I guess it depends on how rich you are. Like if you're really rich, I could, Josh, you could have a kinseniera. I would love. Oh, my God. A posh, like, you know, a couple. a couple decades late, Kinsey. You know, I don't want to stick my foot in my mouth

13 years in advance because BH, B.H., you know, you guys have a freaking blowout bar mitzvah for the software to be named. I, you know, and tell me what you think, Ben. Like, I think a bar mitzvah's awesome. I think growing up during our, you know, during the 90s and the mid-aughts, like, of course, there were always the blowouts. There was always the rich families that went over the top

then there were wonderfully modest ones. I just have experienced in the last 10 years, I feel like I'm seeing people drop a quarter of a million dollars on bar mitzvahs. Like, it's insane to me. It's a little what do you know. What do you think? One, I'm going to go hard as fuck. But is that for you?

I don't know because I'm also the king of bartering. Like, I'm going to have the biggest fucking party. You're never going to know what I spent. You'll know what I spent. Sure. You who came, you'll never know what I spent. spend. You're going to think I spent something insane. And I'm sure I spent a lot, but I didn't spend what you think I spent. And that to me is the win. I don't mind spending money, but I want it to feel

like what I got was worth way more. Does that make sense? I just want a good deal. So if I need to spend, God willing, I can, God willing, things keep going well. If I wanted to spend a quarter of a million dollars on a bar mitzvah, then this will be a one million dollar bar mitzv. Okay. That's all. But is that reasonable? Like you would consider spending that much money? Is it reasonable? No, no, not at all. But I love parties. I love throwing parties. I love hosting. I love a really amazing fun event. And I could absolutely see myself getting caught up in it as the son of a caterer. I can just see it. And like, I love events. Like, I've always loved them. And I don't ever mind spending money. Like, I'll always throw, like, it's been less in past years, but, like, I would, I would spend money on my birthday for my friends.

Like, I would, like, rent a room. I would, like, pick up a tab. Like, I like that stuff. So, like, I envision that on, like, a monumental day for my son, $250,000 is an absurd amount of money. So I want to kind of, adjusting for inflation, maybe it won't be as crazy. But $100,000 for a million-dollar wedding would be lovely. The performers, Josh, that's where it gets. It's big.

Like I want the best meatloaf cover band there is. Maybe I get Nickelback. That would be so hot. If I get like 55 year old nickelback. She gives this like your son a beautiful Jewish name. So it's like, look at orange photograph. Every time it make me laugh. Have a bomb it's for to you.

Giving nach to your parents too. Very good. Very good. God bless. I don't know. I have, I want to separate this and not be, because I think everything you said sounds great and is perfect and it is how a lot of people think and I think I have my own, Josh, it's fine. You go, to each their own. Yeah, I have my own nuts things that I feel like, first of all, and I think this is like a little bit of growing up with a mother who made things about,

who made things about her, but it told me it was about me. Like, I see a lot of, like, for my Bar Mitzra, I wanted my theme to be Star Wars. And she's like, ah, a Broadway, baby. I was like, I'm embarrassed.

And she's like, we're performing at your bar mitzvice. And I said, we are. And it turned to do a 45 minute. You have bar mitzvah trauma. You do. Well,

to say the least, but again, like, to your point, right? Like, I know you're joking, but like the meatloaf cover band

and this. And like, you didn't say a thing about your kid. It was all about you. And I think parents do that. And I don't, I guess that's what I've qualms with.

Unless you're, unless you're, owning it. I'm not saying that it's for him at all. But it is. But it's, no, the whole day was, the service was, the luncheon was. Of course, him coming out and it being his theme, like I remember my bar mitzvah was Knicks themed, because I love the Knicks. My parents found a way to get John Starks to record a nice video for me thanking, saying I did a great job on my haftora, on the fourth floor of where my dad had catered. They put like a little basketball court or whatever, and the kids played in downstairs, the parents did what they did.

And I was happy as a clam. Sure. That's obviously not nowhere near a quarter of a million dollar bar mitzvah. That was like a, I have no idea how much because again, their caterers and flowers and the space was free and all this stuff. But I just, the party itself is for the family. That's what I think, when I think of a bar mitzvah. A wedding, the polar opposite.

That's about the couple. That's about the couple. And whatever the couple wants to do. Their list, it shouldn't be about the parents. The parents are too much. Get involved. Invite all of their friends and it becomes nothing about the bribe, which is the worst thing. But for me, bar mitzvahs are about or bat mitzvahs are about the kids going,

studying, sharing with the world, feeling good about themselves. And then the parties just for everyone is the way I see it. And what do you think about like, you know, because this happened sometimes where like you and Claudia are so wonderfully like, you know, you just have incredible personalities and you're so like such people, people and outgoing. and maybe you have a kid who's a little, you know, more shy and like a little bit more introverted. And what if they say like, dad, I would love to do the entire bar mitzvah process in Hebrew school and whatnot. And I'd rather just like go to Israel or like do something like a trip like and not a party.

Then that is what we will do. Cool. I think that'd be cool. I can't. I can't imagine a world in which we raise an introvert. But if we happen to raise an introvert, then a thousand percent it's what the kid wants. No question. I hate those scenarios where parents force their kids into doing something that they don't want to do. But I am banking on having a kid that wants to have a great party, for sure. No, and a great party is awesome. And what has been revealed to me with having, and you see this once you have more than one kid is nurture is as real as nature. And because both of my kids are singularly my children and yet completely. completely different and it doesn't make sense.

And yet it makes perfect sense. How they can be like so uniquely my wife and mine and have our parts of our looks and parts of our personality traits and things that we love and things that we don't love. And yet they are so uniquely themselves that was just done in the beautiful miracle of their So cool. Yeah, it's fun. It's cool to see how it reveals itself. Okay, you want to do what are you nuts?

What are you nuts, Josh, Times Square? Okay. it's completely nuts. It's nuts. Granted, we have our gorgeous billboard. I love it. You set foot in Times Square. One, you're afraid for your life,

a thousand percent. It is like the craziest people, the most lights. It's a jungle. It's nuts. If you've never been, it's crazy. You get there. There's always somebody on a megaphone

talking about Jesus. Without question, somebody is screaming, screaming at you about Jesus. You walk another foot. you are met with a Mickey Mouse that is just the scariest Mickey you have ever seen. You're blinded. You're getting a headache. I was recently in Times Square.

So I'm thinking about it. And I just have to say this being a tourist attraction. What are you nuts? There's nothing to see. Google it. You don't want it. Totally agree. My Woody Nuts is if you sign an email, a letter, a text with love and light,

with health and healing, with healing love that is also light that lights you up, babe, what are you nuts? How about sincerely? How about best? Save it. Save your love. Save your light. Take your health.

Take your healing and keep it to yourself. Okay? Just when you're nuts? It's nuts. I love best. I'm a big best guy. Best. Best is the best.

How about this? Thanks. Thanks works too. Thanks a bit best. Best if you want to be a little bit creative. Thanks, of course. No question. No question.

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