Go Easy on Ol’ Benny Boy

Go Easy on Ol’ Benny Boy

From Advice Fight by The Grawlix (Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, Andrew Orvedahl)

March 10, 2026 · 58 min · Season 2 · Episode 7

About this episode

The episode discusses a listener's concerns about the friendship dynamics among three friends who have been teasing each other, with a focus on jealousy and harmful behavior.

A listener (Ben?) begs Andrew and Adam to retract their claws. TODAY'S QUESTION:Dear Ben and the other two, Every week, I have a great time catching up with this group of 3 guys who've been friends for a really long time. However, lately, I've become worried about their friendship dynamic. Because they've been friends for so long, they've become quite accustomed to giving each other a hard time and it used to feel like harmless fun. But lately, I've noticed that two of the friends (let's call them the old one and the pretentious one) have been teaming up to go after the other one (let's call him the cool one) about things like how great he is at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or how sexy he looks in leather pants. They've even gone so far as to spread preposterous, malicious rumors about him, like that he's the "King of piss-play" or that he was a member of the American alternative rock band Dishwalla. Now to any impartial observer, it's easy to see that the old one and the pretentious one are lashing out at the cool one because they're jealous of his many incredible talents, but instead of putting in the work to try and get on his level, they just sit around and jerk off each other's…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew, Adam

Topics covered

  • friendship dynamics
  • comedy
  • jealousy
  • group dynamics
  • advice

Keywords

  • friendship
  • comedy
  • advice
  • teasing
  • dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dishwalla

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