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Speaker 1: to two fifty. It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast. Hello, David Brodie,
Speaker 1: Scary Jane. What you're doing, man, what's happening? I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in front of my microphone talking to an old friend
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn. An old friend. Yeah, not a friend that's old.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're a married couple right, well sort of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we seem to have an open relationship because you
Speaker 1: go out with other Brooklyn boys. Yeah, I cheat on
Speaker 1: you with other Brooklyn boys and girls like. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: as a married couple. First of all, if you think
Speaker 1: about it, we have, we've we've really settled down, the
Speaker 1: two of us. We're liking our rocking chairs on a porch.
Speaker 1: I could see that you don't you don't vision you
Speaker 1: don't envision this well and in the sense that you're
Speaker 1: not romantic and don't take mistake dinners. Yeah, but did
Speaker 1: we settle for each other or was this a lust?
Speaker 1: Did we actually lust for each other to become this
Speaker 1: couple that we are the Brooklyn Don't forget you're remarried you.
Speaker 1: You were in a relationship with Greg t and Ronnie
Speaker 1: for a while, right, so this is my second marriage.
Speaker 1: But did we settle? A lot of people settle. I
Speaker 1: don't like the words settle when it comes to me,
Speaker 1: like I settled, but I feel like you. I think
Speaker 1: you aimed up. You think I ate up, you think
Speaker 1: I married up? Yeah, definitely, But you shouldn't settle. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't settle. Jewish boy, you shouldn't settle for anything. Now. No,
Speaker 1: Why why do people say they, well, it's time to
Speaker 1: settle down when they're done with their hoe fays. Settled
Speaker 1: down is not settling. It's a different use of the word. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but no, you hear it from everyone's grandma, mother and
Speaker 1: aunt there. I was like, when are you gonna find
Speaker 1: a nice girl and settled down? Right, But they didn't
Speaker 1: say when are you gonna find a girl that you'll
Speaker 1: settle for? That's not what they said. Settled down though,
Speaker 1: But when you settle, you don't want to settle. Settling
Speaker 1: is like meetings, meaning that's the best of what's left,
Speaker 1: that's the best of what settle. Yes, but you're not
Speaker 1: settling when you When I got married, if the expression
Speaker 1: settled down. I get that, but I didn't settle down.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone should settle down. I think we
Speaker 1: should erase that from the lexicon when talking about marriage,
Speaker 1: the lexicon. Look at you, the vocabulary. You haven't trouble
Speaker 1: over there. No, no, no, I'd adjusted the microphone. Sorry
Speaker 1: about that. I want to settle I don't. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: you haven't settled down. You haven't settled, you've done either. No,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm also dating up golf, dude, you need
Speaker 1: a ladder. Robin is is uh beyond and like your
Speaker 1: parents must be like why did he end up with her? Right?
Speaker 1: And what's the question? When are you going to settle down? Number? No? No,
Speaker 1: stop it. Well, but okay, let's say hypothetically, if you
Speaker 1: settled down with Robin, I'd be settling up. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: you would. No one would say like, oh, he settled
Speaker 1: for rob, I'm not settling. I'm reaching at that point, right,
Speaker 1: Robin is not settling for you, because she could go
Speaker 1: anywhere she would be settling. Well, if she'd be settling
Speaker 1: is the thing. She'dn't even be settling if she had
Speaker 1: tried for better and failed and was like, ah, scary
Speaker 1: like smell settle for him. She has chosen you, scary.
Speaker 1: Robin's had plenty of opportunities to hit the road. Robin's
Speaker 1: Robin's bright and attractive as a great job. She's funny,
Speaker 1: she's a glutton for punishment. She stays with me, she
Speaker 1: stays with you. So that's not settling. That's whatever it is, right,
Speaker 1: But for anyone who has ever called it settling, I
Speaker 1: don't think the person you're gonna marry should be ever
Speaker 1: refer two as settling down with Well, let's not listen.
Speaker 1: There are people, I'm sure listening to the slices, there
Speaker 1: are some of you out there, and I'm not mentioning
Speaker 1: any names because they don't know the names. But sometimes
Speaker 1: in life you settle. Sometimes you're like, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's not the best looking guy, or he's not the
Speaker 1: richest guy, but you know what, he's gonna make a
Speaker 1: good father. He's good to me, makes me laugh occasionally.
Speaker 1: We're not going to be rich, but I like him.
Speaker 1: You know, if you keep waiting for the perfect thing,
Speaker 1: the guy who's an eight and a half may slip by,
Speaker 1: But don't spend the rest of your life going like
Speaker 1: I'm married an eight and a half ten. Sometimes an
Speaker 1: eight and a half is fantastic because a ten wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been good for you. You know, there was an
Speaker 1: old Abbot and Costello bit who's on first? No, not
Speaker 1: that one, Aben and Costello, the greatest or one of
Speaker 1: the greatest comedy duos of all time. And I believe
Speaker 1: it was Costello, the short fat one who said that
Speaker 1: his goal in life was oh he He's said, you know,
Speaker 1: you marry an attractive woman, a beautiful woman, she's likely
Speaker 1: to leave you in cheat. So I'm going to marry
Speaker 1: an ugly woman. And so Abbott says, well, wouldn't an
Speaker 1: ugly woman also have a chance of leaving you? He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: but then who cares? Wow, they said that they got
Speaker 1: to wait at that back then on TV. Well, that
Speaker 1: was the forties when you could talk about people being ugly.
Speaker 1: I don't know you can make that joke now, I
Speaker 1: just told the joke. I guess all right. M oh
Speaker 1: oh oh. By the way, very very important. This just
Speaker 1: in um, we have steak dinner reservations, No, but I
Speaker 1: can provide some top notch catering in signature cocktails with
Speaker 1: an open barn at DJ tomorrow at Interior Motif in
Speaker 1: a Short Hills, New Jersey. If you'd like to join me,
Speaker 1: we can have like an impromptu Brooklyn Boys meet up.
Speaker 1: Scary you, yeah, scary? Yes? Yeah, I'm torn. Now you
Speaker 1: understand why I'm torn? Right? Why are you torn? All right?
Speaker 1: Natalie and Brulia, thank you because part of me wants
Speaker 1: the free food and drink and part of me wants
Speaker 1: to tell you hit the jingle. There is no jingle
Speaker 1: because there's no money involved. Oh okay, this is yeah.
Speaker 1: So you remember back in the day, uh Juan Ruan
Speaker 1: Vazquez who probably still listened to this podcast of us
Speaker 1: on social media. Yeah, he still He installed my blinds
Speaker 1: in my house. Remember I said I had a guy
Speaker 1: standing in my bedroom and on a ladder and then
Speaker 1: he reveals to me that he's a fan of the
Speaker 1: show in the podcast, and that was a little weird.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why is this guy in my bedroom and
Speaker 1: he's a slice remember thattte Yes, I remember it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm rehab. I'm also using this as a as a
Speaker 1: as a vehicle to re establish the story for those
Speaker 1: who don't remember, so just go along with it. Yeah, okay, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: he works for the company that installed my blinds, Interior
Speaker 1: Motif Hoboken. They're not paying me. Okay, there's not a sponsor,
Speaker 1: no reason to hit the jingle. But they invited me
Speaker 1: to the grand opening of their Short Hills location tomorrow
Speaker 1: to do a little couple of things on the mic
Speaker 1: and just hang out, see what's up. And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. So I'm going. That's on that's on
Speaker 1: Milburne Avenue in Short Hill in Short Hills, New Jersey. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: not the Short Hills Mall, Short Hills, New Jersey. Right.
Speaker 1: So I said, if I go, why don't I ask
Speaker 1: my pal, oh' pally Wally David Brody to come with me,
Speaker 1: because just saying you don't live too far away, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like you've to drive forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: You're driving about ten fifteen minutes. That is not correct.
Speaker 1: You meet you longer than that. Okay, even if it
Speaker 1: is you meet, we'll go, we'll hang out. You like
Speaker 1: free things. I like free things. Yeah, well, I just
Speaker 1: bought blinds for my bathroom. My phone would have I
Speaker 1: would have gotten them there. You know what, so sad
Speaker 1: because we're giving away a twelve thousand dollars blind package.
Speaker 1: It's entered a win and or or six get written
Speaker 1: in brail. What about the six thousand dollar automation package?
Speaker 1: Could win that too. You don't have automation on your blinds,
Speaker 1: do you? I do not, Yes. I What I do
Speaker 1: is I pulled the cord on the right down and
Speaker 1: then I pull it to the left to lock it. Ah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm the engine, the little engine that could. I don't
Speaker 1: have bougie blinds. Okay, Well, if you want bougie blinds,
Speaker 1: this place is stunning, stunning. I'm looking at the pictures.
Speaker 1: I googled it. It's very very nice. You. Actually, when
Speaker 1: the last time you were at my apartment a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, you complimented me. You complimented me on
Speaker 1: my on my veins. You have Flora's ceiling, bougie blinds
Speaker 1: that are double layered with like a light screening curtain
Speaker 1: over in front of it. That. Yeah, you have a
Speaker 1: curtains for your curtains. So I just realized that your
Speaker 1: curtains have curtains. They do. They're sheer. The shins have curtains. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is, let's have it. Let's have
Speaker 1: it a little bit of a late afternoon after work tomorrow,
Speaker 1: five o'clock. We're inviting the slices to come down. If
Speaker 1: you want to come down and hang I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 1: You know, one half of the Brooklyn Boys. You don't
Speaker 1: be good Chinese restaurant nearby called Hunan's Spring. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. I'll tell you what some of the best
Speaker 1: egg rolls I ever had. I'll tell you what. We'll
Speaker 1: hang out and then we'll go for a steak dinner
Speaker 1: after that. On me, I'm sorry, what, Yeah, you heard it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make good on the steak dinner tomorrow. Tomorrow's Thursday, right,
Speaker 1: I can get a little crazy tomorrow, stay out a
Speaker 1: little late, even though it's a school night. The next
Speaker 1: day is Friday. What do you think? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: I have the steak dinner. I have the steak location
Speaker 1: picked out. Then I do too. I know the one
Speaker 1: you're thinking of, So let's do that. Not the not
Speaker 1: that one, Okay, the other one, not the not the
Speaker 1: one everybody's heard of. It's a different one, all right?
Speaker 1: So should so you want to come five o'clock? I
Speaker 1: consider it, But all you know, I feel like we're
Speaker 1: taking up the whole podcast. No, no no, no, no, we're gonna,
Speaker 1: We're gonna, we will. There's a purpose to this. It's
Speaker 1: so the slices can join us again. It's not an
Speaker 1: official Brooklyn Boys meet up, but people said that they
Speaker 1: want unofficial ones too, where we're gonna be in the
Speaker 1: same place at the same time. So come on, let's go.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll commit to you at some point then
Speaker 1: I'll I'll post about it one of but with the
Speaker 1: Broking Boys podcast, I'm definitely going. So maybe there tomorrow
Speaker 1: five o'clock. Very good, Very good, All right. Uh, I
Speaker 1: did want to talk about um, we were talking about
Speaker 1: Robin and um, you know, going out to dinner tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of something. It was. It was a
Speaker 1: story that came out last week about a story that
Speaker 1: happened a few weeks earlier, but it's surfaced and became,
Speaker 1: uh you know one of those slow newsdays. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: becomes a story. Yes, And I started thinking about it
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my god, I also think this
Speaker 1: is a story. And I bet you Scary would agree
Speaker 1: with me. Okay, Now, I know older people have different
Speaker 1: eating habits. I totally get that. When I told the
Speaker 1: story to my wife, she's like, oh, hell no, so
Speaker 1: I want your opinion. Um, President Biden and First Lady,
Speaker 1: Doctor Jill Biden were out for dinner. They had gone
Speaker 1: into town in Washington, d C. And they went for whatever,
Speaker 1: and they both ordered the same salad and the same entree.
Speaker 1: Hold on, so people, so that so people the restaurant
Speaker 1: was like reported it, like to the news outlet, like
Speaker 1: they you know, like it was a thing. And some
Speaker 1: people I spoke to don't understand why that's a story. No. Look,
Speaker 1: they're a cute couple. They've been married whatever. Whether you
Speaker 1: like him or not is irrelevant to the story. They're
Speaker 1: they're a cute married couple for you know, forty years
Speaker 1: whatever it's been. And I guess they do things like that.
Speaker 1: I know my wife, not not as long as they
Speaker 1: know each other. But I would never order the same
Speaker 1: my wife. No. Yeah, then you can't taste anything off
Speaker 1: for play, right right? If I if I if so, like,
Speaker 1: like we go to a restaurant and I want something,
Speaker 1: I'll She'll go, what are you thinking about? So usually
Speaker 1: I'll say these two things, yeah, knowing one is my
Speaker 1: first choice, right, and one is the thing I know
Speaker 1: she would eat exactly. So sometimes she'll say, why don't
Speaker 1: we go to both of them? Will split it? Fantastic
Speaker 1: this way you get both. Or she'll say, or to
Speaker 1: both and we'll do a little taste Robert and I
Speaker 1: do simp something similar. Will order not one, not two,
Speaker 1: but three appetizers, one for the table, and how many
Speaker 1: does she order? No, I'll order something, She'll make sure
Speaker 1: to order something else, and then we'll put a third
Speaker 1: thing in the middle, and we will share off of
Speaker 1: all three appetizers, so I'll get a taste of three
Speaker 1: things on the menu right there. And then she'll feel
Speaker 1: bad if she's thinking the same thing that I am
Speaker 1: for an entree, because she'll be no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: no no, I don't want it the same thing you are.
Speaker 1: I'll want something different. And then we'll go halzies and
Speaker 1: I'll put half of my entree in her dish, or
Speaker 1: at least at least a taste if we are equally
Speaker 1: not as interested in the other's entree. See, well, we
Speaker 1: went out for my wife's birthday. We were going to
Speaker 1: split both things. So what we did was we ordered
Speaker 1: a pasta dish. Yeah, and a chicken dish. I think
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, And so the waiter says, would you
Speaker 1: like me to bring the pasta dish out first as
Speaker 1: like a second course. We're like, oh, great idea. So
Speaker 1: they split the pasta dish into two bowls. Then they
Speaker 1: split our entree into two plates. So a good restaurant
Speaker 1: will do that for you. But what is the point
Speaker 1: If if I want chicken palm and my wife wants
Speaker 1: chicken palm, if we both ort a chicken palm, then
Speaker 1: all I'm getting for dinner is chicken palm. I can't
Speaker 1: say like, yeah, that's terrible. Yeah, yeah, I say no
Speaker 1: to that every time. What Stephen Colbert said on Late
Speaker 1: Show last week, He said, what you do is you
Speaker 1: order different things, You taste your partner's food. You then
Speaker 1: decide you like, there's better. You make a face for
Speaker 1: the rest of the meal about your food until your
Speaker 1: partner says, you know, what the hell would it? Just
Speaker 1: give me your food. I'll eat it, and you get
Speaker 1: the food off their plate that you want it in
Speaker 1: the first place. It makes all the sense of the world.
Speaker 1: My father used to do that when my parents would
Speaker 1: got to dinner. Yeah, he'd say so how's your how's
Speaker 1: your food? And my wife was my mother would say, oh, good, good,
Speaker 1: how's yours? Yeah, I kind of wish I'd ordered something else.
Speaker 1: So my mother realized, he's gonna sit here and mope
Speaker 1: the rest of the meal, or I'm gonna say, would
Speaker 1: you like what I'm eating? Because and she would say
Speaker 1: like that, I don't have a preference if you want
Speaker 1: to go all right. Some people originally do it for years,
Speaker 1: for twenty years. People are particular, whatever, very very particular
Speaker 1: about it. Some people they don't want to they don't
Speaker 1: want another fork in their plate, they don't want to
Speaker 1: touch or they won't they don't want to share food
Speaker 1: at all. They hoard it like a squirrel would hoard
Speaker 1: some nuts, like you can't even look at the person's plate,
Speaker 1: like no, no, you know there are people out there,
Speaker 1: there are couples like that. There are people I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's fighting, like too, if you're on your
Speaker 1: second day, I don't know. I've been so communal with
Speaker 1: every wife like I. You know, I've been so communal
Speaker 1: me and my friends with all our food. We've all
Speaker 1: no well, we we share everything. We throw when I
Speaker 1: go out with my my my Hoboken friends or my
Speaker 1: fake Brooklyn. Would you share a straw with you boys?
Speaker 1: All right? Now you're getting what what? No, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about plates. We want to everything for the table and
Speaker 1: then we do a family style. Yeah, to eat that
Speaker 1: way too. That's why I love calm mindes. We go
Speaker 1: to commines, you get like six dishes and you all
Speaker 1: eat off them. You can't go to commines by yourself.
Speaker 1: You get one thing, yea one thing? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 1: If you wouldn't share a straw at your boys, what
Speaker 1: about your female friend? No, you wouldn't share strow at anybody?
Speaker 1: Not really. I mean, but I've seen you share a
Speaker 1: sandwich with people. I'm okay with that. You cut it? No? No, oh,
Speaker 1: like way the spittle is on the sandwich I've seen.
Speaker 1: I've seen people take a bite of a sandwich and
Speaker 1: then hand it to you, and you take a bite
Speaker 1: out of that bite. Mark yep, I have you have
Speaker 1: on the morning show? You have desperate times, call for
Speaker 1: desperate measures because at some point there's only so many
Speaker 1: sides to it, like you twist it and you see
Speaker 1: you bite the side. But if you're like seventh, I'm out,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not doing that. I don't I do not
Speaker 1: share a bite. I don't really share straws. Nah, straws
Speaker 1: are different than bites. What if it was alcohol. What
Speaker 1: if someone's like, dude, you gonna dry my long online?
Speaker 1: That's fine. Drinks are okay, Like alcohol doesn't get on
Speaker 1: the old I don't know, but straws a little bit
Speaker 1: more intimate than the rim of a glass. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question. If you we're out on a date,
Speaker 1: but I'm going back for a minute. If you're at
Speaker 1: a date with a new girl, right, not Zoe Deschanel.
Speaker 1: But let's say you're out on a date and it's
Speaker 1: second date, and you're like, god, you can order first.
Speaker 1: And because that's your gentleman, I assume you you'd let
Speaker 1: the woman or the first always and you went to
Speaker 1: a restaurant, Well, you knew the best thing on the
Speaker 1: menu as a chicken palm, the best thing. You only
Speaker 1: go there for the chicken palm, and she says, um, waiter,
Speaker 1: I'll have the chicken palm. Now. At that point, well,
Speaker 1: have a relationship with her. You don't know if she's
Speaker 1: going to share what you are not. Do you order
Speaker 1: the chicken palm. Well, I would actually make the deal
Speaker 1: ahead of time. I'd be like, look, if you order
Speaker 1: the chicken palm, if you go chicken parma the groundwork?
Speaker 1: Do you yes? Do you want? Do you want to?
Speaker 1: I'll get something else and you want to do split?
Speaker 1: And you want to? And if she says no, I
Speaker 1: want my own? Do you have a data? Again? I
Speaker 1: don't think that's a deal breaker at all, but I
Speaker 1: would get But if I'd have to have the chicken
Speaker 1: palm then too, then we're ordering the same What if
Speaker 1: she's like earmarking you for a lifetime of the bidens
Speaker 1: of eating the same food every night? No way, no way.
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with that. I can't either. No,
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite things on my checklist of
Speaker 1: all My wife like would that wey She's cool at
Speaker 1: a restaurant And I'm glad we solved this for seventeen
Speaker 1: minutes where I did not talk about the a seventeen No. No,
Speaker 1: we talked about your appearance at the Blind Store. Not
Speaker 1: an appearance, it's not official, but we're partying there and
Speaker 1: we are coming, right, but you will be appearing there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why not? Yes? Yeah, I will be I will be
Speaker 1: publicly on a microphone and chilling out and hanging out
Speaker 1: and partying. All right, and you should. It's a good place. I'm,
Speaker 1: I'm it's a good location for sure. Okay, right there,
Speaker 1: we'll back. It's the boys. So I have a friend, No, yeah,
Speaker 1: you believe it. I have a friend, Brodie, I got
Speaker 1: one after all these years. You won't share a stroll
Speaker 1: with them. But all right, Ah, this is something that
Speaker 1: you would do. But I don't know if you get
Speaker 1: a good price. I can't. I can't mention names. So
Speaker 1: she called off her wedding. A few A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, she called off her wedding, and she had
Speaker 1: she was in possession of a fourteen thousand dollars ring.
Speaker 1: Oh that that's what the fiance had paid for it.
Speaker 1: Now we're not going down the road of is it
Speaker 1: a gift? Is it not that you have to give
Speaker 1: it back. I'll just lay it out right here. He
Speaker 1: owed her a lot of money. So she kept it
Speaker 1: and said, fuck you, I'm keeping the ring, and he goes, fine,
Speaker 1: keep it. So she kept the ring. Now what is
Speaker 1: she doing with a fourteen thousand dollars ring? Princess cut
Speaker 1: by the way, beautiful whatever. I guess it's a thing,
Speaker 1: princess guy. Ah, And she said, I'm selling this. So
Speaker 1: what does she do? She goes to David Brodie's House
Speaker 1: of Bargains, wherever you sell, wherever you would sell said ring, Craigslist, epay,
Speaker 1: you go to like a we buy and sell jewelry place. No,
Speaker 1: she did it online. Oh no, well please tell me
Speaker 1: she got more than twelve No, she got less. So
Speaker 1: she didn't give a fuck. It was it was free.
Speaker 1: It was free money to her. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: But that's not the whole free it's not about the point.
Speaker 1: It's not This is not about that. It's always about
Speaker 1: the money. It's about her. A guy, a guy decides
Speaker 1: that he's going to buy the ring off her. So
Speaker 1: the two of them meet up and then they have
Speaker 1: it praised together. You know. She starts talking to the
Speaker 1: guy and they're they're you know, they go to you know,
Speaker 1: this guy's not just going to hand over cash. She
Speaker 1: has guys. She has some guy who's a guy that
Speaker 1: she that she met on craigslist. Oh no, or wherever
Speaker 1: it was. It might have been eBay, who knows. That's
Speaker 1: not the point. Meet people on eBay not the point.
Speaker 1: So she meets, so they do a deal. He decides
Speaker 1: he's going to give her nine grand for it. Oh,
Speaker 1: but she's okay with it. It's free money to her,
Speaker 1: still lost money. The ring was given her for free,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I'm getting but that is not where this
Speaker 1: is going, all right, we get to where it's going,
Speaker 1: because right now I'm I'm off to stem for Clemton.
Speaker 1: He then says, in their final part, hey, a bitch
Speaker 1: runs off with the ring. Hey no, hey, um, we
Speaker 1: never met. This is my name. We will never come up.
Speaker 1: I know we'll never see each other again, but this
Speaker 1: is never ever to come back to me because I
Speaker 1: am pretending that this is a brand new ring I
Speaker 1: just bought my girlfriend. I'm going to propose to her
Speaker 1: with it. So he proposes to his girlfriend with my
Speaker 1: friends ring that she kicked the guy like, like literally
Speaker 1: a used wedding ring. So she forget about the money,
Speaker 1: forget about she didn't get her in fourteen grand. Let's
Speaker 1: leave it. I'm sorry, I know, I know, I know
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with you here, but let's go the larger
Speaker 1: points here are Ay, is he a scumbag for doing
Speaker 1: what he did? And b Is there anything wrong with
Speaker 1: that to begin with? To give someone a used ring
Speaker 1: or is it not used? Or is it what what
Speaker 1: she won't know won't hurt her? Does the ring at
Speaker 1: that us on it? Like there's so many things? WHOA,
Speaker 1: don't bring my people into it us you Okay? So
Speaker 1: first of all, I want to I want to remind
Speaker 1: everyone because right now there's people yell and they already
Speaker 1: remember I told you I got upset when a woman
Speaker 1: at the jewelry store tried on my wedding that's right. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is different because that was my ring for many years,
Speaker 1: that's right, that someone then put on their finger, yes,
Speaker 1: dip it on my hand for thirty years or twenty
Speaker 1: some twenty some years, yeah, um, and I felt it
Speaker 1: was inappropriate for the woman at the store to put
Speaker 1: it on her hand. So so before I say, because
Speaker 1: it comes with symbolism to it, and it comes with
Speaker 1: a lot of years and there's a lot of years
Speaker 1: of showering with it like it's my it's my ring.
Speaker 1: It's been part of my personal right now, if you
Speaker 1: buy a ring at a jewelry store, notice I said jewelry.
Speaker 1: M people have tried it on it's possibility other people
Speaker 1: have tried it. Of course, I'm gonna say they that
Speaker 1: it's been tried on many times. You buy a pair
Speaker 1: of sneakers, like if you buy go to a sneaker
Speaker 1: store and the laces already tied, like I know someone
Speaker 1: tried them on already. Of course, right, So if the
Speaker 1: woman is like me, the bride, the fiance, then she
Speaker 1: just got herself a fourteen thousand dollars ring from the
Speaker 1: guy she's getting proposed to. Now, if she wants to
Speaker 1: get it resized, he can't take it back to the
Speaker 1: place he bought it to get it resized for free,
Speaker 1: so he's got to compet some reason why he can't
Speaker 1: bring it back. She's going to ask if there's any
Speaker 1: kind of warranty or insurance on it, Like there are
Speaker 1: certain questions that may come up if she's a bright woman.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound that way because she's marrying a guy who
Speaker 1: buys stuff off Craigslist. But but there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: It's what I'm saying, Yeah, the guy got a deal.
Speaker 1: Now if he lies to her, that's really not a
Speaker 1: way to start off a relationship to like, oh, I
Speaker 1: bought this for you whatever this would be going. This
Speaker 1: would fall under the category of white lye right, because
Speaker 1: it's like which, this isn't affecting anyone, This isn't harming
Speaker 1: anyone who cares. I will see the outcome is still
Speaker 1: the same. She's marrying me. It looks beautiful. It's sparkling
Speaker 1: of people who wear wedding rings listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: who have different, different opinions, different levels. Right, I would
Speaker 1: say to you that that part of the buying and
Speaker 1: the giving is not only the spending. It's the fact
Speaker 1: that I, like, I met with a jeweler, a jeweler
Speaker 1: to come over the house. I looked at gems through
Speaker 1: a loop, which is the little glass eye thing you
Speaker 1: look through. It's a loop. Oh is that the thing
Speaker 1: that mister Peanut wears, the monocle. It's a monocle, the monocle.
Speaker 1: Monocle loop is like a little telescope. It's a little
Speaker 1: magnified clarity an inch and a half high. And the jewelers,
Speaker 1: the diamond experts will bring so you can see the
Speaker 1: cut and the clarity. And I don't see if there's
Speaker 1: any like a lot of flaws in this ring, like
Speaker 1: flaws like snowflakes, like little cracks. You use the loop.
Speaker 1: So I did all that. Look you can walk in
Speaker 1: to zales and a nothing wrong in sales. I'm using it,
Speaker 1: you know, and just go, oh, that's a pretty ring.
Speaker 1: She likes that shape. How much is it? But it
Speaker 1: looks clear to me that'd be great, and that's fine.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I bought a ring because it
Speaker 1: was available. Is a little less romantic. I met a
Speaker 1: girl in a Chick fil a parking lot and a
Speaker 1: bought your ring from somebody who was, you know, looking
Speaker 1: to dump it off. Not as romantic. So then you
Speaker 1: have to come up with a story and then you're lying.
Speaker 1: So if you could live with yourself and she doesn't
Speaker 1: ever find out, she did, okay by her for herself.
Speaker 1: It's got a nice ring. What do you think? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm of I'm of the school of thought that it's
Speaker 1: the thought. Okay, it can't be it's the thought that counts.
Speaker 1: That's a little shallow. I mean that that's for a
Speaker 1: Christmas or a birthday press. No, what was the thought?
Speaker 1: The thought? The thought is well, no, wait, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: she liked she wanted a princess cut. It was her size,
Speaker 1: it fit all the parameters. He got a good deal
Speaker 1: on a ring that is still fourteen thousand, or wouldn't
Speaker 1: she would he would have paid retail for it. Maybe
Speaker 1: he wanted to get her the best thing possible, so
Speaker 1: he he didn't have the money to do that. So
Speaker 1: he figured, I'm gonna buy this, and this is gonna
Speaker 1: look gorgeous on her finger, and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: give it to her. And then you hit the reset
Speaker 1: button on the ring because you know maybe right, yes,
Speaker 1: exactly announced brand new? Well it was brand new, and
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and now what she and then then
Speaker 1: you could add in the white lie what she won't No,
Speaker 1: I won't hurt her? Right, So I think, no harm,
Speaker 1: no foul. Well, let me ask you. But that's my
Speaker 1: opinion on it. And and and is it worse that
Speaker 1: he bought it from the bride? In other words, let's
Speaker 1: say he bought her from a guy who was gonna
Speaker 1: give the ring to a girl, but then he changed
Speaker 1: his mind. I don't think it makes a difference. I
Speaker 1: think it does because it was on some woman's hand.
Speaker 1: What okay? Now comes your personal feeling about having a
Speaker 1: ring us to be more upset the bride fiance part
Speaker 1: would be more upset than another bride. Beyonce email. Another
Speaker 1: woman may have worn the ring as opposed to a guy.
Speaker 1: Get Now, if a guy gave it to a girl
Speaker 1: and she said no to it, now it's bad luck. Well,
Speaker 1: some people were thinking, that's that's the only part that
Speaker 1: I feel a little weird about. Why did she would
Speaker 1: she say yes? It's an engagement ring, by the way,
Speaker 1: not a wedding ring ring. Yes, So did she say
Speaker 1: yes and the engagement then she changed her mind? No, No,
Speaker 1: he know they were together engaged for a little bit
Speaker 1: and then he cheated on her, and then she said yes.
Speaker 1: She got yes, she said yes, she said yes to
Speaker 1: the dress. She posted pictures of this on social media.
Speaker 1: Of course by the time that she got him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But right, but once it's in this guy's possession, you've
Speaker 1: now hit the reset button. It is an object now.
Speaker 1: It has symbolism, but it's the symbolism that you give
Speaker 1: to it. You give it life. It's like Frosty the
Speaker 1: snowman putting his hat on. I know the life that
Speaker 1: the life comes from the Bond Birthday. I say that
Speaker 1: all the time on the radio, and people wonder why
Speaker 1: I say it. Like that. Yeah, I put the other
Speaker 1: woman is, Look, there are people who believe in superstitions, astrology,
Speaker 1: bad juju, as you call it, karma. If this woman
Speaker 1: finds out that he bought a ring from a woman
Speaker 1: who got cheated on, it might not sit with her.
Speaker 1: She might wonder, like, right, if he's gonna cheat on her?
Speaker 1: But you can't tell that story. She doesn't find out,
Speaker 1: then does it? You know, if a bear shits in
Speaker 1: the woods, did it didn't really happen? Or you know,
Speaker 1: I still feel you can't tell that story. You can't
Speaker 1: tell it in forty years later. You can't. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: This goes to the grave with the guy for sure.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure, I mean, he'd be stupid, he'd be
Speaker 1: foolish to tell it to anyone. You would you? Look,
Speaker 1: I know that the odds of you buying a wedding
Speaker 1: ring or slim, but would you think it was okay
Speaker 1: to do that? Would you go and buy the ring
Speaker 1: that way from a parking lot? Now? I would never
Speaker 1: find myself in that situation, but the fact that other
Speaker 1: people have I'm okay with it, especially because I'm not
Speaker 1: part of that. Yeah. But what I'm getting at is
Speaker 1: the is the energy. Do you've believed you subscribe to
Speaker 1: the part about the energy behind a ring, because that's stuff.
Speaker 1: That's stuff, I right, I write off. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to me. But let's yuh, let's uh.
Speaker 1: I want to get talkbacks on this, you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. What if what if
Speaker 1: somebody you know, was like, hey, man, I got this
Speaker 1: really expensive pair of sneakers. I know you love these sneakers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I warm around the house a couple of times. They're
Speaker 1: not comfortable. I want to sell them to you for
Speaker 1: what I like a little lest someone I paid for
Speaker 1: them that already you wants someone else to sneak. I
Speaker 1: took him. I have already happened to me. It's already
Speaker 1: happened to me. You have my buddy, yep, my buddy Joe.
Speaker 1: He knows I'm a big fan of the uh John
Speaker 1: Varvados whatever they are, the boll are know, the John
Speaker 1: Varvados uh verse, the leather converse. They don't really make
Speaker 1: him anymore. And I had a pair and I wore
Speaker 1: him into the ground. He had an exact same pair
Speaker 1: in the exact same color. And he's like dude, he goes,
Speaker 1: I'll give you mine. I'm like, wait a second, you
Speaker 1: just gonna give them to me? He goes, yeah, I should.
Speaker 1: How much you want for him? He goes, dude, I've
Speaker 1: had them for two years. I've never worn them. I
Speaker 1: won't wear them. You obviously love them. You wore this
Speaker 1: first pair into the ground. He didn't wear them. No,
Speaker 1: he wore them, but he didn't wear them often. No,
Speaker 1: he wore them. They had there was definitely but you know,
Speaker 1: but hold on his saying. He goes, I don't wear
Speaker 1: them as much. Whatever the case. Anyway he gave him
Speaker 1: to me. Oh I did was switching out the insuls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he took He pulled the insules out before he gave
Speaker 1: him to me. He goes, here, I'm gonna rip the
Speaker 1: insuls out. You just find some some insults. What's the
Speaker 1: difference with the insults because they're shaped to his Because
Speaker 1: you stand, you're standing on that's what your feet and
Speaker 1: you're you know, hit all right, another guy's dirty shoes,
Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, okay, but I have no problem
Speaker 1: with it, and I don't. But you can't compare shoes
Speaker 1: to a ray. I guess let's all put it up
Speaker 1: to the slice of slices. You know what to do.
Speaker 1: Go to the iHeart radio app, hit the torch, let
Speaker 1: us know what you think. And when we come back.
Speaker 1: I've got a sneaker eyeglass story. I think you'll find interesting.
Speaker 1: Rod a sneaker eyeglass story. Yeah, so we're at My
Speaker 1: wife and I were at a very expensive department store
Speaker 1: at the mall. You know what Marcus, No, no, I can't.
Speaker 1: I Ford Markus Bloomingdales. Maybe maybe it was Bloomingdales. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're even. You know, by the way, if you
Speaker 1: work in retail, try not to work in a mall
Speaker 1: with a Neeman Marcus. Hey what I love the Short
Speaker 1: Hills mall and there isn't even Marcus there there there
Speaker 1: is one at there you have there is right down
Speaker 1: the block from tomorrow night at five o'clock. Will you
Speaker 1: join us at an interior motif in Short Hills. The
Speaker 1: problem with working in a mall with a Nieman Marcus
Speaker 1: is the Nieman demons. What's that? Those are the nasty, obnoxious,
Speaker 1: incredibly rich older women that will walk into your store
Speaker 1: and shit on it, drop clothing on the floor, let
Speaker 1: their kids run rampant make a mess of the dressing room,
Speaker 1: not pick up clothing. I'm not saying all women that
Speaker 1: shop at Neiman Marcus are like that. I'm saying a
Speaker 1: percentage of them are horrible people. So there's a specific
Speaker 1: profile to a Nieman shopper. A typical Nieman shopper tie
Speaker 1: their sweater around their neck when they you know the
Speaker 1: Nieman demons. That's a thing in the mall. When you
Speaker 1: work in a mall, people know the Neeman demons. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. So they'll come into your store because
Speaker 1: it's adjacent to Nieman. No, like when I worked it,
Speaker 1: when I was a manager at Express. Yeah, they would
Speaker 1: come in with their five thousand dollars strollers and the
Speaker 1: kids would throw cheerios all over the place, and they
Speaker 1: would try in clothing and leave it on the floor
Speaker 1: in the fitting room they had so used the servants
Speaker 1: cleaning up after them, I guess is what it is.
Speaker 1: And they're obnoxious and nasty and rude. And when you
Speaker 1: work in the wall that doesn't have Anmon Marcus, you
Speaker 1: don't see that type of treatment. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The store, I'm blaming the client, didn't the nman demons.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, not everyone who shops there, just a percentage percentage.
Speaker 1: So we my wife and I are at Bloomingdale's and
Speaker 1: we walk into the men's department, the men shoot apartment,
Speaker 1: and I see a sneaker. I go, wow, that's a
Speaker 1: nice look in the sneaker. Now for sneakers, I will
Speaker 1: pay anywhere from sixty five dollars for a decent pair
Speaker 1: of Reebok or Nike whatever. If I'm looking for like
Speaker 1: knock around sneakers, and if I love a pair of sneakers,
Speaker 1: God help me. I don't want to make anyone feel bad,
Speaker 1: but I might go to like one twenty if I
Speaker 1: you know, that's me. But that's like for a span.
Speaker 1: I have bad feet, so I have to get better sneakers.
Speaker 1: I pick up this really nice looking pair of sneakers. Now, look,
Speaker 1: it looked like any other pair sneakers. I just thought
Speaker 1: it was a nice looking pair of sneakers. Eight hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars Gucci sneakers. Yeah shoes, than these are
Speaker 1: shoes you used to walk in the street. You're gonna
Speaker 1: put eight hundred dollars on your feet to walk in
Speaker 1: dirt and grass and dog shit in subways. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll take it a step further. If you look, some
Speaker 1: of them are have all these intricate designs on the
Speaker 1: fucking bottom, on the souls. I'm like, why why by
Speaker 1: the first of all, no one's gonna see it. Second
Speaker 1: of all, it's gonna get worn away by the the
Speaker 1: when the rubber hits the cement and it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: get filthy and you're gonna step in dog shit with
Speaker 1: it exactly. Then Now now I'm like, oh, what's this one?
Speaker 1: And it was it was proud of shoes, dude. They
Speaker 1: were more money than that. What section are you in, man,
Speaker 1: the men's shoe department. It was where it was like
Speaker 1: the table by the door because they wanted to get
Speaker 1: your attention. Yeah, but look it was a moll. You know,
Speaker 1: Bloomingdale is a place where rich people shop and then
Speaker 1: against rich people, God help God love you. I'm just
Speaker 1: not one of them. So to me it was like
Speaker 1: gawk and at these shoes, but trying to act cool.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't want the sales guy to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at the peasant, look at the Gucci in the
Speaker 1: production these are Alexander McQueen only twelve so we quickly
Speaker 1: walked out of the shoe department and we went to
Speaker 1: the eyeglass department. Now my wife likes nicer eyeglasses, Warby Parker.
Speaker 1: That's the place for her. No, I went to Warby
Speaker 1: Parker and bought a pair of glasses, my first ever
Speaker 1: pair of like readers. No, my wife wanted has had
Speaker 1: gotten a as a gift, A designer pair of sunglasses,
Speaker 1: A very expensive pair of sunglass by high standards, ye
Speaker 1: and by my standards. I buy them off the rack
Speaker 1: at seven eleven the spindle. I buy the sunglasses for
Speaker 1: driving that wrap around your face. I don't care about
Speaker 1: style or appearance. I just want to block the sun,
Speaker 1: so the eyeglass. So, so here's the thing. There was
Speaker 1: a sale on like four or five different design are
Speaker 1: designers of eyeglasses that day at Bloomingdale's. So the counter
Speaker 1: had a like was it looked like like a rock concert.
Speaker 1: It was all women who work at Bloomingdale's who wanted
Speaker 1: to use their employee discount on top of the discount
Speaker 1: and get expensive sunglasses. Okay, so the people at work there,
Speaker 1: most of the women, most of the I would say,
Speaker 1: were like twenty three nineteen. They were young girls, but
Speaker 1: every one of them scary was wearing like normal clothing
Speaker 1: and luba. Well, the accessories are a big part of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you could be man. People want
Speaker 1: to spend the most money on the things that they
Speaker 1: can flash and people see the most. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: but yet so so those same people who are dropping
Speaker 1: crazy money a gee off for a for a handbag
Speaker 1: or a pair of Christian lubatons, those same people are
Speaker 1: the ones who go into the mattress firm and bitch
Speaker 1: and moan that they have to pay two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: or even a thousand dollars for a mattress when that's
Speaker 1: something that they're gonna be sleeping on eight nine hours
Speaker 1: a night, every night, because that's called a pain purchase,
Speaker 1: because they don't get to show that off. You don't
Speaker 1: show off the mattress that you're gonna be laying in.
Speaker 1: So I actually know a guy who worked in the
Speaker 1: mattress stories that you have no idea scary These people
Speaker 1: would be pulling up in these ferraris, these lambos, and
Speaker 1: you know, me and my co worker will be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, here we go. They're gonna go for the
Speaker 1: big one. They're gonna go for the expensive mattress. And
Speaker 1: they come in and they're like, give me the cheapest
Speaker 1: thing you got because they can show off their Ferrari
Speaker 1: and their Mercedes. They could show off their Jimmy Choo
Speaker 1: shoes or their Movado watch. You know the eight he
Speaker 1: going psycho, Yeah, so's he's the good partner, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But they can't do that to their bed,
Speaker 1: so that is hidden away. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I mean. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. They're like so so yeah, so it's called
Speaker 1: a pain purchase. It's a known thing. So yes, so
Speaker 1: they want the cheapest thing possible, exactly exactly. So um
Speaker 1: so we're waiting a while, uh to get helped because
Speaker 1: it's it's Mayhem right. They're calling people from other departments
Speaker 1: and uh, by the way, I've got to say thanks
Speaker 1: post Balone. I did catch the ape going psycho ape. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell he's saying in it
Speaker 1: song anyway, So the guy there's a guy working behind
Speaker 1: the counter in a bright red suit, Santa Claus. No, nah,
Speaker 1: he's he's clearly very flamboyant in his personality. We'll leave
Speaker 1: it at that. And so he's helping my wife and
Speaker 1: so she's trying on some glasses and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I like to try those dull jingle bonna glasses. Whatever.
Speaker 1: She's got trade value. She has a pair of glass
Speaker 1: to trade in, so in case you're like, whoa buying
Speaker 1: booge glasses? Anyway? So the guy sister, oh, those look
Speaker 1: nice on you. Those look nice on you. Oh, those
Speaker 1: look really nice on you. And then he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have to he's juggling customers, right, So he goes
Speaker 1: over to the young girls with the Gucci Prada shoes on.
Speaker 1: One girl scary had Lubaton slip on slippers like flip flops.
Speaker 1: Flip flops look like rubber crocs. No, they were like,
Speaker 1: you know, like house house slippers. Ye would like the
Speaker 1: one fat strap over your feet toes you slide your
Speaker 1: foot in lubatons. That's come on, okay. It looked like
Speaker 1: shoes my mother would wear around the house with a
Speaker 1: house coat. Like please. Okay. So the girls trying to
Speaker 1: pair of pants or trying to pair of glasses after
Speaker 1: he just told my wife, how, oh those look nice
Speaker 1: on you, and he's like, oh, girl, those are straight
Speaker 1: fire on you. Ah, oh you burn it up, girl fire.
Speaker 1: He clearly makes a commission off of his sales. Well, no,
Speaker 1: the point was he says to my wife, those look
Speaker 1: really nice on you. Those are good. M wait a second,
Speaker 1: so he downplayed your wife. He played my wife like
Speaker 1: a woman my wife's age, like, those are very nice
Speaker 1: on you. But then I was like, oh the girl
Speaker 1: a straight fire. Oh oh yeah, those are fire. But
Speaker 1: who was he talking to to the girls, right, okay,
Speaker 1: so younger girl. But he was excited. So he was
Speaker 1: excited for the younger girl's glasses, but not as excited
Speaker 1: for your wife's. The point was he was so my
Speaker 1: wife looked at me, and she's like, stud laughing because
Speaker 1: she knew I was laughing, like we had to, you know,
Speaker 1: we're in the same wavelength. Because she wasn't gonna he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna tell my wife like, oh man, glass is
Speaker 1: a fire, straight fire on you, because you know, most
Speaker 1: people over thirty might go, huh wow, my wife speaks
Speaker 1: the she knows where she does, right, But this guy
Speaker 1: was like night and day. It was like, you know,
Speaker 1: all those looked really nice on you. I like the
Speaker 1: way they match your eyes. Well, he's playing to his audience, right,
Speaker 1: but like two seconds later, oh girl, yeah, for sure
Speaker 1: those are strange. I didn't know if for a second
Speaker 1: because the way my mind worked was that he was
Speaker 1: insulting your wife but being like, oh yeah, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: we didn't say it was a stay. He was legit
Speaker 1: like they did, but like I would like it. I'd
Speaker 1: like that my wife when her songlasses to be straight fire.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what I'm saying, right, But but he totally
Speaker 1: like you remember when I told you when Usher came up.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think what he did IDs for us,
Speaker 1: and he was like, let me do IDs now. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, he's like, all right, this is the sheet.
Speaker 1: I read off the sheet. Yeah. He's like all right,
Speaker 1: well he kind of tosh your mode right, He's like, yo,
Speaker 1: check it, it's your boy, Usha, you smell me. And
Speaker 1: I was like, that's you don't talk like that. That's
Speaker 1: why this guy was But I think it was reversed
Speaker 1: because I watched him with every other customer that was
Speaker 1: like these young girls worked there. He was like sparks
Speaker 1: were shooting out of him right right, the whole, the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole. Yeah. He was like whatever. So but my wife,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh that those look very nice on you.
Speaker 1: I like those better than the first ones you had on.
Speaker 1: But my wife was like, I want to be straight fire.
Speaker 1: I want to buy for this price, I better get
Speaker 1: glasses at a straight fire. So so, so when he
Speaker 1: came back to her, she says, I like these, but
Speaker 1: I need to know. He's like what, he goes, are
Speaker 1: they straight fire on me? He's like he's a He's
Speaker 1: started to laughing. He's like, yeah, yeah, they're straight fire
Speaker 1: on you. So it's just interesting. Yeah, yeah, Well he's
Speaker 1: just tailoring. Yeah, well, you know, he's tailoring his conversation
Speaker 1: to the people, to his audience. That's all. That's fine, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. He can't expect, he
Speaker 1: can't assume. He can't assume that your wife is as
Speaker 1: hip as she is. I understand that, but he was
Speaker 1: like a different person. Look, it's one thing when a
Speaker 1: politician goes to Alabama and they're like, how y'all doing right?
Speaker 1: But you don't go like feed away to a guy
Speaker 1: from New York and go l us up man, right.
Speaker 1: There's some separation when you tore the country as a
Speaker 1: politician goes back to the my man conversation when my
Speaker 1: man Spruce in front of you, I did the same thing.
Speaker 1: But but no, they but you can't do that. Why
Speaker 1: I did no? Because the guy in the red suit
Speaker 1: was straight fire. He gets to speak that way. If
Speaker 1: the guy was seventy and he was like, girls, you're
Speaker 1: straight fire, it doesn't doesn't sound right. Okay, what you
Speaker 1: did was trying to be blocked to Spruce. It's a
Speaker 1: harsh speak. Where's he been? Where's Spruce been? Everyone that
Speaker 1: lit the slices? They we're asking about him. He's enjoying
Speaker 1: us his life. Okay, good, well we gotta Saint's got
Speaker 1: a new quarterback, Derek Carr. He's very excited about that.
Speaker 1: He's a big stolen from the Jets. Not stolen, they told,
Speaker 1: They told Derek Carr, Uh, you know what, We're gonna
Speaker 1: go get you an engagement ring from some woman in
Speaker 1: the streets. Stay here, we'll be right back. And then
Speaker 1: the Saints offered him in a fresh new ring, like
Speaker 1: you know, I don't him. Wait, we'll just get the money.
Speaker 1: He's like a fine, Hey, oh dude, TikTok taught me
Speaker 1: ttok talk what. I can't believe this. We've been doing
Speaker 1: this wrong all these years. Do you know how when
Speaker 1: you want egg whites and you want to separate them
Speaker 1: from the yolk, you you go you kind of pour
Speaker 1: back and forth into like little you know, it's a
Speaker 1: little uh two containers until the enough white drips out,
Speaker 1: So you do it into a column colin whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Do you know this? This is a thing. And again
Speaker 1: I haven't tested it myself yet. Pour pour an egg
Speaker 1: like crack an egg. Pour it into a bowl, right,
Speaker 1: the whole egg, the whole egg. And now at night night, Now,
Speaker 1: take your fingers and stroke a piece of garlic, like
Speaker 1: a clove of garlic, and you get your fingers all sticky.
Speaker 1: Then just take your three fingers that they have touched,
Speaker 1: the fingertips that have touched the garlic, and go over
Speaker 1: to the yolk of the egg and lift it up.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, brody, the fucking egg will lift It won't
Speaker 1: break in your hand. It will lift up, and it
Speaker 1: will be extracted from the rest of the dish and
Speaker 1: you could separate it. And yeah, that was an Instagram thing.
Speaker 1: TikTok taught me. TikTok taught me and it works better
Speaker 1: than just taking a spoon and scooping the yolk out. Well,
Speaker 1: that that's a little tedious, and what about that? Don't
Speaker 1: you get a garlic egg at that point? I mean,
Speaker 1: it can't be perfect. But he literally I saw the
Speaker 1: guy in one fell Swoop take his three fingers and
Speaker 1: put it on the egg and then literally pull the
Speaker 1: egg up like the fucking crane machine, you know, the
Speaker 1: fucking the stuffed animal cream skill crane. It fucking just
Speaker 1: pulled it right up with his three fingers and the
Speaker 1: yolk comes right up and it doesn't break, and he
Speaker 1: helped it up to into the camera. He goes, look
Speaker 1: at this. I've been doing it wrong my whole life.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it online. Yeah, you can also use bread, bread, bread,
Speaker 1: or garlic. You can crumble up bread on your fingers.
Speaker 1: Talk to would be very exciting, TikTok tell you that's amazing,
Speaker 1: so excited. Oh my god, the guy would the boys?
Speaker 1: So you love you love that you're in control of
Speaker 1: the jingles that we play into commercial. Yeah, because you're
Speaker 1: like I think I have would boom. Now we know
Speaker 1: a guy who used to um work in New York
Speaker 1: radio radio and uh uh he would have a guy
Speaker 1: run the board for him, so it's one of his
Speaker 1: producers would push the buttons. So the story goes that
Speaker 1: whenever he had a big joke or a punchline, regardless
Speaker 1: of whether they needed to go to commercial or not,
Speaker 1: he would say something funny like I've got would point
Speaker 1: to the guy running the board, and he knew, you
Speaker 1: go to commercial on my joke. And if he didn't
Speaker 1: have a funny line, he would wait until he had one,
Speaker 1: even if it meant going to commercial late. It's a
Speaker 1: better if you went to commercial and it wasn't on
Speaker 1: his punchline, you got yelled. It's a bit of a dictatorship.
Speaker 1: But then again, he put he definitely put the dick
Speaker 1: in dictatorship. Most morning shows are dictatorships. So well, Elvis
Speaker 1: doesn't have to have a dictatorship because he runs his
Speaker 1: own board. He goes what he wants. He'll go to
Speaker 1: commercial on anyone's joke. This one guy, it had to
Speaker 1: be his joke. It had to be him ending the break.
Speaker 1: By the way you play like the Brooklyn Boys podcast,
Speaker 1: we play a lot of those where are the IDs
Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere, They're not as strong. I would like the
Speaker 1: Sebastian mena scalcohol waylay the my favorite Michael Rappaport and
Speaker 1: Joe Gatto and yeah, but their spoken word they don't
Speaker 1: have music and instrumentation and jingles and sing alongs behind it.
Speaker 1: So then take some instrumentation and puts it under it
Speaker 1: and make it fancy and put it in there. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll do that. Send it to me and I'll
Speaker 1: fancy him up. All right, added audio. All right, fine, fine, hey,
Speaker 1: I um. I was going to tell you about my
Speaker 1: very quickly, about my my superintendent and what happened to
Speaker 1: me yesterday and a little fun fact that he told me. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: for those who don't live in an apartment building, the
Speaker 1: superintendent is the guy who's hired to live in the
Speaker 1: apartment building. He usually gets an apartment on the first
Speaker 1: floor somewhere, and he's the guy you call when something breaks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like Schneider on one day at a time, Nice seventies,
Speaker 1: the nice seventies reference. He's just super. He's just super.
Speaker 1: He's the super. So I was doing dishes one night
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden I felt water at my feet.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the fuck? I opened up the cabinet
Speaker 1: below and there there is all water and there was
Speaker 1: it was leaking out of the pipe. So so he
Speaker 1: came up to go repair it yesterday. And as he's
Speaker 1: sitting there and all my all my house cleaning items
Speaker 1: that I keep under the sink are now on my floor,
Speaker 1: you know, lined up, He's like, uh, dude, what's with
Speaker 1: the draino? And I said, what DRAINO? I just have
Speaker 1: it there just in case. He goes, dude, don't use
Speaker 1: that shit. I'll take it off your hands. He goes,
Speaker 1: I'll pour it. I'll get rid of it. I'll get
Speaker 1: rid of it in a you know, safe way. And
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? So drain know? This is
Speaker 1: a wive's tale. It's an old wives tale, as they
Speaker 1: say here, co is it? Because I was about to
Speaker 1: hit the Scamboni jingle. I don't know, I'm about to
Speaker 1: hit the Scamboni drain and liquid plumber. Oh yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1: You can't say you can't play the jingle. First, Scamboni's
Speaker 1: the scamboni. The scamboni called draino. Okay, So apparently, then
Speaker 1: tell me if this is the old wives tale that
Speaker 1: you've heard or not thinking? I think you'll I think
Speaker 1: it's a go ahead. Okay, So Draino allegedly allegedly because
Speaker 1: now I'm not so sure. If I'm getting the secondhand
Speaker 1: information from my super who was fixing my pipes, one
Speaker 1: of these sounds like one of these stupid internet things,
Speaker 1: or everybody wants the boycott because the CEO makes too
Speaker 1: much money. He said, no, he said, he said to me,
Speaker 1: let me finish before you comment. He said that Draino
Speaker 1: was a scam created by a plumber, and it's the
Speaker 1: gift that keeps on giving. Because what happens is you
Speaker 1: use draino on your pipes, and you know you use
Speaker 1: it to like get out clogs, you pour it down
Speaker 1: the drain because it's a corrosive. It corrode your pipes
Speaker 1: over time, and eventually your plumbers will have to come
Speaker 1: back and replace and do big jobs to replace these pipes.
Speaker 1: So it's the gift that keeps on giving. So they
Speaker 1: created this for a small problem, but it creates a
Speaker 1: larger problem over time. It right, we might remove the
Speaker 1: sludge tonight, but in three years from now, with all
Speaker 1: the drainer you've been fucking putting down the drain you
Speaker 1: now need new fucking pipes and now you're fucked and
Speaker 1: it could cost you twenty thousand dollars in repair to
Speaker 1: replace those pipes. Okay, your turn. Okay, so I googled
Speaker 1: it while you we yappen. Ah, here we go. Nope, nope, nope, nope, no,
Speaker 1: no plumbers. And I'm sure we have plumbers listening. That's
Speaker 1: why we need answers. That's why I was bribed through
Speaker 1: it out into the ether. I wanted to see what
Speaker 1: the plumbers are going to say, if this is true
Speaker 1: or false. Okay, So it says plumbers don't uh don't
Speaker 1: like draino. They use snakes. Well, they use snakes. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna use draino because then you could do it yourself. Um.
Speaker 1: They say that it's bad for the pipes, thank you,
Speaker 1: And it may be it's a corrosive. Yeah, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what's also bad for the pipes. Paying a plumber
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars to come into your house just to
Speaker 1: give his opinion on what's wrong, and they're charging you
Speaker 1: two unifty dollars. Yeah, so they all right, look, plumbers
Speaker 1: do good work, and I I wish I had their skills. Um,
Speaker 1: I use draino once a year when there's a hair
Speaker 1: clog or you know whatever. Um, usually I can I
Speaker 1: can snake it myself with a snake I bought at
Speaker 1: home depot or or you know um. And then if
Speaker 1: I can't use if the draino doesn't work, I'd call
Speaker 1: a plumber. But if I had to call a plumber
Speaker 1: every time I had a little clog that draino could
Speaker 1: have fixed, I'd be broke and I just sell the
Speaker 1: house before the pipes go. How about that? How about that? Well,
Speaker 1: if you're renting, then it don't really matter. But what
Speaker 1: was your old wives tale that you thought? So that
Speaker 1: was no, No, it's just you know, the internet people
Speaker 1: say it will tell you this all the time, Like
Speaker 1: I heard, you know, I saw online that you know,
Speaker 1: and you go, so there was nothing there, There's nothing there, No,
Speaker 1: there's no, there's no like scam. I thought you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: like deliberately a plumber created it deliberately to ruin pipes,
Speaker 1: you know, well technically yeah, because they basically created it,
Speaker 1: so you know they could pretty much you could use
Speaker 1: it on your own and fuck up your own pipes
Speaker 1: and then come back to them. Speaking of repair, people,
Speaker 1: what would you do in this situation? So my my
Speaker 1: dishwasher is leaking water so badly it's leaking into my basement. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's been going on for a couple of weeks. Now
Speaker 1: I finally figured out it. Who's the dishwasher? And I
Speaker 1: saw where it's leaking from the middle, And it's not
Speaker 1: a hose that I can see Anyway, the guy that
Speaker 1: was recommended, I call him up. And so a new dishwasher.
Speaker 1: This is the big scamboni right here. A new dishwasher
Speaker 1: ranges anywhere from like four hundred to like what an infinity.
Speaker 1: But even if you buy a dishwasher, whatever the price
Speaker 1: you pay, it's two hundred and fifteen dollars to install
Speaker 1: it and another thirty five dollars for hosing hoses you
Speaker 1: need so you get so you basically get hosed. Right,
Speaker 1: So a couple of things. Number one, Apparently there's a scamboni.
Speaker 1: Some appliance stores take the kit out of the box
Speaker 1: that comes with the unit that you can install it,
Speaker 1: and then sells you the kit separately for forty bucks,
Speaker 1: when when it left the factory it was included. Because
Speaker 1: why would you buy a washer and dryer? I mean
Speaker 1: a washed dishwasher that you couldn't hook up, so they
Speaker 1: separate it out so you need it anyway, and they
Speaker 1: charge you back that money later when you're going to
Speaker 1: need the kit. Wow, the appropriate kit. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: all places to do that, but that's what this guy
Speaker 1: told me. Some places. My guess is if you buy
Speaker 1: it from the manufactured direct, you get the kid with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're looking at for a new for me buying
Speaker 1: a new dishwasher. If I looked at one for like
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty dollars plus the install is six
Speaker 1: to fifty and the kid is seven plus taxs, you're
Speaker 1: looking at like I'm round to get around to eight
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. I'm rounding. So the guy says to me, well,
Speaker 1: based on the problem you've described, it's seventy five dollars
Speaker 1: for me to come there and check to see what
Speaker 1: the problem is, and if you want to fix it,
Speaker 1: I'll put the seventy five dollars towards the repair. Like, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: If I don't do the repair, I'm out to seventy
Speaker 1: five dollars. That seems fair, But I don't like that idea.
Speaker 1: But all right, he says, based on your description, it's
Speaker 1: either a three hundred dollar part or a six hundred
Speaker 1: dollars part. So worst case scenario, it's seventy five dollars
Speaker 1: for him to tell me that it's too expensive to fix.
Speaker 1: If it's the three hundred dollar problem, which he said,
Speaker 1: it's probably not likely, but it's possible at the very least.
Speaker 1: I'm at three seventy five for the part plus labor.
Speaker 1: Now I'm at four and change. If it's the six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars part, now I'm like almost eight hundred. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to fix it because I could just buy
Speaker 1: a new one. So the only scenario is that, if
Speaker 1: it's the part he doesn't think it is, I'm paying
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty dollars roughly a new one is eight.
Speaker 1: So is there any scenario where you would have the
Speaker 1: guy come for seventy five dollars if the cheaper thing?
Speaker 1: He says, there's also a possibility that a mouse may
Speaker 1: have chewed a hose up in the inside of it.
Speaker 1: There is a chance it's a fifty dollars repair. There's
Speaker 1: a chance, but not likely. Right, So I'm saying to you,
Speaker 1: scary and slices. Would you risk spending seventy five dollars
Speaker 1: to find out you're not going to fix the machine.
Speaker 1: I've spent seventy five dollars, would you would you spend
Speaker 1: it possibly four hundred and fifty where you might fix
Speaker 1: it but you might not, or it's it's most likely
Speaker 1: to six hundred dollars, which is going to cause you
Speaker 1: the same as a new one. Would you just tell
Speaker 1: him not to come and go buy a new one
Speaker 1: every fucking time? But what if scary? What if it
Speaker 1: was a fifty dollars repair? What if it was a
Speaker 1: little gasket. There's a chance. So you're saying there's a chance, Well,
Speaker 1: so would you gamble on the possibility? M m mmmm,
Speaker 1: because you could be throwing out all right? So okay, good,
Speaker 1: all right? I would probably I would. I would chalk
Speaker 1: it up, suck it up, pay the fifty dollars, have
Speaker 1: him come over look at it. Five Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I would do it, and then from there, nah, I'm
Speaker 1: getting a new one after that if it's if it's
Speaker 1: a bigger issue, because I don't because I know that
Speaker 1: at that point it's old technology anyway, right, But there's
Speaker 1: like a five percent chance it's gonna be cheap, only
Speaker 1: five percent. I'm making up a number. I'm saying it's
Speaker 1: it's the high from where I told the leak was.
Speaker 1: He's like, it's probably the assembly something, but it could listen,
Speaker 1: it could be the gasket. I would. Yeah. It depends
Speaker 1: on what seventy five dollars means to you in life.
Speaker 1: It's me scary, I might ask, Will I mean you
Speaker 1: know again? Can all things five dollars for you is
Speaker 1: like a tenth of a pair of sneak? Well, no,
Speaker 1: it's all things considered. I don't have anything. Listen, I
Speaker 1: don't have a wife and kids. I'm a single I'm
Speaker 1: a single person, a single little bit of roll the
Speaker 1: dice that hands a blackjack. Oh my god, I would,
Speaker 1: I would. I would know. It's a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to say it's not a lot
Speaker 1: of money. But me personally, I'll take the seventy five
Speaker 1: dollars risk because that's who I am. I tend to
Speaker 1: overspend one shit, you all go that about me, I'll
Speaker 1: take that, and then beyond that, if it's anything more,
Speaker 1: I'm not paying for repairs another couple of hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting into that game. I'm going right to
Speaker 1: the new If it can't be fixed for seventy five,
Speaker 1: i'll be like, thank you, see you later. Here's your money. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm going to buy a new one because there's nothing
Speaker 1: but more problems on the way after that. Now, now
Speaker 1: you're eight hundred dollars is eight seventy five. You're fine
Speaker 1: with that. I'll be okay with it. I'll live with it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a gamble I took. It's almost like lan slice back,
Speaker 1: hit the talk back. Let us know what you would do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: please down? All right, we go, We're right back? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or not? Should we be taking a break here? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if you were ready or not. Oh
Speaker 1: I thought this was uh break. I'll I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'll be ready when I say I'm ready, talk us,
Speaker 1: talk us, interrupt us. Oh you know what what? I'll
Speaker 1: say something funny and then you hit the button like
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, like I did last time. Okay, you go,
Speaker 1: so scary's a douche. That's not funny. So I won't
Speaker 1: hit the button. See what I did there? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: crack yourself up? Why don't you. I do. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna wait for something funny to come out of your mouth. Thinking.
Speaker 1: Speaking of crack, how about that plumber did he bend
Speaker 1: over when he come up to the house the super
Speaker 1: di Just see crack, you little super crack. Not amused?
Speaker 1: You did so super crack, super crack. Yeah you're supers crack. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that one. Scary See. I guess jokes
Speaker 1: can't be forced, can I can? I can? I uh
Speaker 1: pull back the curtain of for a second? You may?
Speaker 1: And then we got talk backs and we're done. So
Speaker 1: what's up? Okay, So a few people have over the
Speaker 1: past couple of months have made comments like, you guys
Speaker 1: have too many commercials now you used to have not
Speaker 1: this hole and and and and we've told you we don't.
Speaker 1: It's not up to us how many commercials we play.
Speaker 1: But I think I know what part of the problem is.
Speaker 1: And what's that. Well, a couple of years ago, we
Speaker 1: moved hosting platforms, which means where we upload the podcast
Speaker 1: that then gets dispersed all the places that you hear podcasts.
Speaker 1: There's a back end page a company that we use
Speaker 1: to store everything. Well, when we moved to that new company.
Speaker 1: Anything that we had already recorded got moved over, but
Speaker 1: without the commercials. That's right. I just I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: about that. So I was listening to some old episodes
Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio, and there's no commercials. So if you listen
Speaker 1: to like episode four twelve forty, I don't think the
Speaker 1: commercials moved over. So if you're a new listener and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I listened to one hundred episodes, now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I got commercials, right, Well, we
Speaker 1: used to have commercials in those episodes, and at some
Speaker 1: point corporate may realize that and put them back in, right,
Speaker 1: but until then, we don't talk about it. So and
Speaker 1: you're getting a bonus by not getting commercials. We don't
Speaker 1: talk about commercials. No, no, well you don't talk about commercials.
Speaker 1: I'm friends. That sounds like it's mail time. That sounds
Speaker 1: welcome eighties. You've gotten nail. Yeah, you know, you could
Speaker 1: still email us at the Brooklyn Boys podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. And just a couple that we have to
Speaker 1: catch up on, because well these are three weeks old
Speaker 1: at this point. Roger Cavallo talking about the steakhouse dinner
Speaker 1: my sister convinced me to listen to your podcast. I've
Speaker 1: only been listening since September and have a lot of
Speaker 1: catching up to do, but you guys are fantastic. My
Speaker 1: son and I definitely want to go to the steakhouse
Speaker 1: and dinner that you guys are planning with your slices
Speaker 1: at Benjamin Steakhouse. Prime. Can't wait to see you guys
Speaker 1: in person and enjoy the awesome food that was sent
Speaker 1: on February seventeen, twenty twenty three, Brodie, want to break
Speaker 1: it to them, Yeah, you missed it. That was back
Speaker 1: in September, So this Roger, I'm sorry you're listening to
Speaker 1: old episodes as we're getting excited about our upcoming appearance.
Speaker 1: But then again, that is the downside of listening so
Speaker 1: far late. Yeah, sorry about that. You missed us. M
Speaker 1: Ralph Howee talking about episode one fifty two. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's a long time ago, so one hundred episodes ago,
Speaker 1: Brodie Fail listeners started listening in October of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I was a good slice and listen to order. Only
Speaker 1: after I listened to a more current episode. I started
Speaker 1: zero found myself finishing one fifty two. You guys were
Speaker 1: doing shout outs for your merch store for anyone who
Speaker 1: button merched a week before Thanksgiving of twenty twenty. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't help but email you guys when I
Speaker 1: By the way, these these both these email are two
Speaker 1: weeks old and they just came in. Anyway, I couldn't
Speaker 1: help myself email you guys. When I heard you guys
Speaker 1: shout someone out who bought merched from my town, Moundsville,
Speaker 1: West Virginia, I got so excited and went fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a hot town, Moundsville. Yeah, I'm enjoy's
Speaker 1: gotten nuts Moundsville, don't. I'm twenty seven and I listened
Speaker 1: to you guys all day while I'm at work. I'm
Speaker 1: a FedEx driver and always have you guys playing well.
Speaker 1: I delivered to make my work days go back faster.
Speaker 1: He may not have heard the U. Yes, well he
Speaker 1: might have. Well, he was at one fifty two at
Speaker 1: this point. It sounds like he's bouncing around, but all right.
Speaker 1: He says that we give him a lot of laughs
Speaker 1: on the job. You guys accept me as a slice,
Speaker 1: I hope, even though I'm late to the party. But
Speaker 1: just want to thank you guys for being great making
Speaker 1: me laugh throughout my work day. Ralph, how or how
Speaker 1: we so? Ralph? So eventually you'll hear this here in
Speaker 1: episode two forty nine. Here will it be? We don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, girl that you're catching up. Yeah, okay. Also,
Speaker 1: meche Arlequin has a comment about Zanex a few weeks
Speaker 1: a few episodes. It's not miche Harlequin. Miche Arlequin a
Speaker 1: r L E. So a few episodes behind. Didn't want
Speaker 1: to leave a Delaide talk back, just listen to the
Speaker 1: episode about the effects of ambient and such, and wanted
Speaker 1: to share my brief scary story. A few years ago,
Speaker 1: my mom was very ill in the hospital, told us
Speaker 1: she wasn't going to make it past a few days.
Speaker 1: My sister had a prescription for Zanex and gave me
Speaker 1: two of them. Because I was beside myself with grief.
Speaker 1: I got home, took both, came a couple of hours later,
Speaker 1: around two am, standing on my front porch with no
Speaker 1: pants on and eating of McDonald's cheeseburger. And I don't
Speaker 1: even eat meat. I don't remember going to get it,
Speaker 1: and I sure as hell wouldn't have gone sans pants
Speaker 1: scary story, but able to find the humor in all
Speaker 1: these years later. Oh and ps, my mom pulled through
Speaker 1: just fine. Thank you, Michelle Arlequin. So there you got.
Speaker 1: Very nice Michelle. We have a very nice email. Which
Speaker 1: this one is the quick version of the more personal
Speaker 1: email from Jason Romano. Oh Jason, yeah, oh yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: read this one. It's on my phone if you don't
Speaker 1: mind do that. Hello, Hello boys, I haven't heard much
Speaker 1: plugging for the merch store lately. That's Brooklyn Boys dot
Speaker 1: bigcartel dot com. Now that you've paid off your Christmas bills,
Speaker 1: why not go to Brooklyn Boys dot Big Cartel and
Speaker 1: get yourself some Brooklyn Boys merchandise. Yes, so he wrote,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard much plugging for the merch store lately,
Speaker 1: but I went on and reordered some shirts I've had
Speaker 1: in my collection. I've warned them so much they became stained, faded,
Speaker 1: or have other issues. So I said enough is enough
Speaker 1: and ordered brand new ones. And he sent us the
Speaker 1: receipt of the stuff he bought. So Jason Romano is
Speaker 1: a two time super slice at the at the merch Store,
Speaker 1: Thank you, and he wears these shirts proudly and all
Speaker 1: the merch. Thank you so much. That is a that's
Speaker 1: next level right there. I uh. In addition to Jason,
Speaker 1: I had to buy I bought myself new shirts as well.
Speaker 1: I wanted another the Brooklyn Boys Navy blue shirt with
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Bridge yep, because I had worn it so
Speaker 1: much that uh, it's a it's a tad faded a
Speaker 1: little bit, but believe me, in two and a half years,
Speaker 1: I've wanted wear it every weekend. Right, I was like crazy.
Speaker 1: So I had to buy a new one. And now
Speaker 1: I still have the old ones. I have two of them.
Speaker 1: Now there's no law against buying a new one. He's
Speaker 1: gonna buy new merch from the merch store Brooklyn Boys
Speaker 1: dot Big Quartel dot com. And nobody wore them first
Speaker 1: and gave them to their girlfriend and that wants to
Speaker 1: give them to you. Exactly used. And one more from
Speaker 1: Nora the Explorer, age fifty two. It's Nora from Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 1: You can say my name on the podcast I'm a
Speaker 1: New Slice for Life started from zero. Toward the end,
Speaker 1: listen to this one. Brodie talking scary you just I
Speaker 1: just want to just before I forget Nora and everyone
Speaker 1: else listening you need to say the first line of
Speaker 1: your email whether we can or can't read your name
Speaker 1: on the thing, because scary just got to the part
Speaker 1: where it said you can read my name on the
Speaker 1: podcast after he said her name exactly anyway, Like, Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Mike Smith. Whatever you get, Jame, don't
Speaker 1: say Mike Smith on the podcast. Say it in the
Speaker 1: subject line. How about that? Started at zero toward the
Speaker 1: end of January and just finished episode two forty eight today.
Speaker 1: She's up to January. Yeah, twenty three, she's up to
Speaker 1: date into two months. I'm a long time listener of
Speaker 1: The Big Show, trying every year to make it on
Speaker 1: the radio for my birthday so I could talk to everybody,
Speaker 1: and they she misses you on the Big Show, Brodie.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear about your next project and when
Speaker 1: you finally will tell us about your book, and when
Speaker 1: it's ready for purchase. God damn, it's it's a work
Speaker 1: in progress. So what's the update on the book? No,
Speaker 1: the work I'm still so I have to now submit
Speaker 1: the whole first chapter for approval to see if we
Speaker 1: can move forward with future chapters. Okay, all right, but
Speaker 1: I had done the proposal and I plotted out some
Speaker 1: of the chapters and chapter titles, and I had to submit.
Speaker 1: I have to submit a full I'm not finished with
Speaker 1: the first full chapter yet, but they have to approve it,
Speaker 1: so I have to make sure it's worthy, all right.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of steps in this process. So
Speaker 1: I get it. I know it's not easy. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get to some talkbacks. If you listen to the
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app, obviously of the added bonus feature of
Speaker 1: clicking on a microphone and leaving us a message. And
Speaker 1: here are some of those messages from episode too forty eight. Well,
Speaker 1: watching this past Saturday, my husband and I thought of you, Brodie,
Speaker 1: wondering if you caught this. My most loathed misuse of
Speaker 1: the English language happened during weekend Update. One of the
Speaker 1: cast members, a girl can't think of her name, said irregard.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's like chalk on a black word.
Speaker 1: Christ okay, so high saddle Brook, what's up? She's left
Speaker 1: messages before? So I happen to love Sarah Sherman. She's
Speaker 1: from Long Island. Uh huh um. Here's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say about the word irregardless. I hate the word. Oh no,
Speaker 1: don't tell me it's a real word. Well, here's the problem. Irregardless. Um,
Speaker 1: it's become regardless, become used regardless. Right, there's no point
Speaker 1: in saying irregardless if regardless means what you want that
Speaker 1: being said. Unfortunately, it's a word there, really is it? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't I never used it. I never was brought
Speaker 1: up that way. According to Mariam Webster's Dictionary, the irregardless
Speaker 1: apart is what they call an intensifier, meaning really regardless.
Speaker 1: I'm not buying that shit. I don't like it. I
Speaker 1: always thought it was an error. I thought this was
Speaker 1: people that didn't know grammar. I thought I really chalked
Speaker 1: it up to that. I listen, I won't say it. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, we've spent enough a lot of time on this.
Speaker 1: You're irregardless. We should move on to the next one. Yeah. Good.
Speaker 1: And some people were wise to it. Some people would
Speaker 1: say they're continuing old scoopid from the thing. I want
Speaker 1: to see it come directly out the paper, and like,
Speaker 1: oh they know about the bag that was part two
Speaker 1: of something else. Okay, let's try this one. Okay. I
Speaker 1: used to work for AMC when I was a teenager.
Speaker 1: And no, they are popping all of those all of
Speaker 1: that popcorn in shop. Oh but what happens is during
Speaker 1: the weekdays when it's slow, they make us pop extra
Speaker 1: popcorn and bag it in those big bags you're talking
Speaker 1: about and put it in the back. So that was
Speaker 1: the week and some people were wise to it. Some
Speaker 1: people would say, don't scoop it from the thing. I
Speaker 1: want to see it come directly out the pop burn Like, Oh,
Speaker 1: they know about the bag, so they do pop it
Speaker 1: on site. They don't just buy it from somewhere else. No,
Speaker 1: but they they'll bag it up on Tuesday and serve
Speaker 1: it you on Friday. Bag it up. About to bag
Speaker 1: it up, no diggity, no doubt. So you have to
Speaker 1: get like Sunday popcorn, which is probably fresh, right because
Speaker 1: he's probably from Tuesday. You're right, Wow, but they still
Speaker 1: do it on site, which we stand corrected. How about
Speaker 1: this one, they may do it all Brody scary. This
Speaker 1: is Jacob episode two forty eight. You guys were talking
Speaker 1: about the movie theater popcorn and such, and Brodie, you
Speaker 1: you are pretty much right. Uh, I cleaned a theater
Speaker 1: for about three years. After hours, and they do cook
Speaker 1: up batches of popcorn, put them in those big four
Speaker 1: foot bags, and they hold them for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: and they'll do it every couple of days the last
Speaker 1: that long. Hell, all right, so that's two people now.
Speaker 1: But but you did say, Brodie, that they get the
Speaker 1: big bags from places and they get shipments of the badge.
Speaker 1: You didn't say that they pop it on site. Hold On,
Speaker 1: I said it wasn't fresh. I was right about that,
Speaker 1: And I said they put in the big bags. I've
Speaker 1: seen it in the big bags. Well you're saved. That's
Speaker 1: being saved by saying those people. Those people may work
Speaker 1: at a big chain, right, They may work at AMC
Speaker 1: who's now selling their popcorn at Walmart. They may work
Speaker 1: for Regal or CINNAMRK. But yeah, you don't know where
Speaker 1: the popcorn comes from. It like clover Leaf theaters in
Speaker 1: Oklahoma or whatever. You don't know, all right, the smaller places.
Speaker 1: Continuing along, this is a hot topic, hot topic. Hey,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn boys, heard your episode about the popcorn. I did
Speaker 1: used to work in a movie theater. It was not
Speaker 1: mc as a local theater in my town. But we
Speaker 1: did pop the popcorn fresh. Then we put it in
Speaker 1: big plastic bags and store them on the stairs to
Speaker 1: go upstairs, and would bring them out whenever we need
Speaker 1: more popcorn. But we did pop it fresh every once
Speaker 1: in a while, just to resupply the stock. Well there
Speaker 1: you go, so okay, So so he works at the
Speaker 1: small town place. I just reference ye, so, but it's
Speaker 1: not fresh. I want to see it popped and get
Speaker 1: it right out of there. They're just dumping old bags
Speaker 1: of popcorn in the machine to make it look like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fresh, that's what we said. Yeah, because that that case,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the popper. I think the poppers
Speaker 1: in the back. Yeah. All right, here here's another one.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, So I'm listening to the episode about the
Speaker 1: movie theater popcorn amazing. I used to work at a
Speaker 1: movie theater years ago, and what we used to do
Speaker 1: is pop bags of popcorn and then store it in
Speaker 1: the back there for days. And all we will do
Speaker 1: is just fill up the bins with the popcorn, so
Speaker 1: you're eating days old popcorn. Brodie is correct, by right.
Speaker 1: All right, this is the hottest topic we've had in
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, this is this one's popping. This
Speaker 1: topic is popping, all right, let's continue along. Should we
Speaker 1: continue on this path? Let me guess, Let me guess, Popcorn,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Brooklyn Boys, Nice for Life
Speaker 1: here in Wisconsin, episode two forty talking about on the
Speaker 1: Border Mexican restaurant. I'm over here dying in my time
Speaker 1: and way to work because this strip club here Wisconsin
Speaker 1: called on the border talking about you have a bad service,
Speaker 1: good service man. I'll tell you what, I've never had
Speaker 1: bad service from on the border here in Wisconsin. Stay cool, guys,
Speaker 1: love you well. Our friend from Wisconsin, and I love
Speaker 1: the way he says that. I was on the phone
Speaker 1: with a woman yesterday from Wisconsin. I was calling a
Speaker 1: company and she's where are you from? She's Wisconsin. I
Speaker 1: was like, you absolutely are so uh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's on the border with the naked ladies. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: would not be. I would not be paying as much
Speaker 1: attention to the same same Yeah. Okay, take your time
Speaker 1: bringing that chilly up heyby boys, Christie Saddlebrookswice for Life.
Speaker 1: I have to give kudos to Brody for walking out
Speaker 1: of that restaurant. I know it's an old story, but
Speaker 1: it's worth repeating. Way to go if a restaurant can't
Speaker 1: offer you substitutions, then they're f and nuts. How hard
Speaker 1: is it to walk up to a mashed potato pot
Speaker 1: flapping on your plate and not go anywhere near an
Speaker 1: asparagus pot? Seriously? And the Taie food place, what if
Speaker 1: you are allergic to basil? By the way, basil is
Speaker 1: an herb. Basil is an herb, yes, but not a
Speaker 1: What did we say it was? I said it's a vegetable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a herb, except except, hold on a second, I'm
Speaker 1: going to just prove a point. Didn't I say it
Speaker 1: was a herb? I think I was one who said
Speaker 1: it was a herb. Hold on, wait, but basil comes
Speaker 1: from a plant. Here's the definition, because I looked it
Speaker 1: up before I said it. Herbs are a subset of vegetables,
Speaker 1: and they are generally composed of strong, flavorful leaves. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's what that would be. It falls into the category.
Speaker 1: It's in the herb, it's in the vegetable family, a
Speaker 1: subset of vegetables. It's a type of vegetable. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: uh love you? That was her second Christie's second. Uh.
Speaker 1: Christy leaves a message every episode except her very passionate woman. Yes, hey,
Speaker 1: Brody and Scary love the show. But I gotta say, oh,
Speaker 1: I really do miss Brody being on the Big Show.
Speaker 1: Even though you know he was you is there, here
Speaker 1: and there, I still miss him being on it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: keep keep keep up the good work. Does a fucking
Speaker 1: hilarious this is coming from Jersey North Brick City, couldn't
Speaker 1: tell and uh and that's it and he got cut off. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. I love the way he was looking. He's
Speaker 1: looking forwards to to sort of say, Brody wasn't on
Speaker 1: the radio a lot, but yeah, he was, like, you know,
Speaker 1: he was here and there and he was yeah background
Speaker 1: and sometimes I hear him chuckle and Joe, I very
Speaker 1: much appreciate you and anyone else who feels the same
Speaker 1: way that you miss me on the Big Show. Um,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Who knows what the future holds, right
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. Maybe they'll they'll decide to pay me millions
Speaker 1: of dollars and uh, you know, draw me back in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right now, I'm sleeping late. Brody and Scary ohs Brodyan scary. Um.
Speaker 1: Just commenting on the guy on the talk back who
Speaker 1: is pissed that people are commenting on the size of
Speaker 1: Tommy Lee's dick, like he's personally offended by it or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, if people were commenting about the size
Speaker 1: of boobs, it would be a problem. I just have
Speaker 1: one thing to say. Oh my god, isn't it awful
Speaker 1: when they are double standards for different sexes or genders? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's awful. Women really don't know what she got cut
Speaker 1: off too. Yeah, but her point was valid. It was valid. Yep,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be. They can't have it both ways. And
Speaker 1: she was responding to another talkback person. I guess right.
Speaker 1: And I have to say, if if I saw a
Speaker 1: woman with the twelve inch breasts, I would not comment
Speaker 1: on them disrespectful. Well, yeah, I see what you're saying, Bertie,
Speaker 1: but what but no, but no, She's right. People of
Speaker 1: double standards, you can you can. You could talk about
Speaker 1: you right, you could joke about ejectify one sex and
Speaker 1: then get offended. So then I'm exonerated. I'm actually uh
Speaker 1: justified in in the wow factor because they that was
Speaker 1: that guy was like ripping me right. The guy, the
Speaker 1: original guy on the talkback was like, what the hell
Speaker 1: do we care about this for? Right? Was that the
Speaker 1: original talkback? That's what I'm remember, remember trying to remember.
Speaker 1: I think he was mad that you were a sexualizing
Speaker 1: or objectifying his giant penis. Well, well, listen, what's good
Speaker 1: for the goose is good for the gander, And if
Speaker 1: the gander has a twelve inch penis, And yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna pass judgment. We're gonna we're gonna oggle.
Speaker 1: We're gonna oggle at it. We're gonna move on. Hit
Speaker 1: the next one. That was the last one. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. Scary. I gotta go dishwasher shopping,
Speaker 1: and hopefully the supply chain won't be a problem, because
Speaker 1: I heard you have to wait till May at this
Speaker 1: point or a dishwasher. That's true. But I know a guy.
Speaker 1: Do you you know where he lives? Yes? I do.
Speaker 1: Right there on eighteenth Davenue Invention, hearst boys boys pro
Speaker 1: progly