Speaker 1: Start uf dot Up, Start Up, Brooklyn Boy Start Up,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn buys start Data. They're making noise data dot up.
Speaker 1: Episode two oh four. This is the Brooklyn Boys podcast again.
Speaker 1: I was getting so close to the episode four D
Speaker 1: just getting you can you can almost feel it. I
Speaker 1: could taste it. Yeah, we won't get there until our
Speaker 1: next pandemic. You can't have the next one till this
Speaker 1: one ends. Is over. Thanks doctor, it's over from me.
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. Well, you're a podcaster, so you
Speaker 1: can have you can have science opinions your podcast. Do Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do what. I want to hang out with everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm ready to do that that stage dive
Speaker 1: thing that into concert into the US to remember back
Speaker 1: in the day when it's like the girl who has
Speaker 1: surgery on her arm and the uh, the doctor says
Speaker 1: you need surgery you're arm and she says, well, I'll
Speaker 1: be able to play the violin after surgery. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course she's so good because I couldn't play it.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, post pandemic, I'm gonna go back to
Speaker 1: doing crowdsurfing and stage diving. Yeah, so I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to jump back into because you know, I
Speaker 1: was a big masher back in the days, remember the nineties.
Speaker 1: But I was, I was right there in the pit.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you a serious question. Have you
Speaker 1: ever staged dove or crowdsurfed? Neither? If I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: Obviously people know what sarcasm is on this podcast. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know that, they could tell I was being sarcastic,
Speaker 1: but no, I could tell I just haven't. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have crowdsurfed and I've mashed. I have not staged dove,
Speaker 1: but I have caught people stage diving onto me like
Speaker 1: I was in. Yes, I've actually been. I've actually been
Speaker 1: the holder upper of a crowd surfer back in the day.
Speaker 1: So when I crowd surfed, I didn't jump onto the top.
Speaker 1: I had people lift me up and then after like
Speaker 1: a little bit of bumping, I got the hell off,
Speaker 1: like I was like, I gotta get down. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I was hardcore, you know hard rock concerts and and
Speaker 1: heavy metal concerts, and I mean thrash metal back in
Speaker 1: the day, you know Brodie even. But even those concerts,
Speaker 1: they they were they were known for that. But then
Speaker 1: there were the other concerts, like when I went to
Speaker 1: see the Red Hot Chili Peppers where I was literally
Speaker 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers, yes, and Nine Inch Nails two
Speaker 1: is to stand out concerts. I saw Nine Inch Nails
Speaker 1: in Poughkeepsie and they're some auditorium. It was crazy in
Speaker 1: the nine in the mid nineties. And and and the Red
Speaker 1: Hot Chili Peppers. Red Hot Chili Peppers were somewhere in midtown.
Speaker 1: Both venues were general admission, standing only, and as you
Speaker 1: would imagine at the time of the height of their
Speaker 1: you know, success or their popularity with I mean both concerts.
Speaker 1: I started like kind of near the front, with like
Speaker 1: maybe like seven eight people like towards the front, and
Speaker 1: then as soon as the lights went down and and
Speaker 1: then the music started, I got fucking pushed back all
Speaker 1: the way to the fucking soundboard like faster than I could,
Speaker 1: you know, fucking breathe. I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: And I literally go to oh no, oh no, because
Speaker 1: what happens is people start pushing and pushing at that moment,
Speaker 1: and then the thrust of the crowd because you know, backwards,
Speaker 1: everyone's going you know, you could just you can't even
Speaker 1: and then the mosh pit breaks out in the middle area.
Speaker 1: The middle front. So I wasn't even getting near there.
Speaker 1: I had to I had to be pushed all the
Speaker 1: way to the back. At any point, did you go
Speaker 1: oh and run? Yes? Make that sound well? I did? Well? Well,
Speaker 1: my friends, it was always four of us that went
Speaker 1: to the show. We always bought bought tickets and four
Speaker 1: and literally by the time there ten minutes in and
Speaker 1: the lights are out and the contests in full throttle,
Speaker 1: all four of us are separated from each other and
Speaker 1: making new friends. And that's what that's what happened at
Speaker 1: both those shows. Those those two specifically stand out in
Speaker 1: my head. What about you? I was always in the front,
Speaker 1: like in uh concerts. In Brooklyn, there was a venue
Speaker 1: called Lamore. It was a medium sized club, but they
Speaker 1: had all the biggest names of hard rock and heavy
Speaker 1: metal and you can go see them in a small club.
Speaker 1: Iron Maiden played this club. It's only like a couple
Speaker 1: of hundred people, like but the cool like band. Big
Speaker 1: bands would go there and maybe in band so we
Speaker 1: would always be like up on the barricade or on
Speaker 1: the stage, but there was no like like today, people
Speaker 1: get crushed to death. One concept I went to like
Speaker 1: in retrospect, had I gone, like last week, I'd be
Speaker 1: dead now. It was some kind of it was okay,
Speaker 1: So it was there was three or four bands, but
Speaker 1: I remember that it was Guns and Roses opening four.
Speaker 1: It was Guns and Roses, Deep Purple, and Arroo Smith.
Speaker 1: I think so you guys listening might know all of
Speaker 1: them or some of those bands I just mentioned. And
Speaker 1: so Guns and Roses opened the show. So this was
Speaker 1: when they were on their way up, so probably the
Speaker 1: album was out. They were a big hit, but they
Speaker 1: weren't like the headliner, and Arrow Smith of course was bigger,
Speaker 1: and Deep Purple was bigger. So we got there. When
Speaker 1: I say we, I went with three guys, Jimmy, Scott,
Speaker 1: and I remember the other guy's name many many more Jack. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Jimmy and the other guy were like six five six,
Speaker 1: like well over six ft, and they worked out big guys,
Speaker 1: and Scott was about six ft, big guy. And so
Speaker 1: when we got we got there really early, really early,
Speaker 1: and got up on the barricade. We were right right
Speaker 1: off the center of the stage, first row Giants Stadium,
Speaker 1: which is a football stadium, because you didn't know it
Speaker 1: was a football stadium. It's gone now, and so you've
Speaker 1: got I don't a hundred thousand people there, but we're
Speaker 1: on the floor general mission, and we're on the barricade,
Speaker 1: on the barricad, I'm leaning on the barricade, which is
Speaker 1: you know, ten ft from the stage. Well, once the
Speaker 1: show started, the force of the crowd started pushing. And
Speaker 1: luckily because I'm I'm not a big guy, I'm not
Speaker 1: a muscular guy, and five ten if you know, in
Speaker 1: the right pair of sneakers, and they locked arms with me.
Speaker 1: I may have told this story on the podcast before,
Speaker 1: but they locked arms with me and one guy, one
Speaker 1: guy got behind me, uh like, you know, just to
Speaker 1: block the crowd because they saw that I was, you know,
Speaker 1: the smallest of the four and uh it was like
Speaker 1: and and so anyone pushed from behind the big guy
Speaker 1: with the he had a mullet and he like a
Speaker 1: foo man chew like a like like a goatee sort
Speaker 1: of thing. He turned around like like like Chewbacca. He
Speaker 1: was like, don't push me, man, and so he like
Speaker 1: the people behind him were no longer pushing him, but
Speaker 1: the people behind them were pushing. So then it got
Speaker 1: to the point where the people behind us told the
Speaker 1: people behind them stop pushing that, you know, so it
Speaker 1: was like a change reaction. Eventually the pushing stopped, but
Speaker 1: it didn't help. I think Guns and Roses went on
Speaker 1: like an hour and a half late roughly, and it's
Speaker 1: like his eight hour concerts, So for the opening act
Speaker 1: to go on an hour and a half late, people
Speaker 1: would not happen. But yeah, I thought I was gonna die.
Speaker 1: I feel like, and these are doing we're describing conscerts
Speaker 1: in them in the mid nineties. Here I'm assuming for
Speaker 1: you as well. But imagine, imagine, imagine if we had
Speaker 1: cell phones back then the way we do now. I
Speaker 1: don't think there would be mosh pits. I don't think
Speaker 1: they were would have ever been invented because my theory
Speaker 1: is that people are too busy in their phones and
Speaker 1: filming the show that nobody could be bothered with, you
Speaker 1: know you push. Do mosh pits even exist anymore? Because
Speaker 1: people are as they have to have their phone in
Speaker 1: their hands. See the kind of person that mashes the
Speaker 1: people that I was friends with that hardcore mashed. They
Speaker 1: went home bloody and bruised. They're not the type to
Speaker 1: like hold up a camera and film. They're not. They're
Speaker 1: there for the emotion and the raw energy and the
Speaker 1: power of the show. You think that still exists in concerts?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, because I know people have still
Speaker 1: go to concerts in Mash. I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: it happens that like Master Square Garden. I get it
Speaker 1: depends again we're talking about like we're talking about No,
Speaker 1: they would never permit it there. Well, you would never
Speaker 1: see a show smaller. Uh if you go see um
Speaker 1: Harry Styles type, you know, act Olivia Rodrigo, no one's
Speaker 1: gonna be mahing a Driver's not. But if you if
Speaker 1: you go see um hardcore bands, they're gonna mash. People
Speaker 1: are gonna headbang and slam and and you know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's because I've only been going to like show see
Speaker 1: DJ d M right, but what is not dead? Is he?
Speaker 1: Which one is dead? She rest in piece? So you
Speaker 1: know know, But what I'm saying is like I also
Speaker 1: go to age appropriate shows meeting, Like I don't go
Speaker 1: to shows that a twenty one year old or an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old is going to go to anyway. Sure,
Speaker 1: not on the mash tip I'm talking about it, you know,
Speaker 1: but like okay, for instance, okay, when okay then when
Speaker 1: we were young tours going on. It's actually gonna be
Speaker 1: one show. Actually they end a So this is gonna
Speaker 1: in Vegas. It's on the Las Vegas Um Festival grounds
Speaker 1: Um October we gond of October twenty one, twenty two,
Speaker 1: and now it's they've added a third showed October nine
Speaker 1: because the first two sold out immediately. This is sixties
Speaker 1: seven bands from the early two thousand's, we're gonna call
Speaker 1: them emo and late nineties right, also the late nineties,
Speaker 1: early mid two thousands, but that's the that's the sweet
Speaker 1: spot is the mid two thousands. So my oldest daughter
Speaker 1: already emailed me and said because she's away at school
Speaker 1: and she's like, I gotta go right, Well, good luck
Speaker 1: to me getting them. So it's a lot of goth
Speaker 1: and alt and emo stuff. It's as boys like girls.
Speaker 1: It's love them taking back Sunday Dashboard Confessional three h
Speaker 1: three Paramore men who um oh um. Avril Levine is
Speaker 1: playing I'm forgetting the main head my Chemical Romances headlining
Speaker 1: anybody with a guitar from and maybe have wore skinny
Speaker 1: jeans and guyliner. Yes they're they're uh so sixties seven
Speaker 1: of these groups bands, but my, my, my larger point
Speaker 1: is that's a festival ground and there's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: there's three stages and it's from eleven and eleven to
Speaker 1: eleven PM. I don't how they're gonna fit all that
Speaker 1: music in one in one show. I might have talked
Speaker 1: about this in the last podcast, but what what what
Speaker 1: I what I'm getting at is we as people in
Speaker 1: our age. The people that that targets now are people
Speaker 1: in their thirties, mainly twenties and thirties, and you know,
Speaker 1: and and us if we wanted to go right. So
Speaker 1: those kids are those people that are gonna be at
Speaker 1: that show are gonna a lot more calm down now
Speaker 1: watching it than they were when they were originally watching
Speaker 1: those groups when they were in their teens. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they'll have a you know, uh, I don't see a
Speaker 1: pit break now, white claw in their hand. But but
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, because there are people who
Speaker 1: are let's say they're let's say they're twenty five now,
Speaker 1: because they may not have been growing. They may not
Speaker 1: have been seven teen when that music came out, but
Speaker 1: they they were maybe three four, and they grew up
Speaker 1: with that knowledge of that music, and so to them
Speaker 1: it's it's still it's still maybe their favorite music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your favorite music. But yeah, but before you, let's face it,
Speaker 1: the older you get, the less you want to get
Speaker 1: hurt and fall, so you you're less approach. At this
Speaker 1: point in my life, I get hurt and fall. We're
Speaker 1: not going to a convert exactly. You don't need that
Speaker 1: speak speaking of old music because we're killing this thing,
Speaker 1: I think. But I wanted to shout out I don't
Speaker 1: know her real name, because well I do, but I
Speaker 1: don't have in front of me and underscore k underscore
Speaker 1: t a woman. Uh he noticed that I quoted a
Speaker 1: law from a Metallica song last week, but she credited
Speaker 1: it as the band that Metallica covered, which is Misfits,
Speaker 1: which means she's old school, old school and knew that.
Speaker 1: So it's I was quoting the Metallica cover version and
Speaker 1: she was quoting the original Misfits version, which is probably
Speaker 1: again around the time of we're talking about early nineties, Misfits,
Speaker 1: mid eighties whatever was done. Don't tweet me. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to give her credit for that because she got
Speaker 1: the reference. It was, uh, you said, I got something
Speaker 1: to say, and I said, I got I killed Joe
Speaker 1: Baby today, which is a you know, it's an old boat.
Speaker 1: Look at this. I just got this. Oh but this,
Speaker 1: I guess just got a text. Are you coming? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you a second. As far as to answer that
Speaker 1: question from before the spots, uh the commercials, I don't
Speaker 1: think you're coming. The podcast hasn't gotten to that point yet, Hio. No,
Speaker 1: I gave up. I'll tell you what I gave up tonight.
Speaker 1: Our friend Cheryl Um not share. Who do I do
Speaker 1: the other podcast with Cheryl? Our our friend Cheryl Crowley,
Speaker 1: she is the best. She she texted me earlier on
Speaker 1: and I never got back to her. I have to say, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming because I'm recording my podcast right now.
Speaker 1: But I want to let you know, David Brody, when
Speaker 1: I gave up to be here tonight, considering you bumped
Speaker 1: the podcast from Wednesday to Thursday, you put yourself in
Speaker 1: a bay, all right. So she got this exclusive invite.
Speaker 1: She wanted me to show up tonight to get this. This.
Speaker 1: This is an event the Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club Private
Speaker 1: event invite for tonight. It's going on in Midtown and
Speaker 1: it says, we will be honored to have you and
Speaker 1: up to three of your friends attend our invitation only
Speaker 1: private party. What are we doing, let's go. Oh you
Speaker 1: probably would bring your other three friends. So it's six
Speaker 1: pm to midnight with an open bar and catered food.
Speaker 1: We will be get this. We will be here. It comes, here,
Speaker 1: it comes. We'll be flying in Spearmint Rhino entertainers from
Speaker 1: our locations across the country for this special event. I
Speaker 1: have to be honest with you. Rhino doesn't make me
Speaker 1: think of attractive women. Oh you never heard a spearmit rhino. No,
Speaker 1: but I'm in a Google So Spearmint Rhino is hands down,
Speaker 1: and it's not it's not a promotion, right, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And if I y K y K slices, if you know,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you do know, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: You've been there. It is the most popular strip club
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Speaker 1: um off the strip, and and it's about strip club
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Speaker 1: the Vegas is the original list. So anyway, I love them.
Speaker 1: So I guessed that they are now opening this one here,
Speaker 1: So to celebrate and opening on opening opening, Let's say
Speaker 1: that's three times. How many people do they flying in?
Speaker 1: That's a lot of openings. Yeah, think that one gentleman
Speaker 1: here she is grand opening. I can tell you I
Speaker 1: thought of it at the same time. And you said
Speaker 1: it like parking in the parking in the rear. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so a gentleman's club a new a new gentleman's club
Speaker 1: is opened up. So I'm missing that, you know what?
Speaker 1: And I'm happy because are you well? Yeah? So so
Speaker 1: so Cheryl was like, who are the three people you
Speaker 1: would take? No, No, it was Cheryl Crowley's invite, So
Speaker 1: because she wrote and she texted me are you coming?
Speaker 1: Because because I didn't answer her that I wasn't. So
Speaker 1: I just had a right back to her, No, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm doing the podcast. I should have told you I wasn't,
Speaker 1: but I'm not coming. Literally yeah. So anyway, but she went,
Speaker 1: she might have went, I want to know how it is.
Speaker 1: I need you know, I said, send pictures, but uh,
Speaker 1: but I know spearmint Rhino. So coming to New York?
Speaker 1: How great is that? It's you know, when people go
Speaker 1: to bachelor parties, it's a big thing. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: sure some of us license have some stories about the
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Speaker 1: Such a disappointment. Oh she Oh yeah, she's complaining Sarah
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Speaker 1: What is your handle? There? Uh? Sarah S from Hillsboro,
Speaker 1: Sarah S. They were they got a two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty on the bottle of Crown. They go upstairs to
Speaker 1: the lounge and all they did was beg for us
Speaker 1: to get a room. Oh yeah, because they that's how
Speaker 1: they make their real money, right room, the private room. Well,
Speaker 1: there's right, it's Chris Rock right was of course. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. I'm maybe I'll have to go.
Speaker 1: Maybe you, me and my girlfriend will go to the
Speaker 1: ex parent Rhino. What about you and your your podcast partner?
Speaker 1: You want you want to go to? You never you
Speaker 1: never expressed interest in the strip club and your entirely
Speaker 1: talking about I listen, Uh did I not? When when
Speaker 1: you had your by the way, I just uh Facebook
Speaker 1: told me we shared a memory. Does you have a
Speaker 1: memory that you shared with your friends? Scary Jones? I
Speaker 1: posted the video of your belly dancer, Um, your belly
Speaker 1: dancer birthday party when they put you in a chair
Speaker 1: and had belly dancer dancing around. It was always I
Speaker 1: tried to forget that. So that was a surprise forty
Speaker 1: birthday for me. And when I had a lot of
Speaker 1: people there, including the entire morning show, you were there,
Speaker 1: god video and sharl Crowley was to having a great picture.
Speaker 1: Cheryl was there and I will tell you you know,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend planned it. Uh that was the odd part.
Speaker 1: So she planned it with the no she planned the
Speaker 1: party with the help of what is it sex, sex
Speaker 1: on the way Dave. Yeah, well that's right. Davis is
Speaker 1: in charge of entertain Dave. Dave brought the DJ and
Speaker 1: and then decided to somehow or for whatever, I don't
Speaker 1: know what possessed him to do this, to get a
Speaker 1: belly dancer for me. And I'm telling you he was awkward.
Speaker 1: I was uncomfortable as the day is long. You are
Speaker 1: not good in those kind of cities. Because imagine, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now my friends who didn't even know
Speaker 1: they were they were surprised by the belly dancer act.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're having a good time, you're drinking,
Speaker 1: you're having an awesome time. It's a little a little
Speaker 1: classy place. Everybody's dressed up a little bit, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's like, oh, scary, sit down on
Speaker 1: this chair in the middle of the room and we're
Speaker 1: just gonna shine a light on you. And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this weird music comes on and this woman
Speaker 1: enters the room, and now it's got to be awkward
Speaker 1: for the people watching because they didn't expect it. They
Speaker 1: didn't sign up for that, and I certainly didn't. And
Speaker 1: everyone's all eyes on me, and she's doing weird things
Speaker 1: with me. Oh my god, Brodie, I hated Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm getting chills thinking about it. I've tried
Speaker 1: to block that out of my memory. The time they
Speaker 1: got me a belly dancer, the worst experience in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate Dave. I mean I told him
Speaker 1: I don't want to make him feel bad, but I
Speaker 1: gotta try to find the video. You don't, don't You
Speaker 1: were just sitting there like you're gonna poop in the chair.
Speaker 1: He was so like, Oh, first of all, they were
Speaker 1: two of me because I was I was right before
Speaker 1: Dr Fat loss. Yeah. I don't know, dude, I don't
Speaker 1: even Oh god, I can't, you can't know. I just
Speaker 1: I just think it's really weird. It's a it's awkward
Speaker 1: and bizarre to bring a belly dancer or a stripper
Speaker 1: into a room for a bachelor party and and you're
Speaker 1: the only and everyone's watching you, watching them and you
Speaker 1: and it's it's like weird. It's bizarre. It's not something
Speaker 1: that I wish upon anyone. Yeah, I've been to bachelor
Speaker 1: party type of things like what you're like the way
Speaker 1: your birthday was where the bachelor was really into it,
Speaker 1: like love and life, but you were not. And it
Speaker 1: was mixed company. It wasn't even a bachelor party. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like all guys. It was athday party. The couples,
Speaker 1: there were couples, there were women men. You know, why
Speaker 1: can we get Cheryl on the phone. I'd love to.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear. Can we get sharl on the
Speaker 1: phone right now? She's probably there? I could, well, I
Speaker 1: could try. I want to. I want to get her
Speaker 1: opinion on if what she remembers that belly dance thing,
Speaker 1: and then have her talk to me about the club
Speaker 1: that she wants you. We'll do it after our next break,
Speaker 1: but but I I'll get her on the phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say one thing. It is my sister, my brother,
Speaker 1: my parents were also supposed to be there. Thank god
Speaker 1: they weren't. Oh my god, right, what would they have done?
Speaker 1: It's on my phone. I was looking for the video
Speaker 1: of view. Please don't, let's move on. Surely you have
Speaker 1: things to talk about. Oh, I surely you can't be serious.
Speaker 1: I am serious that I'm calling me Shirley. Oh, I
Speaker 1: always have things to talk about. But all right, I
Speaker 1: won't look at the v Okay. Oh there it is,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna okay, please don't Hey. Speaking of
Speaker 1: text messages, I got one. I wanted to just run
Speaker 1: by you real quick. UM, tell me if you think
Speaker 1: this is real or not, because maybe I just don't remember.
Speaker 1: Uh it says now For some reason, there's like little
Speaker 1: accent marks over a lot of the words, so they're
Speaker 1: using that like um, lots and and little like vs.
Speaker 1: Jeremiahs this is Raven. We were talking at Raven's cocktail party,
Speaker 1: which is weird because she's Raven. We were talking at Raven.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We were talking at Raven's cocktail party and
Speaker 1: traded numbers. I'm back in town for a little bit.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to actually meet up this time, are
Speaker 1: you up for that? So? Did I forget meeting Raven
Speaker 1: at Raven's cocktail party? Or is this a scam? I
Speaker 1: don't remember. This has been going around. You know about this, right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All scams you think they try and bring you in
Speaker 1: lead you into a conversation in somewhere they're gonna ask
Speaker 1: you to buy Amazon gift cards for them and send
Speaker 1: them the codes. Oh you went deep into this? Did
Speaker 1: you write her back? Did you text Raven back? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't. But I'm telling you this is They lure
Speaker 1: you in with something very specific and obviously very incorrect,
Speaker 1: and then you, out of the curiosity of your heart,
Speaker 1: feel like, wait a second, this is a real person.
Speaker 1: You don't think it suspect it's a bot texting you.
Speaker 1: Which better? I have a boat story later bo got
Speaker 1: the best of me. But but you feel like you
Speaker 1: want to help out, and then you're engaging in a
Speaker 1: real conversation and next thing you know, you're sending them
Speaker 1: your your social Security number. And how deep into this
Speaker 1: conversation did you go? Oh? I didn't. Did you know?
Speaker 1: By the way, No, this is no. This is an
Speaker 1: example I was gonna give from our own company. This
Speaker 1: text message you've got. We've got to read this. I
Speaker 1: was gonna read this on the podcast Get to the Minute.
Speaker 1: So let me just follow up at this. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna try to scam me and try to convince me
Speaker 1: I met you at a party like even if you
Speaker 1: were gonna like try, why would you go with the
Speaker 1: name Raven? Wouldn't I remember meeting a girl named Raven?
Speaker 1: Is that a common name in any town USA? Were
Speaker 1: like like like, uh, like if you were Mary or
Speaker 1: or Rebecca or or uh, you know, like Danielle, like
Speaker 1: something a little more common might go. Did I meet
Speaker 1: a Danielle? Maybe I met a day Raven. Wouldn't I
Speaker 1: remember meeting Raven? And why would you use my name?
Speaker 1: The odds of me being Jeremiah right that that's It's
Speaker 1: so you're hoping. Now somebody's gonna say, well, maybe they
Speaker 1: just got the wrong number. No, this is clearly a scam.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, if you're gonna scam, you'd be like, hey, baby,
Speaker 1: this is Maria. You know we met at a party,
Speaker 1: but you were like, jeremiahs this is Raven. We met
Speaker 1: talking at Raven's cocktail. It was there. Now here's the question,
Speaker 1: was there a second Raven? Or is she talking about
Speaker 1: her stuff in the third person? That's a great question. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think they put too much thought in that.
Speaker 1: I did. They were hoping to get you, they were
Speaker 1: gonna have then I got your moment um you know,
Speaker 1: there was this email they sent down the company in
Speaker 1: our company. That's that's saying that that our ceo, uh
Speaker 1: A CEO, Bob Pittman, right that that that these text
Speaker 1: messages are coming from him. They say, don't be fooled
Speaker 1: into your these text messages, because it's saying that that
Speaker 1: it's him and he's in a meeting right now and
Speaker 1: he needs you to go to go buy Apple gift cards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a real life example. They say, he's texting
Speaker 1: a producer on the Elvis Show. He's texting one of us.
Speaker 1: He said, I need the Brooklyn boys, like, who are
Speaker 1: we gonna Who's gonna fall for that? A random person
Speaker 1: got I forgot who it was, but I'm not one
Speaker 1: in our company. No, no, no, If you look at
Speaker 1: the if you look at the email, they say, here's
Speaker 1: an example of what's going around our company. And they
Speaker 1: spreadshot at the text message. If you could find it,
Speaker 1: that would be great. I don't have it, but anyway,
Speaker 1: the paraphrasing the person the employee they targeted. Employee appears
Speaker 1: to get a text message from our ceo and then
Speaker 1: he said and then she says, oh, I think you're
Speaker 1: the wrong the wrong, Jennifer, you know whatever. And then
Speaker 1: he comes back and says, no, it's the right person.
Speaker 1: I'm in a meeting right now. I need you to
Speaker 1: help me out, and I need you to get me
Speaker 1: these Apple gift cards or something like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: the dialogue happens for a little while until until finally
Speaker 1: she stops answer because she knows it's a scam. But
Speaker 1: could you imagine that that people are doing these scams now,
Speaker 1: They're they're targeting companies. They're getting the names of the
Speaker 1: people who are in charge, and then somehow getting into
Speaker 1: the company directories and text messaging some of the people
Speaker 1: the employees, pretending to be the CEO or the marketing
Speaker 1: director or whatever, and then trying to say, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: in a meeting right now, can you go buy me
Speaker 1: these Amazon gift cards and give me the code numbers.
Speaker 1: Some who knows if people will fall for it? I mean,
Speaker 1: I smell a rat. I don't trust anyone as far
Speaker 1: as I could throw him for Brooklyn. But well, people
Speaker 1: believe there's always somebody, always somebody hold a text Oh
Speaker 1: here it is pretending to be employees, some thinking Bob
Speaker 1: Pittman employees to convince you to go out and buy
Speaker 1: gift cards for Bob since he's tied up in a meeting.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, Okay, it says, Hi, Jennifer, I'm in a
Speaker 1: conference right now. So now only a Jennifer could respond, uh,
Speaker 1: if you They targeted Jennifer. They knew that that was
Speaker 1: her cell phone number. Oh oh yeah, it's your phone.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I don't know if the scale
Speaker 1: this can't be real because that says he's a real
Speaker 1: life example. But they showed Jennifer's phone number. It shows
Speaker 1: a screenshot. Hi, Bob, this is Jennifer blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Of course that our last name. You may haven't been
Speaker 1: mistaken for another Jennifer you are trying to reach. Thanks here, Yes,
Speaker 1: I have an urgent task for you. Are you available?
Speaker 1: And she wrote back happy to help Bob, And You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: thanks for your response, I'm on a conference. You confirm
Speaker 1: if you can get Apple gift cards from the nere
Speaker 1: A store. To you, what the fuck exactly that that
Speaker 1: really happened. Bob has a personal assistant who she'd be
Speaker 1: the only person he would ask to go get gift cards.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't randomly emailed people in the company who have
Speaker 1: no like, there's no reason. Let's at the stage. There's
Speaker 1: nine fifty I art media stations around the country have
Speaker 1: people working him and Jennifer. He randomly texted wherever she is.
Speaker 1: You know, Bob is in New York. She's in like Clean, Texas.
Speaker 1: Let's say getting this on a plane. I'm coming randomly
Speaker 1: the CEO randomly in the conference. I'm gonna randomly take
Speaker 1: any one of our employees because I need them to
Speaker 1: do right. And so first she goes, I didn't get
Speaker 1: them the wrong Jennifer. He's like, no, I got the
Speaker 1: right Jennifer. He's like, okay. So whatever instinct she had
Speaker 1: to think she was the wrong, Jennifer suddenly went away.
Speaker 1: The minute went not get through Jennifer. She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: how did I help? I think she probably told her friends.
Speaker 1: The CEO texted me exactly, how does he even know
Speaker 1: who I am? I don't guy to get him these
Speaker 1: gift cards. This is my chance. I'm going to place
Speaker 1: exactly if I if I come through in the clutch
Speaker 1: for Bob, who, by the way, it is in a
Speaker 1: meeting right now and he can't get he can't go
Speaker 1: to the store himself, because because the CEO of our
Speaker 1: company would actually go to a storm by gift cards himself.
Speaker 1: And I know you can buy them online? Do I know?
Speaker 1: You can? I know? But she's got to be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he must have heard an air check
Speaker 1: with me on the radio and two in the morning
Speaker 1: in Iowa. The scenario is preposterous. It's just it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense for for us. I got. I got a
Speaker 1: d M from someone I had put. I had posted
Speaker 1: about my friend being on television, so unrelated to her response, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan, send me your cash app tag.
Speaker 1: I want to send your money. I'm a fan. Is
Speaker 1: that I don't know? So obviously a scam. It's from
Speaker 1: a middle aged woman with blonde hair who doesn't follow
Speaker 1: me or anyone I know. Has one post or zero posts?
Speaker 1: Three posts? Three? The big thing? Ya's have the three?
Speaker 1: Always have three posts. Instagram has been around two thousand eleven.
Speaker 1: You just getting on now go funk yourself, scambo. Well
Speaker 1: now you have a people I am. I'm doing people.
Speaker 1: I get. But she's a scam, you know what? And
Speaker 1: and so so meat loaf died right last week, so
Speaker 1: we posted meat Loaf died, and again we got those like,
Speaker 1: oh uh, I want to thank you, know, Margie, because
Speaker 1: of horror. I make five dllars a week and go
Speaker 1: work from home, so you know I blocked them my
Speaker 1: report than whatever. But this is a death post. Can
Speaker 1: you please not? Can? I want to play you this
Speaker 1: because this was my I want to play my voicemail
Speaker 1: I got today. I looked it up immediately. By the way,
Speaker 1: because it's a scam bony here, listen to this god,
Speaker 1: this freaking thing servicing. Could you give me a call
Speaker 1: back when you receive this message at LA LA Right,
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you a call in regards to your
Speaker 1: student loans. Um, we are starting creating roment for all
Speaker 1: loans for given files and possible loan discharge files. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a bit more challenging as that, of course,
Speaker 1: so we don't want anyone status to change, especially for
Speaker 1: these programs, right, Brodie. Yeah, So we went to Brooklyn
Speaker 1: College and by the way, it was very I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, we we had some loans to pay,
Speaker 1: but you still paying those off there? Brodie. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: student loan time and uh so I guess they're randomly
Speaker 1: you know whatever. Plus I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I have two kids in college, so I have co
Speaker 1: signed some student loans. It's not far fetched. But this
Speaker 1: is a company. You look it up. It's a scam.
Speaker 1: But they tell you like, oh, we're gonna we we
Speaker 1: have those programs that you need to don't call sport,
Speaker 1: it's too late, debt loan forgiveness. It's the consolidation company,
Speaker 1: the Fanny Yeah, yeah, Freddie mcin Fannie Mane. Hey, give
Speaker 1: us a call now. Now's a great time to call. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks so much. It's a great time to call. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And here's another scam. Listen to this one here, hold
Speaker 1: on real quick assistance. Okay, so Chelsea, right, listen, I
Speaker 1: gotta play the beginning. Listen to it how it starts
Speaker 1: and then starts again. Help assistance with student help Assistance.
Speaker 1: My phone number is so the message starts with half
Speaker 1: a message because it must have been playing while my
Speaker 1: voicemail message was playing on my phone. And then it
Speaker 1: starts again, so it's made to sound like it's a
Speaker 1: live thing. But I just heard the end of one
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the next. Yeah, alright, well hitting
Speaker 1: that button now because you hit it early. I didn't. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't. OKAYASTI trying to catch me off my game
Speaker 1: here not. I do have some texts that came into
Speaker 1: the Morning Show I wanted to read I have a
Speaker 1: second to do that. Yeah, let's do it. Okay. So
Speaker 1: they start off, uh, well, there's a bunch of different
Speaker 1: angles here. One of them wrote, Friday is my wife
Speaker 1: and eyes anniversary and eyes like so just grammar police,
Speaker 1: it should be my wife and my because you'd say
Speaker 1: it's my anniversary. It's my wife and my anniversary. But eyes,
Speaker 1: that's not a thing. Um so um. We did a
Speaker 1: conversation on the Morning show Today's what Thursday on yesterday
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday, and we were talking about
Speaker 1: um in vitro fertilization, I think, sperm donor, sperm donning,
Speaker 1: donating sperm and naturally it's a serious conversation. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna joke about sperm donations because we're all trying to
Speaker 1: be entertaining and funny and world dopey. Yeah, well we're
Speaker 1: we're we're children, all right, And now we weren't. We
Speaker 1: weren't joking about in vitro because that's important and that's
Speaker 1: how some people start families and it's a miracle for
Speaker 1: some people. No joke there. We were making jokes about
Speaker 1: other things and a woman called up and she actually
Speaker 1: had gotten a sperm donor and we were joking around
Speaker 1: with her and she was joking and whatever. So somebody
Speaker 1: texted in. I'm pretty sure it was a woman, uh
Speaker 1: from from other things. She had texted in and she
Speaker 1: saw him to say. She said, that's offensive. I'm offended. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's terrible that you joked about that woman in her
Speaker 1: in vitro. So I wrote back, Um, we weren't joking
Speaker 1: about her process, and the woman on the air was laughing.
Speaker 1: She thought it was funny. We weren't trying to be offensive.
Speaker 1: She wasn't offended, so you know, don't, don't you know?
Speaker 1: So she wrote back, you can't tell people what is
Speaker 1: or isn't offensive. So I wrote back, well, you just
Speaker 1: did exactly right. So she's saying, well, you just did
Speaker 1: it was offensive. So I said, well it's not offensive,
Speaker 1: and she goes, you can't tell me what what is
Speaker 1: it is offensive? Ago, you just told us what's offensive exactly,
Speaker 1: So you pretty much just answered your own question, right.
Speaker 1: She didn't write I'm offended. She wrote back, that's offensive. Well,
Speaker 1: yes to you. You're offended by it? Yeah right, okay's
Speaker 1: um speaking of offended, Elvis is doing commercials for a
Speaker 1: food company, and I guess they highlighted different food every week.
Speaker 1: So in the new commercial, because I don't remember the client,
Speaker 1: the new commercial says, um, hey and check out our
Speaker 1: new meat loaf. It's tender and juicy and whatever. So
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, somebody texted in the quick
Speaker 1: Oh it's I'm not gonna send the name of the company.
Speaker 1: The meat loaf commercial you played is insensitive. Um it
Speaker 1: says there's a new meat loafing. Elvis says there's a
Speaker 1: new meat loaf in town, and he just passed away.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So Elvis can't talk about meat loaf. No,
Speaker 1: he cannot. What's the weather forecast? Scary? Oh, I see snow.
Speaker 1: We got snowflakes in the studio in my apartment. Now
Speaker 1: coming in out of the ceiling. Here comes the snow.
Speaker 1: You fucking snowflakes. I cannot stand triggered snowflakes. So here's
Speaker 1: another one we got today, Really, question Mark, that was
Speaker 1: a horrible commercial. A new meat loaf in town? Too soon?
Speaker 1: Elvis too soon, too soon. So here's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: Nobody played poker because you might get a full house,
Speaker 1: and that's offensive to Bob Saget. So don't talk about
Speaker 1: talking about So don't have an apple brown betty for
Speaker 1: dessert because that might remind you. And she just died
Speaker 1: and that's offensive. And also, don't play don't play John
Speaker 1: Madden football because well, you know John Madden. Don't say
Speaker 1: don't say that's a good match or go on match
Speaker 1: dot com because that reminds people a match game. And
Speaker 1: Louis Anderson just died and he was the host. That's offensive. Jesus,
Speaker 1: you can't do a commercial about meat love. And by
Speaker 1: the way, he wrote meat loaf just died and spelled
Speaker 1: it as one word lower case. Meat loaf was two words,
Speaker 1: both capital letters. He was meat loaf. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's offended by the commercial because we're selling meat loaf coincidentally,
Speaker 1: and meat loaf died and it was a coincidence. It's
Speaker 1: a coincidence. Oh my god, we didn't he didn't create that,
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't say, you know what, meat loaf died.
Speaker 1: Let's put meat loaf on special, right, let's let's sell
Speaker 1: meat loaf. And I got one more person who was
Speaker 1: obviously triggered, and I wanted. I wanted to read this
Speaker 1: because you know how I often talk in such a
Speaker 1: good mood until this. I'm sorry, I can't stand people
Speaker 1: like this. What's wrong with society? Well? Okay, well this
Speaker 1: person tell him joke. Even this person told me what
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm what's wrong with society? They weren't even joking.
Speaker 1: I want to point out before I read this that
Speaker 1: I have the utmost respect for skilled labor. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am jealous because I'm going to talk about a plumber
Speaker 1: at some point, but I want to talk about electricians
Speaker 1: because they do dangerous work. They do work you should
Speaker 1: probably not try to do by yourself. And I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem paying them a large hourly rate. I'm
Speaker 1: not crazy hourly rate, but they deserve to make a
Speaker 1: decent living. They do a good living. Okay, However, some electricians,
Speaker 1: and not only I don't want to single electricians, Some
Speaker 1: people who do trade professionally will charge you a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars to enter your house, whether you hire
Speaker 1: them or not. Some of them will then apply that
Speaker 1: hundred towards the repair, which is fine, but some of
Speaker 1: them will not. They'll say, if you hire me, it's
Speaker 1: a hundred plus the first hour, and if you don't
Speaker 1: hire me, it's a hundred twenty five dollars. So you
Speaker 1: almost obligated to hire them. So I look, if you
Speaker 1: like that, if that's if your guy does that, your
Speaker 1: woman does that, that's fine. I'm not I don't have
Speaker 1: the financial means to pay a hundred dollars for nothing
Speaker 1: if I don't use them. Right, if they come to
Speaker 1: my house and say that job is gonna be two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and I don't have the two thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: I'm now out the d right. So by not being rich,
Speaker 1: I'm out more money. So on my town Facebook page,
Speaker 1: I posted and the people are usually very very helpful,
Speaker 1: and they were. I said, I'm looking for a licensed
Speaker 1: electrician that you have personally used, that doesn't charge a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars or more just to walk in the door.
Speaker 1: I feel like you set the parameters rather clearly, right,
Speaker 1: So a bunch of people, one guy wrote, all people
Speaker 1: charge a fee to walk in, but some will apply
Speaker 1: it to the work. I know that, but not they
Speaker 1: don't all because I had an electrician in my house
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and he didn't charge me
Speaker 1: for come in. He charged me. People speak in absolutes
Speaker 1: or by their own experience. These are the experiences I've had,
Speaker 1: so it must be everybody, right, everybody so university. This
Speaker 1: guy came to my house, he charged me eighty nine
Speaker 1: and he only charged me eighty nine dollars for the
Speaker 1: one hour at diet. But then he fell off a
Speaker 1: ladder last week and he's he's he can't work for
Speaker 1: he said, three weeks, so I can't use him, and
Speaker 1: I need an electrician this week. So a bunch of
Speaker 1: people gave me the names of people they recommended who
Speaker 1: don't who They said, don't charge your fee, and they're
Speaker 1: very happy they're working with. Here's what one guy wrote, scary,
Speaker 1: I you may want to have my music ready for this.
Speaker 1: So again I asked for help. I asked for specific help,
Speaker 1: and I don't want opinions, I just want help, he wrote.
Speaker 1: You need to recognize that these people are entrepreneurs. They
Speaker 1: don't have a nine to five job and get paid
Speaker 1: regardless of how productive they were that day. With a
Speaker 1: normal salary. They would go broke driving around doing free
Speaker 1: inspections and not get paid. This type of mentality needs
Speaker 1: to change. You're taking a stand on your post, right,
Speaker 1: F you? Ray? F you? So basically what I wrote
Speaker 1: back to him was, you know who else needs to
Speaker 1: to earn? Earn money and be careful with the money
Speaker 1: these days? Me and other homeowners. I'm entitled to want
Speaker 1: to save money. Now, the the tradesmen and women who
Speaker 1: charge that fee, God bless you. If if you, if
Speaker 1: you make money and you have a big house, I
Speaker 1: want you to make money. But if I have options
Speaker 1: and there are people that don't charge that fee, I
Speaker 1: would prefer to go with them because the job I
Speaker 1: have is a small job. If I had a five
Speaker 1: thousand dollar rewiring of my house, I would pay for
Speaker 1: the best guy or woman, And if it costs me
Speaker 1: a hundred dollars to get that best person, I would
Speaker 1: do it because over five thousand is not a big deal.
Speaker 1: But if I need a small hundred dollar job, right
Speaker 1: and I have to pay a hundred to pay the hundred,
Speaker 1: that seems silly. What I don't need? Ray? Ray? Is
Speaker 1: you telling me? So? I went back to Ray. My
Speaker 1: first thing was, Hey, Ray, I have an idea that's great,
Speaker 1: that's morally wonderful. You can pay my hundred dollar fee
Speaker 1: and then I'll hire whoever you recommend. How about that, Ray,
Speaker 1: I guess Ray makes enough money. Ray didn't spy the way.
Speaker 1: Ray didn't say he was a tradesman. He didn't say
Speaker 1: I am a tradesman. He said, you have to This
Speaker 1: mentality needs to change. Really, really, I gotta worry about
Speaker 1: most Most tradesmen make more than me, and God bless them,
Speaker 1: they should. They have a skill. Skill. I talk out
Speaker 1: my ask for a living. I would love to have
Speaker 1: a skill. Believe me that I could do things, fix
Speaker 1: things I have. I have transmitted my family. You Ray,
Speaker 1: fuck you. It's a shame about Ray type of no.
Speaker 1: Look again, if you're listening to what you're a tradesman,
Speaker 1: God bless you. What other people like it? Well? No,
Speaker 1: well uh, nobody responded to him. Everybody else recommended, and
Speaker 1: no one question me. They're all like, yeah, this guy's great.
Speaker 1: Doesn't charge your fee. I totally understand. Again, if it
Speaker 1: was a huge job, I would pay the fee in
Speaker 1: a huge but but but again, if the guy did
Speaker 1: fall off the ladder, I was very happy with the
Speaker 1: guy who came. He did a great job, but something
Speaker 1: else in my house needed to be repaired. I guess
Speaker 1: the cold weather or something. Whatever the case is, something
Speaker 1: something small needs to be repaired. Pretty soon. Your blood
Speaker 1: pressure will have to be repaired. Yeah, it's funked up.
Speaker 1: It's funked up, man. Yeah. So so then, oh and
Speaker 1: somebody else rope back, Oh you should use Mike blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. So I already know Mike is one of
Speaker 1: the people I called. Mike wanted to charge me a
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five dollars just to come in my house.
Speaker 1: So I wrote back, have you used Mike? And he
Speaker 1: didn't charge you a fee? So you're up back. No,
Speaker 1: I've never used Mike. Hear good things. My post specifically
Speaker 1: said that you have used personally. Again, I but you
Speaker 1: know what, I understand I shouldn't ask for help. But
Speaker 1: you know what, eight out of ten people give me
Speaker 1: great advice. So I called one of the recommendations. The
Speaker 1: guy came today. The guy came to my house and
Speaker 1: he says, listen, it's one of you know. The first
Speaker 1: hour is a hundred and seven dollars plus the hourly rate.
Speaker 1: But after that it's just the holy rate, but it's
Speaker 1: a free estimate. He came to the house, he looked around,
Speaker 1: he said, and if we come back to the house
Speaker 1: and we can't fix the problem, you don't pay it.
Speaker 1: You don't pay for it. If we come and do
Speaker 1: the inspection and we feel it's too big for you
Speaker 1: to do it's more than you want to spend, we
Speaker 1: won't charge you. That's a good company. And their reviews
Speaker 1: are off the charts, great reviews on every review site.
Speaker 1: All the people on Facebook love them. That's a great company.
Speaker 1: That's a company that you go, you know what, I
Speaker 1: will trust them to come in my house because if
Speaker 1: they don't do a good job and they don't fix
Speaker 1: it right, they go, oh, we can't find the problem
Speaker 1: without opening up the wall, they're not gonna pay me,
Speaker 1: charge me unless I want them to open up the wall.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a class act. So f you ray
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, breathe, breathe in podcast back and
Speaker 1: I love that jingle is one of my favorites. I
Speaker 1: gotta do some new ones, I think for the I
Speaker 1: don't know if her breeze is saying, but that's I
Speaker 1: love that one. Yes, so I want to buy a scooter. Okay, scooter,
Speaker 1: you know what. You're gonna tell me? What about the
Speaker 1: scooter thing in a minute. But you mentioned something on
Speaker 1: the Monday fifteen minute Morning Show. Well you said I've
Speaker 1: never ridden a skateboard. You said you never wrote a skateboard.
Speaker 1: You can't. I mean I've attempted when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and I never got past a couple of pushes, pushes,
Speaker 1: and then I tried to lift both my feet off
Speaker 1: the ground to put on the board. I didn't last
Speaker 1: more than you can't do seconds. I used to. I
Speaker 1: used to skateboard. But when I say skateboard, I mean
Speaker 1: like I I would skateboard up and down the block
Speaker 1: I lived on. But I didn't do anything other than
Speaker 1: go straight, like I get occasional like it left the
Speaker 1: front and then like turn like and and it tilted.
Speaker 1: You could turn back, but I could like lift the
Speaker 1: front foot up and put it back down and like
Speaker 1: make left and rights. But I couldn't do a lot.
Speaker 1: And I don't skateboard now really, But I remember you
Speaker 1: on this scooter, the scooter you got client, that was
Speaker 1: a really cool scooter. Well that's the one that is
Speaker 1: up for sale right now. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: why you still have it because I'm staring able scooter,
Speaker 1: staring it. Oh oh my god, it's so yeah. It
Speaker 1: is a very it's very well built, and it's it's
Speaker 1: actually very high end because you stood on it and
Speaker 1: it didn't look like you wobbled, like it was stirred.
Speaker 1: It has amazing It has real suspension. It has like
Speaker 1: suspension that you're getting like a motorcycle. This is not
Speaker 1: a commercial, by the way, No, no, no, no, we're
Speaker 1: not trying to sell um. But I I don't know
Speaker 1: the first place to sell it because you know, you
Speaker 1: put list, Facebook and eBay. Okay, here's the problem with
Speaker 1: the three. First of all, Craigslist seems logical. But then
Speaker 1: you got weirdos showing up to your house. And I
Speaker 1: don't need people coming to my apartment. I don't you
Speaker 1: have a dorman apartment. You could meet them in a
Speaker 1: doormanned lobby in public, and this way you're safe. So
Speaker 1: you talked to them on the phone. First, you talked
Speaker 1: to them on the phone, you go, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to buy your scooter. You know. Then then sling Blade
Speaker 1: doesn't come to your house to buy the scooter. I've
Speaker 1: never sold any you know, I've never sold anything on
Speaker 1: Craigslist like that ever, like a face to face transaction,
Speaker 1: and I have many times, and I would say one
Speaker 1: out of a hundred knows like recognizes me when they
Speaker 1: get there. But most of the time it's just people.
Speaker 1: But what if the guy, here's what I think, somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna jump on the scooter and just screwed away with
Speaker 1: it and not paying me my money. See, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of ship that I that goes through my head.
Speaker 1: But it actually it's no, you get the money first.
Speaker 1: I sold a mattress and a box spring last week.
Speaker 1: So we are scooter we're talking about. This isn't just
Speaker 1: VA Yeah, pretty much. So I I sold a mattress
Speaker 1: in a box spring, no, no backstory needed, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was used lightly. It was in a guest bedroom
Speaker 1: and we didn't need it anymore. We would change in
Speaker 1: the room over and I thought, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't want to throw it out because there are people
Speaker 1: in the world that could really use a nice pillow top,
Speaker 1: plush mattress that we had always had a mattress cover on.
Speaker 1: So really nobody slept on the mattress and in a
Speaker 1: sheet on top of the mattress cover. And you know what,
Speaker 1: if I put it up for sale and somebody wants
Speaker 1: to buy it, I'm not going to question their needs,
Speaker 1: their financial status. If I could do good, it's better
Speaker 1: than throwing it out, if I could make So I
Speaker 1: put it up for and the mattress was like fos.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was asserta it was really nice when when
Speaker 1: it was purchased and Simmons asserta it was asserta. I
Speaker 1: just so. Uh. So the person calls me and says, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to come. My father is gonna bring a
Speaker 1: truck and we're gonna help you. And and he's gonna
Speaker 1: help me. He's gotta pick up truck. And yeah, I said, great,
Speaker 1: text me when you're when you're twenty minutes away from
Speaker 1: my house, I give it the address and I say,
Speaker 1: it's such and such on this street and it's down
Speaker 1: on this side of the street, and with the color
Speaker 1: of my house. Idiot proof, right, idiot proof directions that
Speaker 1: I copy and paste whenever someone buy something for me.
Speaker 1: So uh when I knew they were twenty minutes away,
Speaker 1: I took the box spring and mattress from the garage
Speaker 1: because I had moved it down to the garage and
Speaker 1: I put it on my driveway leaning up against my
Speaker 1: driveway door, one of my driveway doors, right actually in
Speaker 1: the middle of the two and the headboard. They wanted
Speaker 1: the headboard also, which the headboard was from my childhood bedroom.
Speaker 1: That's how old the headboard was. It was like a
Speaker 1: dark brown old headboard from when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: So the headboard, the mattress in the box bring leaning
Speaker 1: against my house on the driveway. Now, I don't have
Speaker 1: a very long driveway. It's two cars long, right, so
Speaker 1: you call it, yes, that's right. I could. I could
Speaker 1: ask my own driveway, so you could fit four cars
Speaker 1: on the driveway right front back, front back, so it's
Speaker 1: not like I have like a long driveaway. You couldn't
Speaker 1: see the house. So they drive. I look out the window.
Speaker 1: They drive by the house and they text me and
Speaker 1: I live on a dead end street, so there's only
Speaker 1: so far on the street they could go. They went
Speaker 1: past my house, so I said, she goes, we we
Speaker 1: don't see your house. I said, I told you the number,
Speaker 1: your four houses past it. I told you the color.
Speaker 1: You're in front of the house of a different color,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, there's a mattress box springing headboard on
Speaker 1: my driveway standing up against the house. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: it's process of elimination here. So she will you eliminate
Speaker 1: all the houses that don't have a mattress box springing
Speaker 1: headboard in front of it and with my number on it,
Speaker 1: which you can clearly see from the street. So she
Speaker 1: she texts back, she goes, oh, I see it now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the house, it's the color, it's the only Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you see, you're going you go through these these
Speaker 1: trials and tribulations with these people. I don't want that
Speaker 1: kind of hassle. I don't know, but you know, and
Speaker 1: I can't do eBay by the way, because people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: because the shipping fees. I mean, it's so freaking now
Speaker 1: you do local pickup only this way you get a
Speaker 1: verified person picking it up and then the Facebook group
Speaker 1: I've never tried. Oh yeah, well that's why you had
Speaker 1: to me sell that blender for you. Ye. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: which I did. I have a small apartment and it's
Speaker 1: getting cluttered by the day, like I gotta stop. And
Speaker 1: I've lived here for like close to fifteen years now,
Speaker 1: and I'm just seeing, I'm seeing. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: being closed in on. I don't want to be ever
Speaker 1: be a hoarder. I do throw things away when it's time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have some sentimental belongings. But I just I see
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff around my
Speaker 1: apartment that just gets you know, is being collected, and
Speaker 1: I just can't wrap my head around ever moving out
Speaker 1: of here and having to pack ale this stuff up.
Speaker 1: So I need to keep like a just a certain
Speaker 1: amount of things in my house and I can't go
Speaker 1: above that number. Is I know, it's bizarre. It is bizarre. Look,
Speaker 1: you're very neat. Did we talk about this on air
Speaker 1: or not? I don't remember. But your closet, you have
Speaker 1: your we did talk about this, You have your clothes,
Speaker 1: all space to hanger, space to part evenly like you're
Speaker 1: so anal about your a couple of weeks ago. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: so like I know you're a need freak. You have
Speaker 1: a listen, you make a decent living. You do okay,
Speaker 1: not like Electrician money, but you you do okay. And
Speaker 1: again I love electricians joking, uh, but I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I know you like it's convenient like the location. You
Speaker 1: have a one bedroom apartment, right, you could easily, even
Speaker 1: if you don't really want to move, move into the
Speaker 1: two bedroom. Yeah, and and make an office for yourself
Speaker 1: or a game room. You you're not planning on having kids, right,
Speaker 1: so you don't need a big house, and you don't
Speaker 1: want to fix things. You're not a fixer, So you
Speaker 1: could move into a townhouse where people they fix things
Speaker 1: for you. They take care of your law on your
Speaker 1: little lawn in the front. You can have a grill
Speaker 1: in the back if you wanted you I could see
Speaker 1: it as a townhouse. Guys like yeah, because it's like
Speaker 1: an apartment, but it's big and spacious. You can have
Speaker 1: people over, you know, you could have you have you
Speaker 1: have a driveway, you could write, you could go right
Speaker 1: for you could motion in your own house. You can
Speaker 1: go right from the car and right into your garage,
Speaker 1: right into your house. You you do all right? You
Speaker 1: won that lawsuit when they put a building in front
Speaker 1: of your building and blocked your view, right, like, you
Speaker 1: could move into I'm telling you you, but I would
Speaker 1: make the townhouse year for Scary Jones. I would get
Speaker 1: a townhouse if I were you. You know why I
Speaker 1: have this guy have his I have his defeats to attitude. Dude.
Speaker 1: I was talking to my buddy Will about this and
Speaker 1: that is I because I'm here and I'm settled. I
Speaker 1: have a fear of moving because I don't want to
Speaker 1: pack things up. All I could think about a guy.
Speaker 1: All I could think about is having to pack up
Speaker 1: this entire apartment. And I'm like, oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's so much work, it's so much energy. If
Speaker 1: you don't care about money, and then will pack everything
Speaker 1: for you. And now they'll pack my my personal belongings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or yes, or you know what you can do? Because
Speaker 1: my my mom moved to Jersey. I I hired someone
Speaker 1: that someone else had worked with. It was a woman
Speaker 1: who did for extra money. She would come to your
Speaker 1: house and she had worked with older people before, so
Speaker 1: I and I checked out her references and someone else
Speaker 1: had hired her, they knew her. She came to the
Speaker 1: house and helped my mom when I wasn't there pre pack. Wow,
Speaker 1: like sat with her and said, Okay, what what on
Speaker 1: your table do you want to pack? What in your
Speaker 1: night table do you want to pack? What in your
Speaker 1: you know, like, what dishes. Do you want to pack?
Speaker 1: But I also have loads loads of electronic equipment here right,
Speaker 1: and and if they're all like the spaghetti spaghetti of
Speaker 1: wires back there behind night, then you hire a guy
Speaker 1: or a woman to come to your house and you
Speaker 1: sit there and watch them do it, and you said
Speaker 1: this way, and or you hire the movers with insurance,
Speaker 1: and I feel bad. I'm not that that I'm not
Speaker 1: helping them out. Why you go to a restaurant, do
Speaker 1: you feel bad that the guys are bringing food to
Speaker 1: your table? A cook? And I would feel all I
Speaker 1: feel weird. I'm sitting here on my couch on the phone,
Speaker 1: dicking around doing the podcast, and there's there's someone in
Speaker 1: there with, you know, hanging out in my my Credenzita
Speaker 1: like loading CDs up, and I feel like I want
Speaker 1: to pitch in the way. Isn't Credenza the name of
Speaker 1: your other co host? Last name? She's packed up? She's
Speaker 1: she's packed at brack is packed. But you could be
Speaker 1: like hanging up your shirts or something. Hello, uh is she?
Speaker 1: But now here's the question. Is she spyramid rhino worthy? Oh?
Speaker 1: Absolutely yes, shows a beautiful woman and talented. I have
Speaker 1: to say bright. Oh my god, yea intelligent and a
Speaker 1: good mom too, tremendous um yeah so so I whatever.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, that is my beauty to move that
Speaker 1: should be your goal. That's my biggest pain point is
Speaker 1: is this apartment it's that? Was it Joe's apartment? Or
Speaker 1: this old house? That's me? Can I ask you a
Speaker 1: personal question? Oh no, no, You're gonna change the topic
Speaker 1: because I because I feel like there's other reasons. Oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no, no, no, no no, there's nothing
Speaker 1: else keeping me back. I just a question. I just no,
Speaker 1: I just I just don't want the other The other
Speaker 1: problem that I have is I don't want to move
Speaker 1: to the suburbs. Okay, so suburbs there a town homes
Speaker 1: the nearly where you live. I'm a city guy. I
Speaker 1: need to be where I am. This is a perfect
Speaker 1: lotion spot. So then get a bigger department in your building.
Speaker 1: If I moved it, that that's a lateral move to me.
Speaker 1: I need to make I need to move out out,
Speaker 1: like I need to get out of this building. Okay,
Speaker 1: the end of this neighborhood. Well, I just said that,
Speaker 1: you said no, But that's a problem. Because because I
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to be in this neighborhood
Speaker 1: though or I don't know. I'm all kinds of like to.
Speaker 1: But you're not in this neighborhood. You have ten minutes
Speaker 1: away from the neighborood you want to be in, and
Speaker 1: you drive, you drive to the other neighborhood. So I
Speaker 1: want to do I want to one week, I want
Speaker 1: to redo my bathroom. We've talked about that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't really do the bathroom slices. I need you to
Speaker 1: tweet Scary Tom, it's townhouse time, townhouse time, townhouse time
Speaker 1: to a parody for you know, it's Scary needs to
Speaker 1: move out and get another floor for him. I don't
Speaker 1: want them staircase time. I don't want the staircase. I
Speaker 1: don't want to break in my ship. You know people
Speaker 1: who have a Staircase's tweet Scary let him know he
Speaker 1: needs a staircase, a staircase. Don't you said I got
Speaker 1: a room but for Christmas? And then you have one room.
Speaker 1: You have the one room. It takes, it takes, it
Speaker 1: takes about thirty minutes to like the whole fucking place,
Speaker 1: and and and it's like it bumps into things wherever
Speaker 1: it goes. It doesn't do a great job because you
Speaker 1: make a room by mini for you. They should like
Speaker 1: a hockey puck size because it's so clutter. It goes
Speaker 1: around my apartment so cluttered. Oh my god, you should
Speaker 1: see the floor. The floor space in my bedroom is
Speaker 1: not exist. You have a kitchen, I have a thinning
Speaker 1: room combo, and you have two doors, and I have
Speaker 1: a thin once a bathroom, once in bedroom and you're right,
Speaker 1: that's three. And the balcony door that a fat man
Speaker 1: can't walk on, that's right. And then thin quart a
Speaker 1: scary cannot go outside. And a thin strip, a thin
Speaker 1: strip from my room to why the way think in
Speaker 1: a thin strips? How's And I'm not gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: how thinking it's speaking of thin? Your your first quart
Speaker 1: of scary right now? Losing weight? How's that going pounds?
Speaker 1: And how long? How long day? And we'll just call
Speaker 1: it my January detox because we don't want to hit
Speaker 1: the jingle. All right, Well, you do want to hit
Speaker 1: the jingle because to you it's worth it. I understand
Speaker 1: that somebody texted in today and said, what kind of
Speaker 1: diet is scary? On? Can you explain it? So I
Speaker 1: sent him the website of the doctor the Doctor guy
Speaker 1: that you work with Dr Fat Loss. You fuck hit
Speaker 1: the jingle hit it to Scary. You're a double bitch
Speaker 1: because you said you didn't want to do it and
Speaker 1: you did it anyway. Well you said doctor the first
Speaker 1: And by the way, when when when we asked you
Speaker 1: if he was a doctor on the big show, you said,
Speaker 1: what was the word you used? I said, uh, not
Speaker 1: a doctor per se per se per se. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like Dr K like a pictures like the like the
Speaker 1: Dr K on the met said Dwight Gooden, he's a
Speaker 1: big strike up picture and he was like he wasn't
Speaker 1: really a doctor called called him a doctor, right, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah. Okay, take a deep, deep breath. Okay,
Speaker 1: can I can I talk to you about how times
Speaker 1: have changed? Yeah? Right after this, Okay, good his podcast
Speaker 1: with Scary Now Scary. You're familiar with who Dick Vandyke is, right,
Speaker 1: Van Dyke if you're not familiar, was in his nineties.
Speaker 1: Now he's been in movies since as long as all
Speaker 1: of us are alive. Uh, he was, I mean he
Speaker 1: was in Mary Poppins. He's one of the few people
Speaker 1: still alive from that movie. Other than the kids and
Speaker 1: God bless him, he's been a night in the museum
Speaker 1: and he's been in a thousands of movies. But also
Speaker 1: in the fifties, in the late fifties, he had a
Speaker 1: show called Believe It or Not, The Dick Vandyke Show,
Speaker 1: Oh My God, Brodie, are you sorry? Mary? Mary Tyler More,
Speaker 1: Mary Tyler Moore And if you watched one division on
Speaker 1: the Disney Plus the first few episodes were the first
Speaker 1: episode or two were based on spoofing the Dick Vandyke
Speaker 1: Show Black and White Show where he was a comedy
Speaker 1: writer for a variety show and he came home to
Speaker 1: his his wife Mary Tyler Moore to be beautiful. Also
Speaker 1: legendary comedian, comic actress who went on a woman's Liberation woman. Uh,
Speaker 1: did a lot of groundbreaking roles. Anyway, Dick Vandyke's a legend.
Speaker 1: That show is an all time classic. That changed this
Speaker 1: that that Mary tell a More show later in the seventies.
Speaker 1: You have broke a lot of ground for women, is
Speaker 1: what I think. Yes, yes, it was. It was a
Speaker 1: game changer. So about two months ago, maybe a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, they colorized an episode of The Dick
Speaker 1: Vandyke Show. It may have been a couple episodes. And
Speaker 1: as you as you say this, by the way, it's
Speaker 1: funny that you say this, because Saturday night I watched
Speaker 1: my very first episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Speaker 1: I know, I knew about it, I knew of his
Speaker 1: exist distance, but I was just doing absolutely nothing. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, and I want an episode came on
Speaker 1: me TV, which is one of the cable channels, and
Speaker 1: I was like, like you said, caveman channels. And I
Speaker 1: watched this. I watched a full episode. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a complete episode. I've seen snippets, I've never seen a
Speaker 1: full episode. So I watched the whole thing. I laughed
Speaker 1: my ass off and and I talked about it today
Speaker 1: in the in the what we were doing commercials, but
Speaker 1: you weren't. You weren't in the room. I'm not in
Speaker 1: the zoom room on the air, on the air, right.
Speaker 1: So it's just so funny you bring up Dick Van Dyke, right,
Speaker 1: Dick Van Dyke, very funny show, even for now, like
Speaker 1: some of the most of the humor translates his physical
Speaker 1: comedy is Pratt falls all worth watching? If you want
Speaker 1: an old school show is I want to say, Dick
Speaker 1: Vandyke was way before my time, before you got any ideas.
Speaker 1: But I grew up when it was on reruns and
Speaker 1: I watched it, and as a lover of comedy, it's classic.
Speaker 1: So to watch it colorized when you only know it
Speaker 1: in black and white, you only know that living room
Speaker 1: in black and white, you only know their outfits in
Speaker 1: black and white. So my memories of those episodes, when
Speaker 1: you watch it in color, you assume they knew the colors.
Speaker 1: They must have spoken as someone on the show and
Speaker 1: said what like or tried to get close, but they
Speaker 1: did the shading. I mean, the technology now to colorized
Speaker 1: programs is unbelievable. So I watched this special Dick Van
Speaker 1: Dyke episode and one of the episodes they played was
Speaker 1: Mary is pregnant and she's about to need to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital. So the whole episode is himp parano,
Speaker 1: every noise. He's like, let's go to hospital. The bagg
Speaker 1: is pat He's ready to go. So she finally convinces
Speaker 1: him to go to work. I'm fine. Rob, his name
Speaker 1: is Rob Petrie in the show, Please go to work.
Speaker 1: You're going you're going crazy, you're sleeping in the same clothes,
Speaker 1: You're you're you're tired, you're agitated. Go to work. So
Speaker 1: he goes to work finally, and he hasn't slept in days,
Speaker 1: and he gets the call that uh, she's ready to
Speaker 1: have the baby after many false alarms, and so he
Speaker 1: you know, he runs out without pants on. It's a
Speaker 1: long story, and he rushes home and so, um, he
Speaker 1: calls for a cab on his on his way out
Speaker 1: of the office. You don't have cell phone. They call
Speaker 1: for a cab to get to the house. So in
Speaker 1: case God forbid, he has a car accident or something
Speaker 1: happens on the way home, Mary will have a way
Speaker 1: to get to the hospital. Okay, So on his way home,
Speaker 1: the cab is on his way to the house, the
Speaker 1: cab driver knocks on the door where the wife Mary
Speaker 1: her name is Mary on the show, and uh she says, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't call a cab. My husband must have called you.
Speaker 1: He should be home any minute, and she says, can
Speaker 1: you wait outside right, So, not knowing when the husband
Speaker 1: is home, she tells a cab driver, who by the way,
Speaker 1: gets paid by the minute. Right when the need is
Speaker 1: running this is an uber. He says, no problem, I'll
Speaker 1: be out in my car. Take your time. What what
Speaker 1: the guy's gonna sit there and definitely while he waits. Okay.
Speaker 1: So then a couple of minutes later, you hear a
Speaker 1: car flying down the street off camera and you heard crash.
Speaker 1: Dick Van Dyke crashed into the back of the cab,
Speaker 1: pushing the cab into the back of the car in
Speaker 1: front of it. Okay, he rushes in the house right
Speaker 1: and the cab driver comes in and says, um, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to leave. I can't drive you
Speaker 1: to the hospital because all of our cars are locked
Speaker 1: together by fenders. So Rob's car, Dick Vandyke's car has
Speaker 1: locked into the cab driver's fender and pushed his car
Speaker 1: into all the car in front of him, and now
Speaker 1: all three cause a lock together. The guy says, So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to drive you. He says,
Speaker 1: but if you want, I can call my company and
Speaker 1: have him send another car right away. Not a problem. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, he just wrecked the guy's cab. The
Speaker 1: cab is now trapped between two other cars, and the
Speaker 1: guy who said he's willing to wait says, no problem,
Speaker 1: I'll call him a cab company. Haven't send another car.
Speaker 1: So not only that the car the camp company after
Speaker 1: having their their cab demolished. Right, it's gonna go, I
Speaker 1: will send another car. Not a problem. Right in what
Speaker 1: world does that happen today? In black and white sitcoms?
Speaker 1: So the guys willing to wait outside and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just crashed my car. He doesn't come in and
Speaker 1: go you motherfucker you because it's that real life. When
Speaker 1: was it every? When were these shows ever real life? There?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wasn't alive in the fifties, So
Speaker 1: I can't tell you if if small town because they
Speaker 1: live in New Rochelle, which is um about an hour
Speaker 1: northeast of Manhattan. Take the train strouss Chester County. It's
Speaker 1: a suburban. It's it's it's where Uh it's uh were scary,
Speaker 1: would never want to live stop it. I've been the
Speaker 1: Newer show before. You don't live in suburbs. I beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It's very city like in New ro show. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you think that's it. No, No, the laundry guy comes
Speaker 1: because this is back in the day when you send
Speaker 1: your laundry out and the laundry truck would come in
Speaker 1: and pick up your laundry. He walks in and they say, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: can you drive us to the hospital because she's about
Speaker 1: to have a baby, and uh he says, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll drive you in the laundry truck, no problem. And
Speaker 1: the cab driver says, yeah, go ahead, don't worry about
Speaker 1: my cab. Go ahead and have a baby. I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: So the cab drivers like, oh, I don't know now
Speaker 1: my company doesn't have my company. I'm still I'm trying
Speaker 1: to dig into this here and understand what what is
Speaker 1: it that you're flabbergasted about. I'm flabbergasted that the cab
Speaker 1: driver wasn't upset that his car got crashed. He wasn't
Speaker 1: upset to it outside. And then when they when he
Speaker 1: sends another car to come pick them up, right, the
Speaker 1: laundry guy says, I'll drive you to the hospital, no
Speaker 1: problem in his laundry truck. When people are waiting for
Speaker 1: their laundry, He's like that, funk, I'll drive This is
Speaker 1: what the audience does. It's called the suspension of disbelief. Yes,
Speaker 1: And then the cam driver goes don't you worry about me?
Speaker 1: Mr and Mrs. You're not You're not going to have
Speaker 1: that baby. Of course. Well, because we once we get
Speaker 1: into a show or a movie or whatever we are,
Speaker 1: we are able to just immerse ourselves into it and
Speaker 1: just suspend the imagined or not. You can't take everything literally.
Speaker 1: Imagine imagine watching Curb your Enthusiasm or any other show.
Speaker 1: You imagine the cam driving on What the fuck? Now,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna use my cam company? Just gonna leave? Now,
Speaker 1: I got I lose my fan. Okay, let me let
Speaker 1: me ask you this is it plausible? Though? Then maybe
Speaker 1: the cab driver felt felt for Mary because oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's about to have a baby. Let's really let's really
Speaker 1: postpone this and put this, uh, you know, deal with
Speaker 1: this after you go to the hospital. Let's get you
Speaker 1: to the hospital. I mean, maybe some people in real
Speaker 1: life might actually respond that way and not worry so
Speaker 1: much about the car. Maybe because the cab driver doesn't
Speaker 1: own the car, the cab company does, so what But
Speaker 1: it was like he had no care. He was the
Speaker 1: happiest man on the planet. Oh yeah, the cars. I've
Speaker 1: seen examples of the that weirdness in shows where it's like,
Speaker 1: come on, they wouldn't respond that way modern day shows,
Speaker 1: really I have, I have seen that, but maybe on
Speaker 1: full House. Oh sorry, I can't talk about full House.
Speaker 1: Too soon, too soon, Bertie, too soon, berdie. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Another deep breath. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of deep breaths. All right, what are you doing? What
Speaker 1: are you doing this weekend? By the way, did you
Speaker 1: see this? You see this, this cop out of a
Speaker 1: weather forecast around here. Oh? Yeah, the latest was twenty
Speaker 1: or zero that no, no, I want to highlight that.
Speaker 1: I know we don't really talk about weather on this podcast,
Speaker 1: which you're listening to anywhere USA at any time in
Speaker 1: the future. But but the forecast was this morning. They said, oh,
Speaker 1: this this northeaster or this cyclone bomb as they call it,
Speaker 1: bomb cycle, the bomb cyclone, whatever is it goes, is
Speaker 1: gonna go in a zig zag pattern. So it's all
Speaker 1: I could picture is this bomb cyclone like going zigzag,
Speaker 1: zig zag, zigzag. And then they say, so, we don't
Speaker 1: know if we're gonna get twenty inches or zero, but
Speaker 1: it's probably not gonna be anywhere in between. It's gonna
Speaker 1: We're either gonna get dumped on or not even a
Speaker 1: Tracey snow and and that is the forecast for the
Speaker 1: Tri state area right now. And I've never heard such
Speaker 1: a forecast. Well this morning, this morning, the forecast during
Speaker 1: the show, which Elvis talked about I believe he said, uh,
Speaker 1: it could be four to twelve inches was the report
Speaker 1: as of this morning. Do you know how many people
Speaker 1: texted in yeah, story of my life. They promise you
Speaker 1: eight to twelve and you get four inches. Oh they're
Speaker 1: doing a dick joke. Yeah, yeah, But and the types
Speaker 1: in this text in this dick joke, you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you just hate when they promise you if you
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get eight inches and you want to
Speaker 1: get four because said I bought your dinner. Stop measuring.
Speaker 1: When they're when they're listening in their car, they have
Speaker 1: to think they're the only one because they they're just
Speaker 1: they're just like, you know what, I'm gonna text in
Speaker 1: this funny joke. They're not thinking or caring if other
Speaker 1: people are texting in the same It's fine. I like,
Speaker 1: I love the humor. I just I was amazed by
Speaker 1: how many people all texted in the same dick joke.
Speaker 1: Can I can I get serious for a second. Just
Speaker 1: it's unlike me to get serious serious earlier on. I
Speaker 1: mean when did I get serious? Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: before when we're talking about you're forgotten, oh your bachelor,
Speaker 1: your Bachelorrette party, birthday with the strippers, the belly dancers,
Speaker 1: and by the way, can I just say, I don't
Speaker 1: want to offend, but one of I think one of
Speaker 1: the belly dancers at your party many years ago may
Speaker 1: have been a last minute fill in. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: one thing I left out. Yeah. I got the feeling like,
Speaker 1: which one of these things is not like the other?
Speaker 1: She didn't she didn't really fit the outfit and she
Speaker 1: didn't really belly. She kind of I mean, she just
Speaker 1: wasn't good. I think she was like, you know, Mary,
Speaker 1: I need you to fill inform Oh, Raven, Hey, Raven,
Speaker 1: we put down your phone from texting that guy you
Speaker 1: met at Raven's cocktail party, Raven, I need you to
Speaker 1: come and fill in at the last minute. I don't
Speaker 1: think she was a professional. The other two are, but
Speaker 1: there was one there that do you remember what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, okay, so you're getting serious for a minute.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about my friend Billy, if I
Speaker 1: can just for a second, Oh, absolutely sure. Billy Uh
Speaker 1: Billy Uh Staples. He that was his radio name because
Speaker 1: he had staple surgery because he was very overweight. He
Speaker 1: looked like Chris Farley and he had stomach stapling surgery.
Speaker 1: And he was on the radio a couple of programs
Speaker 1: in New York. He was on Open Anthony and Ron
Speaker 1: and Fez. If you know who those people are. He's
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. And Uh. He had staple
Speaker 1: surgery and and it didn't work. He kept eating and
Speaker 1: he popped his own staples. So they called him Billy
Speaker 1: Stables and he laughed at himself and whatever. Billy was instrumental. Uh.
Speaker 1: We met early in my writing career. He got me
Speaker 1: into his improv group, which uh spearheaded me into writing
Speaker 1: with for Jay Leno. We both started writing for Jay
Speaker 1: Leno at the same time. And I made a lot
Speaker 1: of connections because of Billy, and I owe a lot
Speaker 1: of my success, a decent amount of my opportunities to
Speaker 1: opportunities that we did together. We were we we toured
Speaker 1: comedy clubs and colleges as part of an improv group. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I know Billy for many many years. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you go on my at David Brodie Instagram account, one
Speaker 1: of my pictures from a few pictures ago is a
Speaker 1: picture of me and my comedy group from so if
Speaker 1: you want to see what I looked like, which is
Speaker 1: I know, a long time ago group, the Comedy Express.
Speaker 1: It was actually the Online Comedy Express because back in
Speaker 1: the day we formed the year the Internet formed, and
Speaker 1: a bunch of people met each other through the Internet
Speaker 1: as comedians in my group, and so being online was
Speaker 1: a big deal. So we were the Online Comedy Express
Speaker 1: and we dropped online and became the Comedy Express when
Speaker 1: online became like, come on, man, we have the Internet
Speaker 1: for five years now, but we we started around the
Speaker 1: same time the Internet became popular. Joined Anyway, Billy is
Speaker 1: a great guy. But Billy Um is no longer in radio.
Speaker 1: He's he's been on TV shows. He's think he was
Speaker 1: on Chicago Police, a p D one of them. Recently
Speaker 1: he's been on some law and orders. He does acting
Speaker 1: in this comedy. Anyway, about three weeks ago he had
Speaker 1: um a heart attack and COVID nineteen at the same time. Unrelated,
Speaker 1: just he happened to get sick while he was he
Speaker 1: had a heart attack and I think he got COVID
Speaker 1: while he was not well, don't know, whatever the case.
Speaker 1: So he wasn't doing very well and he's still not
Speaker 1: doing very well. And the heart attack was serious and
Speaker 1: so um he he his friends and his his his
Speaker 1: partner woman, his partner, uh formed they go fund me
Speaker 1: for him, which I put a link up to. And
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't normally, I don't ever ask for
Speaker 1: money or favors or whatever, and I don't. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know, if nothing else, and you
Speaker 1: want to see what I look like, check out the picture.
Speaker 1: Billy is the Chris Folly looking guy in the middle.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's in bad shape right now. He can't
Speaker 1: walk at work, and he doesn't have medical benefits like
Speaker 1: I do, and he doesn't have so he's paying for
Speaker 1: everything on his own and he's in bad shape. And
Speaker 1: this is a funny, good natured, caring person who is
Speaker 1: very good to me, and he's a he's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm here doing comedy because he believed in me and
Speaker 1: we work together and he made me believe in myself
Speaker 1: and he's a great guy. So anyway, if nothing else,
Speaker 1: if you want to see a picture of me from
Speaker 1: when we were all trying to be cast members of
Speaker 1: friends and I had a vest on like I was Chandler.
Speaker 1: Go check out the black and white photo, which we
Speaker 1: have yet to colorize, and check that out. And there's
Speaker 1: a link in my bio. As the old expression says,
Speaker 1: uh to to the go fund me. If you're just
Speaker 1: did anyway, that's it. No more thank you for that.
Speaker 1: No not oh come on please, I mean give me
Speaker 1: a break. This is what we do here and that
Speaker 1: and and uh no, I did want to say that.
Speaker 1: Uh how is his health itself? I know he's bad
Speaker 1: shape financially, but is he improving? Is he he's gotten
Speaker 1: a little better, but he's still he's still he's very weak.
Speaker 1: And you know, he had a heart attack. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna make it through. Yes, yes, he's gonna
Speaker 1: make it through. But he has mounting bills and he
Speaker 1: has to go for a follow up heart surgery, you know,
Speaker 1: and they have to put a stent in or or
Speaker 1: something like the last thing he needs. His anxiety and
Speaker 1: so you look, if you're looking to help a funny
Speaker 1: man out, who's a good man, who's devoted his life
Speaker 1: to making people laugh. Uh, this is this is a guy.
Speaker 1: So um, all right, So we didn't collect enough voicemail
Speaker 1: for for the for a segment, because you know, we
Speaker 1: have a phone number now two one eight. F you
Speaker 1: ape seventy seven, that's a few ape seventy seven. But
Speaker 1: leave a voicemail when you can, and then maybe on
Speaker 1: our next podcast when we get enough of them, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll play them back for you. And if you do
Speaker 1: not hear your voicemail, it's probably because your phone quality
Speaker 1: was was garbage. You didn't realize it at the time,
Speaker 1: but it was a bad connection or whatever the case.
Speaker 1: So we have had a slew of these that didn't
Speaker 1: air because people were like, what did you air? Mind like,
Speaker 1: and some people just said hello, I didn't really leave
Speaker 1: a point. We want to, we want to want to
Speaker 1: really kind of play the funny ones. We don't want to,
Speaker 1: you know, just well, I I appreciate it when you
Speaker 1: guys said, oh, you guys are the best. That's great.
Speaker 1: I'll never I'll never get old and it keeps me,
Speaker 1: but give us a little content. Somebody did d M
Speaker 1: and I don't want to call them out because I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to single them out for this,
Speaker 1: but they were tongue in cheek, but they said they
Speaker 1: left a voicemail that was slightly critical of you, not insulting,
Speaker 1: but they took my side in something and they were
Speaker 1: concerned you didn't air it because they were saying I
Speaker 1: was right. Now, you wouldn't do that, No, no, but
Speaker 1: it wouldn't know, but I would uh not air it
Speaker 1: if if I couldn't understand who was unintelligible? Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: leave that message again. I guess I don't know. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: I do have one more scam I wanted to read
Speaker 1: and I have I have a quick email, so let's
Speaker 1: see this really quickly. This is David. This is from
Speaker 1: David Schwartz. And by the way, tribe, it will be tried.
Speaker 1: Let's get some emails back in the in the in
Speaker 1: the mix here you can always emails at the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Boys podcast at gmail dot com. I feel like people
Speaker 1: are starting off slow this year. Uh, David Schwartz. The
Speaker 1: subject is Sidel's dial. Oh he's definitely tried. So so yeah,
Speaker 1: so you would agree that you know, David, he know
Speaker 1: he says he's definitely tried. But I mean, take it
Speaker 1: from a guy who's tribe, right, he would know and
Speaker 1: let's see less he's could be adopted. He's tribe can
Speaker 1: be tribe, and his mother isn't so so so you
Speaker 1: must agree and believe. No, no, there are some tribe
Speaker 1: members that you believe. You must believe the things that
Speaker 1: he says. Right, So he's not necessarily in this following email.
Speaker 1: The last few times you guys brought up Sidel's Scary's
Speaker 1: favorite punch place, I was on scary side. I love dil.
Speaker 1: It makes me remember my grandma's cooking. It was a
Speaker 1: terrible cook in every an on everything she made. Well,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'll stop right there for a second
Speaker 1: and say thank you David for being a Jew and
Speaker 1: for coming to the coming to the you know, to
Speaker 1: defense to defend, coming to my defense, not only coming
Speaker 1: to my defense, but coming to the forefront and acknowledging
Speaker 1: that dil is indeed used in Jewish cooking. It is,
Speaker 1: despite what Brody will tell you, and it may not
Speaker 1: be used in all Jewish cooking, but I would imagine,
Speaker 1: would you say dill is used in Italian cooking? Not
Speaker 1: really a rosemary, A lot of rosemary. Okay, So some
Speaker 1: woman named Rosemary uses dil. I get it isn't your
Speaker 1: mother's name Rosemary, She's Rose Roseanne. Okay, but either way
Speaker 1: she's wrong, right, yeah, okay. So what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: I guarantee as some Italian grandmother that puts dil in
Speaker 1: her meat balls. So there's always someone who does something.
Speaker 1: The fact that David's grandmother was a bad cook, that's
Speaker 1: not my milk. It was a Jewish tradition people. Dill
Speaker 1: is used in Jewish cooking period. But fends of it,
Speaker 1: they don't take a shovel and throw it on cap anyway, Dave, Okay,
Speaker 1: here comes the part where he agrees with you. So
Speaker 1: this is where the now he's coming back. You didn't
Speaker 1: agree with scary, but I'd like to hear a voicemail comes.
Speaker 1: I took a look at the menu, and I have
Speaker 1: to yield a point to Brody. It sounds it's it's
Speaker 1: like Julia, and this is what I got. I'm going
Speaker 1: about to shoot Dave down. He says, it sounds like
Speaker 1: a theme restaurant, and the theme is Jewish food for
Speaker 1: genteels that gentles gentiles that learned about Jewish food from TV. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you hash hashtag pickle palm, hashtag tribe, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you love. It's not it is not a theme restaurant.
Speaker 1: The theme is dill and it is. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna challenge David the other David David Schwartz. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: also no one in Florida now and like Coconut Grove
Speaker 1: or Coconut Creek Coral in Miami area. I'm telling you guys,
Speaker 1: go to Sitdel's if you're in New York or that
Speaker 1: they're Florida. Don't say it. Eat there. And especially if
Speaker 1: you're tribe and you're gonna tell me that that is
Speaker 1: forget about. Close your eyes, eat the food tasted, and
Speaker 1: and and you can sported to your old Jewish delicacies
Speaker 1: now Blintzes. The lot is. Everything they do is on
Speaker 1: fo not gentiles. It's not gentile food. Who people who
Speaker 1: are I'm sorry, David, I love you, but right I
Speaker 1: disagree with you. By the way, for those of you
Speaker 1: don't know, because you're probably you are a gentile. A
Speaker 1: gentile is what old world Jews used to refer to
Speaker 1: non Jews. So anything in the world that you wore
Speaker 1: not Jewish. You're a gentile. We gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: You want something else that you have a scamboni or
Speaker 1: what you want to you want? We want to save
Speaker 1: the scamboni. I do want to just read a joke
Speaker 1: that I made on Instagram? Did it we were talking
Speaker 1: about we were talking on a fifty minute morning show
Speaker 1: about Scotty B was talking about cleaning out his belly button.
Speaker 1: That is always crapp in your belly button. You never
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna find in your belly button. So
Speaker 1: this person Rocketman tech or Seck said d M to me. No,
Speaker 1: they posted on the on the post on elvistr End
Speaker 1: morning show Instagram. I have a friend who was morbidly obese,
Speaker 1: and he told me once when he was taking a shower,
Speaker 1: a quarter fell out of his belly button. He had
Speaker 1: no idea it was there. I mean, how can you
Speaker 1: not know there's a loose change? Is loose change in
Speaker 1: your belly button? So I wrote, are you sure it
Speaker 1: was a quarter? Or was it a quarter pounder? Hio hio.
Speaker 1: We didn't do that joke on the air, No, it's
Speaker 1: on it's on Instagram. Hilarious. No, you made in my
Speaker 1: segment where I do jokes on the air now that one. Yeah, yeah,
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