Good Guys - Our Meet-Cute Moment

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

Mazel morons! We’re back and hungrier than ever- literally. Today, we dive into our most unhinged food talk yet, from family-style Chinese feasts and vending machine obsessions to why peanut noodles might be the ultimate “I’ve given up” meal. We weigh in on celebrity meet-cutes (Pam & Liam?!), play matchmaker for our own absurd four-ways, and somehow end up deep in Canadian politics. Plus, we tackle your questions, get deliciously petty with a coworker drama masterclass, and decide once and for all if we’re marrying Applebee’s, Olive Garden, or Cheesecake Factory. Leave us a voicemail here! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: Applebee’s iconic 2 for $25 deal is back featuring their NEW Chicken Parmesan Fettuccine and NEW Big Bangin’ Burger. You can get 1 appetizer and 2 entrees for $25 Head to ByHeart.com and use code GOODGUYS30 to save 30% off your first subscription order for a limited time Go to NurtureLife.com/GOODGUYS and use code GOODGUYS for 55% off your first order PLUS free shipping. 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. 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 so good, good, good guys. Benny and Joshy, they're back with the podcast.

Benny and Joshy giving you a reprieve from your day. It's Benny and Joshy, but Benny and Joshy. Benny and Joshy, here on Zoom, nobody would know that, except our editing is sometimes bad. Everyone would know that. You look like you're inside a security envelope. Benny and Joshy are doing their best. Please don't jump down their throats.

You have no idea the setup. I'm going to jump down your throat and feel like this. Do you understand cameras at all? Do you understand how bad that background is for a camera? This is good. You have to see. It's great. It's so bad, Ben.

I try not to get on you. You're telling me now? Because I know the work you put in. Doesn't matter. This is, this can be changed. It's so busy that it strobes on the camera. You have to. Olivia's dying.

right now because I'm saying out loud, but we've all been thanking. If you're all thinking it, do you know how easy it is to get a background? Just tell me, I'll have it for the next episode. It literally, they sell it at Lowe's just like a little backdrop. It's like I'll dump me in a green screen. You can throw me in a Wahu. You do whatever you want. I don't care.

This is why you can't have stripes on screen. It's because it strobes. Oh my God. I feel like I'm looking in an optical illusion. Oh, my God. All right. Well, now we know. Now we know.

Benny and Joshy, learning new things. Benny and Joshy, learning new things. Josh, I just got a text. I have to read this to you. I got a text from a former employee of mine. Great. And she sent me a contract and wrote, Hi, Ben.

It's blank blank. I hope you're doing great. Mazel. I'm being a new dad, moving to a new job and cleaning at my desk. Found this so iconic, given the good guys now. I had to send it to you.

Hope you're doing well. Josh, a contract for Little Caesars signed by you and me. Wow. Isn't that cool? Wow. I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to send it to you.

It's just like that is, it's rare. Like, I don't know why anything, I don't know why it's hand signed. Like, in the world, electronic signatures, like, that's very rare. The fact that there's a physical piece of paper with physical signatures noting that moment in time for us. I just thought that was very cool. So thank you very much for sending. And I hope you're doing well to that great employee.

She was lovely. When we hung out, you came to L.A. And we walked around Century City Mall together. Yeah, we did. You were in a Gucci pullover. Yeah. Was that like the weekend before COVID? Yeah.

Yeah. Things, yes. I think that was, it was like, no, it had to be further than that. Oh, no. Yeah, it was, it was pre-COVID. It was probably 2019. No, it wasn't. It was like March.

It was 2020? We had already done Little Caesars, because I remember that I posted it in January. Oh, true for the Super Bowl. Pizza, pizza, pizza. That's exactly. Pizza pizza, pizza. Yeah. Yeah, okay, so maybe it was March.

Yeah, what did we get? We went to the, you showed me. It's so funny. It was like, I remember me great. You showed me the, like, fresh squeezed orange juice machine, and my head exploded. I was like, oh, my God, you guys are vending machines with fresh squeezed orange juice? Yeah. It's so funny.

I can't believe I was wearing a Gucci pullover. I'm so embarrassing. And I remember thinking, he's wearing a Gucci pullover, and, wow, he's tall. And we had a wonderful time together. We did. Yeah, I did it. I once did an entire YouTube video of trying weird vending machines. in LA because like sprinkles has a cupcake one.

There's obviously the orange juice one at Century City had to do that. And then there was just like a bunch of good vending machines at Cedar Sinai Hospital. And like honestly, I'll go to a hospital just for the vending machines. Yeah. I mean, New York, I'm not going to lie to you. This is one thing that L.A. definitely has on New York. We don't have fancy vending machines. Right.

I can't tell you even a single vending machine in Manhattan. I don't know where they are anymore. Sure, in a hospital, you could get a Frito. You could get a Twix. You could get, like, whatever those delicious cookies filled with jam are from whatever bakery that is. Like, other than that, a stick of gum, there's nothing fun. The sprinkles cupcakes we do have, but, like, that's only at sprinkles.

Who needs a sprinkles cupcake machine at sprinkles? I'm at sprinkles. That's a what are you nuts. Like, what do I need that for? I don't. It's how I feel when I walk up to a. McDonald's, Josh, and they have that automated, you can like put in your order on this board. Oh, I love that. Why? But there's somebody there. Well, one or the other. I either,

I'm Gen Z. I don't want to interact with people. That's fine. So you're not in favor of jobs. And then they shouldn't have employee workers. It should just be 100% these boards. Nobody needs to work there. You don't need anything. You know what? If you have people working there, let them work, Josh. Let them work. I agree. No, you're 100%. percent right and did you know that those those kiosks make it easier to overeat because you tend to order when no one's looking a couple extra sides totally yeah your chubby thoughts take over and you go i do want to try the mcflurry there's nothing scarier than going into a restaurant hungry nothing i i have such a terrible propensity to over order it's so bad and it's it's gotten slightly

better with the Ozempic, now turned, what am I taking? Am I on Treseptide too? I think so. Now turn Trezepotide. It's gotten a little bit better. When I'm hungry, I'm ordering with my eyes, Josh. I'm ordering with my eyes.

I'm seeing red. I'm going in there, two apps, two entrees, two sides. I'm always left with a whole side that I never touched. Is this a disease? Was your first introduction into family style ordering with Chinese food? Yes, and what is the restaurant?

Carmines. With huge portions of town, Carmonds. Carmonds. Right, because we're old school in New York fatso's, right? Yeah, yeah. Carmines and Chinese, for sure. Growing up as a kid, Chinese was the meal. And you really needed a big fat quarterback.

Oh, yeah, big time. That's the name of my new book. And by the way, that's me. I was the big fat quarterback, for sure. You need a big, fat, fat quarterback. who's going to be like, I'll take over ordering. We're not, oh, you wanted chicken and string beans? Save it.

You'll get some, okay? But you're not getting your own order. It's so funny yesterday. Buddy and Jackie went to this, like, famous farmer's market called Round Swamp. And they just like picked up a bunch of things for dinner. And they brought it back and it was like six things. And I'm like, who's eating? You?

You didn't get more stuff? By the way, we didn't even finish the six things. that's how fucked up my brain is. They could see, okay, six things, five adults eating, all sharing, no problem. Me, I'm like, each of us need two of these, but I was full. I digress. Continue, Chinese food. No, but that was it, right?

Because you'd be like, all right, for starters, we're going to need, you know, little crab rang goons, most shoe, mushu, dumplings, pan fried, and steamed. Yes, both, one of each. We're going to need a soup. We're going to need a wonton soup. Plenty of crackers. Plenty of the wantons. Yes.

And maybe if you're feeling crazy, chicken corn. Chicken corn soup. And then egg rolls, spring rolls. You got to get in that corn. Yeah, the egg roll and the spring roll because you never know. Something you're in the mood for spring. Sometimes you're in the mood for egg. Scallion pancake.

For sure. And sometimes when you're feeling really fat, you throw in a peanut noodle. That's when you're really fat when you're eating the cold peanut noodle. That's just like how. How big can I get? And then you got to go. Then when you start going to entries, but then you remember that we're going to need noodles and rice, right? So on top of all of it, you order five entrees, but then you go, and give us a chicken fried rice.

Give us a shrimp lo main. Even though we know that five boxes of white rice are coming for free. That's right. We still throw in more noodles and more rice. And then all of a sudden you're stuck with these five boxes of white rice. You shove them in the refrigerator. You throw them out a week and a half later. No. They spend one night in that race.

And then you make the mistake. Tell me. Oh, my God. I mean, they're weapons. They're weapons. And then you make the mistake. You forget that you can't microwave it because there's the little metal thing. You throw it in. All of a sudden, your apartment's on fire. Yeah. Can you imagine? That metal thing is so unnecessary. I don't think they do the metal thing anymore, right? That's old school where you had that little little metals that you could hold up the the box of rice. You know what I'm talking about? That's gone.

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Use code Good Guys 30, again, to save 30% on your first subscription at buyheart.com. The spectacular thing about Chinese takeout, especially in New York in the 90s, was how fast that delivery driver was at your house? Like, how are you here, bro? because all the food is already made and he was on his his motorcycle yeah scooter ready to jet

the uh man I can't do the accent but Howard Stern used to do the accent of the woman who knew him when he would order from Sean Lee in New York and I'm going to just do it lightly so I only get half cancered but she would be like

she'd be like Howard Stern sauce on side ha ha ha ha ha It's that Seinfeld episode. I think it's like Elaine ordered from the same Chinese restaurant too often. Do you know what I'm talking about where they knew her order? And it's so good. Shunley is, it's clean Chinese.

That's not my kind of Chinese. Okay? I like, I like nice and dirty. Dirty Chinese. Even though, Josh, I will say.

And again, maybe this is just the Trezepetide. I ordered Chinese the other night. And I was sad to say that it didn't hit. It made me feel so sick that I didn't enjoy the fact that I had eaten it. And I don't know that I'll be ordering in Chinese again for a minute. Wow. That's a big statement.

It made me really sad. I was like, I used to really enjoy this chow fun. Like, I used to really enjoy a nice wide noodle, a moo-shoo. a hoison wine noodle I'm not having chalfaun anymore I'm not I can't

I used to enjoy all of it Josh and now it just used to be chow fun in the sun now it's not now it's it's gone

well somebody needs to make a montage to time of your life of me eating Chinese food you just turn back into a Panda Express like Oh man Chinese food

I like my two favorite things are Chinese food And being alone Like that So for me that's Thai Yeah Talk about that A little pad to you a little Yeah

This is when you're feeling really sad And really fat You get a CU And you get a CU and you get a pad tie, okay? That's again a wide noodle and a skinny. Yes. You get a side of peanut sauce to drench both in.

You get a beautiful spring roll. This is a meal, okay? Oh, I, a good place, the CU could be better than the tie. Yeah, so true. Had CU criminally underrated. But yeah, those are the meals where at the ends, you're questioning everything. Why did I do that? How did I get here?

Who am I? Who are you? I love it. The best. Yeah, man. I love, and I go in and I like, because here's the thing, right, there's nothing like the chase, right? I, you know, I'd come to New York. I'd have to hit up my friend who used to be in a boy band.

I'd be like, you know where the Coke is. And he'd be like, of course I do. And I'd be like, thanks. Sorry. And so, like, for me, like when I would go to. Like if I was doing a Boston college gig in like the Northeast, like Northeastern or something, I would plan my day around like,

okay, so I'll get in, I'll go to sleep for a couple hours, I'll go to the north end, I'll have like a great slice. And then they have like, Boston might have the greatest Italian bakeries. And like, I'm going to go to like, I think it's kind of like Mike's canolies or something.

And I'm going to get like a couple canoles, couple lobster tails. and I'm just going to have a schmort, and I'm going to be picking and eaten, and I'm going to feel bad, yeah. But you know what? I'm going to live. Yeah, I will live.

You'll live. Oh, I'm not going to wake up from this. I'll wake up. You will. I'll wake up. But that's a far, it's a different indulgence, indulging and sweet.

There's something about just eating savory until you're ready to vomit. It's just a different type of feeling. The sweet, you can, sure, whatever. I had a whole bag of this Swedish candy. You heard of this Swedish candy company that's like going viral bonbon or something? It's so good. Yeah, delicious.

That said, you eat it. You're going to want to take your own life when you eat a bag of Swedish candy. You're done. Sure. You're done. Your belly. Oof. Yeah, I love anything gummy.

Anything gummy. Should we get to a story? Yeah, what do we got? What's in the news? Well, Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson figuring things out along the way in budding romance. These naked gun stars are looking for romantic clues. Pam Anderson and Liam Anderson and Liam Neeson are figuring things out as their off-screen relationship blooms. The source adds that Anderson has been quietly crushing on her naked gun co-star since before cameras even started rolling on their new film.

How good is this? I love a late in life romance. It's fantastic. Good for them. Good for them. And I'd watch the porn. Dude, what if they did frame by frame her famous one with Tommy Lee on the boat, but with Liam? I mean, I'm in.

Liam does mangina. I love. Liam does mangina. The lines with that are iconic, like, fuck, you're so hot, baby. But it's Liam saying it's in a fuck, you're so hot, baby. Sounds like taken. Yeah, and you think it's Liam with the street. He's going to be holding a gun, but he's strap on.

Or he's just like dressed in S&M. Are we going to get a cease and desist? An S&D? Nah. We're good. You guys can come on the pod. And if you're interested in the four-way, that would be a fun one.

Why did I say that? What's a fun, what's a fun four-away with a famous couple that, and obviously we know Claude's going to love this segment. Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Oh, not me, you and I'm famous? Okay, me, Claudia and famous people. And then we can do you and me.

Yeah, I was thinking, me, you, Joey Kamas, stuff. Yeah, you, me, Zach Ephron, and his brother. On a golf course. I don't know. I haven't thought about it. Zoom in my face. Yeah, me, Claude. Who would be good?

Who would be good? Oh, Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau. Yeah. That would be fun. Yeah, that's steaming. Yeah, just make a big human blender. Wow. That's a budding romance.

You saw that? That's crazy. Yeah, Trudeau and Katie. It's cool. It is, sure. Whatever. Sure. What do you think about that, Olivia?

Justin Trudeau and Katie Perry. Sure. It's real. I know. I saw the video. Fascinating. World leaders uniting, you know, a woman sent to space and former Prime Minister of Canada. Or is he still Prime Minister? He stepped down. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, you know, more power to them. More power to them both. Godspeed. I was thinking about Trudeau stepping down.

That's the right answer. That's the right answer, Olivia. Thank you, Ben. But don't you think it's, I'm interested to hear your thought, Ben. I think it is in a good way, so wonderfully Canadian, that Trudeau said, I'm clearly not popular and I don't know if he was sort of didn't have a chance of being elected again or or he did. But he said, you know what? Like, okay, then move on from me. I'll step down. Like, you would never, you would never see an American leader from a council member to the president ever do that. No, no, never because we're so obsessed with optics, even though we know that. If you're not going to win again, the last year of your presidency is you're not doing anything. Right.

If you're not going to win again. Because any policy that you like try and bring forward, it's not going to happen. There's like no point. That's actually like the core problem with American politics is that it takes so long typically to do anything that by the time you've gotten in, you're out. And so it's always like, oh, you support this. Why didn't you do it when you were president? And it's like, well, I didn't have any time. I didn't have any typically.

So actually, yeah, I do, I definitely respect whether or not he was forced out or not, the idea that if somebody knows that something isn't working, he's out. So somebody can go in and do what is working. And clearly he had aspirations for Katie Perry. I think he got a wonderful consolation price. I think it's a great trade. Being hated in Canada and dating Katie Perry, good move. Imagine they have their version of the deep state, but in Canada.

So they're like in the halls of apart. parliament in Quebec and they're like with their deep French-Canadian accent and they go, Justin Dishin. It's not going to work out for you. The people that don't like you. But you step down. No problem. We get you a Kitty Perry.

It's literally like a Borat movie. Like it doesn't. We'll trade you. Katie Perry if you step down. That's hysterical. And totally what happened And totally what happened Look, right now we have

Kitty Perry, maybe Demi Levato, I cannot promise I can try and do that accent I have to go to Oh, baby let you Oh, you're going to step down Justin Oh, you're going to get Katie Perry

Justin if you move If you move over My buddy led it I went to a hockey game once. The Colorado Avalanche, their coach for a while, was one of the greatest players ever named Patrick Gua, who was a famous French-Canadian guy. My buddy Len heckled him in a French-Canadian accent for the entire game. We were the stars of our section.

He'd be like, Patrick, you need to do better, Patrick. There's nothing better than when you're in a section that appreciates your heckles. Yes. And there's equally nothing worse. than when you're in a section that makes you pipe down. It's like, I'm not a sporting event. Let me show my true colors. Mm-hmm.

That's great. Let me be racist. No, I'm kidding. Oh, that is so great. Ugh. This episode of the Good Guys podcast is brought to you by Nurture Life. As a parent, I need to tell you how busy you are. We're all busy.

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term, you will spend almost completely trying to be reelected. And I think it should be one six-year term. Boom. Do everything you got to do. One six-year term is good. I think that ideally, four years should be enough. It's just like, again, we're living in an idealistic world where if you want to get something done as president, the parties don't make it so unbelievably difficult for you to do it. Like the fact that the stars have to align, you have to have the you have to have all these things for your presidency to even matter is crazy. Like, because you do have four term, you do a full term presidents that are just able to do nothing because their hands are completely tied because they don't have the support of the

Senate. And it's just, so yeah, sure, six years would be great. But if you don't have Senate majority, you can't do anything anyways. So really, it should just be like, I don't know how this would work. I don't, I don't like know enough. And I'm not claiming to know enough. But like, if a Democrat is president, then they should also get the Senate for those four years. And if a Republican is president, they should get the Senate for those four years so that people can enact change.

Otherwise, if you have one and don't have the other, you can't do anything. It's like, it's silly, you know? It's like, hey, I want to do this. No. But that's checks and balances, right? Like, that's the executive legislative and legislature and judicial branches. It's like the executive keeps the legislature in check and vice versa. And then in theory, the judiciary keeps it all in check.

Like, what's legal? Yeah, I think it makes sense, except it's become so petty over the years that it's no longer like what's right for the country. It's like, how can I stick it to you? I'm not voting for this because you put it forward, you know? versus if maybe somebody that I agreed with, put it forward, I would. I don't know. But I hear you on what it's supposed to do. So yeah, go six years is great.

Eight years is great. Give everybody eight. I think six is a good number because it's longer than four. It's shorter than eight. And it's also... It is right in the middle. It's right in the middle. I actually think things work best when the raining party has

either the House or the Senate, and then the other party has one of the two. So either, you know, a Republican president with a Republican Senate and then a Democratic House, I think it allows for a version of balance. I don't think it's good when it's all one party. But the truth is, to your point, Ben, is that these bills are written by lobbyists. They come in at 9,900, 1,000 pages. for sure your representative is almost certainly not reading it. It's being summed up by pages and congressional, you know, basically college kids who are summarizing it for them. And they vote

pretty much along party lines. But like, and the problem is, is that it could be, the headline of that bill could be one thing. But you've now said, well, I got this local stuff in my area that needs 10 million bucks. So as long as that's buried in there on page 480, I'll vote for the thing. And it's like, why can't we just vote for one thing at a time and just like, and do it up. Be like, today we're voting on one thing. Because you're not able to cheat. Right. Like this is like, again, and I don't want to get too deep because I get too angry. We're not being, we're not being political. No, no, I'm just saying, no, I'm saying for me personally, I get too angry when I think about it, but like that is New York politics to a T.

Like, everything is slow. Everything is broken. And it's intentional. Like we've spoken about this before, the amount of time, the amount of construction, the van WIC has been under construction since Seinfeld's first episode. Like, that is called corruption. That is called lobbying for construction groups that are giving back, like kickbacks to the people in charge.

It's not just New York. I'm sure it's everywhere. But like there's just inefficiencies because things are buried in larger bills. Everywhere from the president down to the mayor. It's just crazy that it has to be 200 things. And we just can't like regularly vote on things all the time. But it should it should be like, what's it called?

One of the dating apps. You just, you get like a hundred of them a day. You swipe right on the one you like. You swipe right on the one you like. left, right? Why not? But it wouldn't even have to be 100 a day. If you did one a day, then because these bills, how many of them get past two or three, a presidency of like a big, beautiful bill or whatever it is? Or, you know, Biden was the infrastructure, right? So, yeah, I mean, I just think that the whole, I'm sure there could be someone who's smarter than both of us

who would come in here and explain why the system was set up in this way. But like all lobbyists seems like sheister's bills are BS like it's all pork barrel spending and they're all just shoving it in there to get their little thing that they want through it's like I want a Sephora gift card so I'm going to say yes

but in doing so sorry I don't know where that came from you know yeah no I of course I know of course I don't know it's weird it's very it's intentionally weird and even

if we had somebody smarter than us, come on and tell us why it was intended, how it was set up originally and what it was intended to do, I guarantee you it is not as efficient as it once was. Yeah, man, it's like when I, when Paige said we could have sex if I bought her a car. You know, no, I'm going to cut that out. Okay. Okay. Another story, why Travis Kelsey ran every single image by her before posting photo dump about the wonderful Taylor Swift. He's playing the long game. According to shutter scoop, Travis Kelsey asked for Taylor Swift's permission before posting his recent photo dump on Instagram.

He ran every single image by her, revealed an insider. He didn't want to post anything she wasn't 100% comfortable with. Well, these pictures are coyote, cute, cute. And yeah, I feel like everyone does that. Everyone. That's what I was going to say. This is, this is called being a, like, a good boyfriend or husband. If I just threw up a rogue image of Claudia in feed, she would kill me. Why? Because she needs approval. Like, the same way that I would want to, like, at least see the picture that's going up and make sure that I looked the way that I'd like to look. Like, unless it was, like, a funny, like, then she wouldn't care. But, like, if it's like, yeah, like, and like, stories, she wouldn't care.

but in feed is very permanent, Josh. You want approval. I'm not posting me and you in feed unless I think you look amazing. And I'm still going to probably send you a picture of it. Right? Yeah, no, I know. I'm asking why only because pages of course the same way. Yeah.

But then if I do like a tribute post to her for Mother's Day or whatever, like I feel like I know well enough. Totally. What would be acceptable? there are like there are definitely when you're married 10 to 15 photos that you tend to recycle a bit so sure yes pre-approved photos certainly you don't need to re-approve but and yeah you you definitely know when they'd be happy but if it's something that's on the fence don't do it you're going straight to jail but speaking of creatine josh i'm now three weeks on creatine this is the best thing i ever did

I did read something, though, because I am 240 pounds, should I be taking more than 5 milligrams? You could. I would just make sure you're really working out. Even when I'm not working out, I'm not bloated. I'm not, like, it just helps my brain. Like, what is the downside? I am still working out. But what's the downside of not working out besides being bloated? Which kind of like goes away after a week. I find I always routine water on it. But like Dr. Dubrow said, like about four to five pounds of water weight. But that's not like, like, but like what's the downside of that, hypothetically?

Nothing. I mean, I just like to cycle on and off of things. So I'll do creatine for like maybe two or three months. I usually try to like do it five days during the week and then I'll give, I just like to give my body a rest on the weekends. Yeah, I'm the polar opposite. When I get into something, I'm all in all the time. I haven't missed an AG one day in like a year and a half. And like I now panic if I don't have it, which is not like, it's just like me.

I have that personality. Like I started and I need to keep going. And so now it's that. Protein is 1,000% in my repertoire and it is, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. I like moderation in all things, if I can, because I have. a different brain about that kind of stuff. No, that's healthy, Josh.

That's healthy. What I'm describing is unhealthy. I'm describing unhealthy habits to you. But yeah, if you haven't tried creatine, and after listening and watching Dr. Dubrow's episode, if you're not trying creatine and GLPs, we're not doing you, right? Okay.

Should we do a speak pipe? Yeah, we should. If you want to leave us a message, get some advice, go to speakpipe.com slash good guys. Keep a brief. Brevity is key. Let's hear from Anonymous. good guys big moron here wanted to get your thoughts on this fun little thing that happened last week

so backing up i am a twin and my twin brother is autistic we love him super high functioning he's a king whatever we both have gone to the same psychiatrist me jewish anxious depressed ADHD you know the story brother autistic amazing And I had an appointment with my psychiatrist the other week. And he asked me how my brother is doing. And I said, oh, he's great. He lives by himself. His job's going really well.

Really, everything's fantastic. And my psychiatrist goes, oh, during your brother's last appointment, your parents told me about the seizure. How is he? And I immediately just say, what seizure? Apparently, my parents did not bother to tell me that my brother had a seizure. and I'm fairly certain my psychiatrist just broke HIPAA. Should I get a new doctor?

Welcome your thoughts. Thanks, gentlemen. Love you. About to unpack. I don't think you need to get a new doctor. HIPAA like shouldn't, it doesn't need to apply to an immediate family. I wouldn't think. Maybe it does.

I don't know. First of all, I'm sorry that your brother had a seizure. I thought the question was going to be like should I be pissed at my parents for not telling me that my brother had a seizure? And the answer... I think she's asking that too. Yeah. So I would say yes, but you also described yourself as like a very anxious person. So maybe your parents were trying to protect you from something.

But I think that often people make decisions based on the way they think somebody else will react. I think that's the job of a parent. So maybe they were going to tell you like when they saw you in person or once they knew that he was totally okay. I doubt it's coming from a terrible place that we're cutting her out. But I'm sorry, your brother had a seizure. I think you're really over-complicating this with exactly what you led with, which is you are anxious and obviously have a lot of feelings and things. And I'm sure there's a wonderful side of that that you're probably wonderfully empathic. I'm speaking for myself here because I deal with some anxiety and depression and stuff like this.

And on one side, it can be a real asset. And then it can also present itself as a defect, right? The poison is in the dose. 1,000 milligrams of Tylenol, no more headache. 10,000 milligrams of Tylenol. No more you. Think about that. So first and foremost, and I've seen this now because I'm an only child,

but I've seen this with my wife who's one of four and her parents were the greatest, and her family is the greatest. Sometimes you have to compartmentalize what your kids are going through from other siblings in the family. Like, this is what it is. I don't care how close you think you are. Like, they're your brother's parents first. Like, what happened between those three is a closed unit thing.

And then even though your nuclear family, you're as close as someone can be, a grown-up brother's decision in which to bring you into that is up to him. And that they talk to their doctor who, by the way, And I've had this before. Seems more like a family doctor, which means that the lines of confidentiality, I would suspect had been crossed long ago, that there was lots of talking amongst of each other and things

that basically it had been established that there was sort of open conversations about everyone. So you are, leave HIPAA out of this, like, She's going to bring down the psychiatrist who nicely asked if her brother's doing okay. And the last thing I'll say is you didn't, other than the psychiatrist asking something nicely about your brother, it seems like you have no issue with him. So why get rid of him? Yeah, I think, I don't think she wants to get out of a psychiatrist.

I think that the question was should she be pissed at her parents. I have to think that that was the intended question. And I just go back to the fact that if your parents are people that are secretive that move quietly and exclude you, sure. But if your parents are just people dealing with an autistic son and an anxiety-ridden daughter and have lived with them for however many years, know their patterns and son just had a seizure, their main thing was probably just like, let's make sure that our son who's autistic living alone having a seizure is fine before we tell our daughter who might spiral. something. Again, I hope your brother is okay. He does sound like a legend with, which is what you led with. It sounds like utter king, love him. And you sound like a queen. You do. You do. You do. Absolutely. Olivia, you agree? Yeah, I do agree. I will say I can see where she's coming from just because, like, Ethan's parents can sometimes, like, leave out some key information over the phone.

And I think it's like it can be hard when you live like away from your family and you don't really have the same context of what's going on. But at the same time, I agree with like both of you that, you know, their parents to her brother first and have to like prioritize that and make sure he's okay. And they very well could have wanted to tell you in like a safe moment. But it also makes sense that like you would want to know like what's going on with your brother if it's a really serious thing. I don't know like how where you live and in correspondence to that. So I understand where the feeling comes from, but it is like, you know, he is an adult man on his own and he has a right to be able to like share that information independently. So yeah. Yeah.

I think there's truth on both sides. Yeah. Maybe you just spoke family HIPAA. Think about that. Okay. This is the next one's from Anonymous. Hey, good guys. I need your help being delightfully petty.

I have a coworker who talks behind my back. She once told a teammate that I vanish when I started. step away from my desk for more than five minutes. So now out of pure spite, I message her every time I'm going to be away even for two minutes. She says it's not necessary, but I can tell it annoys her, which brings me just so much peace. What are some other creative, passive, aggressive ways that I can keep this petty streak alive while technically staying professional? Thanks, love you. I'm a big fan of aggression over passive aggression. Passive aggression. Passive aggression. Passive like the older you get, you start to realize that it only hurts you.

Like you every day are thinking about this person and how they wronged you. They're not thinking about you. Okay. So be fucking aggressive and say, hi, bitch. Fuck you. That wasn't nice. Stop it. Don't do it again.

She said while keeping it professional. Okay, fine. We'll change it. Hi, Laura. Hi, Laura. I heard that you said some things about me behind my back. I really didn't appreciate that. Can you please not do it again?

And then it'll be done. But the petty stuff, it doesn't sound like you're doing anything that would bother her enough. Unless you have a crush on her. It sounds like you have a crush on her. So like unless you're flirting, I don't like passive aggressive.

I like confrontation, duke it out, and then it's over. But passive aggressive blows up eventually. Josh? I think you should lean into the vanish thing that she said and start bringing on a magician. motif. I'm talking cheap. I'm talking smoke bombs. So every time you leave, just be like, boom. That works too. Here I am, Allison, about to vanish again. You know?

Can you buy smoke bombs like on Amazon? I think that's just like a fun thing to have. I'm going to the bathroom. I'm going to the bathroom. Like I do it in my house. I'm in. And maybe the, but a dual purpose, maybe the smoke bomb is also poopery. Oh, I love it. You do when you're leaving a bathroom. But then it's just like you're fumigating yourself. You can see it now. Man dies and stall after a huge dump. That's me.

I was thinking that too. She could maybe give updates of like give a play by play of an entire BM. But saying like, hey, just want to update you, Donna. I know I've been gone for two minutes. I'm mid BM and, you know, had Brussels sprouts last night, you know, prayer hands. And then two minutes later, like, okay, I've completed, but it looks like it's going to be a couple more wipes than expected, going to need another, you know, 90 seconds. If you're going to be petty, then this is good. This is good. Sorry, I haven't gone so long. I was straining. It led to deep sweat. I needed to change my shirt. I took my blouse off. I'm in stall three, but my blouse is hanging over.

It's all two and three. Oh, my God. Do you have those friends that get completely naked before they take a dove? Like Costanza? I have friends that get completely naked before they take a dub. Nick Antonian does. He does. He does.

Jonah, yeah. Yeah, it's funny. My friend Matt has a similar physique to Nick. And I think that it's just, it just makes sense. I would never. I would never. I'm too. Nick is like, and I haven't met him, but from what I've seen, he's sturdy, right?

Yeah, yeah. it's like this is like a sturdy i don't need i won't even call it it's like hard fat right i'm soft fat soft fat is different than hard fat i was always jealous of hard fat it's just like a different kind of fat where you hold it differently yeah soft fat i'm not going to sit there naked looking at myself all i'm taking a dump that's not what i want i think it works for hard fat though let's move on Last one from, this would be a quick one and we'll get to our, what are you and that's what, man? This one's from Bella. Hi, good guys.

Fellow member of the tribe here, obsessed with the pod. I have a question for you. Mary F. Kill, Applebee's, Olive Garden, or Cheesecake Factory, Go. My God, this is so easy. Mary Applebee's, okay? Love them. Or the other two options? Olive Garden, sorry.

The factory and the garden. I'm killing Olive Garden, sorry. And I'm fucking Cheesecake Factory. Absolutely. Ooh, baby. Delicious. Okay, I agree, but I would flip it. Garden, it was nice to know when you, you got to go.

I actually say Merry Cheesecake Factory for the only reason that because their menu is so large, I think they do offer a lot of variety. But the truth is, is I would want to have a romantic interlude with Applebee's. Please send that to corporate, Olivia. Because I just, because it, you know, that moment to share it with someone is a real celebration of love. And when I'm sitting down at an Applebee's with a loved one, it's a celebration of love. When I'm having the chicken, Parmesan, Fettuccini, I go, this is my best self. This isn't just a random day of marriage.

This is a renewal of vows, you know. Yes, I can see it now, Josh. I love it. Romanticizing the bees is the bees should be. God, the bees knees. You got a what are your nuts? Our what are nuts moment of the week are gripes of people places and things, both big and small, whatever, stick it in your craw.

I talked about the, last week how the wonderful little my baby boy shy is having a tough time with a bit of a sleep regression which is typical at two years old and so he screams at me sometimes at night stay with me sleep with me in my room and we have like a lazy boy there so i will sometimes but i realize it's not something that i can sustain so i in a moment of real sleep deprivation and weakness i ordered maybe a blow-up doll from amazon my god for $9. It's a vinyl blowup doll.

It's not suggestive. It's just a human-sized pool float. And I decided that when the sweet shy falls asleep, I would sneak the blow-up doll onto the lazy boy. And I would just kind of put a hat over it, over the head and a pillow and a, yeah, a blanket. And then just hope that he thinks I'm sleeping there. What are you nuts?

What am I? What? I never used it. I threw it away. I was so sleep deprived. Although I never used it, please. I did it, you jerk. You used it. You used it. Well, not for sleeping. No, not for sleeping, but you used it.

I didn't use it, but I was desperate. Once it arrived, I'm like, this is fucking insane. And where am I going to keep it? I don't know. In your bathroom? My housekeeper sees it. She's like, geez, a guy from drinking dogs. Real scumbass.

My what are you in this moment for me, Josh? You ever order from Instacart? Sure. First of all, I love Instacart, shout at Instacart. That said, you ever find, if you ever do grocery shopping on Instacart, or even if it's just regular shopping, that they love to refund the one thing you needed, I go in, I place a big order at Walmart because I want a two-burner that I can plug into a wall

so I can have it downstairs. And then I end up getting these like six, things that I really didn't need, then it all shows up. But the thing that I intended to get in the very beginning isn't there. What are you nuts? It should be priority ranked. If I add it first and you can't get it, cancel the whole order. I want none of it. Fun tip, Josh, or pro tip. I recently found out that if you have a problem with your produce, you ever just get like a spoiled tomato? Sure. You can go into the app, say it was spoiled, and they'll refund you. for your tomato. Instant credit. I had no idea. Just saying pro tip. You know what else is a pro tip,

Josh? Giving this episode five stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts? Listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. Watch us on YouTube. Share our clips, Instagram and TikTok. Mondays and Thursdays, folks, we will see you next time. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.