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Chapter 1: How do Josh and Ben start their conversation?
Benjamin, how the hell are you? I'm wonderful because I'm looking at three different shades of green. I'm looking at your gorgeous green long sleeve. I'm looking at that green mountain water in your green ashwagandha can. It's looking fantastic. Oh, and the green tree behind you. So much green. It really is. I'm wonderful. I'm feeling excellent.
Chapter 2: What are the dynamics of planning a guys' trip?
I don't know if we updated these wonderful people, but I was sick as a dog, sick as a dog. And now I'm back feeling fantastic. I have a golf trip this weekend, Josh. I can't think about anything else. And to the Carolinas? To Tampa, Josh, to Tampa, to northern Tampa. It's called Cabot Citrus Farms. Love it. And I am incredibly excited. This was a been planned for 10 months.
I said, Claudia, this is happening. So please just get it in your head over the last 10 months. I'll be leaving you for the weekend. I'm so sorry, but become comfortable with it. And I have to say, Josh, I can't believe it, but she really is not upset with me. She is very happy that I'm going. And that means that I have done well over the last 10 months in tempering expectations.
Oh, my God. I can't speak really because my wife's literally sitting across from me. You have to. I was going to say, what's it like just being watched as you record? The wonderful Paige O'Brien Pack is here with me, but she has healthy boundaries and doesn't need to be in front of the spotlight every second. So when I offered her to come on the show, she's like, meh, no need. So shout out, Paige.
Chapter 3: How does Josh feel about Paige joining the podcast?
Love you. Convincing. But yes, what? God, this would be such a good question, Paige. Well, we can remember this. I think we should do a double pregnant.
By the way, throw on Paige's mic. She's there. Throw on her mic.
OK, so Paige's mic is live now. Why is it? I think that, as Ben mentioned with the wonderful Queen Claudia, my queen, Paige, that I am so, so blessed to be with. That whenever we have to go out of town for any reason whatsoever, we have to pay. You have to make us pay. Yes, it's true.
I mean, now it's just harder because we have kids at home and then it's just everything. There's just so much more to do. And I'm like, ugh. You get to sleep like he's like, I have to take a plane tonight and sleep on the plane. I'm like, you get to sleep and not have to worry about waking up with a child. That's so that sounds so nice.
OK, but pre pre kids, I don't think I would make used to travel before kids. And I don't think I don't really care.
Yeah, but I... Is that true? I mean, I get to see you and got to go see a show when I was in New York. So it's, you know, obviously there's some fun things too, but... And I'm just like, who's better than me? You know, I'm not at some sports bar eating wings and ogling girls' ta-tas and, you know, screaming for the Patriots. I'm here working.
Yeah, you're working. You're getting a nice continental breakfast at Courtyard Marriott. You're doing the least. Spring Hill Suites.
You're doing the least. I also feel like, are you very, like, I feel like a big cheerleader when Paige, and she doesn't do it as much as I do, but when she does go out with her friends or has a trip, I am like, rah, rah, cheerleader.
It's because... Number one.
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Chapter 4: Why is hookah discussed as a nostalgic activity?
I do. For 12 hours. Yeah.
No, which is fine. But you like to go and enjoy the hotel and do, I don't know, dinners and stuff like that. You guys like to do that.
My big brother who lives in Florida does come out for something called the Big Smoke, which is the cigar convention in Las Vegas. Wow. Sick. And he goes with all his buddies. And so I will usually fly out. Yeah, usually once a year. Recently, it's been fly out, fly back, same day. Wow. Yeah.
But in the past, it'd be like 24 hours, and I'd go, we'd eat some meals, schvitz, have a cigar or seven, and I'd lose $100 at Blackjack.
I feel terrible for the guy sitting next to you on the plane on a same-day cigar trip.
Horrible.
That's no good. You probably smell terrible. Not good. Not good. I love, I actually hate, I was about to say I love a cigar. I hate cigars. I love the idea of them so much, but I just, I'm just a bad cigar smoker. If I smoke a cigar, I have to get those little short stories as they call them. And then I just feel like a wuss.
Like I'm sitting next to my brother-in-law who's chiefing down like a foot long cigar. And I'm here with this short story that I can barely get through without vomiting. Like it's just so emasculating. Emasculinating?
Emasculating. It's terrible.
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Chapter 5: What are Josh and Ben's thoughts on surprise parties?
Thousand percent. Have you been to Club Macanudo in New York?
Sure. Good times on Madison Avenue.
Yeah, I love that. I love like a nice cigar bar is sick. And I just love smoking inside.
Fuck yes. I like smoking during a meal. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. What's the perfect meal to smoke to?
And Olivia Page, feel free to chime in. Something heavy, something heavy that like you need help getting through. Like honestly, like maybe like a really heavy Italian meal. I think that would be perfect for a nice smoke. Just help calm the tummy, allow you to eat more, punish you later, but in the moment you're enjoying. Yes. I think that I can't imagine anything worse than a cigarette and sushi.
That just doesn't seem right. It's not right. It's not right. And like a piece of bluefin, like it's like caught on the roof of your mouth or the top of your lip because of your dry mouth. Like I can just envision like a piece of Toro just hanging from the top lip. Not good. No. What about you?
Yeah, or I think, like, I think about where people, like, Asian countries do smoke a lot. But I think about, like, Middle Eastern food, right?
Mm-hmm.
You know, you're at the Shook. You're at the Bazaar.
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Chapter 6: What are their views on modern slang and generational differences?
It was a dream come true.
Thank you. I love learning new things about you, Josh. I didn't know the love for hookah, the deep love for hookah. And now I'm thinking that we need a hookah episode. Me and you, our next in person, we're going to have a hookah in the middle.
Hell yes. I want that. I want a Schvitz episode. All the things we love doing. This is our Patreon.
This is our Patreon, Josh. This is this is the concept for Patreon. We do the podcast, but in weird places.
Cold plunge. Yeah. A 60 minute cold plunge. We induce hypothermia. Yeah, we die. I'm down. Yes, I love it. Paige, you have spectacular ideas. But I do want to get a special pregnancy episode with our two pregnant princesses in April, if we could. Yes, I would love to. We must. You know, I'm not going to argue with you anymore, Ben.
I think we can both agree that our Galaxy S25 Ultras shoot an 8K resolution. It just does.
It just does. I would like you to stop arguing about it.
Good. I hate when we argue. We really did argue the other week, and it was hard on me. Fine. I dig it back. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Olivia didn't say a thing on the group chat. I was like, Olivia, pipe in here. Defend me. I think she's on bedside.
And then you literally DM me, stop bothering Olivia with it. Let's handle it here on the side. But back to the S25 Ultra that actually has 8K resolution on video and an audio eraser, Josh. Yes, with Galaxy AI. With Galaxy AI. And let me tell you, I've been thinking about this, okay? What is the perfect thing for us to use our beautiful, brand new S25 Ultrason, Josh?
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Chapter 7: How does Spot and Tango change pet food perspectives?
I could make myself sick with flights. Yeah. Normally flights only go up. You ever see flights go down?
Flights go up, but hotels sometimes go down depending on how occupied they are. Interesting. Yeah. All right. So Othello, did you meet Denzel? No, I didn't. But I'm sitting there and she's so excited. And then it's the first act. And the first act's about 90 minutes before the intermission. And so the intermission begins and the woman turns to me and goes, I'm not sure I love it. Yikes!
Because it was obviously it's Othello and it's Denzel. So they updated it to like more modern era. Of course, they don't mess with the writing at all. It's Shakespeare. But they modernized it the way we've seen, you know, a dozen times before. She goes, I thought they were going to be in costume. I think she thought it was going to be like, to me or not to me.
I was like, oh, honey, you picked the wrong production. She's like, I think I'm going to go. And I'm like, okay. She leaves halfway through? I actually respected that. Like, if it ain't for her, you don't got to suffer through an extra half, right?
I'm trying to think what I've ever walked out of. I definitely walked out of whatever the last Grown Ups was. Wow.
Three. A real scholar here.
I think I walked out of Grown Ups 3. And there are definitely others. That I remember watching and thinking, this is the worst movie I've ever seen.
Josh walks out of everything.
By the way, good way to call your time back. Fuck them. They already got your money. They can't also get your time.
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Chapter 8: Why is European food perceived as healthier?
We're old. I mean, I'm definitely old. You're born in the 90s, kid. So is my wife. I'm 80s. Yeah, but like 80s is cool, man. Like you're ill.
No, I know. Trust me, I know. Honestly, 90s and 80s are really cool. Olivia, no shade. 2000's not it.
99, 99. I snuck in. Oh, you're still sick. That's cool.
Olivia was two on 9-11. 1999 might be the best because you still get to be a 90s kid, but like you're young and youthful.
Bingo.
Not old and decrepit.
fountain of you.
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