Good Guys - We Won An Oscar Kinda

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO.... THE GOOD GUYS (caps lock)! This hilarious and candid episode details everything from B-list viewing parties to basking in the congratulations of our "Oppenhomies." The guys dish on memorable encounters with celebrities like Cillian Murphy and Ben takes a turn on Jimmy Kimmel. From Josh's mom's adorable congratulations texts to Ben's television shuffle and new pup, tune into this episode! It's beautiful, it's gorgeous, and now we have an Oscar! What are ya nuts?! Leave us a voicemail here! 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. Sponsors: Drinklmnt.com/goodguys for a free LMNT sample pack with any purchase squarespace.com/goodguys to save 10% on your first purchase of a website or domain 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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Mazel morons. Welcome back to your favorite podcast, the biggest podcast, this side of the Mississippi. Joshie, I am just so proud of you. That's it. Look, the Oscars. They happened last night. We won. Do we get a little trophy? Like, how does that work? Yeah, but you have to buy it on Hollywood Boulevard. Really? We don't get anything? Nothing. Zilch.

Not a bubkis. What does that mean? Like even, I was thinking about this, if you win an NBA championship and you played on the team for like two days, they still send you a ring. You get a ring, right? You get a ring. Yeah. You're telling me you don't get even a miniature.

We don't get nothing. Not a necklace, not a brooch. Nothing. Can you imagine an academy brooch? What the fuck? And we've been having on all these Oppenheimer guys. We're talking about Nolan. and right. We don't even get a little trophy.

I'm telling you. Well, technically the best picture award is an award to the producers, because in theory they put together the picture. But all that they're talking about the whole time is this is a collective effort. This could be done with, this couldn't be done without each and every one of you. And then, what the hell? Honestly, we should pick it. Welcome to my set of town, babe. It's not fair over here and it never will be. Oh my God. All right. Well, then I prematurely posted last night. I put up a story on the good guys Instagram and yes, folks. That is me posting. That is me. It's not some intern or assistant. It's just me. I wrote we won. And sure, we won, but we don't get anything. If you don't get anything, I certainly get nothing. The morons get nothing. I think we should make something so that we at least have it.

So we went to a viewing party, a lovely, beautiful viewing party that Universal threw for basically the B squad. anyone not invited to the main event. But it was lovely and it was so nice to be invited. And so after we won Best Picture, they put out napkins that said, congratulations, Oppen homies. And I, of course, being the cynical curmudgeon that I am, said, was there another set of napkins just in case? And they looked at me and said, yeah.

And I was like, all right, good to know. And now those are in Africa. That's my favorite thing. Like when you see those pictures of like these like African teens wearing Super Bowl losing t-shirts where it's like congrats to the New York J-Nors. Yeah, exactly. I love those because they have to make both. They have to.

It's funny. I've been lucky enough to go to two Stanley Cup finals for the L.A. Kings when they won the Stanley Cup. And I literally like the game ends. Everyone celebrates and you see the vendors literally like pull up, just brand new hats, shirts, L.A. Kings, you know, Stanley Cup winners. I'm like, well, where would this have gone had they not won? It's such a good question. Secondary market? I don't know.

I don't know. Who wants to buy that? But I guess it's all international. It's all international. But I have heard if you can, they're very, they do do a lot to make sure that you can't get it in the states. So if you are to find like, you know, a 49ers Super Bowl winning shirt goes for good money. Maybe that's our second business. Selling the losers of the Super Bowl T-shirts?

Maybe instead of a third episode a week, we start a secondary market like that. I prefer it. Maybe instead of a fourth. I'm out of stuff to say, Ben. Ben scares the shit out of me because he's like, you know, I could do a third. I'm like, I can't. You know what's so funny. So I was going through just today all of the reviews,

reading all of the lovely things that the morons have to say. And all they want is more episodes of me and you. Folks, we got nothing else left to say. We need the guests to create new conversation. So true. We lean on those guests, baby, especially the ones that are mean to you. So what is this?

People think Howie Mandel was mean to you? Yeah, people think that Howie Mandel was mean to me. And if you think he was mean to me on our episode, you should check out his. That is good. We recorded two episodes, one on our podcast, one on his podcast. And the one on his podcast, honestly, I should have worn a brown paper bag over my face. Stop it.

You were outstanding and I was cackling. I remember, didn't I write you? I was listening to that episode because I was pretty sure that I didn't come off well. And then I was cackling at some of your commentary. No, they were both great episodes. I thought the Howie episode was absolutely fantastic. And look, I do appreciate it that the morons are protective. They want to make sure that we are positioned in the best life possible.

It is what it is, and that's all that you can want from listeners of your podcast. So thank you very much. That said, when we can get a guest like a Howie Mandel, Howie Mandel sharing the Good Guys podcast is great for the good guys podcast. So even if he smears me a little or says something and maybe you don't love, it's all for the good of the pod. It's all for the good of the pod. We're trying to grow this thing, babe.

What's good for the pod is good for the gander. I don't know what that means, but it's good for you. You idiots. It's good for you idiots. Back to the Oscars. The Oscars, did you watch it? You didn't, right? So the party that Universal through was a viewing party, and then it turned into an after party.

So that starts at around 4 o'clock in L.A. And I said to my wife, there's no way we're getting there at 4 because I know how these things go. So we got there around 6 o'clock for all like when it was really getting exciting. and really like people are, you know, this is happening. Beautiful Jack Victor's suit, velvet coat, just saying. I realize velvet only works in super formal wear and or loungewear. I'm talking to Valor Tracks suit, which is the only thing I'm going to wear after I'm 55. Wait, so you did end up getting a new suit?

Yes, because it was gifted. Thank you, Jack Victor. Very, all right, good. No, but we'll take it. Excellent. Jack Victor suit. Bruno Magley Shoes, old school. Thank God.

Wow. Come on, made in Italy. Italy. Heard of it. Very good. Italy. And so who is at this after party? It was a bit of, it was basically everyone like 15 and above on the call sheet for Oppenheimer.

And it's also the holdovers, which is a universal picture, excellent movie. But it was basically the lion's share of the Op and Homies group chat, which is. is now very infamous and just the greatest people. And a lot of actors, like the great crumholtz, and just great actors, people I've known throughout my whole life. And yeah, it's cool to be close to the moment because you do dream about it in some sense. And it's cool to see that it's fabulous

to take it to like the final yard, like to cross that finish line. And it's also cool to see that like, and then you wake up the next morning and there's traffic. And there's, you know, and they get your order wrong at Starbucks. And you're like, yeah. And then life comes back.

But it is funny because I was able to see the great Killian Murphy, Best Actor Award winner. And I had, you know, 20 seconds with him. And I introduced him to my beautiful wife page. And I looked at him and I said, Killian, is it like you always imagined? Is it like how you dreamed of? And he said, no, I never dreamed of it.

No, Josh, I don't give a rat to ask for that. And I was like, Killy and you and I are so different. I was like, what about a kid's choice award? You ever one of those? But he was as lovely as he was the first day on set as he was winning the big prize. And so it was cool. And my wife, I got to say, and I'd love to hear this because you and your wife go to some big events where she gets all dolled up, I looked at my stunning wife and I give her a hard time

here, mostly because she won't canoodle with me. I digress. But I looked at my. my wife, she looks so beautiful. And I was like very proud to introduce her as my wife to these people. And I felt like a lucky man. That is just beautiful. That is just beautiful. Yeah. The great, the great page pack. Every day. Every day. Every day. Every day. Every day. Can you put down your gun? No. There's not some days where she's yelling at you for leaving a sock on the couch.

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I'm going to sit down. Josh told me he was on Peacock. We got Peacock and we watched Oppenheimer. And first and foremost, what an unbelievable movie. Unbelievable movie from start to finish. I absolutely loved it. And just the fact that we got to see your beautiful face a couple of times throughout made it like

the cherry on top of what was just an incredible film. My biggest takeaway, though, Albert Einstein was alive during World War II? You didn't know? I had no idea. It's like one of those like Picasso died in 1970. Do you feel like Picasso was like from the 1700? I can't explain it.

Like there's something just that felt so much older about Einstein than alive in the 1940s. I think he died in like 1963. Yes. But he, I think it was like around 1910 that he really did his big thing, right? He peaked in the tens. And then it's still just so I just like I couldn't believe it. Like I'm looking at this like big jufro white hair. I'm like, that guy looks like Einstein.

And then it's Einstein. I'm like, oh my God, Oppenheimer and Einstein worked together. And it was just, it was awesome. He knew what was coming, like that from his sort of revelation, you know, with the theory of relativity, that that eventually something like this could happen, right? That a bomb could be created. And he wrote a letter to FDR sort of warning him. Like, get ready, babe.

It's crazy. It's crazy. And the movie is just so powerful, just about the creation, like such a. Such a dark creation that was so necessary, but now we deal with. They even said it last night. I forget who said it was either Killian or it was Chris. It was somebody said that like we now have the responsibility of dealing with what we created. And that's like the sort of essence of the movie and of the main character.

And it was just, it was amazing. I mean, Nolan is a genius beyond his wife, Emma, who is a producer, is a badass. Like, just those two, the two of them together is a power couple, you know, only second to the Oshrie Soffer sect. But to me, one of the coolest things about it, now I can say this and you'll get it. It's basically the Jewish Avengers. Yeah, yeah, totally. Oppenheimer's going around and it's like, let me get all the badass Jewish physicists and Richard Feynman and Edward Teller and Isidore Robbie and like an Oppenheimer, of course. Like these were some badass Jews.

Such badass Jews. It's such a cool movie. So cool. Such a great story. I just love in the Jewish Avengers. We pass on the spandex and we prefer wool. It's a little more flattering. Yes, I'm going to schmidt, but it's worth it.

Did I tell you this story? When I got the part, and obviously, you know, it's a smaller part. So there weren't that many clues in the script of who this guy was. He was a historical figure, of course. So I was lucky enough to interview or call my friend Dr. Brian Keating, who's a Jewish astrophysicist at a UC San Diego. And I just said, you know, is there any like water cooler, you know, inside baseball talk amongst physicists, anything I can draw from to help me get into character

with this guy? And he's like, here's the thing. physicists are obsessed with the laws of the universe because physics is the laws of the universe. So trying to understand physics is like trying to understand the mind of God. And I said, I don't think I've ever heard anything more Jewish. Let me tell you, I know what God was thinking and he's not pleased. So that's, it's very cool.

I'm glad you liked it. How, what did you think of your nemesis, Jimmy, Jimmy Kimmel? I actually thought that Kimmel was good. He is good. He was good. Like, that's how you should host the Oscars. Like, he just, he dug in. He made people feel uncomfortable, but then he made them feel great.

He told very strong jokes. He actually, did you see the joke, the Killian joke? I wrote it down. He made a great, great Killian joke. Oh, yeah? He said that he's Killian Murphy when he's in a drama. And then when he's in a comedy, they call him Silly Ann Murphy, which I thought was hilarious. You got to watch the clip.

I probably butchered it, but I thought that he was shockingly great. Honestly, I have a full list of people that I'm not apologizing to, but for one night, I thought they were really good when normally I don't think that they're really good. Jimmy Kimmel, really good. Jake Gyllenhaal? No, not Jake. Not Jake. Is that his name? I don't know.

I don't know who you mean. Barbie. Oh. Ryan Gosling? Oh no. Ryan Gosling. Antonio Banderas. Jake Barbie was awesome.

Jake Barbie. Oh my God. Ryan Gosling as Ken. Marshall. So good. Marshall, would you have a fling with Ryan Gosling? Uh,

yeah. Yeah. Same here. I'd have a fling with Ryan Gosling. Last night, he was fantastic. They did that stupid song, I'm just Ken. And even I loved it.

I loved it. They just did such a good job. It was fantastic. And all that I do is talk about how much I hate that fucking movie, which holds true. But he was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Yes.

And shout out my buddy kid David Tribman, who was one of the dancers on stage with him. cowboy hat. Really? Yes. Very, very cool. Shout out. Shout out. And, uh, Billy Elish, I've had enough. I've heard that song one too many times. I've had enough. I'm done. Solid. Solid, solid, solid. That's it. That's it. That's my Oscars recap. Oh, Marshall, you could go as Phineas for Halloween this year. 100%. If you go as Billy with me. I could go as Billy. Okay. Okay. Okay. Solid. I'm in. You could, Ben could go as Mrs. Elish or Mr. Ilish, you can be the parent.

Yeah, that works. That works. I'll go as both parents. Split me down the middle. Now, obviously, we're not political on the podcast, but we are funny. And so I think it's worth us talking about something that I thought was really taking advantage of a great opportunity, so I appreciated the execution. But in the New York Post, they wrote Jimmy Kimmel told not to read Donald Trump's tweet at Oscars 2024. Yes, I am.

in charge told him not to read aloud Donald Trump's social post on truth social about the 96th Academy Awards. They said, you've got a little bit of time. And he said, I'm reading the Trump tweet. And they're like, no, no, no, don't read that. He told Kelly Rippa and Mark Consuelos, I was like, yes, I am. So, I mean, if you didn't, if you didn't see it basically throughout the show, former president, God bless, wrote this thing that was pretty disparaging of Jimmy Kimmel and the whole award show. And in real time, Kimmel got up, read the, read the tweet that he wrote and then had a really funny button joke on the end. So regardless of where you are politically, I think just I appreciated the fact that like in real time he was able to take advantage of someone kind of

talking shit to him and, and deflect it. And told a great joke. Like I also thought it was great. I was actually shocked. Like as he was reading, I'm like, Trump really. really wrote that now and Kimball just pulled it now. Like it's so, it's just so interesting. Like if I was hosting the Oscars, if you were hosting the Oscars, you're on your phone,

like you're looking like at what people are saying about you online, live while you're doing the Oscars. I can't even, like, I can't even imagine how much that would stress me out. And like, it honestly just showed me that Kimmel might be a little bit better than I,

than I give him credit for. Oh, 100%. You're constantly checking in to see what people are thinking of you. Because then you can adjust in real time. I do this, which is wrong, but the few events I go to when I'm on a red carpet, within an hour, usually the photos get uploaded to get images, and I'm checking. So I'll literally be at the party.

And then if suddenly you're like, wow, Josh is a bit of a pep in his step, it means I like the photos. And then if you're like, wow, Josh is in the corner throwing his head into the cement sidewalk. I didn't like the photos. What can you do? What can you do? So do, and then we'll move on from the Oscars. But like, does Max understand that his dad won an Oscar or no?

No. He doesn't. What did your mom say? What did your, did your mom call you last night? I'll read you her text messages because they were coming in full and hard body karate. Read me her text messages and then I want to know the coolest person that you got a text from besides me. Okay. My mom wrote, so happy for all of you, babe.

Ben Kingsley, Nolan is a beauty, three hearts. And I said, because I've worked with Ben Kingsley before. And I wrote, yes, it's great. And she writes, you're going to some parties? Best line of the night to Trump. Love seeing Sissy Space Act. Love the line. I want to thank my awful childhood.

I think that's Robert Downey Jr. So good. Downey was amazing. And then she writes, where are you? And I said, and I said, I said, I'm, Meta Party, I'll call you tomorrow. And then we debrief this morning. Does she write exclusively in Capslock?

Yes. She does. That's how I hear it. Yeah. What's your texting relationship like with your mom? Oh, so many emojis. My mom is like emoji land. Like, she'll write out the entire fleet of emojis.

Like, I love you. Have a great day. Mushroom, heart, heart, heart, exclamation, boy, heart, mushroom. mushroom lightning bolt just anything i think she just like blindly just like hits the emojis big emojis and my dad is more difficult to read he also creates his own language so like my dad just writes t ys or sorry t y b which is thank you baby he just like writes he creates his own acronyms that nobody else uses and in the beginning you're like what does this mean he also loves to voice to text

And so nothing comes out good. SMHB. What's that? Bruce? So much heartburn. Oh. He really is so funny. And he'll sometimes write okay.

And then it's like, are you upset at me? Is that like, like, like he just sees all over the place with this text. And calling is always the best way to communicate. Always the number one way to communicate. Oh. I wanted to ask you this for a while. So, Saffer, your last name, as we know, you're a Jewish king. But Saffer could kind of go either way.

Has your last name been Anglo-sized? Was it ever Sopherberg or Sofferman? It was always Sofer. We were scribes. Say more. Like the word, like So-Fair comes from sephir, which means book, and so-fair means a scribe. So it just became the pronunciation. became a little bit more Americanized, Sofer,

but it's really Sofer or Sofer. Sofair. And which means that we were big time writers, apparently, apparently. That's high. Can you imagine you go and do a run of like, you know, like a Hebrew TV show and they introduce you like, Benjamin Sofer. Sounds amazing.

I'm so in. Let's get on Israeli TV. My last name famously has been Anglosai. because when my mom found out that she was having a baby in 1986, my uncle, God bless him, said, well, I'm so happy for you. But if you are having a boy, you cannot allow him to go through life

with the last name, Peckerman. Because I have had to have the last name Peckerman as a man, and it was rough. And so my mom changed it illegally before I was born. Was it more anglicized or was it just like, I never really thought about Peckerman, Peckerman. Like, was it more just like in fear of being made fun of? No, my mom had gone by Peck since the 60s because of anti-Semitism. But she never officially changed it.

She just used it as kind of her working name. Shout out my late uncle, who was the only one of the Peck family who kept Peckerman. And all I know was that he was a great. ice skater and he would beat up guys on the New Jersey turpike. The fact that he's a figure skater and in the mafia, we need to make a movie about this man.

My mom would always say your cousin was such a beautiful ice skater and had such road rage. So good. That's good. This podcast is brought

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No one. We're getting nothing. We need page six to pull something. No one cool. Like, no one cool. Like, all just, you know, the people who I love. But nobody like, Oh, Stamos wrote, Congrats on your movie, Cinema, Baby, Cinema.

Hope you're at a party. Love you. Very nice. That's nice. Yeah, he's the best. Thanks, John. Thanks, John. Shout out, John. I hope he doesn't mind. I shared our text.

Yeah, well, it put him in a good light, so I would assume that he'd be happy. But am I also a wild-ass boy that I allowed my wife to shave my head in our living room? Yes, yes. The day before one of the biggest events of my life, I'm like, just do it, page. Yes. Oh, this was pre- Oscars. Yeah, she did it at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon because my son, who has a buzz cut, said, I want to look, I want you to look like me, Dad.

You do look like Max. You also look great, but it's definitely wild. It's a lot, right? No, it's, no, not the, not the buzz cut. The bus cut's great. The decision to let your wife cut your hair before the biggest moment in your acting career, one would say, is definitely wild. It's got self-sabotage.

We'll take a free suit from Jack Victor and an at-home haircut. Is that good or what? That's what we got to do, baby. Depression mentality. You didn't need to anglicize anything. Your Jewish roots. Your peckerman is with you. That's why I'm married an Irish gal because they're used to a famine.

Honey, tonight we're celebrating with McDonald's. Tonight, potatoes. Oh my God. That's really, really funny. So do you and Claudia cuddle up for these award shows? Like, how does it go down? Oh, love it. Yeah, we do.

Actually, last night, last night we watched in, so we have Romeo now. So we have to. How's that? He's a puppy. It's great. It's hard. Puppies are definitely hard. You forget just like you have.

to really watch them. Otherwise, they're going to pee and shit on everything. So you have like an hour of like playing with them, but in a very confined environment, then some time to themselves in the crate. But we watched in the living room. We don't have a TV yet in our living room. So I moved the TV from our second bedroom into our living room. We watched in the living room. Then Claudia decided that she no longer wanted to watch in the living room. So I moved the TV back from the living room into our second bedroom and we finished off in our bedroom and watch the rest of the Oscars in bed. But all of that detail is, was incredibly unnecessary because we always watch the Oscars together. We always watch all the award shows together. We sit next to each other,

just either critiquing or laughing or BS. It's an event and we watch all of those award shows together. Not that you don't have to be up on everything, but she surely does just because five days a week and like it's, she has to know. Like, is that a priority like for her? What kind of viewing does She prioritize. She has to watch everything. Absolutely everything. I bet. Every TV show, every award show, every, just to know about it, whether or not she's going to talk about it,

she's probably the most learned person I know in all of pop culture. There's nothing that she doesn't know about or hasn't heard about because, yeah, toast five days a week. What are we giving them an ad? I know. What are we, a toast shell? Yes, we are. God bless the toast. But yeah, we sat, we watched.

It was great. By the way, do you look at John Sina's body, John Sina who was naked? Oh, my God. I forgot about Sina. How can that be? First of all, what a hunk. How do you have those? Or you're talking about just like the indentation from the pubis.

They're called D-Dick Lines. Unbelievable. It was crazy. That's cool. And like, but like why did he do that? Is that attractive, Marshall? Or it's a type? I'm looking at a photo again.

this is a type. I think being extremely muscular isn't attractive to everyone, truthfully. A lot of my girlfriends, yeah, don't like it. But he looks great, of course. Yeah. He looks strong.

He looks, look, he looks like a wrestler. I just don't understand why he did it. Like, I remembered looking at this and thinking to myself, yeah, this is funny, but you're John Cena. Like, do you need this kind of gag laugh? He has, I thought it was pretty good. I mean, just like the irony

that it was the costume. Zoom Award. And then he has a movie coming out. Oh, he does? Yeah, for Amazon. Got it. Got it. Well, I love John Cena. And I thought that was incredibly funny. I was just thinking to myself, like, I don't know, his wife and, like, are they thrilled with this, his family? I don't know. Maybe they're used to his schick by now. I think if you got, I remember when I did on James Corden, we did the Jewish boy band for Hanukkah, Boys to Manora, right? Yes. Yes. And it was me and Zach. Brath and Christmas ploss and oh my god I feel terrible I'm blanking on the same I'm an idiot but the

incredible singer-songwriter you know who he is no clue he's handsome as hell he's gorgeous I'm like literally having John mayor not John Mayer I'm having a brain fart uh Charlie Pooleynhall ah Jake Gyllenhaal it was it was Ryan Barbie Jake Barbie Charlie Puth and uh and you know I remember they said to me me, oh, because sometimes, you know, people can think I'm slightly fit under my clothes. And then I'm like, you don't want to see what's under here. And they were like, hey, you know, there is that thing with boy bands where sometimes a guy will like have the jacket with no shirt on or something and like be showing his abs. Like, would you be comfortable doing that?

And I was like, no, absolutely not. And they were like, okay, gotcha. I didn't know Charlie Puth was Jewish. I think he's a hafer. Got it. Anglosized as well or no? Probably. Puth, Puthstein.

Who knows? John, who knew John? I didn't actually know John Mayer was Jewish. He is? His father? Mayor. Wow. Meyer.

Thank God. No wonder it's your wife's Hall Pass. Thank God. Thank God. Yeah. No wonder. Do you know who Sean Avery is? The ex-New York Ranger?

Exactly. Yeah. So Sean Avery has become a buddy of mine because he was great. He's now. an actor and he was in Oppenheimer. He's been in two Nolan movies. Wow. Really talented guy, real guys guy. And we broed down on set and we've since become friendly. And we had a really funny moment Saturday night. He's known he was certainly chippy when he was in the NHL. He was a guy who certainly didn't shirk away from a fight. And I would say that's made its way out of hockey

as well. He's not afraid to throw down. He does jiu-jitsu and he's a solid dude. Anyway, We went to a party and he parked kind of in this neighborhood in Westwood. And so we just kind of took one car into the party because there was a valet thing. So I'm driving him back to his car and we see these like seven or eight like 17-year-old kids. And they just look like they're up to no good. No good. You know what I'm saying? It's after nine.

They're in the parking lot of a KFC. I mean, what do you expect? Not kosher. So I said, boys, it's shabbish. You should be doing half a dollar. What are we doing here? And so, and they're carrying this gigantic palette, like a wooden pallet. And we're like, what's going on here?

We don't say anything, but I park. And Sean's getting out of my car. And the boys kind of scream, like talk shit to us. Like something about my Tesla. I don't know. They might be really into burning fossil fuel. And, and I see Sean snap his head to them. And I'm like, here we fucking go.

I'm like, I'm going to be on T. that I got in a fight with a bunch of high schoolers. And John said it and it was so perfect because coming from us, it wouldn't have sounded cool, but from him it did. He goes, hey, listen, you hoodlums. He goes, unless one of you wrestles, you're going to get your head bashed in. So keep walking. And I was like, that was incredible.

Oh, my God. What would I have done in that situation? Hey, Mom. Fake phone call instantly. Fake phone call. I am out. Wow. I've always been so jealous of those that can really take on that confrontation.

I'm running straight for the hills. I see a couple of mischievous kids after dark outside of KFC. I am running, running, running. There are certain fast food chains where you feel like there could, there's more likely some illegal activity and a KFC is one of them. It's just fast food chains in general. Fast food at night, outside, I'm out. That's true. I'm totally out.

I'm totally out. I don't want anything to do with it. I told you about my one time at the Denny's Scranton, the Scranton Denny's, right? I've told you that story before. You have, because I remember you, did you end up at a great diner when all was said and done? Okay. We ended up at a better, we ended up at a great diner in Scranton, but we first started off and that Denny's in Scranton.

Again, 930 at night pop into that Denny's thought I was going to lose my life. I thought I was going to lose my life and that Denny's in Scranton. There's just something about nighttime fast food. I don't know what it is. I don't know. I love a Denny's franchise. I love a Rudy-Tudy,

fresh and fruity, and I like the claw machines because my son loves it in the front with the little stuffed animals. Yes. Have you ever had yolk? Are you familiar with that franchise? Yoke?

I'm not. Fantastic. Kind of like a Denny's. Just like a little bit cleaner. There are a couple of them. I recently had one in Boka the first time I ever had. one was in Chicago. I think they're starting a franchise, but there aren't enough really good

just breakfast options in the fast food world. Like sure, you can go to McDonald's and you can get an egg sandwich, but I like the institution. I guess that's just a diner though, right? Like he could just go into a diner. Do you like a Waffle House? I've never been. Oh, gosh, Marshall, you've been? Wow, you boys haven't lived. Waffa House is great. Is it like IHop? Yeah, but it's better. It's, it's extremely southern, but they have it in other places but the south, but 24 hours, everything's done like on a flat top. So it's like, what's it called fast order cook or something to that? Short order cook. I'm just looking to go into somewhere. I don't need like the most gluttonous breakfast every time I pop into one of those places. That's why I kind of like a day.

I like just going in for like eggs and potatoes. Right. I like a nice home fry, a nice omelet. I don't want to go in there, eat waffles, pancakes. It's too much for me. It's too much, especially now that, I don't know, trying to watch my weight a little bit. It's just too much. So I like the Danny's eggs typically, but they were too scary. They were too scary.

I love pancakes. Pancakes are an insane idea. It's insane. It's dessert for breakfast. Yes. Yes. Yes. Totally.

They all are. All of that food, I remember, like, there's like all these new healthy cereals that have just come out. And it's because all that we've been doing is feeding our kids frosted flakes. Yes. Like the idea of starting your day with so much sugar, all they're going to do is crash. Totally. Yeah, it's a wild prospect, except all I want when I first wake up is something sweet. I don't want anything savory. No, something delicious. I absolutely love the pancake. I just made over the weekend. I made the most delicious sandwich. I made schnitzel. It looked unreal. Josh, it was so good schnitzel, coleslaw, spicy mayonnaise, and the bread I used was chala French toast.

Wow. Oh, my. Oh, my. Was this a treat? Oh, was this a treat? It was so, so good. Would you say it was your best bite of the week? That was my best bite of the week, yes.

That was. And then I have a worst bite, but what was your best bite of the week? My best, look, and you shame me for this at B, B, B, B, Y, and I'm fine with it. But I got to tell you, I make a hell. of a matzabri. And my son shy, he loves it and we share it. Basically for you wonderful Gentiles out there and Marshall. A matzabri is a, you take some matza, which is basically just unleavened bread, heard of it, read the Bible. And then you break it up, you let it soak in the eggs for like 15 minutes, then you fry it, but you do a quick fry, right? Because you still want it to

be like, you know, on the rare side with eggs. It sounds gross, but you know what I'm, you know what I'm talking about. Of course. And then you put it on the plate and you put cinnamon sugar on it. Oh, delicious. But Ben, you made Mata Bride this weekend? Uh-huh. I made it on Friday. So you have Mata in the house year round. Yes, because I, if Max wants a snack, little cream cheese on the Mots. So beautiful. Wow. Gorgeous. So, so much culture. So much culture. My worst bite of the week. I'm not going to share the name of the restaurant because I don't think that's nice, right? We don't do that. Yeah, that's not nice. I don't think you need to. Okay. Italian place in the city. The food was actually pretty solid. But this dish, listen to this dish. I ordered this

dish. It's a canaloni. Hen of the Woods, Winter greens, Bechamel, mozzarella, greyer, and Parmesan. A pasta dish. Sounds delicious. I love a Hen of the Woods mushroom. That's the meaty, beefy mushroom. It's thick. It's like a big. I love those. Love those. Do you know what?

What's canolone again? Okay. So this is the problem. This is the problem. I assumed canaloni was a normal noodle. Yes. I assumed that maybe it was a spaghetti or a fetichini or an angel hair or even a macaroni or anything.

A peni. I assumed it was in the normal pasta family. So I didn't bother to ask. Sure. It came as well. One enormous noodle. Nuts. Stuffed with all this shit.

Stuffed. Like one huge stuffed shell, which like, I'm sorry. If you're ordering stuffed shells, you're going to have diarrhea. Get it. It's just too much. Get out of my restaurant. I have no interest in one huge stuffed shell. No interest.

To this canaloni comes and I'm eating it. It's just so heavy. And it was just like, it was so disappointing. And I never thought that I'd need to ask what shape is this noodle. I just assumed that it was an appropriate shape for the dish. That was my worst bite of the week. Oh, don't I get that? That's crazy.

Crazy. Crazy. It's just way too much. You don't need to deviate from the rig. Let's be real. You definitely don't ever need to deviate from rigatoni. I couldn't agree more. Just play it safe.

Nice and safe. Well, I have another New York Post article that is, you know, snapped right out of the headlines. And it is something that is going on somewhere near where you live, Ben. Long Island Vegan Bakery under investigation for allegedly trying to pass off Duncan Donuts as its own. This hits close to home. Duncan Donuts what? This hurts our Marshall.

They're passing off Duncan Donuts donuts donuts? They're saying that Duncan Donuts, they're saying they're vegan donuts. are different, but they're actually just buying Dunkin' Donuts and putting them in their store. And are Dunkin' Donuts, I would assume, not vegan? Not vegan. Obviously? No. What the hell? Cindy Snacks, first of all, that name, especially vegan grocer.

Cindy Snacks. In Huntington. Oh, wait, maybe they're not to blame. Maybe it's the vendor. Accused one of its vendors, the savory fig of supplying it with non-vegan donuts, tainted with allergens that it didn't even cook in a March 4th Instagram post. The post included a photo of a strawberry frosted donut covered in tiny purple and orange-colored D's that look suspiciously similar to the donut and sprinkles found at Dunkin' Donuts,

which contained dairy and gluten. Oh, I guess it was a gluten-free place as well. I immediately became concerned as to why this one donut was decorated differently than all the others in such a strikingly similar way to a recognizing. chain and yeah they're they're doing a full on investigation babe what a terrible cover-up job you're going to give them donuts that have the duncan donut symbol not good on them on them not good at all that's honestly that's it's a terrible story i hate that it's also people are going to get sick you're going in there the vegan sure some people do it by choice but the dairy free what if somebody was allergic to dairy they pop and get one of those Dunkin donuts dead on the floor yeah

Or they can't do the gluten. They got the siliac. Absolutely terrible. Absolutely terrible. That sounds like that, but siliac might need rebranding because the sillies in the title. And that just sounds fun. It does sound way too fun for such a very scary disease. Yes.

Crazy. Yes. I'm 100% with you. If you mistakenly ate something that wasn't vegan, Marshall, would you be upset? No. I've done it before. It was an accident. And I think it's more about kind of my intention behind it all,

not necessarily being 100% perfect. Totally. So Marshall is vegan like I am kosher. No, he's not. No, I'm pretty serious about it. He's not fake like you. Oh my God. Shoot at me.

My intention is always in the right place. Now, if, so Marshall, actually, this is a good question. If you go to like the most, unbelievable steakhouse. Unbelievable. Will you try a piece of meat? If it's somewhere that you don't normally get to go to. 100% no.

You're like my Jewish mother. When she offers my wife who's been vegan for a decade, she goes, would you like a little shrimp? And she goes, Barb, I'm vegan. She goes, so shrimp? I go, mom. She goes, what, you're telling me, shrimp's not vegan?

I can know. All right. So maybe me and Marshall are a little bit different. If I met with just a gorgeous hunk of beef, I got to try it once. And then if it's really good, I'll try it again. Well, yeah, Marshall, it sounds like you're like my wife. Like if my wife really had these great fries the other day and she's like, oh, these are so good. And then she found out that they're fried and duck fat.

And she was like, so here's the question. This is important. Did Paige have an inkling that they could have been fried and duck fat before she ate them? So she said, like, she knows that McDonald fries are fried in beef tallow. So she just won't go. But she didn't know. And certainly, you know, veganism has come far enough that they can make a great fry, right? Potatoes are inherently vegan friendly.

But now she knows and it's not like she goes, nah, she goes, all right, so I won't have them anymore. Is that same for you, Marsh? Yeah, I'd probably ask the oil, like the chef, what oil they cook it in. Wow. Yeah, I go kind of far. Wow. Wow. It's annoying, though.

I don't, this isn't fun. Yes, definitely annoying, especially for the people you're out with. Yeah. Did you ever go to Crossroads, Marshall, where we got you the gift card? Yeah, it's incredible. Incredible. I'm so glad. Yeah, thank you again.

He deserves it. Yes, you do, Marshall. And aren't we the best, Ben? No, I'm going to be. It's a quick pat on the back. Should we, well, should we do our one of you nuts? I'm down, yeah. Go for it, babe.

Okay. You're out at a restaurant. This happened to me recently. We're all sitting at a table, having a nice time, order drinks, order food. Somebody offers, says you want to try a little of this drink. Like, you want to try this drink. The assumption is that they're giving you something that they liked, right? Like, hey, you want to try this?

Right? Sure. Because they'd want you to experience. experience how much they enjoyed their drink. Kid goes to me, you want to try this? I said, sure, tried it. He's like, disgusting, right? I'm like, what are you disgusting, right?

He's like, yeah, it's terrible. Like, what do you think I should do? Should I return it? Why are you telling me to try something? People love doing that. Oh, try this. It's terrible. He didn't even tell me that it was terrible, but in general, the whole phenomena behind,

I didn't like this, so you should try it and you should experience how much you too don't like it. What are you nuts? Keep your bad drink to yourself. If you don't like your drink, return it to the waiter. Return it to the waiter. If you want to make a stink, you make a stink. Don't make me drink the bad drink.

So true. Nuts. Nuts. Nuts. Well, we started with anglicizing names. We might as well end it. I got to tell you, I recently found out that Stephen Seagal, shout out the great.

He's got many things that are what are you nuts? But I think first and foremost, the biggest what he is nuts is that his name is Stephen Siegel and he's a Jew from Michigan, okay? You're lying. We're calling him Steven Segal. It's Stephen

Siegel, okay? I just saw a video of him from the 80s and they're like Stephen Segal who owns an Aikido school. It's like, what have we been doing? What are you nuts? It's not Seagal and Siegel. That is probably the greatest Oh my God, that is unbelievable.

I had no idea. And so simple. It was right there in front of us the whole time. Yeah, it's like Safare and so far. Oh, my God. Siegel and Segal and Segal. What a sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. Very, very sneaky.

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