Ben Nemtin
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121 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Ben Nemtin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Drive up to Brent, throw him the keys. And he just sort of started to cry and he bear hugged me and didn't let go for a long time. And we hung out with him and his girlfriend that day. And we sort of all felt like, OK, this is what this is about. And we have to keep doing this. And that was the catalyst to continue to do this again the next summer.
You know, this this feeling that we had never felt before, which was helping a stranger, helping someone we didn't know. And we hadn't done that before in our lives. We didn't have had volunteered in high school or experienced that. And so, yeah. That was very impactful.
There's a lot of crazy stories. I'll tell the President Obama story quickly. And then I'll tell another one after that as well, very quickly. President Obama, we had no connections to the White House. So we just drove there and started asking people on the street if they knew anyone in the White House, which didn't get us very far. But we started to send emails to people that we found.
We just contacted politicians' offices, basically. And we met with a couple lower level officials and then we could convince them to meet with their boss. And then we met with their boss and we got all the way up to the secretary of transportation and he put in the call to the White House and we were stoked. And then we got an official rejection letter from the White House.
And then we were like, okay, well, that's too bad. I guess we're going to have to change our tact. And so we decided instead of going after the president, we'd go after the president's personal aid. Because the personal aid of the president, he set up the basketball games with President Obama.
And there was these secret basketball games that everyone was trying to kind of figure out a way to get involved with. And so- We found what we thought was the president's personal email. And we started sending him emails every day with a challenge to a basketball game. So we said, you and the president versus us tonight, 7.30 at the YMCA, be there.
And we show up at the Y at 7.30 and no president. We did the next day, no president. So we did this for a week. We picked it outside the White House with signs. We sent letters. And at this point, like no one is meeting with us anymore. So we just accept defeat and we leave. Then I get a block call a couple days later and I pick it up. And it's the personality of the president.
And he's like, what's this I hear about you wanting to play basketball against the president and I? And I explained what we're doing. And he's like, you know what? I can make this happen. I feel good about this. Give me two weeks. I just need to run it by the press team. They got to sign off on everything. I'll get back to you in two weeks. Calls me in two weeks.
He's like, it's not going to happen. And we're like, oh, Jesus. OK, so now he's like, listen, I'm sorry. I don't know if you're back in D.C. Let me know. Maybe I can give a tour of the White House. Cut to three months later, we're back in D.C.
Personal letter to the president, true to his word, gives us a personal tour of the White House, walks us through the West Wing, shows us his office next to the Oval Office, down the back steps of the White House. By the way, we didn't know what to wear, so we rented suits from a prom rental store, right?
So we're like on the White House basketball courts, manicured hedges, presidential seal on each hoop, one presidential basketball. We're shooting around. And then all of a sudden I hear my friend go, oh my God, oh my God, it's the president. And President Obama walked on the court and he totally surprised us. And we were totally awestruck. And so we met the president.
We shot around with him for 15, 20 minutes. Immediately forgot he's the president because he's the coolest man on earth. We were trying to hit shots he wasn't hitting. We were trash talking. It was really, really incredible. And that was amazing because it was- What a great memory. Yeah, it was definitely the most impossible thing I remember writing down.
I remember when we came up with that idea for the list, it was, I laughed because it was so impossible, right? I was like, this is hilarious that this is so impossible. Let's put it on the list. It was definitely, and then to see him stroll on the court, I was like, wow, I guess I have no choice but to believe that anything's possible because I just proved to myself that this was possible.
And I thought this was impossible and now it happened. And so now I have, no choice but to believe that these things can come to fruition. And I think that that's a very common feeling is that you don't know what's possible until you're doing it. And that's really important. You don't know what's possible until you're actually doing it.
You can't even imagine yourself achieving some of these things until you've achieved it. And then you prove to yourself and everyone has the ability to prove to themselves that these things are possible.
Okay. One quick story is we tried to streak a field and get away. We didn't get away. We ended up spending the night in jail, but spend a night in jail is on the list. So that was, at least we crossed off one.
One of the things on the list was ask out the girl of your dreams. At the time, the girl of my dreams was Megan Fox. This was back in the Transformer movie days. I snuck onto the red carpet at the premiere of the Transformers film, pretending that I was working for Us Weekly. So I had a spot on the red carpet. I had a microphone and the cord of the microphone was just going into my pocket.
And I had a camera guy with me because we were filming. And I snuck onto the red carpet in the press line. Megan Fox coming up. She comes up right up to me. I start interviewing her with this microphone. By the way, it's not connected to anything. And I'm like, hey, how you doing? My name's Ben. And she's like, oh, my first boyfriend's name is Ben. And I'm like, uh.
And I start to get super nervous. Yeah. And I started talking about something. And then her publicist pulled her away and I completely blew it. I failed. I didn't ask her out. And we did that on the show, by the way. And it was a complete, it was an embarrassment. I didn't ask her out. But then the next season, Duncan was like, okay, I'm going to redeem you, which didn't work.
good i guess because he was like i'm gonna ask out taylor swift that was his girl of his dreams at the time so we dressed up duncan like a fake country music star named boone mccaw because we knew that she was going to be at the cmt awards country music television awards so we dressed him in all white handlebar mustache, cowboy hat, Boone McCaw.
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