Good Guys - Our 2025 Predictions!

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

Mazel, morons! It’s our first solo of 2025 and we’re coming in HOT. Today we’re talking recent ailments, Ben’s New Year POISONING, our favorite drugstore remedies, Josh’s TSA encounter, and MORE! Plus, we’re sharing our predictions for 2025, and finally dish the BTS scoop on our latest musical masterpiece. Rate us 5 stars and leave a comment to cast your vote for our inaugural binge watch! Otherwise, what are you, NUTS?  Leave us a voicemail here! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/GOODGUYS Get results you can run your fingers through! For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code GOODGUYS10  Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com/goodguys today.  If you want to upgrade your restroom ritual, you can grab Goodwipes at Target, Walmart, Kroger, and most local grocery stores! Just head to the toilet paper aisle and look for the bright, aqua, rose and emerald packages. They're also available on Amazon if you’re more of an online shopper.  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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Happy New Year. I mean, the song. We have to talk about the song. Yes, we pre-recorded the first two. It is what it is. The theme song. The New Year, new theme song. Josh literally wrote it.

I want you guys to know. He was up all night, every night, writing by hand. He got hand cramps. He called me, Ben. How many Advil can I take for my hand cramps? And then he found just the most wonderful. Maximum Advil.

Okay. Well, I'm on three ad val. Villain one Tylenol. We'll get into that. I'm on a rotation around the clock. That's that's the killer combo. I can talk about it all day. I can talk about non-steroidal anti-inflammatories all day. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt. No, but Josh, literally like you just need to get your flowers. You wrote, you wrote the intro song of a generation. Like this will be, this will be what my son, and we can finally say son is the last time we were podcasting. We couldn't talk gender. So true. This will be what.

my son listens to. I'm going to walk into the room. He's going to be listening to it. How big of a narcissist am I, Josh? God bless you. Thank you. I did write it. And let's give the flowers to the great super Chris Abraham, CJ Abraham. If you know, you know behind some of the greatest songs ever from Drake and Josh to all of Nickelodeon to the great Kim Petrus, just an incredible music producer and a really close good friend of mine. He's brilliant. He put it all together. did all the accompaniment and the mixing and just made it fly. So we love you, Super Chris. And I got to tell you, Ben, you really have a good voice.

We knew, but your cantorial tones translate so beautifully to high pop that, I don't know, I don't know. It makes me feel some kind of way, as the kids say. Bless you. Bless you. Look, this is a great time for us to announce that Josh and I are going on tour. Yes. Strictly for singing.

It will be a karaoke. tour, can you imagine? We'll sing strictly meatloaf. And then at the end of the tour, Josh is going to jump off a bridge. That's the thing that I have, I contend with, and to be honest with the audience, I sort of resist when Ben brings up a live show,

only because I don't know what the fuck we would do for an hour. This, that's more elevated. We'd sing, we'd schmooze. I mean, have you seen Luanne Delisep? She literally throws on a dress and does cabaret. We could do whatever. You want to do cabaret? You want to cross-dress and do cabaret?

We can do that. I do, but not with an audience. Why not? It's fun. Who cares? Who cares? I want to do cady and there. Can't we have something for us, Ben?

I guess we can. Okay, so we can cabaret just for ourselves. Or we can invite all of our blind listeners to come to a live show. How many blind listeners do you think we have? As many as we have deaf listeners. We have all disabilities represented in this podcast. All I know is that if we don't have blind listeners, we need to tap into the blind community.

because they probably love podcasts. I would think that it would be their ultimate medium. And I'm just saying, I want to be a podcast for the blind. Can you imagine good guys, the official podcast of the Braille Institute? Yeah, this is what I'm saying. No, this is what I'm saying. New Year, New Dreams, Josh. This is my dream.

Bring the podcast to the blind. Done. We're doing it. We're in. I won't get credit for it anymore because I'm sharing a good deed. But I was at the airport. months ago with my family and there was a guy, a blind dude, fully, like, seemed pretty, like, good and blind with the cane and the whole thing.

Not one of these fakers. Like Stevie Wonder. What are you nuts? Who I heard he can see light. I've heard he can see light and dark. I mean, what are we talking about? How can he play the piano? How can you know where the piano is?

I've had enough. Continue. Us disparaging one of the great. this performance to ever grace our earth. Fun. So, anyway, I had this, so I have this man that I see, and he seemed to be struggling a bit. So I ran up to him and I said, sir, can I help you through the line? Because, you know, he's going to have to navigate TSA and the whole thing.

And he's like, yeah, actually, that would be great. And I've done this before, like, with someone who's blind in an intersection or whatever. I'll say, like, here, would you like to take my arm or whatever? And so I kind of went to like do like the thing like I almost like it was almost as if I was like we were about to take a prom picture like I tried to put my hand on like the small of his back and like slowly lead him. This guy, this blind dude is working out. He manhandled me in the way that he wanted me to lead him because clearly he was like no, no, there's a way. There's a procedure. He like slam me in front of him and then he like put his hands on my shoulders, which if you think about it is probably.

the smartest way. Yeah. And I was like, okay. And he's like, I'm from Baltimore. I'm like, well, that explains it. And he pushed me through the TSA. Wow, good for you. Honestly, I'm now just thinking about how you put your hand on the lower back of a

random blind man. What are you nuts? It's called the small, Ben. He probably thought you were trying to grope him. Like, no good dean. No good dean. Josh,

I almost gave myself gout. on New Year's Eve. Tell me more. I went to Whole Foods. First of all, shout out Whole Foods and Amazon, okay? The way that they have just come together, you scan your Amazon.

I'm sure you do this. QR coded a Whole Foods and you get such amazing discounts. Fantastic. Even discounts on Caviar, Josh. I went on New Year's Eve. I saw $79.99. Discounted 20%. I got it for 5999, 25%, whatever it is.

I bought five of them, six of them, okay? I bring them home. I'm ready. I'm making a gorgeous caviar board caviar spread. I get a text from a friend. He says to me, why are you buying your caviar at Whole Foods? Are you crazy? I have a caviar guy.

So Josh, we now, you know how we're always talking about have a guy? We have a guy. I texted the guy. His name is Kobe. He goes by Mr. Caviar. I got wholesale pricing, Josh. He ounces of caviar. 400 bucks.

This is the top of the line stuff. Top of the line stuff sent to me. I'm having a party, made my board. It's amazing. I sit down for dinner. And I'm eating caviar on caviar on caviar. And oh my God, from 1230 in the morning until 2.30, your boy is just throwing up on the toilet. No, boy, no.

I ate too much caviar. Your butt was throwing up or you were actually throwing up? It started off with, I thought my butt was going to throw up. And then I ended up throwing up and then my butt threw up. It was one of those. It was like full-blown neurovirus level shit. And I have to blame the cat. It wasn't the caviar's fault.

It was me. I should also share with the audience that not only in my back on Ozempic, but we have up the dose. This is the year of shedding. So I think my stomach got a little bit tighter. I ate too much caviar. All I had earlier in the day was an egg white omelet. And I went from having 100 calories in the day to 1,500 calories in caviar. And I just couldn't take it.

So, oh, I also made steaks. That's why it was a gout meal. It's because it was so, like the one, the one kryptonite for Ocentpic is high, high fat. Right? Yes. And like caviar is keto friendly. It's keto season, the ultimate. And it's kind of a superfood, but it is, it does have high fat.

Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, maybe I'm blaming the caviar when I should be blaming the bellini's. I should be blaming I made chicken fingers to put on top of it. Maybe it wasn't the caviar at all. What are we throwing out here? It started with just caviar that we got rib-eyed chicken fingers. I'm waiting for not. nachos. No, I'm blaming the caviar.

It was obviously the very illustrious accoutrements. Like that was the problem. By the way, what a word. Acutremant. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Ecutramont. Coutrements.

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And there's also something going around. I don't know if you have it. It is. It's here too. Norovirus. Yeah, there's a head cold and a lower back situation going on here. Head cold and lower back. So I still have the head cold and lower back.

That's why I said I'm on three Advil, one Tylenol. And if you must know, two turmeric and a lines main. Okay? But the question is, is, was the diarrhea, sorry, and vomiting a part of, A part of the illness that also included the headache and the lower back. Or are they separate incidents, one to blame with the caviore bellini chicken finger steak extravaganza? Or are they one and the same? I don't know.

All I know is that only happened that night. One and done. Very interesting because I get, when I know something bad is about to happen, I start getting leg pain. Like I get leg soreness and I go, oh no. I have food poisoning and or stomach flu. You feel it in your legs. It's very interesting. My body starts to feel fluish.

It feels sore. Like everything starts to hurt. Okay. So I did feel like I felt like I had the flu. It was awful. And I'm still, I still have a bit of a sore throat. Still have a bit of a head cold.

But I'm telling you, turmeric, lines main. Oh, and quick defense. Gaia herbs, love them. Wow.

Love them. Wow. They kill it. You're taking 10 pills a day. They're 4495 at Whole Foods. You take it for four days. your cold is evaporated. I've spoken about them before.

And yet they still haven't sent me one free thing, not one. I just don't, because you are a bigger boy in the best way like I am. And I have no doubt that you could put down a 2,000 calorie meal like it was, you know, like just another day in July. So when you say this 1,500 calorie meal after only having an egg white omel, it's just not tracking for me. The clues aren't cluing. The Marisk is not Marisca. This is not SVU. This is our lives, Ben.

So my question to you is, I don't, I'm not so sure you over it. And we FaceTimed after all of this. And you seen you were walking your beautiful dog. I was. You didn't have a shame to you. You didn't, you weren't sweating. I was fine. I'm going to teach you a quick, it wouldn't be the new year without a quick Jewish phrase.

This is a Talmudic phrase, Josh. It's called Karl the Khomer. If something happens, something else happens. Call the Homer. Love it. So, so the question is, I ate the chicken fingers and the caviar. Call the Homer, I got a stomach bug. Or I had a head cold and lower back pain and threw up and had diarrhea.

Tal the Homer, it was probably neurovirus. And as the great Robbie Hoffman would say, is Yiddish gay? I think so. How great was that episode? The great Robbie Hoffman. I loved her. And I told this to her and she was very excited to hear it. The morons loved her.

That episode, people loved. I thought she was so fun, so great. Our fecoccapped a video crapped out. And what you guys didn't see was Josh and Robbie, Ruan Yamikas, lit the menorah. It was quite the sight to see. The great Robbie Hoffman wearing a, Akepa as she looked like a reconstructionist, reformist, canter. Like the rabbi in every Adam Sandler movie.

Yes. That was. Like in a Williamsburg synagogue. I'm telling you, like, it's a shunda. It was too good that maybe technology just said, we can't, we can't allow this. It was too good. By the way, Josh, I'm reminded that I didn't give $500 away to five people yet. Oh, I knew that was a big mistake.

I have to. I have to do it. How do I pick them? What do I go into the YouTube comments? It was a huge mistake because I'm going to get caught it on the day. I'm going to end up sending it to like people that don't need it. Okay? And then I'm going to be framed one day.

Like, why do you Venmo this hooker $100? I didn't. She said she needed it. I didn't know what she was doing with the money, used it to buy blow and crash her car. into a museum. No, that's, that's worth it. You should be subsidizing

Hooker's bad decisions. Well, you shouldn't be subsidizing to some, you know, Fortune 500 asshole who just wants to add more money to his Bitcoin pot. I just started rewatching curb, Josh, and I just watched the episode.

Are you a big curb guy? Of course. Okay, I just watched the episode where Larry becomes friends with a hooker that he ends up giving to Funkhauser's son to have sex with because he broke his arm

and ends up dying in the race of the bulls, whatever. But Larry goes to the hooker who's dressed in fishnets and like classic hooker look. And he's like, you know, you would do much, much better if you ended up dressing just like a housewife. Say that you bought your dress at Sacks Fifth Avenue. She ends up making 10 times. I thought of that because we were talking about hookers. What a great show.

So good. He's so good. Genius. And funny enough, my wife and I, another HBO top five greatest shows ever. My wife and I just started rewatching sex in the city from season one. so good. So good. Wow.

Yes. Except they're, I'm sorry. Like Sarah Jessica Parker is insufferable. Like she, how can you say that and say so good? Or is her character insufferable. Oh,

the character. The character is insufferable. Carrie. Carrie. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not SJP.

No. Shout out as Shap. Carrie. Carrie is insufferable. Sure. In the show. She's just like, can you make more bad decisions,

woman? Can you say? stop, but the show itself is so freaking good. I love it. Who's your favorite character? I mean, it was a perfect show. It was like one of those rare things. Like you couldn't replace anyone on friends.

You couldn't replace anyone on that show. And even the men, the, you know, the steves, the Aden's, the who was so good. By the way, before you go on, you used Riba in an ad, but you don't like to talk about Riba, but you like to use her. I love Riba. No, you don't. Lover, lover, lover, lover. You don't.

Every time I bring up Riba, you say, I don't want to talk about Riba. And all of a sudden, I see you talking about Riba with everybody but me. You rewatching Riba, glee. It makes me deeply uncomfortable. You'll never know how much. What it makes me. I need three Advils and a Tylenol when I think about you rewatching these shows.

You should also know that when I rewatch them, I'm completely naked. skin to skin with my dog. I don't blame you. If you zoomed in on me at 9 p.m. on any weeknight, it's me watching the Hallmark channel. And my goal for 2025 is to get back in with Hallmark. I see it. You're going to do it, Josh. You're going to do it.

You're going to do it. I have a whole movie idea pitch. I just, I think Christmas 2025, I'm manifesting it now. Here I am out on a limb. I'm getting vulnerable. I see myself as the star of a Hallmark movie that then turns into a three, five, ten picture deal. Sky's the limit. Good.

And all I want is a small part as the Cantor. You will have a canter. Yes. I want to be, maybe I could even be the Cantor's apprentice. Is that a good name for a Hallmark movie, The Canter's Apprentice? No, but it's great. It's good for a bigger movie. I'm talking.

You are the Cantor's Apprentice. You are the Cantor and I am your apprentice. And I'm just trying to please you. I'm just trying to show you that I'm good enough for one moment on stage during a high holiday. And it all comes to this culmination at Rush Ashana where I show you my full pipes. Wow. Yeah. You've lost your faith and we have to bring you back.

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for 2025 because I think we would be really good at this. I think people need to vote and they can comment on YouTube because it's probably the best way we would see it. And whatever gets the highest vote, don't DM it, comment on our YouTube channel. Go to our YouTube and comment. I think we should agree on a show that we should watch together. I think it should probably be reality.

I think it should probably be a housewives, but I'm open to whatever. And I think the moron should decide what we watch and that we start recapping the show weekly. I like doing that, especially if we pick something that is not topical, not something currently on, something old. I disagree. But then we're going to be commenting on something that was three weeks old. Like I know us.

The episode will air. We will watch it. And then the episode that we talk about it on, they'll already be on episode four. But that's the bane of our existence with certain things where you'll be like, you'll never get this episode of glee. And I'm like, you're right. I don't think anyone, that's not fun for the audience. They want to know what we think about the goings-ons. Fine, okay, I'm in.

Let's try it. Why not? Tell us what show we should attempt to be current on and talk about. I like that. Let the people decide. Do not lead them anymore. And I want to bring this up. I, you know, it's 2025.

And I think we should make some predictions here on our first episode back of the new year. And we'll check back in on our final episode of this year. If we make it that long, that's right, guys, you never know with us. We might just be over this in two months. So make sure you listen. You'll never know. So I have a couple of things that are topical today that I'm wondering if we want to make a prediction on what it's going to be like in mid-December at the end of the year. I love it.

Okay. The cutie assassin, Luigi Mangione. What do we think? No, he won't be relevant at the end of the year. He won't be. And I also, not to get too into it, just very, like, it was an awful thing, awful. Awful. We don't need to see any more of it.

I don't need to see 45 armed guards surrounding him. I don't need any of it. I don't want to see it. It's awful. Go away, Luigi. You're gone. I no longer want to give you any FaceTime. I don't want this.

I want Luigi gone. So maybe it's me manifesting that I don't want to see him anymore, but I don't think we're talking about him in December. What about you? Fair enough. I say Luigi is not relevant. I agree. Not relevant in December. And I think he's a real sick fuck. we can't reward. We just we can't reward people. And like I see this, it's weird.

Like I saw it on TikTok. People are like, the United Healthcare CEO deserved it because of what United Healthcare does. Like are you, are you all brain dead? Are you brain dead? It's his job.

Do you know how many people do jobs? Like he's a worker. He was a worker. Like the shareholders, the board, the ownership, like they murdered a worker. I don't care if he was number one worker.

They murdered a worker. who easily could have been in a different job, another year. He's just a worker. That's all. That's all. And it was so fucked up. It doesn't matter how you feel about pharmaceuticals. You don't murder CEOs of public companies.

It's awful. Look, the hell of- God damn it, Josh. God damn it. I love this country. I feel very lucky to be born here. That being said, the fact that every American is not insured is insane,

that our GDP is so absurdly high that we can't figure out a way. to make sure that you are not going to either go bankrupt or die of a heart attack when we can give you the proper service and we can make sure that you're going to live. I mean, obviously there are things outside of our control. But if we can intervene, we should be able to and it shouldn't bankrupt you. Fulstocks. No question.

And by the way, we are the greatest country in the world. We are. USA, USA. That said, we're 46th in health care. That's bananas. Bananas. There are 46 countries that do health care better than us. bananas, something's got to change.

There's too much money in pharmaceuticals. There's too much money in pharma advertising. There's no way I was watching the other day, Josh. I was watching CNBC. We're watching Shark Tank reruns. Best show ever to watch reruns, by the way. If you haven't done it, do it so fun. So good.

So NBC was either doing a pharma ad or a buy the CNBC course, like some course on how to be an entrepreneur. That's how you know that CNBC is tanking. They're going under because they're selling their own, their own courses or farm ads. And I thought more about pharma ads. Farma ads, you've always been told that pharmaceutical ads, you're supposed to see this drug and then go to your doctor.

That's the funnel, right? Tell your doctor that you saw this ad for a Zep bound and ask him or her to prescribe it to you. That's not how it works. Have you ever walked into a doctor's office and said, hey, I just saw an ad. I'd love to learn more about this medicine? No, your doctor tells you. It's always the doctor telling you.

All that I can include is that the only reason why pharmaceutical ads are running on TV is a payoff. Because there is no way that it's from you to the doctor. That doesn't work. It only works from the doctor to you. Otherwise, you be the doctor. Well, yes, but do you think that OZempic and all GLP-1 drugs have uniquely had the greatest ascension ever just from doctors suggesting it to their patients? It's word of mouth. It's the amount that people see it on television.

Agreed. Agreed. OZempic aside. I agree with you completely. I think you're underestimating. You think so? 100%. I think people see it and then they go to their doctor and they ask their opinion.

And then if the doctor is being paid off by that company, then they go, yeah, you should go for it. No, I'm kidding. I don't know. Okay. So maybe. Maybe. Maybe. All right.

It's a wild world. And speaking of CNBC, you know, during New Year's Eve, Andy Cohen and. Anderson Cooper did their thing with the drinking and the New Year's Eve show. By the way, by the way, we can't get a New Year's Eve co-hosting spot. Come on. They'll put anybody up there. It's nuts. It's nuts.

It's nuts. They bring up Diplow on LSD. They're like drunk-wracking Vanderbilt jokes. We could do that. We could do it better. No question could we do it better. And I would go, I would be interviewing like the guy that's right against the fence, who you know has been there for 12 hours and locked in.

I'd be like, sir, how hard do you have to pee right now? now and what would you do if I were to give you a small trash bag? Would you pee on air? Would that be hot? Did you, did you watch New Year's Rock and Eve? Did you watch that crap? No. Okay.

I watched it. And their star of the show was Rita Oara, who I'm sorry. I just, I don't know what she sings. I don't know what she's ever sung. No shade on Rita Ora. No, she seems lovely. And she is stunningly beautiful. Yes, whatever.

Token celebrity, though. She's there. She's interviewed. people. Up against the gate right behind her is a handicapped gentleman in a wheelchair. You can't see him at all. You just see his wheels and occasionally you see his head, but she is 100% blocking him. Poor guy stood at Rita and Rita Horace back the whole time. He didn't even see the ball drop. He just saw Artuchus. I mean, that guy has stared at a lot of backs throughout his life. So at the very least he got Rita Horas for 90 seconds. I guess that's true. But it was

interesting on I guess it was on CNN but you know they have like Whitney Cummings come on who basically like talk shit about the Democratic Party and then Roy Wood Jr. when everyone was offered shots he was like no no I'll pass the last guy

the last black man who took a shot on your network was fired intimating Don Lemon and I don't know if the CNN executives are freaking out over stuff like this From like, if this is the show, I'm okay with that.

If it's them roasting, you guys kind of, like within a limit, it's not the craziest thing. I'll watch that. I just didn't realize that TV could actually be that live. Like that is just raw, totally raw. And nuts. It's nuts. Totally nuts. So, yeah, I don't know.

I'm out. They need to redo it. They need better acts. They need better singers, songwriters, performers, hosts, everything. Dick Clark's dead. I know. Move on. Move on.

Rest in peace, by the way. Move on. What about, let's do more predictions. How about Blake lively? Will we still be talking about her? About what's going on with Justin Baldoni and the whole McGillah. I love her. I always, I think she's amazing.

I think her and Ryan and Reynolds are amazing. the more I've sort of learned really from my wife about the whole situation. I saw that like Claudia, the great Nick Vial and his wife, like, promptly said, we felt this the whole time, glad that the public has finally seen like the real side of things. What did they see and know that people weren't getting? Completely out of nowhere. You were never talking about Blake lively. And then out of nowhere, there was a monster smear campaign.

You could not look anywhere without seeing a negative headline about Blake. lively. Interesting. Everywhere. And then all of us, we were like, what is going on here? Like she's never, like she's been perfect forever. And now all of a sudden, all of these negative things are coming out about her all at once everywhere.

And she proved via emails that he paid publicists to put together a smear campaign against her. And that's why all of this stuff came out. There are physical, there are emails showing him paying somebody to put negative press out about her. And that's the, the, the. horror of everything. So when everybody started talking about Blake,

and it could have been just for more views on the movie. Like it could have been a publicity stunt at Blake's expense because then everybody was talking about it. But regardless, that's what I know that he paid a publicist to go on a witch hunt against Blake Glyvley. And that's what she's suing him for, slander. Not good. Not good. No, not good.

Unacceptable. Not good. And he seemed, not seemed. He definitely fucked with the wrong people. Like if I'm going to pick two people, I'm not picking to fight against Blake lively and Ryan Reynolds. So famous, so popular, so rich. No, no, no.

I'll pick anybody else. What do we think about President Trump? Not to be political. Like, is he just kind of doing the same thing? Is there something incredible that is revealed? Or is it just kind of more of the same? I said this. I'm trying to remember who we had on.

Maybe it was, was it Helen? I'm trying to remember when. What did you say? Yvette. I'm trying to remember when we spoke about it, but I will say again what I once said. To root against the next four years is anti-American. No matter who was in office, I'm rooting for a great four years. So I'm long on America and I'm hopeful that things are wonderful because I'm not a, I'm, am,

do you know a bigger optimist, Josh? Like, I am optimistic to my core, even though sometimes I come off negative because I think it's funny. But like, I really am an optimist. And I'm that way about about our country. Like, I, well, I root against it. That's what I'll say. What do you think? Yeah. I mean, my question was more about, like, is there something like, I think it will probably be more of the same. Like, I don't think we're going to, I think the entire presidency is going to be more of the same. You know, the plus or minuses will be, will be revealed on like what happens in a positive way and what people feel are negative. But I think overall it's just going to be kind of like, I think we had a preview of it,

you know, during this first term. And I think it's going to be more of that. I don't think it's going to be terribly explosive in either direction. Yeah. I know that no matter what, we got to, we have a big debt problem, obviously, that we need to solve. Right. And inflation is through the roof. And by the way, both sides love debt. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Everybody does. You got to solve that. So who knows. All I know is mortgage rates are too high, Josh. They are too stinking high. Seven and a half percent. How are people supposed to buy a house? So, how do you buy a house? Those rates are not high if you look at anything before 2008. But we've become accustomed. But we became accustomed because we had two massive economic disasters within 12 years. But the price of the homes went up, Josh,

since 2008, no? I would assume that in a place like Austin, for example, they've almost tripled. So now if you're taking the same 7.5% and 7.5% and 7.5% on 200,000 versus 700, 2.5% on, excuse me, in 200,000, 7.5% on 600,000, all of a sudden you can't afford the house. I totally agree with you, but I think there's separate issues in that homes in general have become exclusionary.

You can't, people can't afford homes in general anymore, which is, I think its own problem await. I don't think that's because of mortgage rates. I just think it's because the system is gamed and Black Rock is buying up all the houses. I digress. I hear that, but don't, I hear that, but don't you think, though, not think, like, if a mortgage rate is lower, an expensive house is more affordable. Like, that's a, it's just a fact, right? It is, but it's never been below 5% unless there was an economic crash.

And there just happened to be too back to back. But like if you zoomed in on the 80s and 90s, the rates were 6, 7, 8, 9, 10%, but the homes were cheaper. But houses were so cheap. Like we're now in this new normal for whatever reason. Like definitely BlackRock buying up all the homes is a reason. Like we're stuck where houses, the median house is something like $500,000. If you have, even if it's normal, an 8, 9, 10% mortgage rate, like, even if you're the middle class family just can't afford it.

Like they're just, they're just screwed because you're now paying $7,500 a month for the house that you own. It just just just sucks. That's all. The problem is, I was talking about this with my buddy Jerry the other day. How many date, how much time do you think a million seconds is? Just take a guess. How much time do I think a million seconds is?

Like how many days or weeks or months do you think a million seconds is? Oh, quick math. It's 11 days. Okay, now let me do that, because I want to get this right. Okay, a billion divided by 60. Okay, and then divided as if this was going to help me. Okay, divided by 30 equals. What am I doing?

Hold on. I have no idea. I have it. I'm excited to see. 31 years, beautiful. You're smart. You fucking smart. You fucking smart.

You fucking smart. Okay. So a million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. So the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is on such a different, you are living on different planets. And when someone, and this is no, you know, this is nothing against the great Elon as I know you love your Elon of billionaires of this type. When we're talking about people that will potentially be trillionaires within the next 10 years, This system has been gained. It's over. The legacy, the 12 must kids and their kids and their kids will be the richest kings of the world forever. This whole idea, like unless you got a jump shot or you can sing like Ariana Grande, there's no, I'm going to do it. I'm going to pick myself up on my bootstraps and be incredibly successful because I'm really going to put my, what's it, ear to the grindstone? I don't really know. I don't know phrases. But like, it's over. Like, it will be such legacy wealth

when we get that high that like that money will just continue to make money and the barrier entry will be impossible. There's always been that though, right? Like for the longest time, like you can pick the Rothschilds if you want to. Like the Rothschilds were as rich as an Elon per the time period and still in Elon emerged. I agree with you that it's very, very hard to become a billionaire. Facts. Like borderline impossible. We will. have new billionaires. That's totally separate from the fact that the kingdom of Musk is here. It's

nutty. They're so rich. But when you have someone that rich, they can make the barrier to entry for millions of people just like impossible where you can't buy a house. Like, they can all make it. If they want to, if they want to,

for sure. It's just going to make it like that, yeah, I just think. If he, if he wants to. I just think he wanted to, if, like, If he wanted to buy up real estate, he could, for sure. But what I'm saying is, is like, that's what we're seeing with a black rock, right? Is that these companies become so successful that their final stage is gaming the system that the middle class and the lower class are trying to make work for themselves.

Totally agreed on massive corporations. Agreed on a black rock. Yeah. I haven't seen Musk do anything that wasn't just for the people, like a Starlink or regardless of what he's done with. Twitter, the intentions were different, like, I think at least, and the space stuff. And hopefully he tackles something really sick. Like, he has enough money to tackle something epic.

I don't know what that is, but Chelsea. We wonder, right? Like, I guess you pick and choose your thing. Like, Starlink is incredible, right? Like, beyond incredible, spectacular thing that he's given in the world. I mean, I think, like, wasn't he put in a position where it was something like, like, $6 billion could solve world hunger. And Elon was like, if that's true, I'm in. Like, because it's not true. Like, he calls bullshit on these things. Right. Like, it's not. How is that possible? It's not true.

It's not. So I'm curious, that's one thing that I'm excited about, just because I do love Elon Musk. And I think he's really smart. And I have gone on record saying, I don't like villainizing smart people, which I think we just do. Of course, he has his quirks. Like, what genius isn't nutty. But I'm excited to see what he does over the next four years with more power. It could be the ultimate villain story, or it could be really cool. Who knows? That's, I'll do that prediction. I think it's going to be really cool.

I think he's going to do something really cool. Should we get to our Woody and Nuts? Yes, please. Okay. Our Woody Nuts moment of the week are our gripes with people, places, and things, big or small, whatever's currently sticking in our craw. Let me find mine. I know I've got a good one.

I've been to, oh, the other day I was at Equinox. a great equinox shout out love it the best love it love it love it love it love it I was at equinox and this guy was in the locker room fair enough wasn't wearing the towel walking around naked that's cool and he went and stopped for a sip at the water fountain big and fucking naked he's bending over he's at the water fountain look look what I'm doing here he's like this and I'm like if you fucking sit from that and all of a sudden I'm getting this oh no uh that's bad for those Can't see clearly the man had exposed cheeks. Exposed cheeks.

And sack. I was getting sack. That's a lot. And he had long hair. I was like, sir, he had hair down past his shoulders. I was like, you're naked, you're drinking from a water fountain and you have long hair. What's your priorities? That's nuts.

I know. Absolutely. Absolutely nuts. Oh, I know. That said, before you spoke about him showing a sack at the water fountain, he can't dilly dally like that around the men's room. But I am at a place in my life. I will just get naked in a men's room.

I used to think that was insane. Whoa. But now, but now I just don't care. I don't care at all. But I do care enough. I'm not leaving right in front of my locker. Like, that's crazy time. The guy that walks up, goes to the urinal, has a party.

No, I don't want it. Out. Why, what are you nuts is me. I overdosed myself on magnesium. I had been taking close to 750 milligrams a day. I did not realize that that at least for my body was too much. I started to feel incredibly sleepy last week, Josh, incredibly sleepy, day in and day out. And I looked it up, and it seemed that I had overdosed myself on magnesium over a period of time.

I'd done this over a two-month period. My magnesium got a little bit too high. And then I cut it out, Josh, I cut it out, and I felt unbelievable. And now I need to start reintroducing magnesium into my life. But what am I nuts? I take a good thing and I make it tell. I could have just had 250 milligrams helps me sleep. No, I had to go up and up and up.

You're a junkie. You're a junkie. I became a magnesium junkie. So let that be a warning to you. You can overdose on the good things too, folks. You can overdose on the good things too. One thing that you can't overdose on, though, is the good guys podcast. Absolutely not.

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