WEBVTT - #209: Drum Solo Sex Break 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:10.360 Start Up, Start Up, Brooklyn Boys, start up, Brooklyn buys Data. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:18.640 They're making noise data up. Episode two oh nine. This 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.279 is the Brooklyn Boys podcast. Yeah. Have you guys listened 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.720 to to Away yet? Not many? Yeah. I feel like 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:28.440 we took a week off and people aren't back in 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.760 the swing of things. I think people they weren't prepared 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.880 for what was about to drop and how late we 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.120 dropped it. Yeah, we didn't drop last week until Friday 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:44.599 because even though we recorded it Wednesday afternoon, roughly, our 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.479 new uploading system that they've been teasing us with for 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:53.560 months was not ready. Yep, we got new software, folks, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.440 new software. It's the Boys is poring poring over to 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.480 the new system on Wednesday. But it's in visible to 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:05.000 the slices. Yeah, you're not gone anything. It's all on 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.560 the back end. Then we got an email on Tuesday 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.679 that said don't upload anything to you hear from us 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.600 on a Tuesday. So then I sent an email to 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.360 the big Boss and I said, hey, because the site's 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.400 not ready, we already recorded Kent. Now this is this 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.920 is where I thought it was a funny response. Not intentionally, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.560 I said, can we upload on the old site or 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.840 should we wait until you give us the clear for 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.360 the new site, and they wrote and they and they 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.120 wrote back, yes, go ahead. Of course I love that, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.120 love the ambiguity, like, wait a minute, I asked you to. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.280 I gave you two choices yes, So then I, when 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.319 I wrote back, I had to wait that. The next 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.440 response was not quick, so we didn't know what to do. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.240 And finally the Big boss said go ahead and put 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.880 it on the new system now, which was Friday. Lo 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.800 and behold. We recorded last week's episode on Wednesday evening 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.480 afternoon afternoon, I believe, right, yeah, so we had to 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.040 hold it for forty eight hours, right, So just remember 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.880 I got the approval to the yes, go ahead, which 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.600 I didn't know what it meant on Thursday morning and 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.440 didn't get the what what I really meant on Friday. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.239 Imagine holding in a dump for forty eight hours. So 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.680 we had this thing and people like, what no podcast 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.600 this week? So we gave you the dump. We gave 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.800 you a giant dump on Friday, a dump of a podcast. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.359 And it looks like and again, by the time you 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.600 hear this, you have already heard that. But as we're 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.560 recording this, you can listen to this, or you can 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.760 listen to that. You could go with this, you can 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.520 go with that. I think you go with this because 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.239 but but first go with that, because you gotta listen 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.000 in order. Anyway, So this is on time. It's Thursday. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.079 We didn't do it on Wednesday because we wanted to 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.920 give you the extra time because people are catching up 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.280 to last week. And then I got some tweets that 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.360 were like, oh, you guys are in studio. I heard 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.280 Brodie's in studio. I know you're gonna record in studio Wednesday. No, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.600 we didn't. Didn't happen, did not happen. But it may 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.839 it may soon soon enough, we may be back. Yeah, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.880 we just you have to plan for it. And there 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.519 were post show interviews and sales things, and we couldn't 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.680 do it. I am staring at this card that I've 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.359 yet to mail, that's been sitting here on the literally 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.519 on the board where I'm wehearing, you know, my six 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.239 hundred forty seven million dollar piece of equipment. Yes, yes, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.359 well it's it's a wedding card, but it's one of 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.679 the you know, the fancy ones papyrus. So it says 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.519 and it's said to gave Nate for his wedding A 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.480 game a papyrus card. Well, well, I will say that 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.679 you have to pre pay a lot for papyrus and 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.040 you start to stutter so much because of paycheck for 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:43.880 a papus price is so and posters. You want to 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.320 give it to the the special people people peep. Well, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.640 in fact, I will say with the papyrus card, it does. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.560 It does say on the top right corner um ex 0:03:55.640 --> 0:04:02.120 financing available, extra posted, extra extra posted required. So so 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:07.920 that you're paying a premium premium. That's priors card. You 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.120 pay up of a premium for a papyrus and not 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.920 only do you papaya premium, but you have to papay 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.160 extra po postage. I'm not that kind of a person 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.760 to buy a paprius. You want to talk about multiple 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:25.320 eying the cost of a papyrus so so yeah, no, no, 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.040 not the cost the paprice. Yea of a papyrus. So 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:34.400 so what is packed in the papyrus card? It's a UM. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.960 It's actually a wedding card for two people. People who 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.520 was invited to this wedding. That um of an acquaintance. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.920 H that I didn't go to the wedding. Now the 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.120 wedding happened. Um, it was about it was a few 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:55.839 weeks ago. Yeah, it was not this past week. No, no, not, Actually, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.600 the wedding was several months ago. It was. It was 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.000 actually December. It was December, and here we are in 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.920 a parole. No, no, it's March. I'm sorry. I just 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:10.479 wanted to And as I'm sitting here, I'm like, all right, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.520 I wasn't didn't go to the wedding. I had something 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.360 else to do. So I finally got this card a 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.840 couple of about a week ago, and I put a 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.440 couple of uh you know, some cashish in the car. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.120 So it's sitting here and some paper waiting for extra 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.600 pro postage because my stamps are in this drawer here. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.400 Now it's been about four or five days since I 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.720 sealed the card. Hold on one second, I have a 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.719 TV on in the background, and they've got Vladimir Puputin 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:47.400 talking about Russian proper pupagandis the propagandapaganda? Yes, right, okay, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.320 so my so the cause has been sitting here and 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.680 I put some cash in here. I put cash. So 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.680 wedding I didn't go to. That happened in December of 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.719 the aquaintance. You see where I'm going with this. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.960 I feel like they're just they're passing friends at best. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.560 I don't well, at this point, they already think you're 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.039 a dick if for not giving you if I heard 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.520 that you have a full year before you have to 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.039 give a gift, you can you can give a gift 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.160 up to a year and it's proper, per, proper, Okay. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.200 So so my question now is because it's sitting here 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:31.240 for like a few days, by the way, or or 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.000 do we just rip open the card right here on 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.160 this podcast and just grab the cash out of it 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.320 and say, fuck it, I'm not giving these people a 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.880 gift and they probably probably forgot about me. Huh. By 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.400 the way, I don't know. I know you're not very 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.000 good friends with these people. But do you do you 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:51.880 have any idea how we proposed No, okay, I don't 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.000 think you owe them the money. To be honest with you, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.720 I think I think you could take the cash and 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.320 uh and leave it at that. What are they can 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.680 do not invite to the next thing you didn't really 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.120 want to go. It's like the problem. The problem is 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.719 they've given me too much time to think the extra 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.320 postage on this. Okay, no more p things, Okay, this 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.480 is all right, it's over, game over um. But the 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.440 truth is the fact that I hesitated on the stamps, 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.040 and I'm now in a different frame of mind four 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.160 or five days later that I'm standing sitting here staring 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.600 at this, at this envelope, and I'm like, I know 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.080 there's cash in there, and now I feel a little 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.080 different than I did the other day. I still didn't 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.120 put the stamps on the card. I should just say, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.400 rip it, open, fuck it, put the money back in 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.200 my wallet, and and just you know, they'll never know 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.560 who's the wiser, right I don't know? Or should I 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.600 just go through and give them the cat? I don't know. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.360 I mean, I mean I could see cash leaving my 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.320 leaving my It's like they got the wings on it. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.160 It's flying away. You know, I had too much time 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.240 to think I hesitated. Say so now it takes on 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.640 a whole new life. Would you just would you take 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.080 the can put it back in your asking me, I'm 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.320 taking the cash. Listen, I went I have a follow 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.760 up story, but it was already earmarked. The problem is 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.320 already marked for them. I already parted with it. See, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.480 I didn't do the double p thing there. I already 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.800 parted with the cash it took it. It came out 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.040 of my wallet in the beginning of the week again 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.880 and again. All I needed was the extra postage on it. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.760 And uh, I decided to let it sit here. But 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.680 now that it's marinating, it's given me a chance to 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.480 think twice. Well, I was in a similar situation. I'm 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.240 gonna tell you the problem with the situation, but let 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:35.679 me just say the situation. I' I'm just gonna make 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.319 it the short version right here. I was giving someone 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.760 multiple gift cards for their birthday, Okay, all right, And 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.040 so I picked up the multiple gift cards at Target. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.679 And when I rent to ring them up, there was 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.880 a problem. I'll get to the problem X. I don't 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.480 want to hijack your story, but in the time, it's 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.000 more of a dilemma. Well, I'm you know what I'm saying. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.400 I don't want to change I want to stick on 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.520 your on your story. First, there is a problem with 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.679 the gift cards, which I'll tell you later. And when 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.280 I figured out the problem and and fix the problem, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.839 I had already time to rethink it. And I'm only 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.000 giving the person one gift card like I I was. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.760 In other words, I was ready to go, but I 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.480 got time to think about it, and I'm It's like 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.760 it's like you're gonna go on a big ski lift, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.240 right big mountain. Then the ski lift breaks for two 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.160 hours and then they fix it and you go, Nah, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.240 that mountains to contemplated. Well, I feel like we do 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:32.040 this a lot because when we think of something to 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.319 not do it, or you're impulsive and you're not thinking 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.760 too much about it, but then when you've given time 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.800 to think that, it sucks you up. Your home psyche 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.760 doesn't Don't They do this with icing the kicker in football, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.520 where well that's the theory or they you know, they 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.680 take the time out and they're like, he's gonna they 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.239 can take the time out right before they kick the fields. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.160 Got he's think now maybe I should kick it this 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.520 way instead or do this? And what compensate for the wind? 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.440 That wasn't thinking about the wind, and you you end 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.079 up sucking it up. So I feel like we do 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.720 this every in everyday life, not just with wedding cards. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.319 There are people that would tell you it's a sign 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:13.800 that you don't have to send the money like it's 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.439 meant to be, like it's it's your money now. The 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.120 fact that Papyrus called for extra postage and I sat 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.800 here looking for extra stamps for extra five days and 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.000 the card is it's still and listen, it's ready to go, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.600 it's filled out. No way to be honest, though, dude, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:34.480 but I just knowing there's do you like velope? Okay? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.520 Do you like them enough? Do you like them enough 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.160 to get them up a Pirus card? Or did you 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:41.839 get them up a Pirrus card because you want to 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.280 show off that you bought up a Pyrus card, because 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.840 you bought a really expensive card for people you don't 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.120 really care about. For weddings, I usually go the extra 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.400 mile and I pay these people you don't really like. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.400 You're like that, you know, you know what I mean? 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.120 You don't really like buddy buddy with that didn't show 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.480 with the wedding, right, but you were gonna give? How 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.880 much were you gonna give if you showed up? Well, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.720 probably a little more because I would have eaten right, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.400 I would have brought a guest. I would have robbing 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.079 with me. So you're talking like double the money. I 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.880 would have doubled the money okay, And for those who 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.120 don't know, in the Northeast, we give cash. Oh yeah, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.160 that's important to say people, because these guys crazy minds. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.080 People will either give cash, we buy something off their registry. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.880 Scary as Italian, he gives cash or right, or he 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.839 writes a check, but he doesn't do the check until 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.800 he sees if it's a nice wedding. These wedding plates 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.800 or cost like three fours a night on a on 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.599 a Saturday night in these in these wedding halls. So 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.559 you you kind of cover the car. I mean, there's 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.680 a whole theory. Do you cover the cost of the plate? 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.640 You know, here's nothing you're gonna give two dollars to 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.520 people you're not very friendly with, Right, you're thinking about it, 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.079 and you didn't go to the wedding. And yet I 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.920 know a few months ago you didn't go to a 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.439 wedding of someone else and you gave them less than 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:57.040 that and you're friendly with them. Wait a second, who 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.400 is this? Who is out? I talked about it just 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.199 a couple of days ago. Oh okay, yes, so how 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.199 can you go and give these people more money and 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.240 you didn't even go to the wedding? Then your friend 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.120 whose wedding you didn't go to. You gave them less, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.440 so I would send them a hundred and meet him halfway. Hey, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.040 here's a honey a hundy in a nice Papyrus card. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:22.880 But then you know what they're gonna do. Then go 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.240 This son of a bitch can buy up a Pirrus 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.480 card and it only gives us a hundreds, So you 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.040 gotta get it. You gotta get a cheaper card. Did 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.920 you write in the card like Mary and Steve congratulations? Yeah, 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.520 well then save it for the anniversary, give it to 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.040 him in a year from now. I might have to 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.800 rip up the envelope to get the cash anyway. So 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.000 envelope though, you know what, it's a Pirus envelope. This 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.640 is this is a heavy, heavy duty paper. You know 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.880 what you didn't eat, you didn't go, you barely know him. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.720 Hundred bucks they'll be you know why because now it's bonus. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.679 Now should I should take a hundred dollars back, put 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.520 it in my wallet and then wi a albody, I'm 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.280 gonna eat the cost of the papyris and still have 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.679 to buy another card. No, put the hunter back in 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.400 the card and seal the envelope steven open, We'll go 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.200 into the store and just grab an envelope. No one 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.800 counts the envelopes. Now you give him a hundred, you 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:16.240 know why whoa whoa, whoa j don't say ju ju 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.400 when it comes to money. Listen, if you gave them 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.360 a hundred dollars in December. See now they're opening up ens. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.360 Yeah right right, So here's what, here's my theory. If 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.400 you open that. If they opened up your card and 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.480 everybody else's cards in December, right, they come back from 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.040 the honeymoon, they're opening up cards. They're like, oh, four 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.160 hundred from Phil and uh oh look the Henderson's. They 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.720 gave us four hundred. All right, you're like, oh, scary, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.160 a hundred. That's that's not right. But now now you 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.240 send it in March, it's found money. Now they're like, oh, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.320 bonus money. He didn't have to do that. That's very nice. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:56.920 Hundred hundred dollars, right, weren't expecting it. This is bonus hundred. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.839 Now you're gonna get the same thank you the two hundred. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.319 They're not gonna remember you six months from now. Either way, 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.640 they're not gonna say I'm a cheap fuck. No hundred 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:14.080 bucks bonus boom ship money inflation gas prices give him 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:20.680 a hundred bucks. Don't the like it? Case closed? So 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.240 I feel like now I feel like I should tell 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.160 you what happened with the with the gift cards. Yeah? Please? 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.320 So I'm in I'm in Target, and I'm not blaming Targets, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.800 not their fault. I go into the wall of gift cards, okay, 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.760 and I want I need. By the way, since when 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.200 do we have a streamline show where we actually like 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.840 flow from one topic to the next without things up? 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.160 How you go off on tangents? Hey about the oranges 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.120 I bought yesterday. So I'm at Target and I go 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.400 to the big gift card wall and you know, my 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.080 eyesight is not perfect, but I can see the big 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.360 hundreds on the card. And so I needed five hundred 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.360 all the gift cards. Three hundred for somebody for their birthday. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.000 Who's they They've earned it, They're special in my life, 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.320 close associate, you know, relative. And I needed a couple 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.560 of hundred gift cards for two hundreds for other people. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.720 So I need five hundred all the gift cards. So 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.480 I do a little shopping and I get gift cards, 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.080 and I want to put the gift cards on a 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.880 separate card, not the card I'm buying groceries and and 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.880 and target bullshit with. So I take out my miscellaneous 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.480 card that I used for special things, and I put 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.640 the I go to scan the card and it says 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.760 A hundred and six dollars? What I go? So I 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.640 don't look at the screen carefully. I just go, son 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.680 of a bitch, they must be charging me tax. So 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.600 I stopped, and I google and it says New Jersey 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.520 doesn't charge tax on gift cards because and you shouldn't 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.720 be charged tax on gift cards because you get charged 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.000 on tax when you spend it. You pay sales tax. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.200 Where did you wait? Where did you buy? Where did 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.560 you buy these cart New Jersey tax? I get that. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.120 So then I'm thinking I gotta pay I gotta pay 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.840 thirty dollars in tax to buy gift cards. I'd rather 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.840 just write checks two people. And I'm not I'm not 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.920 gonna get the gift cards of this tax. So I 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.000 go with a customer service. I say, excuse me, I 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.600 think your computers are wrong. They just charge me tax. Now, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.960 I the taxes and six percent in New Jersey. But 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.800 I just instantly thought it was tax. I don't know 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:21.320 why tax. There's your activation fee? What? What? What? What? What? 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:22.880 That's why I asked you where you bought it, because 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.840 I have to pay. Well, it's on the card, so 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.280 I have to pay six dollars to Amex for the 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.840 right to give them a hundred dollars so that I 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.600 can spend it. And then when I use it in 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.200 the store, the store then pays Amex for using the 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.680 credit card. That's how credit by the way, that's how 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.120 the gift cards work. That's why they why why do 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.400 did they have a huge gift card tree in their store? 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.160 Because it's free money for if I if I, but 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.160 if I buy a Dicks Sporting Goods, they don't. They 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.000 don't charge me a fee because it's right to Dicks. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.680 It's only Amex and Visa and master Card. So hold on. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.080 Most I looked at all the other ones. All the 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.520 other ones don't charge you, at least in Target, and 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.720 I saw, I know you're thinking, and Applebee's one. I'm 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.200 telling you the ones I noticed had no activation fore 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.919 the ones that are sold for the store. Because now 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.240 the money is going right to the store. Dick Sporting 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.680 Goods gets the gets the whole hundred or ninety whatever 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.200 whatever there is, they get the money. So if I'm 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.200 in Walgreens and I want to buy a let's say 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.600 Nike Nike Superstore sneaker Store gift card, then they may 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.520 charge you. I don't know. I don't know. I thought, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.800 what's the but what's the perk and what's why would 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.120 you give it a wh would Walgreens want to carry that? Well, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.280 they must get a couple of bucks for selling it 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.800 on the back end, right, Like every gift card you sell, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.520 the money comes out of their out of the company's pod. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.520 So I googled hundred allar gift cards that don't charge you. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.160 And there are banks that have a deal with Visa, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.359 Like let's just say, like Mike's Bank, Mike's Bank, you 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.359 get a Visa hundred dollar card. There's no activation for hunds. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.440 You just got to order them online and they get 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:54.920 them to you. Man, I've been taking over the coals. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.159 I always get charged this activation. I'm not paying it. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.920 I'm not paying six dollars because then I'm giving the 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.840 gift to my to my person. Right, let's say give 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.200 them three hundred dollars. It's costing me three eighteen to 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:07.960 give them three. I just write them a check, doesn't 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.000 cost me anything. I try to get fancy gift cards, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.399 I pay six dollars on ad piece of plastic. That's crazy. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.159 So f you m X and Visa gift cards that 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.000 charge six dollar fee? How about that? How about that? 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.679 I'm not I'm gonna get taken advantage of these are 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.560 these are the things that I don't pay attention to. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.560 I'm like, you know what, well, I don't know that. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.560 I don't pay attention to it. I notice it, but 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.399 I just don't let it disrupt my Well, you take 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:32.840 back two hundred from your friends that you have the 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.440 two hundred to spend on the gift cards. That's a 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.520 great way of getting even with myself, right, Yeah, getting even. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.240 I'm like, I gotta pay myself back. Yeah, so I 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.720 I to. Now, Now I'm seeing this person this weekend, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.600 and I have to figure out how I'm doing this 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.960 because I if I write a check, See here's what 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.400 I wanted to do between you and me. I want 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.639 this money to go to them, not their spouse. And 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.560 if you're wanting to check, they gotta put it in 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.040 the bang and then they don't always spend it all, 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:03.879 and then some of it goes to why don't you 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.760 see that's why you should have gotten a gift card 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.040 that's tailor made right to that person where the spouse 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.639 won't use it like something that is special. Yeah, but 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.399 I but I really want to say, Okay, here's the thing. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.879 One of the things I know they want is HBO Max. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.080 But you can't buy an HBO Max gift card. You 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.640 can buy a Netflix gift card, can buy a Hulu 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.520 gift card, you can't buy HBO Max. So I have 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.679 to give the money. Do you understand? Yes, it makes sense, right, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.199 And and the spouse doesn't watch HBO Max, doesn't really 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.640 watch TV. So I know that that the person I'm 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.200 buying this for is gonna love to have the money 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.520 for the for the streaming service. But I can't buy 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.000 an HBO Max S gift card. That would have solved 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.600 the problem. Boom, He's HBO max S gift card, right. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.560 And I wanted to buy a Disney gift card for Raoul, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.840 the guy in our garage. Great guy, you have to 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.760 buy a Year's Word you know why because Disney Plus. Look, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.720 I don't spend other people's money it's like eight dollars 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.359 a month, seven dollars a month. Don't tweet me. It's 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.359 about that much money. To me, I go, oh, you 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.320 gotta have it. He's a big Marvel fan. He loves 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.440 the Disney Marvel movies and who doesn't want to watch 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.240 Boat Willie over and over right, right, But he also 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.200 wants to watch the Marvel TV shows in all the movies. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.520 So I said, listen, you know, I was like, you 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.040 know what, I'll get him a six month of three 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.080 months something, just to get him started, because because really, 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.240 you know, a year's worth is it's like a hundred bucks. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.080