WEBVTT - #156: Go S Your Own D, 2020! 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:10.440 Start data start Up, Brooklyn Boy, start up, Brooklyn buys data. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:18.159 They making noise, Data up. Episode one. This is the 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.799 Brooklyn Boys podcast. The year end, rear end, whatever you 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.279 want to call this episode right uh now, scary? Have 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.480 you been hard at work assembling the year in best 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.600 of clips so we can do a countdown in a 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.080 montage and a regispectually, we have we have one major 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.680 clip to play right here. This is the best, the 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.400 very best of the Brooklyn Boys. And here it is, 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.800 and there it was. That was a hell of a year. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.600 We did a whole lot of nothing, Brodie. Let's face it. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.600 We sat in our couch, we the weather, the weather 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.440 was shipped and then all of a sudden in March 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.440 we started sitting on our couches and locking ourselves in 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.000 our basement. And that's been our year. We've done some 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:07.000 good episode soon as the weather started turning decent. Pandemic time, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.240 Corona times. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.160 I like this is a year I'd like to forget. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:19.880 Quite honestly. Well, we did have our biggest episode ever. Okay, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.560 round of applause for coming in sixth place last week. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.200 A thousand podcasts so I appreciate it. I don't want 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.400 to see if you do unless you're unless you're claiming 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.319 election fraud. That's the highlight. I'm not gonna do that. No, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.360 I'm gonna take every ballot I can get that. We 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.440 were number six, all right, and we're gonna be higher. Listen, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.880 my my plan, my goal. Your goal is to maybe 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.480 break the top five for next year, maybe even top three. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.760 I would love that, you know. I'm just I'm just 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.280 really offended that we really didn't get it. We got 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.640 jipped out of this year, out of having a real year. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.000 We're supposed to be traveling for jingle Ball right now, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.320 we're supposed to be going from city to city, which 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.800 we're supposed to be going on cruises. I mean, listen, everybody, 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.519 everybody gave up a lot. Listen. Scary. I don't. I 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.240 don't want to minimize, but a lot of people, I 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.480 hate to say it, a lot of people lost their lives, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.120 a lot of people lost family members. So I know, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.080 I just want people to know that we were putting 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.760 our problems in perspective. We realize that people had it worse. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.040 We're just saying, in general, for everyone, if you didn't 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.320 lose someone or you didn't get sick this year, it 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.440 was still a crappy year, that's all. Yeah, let's yeah, 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.880 we're putting it in terms of our world. And yes, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.000 we were not forgetting about what's going on out there. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.320 That going across the street gets shot and I bang 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.720 my toe. My toe still hurts. This is true. That's 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.960 all were saying. You know, first world problems we've had 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.359 at that episode before, We're still allowed to have them. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.040 They exist, you know, you could say first world problems 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.800 or what was scrounging for paper towels again this week? 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:01.000 I had to buy the cheapest non no name awful 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.120 Brandon paper towels and by Sparkle. Did you is that 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.440 what it is? The Blue the Blue Rapper, Glory the 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.440 Blue Rapper that was on Hot ninety seven the other night. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:20.040 I don't, I don't, uh, angel, no, Angel, I forget 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.280 what brand it was. It was so crappy. It was 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.600 like three seven a roll at home depot. But it 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.119 was your microphone connection tonight because it sounds like ship, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.200 does it? Let me say, hold on, let me check 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:36.520 the check the cables. Hold on, yeah, hold on, okay, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:41.320 how is that? Oh? He's gone and I'm back. How's 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.280 that better? All right, we'll leave it like that. We'll 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.360 see what he is it better? Yeah, a little bit? 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.560 Was it quilted? Northern? Was that it? Actually? So, that's 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.600 a real that's a toilet paper, doesn't your I know, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.800 my three point seven million dollar equalizer fixed the problem 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.440 with my mike. No, not nothing. Nothing can help your microphone. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.160 It's you've got a terrible hum because you've got something 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.280 going on in your your basement, right there's nothing going on. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.080 The washer and dryer off, the heat is off, the 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:15.720 heat is on, the heat is on. Thanks Glenn Fry. Yeah, no, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.800 because it's it's cold outside and we're in the middle 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.599 of a blizzard right now. Well, I'm sitting in my 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.400 basement in the cold for this podcast. The slices appreciated. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.320 I understand that. So the point was the pandemic is 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.240 now people are re reinvesting in toilet paper and baby towels. Yeah, well, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.479 let me tell you something. My uh you know, you 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.040 know the lady that comes here once every two weeks, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.800 she helps me clean the house. The woman who three 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.480 sneakers out to help you clean the house, she cleans 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.400 the house. You aren't sitting there with a rag with 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.599 her cleaning the house along. So I gotta tell you 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.600 my house is always cleanest hours before she gets here, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.640 because I feel like I can't leave a mess for her. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.040 You call your girlfriend to come over and clean He No, 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.800 I clean everything myself. I'm like, I don't want her 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.120 to see my place like this. It's crazy. I get 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.960 into my own head like Brody, So I meet meeting 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.880 things up before she even gets here. I tidy this place. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.640 I everybody does that. So we have someone who comes 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.360 once a month also just just for the big stuff. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:17.440 That's yeah, not even so so I'll you know what 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.400 I'll do. I'll go around the night before and I'll 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.159 set things up or clean things or move things where. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.720 I say to myself, I wouldn't want anyone to think 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.640 that I live with this here like a fucking dirt bag, right, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.360 like a dirty sock in the couch. I don't want 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.200 to go and why how it lives like that? Or 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.359 like a glass with empty pistachio shells in it, you 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:43.560 know what I mean? Like this, like I'm not going 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.400 to clean up like dog toys like she puts them 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.479 all in a bin. She cleans up all with dog toys. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.839 I'm fine with that, there's dog toys around. That happens. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.960 It's a normal dog, it's a normal house. But if 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.720 you get that, you know, like a big clump of 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.320 toothpaste laying on the counter that you missed a couple 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.880 of days, you gotta clean that. You can't you don't 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.120 want like because I don't. I don't. I don't want 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.960 someone who coming into the house going this. This is 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.760 like he just leaves his crap for me. I don't 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.840 want to disrespect anybody by leaving my water toothpaste just 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.479 lying there. Like I wiped the sink out, like you 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.200 get all the dry toothpaste after like a few I 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.520 I clean the sink. Well, not because I don't want 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.000 her to do it. I don't want him to see it. Well, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.560 what I all I do is I leave her some 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.360 money for for for paper towels, and she brings me Sparkle. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.279 So whatever the Sparkle brand is, it's the one that's 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.840 falling off the roll the second you open it up 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.680 the pack. Okay, the ones I got are so cheap, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.360 there's no role Oh there's that. Well, actually that's that's environmentally. No, No, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.080 they stay chintzed on the roll. They're like squishy and 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.080 they flatten. That's how cheap they are. So I so 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.080 I took him out of my trunk and I put 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.520 them on top of a closed garbage pail and the garage. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.040 But I bought two packages. My wife just came home 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.680 five minutes for the podcast. I opened garage door for her, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.640 see if she's okay. So now she drove home in 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.080 the snow, and first thing she says to me is, well, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:14.840 those are crappy paper towels. Yeah, not hello, No, but 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.600 here's the thing I skip I skip bound on some 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.880 things we buy. We buy bounty paper towels. Well, I'll 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.240 buy brawny if they're there, but uh, every once in 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.560 a while Amazon has them back in stock and I'll 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.040 order them right away. So right now they're they're up 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.760 a few dollars. You're like thirty eight dollars for the 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:40.160 sixteen mega rolls sixteen equals or something like that. So 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.559 my wife's five right, thanks Chicago. So my wife says, yeah, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.640 I get him at the Costco, or I get him 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.680 so much. I said, listen, they're they're flying off the 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.080 shelves right now. There's a storm. Coming. No, I I 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.320 saw them. I get him. Okay, all right, So yesterday 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.720 I get the text message, Hey, if you're at the 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.480 store more, can you pick up some paper towels? You're 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.600 I said, I'm gonna be a targeting shop, right, Oh 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.400 could you just keep your eyes out? I said, target 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.160 is already a cavern of nothingness peeled. Yeah, shop Wright 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.840 had nothing. So at home Depot today I bought like 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.280 Mike's paper towels. That's that's really what I got, like 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.360 sand paper, right, Like you know Kirkland is the brand 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.440 name for Costco. If Home Depot had a brand name, like, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.280 that's the paper towel. That's what I got today. Plug. Yeah, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:39.800 like you're right, I got like Electrician Mike's famous paper 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:46.120 towels famous. I love, I love it. I won't skimp 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.040 though on my I won't skip um on seran wrap 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.960 I've gotten. You know, I've substituted pretty much every you 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.719 just used. You used a brand name though, well, right, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:01.040 so here'sifically yeah, Well, my point being that I will 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.040 change out on certain things and you know, skip out 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.600 and big body like butts on sale whatever because it's 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.080 just household plant, you know. But you won't buy cling 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.439 wrap from anybody else. That is exactly it. It's it's 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.640 got the plastic wrap has to be Suran and that's 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.080 and that's just always and just what makes you think 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:23.480 than my fil my foil? How that Suran does cling 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:27.160 wrap better than anyone else. That's a Nobel Peace Prize 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.040 for Suran. It's a superior product for plastic rap. It's 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.280 a superior product of you. Grandma Skary since the time 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.920 when I was growing up back in Brooklyn right there, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.440 you know, they didn't ever thence she bought Soran wrap 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.160 and Suran Wrap, and I remember, I remember specifically its 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.520 holding things much better than cling or Hefty or any 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.240 of these others. And the same thing goes for forty 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.480 years later. Nobody has perfected the cling wrap, but Soran. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.160 I think the slices will agree, and they'll also agree 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.719 when it comes to aluminum foil, Reynolds, the Reynolds, the 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.920 blue and the pink, that you can't beat that it's 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.800 a superior foil where you're gonna get a better foil. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.200 I mean, that's the one people buy. But how do 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.559 you know it's any better than the other one. It's thicker, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:21.120 it's better. It's better, it's tougher. It doesn't rip, and 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.120 you know what surand doesn't you know what? It doesn't 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.079 melt in the fucking microwave. You know why, because otherwise 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.280 that other stuff it gets it melts into your food 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.720 and now you're eating chemicals. Do you notice that the 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.199 surrand that the Reynolds wrap not Reynolds wrap. Yeah, they're 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.199 a linou foil aluminum foil, which everyone calls tinfoil, but 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.600 it's a luminum foil. When you pull it out of 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:49.760 the box, it's the muted side up, yes, right, when 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.160 you when you when you cover something, are you supposed 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.559 to have the shiny side up or the well, no, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.760 the muted side up, and then when you wrap it, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.280 the shiny side is outside right, And that's way it's 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.920 supposed to because I never knew years ago. I used 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.760 to turn the roll upside down so it would come 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.920 out shiny, but then I realized when I wrapped it 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.280 was all muted. But he has a question nobody can 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.400 answer for me. How come when you wrap something right, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.400 let's say a slice of pizza, you wrap it perfectly, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.720 you have extra tinfoil, You're you're generous with it. You 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.240 triangle it, right, it's it, It's done. You take a 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.560 bite of it, You take another bite of it the next, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.480 like next, a couple hours later. Tastes metallic. No, I'll 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.520 come after a while. Even though the pizza gets smaller, 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.319 the tinfoil no longer covers the pizza. Have you noticed that? 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.079 Or a piece of steak? Because it's because it's wrinkly, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.520 because once it gets wrinkly, it loses surface area, does 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.560 all right? So I find myself eating more food to 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.880 make the tinfoil fit. I can't be the only one 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.480 that does that. The hell of a problem to have. Yeah, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.080 I go, oh, you know what if I take one 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.640 more bite of the steak that I could just fold it? 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.680 I could, yeah, and then you rip it? You god, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.679 eat more steak. So don't tell me it's the best. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.720 Find me one that doesn't shrink all the time. You know, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:15.480 probably some people don't have food you're talking about. We 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.400 are privileged. 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But he will, like 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.880 he's not gonna sound for the big Christmas soon as 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.320 the order comes in, he's stuffing a m up and 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.559 he's sending it right back out at you. So get 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.559 involved right now. Pick up your merch for the holidays. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:13.240 Go to Brooklyn Boys dot, Big cartel dot com. What happened, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.679 big Shot? That was your That was your spot there, Brodie, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.679 you always yell at me because I jump on your 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.640 line and you're not here to say it, So I'll 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.480 say it for you. That's Brooklyn Boys Dot, Big Cartel 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.920 dot com, and Cartel is spelled c A R T 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:35.240 E l um. We have some wonderful hoodies in there. Uh, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.840 we have t shirts. We even have tanks because in 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.640 certain parts of this country the weathers in the seventies 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.679 and eighties in South Florida. I'm talking to you, so 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.000 maybe you you know you still want you want, you want, 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.880 you want those uh tank tops? Where's bro Brody? You're 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:58.520 awfully quiet? Wow, this is crazy. This is an actual 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:05.800 first Even Brody is gone. I saw him disconnect. I'll 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.280 tell you what, well, haven't some technical issues. We'll take 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.719 our first break right now. And then we got to 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.640 get Scotty be on the phone because I got some 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:18.120 beef with him. Maybe Brodie's back now I'm back. Now 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.800 what happened there? You missed your slot? You was supposed 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.600 to repeat after me when I said Brooklyn Boys dot 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.680 Big Cartel dot com, and you didn't hear me say 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.560 anything after that. The line was dead anyway. I finished 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.880 it into a commercial break just what I said. What 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.840 I said was I know the slices say it along 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.840 with me. I wanted to give them a chance to 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.200 say it. And then I was gonna say it, but 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.360 then you kept talking and I kept talking, and I'm like, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.200 why are we talking over each other? You didn't talk 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.600 because I think I think I kicked the cable that 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.120 plugs into the bottom of the mic. I know my 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.400 feet are cold, so I'm moving them around. My sneakers 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.040 got wet in the snow because I was outside decorating. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.800 You're a fucking mess, Brodie. Well, can I tell you 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.200 why I was decorating. Well, I'll tell you what he 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.800 did do in kicking the cable. You fixed the mic. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.600 It sounds a lot better now. Well that because the 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.720 cable must have been loose because it fell so but 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.720 it was Yeah, I know, because I don't have eight 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:23.960 point nine billion dollars, buck you, Brodie story, because I 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.520 gotta get Scotti before he goes to hold on to Scott, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:27.880 hold on for a second. I got a couple of 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.560 things I gotta get out, all right. I was outside 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.920 decorating the house with with holiday lights. Okay, it's soliday season. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.000 We've lived in this house for many, many years, long time. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.520 Never had lights on the house. About five years ago, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:49.320 Greg t uh after after after Christmas? I guess, yeah, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:54.160 after Christmas, I barred his rope lights on, like maybe 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.240 he brought him into work. And so for a week 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.760 or two afterwards, like you know, in during the winter, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.000 in the New Year and everything, I put rope lights 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.440 around the garage doors, two garage doors. My wife loved it, 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.480 and and then every year she go get I don't know, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.280 I don't know. She didn't like one particular way or 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.440 the other if we put lights up or not, and 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.720 and so every year I would look and it was very, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.520 very expensive to have somebody because I'm not climbing up 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:19.720 on the roof. I don't have a ladder that goes 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.280 up there. I'm not doing it. So this year we've had, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.120 like you know, we've talked about this, had a crappy year. 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.520 I thought I'm gonna plan early this year. I went 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.600 to home depot early. I got the lights early, right. Plus, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.760 I think I mentioned that I had decorated for Halloween. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.840 I really liked it. Did you get those cool icicle lights? No? No, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:47.720 my wife done like icicles. They're my favorite sickle. Thanks queen. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.000 So no, we got this. I got the standard C 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.920 nine bulbs for the roofline and I got I got 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.440 little lights first. Anyway, so I wanted to hire someone 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.400 to do the lights that I couldn't do. We talked 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.920 about a little bit on the last podcast, how you 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.719 would be in scambonied. Yeah, I told you, and uh 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.440 let me. We wanted an exorbitant amount of money to 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.199 rigging up the lights. Yeah, it was insanity. So I 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.560 went on my insanity. I went on my town Facebook 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:24.840 page and I and I searched for lights, and also 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.440 while while I was on Facebook, we've also talked about 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.960 maybe installing a backsplash. You know what that is right 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.720 behind the sounds, behind the sink that I never got 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.879 when I moved in here, and now I'm regretting it 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.239 because I got sauce stains on my wall. Well there 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.719 you go, uh mom spaghetti. So we've been talking about that, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.959 and so I figured, let me look and see if 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.360 anyone has anyone they can recommend, because a good time 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.080 to do it is when we're on vacation next week 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.760 and the week after. Yeah. Well yeah, I'm not looking 0:17:52.760 --> 0:18:00.320 to announce that just we're off next week. So yeah. Anyway, So, 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.080 as one woman says, does anyone have any recommendations for 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.720 installing a backsplash right? One woman puts, oh, we gotta 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.560 go to this company. One woman says, my husband will 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.600 do it. Like I've told you, it's always my husband 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.600 will do it, right, because the women love the Facebook group. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.399 In my particular town, there seems to be more women 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.320 and they're always like, oh, my husband will do it, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.000 Like first of all, you volunteering your husband. Second of 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.840 all again. I don't want husband hobbies. I don't want 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.280 to hire husband hobbies. I don't want a guy who 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.680 has as much skill as me coming to my house 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.879 and I'm paying him because I wasn't man enough to 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.600 do it myself. My man enough. I just mean that, 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.760 I'm surprised you didn't put it on your honey do 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.760 list anyway. The third recommendation was from a guy who said, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.840 you should do it yourself. It's so easy. I did 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:51.640 it myself. That's not exactly. She asked for a recommendation 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.840 for someone else to do it, and his responses, you 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.600 should do it. I did it. It was easy. Okay, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.800 So I find a light company. It's a guy who 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.360 did my gutters about seven years ago, clean the gutters 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:09.760 on my house. It's two brothers, we'll say, uh, Joe 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:16.399 and Phil. Phil came with a teenager first time go 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.879 to cleaning once I was looking for a new company. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.960 Came to my house. Now, if you know anything about 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.800 gotter cleaning, you take a hose, your hose down the gutters. Uh, 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.439 you scoop out with your hands all the black stuff, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:33.080 the leaves, the gunk. Right. Some people throw it to 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.639 the ground and then scoop it up and put in 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.720 a bag. So far I cannot relate. I don't own 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.679 a home. Do you understand what I'm saying? I understand 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.879 what you say. On the back of my hand. On 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.200 the front of my house, you throw the stuff down 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.200 into the lawn, and all the dirt and the blacks 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:53.520 vomits now just leaving the dried grime, leaves everything in 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.720 the back of the house. I have a deck. So 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.680 the teenager, we'll call him late teen, early twenties, he 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.920 throws everything onto the deck. But then when he's cleaning up, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.040 he sweeps it all under my table out there, on 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:14.439 my table and chairs. So when I go out there afterwards, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.600 I see it's just like mounds of crap under the table. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.560 So what did you think I was? It's a glass table. Scary, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:30.240 it's a clear glass table. Better did you not think 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.240 I would did start under the rugs? He swept all 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.480 the gunk under my tail. Okay, So I called Phil 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.480 and I go, hey, Phil, are you happy with the job? Well, 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.600 the front of the house, I'm happy with. But your 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.760 boy in the backs, yeah, I can't believe that. I'll 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.520 come back right now. And he came back and he 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.480 cleaned it up. But I thought, if this guy doesn't 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.600 check his apprentices work right and he hires a punk, 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.720 a piece of crap like that, I can't use him again. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.840 So I never used Phil again. So I get a 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:04.200 recommendation for this company to hang the lights. You shall 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.320 meet again? Well, no, I got his brother? Was? I 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.560 say brother, was Joe? I get Joe on the phone. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.080 I say Joe how much? He says, Now, I told 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.159 you the prices last week. Thousands. I said, here's what 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:19.960 I want. I have the lights. What do you do 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.400 for me? He says, oh, yeah, yeah your house size, 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:26.400 Yeah yeah, I could do it for one seventy five 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.359 and that will include putting it up and taking him 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.639 down when you're ready. Oh my god, what yeah? I 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.200 go So, and while you're at my house, can you 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.000 do the gutters? Sure? Okay? So I give him a 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.840 price lower than what I pay. He's like, no problem, great, 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:46.240 can he came today, did an unbelievably good job. Couldn't 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.480 be happier. He's got work ethic. He doesn't know that 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:51.760 his brother ever worked with me, or that I ever 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:57.639 used plus huge plus and uh I got myself Holiday light. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:02.760 The company good for you how about how about that? Congratulations. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.560 I had them do the lights around the garage doors 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.600 and the roofline, and then I did I put netting 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.320 lights on the on the bushes, and I ran lights 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.200 up and down the staircase, the front porch and over 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.600 the porch at the top. So it's all lit up, 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.080 and uh, you know, my wife came home, she said 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.000 it would look great. Really, she's really happy with it. 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.359 So I'm really happy with the fact that I didn't 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:29.000 pays for the uh you know, the organized crime package 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:33.040 we have to like, you know, it's it also goes 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:35.000 to show that if you do your research and you 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.639 continue to ask for prices that someone is going to 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.640 be in your range, you'll find something. And no matter 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.640