Speaker 1: Start dot Up Up Brooklyn. Start Up Brooklyn buys dot Data.
Speaker 1: They're making noise data dot Up episode two fourteen. It's
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Boys podcast, and we sometimes do make a
Speaker 1: lot of noise and people love us for it. I
Speaker 1: think that's why I'm giving you an ear plugs warning
Speaker 1: today I will be making noise today. Are you really
Speaker 1: hold on? Let me go get my heroes? You have?
Speaker 1: You have heroes, do David Letterman? Um? Not those heroes? Heroes?
Speaker 1: Are these ear plugs for your ears? It's spelled really
Speaker 1: is that where they go? It's a homophone. It's a
Speaker 1: WHOA who's a homophone heroes everything. It's h E A
Speaker 1: R O s here like here, like listen, okay, and homophone.
Speaker 1: Let's remind everybody are two words that are sound the
Speaker 1: same but mean different things. It's almost like a play
Speaker 1: on words, a pun if you will, because I have
Speaker 1: heroes from my ex girlfriend from two thousand six still
Speaker 1: sitting in my medicine cabinet because I was the loudest
Speaker 1: motherfucking snore on the pace of the planet. So I
Speaker 1: still have a package of heroes. So I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: those in time for the rant that's about to happen
Speaker 1: later speaking of needing um ear plugs. I ranted about
Speaker 1: this on my Walkers and Talkers podcast last week. There
Speaker 1: was an episode of Walkers from two weeks ago where
Speaker 1: the guy who uh, there's a new a new actor
Speaker 1: on the show. He's only on one episode and he's deaf.
Speaker 1: And at one point the bad guy hands the Milwaukee
Speaker 1: talkie and says, call us if you see the girl.
Speaker 1: The guy's deaf, so you handed him Milwaukee talking Even
Speaker 1: if he could talk into it, he won't know if
Speaker 1: you heard it. He won't know what. Okay. But then
Speaker 1: to stop them, so he listens to music really really loudly,
Speaker 1: like he blasts it in his house because he can
Speaker 1: feel the vibration even though he can't hear it, he
Speaker 1: can feel the house vibrating right, feel the vibration. So
Speaker 1: at one point the bank marky Mark, thank you Marky Mark.
Speaker 1: At one point, the bad guy Arno is outside the
Speaker 1: house and he's blasting. To say, he blasts the stereo.
Speaker 1: When the guy opens the door and he covers his
Speaker 1: ears like, ah my ears, not believable. Arno is like
Speaker 1: a heavy metal dude with like animal skins. Okay. Then
Speaker 1: later in the episode he comes back to the house
Speaker 1: to get into uh so he runs into the room
Speaker 1: and locks himself in a room the good guy with
Speaker 1: that with bagpipes that he had bought for his dead wife.
Speaker 1: And when Arno tries to get into the living room
Speaker 1: with the bedroom whatever it is, the guy inside the
Speaker 1: room starts playing the bagpipes. They're not special bagpipes, scary,
Speaker 1: they're regular bagpipes, right, not bagpipes a lot. But you
Speaker 1: know we've been in rooms with like six police officers
Speaker 1: playing bagpipes in the studio. It's not deafening. The guy
Speaker 1: starts playing the bagpipes and they are no again. The
Speaker 1: guy outside the bedroom door grabs his ears. Terrible writing.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine bag pipes through a door? Make you
Speaker 1: cover your ears and screen? No, no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: will not be louder than the bagpipes. Well, I may
Speaker 1: be loud right now because you fit to be tied.
Speaker 1: Now you know what this is, because it's unfortunate because
Speaker 1: on the big show we're broadcasting. See, I would say
Speaker 1: that podcasting is narrowcasting because we could we could elaborate
Speaker 1: and expand on things for minutes at a time, like
Speaker 1: like we do and we are no stranger to that.
Speaker 1: But on a big show, when you're broadcasting, you have
Speaker 1: to reach many people and it's it's a live show.
Speaker 1: Remember you may listen on demand, but it's intended to
Speaker 1: be live, and it's in real time. It's happening as
Speaker 1: people are on their way to work or where they're going.
Speaker 1: So we have to compound all of our senstances and
Speaker 1: structure and everything. It's a small short person while also
Speaker 1: remembering unlike the Brooklyn Boys where you're were you guys listening,
Speaker 1: You all agree with us most of the time, which
Speaker 1: is why you listen, right, We're very opinionated and you
Speaker 1: and I would say eight five nine cent a time
Speaker 1: you agree with us. Every once in a while you'll go, hey,
Speaker 1: gotta disagree with Scary on that, or hey, I gotta
Speaker 1: disagree with Scary on that. But the reason why they
Speaker 1: listen is because they are fans and they we all
Speaker 1: have the same ideas to the Elvis Durand Morning Show.
Speaker 1: There's many people. There's three or four main people in total,
Speaker 1: like twelve plus. We're all over the country. We're in
Speaker 1: different markets, small, small towns, big cities, and no one's
Speaker 1: going to agree on everything. But but furthermore, in a
Speaker 1: broadcast situation, you have about maybe ten twenty thirty seconds
Speaker 1: tops to get your point across, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times because it's bite sized, I'm gonna call it fun sized,
Speaker 1: like mini like you know, like the mini Three Musketeers.
Speaker 1: You gotta get hit it and get you gotta hit
Speaker 1: it and get it right, and you get You can't
Speaker 1: David Brody the story and tell you what color of
Speaker 1: the table clothes you do well, you can't dwell. So
Speaker 1: and I was by the door. It was one of
Speaker 1: those old doors with broken hinges. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking around We all do our around the rooms in
Speaker 1: the morning, which you were limited to thirty seconds us.
Speaker 1: But so am I around the room today. I just
Speaker 1: wished my girlfriend Robin a happy birthday, by the way,
Speaker 1: I love you, happy birthday. But yeah, we wanted to
Speaker 1: go to this great restaurant which I thought was a
Speaker 1: great restaurant, but apparently it's now. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: a great sexy restaurant with shitty attitudes. That would be
Speaker 1: our rooftop. I'm calling them right out. Our standing for
Speaker 1: restoration hardware, which you guys know from the Malls is
Speaker 1: the big heavy furniture company with the store that has
Speaker 1: a restaurant. Well, says so, so they started this concept
Speaker 1: where around the country they're opening our H rooftop restaurants
Speaker 1: now at the top of the hardware store. They sure are.
Speaker 1: So you took your your girlfriend who you love to
Speaker 1: the to to eat on top of a hardware store, Well,
Speaker 1: you couldn't a reservation at home Depot's restaurant. Okay. First
Speaker 1: of all, First of all, before you go any further,
Speaker 1: everybody google r H rooftop that they will and and
Speaker 1: and look at the pictures and and and look at
Speaker 1: all the food. It actually is. What they do is
Speaker 1: they lease out the idea that they it's owned and
Speaker 1: operated by the R Restoration here people, but but they
Speaker 1: bring in food and dev people that are chefs and
Speaker 1: everything like that. And by the way, their openings all
Speaker 1: these all around the country. There's one in Miami. There's
Speaker 1: one want to like a shrimp fra diavolo with a
Speaker 1: wicker chair that comes with it, right exactly. It's actually
Speaker 1: a really sexy place and a lot of people want
Speaker 1: to go to them, and they're all over by the way,
Speaker 1: they're they're in Houston, they're all over all through the
Speaker 1: hard work store and go off like a spiral staircase.
Speaker 1: You Usually then they take a ladder from the hardward
Speaker 1: on the outside. Usually it's a glass elevator. You go
Speaker 1: into the lobby of the store. They try and get
Speaker 1: you right there to buy some ship like Disney. Right, let'sen,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about Ikea. We're talking about the very
Speaker 1: spencive and fancy or restoration hardware. I would expect no
Speaker 1: less from you. Go so okay, So, and how would
Speaker 1: your father talk about restoration hardware? Oh, my father, forget it.
Speaker 1: He'd be like today, I don't have to spend two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on on a love seat. I don't love
Speaker 1: a seat like that. I'm not paying two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: for the seat. The rh rooftop usually features. They feature
Speaker 1: our restoration hardware furniture in the restaurants, of course, and
Speaker 1: it's really beautiful. It's a white couch for that. That's
Speaker 1: not true, not true at all. Again, google the fucking pictures.
Speaker 1: I'm not going into it that way doing it so
Speaker 1: so now, because these are up the second franchise or
Speaker 1: its chain, it's all over the country. It's okay, there's
Speaker 1: one in New York City, specifically in the in the
Speaker 1: area of the meatpacking District, which we know is if fancy,
Speaker 1: lower West side of Manhattan. Yeah, anyways, the Restoration Hardware
Speaker 1: there is their anchor store, their flagship of the area.
Speaker 1: And sure enough they built an rh rooftop restaurant. I
Speaker 1: think it was the first of its kind, and then
Speaker 1: they started building them out around the country. Right. So
Speaker 1: it's a hard reservation. Okay, So we were told, hey,
Speaker 1: it's a hardware reservation. It's a hard way, it really is.
Speaker 1: We were told you the maximum amount of people that
Speaker 1: you can you can go, you can do the reservation
Speaker 1: for is six. It's a table of six, no more,
Speaker 1: because I don't know booths and things like that. Now
Speaker 1: the squares and rounds whatever they do, twos and fours
Speaker 1: and sixes. But you're not getting a table more than six.
Speaker 1: And I respect that Robin wants to do. But Robin
Speaker 1: wants to bring twelve people out for dinner on Tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: So what do we do. I make a reservation is
Speaker 1: a month ago. I make a reservation on an open
Speaker 1: table for PM for six people. She makes a reservation
Speaker 1: for six people at PM and now as the date
Speaker 1: gets closer, but not on the night of when we
Speaker 1: will be scrambling when we get there. I'm assuming you
Speaker 1: requested the two reservations be near each other. That was
Speaker 1: this this past Monday. I call up in the afternoon
Speaker 1: before their dinner rush started, and I spoke to the
Speaker 1: hostess on duty and I said, hey, I pled my case.
Speaker 1: I said, look, I get it. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to move furniture around because I know you can't put
Speaker 1: more than six people at a table. However, we respect that.
Speaker 1: But we have two existing reservations for the same time
Speaker 1: on the same night, for six people apiece. Can we
Speaker 1: get Can we put the two tape? Can we be
Speaker 1: close by each other? Can you do an adjacent cy
Speaker 1: or Now, Brodie, if you were planning the dining room
Speaker 1: for Saturday, April nine, and you were part of that crew,
Speaker 1: and you know that you had a special request put
Speaker 1: in the monday before because it was a special birthday celebration,
Speaker 1: which I told them, by the way, did not use
Speaker 1: the Scary Jones flex or Elvis Durant. I was Anthony Scary,
Speaker 1: the fucking common man customer. Okay, people, maybe I should have.
Speaker 1: This is how you get treated everyone, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're everyday person, Okay, this is how you get treated.
Speaker 1: And this is why I'm pissed because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to use my name because that would have been besides
Speaker 1: the point. I want to say how they treat everybody,
Speaker 1: and this is how they treat everybody. Joe Joe Joe public.
Speaker 1: They said, oh, I'm sorry, we can't make an accommodation
Speaker 1: for having, um, you guys even close UoT, we can't
Speaker 1: guarantee that you'll even be on the same side of
Speaker 1: the restaurant. In fact, in fact, more often than not,
Speaker 1: reservations like this split up into two parties are nowhere
Speaker 1: near each other in the restaurant at all. And I said,
Speaker 1: so let me get this straight. If you're planning the
Speaker 1: floor for that Saturday as a hostess or a manager,
Speaker 1: a floor manager, and you have the diagrams in your
Speaker 1: freaking computer, I said, why can't you you know, maybe
Speaker 1: the two tables of six that started put the two
Speaker 1: tables at six of six people at six pm, and
Speaker 1: then when you do the flip over, we'll we'll be
Speaker 1: next to each other, we'll be near each other, will
Speaker 1: be nearby. No, we can't do that. They In fact,
Speaker 1: she took such exception to it. She wanted to know
Speaker 1: who told me that it was okay. She was gonna
Speaker 1: do her own investigative like reports back to her bosses
Speaker 1: because she was so upset that somebody would have even
Speaker 1: suggested this to me. And I said, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: here to get anybody in trouble or who suggested it
Speaker 1: or not. I said, we made two legitimate reservations on
Speaker 1: open table. Well, we're sorry, sir, we cannot We can't
Speaker 1: help you. So that's the full story. I didn't want that.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear. I don't want them to move furniture around. Okay,
Speaker 1: this was not about moving chairs and tables. Don't give
Speaker 1: me that. Don't give me that. I know people are
Speaker 1: thinking that I work in the restaurant industry and Scari
Speaker 1: is being a difficult pastord. No I'm not. All I'm
Speaker 1: asking me to do is just think a little on
Speaker 1: and not be so fucking lazy that you can't figure
Speaker 1: away to make two parties of six near each other.
Speaker 1: At That's all I'm asking. And all I would do
Speaker 1: is require you to when you do your layout for
Speaker 1: the day of tables have it coincide. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna sit, you know, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: one people gets you know, get seated at you know,
Speaker 1: forty five and the other guy gets it at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock and we have to wait. I get that. I
Speaker 1: get that. But you can get it close enough. It's
Speaker 1: not rocket science. But they couldn't be bothered because they
Speaker 1: they're and and this woman was going in on me
Speaker 1: and telling me I was doing the wrong thing. So
Speaker 1: fuck you Restoration Hardware, RH Rooftop, you know, the restaurant,
Speaker 1: and we took our business elsewhere. Now. People on the
Speaker 1: text messages when I mentioned this in the around the
Speaker 1: room today took exception to this because I only had
Speaker 1: twenty seconds to explain myself and they're saying that I'm
Speaker 1: being in considerate. They called me. One person called me
Speaker 1: a Karen, you know. But the truth of the matter
Speaker 1: is if you're in the services industry and you're in
Speaker 1: the hospitality, you're supposed to be hospitable to the customer.
Speaker 1: This goes back to the very beginning Broody. What we
Speaker 1: speak about about being it's it's reciprocal. Obviously, you want
Speaker 1: to be a good customer, But it's also about how
Speaker 1: great is your place? Are you going to make some
Speaker 1: accommodations to try and make people as comfortable as possible?
Speaker 1: And this place chose the the other road on to
Speaker 1: as to not to do that, which means that they
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about people? Am I out of line? Um?
Speaker 1: All right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna play devil's advocate
Speaker 1: because that's my role here. Obvious. I I completely understand
Speaker 1: the frustration. I would be completely frustrated beyond belief, but
Speaker 1: I saw let me. Let me run through my questions
Speaker 1: unless I missed it. Did you ask to speak to
Speaker 1: a manager who could either override and and okay? The
Speaker 1: manager said no chance either? The manager, Uh, there was
Speaker 1: not around. There was no manager to talk to. I
Speaker 1: spoke to right, But you just speak to a manager.
Speaker 1: So I would have followed up with a manager. What
Speaker 1: time would be a good time to call the manager call?
Speaker 1: So far, you're you're not disagreeing with the fact that
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not asking for something that's completely like
Speaker 1: a Karen move, right, Am I? Or am I? Well?
Speaker 1: First of all, I think part part of the fault
Speaker 1: lies in your girlfriend. She should have six friends too
Speaker 1: many people. She's popular. Yeah, well, I know, but you're
Speaker 1: throwing the party. You should you should, you should have
Speaker 1: made and we made legitimate reservations through the open table
Speaker 1: app a month ago. So we were the first one
Speaker 1: in the ones in. We technically if you're seating, if
Speaker 1: you're doing the seating charts, you you know we were
Speaker 1: the We were like right next to each other. We
Speaker 1: we we literally put it in at the same time.
Speaker 1: So shouldn't they love me? And and they don't? You know? Again? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't know how the layout of the restaurant is.
Speaker 1: It's they sit two people at a time. Okay, okay again,
Speaker 1: Okay again. I don't know if there's columns in the
Speaker 1: middle of the floor. I don't know the layout of
Speaker 1: the floor. I don't know the floor plan. Here's what
Speaker 1: I do know. I'm a family of five. Right when
Speaker 1: we would go to like p F. Chang's, I'd have
Speaker 1: to hold out for the corner the round corner booth.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you have to sit at a table for four
Speaker 1: and jam it in, or wait for two tables near
Speaker 1: each other to push them together at a table for
Speaker 1: eight and then sit there and again, I'm not asking
Speaker 1: them to push anything together in this case. All we
Speaker 1: wanted and they might have tables for six, in other words,
Speaker 1: round tables, right, But they only may have one round
Speaker 1: table in one corner of the place around table in
Speaker 1: the other corner. They may not have tabletops for six
Speaker 1: anywhere near each other. So it would involve them lifting
Speaker 1: the table, moving tables. We don't want that. I never
Speaker 1: asked for that. So you could go six, four and
Speaker 1: four whatever. No, I've seen the layout of the restaurant.
Speaker 1: It's all square tables, and it's all booths, booths and
Speaker 1: square tables. Two's fours and sixes and then but in
Speaker 1: order to in order to put the two you want
Speaker 1: to give you a table for six, they gotta make
Speaker 1: a table of eight. It doesn't matter the two the
Speaker 1: banquets are butted up against each other. The two bank
Speaker 1: at that this this bankaets in a row that all
Speaker 1: accommodates six. And you have to take my word for
Speaker 1: it that the fact is that that there is no weird,
Speaker 1: oblong weirdness of the of the It's a traditional rectangular
Speaker 1: layout with squares and rectangular tables and they and banquettes
Speaker 1: and boots and and individual tables and but tables, but
Speaker 1: tables in rows and things, whatever it is. It's completely doable.
Speaker 1: But my problem lies with the fact that she was
Speaker 1: so lazy that she didn't want to make that She
Speaker 1: didn't want to, you know, turn a negative to a positive,
Speaker 1: or she didn't want to actually help in any kind
Speaker 1: of way. She's like just dismissive, flippant. She was flipping
Speaker 1: on the fire like that flipp It is never good.
Speaker 1: The only thing I would say is I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's lazy, or maybe she was told the rules
Speaker 1: we can't guarantee and she doesn't know how to make exceptions.
Speaker 1: She's so rigid in her training. She only knows, well,
Speaker 1: we're not allowed to do that, we can't do that,
Speaker 1: or I've never seen that done before. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what I know. She should have said, I'll
Speaker 1: have my manage to call you because you're gonna spend
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars on dinner. I probably should have the
Speaker 1: manager call you. I would think that's important enough that
Speaker 1: she should have somebody get back to you, she should say. Instead. Instead,
Speaker 1: she started airing their own dirty laundry within the company,
Speaker 1: and she wanted to go on a witch hunt to
Speaker 1: see who which employee. She was literally gonna wrap someone
Speaker 1: out in her own organization. I said, I'm not giving
Speaker 1: you names. What did you want to write out? What was?
Speaker 1: Because I told her that we called, which we did
Speaker 1: earlier in advance, and they said, hey, the way to
Speaker 1: do this is to do two sixes because people call
Speaker 1: with parties. No, that's the truth. Truth. You know, we
Speaker 1: called in the daytime before we made our reservations, and
Speaker 1: and then we made the reservation. We ended up making
Speaker 1: them online. But she she's, I need to know the name.
Speaker 1: She's what phone number did your girlfriend call from on
Speaker 1: that day? I said, whoa, whoa? She called while she
Speaker 1: was at work and it was just a tip from
Speaker 1: one of the people here. I'm not getting anyone in trouble.
Speaker 1: But she was like, well, we've had this happened before.
Speaker 1: And then she started telling me it was storytelling time
Speaker 1: where she's like, one time we had a bunch of
Speaker 1: moms come in with a bunch of fourteen year rolls
Speaker 1: and they did this very same thing and we couldn't
Speaker 1: seat them together, so and then they were crowding around
Speaker 1: the table, standing up talking to each other and it
Speaker 1: became disruptive. And I get that it's disruptive to your
Speaker 1: dinner service. You want to have run an efficient dining room.
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, to just start with the no
Speaker 1: and just now digging is is just all the wrong.
Speaker 1: She she did everything wrong with me on the phone
Speaker 1: after I called by the way on a Monday for
Speaker 1: the Saturday coming up, telling her I already have this
Speaker 1: existing reservation for a month. Now here we are the
Speaker 1: week of I'm coming in Saturday. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hit you with this. When I get there Saturday night,
Speaker 1: I say, fuck that. I said, that is all kinds
Speaker 1: of awful. And I don't you know me, I don't
Speaker 1: complain about shit, you know me. I'll take a lot.
Speaker 1: I take a lot of I have a very long
Speaker 1: rope when it comes to this stuff. But whatever, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm good. We're not going there. We're doing our own thing.
Speaker 1: Um and and and and and that's all I have
Speaker 1: to say about that. But the people that were against
Speaker 1: me only heard, they only have half the story, and
Speaker 1: all making assumptions about everything else, and and that got
Speaker 1: me angry. I'm not gonna lie. I got pissed because
Speaker 1: we really didn't dwell on it on the air, and
Speaker 1: we couldn't because we do a broadcast. But here we
Speaker 1: can go. I can give you my full explanation as
Speaker 1: I just did, and I think I could come up
Speaker 1: for air right now. I think you I hearing the story. Uh,
Speaker 1: they couldn't. Look if a manager told you they couldn't
Speaker 1: do it, I would say, yeah, the manager's not making
Speaker 1: the effort, because I would hope the manager would explain why.
Speaker 1: Here's why right because we have to split the split
Speaker 1: the weight staff up because I'd have to put one
Speaker 1: way or a waitress from another part of the problems.
Speaker 1: Say you used to work in the dining rooms like this,
Speaker 1: and you used to draw the lines before they were computers,
Speaker 1: had yet a read a red grease pencil and you okay,
Speaker 1: So so explain to me. Aside from the the we
Speaker 1: don't put parties. You don't normally put two large parties
Speaker 1: for one way or away tress. So I'll just say server,
Speaker 1: you would give one party six to one server, one
Speaker 1: part of server. But if you put if you put
Speaker 1: them together, but if you put them together in a corner.
Speaker 1: Now you're asking a server who might be working in
Speaker 1: the middle of the room to come over into the corner.
Speaker 1: They keep making a trip back to the corner. It's
Speaker 1: a little trickier, but it could have been worked out.
Speaker 1: I would like to store, you think, by the way
Speaker 1: you think it in a hardware store. They'd be able
Speaker 1: to fix the problem. You see what I'm saying there,
Speaker 1: Fix the fuck you and your booge restaurant. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have gone there in the first place. And do you
Speaker 1: feel better now? That felt good? I got that off
Speaker 1: my chest. Yeah. Boy, you complain at restaurants, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, because you know me, all right. Just
Speaker 1: just to balance this out, I've got two relatively brief
Speaker 1: restaurant stories compared to your story, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like you should have me call the restaurant.
Speaker 1: It's too late now, but I you should call, or
Speaker 1: I should call and and get the reservation, take care
Speaker 1: of it for next time, or an apolo. All right,
Speaker 1: So tell me what you do in this situation. There's
Speaker 1: a brewery not far from our house. It's not really
Speaker 1: a brewery. It's more like a theme restaurant, but brewery
Speaker 1: is in the title. They have a very nice menu.
Speaker 1: It's a little more upscale than than Friday's or or
Speaker 1: hula hands. I'll get tool hands in a minute. In large,
Speaker 1: it's a little a little more upscale, a little schmidge,
Speaker 1: a smidge and a pinch. So the last time I
Speaker 1: was there, the last two times, I had French onion soup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I go my, uh my buddy, Jeff. I had
Speaker 1: got my cousin previously. I went with Jeff and we
Speaker 1: sit down and we're like, you know, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: on your soup again. So I'm looking on the menu.
Speaker 1: I can't find onion soup. Now it's gotten that one
Speaker 1: of these Like it's like a book menu, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like three or four pages spiral like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's like a wine list book. It's a cardboard,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a real book. So it's multiple pace.
Speaker 1: I'm going looking, looking, looking, it's not on the soup.
Speaker 1: I can't find it. So I say to the waiter.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, um, I really wanted the French onion soup, right,
Speaker 1: So I he goes, well, we could probably make that
Speaker 1: for you. I said, why is it off the menu?
Speaker 1: And they wanted to make room for other stuff, and uh,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that popular, so we don't have it on
Speaker 1: the menu anymore. It's not popular. French onion soup not
Speaker 1: popular right at this place. I guess, look, the kid
Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's talking about. Whatever. So then I
Speaker 1: was like, can I get a table for twelve? He's like, sure,
Speaker 1: no problem, of course, of course. So I said, well,
Speaker 1: how can you make the French onion soup if you
Speaker 1: don't make it anymore? And I went, hold on a second,
Speaker 1: don't even tell me. Are you going to use the
Speaker 1: org you from the French dip sandwich and throw some
Speaker 1: provol on on top. He's like, yeah, that's what we do.
Speaker 1: That's a short cut, and that's not so as I said,
Speaker 1: so you're telling me, so how do you get He goes,
Speaker 1: we just chop up some onions to throw it. You know,
Speaker 1: we throw a man saw tama. It already sounds like
Speaker 1: a fail. It sounds horrible. Yeah, they were taking short
Speaker 1: taking shortcuts. So you're giving me or you or grotten basically,
Speaker 1: he says. So he doesn't know what He's like, what
Speaker 1: I got done? And forget it? Just French kid. He
Speaker 1: wants to serve me dipping juice with cheese as my
Speaker 1: French onion soup that is not French. That is not
Speaker 1: French onion soup. You look, people look up the recipe.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more to it. And granted the soup
Speaker 1: is usually water and a bullion cube. But you you're
Speaker 1: going to places with laminated menus first of all, so
Speaker 1: that's your first It wasn't laminated. They were not laminated menus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Another bougie comment from Scary. Yeah, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to roost with laminated You know what, I like
Speaker 1: a laminated so you can wipe it down so when
Speaker 1: you spill the guawk on it, right, you can wipe
Speaker 1: it up. All you can eat chips and salsa gets
Speaker 1: on the menu every time. All right, whatever, All right, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, well listen, by the way, and anybody who
Speaker 1: says I'm okay, I get it. But this is what
Speaker 1: I do. This is what I like to do with
Speaker 1: my my spending money. So some people buy electronics, some
Speaker 1: people buy clothing. I like to spend my money. You
Speaker 1: bought a hundred dollar tie dyed shirt. We've talked about that.
Speaker 1: You spend money on clothing. Also, come on now, all right,
Speaker 1: you know why, because I don't have white kids. That's
Speaker 1: Uncle brook An industrial. This is what this is. I
Speaker 1: spend my income the way I want. I want uber rides,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to eat off laminated menus. For
Speaker 1: the most part, actually eat off of the lemoned menu.
Speaker 1: I wipe off the laminated menu. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying though the time of the place. But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: what do you expect? You just complained about getting dipping
Speaker 1: juice and cheese. But what do you expect from a place?
Speaker 1: I mean, you get what you pay for. It's an
Speaker 1: a scale theme restaurant. They should at least make onion soup, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for baked Alaska. I'm not asking for
Speaker 1: Porterhouse with a lobster crab mac and cheese. All Right,
Speaker 1: I get it, you know, come on, It's okay. So then,
Speaker 1: so I was in Jula Hands. So now you guys,
Speaker 1: remember many many years ago at this point I told
Speaker 1: you this story about Jula Hands funked up my nachos
Speaker 1: right at twice. In one of our early episodes, they
Speaker 1: put scallions on top. They made it wrong multiple times
Speaker 1: while I was waiting, and the general manage you who
Speaker 1: runs the region. The regional manager gave me four five
Speaker 1: dollar gift credits. They looked like checks. Their paper written
Speaker 1: and I write twenty five dollars each, A hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Hub h. This was twenty seventeen. I guess right, we're
Speaker 1: not not well. Podcast started. It was not around that time.
Speaker 1: So they expired twenty eighteen, but I didn't know because
Speaker 1: I didn't look. Because who looks you funked up my owner.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna why would you expire them? So I
Speaker 1: went to spend them, and I called the guy and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, is I think his name is Mark.
Speaker 1: He says, no problem, they don't really expire. We have
Speaker 1: to put a date on it. But don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: he said, just gonna mention my name if there's a problem.
Speaker 1: Said okay. So I spent twenty five dollars one night
Speaker 1: and I got nachos again and uh something from my kid,
Speaker 1: and that was it. Okay, So I have seventy five
Speaker 1: dollars left. I haven't been to a hold of hands
Speaker 1: in a long time, because there were three in my area.
Speaker 1: Two of them closed, got one left. So I said
Speaker 1: to my friend Jeff, I said, Jeff, why don't we
Speaker 1: go to Hold of Hands my treat I got how
Speaker 1: many five dollars from five years ago? It burning a
Speaker 1: hole in my pocket. Let's go. He says, yeah, all right, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: no problem, you're you're treating. Yeah, okay, good, good deal.
Speaker 1: So we get to the who lands and there's no
Speaker 1: one at the host to stand. A waitress comes by
Speaker 1: and she goes behind the host to stand, grabs some
Speaker 1: laminated menu as you prick, and doesn't look up and say,
Speaker 1: they'll be somebody with there'll be somebody with you in
Speaker 1: a minute. She just looks at us and goes and
Speaker 1: walks away, like I'm not the hostess. I'm much better
Speaker 1: than her. I'm the waitress. So she walked away. So
Speaker 1: we're there like three or four minutes. We're not upset,
Speaker 1: but we're waiting. Is nobody there? And then Elvira comes
Speaker 1: up to the front desk. If you don't know who
Speaker 1: el Vira is, google her. She's the Mistress of Horror.
Speaker 1: She she has like black she looks like she looks
Speaker 1: like she was in a heavy metal video from and
Speaker 1: she's got like double d's uh and and some crazy cleavage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but in this in this particular case, I didn't notice,
Speaker 1: but she had the black, stringy hair with streaks of gray,
Speaker 1: and she had that look like she was Igor Frankenstein's assistant.
Speaker 1: Dr Frankenstein's assistant. So she was like, how many many table?
Speaker 1: I said, to please, okay, right this way, no personality whatever,
Speaker 1: not sorry to keep you waiting, whatever. So we sit
Speaker 1: down at a table near the bar and uh at
Speaker 1: a roll familiar place, Thank you, Billie, Joel, and the
Speaker 1: TV sets are all on the wall across from me,
Speaker 1: and the met game is on. It's a doubleheader and
Speaker 1: it's the ninth inning of the end of the game.
Speaker 1: The first game waitress comes over. She says, I can
Speaker 1: help you. Yeah, I said, uh, their place in order,
Speaker 1: but it says here, I have these gift cards. It says,
Speaker 1: please present at the beginning of your order. So I
Speaker 1: showed the gift count. These are expired and I can
Speaker 1: only take one per meal said no, no, no, you
Speaker 1: can take all of them. I know what the rules
Speaker 1: are here. Sorry, I can't take more than one. I said,
Speaker 1: there there, Okay. I was given these because you guys
Speaker 1: messed up my order, and they're there. Thank yous to me.
Speaker 1: Their apology notes. She's, well, they're pons. Nope, they're not coupons.
Speaker 1: Their great gift credits, gift certificates, right, their credits because
Speaker 1: of it was something that was made right from something
Speaker 1: that was went horribly wrong. Okay, all right. And I said,
Speaker 1: here's the letter from the regional manager Mark, and uh,
Speaker 1: I love how I had it in the same envelope.
Speaker 1: I said, And and if you have any questions, you
Speaker 1: can call him. He'll confirm that they don't expire. Mark
Speaker 1: still works there. Well, hold on. So so she says, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not a problem. I'll accept those. That's great, not
Speaker 1: a problem. Okay, great. So I'm figuring to myself the
Speaker 1: two of us have to eat seventy five dollars worth
Speaker 1: of food and hula hands. So I get myself a
Speaker 1: fancy chocolate swirl caluor drink to the wall. We get
Speaker 1: a couple appetizers. I get my nachos, Jeff gets a
Speaker 1: big order or whatever. Okay, we're we're living large on
Speaker 1: my seventy five dollars worth the credit. And so she
Speaker 1: brings the drinks. I get a diet coke no ice,
Speaker 1: thank you. And Jeff always gets an Honold Palmer, which,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, is half I s tlf lemonade yea.
Speaker 1: So she takes the order and that was the last
Speaker 1: time we spoke to her until she came back. Because
Speaker 1: your food will be up. Momentarily, I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I said, The Met game is on. I'm with my
Speaker 1: friend where I said, we have gift credits. Life is good.
Speaker 1: And so as as she's talking to me, um, the
Speaker 1: Mets score of the winning run. In the background, they
Speaker 1: scored the winning run, and she says, oh, you're a
Speaker 1: Mets fan. That's too bad. They stink, by the way,
Speaker 1: not knowing that they're fourteen and six as of so
Speaker 1: I said, I said, excuse me, um uh, Eileen. Uh,
Speaker 1: it wasn't Eileen. It was with Allen. Allen has excuse
Speaker 1: me Allen. Uh. First of all, the Mets have the
Speaker 1: best record baseball. Second of all, I said, just jokingly,
Speaker 1: by the way, you work on tips, right, she's yeah,
Speaker 1: I go, so shouldn't you be nice to my baseball team? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was just I like to have fun
Speaker 1: with people. No, no problem, no problem. No. Um, if
Speaker 1: you turn around you'll see that. Um. Uh Linde or
Speaker 1: just had a game winning hit. They're celebrating on the field.
Speaker 1: They want again. Okay, So so somebody else runs the food.
Speaker 1: No problems with the food. Then we have no drinks.
Speaker 1: So the manager, kitchen manager comes out. He says, how
Speaker 1: is everything? Uh good? Good? I said, while you're here, Um,
Speaker 1: I finished my soda like fifteen minutes ago, when I
Speaker 1: don't want to start my nachos um because I don't
Speaker 1: have any soda where. I haven't seen Ellen in like
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes. Oh, no problem, get you sodas. Okay.
Speaker 1: So he gets the sodas he leaves, comes back. I
Speaker 1: see him later, I'll tell you why. So then I
Speaker 1: I said, um, oh, I'd asked extra salsa to the kid,
Speaker 1: to the kid who brought my food. So he goes
Speaker 1: and gets it again. I don't see Ellen. Then eventually
Speaker 1: Ellen kind of walks by in the background, already headed
Speaker 1: in a bad direction. I don't see Ellen. Finally, uh
Speaker 1: Ellen comes by to drop the check. She didn't run
Speaker 1: the food, she didn't bring us more drinks. She was
Speaker 1: d O A sorry m I A the whole time.
Speaker 1: So I give I give her the three gift cards
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars, well, whatever it is, because the bill
Speaker 1: was like, uh it was sixty and change. And so
Speaker 1: she goes and she comes back and she says, I
Speaker 1: can't make change, so I can only take two of them.
Speaker 1: You have to pay the fifteen dollars whatever it is over.
Speaker 1: I can't give you change back for the gift card.
Speaker 1: So I said, well, can't you just use it to
Speaker 1: buy a gift card? No, it's okay. So I take
Speaker 1: my back and she goes to ring it up. The
Speaker 1: kitchen manager comes back out, hey, these are expired. Of
Speaker 1: course we already know that. We went through that with Ellen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with Ellen, I already ye already went through that, showed
Speaker 1: uh yeah the letter yea, so so I so I said, um,
Speaker 1: I already spoke to Ellen and I had his the letter.
Speaker 1: I have the business card from Mark, and he said,
Speaker 1: let me see that because huh you know, yeah, Mark
Speaker 1: left the company about a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: Of course he did, yeah, so I said, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. But not only that though, but the
Speaker 1: letter still stands because at the time he was representing
Speaker 1: the orsation. That's something change the Alba Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if the guy who replaced Mark's going to accept
Speaker 1: these when we send him to corporate. Doesn't matter. The
Speaker 1: decision was made back then, and it's not in the
Speaker 1: jurisdiction of the person from Mark, right, So I said
Speaker 1: to God. So I say to the guy, will listen,
Speaker 1: take the letter and submit it with these as proof
Speaker 1: that I He's like, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: do that. I said, you can do that. I used
Speaker 1: to run theme restaurants. You can do that. And he says, um.
Speaker 1: He says, well, uh, you know, I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: can take these. I said, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I don't drink, but I ordered that Calue with chocolate
Speaker 1: swirl drink because I knew I wasn't paying for dinner tonight.
Speaker 1: So if you want me to pay up my credit card,
Speaker 1: then you can take off the two appetizers I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have ordered and the drink that I only ordered because
Speaker 1: I was eating for free. If you want to do that,
Speaker 1: I'll pay with my credit card. Now this is a
Speaker 1: Jedi mind trick. You really confused the man. So so
Speaker 1: he so he says no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course no, no. I'll accept him this one time.
Speaker 1: This one time, like he got a wallet full of him, right,
Speaker 1: So I said, well, you're giving me one back, I
Speaker 1: have that one. He says, all right, you ask for me,
Speaker 1: and I'll accept that last one. I said, that's fair,
Speaker 1: that's fair, and so it taken care of. I got
Speaker 1: taken care of. The point was Ellen was was horrible,
Speaker 1: no better than Elvira. But by the way, Elvira the hostess.
Speaker 1: So they put up glass panels on top of the
Speaker 1: booths to like make them higher, like you know, like
Speaker 1: glass walls, I guess during COVID. So I see her
Speaker 1: reflection behind me. She was staring at us because we
Speaker 1: went for lunch and there was like nobody in the
Speaker 1: restaurant again, which I don't know where Ellen was an
Speaker 1: all time. She wasn't taking everybody else. So I could
Speaker 1: see her. It was like it was like a horror movie.
Speaker 1: And I kept going, why was she staring at you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. She wasn't watching the basebook. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know what she was doing, but she was, like
Speaker 1: you know said when we left, she looked up, but
Speaker 1: she didn't like you know that the hostess, And they go,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming. Hold hands, have a nice day.
Speaker 1: She kind of looked at w Oh my god, who
Speaker 1: al Yeah, not as bad as your situation. But I
Speaker 1: almost had, I said the awful onion soup. And then
Speaker 1: I even so I said to I said to the manager, said,
Speaker 1: you know what the irony is is that I got
Speaker 1: these seventy five dollar gift cards because I had a
Speaker 1: really bad experience at hold Hands, and so to make
Speaker 1: up for it, you're giving me a really hard time
Speaker 1: at my experience to spend these at Whole Hands. So
Speaker 1: that's when he's like, no, I guess you. I gotta
Speaker 1: get your point. I get your point. So fuck you Ellen. Uh.
Speaker 1: I didn't get the kitchen manager's name, but fuck him,
Speaker 1: and fuck you Mark for quitting the company when you
Speaker 1: knew I might need you someday. We will be back, man.
Speaker 1: Our voicemail is filling up. The F you Abe seventy
Speaker 1: seven Google voice line is going ballistic. We've we haven't
Speaker 1: checked it in three to four weeks now. And in
Speaker 1: case you didn't know, you can actually call us at
Speaker 1: two one eight F you Abe seventy seven. You have
Speaker 1: all it out, Yes, that's that's two three A to seven.
Speaker 1: Leave us a voicemail. We may play it back. Now
Speaker 1: we have a brand new feature that's kind of competing
Speaker 1: with it, but also kind of cool as well, and
Speaker 1: that is the talkback feature. If you listen to our
Speaker 1: podcast on I Heart Radio, well that's it. This is
Speaker 1: should be incentive. There's a little microphone button that has
Speaker 1: now appeared. We are one of the test podcasts for this.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the Brooken Voice podcast, is a
Speaker 1: little microphone that's just talk back. Now. You can press
Speaker 1: and hold that button, I believe you can hold it
Speaker 1: down and you can hit it talk back to us,
Speaker 1: and you can leave a message right there and it
Speaker 1: will go into a folder and we will pick that
Speaker 1: almost like a voice note and uh we'll be playing
Speaker 1: those on future broadcast to podcast. So now you've got
Speaker 1: two ways in addition to the old school ways of
Speaker 1: emailing or d m NG. Now you can leave us
Speaker 1: your voice. But the voice quality is souper for cool
Speaker 1: and super high on these little voice notes on the
Speaker 1: talkback feature. So so if you see the microphone on
Speaker 1: our prerecorded podcast and you feel like in the moment
Speaker 1: right then and there, as we're on to a point,
Speaker 1: you can hold that button and like, let us know
Speaker 1: what you're thinking what's on your mind? And we'll play
Speaker 1: him back, hopefully on a future podcast. But right now,
Speaker 1: with that other thing, which is the phone line, we
Speaker 1: have all these voicemail stacked up. Should we get into
Speaker 1: some of that or what Brodie, Let's play Let's play
Speaker 1: some of them here. And as we do that, I
Speaker 1: just get another fucking alert that another famous person has COVID. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to explain something here that this is an
Speaker 1: opinion and of mine and I'm really piste off about
Speaker 1: nobody gives a fuck about about famous people with COVID anymore.
Speaker 1: If it's they're suffering the same symptoms that we all
Speaker 1: went through. If if you're having a cold and it's mild,
Speaker 1: I don't care, and you don't care. Don't junk up
Speaker 1: my phone with these alerts. Now, I get it, somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm no, I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: it's not important, but I'm just saying that we've we've
Speaker 1: all experienced this now and they've made headline stories over
Speaker 1: people over the over the last few months. I get
Speaker 1: it in the beginning, when the first few people have
Speaker 1: I get it because not a vaccine, but it's different hold,
Speaker 1: it's in a different phase now, it's mainly on the
Speaker 1: crown whatever the b A two and these people basically
Speaker 1: have colds, so you're basically reporting. You stop spending too
Speaker 1: much time on this, just telling just let me ask
Speaker 1: you a ques, I'm not telling you who it was.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I'm not gonna ask you who it was.
Speaker 1: I would say that it's interesting to know if if
Speaker 1: it's a very old person or someone who might be
Speaker 1: immunocompromise correct, or an important person like the vice president
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe let's say someone on the Mets,
Speaker 1: maybe the vice Hold on, no, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Because basically, if you're especially if
Speaker 1: you're a gambler or a fan, Baseball players miss games. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it's important to know when an athlete has COVID
Speaker 1: because they go through the protocols. But if let's say,
Speaker 1: let's say, um, let's say Johnny Depp gets COVID. I
Speaker 1: want to know that because he's on a trial right now.
Speaker 1: But if you know, if it's just I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. They report and these news services
Speaker 1: and they're all guilty of it. Sending alerts to your
Speaker 1: phone because a random actor or actress has mild symptoms
Speaker 1: of the same thing. We all went around the holidays like,
Speaker 1: who cares about that? Unless it's in As Brody said,
Speaker 1: all right, those people get I get it, I get
Speaker 1: Breme Court Justice, the biggies understood. But even then it's like,
Speaker 1: ok okay, senator, yes, a congress person, no, it's it's
Speaker 1: still I don't know. I'm still wishy washy on those. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, when Stephen Colbert got COVID, I cared because
Speaker 1: he's out for a week. I didn't know. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I needed to know why it wasn't on. So
Speaker 1: that's important. But it doesn't have to be a headline
Speaker 1: he if he has if he has the sniffles, nobody
Speaker 1: gives a fun no, no, no, okay if it's Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks and it doesn't affect my TV viewing. I love
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks. But okay, good for Tom Hanks. But but
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks got it because he was one of the
Speaker 1: first celebrities to I only came up with Tom Hanks's
Speaker 1: name and my I could have said anybody, Okay. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is it's Stephen Colbert. I want to know
Speaker 1: because I'm a fan, but also I don't have a
Speaker 1: show to watch last week he was off all last week.
Speaker 1: Then it affects it affects my daily existence. So that
Speaker 1: was why it was important. Alright, who was it? I'm
Speaker 1: not even telling you? All right? So before we get
Speaker 1: to all the voicemails from the f you Ape seventies
Speaker 1: seven hot line, let's uh take a little listen to
Speaker 1: the first talkback of all time for the Brooklyn Boys podcast.
Speaker 1: Not the greatest, but the first. But it's still the first. Okay,
Speaker 1: still the first, but still cool. Yeah yeah, Test test
Speaker 1: one two three sending a test talk back to the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Boys podcast, Little Perry, would you like to try?
Speaker 1: You got something to say a back? Yep, she's clearly
Speaker 1: irritated because of Brodie's rant. It's gonna be she's gonna
Speaker 1: be upset by your rants. This time you yelled more night.
Speaker 1: I know I did, and I do have a soft
Speaker 1: throat because of it. And that's I have a gift.
Speaker 1: I can yell another have a soft throat. That person
Speaker 1: right there, thank you so much. That was the very
Speaker 1: first talk back. If you click on the microphone while
Speaker 1: you're listening to the Brook and Boys podcast on I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio only and your up to your app is updated, Yes,
Speaker 1: then you can you can leave us talk back just
Speaker 1: like that. All right, Now onto the ABE seventy seven's
Speaker 1: of the world. This is the This is the first
Speaker 1: one I want to play. Is probably the best one
Speaker 1: I want to play. All right, Brodie, I don't know. Uh,
Speaker 1: we have a celebrity. A celebrity has dialed to one
Speaker 1: eight few age seventy seven. Who is is it? Greg
Speaker 1: T No, No, it's not not Greg. Take a bona
Speaker 1: fide celebrity. Hey, guys, rocky music journalist. That gend So
Speaker 1: some like fans that you've got tribute to me and
Speaker 1: your show. So I wanted to call in, give a
Speaker 1: proper and horn and thank you. Normally I only listened
Speaker 1: to reruns of my own shows or into this, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to give back to the radio community. So
Speaker 1: I'm starting to from episode one. Can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: my shout out. Guys, Katie of the House, I really
Speaker 1: thought it was her. That was such a damn good
Speaker 1: impression of Katy blabs. You're right, Oh my god, that's hilarious,
Speaker 1: showing this is the Incubus Own show. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm starting from episode one. I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: my show. She's great, love heart, brilliant. Whoever that was brilliant? Alright, brilliant.
Speaker 1: All right, here's another one. Hey, if this is Verry
Speaker 1: and Brodie, I just wanted to point out, Brodie, you
Speaker 1: are so wrong. Said two sheets and you get the
Speaker 1: third one first free. All right, there you go. That's
Speaker 1: some feedback. I think we we've misled the audience with
Speaker 1: some fancy words. No, no, I see the problems. So
Speaker 1: I was I'm not gonna say I was wrong, but
Speaker 1: the wording that we got from from the big boss
Speaker 1: at the at the shirt company, at the merch merch place, boy, Matt,
Speaker 1: So the stickers are buy a sheet for three sheets,
Speaker 1: which I said, right, that's the savings of like around
Speaker 1: four dollars, or by any two items in the merch
Speaker 1: store and get one free, a free sheet, a free
Speaker 1: sheet of stickers. However, we did we did not mean,
Speaker 1: and I'll have them change it before you hear this.
Speaker 1: We didn't mean by two sheets get one free. We
Speaker 1: meant by any two items like a shirt and a hat,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, a waterbobe get a free, get a
Speaker 1: sticker sheet free, so have to We'll have to wait
Speaker 1: a second. If they buy two, if they buy two
Speaker 1: orders of sticker sheets, do they get one free? But
Speaker 1: that's an item. Scary, Yeah, scary, that's not what he
Speaker 1: meant though, I know, so we got to clarify, right,
Speaker 1: We have to clarify that on So it's our fault
Speaker 1: because here's the thing Matt said to us. You guys
Speaker 1: want to do a discount on three sheets or do
Speaker 1: a buy two items, got one free? Right, We'll like, well,
Speaker 1: let's give them both. Let's do both promotions for slices.
Speaker 1: Let's do both. He's like, okay, great, but we didn't
Speaker 1: think of the overlap, so we'll fix the over Checking
Speaker 1: in right here by scary scary Rody. This is Chris Travers,
Speaker 1: just checking in, uh scarious. I told you last week
Speaker 1: the privilege get to see you in Harold Square with
Speaker 1: my wife. We had a great time meeting with you.
Speaker 1: We'll talking to you, Rody specifically, I wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you something. I know this is gonna hurt your heart
Speaker 1: as much as it hurts your brain, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring up the fact that every time I go
Speaker 1: to a door, convenient store, grocery store, if the dollar
Speaker 1: amount is, say, fifteen dollars and thirty cents, I'll wait,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll give them sixteen dollars. I'll wait for
Speaker 1: the extra change. But if it's over fifty cents, say
Speaker 1: it was fifteen dollars and fifty two cents, I'll tell
Speaker 1: him to keep the change in the chore. I can't
Speaker 1: be bothered with change jingling around in my pocket. I
Speaker 1: have enough ship in my pockets as it is. I just,
Speaker 1: I just, I just don't want to be bothered with
Speaker 1: I don't care, I don't want to be bothered with it.
Speaker 1: So I know there's something you very much what happened there,
Speaker 1: But I want to know from the rest of the
Speaker 1: slices if it's you, ten dollars are nine dollars and
Speaker 1: fifty five cents and you give it a ten the
Speaker 1: weight for for the change, or you can say fuck it,
Speaker 1: keep the change, move on to the next person. Or
Speaker 1: do you want to be bothered with that change anyway?
Speaker 1: Keep it going voice Plase of life. Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: no no, no, okay, this is one of your disciples.
Speaker 1: Your boogie bassars would throw money away. My got my disciples,
Speaker 1: my slices, they get free dessert, they get shipped for free.
Speaker 1: Your your disciples, the Scary Jones cult. You guys throw
Speaker 1: money around so I have. First of all, we just no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're just not petty like you are. If something comes
Speaker 1: to and you give him a ten dollar bill, I'm
Speaker 1: walking away? Who care? Nine fifty five? First of all,
Speaker 1: what's in his pockets? That's making so much noise? He
Speaker 1: can't fit coins in? What the house in his pockets?
Speaker 1: Second of all, how long does it take to wait
Speaker 1: for change? What does he go to one of those
Speaker 1: stores that mince coins freshly? Like I'm gonna hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push out some some quarters, some quarters, hold on?
Speaker 1: How long does it take they gave me the change?
Speaker 1: Here's cents boom a quarter? Two times done? How long
Speaker 1: does that take? You can't wait plus plus If you
Speaker 1: don't take the change the next time, it's you don't
Speaker 1: have forty five cents. Now you're getting back at a vault.
Speaker 1: You gotta have changed to keep from getting change. Now
Speaker 1: you gave away the fifth cents, Now you're getting back
Speaker 1: fifty five cents. You're gonna walk away? From that. Now
Speaker 1: you're on the head hurts. My head hurts. It's change,
Speaker 1: it's change. Listen. So he said it's nine fifty one,
Speaker 1: he walks away, but if it's five, he'll wait. So yes,
Speaker 1: because two quarters mean something to me. I'm with him
Speaker 1: on this. Hold on, so six cents difference. He's throwing
Speaker 1: the forty nine cents away, but for six cents less,
Speaker 1: for forty five cents, he'll wait for the He'll wait
Speaker 1: for his change. Back. Listen, I'm gonna compromise. I'll wait
Speaker 1: for a quarter, but anything less than a quarter. If
Speaker 1: it's nine seventy six, I ain't waiting for Nickela diamonds
Speaker 1: and pennies. Not when I whip out. That's when I
Speaker 1: whip out my penny. Oh I got my quarter ball?
Speaker 1: You are you? You're the worst, Well, I'm the best, Hey,
Speaker 1: brilliant scary. It's from on Island. I was just hatching up,
Speaker 1: um and I was listening to the episodes nine and
Speaker 1: That's en, Um, when you guys were talking about the
Speaker 1: car gaining broken into I was waiting for Brody to
Speaker 1: go on a rant about how if the woman's car
Speaker 1: was stolen, how would she know whether the window was broken,
Speaker 1: or whether the door was jimmied or whatever. If it's stolen,
Speaker 1: it's done. How would you know? And I was waiting
Speaker 1: for that lant and it never happened, So that was
Speaker 1: very fanatic for me. Okay, all right, I'll respond to that.
Speaker 1: First of all, I appreciate that you want more rants
Speaker 1: for me, So that's that's points for you, fair enough.
Speaker 1: A couple of things I will say, because I remember
Speaker 1: the story mostly. Number one, if if she has the
Speaker 1: kind of fob which she left inside of her car,
Speaker 1: most fobs don't allow you to lock the doors, which
Speaker 1: means they probably opened the door. Let's say the door
Speaker 1: was locked. You know how she would know if her
Speaker 1: window was broken. The glasses on the driveway. Not all
Speaker 1: the glass goes into the car when you smash a window. Yes,
Speaker 1: the momentum is inward, but when the guy opens the door,
Speaker 1: the glass falls out. That's right, Okay, I play it
Speaker 1: could be a woman, could have been a woman stole
Speaker 1: the car. I'm not saying, you know, but the glass
Speaker 1: can end up on the driveway, and then you know,
Speaker 1: you're right now, right now, she's going. But she's trying
Speaker 1: to say, don't make assumptions, right, I mean, I guess no.
Speaker 1: She's trying to say, I should have yelled. How do
Speaker 1: you windows broken? The guy took your car, the glass
Speaker 1: would be there, right, okay, c s I boom boom Okay,
Speaker 1: Rod scary it's Jamie a k A monster donut. I
Speaker 1: want to comment on. Are you talking about sending cash
Speaker 1: through the mail? Yeah, they don't need an X ray
Speaker 1: machine to see that there's cash that. They can figure
Speaker 1: it out on their own. If you send it in
Speaker 1: like a standard, just regular envelope that she would send
Speaker 1: a letter in. They can hold it up to the
Speaker 1: light and see the outline of the cash. They know
Speaker 1: it's cash. That's why you should put it in either
Speaker 1: a paper so it looks like just a regular letter,
Speaker 1: or they have special envelopes where the inside of the
Speaker 1: envelope has printing on it so that way, if someone
Speaker 1: holds it up to the light to see what's in it,
Speaker 1: all they see is the printing and they can't see
Speaker 1: what outline of the cash. Valid point except they don't
Speaker 1: need an ACT ray. Okay, big fam Slice for Life,
Speaker 1: Life for Life. I know that's hilarious. That's okay, all right,
Speaker 1: It's all good anyway. By the way, I did say,
Speaker 1: and I clearly reiterate in that original episode there that
Speaker 1: I put that in an envelope with a card. It
Speaker 1: was a wedding gift, so it was a gift, so
Speaker 1: I actually shape wouldn't be seen, it would not be No,
Speaker 1: there's no way that they could have known that there
Speaker 1: was cash in there. Okay, by the way, thank you
Speaker 1: monster donat Pants. She wished me if she tweeted at
Speaker 1: me last week, have a good passover at David Brodie.
Speaker 1: May your matzabal suit have no Dylan it speaking of
Speaker 1: that very much, hold on, I want to for a
Speaker 1: second and for those of you wished me happy press over,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. For those of you wished me
Speaker 1: happy Easter, I appreciate it. That's very nice of you.
Speaker 1: You want to have a nice Sunday. I just want
Speaker 1: to remember, mind you, it's not my holiday, and that's
Speaker 1: not a holiday, Juice Collars. Everyone loves Christmas songs, everybody participates.
Speaker 1: We don't really celebrate Christmas. It's the birth. It's the
Speaker 1: birthday of Christ. So Easter, you know, he rose, they rose?
Speaker 1: What a really celebrate that? So I appreciate the happy
Speaker 1: but you know what, um, because it's the same weekend
Speaker 1: this year turned out to be the same week to Brody, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wish me just happy happy holiday or happy pe
Speaker 1: you know if you want well, you know, like Rabadan
Speaker 1: is not my holiday, like scared Ramadan is not scary holiday.
Speaker 1: I would like him to have a happy time during Ramadan,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna sell because that was okay, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: let's plot through these Speaking of matsa ball, soup and dilla,
Speaker 1: we have manaham checking in my boy. Originally from hey,
Speaker 1: Brodian scary machem here fl FLI pash bag, oh ship,
Speaker 1: where'd that go? Fu up? I'm originally from Brooklyn. From
Speaker 1: Brooklyn or or doctor from Scary if you don't understand
Speaker 1: and say yeah, you don't understand you and say yeah
Speaker 1: you come from Brooklyn. Um. First of all, no, I
Speaker 1: agree with Brody because Bill is not a staple. And yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but you know it's not in everything and it's not
Speaker 1: covered with everything, and and say I never had um
Speaker 1: Bill and my massable food sometime it's great, but I
Speaker 1: never tasted I'm saying it tasted Bill, but not not
Speaker 1: that I never had so much that I could taste it.
Speaker 1: That's first of all, taken of all, the bill is
Speaker 1: not a Jewish could be they have traditional Jewish food,
Speaker 1: Jewish star food. No, they are not closure it's not
Speaker 1: a technically a Jewish restaurant. Could be. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of traditional Roewish food, but no, they're not a
Speaker 1: Jewish restaurant already, Unfortunately I can't go there and taste it.
Speaker 1: I'm compared to see it. Thank you. Can't this be
Speaker 1: in real time? Why can't we? Good to you? Everything
Speaker 1: he said was right? All right, I don't disagree with them.
Speaker 1: They listen, all right, Okay, all right, you do disagree
Speaker 1: with them, but you anymore? I got one more and
Speaker 1: then uh, and then I talked about what you did yesterday.
Speaker 1: I didn't do ship. Well, we gotta take we gotta
Speaker 1: take a break. And what's going on? Scary and Brodie
Speaker 1: over there? Rock can see from the bronx. I love
Speaker 1: you both. I love Scary more than Brody. Brody hell on, Buddy,
Speaker 1: enough for the merchandise giving away and I have to promote.
Speaker 1: Who cares? What he caused was I know you're a frugal,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you can afford say so you want
Speaker 1: to promote your brands by having people where you're emerged
Speaker 1: and silly basket, Well, give a couple of ways from
Speaker 1: phrases I'm gonna kill you, You're not gonna's not gonna
Speaker 1: put you in the poorhouse. Brody, come on, buddy, that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Like I said, I like you a lot.
Speaker 1: You're a funny guy. I hear you're bitching and morning
Speaker 1: all the time about that kind of crap to cause
Speaker 1: promoting your brand to come to Jersey and do something
Speaker 1: that I'm not gonna say because I don't want to
Speaker 1: be like that. That's a threat. It's ridiculous the way
Speaker 1: you do that remote remote a couple of shirts, God
Speaker 1: from bid worst could happen like what you guys do
Speaker 1: all the other ones and as I don't remember all
Speaker 1: the fews of those people. Do chow for now, take
Speaker 1: can brush your hair. Thank you so much, Rocking Steve,
Speaker 1: rock hold on, Rocking Steve. Let me tell you something
Speaker 1: I appreciate. You want us to advertise give away some
Speaker 1: of some shirts. Okay, he's right there. My problem is
Speaker 1: Scary gives away the shirts when I'm not there and
Speaker 1: gets full credit for it. And we went half on
Speaker 1: the costs, again being a penny bastard. Radio stations give
Speaker 1: away shirts. You know what they do. They give away thin, white,
Speaker 1: inexpensive shirts by comparison, and they throw out ten to
Speaker 1: the crowd. Okay, we we spend, We spend our own money.
Speaker 1: We got high quality shirts. We do right what you
Speaker 1: guys all comment out soft they are like them in
Speaker 1: most butter colors like butter like. But we got multiple colors,
Speaker 1: multiple color fonts. We give you different patterns and styles.
Speaker 1: We didn't give you this white T shirts. We gave
Speaker 1: you grays and blacks and blues and reds because they Okay, okay, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: If you want us to give out white T shirts,
Speaker 1: that's fine, I get that, But remember the radio stations
Speaker 1: make millions and give away ten shirts. The equivalent of
Speaker 1: that would be allus giving away like half a sleeve.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I disagree, Rocket Steve to your point. I
Speaker 1: believe in investing in our own brand, and if that
Speaker 1: means throwing out some shirts here and there and giving
Speaker 1: stuff back to the slices, make sure you not. When
Speaker 1: I'm not there, I will say it's on behalf of
Speaker 1: both of us. Don't be Matti the same way. You
Speaker 1: can give away shirts on your time, on your dime
Speaker 1: and say it's from both of us. But you don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. See now, with me, I want
Speaker 1: to let the slices note right now that if I
Speaker 1: see a sticker from our sticker sheets, or I see
Speaker 1: you guys hanging out and you're you come up to
Speaker 1: me and be like scary, I'm a slice for life.
Speaker 1: I'm going into my trunk where I got shirts and
Speaker 1: hoodie's ready to go, and I'll give you a water bottle.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a hoodie, I'll give you a shirt.
Speaker 1: That's right, I get all of you, yea. And guess what, no, no, no, yes,
Speaker 1: because we need, we need to market ourselves and we
Speaker 1: need to detain in a way for free. Oh my god, honey,
Speaker 1: we will agree to disagree. I got two kids, I
Speaker 1: got college loans to slices. Just remember this moment. Who's
Speaker 1: a man of the people and a man of the slices.
Speaker 1: It's me. Right back to every tweet and Instagram d
Speaker 1: m from Rock and Steve that I give him my time,
Speaker 1: all right, well look at that, but you don't give him.
Speaker 1: You give him your time, you don't give him your dime.
Speaker 1: I move out of Jersey. He's coming after me. You
Speaker 1: don't give him your dime, give him you time, I
Speaker 1: give him me. Here's a shirt, Steve, come on, come
Speaker 1: on now, listen all right, And speaking of our merch
Speaker 1: store as we take a break here, um, there is
Speaker 1: there is this new thing we have, the sticker sheets.
Speaker 1: Go to Brooklyn Boys dot Big Cartel dot com. That's
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Boys, that Big Cartel dot com. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put up a picture on my laptop on my Instagram
Speaker 1: account at David Brody and you can see how awesome
Speaker 1: the stickers are. And as we told you last week,
Speaker 1: they peel off, they don't leave a mark. You put
Speaker 1: them back on, take them off, and there's a brody
Speaker 1: and scary sticker in there. And if you've got a
Speaker 1: scary and brody sticker, that's a mistake. Just throw that out.
Speaker 1: I fuck you. There's this whole sheet of stickers with
Speaker 1: other things, with everything on it, all our logos, all
Speaker 1: our fun stuff, d f s, seven different colors, extra.
Speaker 1: So all you gotta do is sticks two items, any
Speaker 1: two items, and you get a free sticker sheet. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't count for buying two sticker sheets, that's right,
Speaker 1: any two other items You could also buy sticker sheets
Speaker 1: and nine nine the savings of about four dollars, So
Speaker 1: thank you. Go to go to Brooklyn Boys dot big
Speaker 1: cartel dot com. By the way, that's already one of
Speaker 1: it's the third biggest selling item already. Alright, I love
Speaker 1: it sticks stickers past all right. Do you want to
Speaker 1: hear the band DJ Live read that I'm gonna recreate
Speaker 1: or what you did yesterday? I want to hear. I
Speaker 1: want to hear both of those. But let's let's start
Speaker 1: with your beef with me. Okay, Well, it's not a beef.
Speaker 1: I want the slicest to know what happened yesterday. Okay, scary,
Speaker 1: don't interrupt? Scared Now, I sit at the end of
Speaker 1: the hallway right and my soul my chair. By the way,
Speaker 1: you're the interruptive one, except right there. When do I interrupt?
Speaker 1: Always you're fellow ship. Okay. So I can see from
Speaker 1: my desk at work down the hall, past the copier.
Speaker 1: So as people come down the hall they see me.
Speaker 1: I'm at the end of the hall. My door to
Speaker 1: my my office area is at the end of the hall.
Speaker 1: It's uh anyway, so and my my doors next to
Speaker 1: Elvis's door. So Scary comes around the corner walking fast
Speaker 1: like outside side, like an old person in the mall.
Speaker 1: He's speed walking and his arms are swinging and he's
Speaker 1: got the biggest grin on his face like they just
Speaker 1: brought pizza up to the radio station. And he's he's
Speaker 1: looking like you know, you had kind of cranes around
Speaker 1: a corner like you're looking. He's craning his neck, and
Speaker 1: I know he wants to get Elvis. So I say,
Speaker 1: Elvis in a meeting, Oh my god, oh my god, Brodie, Brodie,
Speaker 1: I see what's up across the street in hotel. There's
Speaker 1: a hot naked guy, s no shirt, naked everything. He's
Speaker 1: as clear as day's on the balcony. Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: come say it was like, um, his favorite baseball player,
Speaker 1: more celebrity. So I said, Scary, let me know when
Speaker 1: his wife comes out on the deck, and I'll call
Speaker 1: that's exactly it. Because where there's a hot naked guy
Speaker 1: and hot in shape naked guy, you know probably he
Speaker 1: was he was in shape. Here's why I said, I'm
Speaker 1: selling it. Because when there's a hot, buff naked dude
Speaker 1: in great shape. You know, he's dating a hot, buff
Speaker 1: naked girl and she's not too far behind. So we
Speaker 1: wanted to see how that was gonna unfold. So a
Speaker 1: bunch of us went up to the went up to
Speaker 1: the window, waiting to see if his hot naked partner
Speaker 1: would come out too. So it was the anticipation of
Speaker 1: it was kind of a prerequisite, a precursor that what
Speaker 1: are you trying to say that hold on? Hold on,
Speaker 1: hold that that I enjoyed staring at man as I'm
Speaker 1: okay with seeing man ass hold on, first of all,
Speaker 1: a hot, buff naked guy. The chances are the next
Speaker 1: person that walks out is gonna be another hot, buff
Speaker 1: naked How do you do that? Because because he's probably
Speaker 1: could be gay. Gay men work out, you know, they
Speaker 1: go to the gym all the time. They that guy.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying they're on hot straight guys, but
Speaker 1: you don't know a hot woman's gonna walk He was
Speaker 1: so far I've gotten off out of my chair, I've
Speaker 1: walked all the way to the window, and now there's
Speaker 1: a chance of me seeing two hot naked guys who
Speaker 1: are who are ripped in shape as you're going it out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that. That doesn't mean I
Speaker 1: I don't judge if you want to see it. But
Speaker 1: you were so happy, bro, are you gonna come see whoa? Okay, listen, that's,
Speaker 1: by the way, that shows that I'm comfortable in my
Speaker 1: own skin. Okay, you were throwing dollar bills at the window.
Speaker 1: I was, I was, I was, listen, I'm comfortable with myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw. It doesn't matter. I could see male nudity.
Speaker 1: I'll take a look. I'll see whatever it is, what
Speaker 1: it is, it's there, it's out in front of you. Fine.
Speaker 1: My point was it was and it was some fun
Speaker 1: action for that part of the day because no, well,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, there was nothing really, nothing
Speaker 1: exciting was going on on that block. But if you
Speaker 1: look in that window and then hotel windows, there's not
Speaker 1: a lot to happen, and someone's smoking a cigarette out there.
Speaker 1: But to see just a guy having a full on
Speaker 1: conversation and he was talking to someone. His back was
Speaker 1: turned so like somebody was somebody was in the distance
Speaker 1: inside the room that you couldn't see because it was
Speaker 1: so light out. How jealous were you? I want to
Speaker 1: see who was talking to because by the way, by
Speaker 1: the way, you don't think for a second that whoever
Speaker 1: he was talking to wasn't also naked, right because because
Speaker 1: who would stand there naked and have a conversation with
Speaker 1: a full clothed person. They wouldn't. So you know, the
Speaker 1: person he was talking to on the other side of
Speaker 1: the room was absolutely but ass naked. What what you know?
Speaker 1: What if the other person was the cameraman a woman,
Speaker 1: He's talking to somebody, so like so like it. We
Speaker 1: have to be equal. If I'm naked, if I'm naked
Speaker 1: talking to you, chances are your naked as well. No,
Speaker 1: you've got that wrong, pal. If you're naked, I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: That's you and I will never be naked in the
Speaker 1: same room. That will never ever happen, never, my god, never.
Speaker 1: But what you're looking out the window going, oh, I
Speaker 1: wonder if it's gonna rain. Oh look this traffic by
Speaker 1: the home tunnel. That's boring. Oh look the sign store
Speaker 1: is closed early. That's interesting. And you were running to
Speaker 1: tell Elvis because he's gay. You figured come look at
Speaker 1: the hot guys I was doing. So you did not
Speaker 1: come down the hall to tell anyone about the hot
Speaker 1: woman that might come out on the deck and the
Speaker 1: deck you came and tell Elvis about the hot guy,
Speaker 1: figuring like that would like a Brownie point for you. Elvis,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be very excited for me, so proud of
Speaker 1: your boy. Scary. I just saw penis and I'm you know,
Speaker 1: there's some penis out there. It's the boys, all right.
Speaker 1: So listen, we have to almost get out of here.
Speaker 1: So you wanted to bring something up, I know that
Speaker 1: on your mind. All right, I gotta take it. I
Speaker 1: gotta okay. We've been very high, high intensity this entire so,
Speaker 1: as you know, I drive a Dodge charger. I'm very
Speaker 1: fond of my Dodge charger. It's the fifth one I've had,
Speaker 1: at least them. I get a new one every three
Speaker 1: years because it's too expensive to buy it. From being honest,
Speaker 1: and so I know the car well. I drive with
Speaker 1: my left elbow on the armrest of the driver's door
Speaker 1: and my right and my left hand on the string
Speaker 1: wheel and my right hand usually it's like on the
Speaker 1: center console right, or on the radio, or on the
Speaker 1: gear shifter. Sometimes I can put my hand on the
Speaker 1: gear shifter like I have a shift, but I don't
Speaker 1: right because it's just comfortable. But my left elbow is
Speaker 1: always on the armrest, and in three of my five
Speaker 1: Dodge Chargers, I hear a crack sometimes, like there's a
Speaker 1: thin layer of plastic under the padding and it cracks,
Speaker 1: not from like me banging, It just cracks. And then
Speaker 1: you've got a dip. You dip, We dip, we dip.
Speaker 1: I dip. Put your hand up, dip. The leather armrest
Speaker 1: now has a dip where my elbow goes because the
Speaker 1: plastic cracked. But it's covered under warranty. I've had it
Speaker 1: replaced twice before, so I know the routine. I call up,
Speaker 1: I call up Dodge, my my dealership. I've been buying
Speaker 1: cause there for since right Jeep, cherokeees, Minivans, Chargers can't
Speaker 1: wait to steal the endorsement from you. No, I don't
Speaker 1: have that. They don't advertise. Yeah, okay, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you you bested. However, this car, it's part of the story.
Speaker 1: I did not buy from them because I got it
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, when there was a car shortage and
Speaker 1: I had to go to a different dealership forty miles
Speaker 1: away to get the car. I wanted what the options
Speaker 1: I wanted my guy, my dealer, my a guy, give
Speaker 1: me the car like I have been buying my car
Speaker 1: from all the time. I didn't buy the car there,
Speaker 1: but I get my cost service there, which they make
Speaker 1: a lot of money off of. Even if you do
Speaker 1: a warranty repair, right, well, you don't pay for it.
Speaker 1: They charge back to Chrysler. Right, so if they do
Speaker 1: five worth to work under warranty, they charge Chrysler because
Speaker 1: they give you the warranty. So the dealership gets their
Speaker 1: money back. Right you understand that, of course the dealership
Speaker 1: isn't honoring the warranty. The company and companies they just
Speaker 1: submit the coupon. Of course. Of course. So I call
Speaker 1: up and I get Maggie. Now, Maggie I've never dealt
Speaker 1: with before, very nice young lady. I tell her the problem.
Speaker 1: She oh yeah, I said, listen, well, I I know
Speaker 1: if I can come in if you want, and you
Speaker 1: can see the door part. I need the driver's side armrest,
Speaker 1: the leather armrest. It's like a half door armrest. If
Speaker 1: you want, I'll come in. Or if you want, why
Speaker 1: you can order it and this way when you get
Speaker 1: it in, I'll just come in and and make one trip.
Speaker 1: She's Oh, that's a good idea. I'll order the part
Speaker 1: for you. It'll take about a week, I said, fantastic,
Speaker 1: call me when the parts in. Okay. So she calls
Speaker 1: me a week later and she departs in let's make
Speaker 1: an appointment whenever you're ready, Mr brodieus. Okay, Maggie, and
Speaker 1: I make the appointment for Friday the twenty one, which
Speaker 1: was last week. And I say, you know what one
Speaker 1: thirties good for me? You know, I like take a
Speaker 1: nap after the show. I'll come around one thirty. How
Speaker 1: long do you think it will take. Well, it probably
Speaker 1: take about a half hour, but you know it could
Speaker 1: get you know, there could be a line. I would
Speaker 1: allow two to three hours. And said, you know what,
Speaker 1: there's a movie theater block it two away. I'll just
Speaker 1: go to the movies. Still done, take your time, beautiful.
Speaker 1: So I dropped the car for one thirty. I come in,
Speaker 1: I said to the guy who gets in my car,
Speaker 1: I'm getting here for the armrest repair. Yep, I go in.
Speaker 1: I see, I see Maggie, I said, Maggie, Mr Brodie out,
Speaker 1: you're here for the driver's armrest. Yes I am, I said, Also,
Speaker 1: if you do me a favor. My left rear tire
Speaker 1: has a very slow leak in it. If you could
Speaker 1: check that out, I'd appreciate it. Oh, no problem, he said.
Speaker 1: The lung lock is on the in the middle console.
Speaker 1: So just those two things. Armrest, check the leak. That'd
Speaker 1: be great. I'm losing a little bit of air. Wonderful.
Speaker 1: I go to the movies. I go to see Nicholas
Speaker 1: Cage in The Unbearable Talent whatever the movie is where
Speaker 1: he plays himself. I give it a six and a half.
Speaker 1: It was amusing. It had had moments. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say run out and see it, but I
Speaker 1: had moments. So I come back. It's now, I know,
Speaker 1: close to four thirty by the time the movie started.
Speaker 1: It two with trailers. Movie started left. I get there
Speaker 1: about four thirty. They closed at five on Friday. Scary that.
Speaker 1: So I got there four thirty. I go to my car.
Speaker 1: I get in the car to see how everything looks.
Speaker 1: I get in the car and the armrest is still
Speaker 1: got a dent at it. I go, what the funk?
Speaker 1: I'm gone three hours. They didn't fix the armrest. So
Speaker 1: I go back inside and I say, hey, Maggie, Uh
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here. I'm sorry. While
Speaker 1: I was in the movie theater, she texted me, hey,
Speaker 1: your car. I'll be ready soon, but we don't have
Speaker 1: time to do the oil change because we're closing soon.
Speaker 1: So I wrote back, what oil change? I didn't ask for?
Speaker 1: It will change? Oh okay, then don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: So I get back and I said, well, i'll change.
Speaker 1: I didn't order and it all change. Well, we didn't
Speaker 1: do it. Now, had they done it, they would have
Speaker 1: charged me for I'll change, which I didn't ask for.
Speaker 1: So I said, hey, Maggie, the armrest wasn't fixed. What no.
Speaker 1: I got the work order. It says it was repaired,
Speaker 1: it was replaced. Come look. I take her out to
Speaker 1: the car. I show the armrest. It's got a dent
Speaker 1: in it. I don't know what could have happened. So
Speaker 1: I get in the car and and I said, let
Speaker 1: me sit. Look. Look Look where my dent is. Look
Speaker 1: and I put my right arm down on the center console.
Speaker 1: And the center console feels different now. The center console
Speaker 1: in a charger is a very wide leather armrest. They
Speaker 1: changed the leather armrest on the storage unit on the
Speaker 1: center console whoa, they changed the whole thing. They changed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they changed the whole big cover, pop up cover. So
Speaker 1: I go what what? Um? So sorry, Mr Brownie, we'll
Speaker 1: get that change. We're not we're closing soon, but we'll
Speaker 1: change you armress right now. Alright, alright, I'll wait, you know,
Speaker 1: all right? So we go back in. She says, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we don't have that part in stock. What yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: they put the wrong part in and they sent the
Speaker 1: wrong part and they put in the wrong part and
Speaker 1: we don't have the part. So I just wasted three hours.
Speaker 1: You don't have the part? Are you serious? I? So
Speaker 1: I said, all right, well listen, if we have to
Speaker 1: reschedule this and I have to give up another three hours,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give me at least two world changes,
Speaker 1: because that's like I use um synthetic. It's like fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to give me a couple oil changes
Speaker 1: for free. Because I just wasted my time. She says, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me let me get my supervisor and
Speaker 1: I'll I'm so sorry, won't wake this right. So I'm
Speaker 1: pacing at this point, but I didn't raise my voice.
Speaker 1: I'm just like I have that look on my face
Speaker 1: like my day is ruined. But I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: yell at Maggie. Right, So now I want you to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, there's there's the the area where you
Speaker 1: drive in the sliding doors, and I'm on the other
Speaker 1: side of the sliding doors where like the five people
Speaker 1: sitting at podiums with computers that help people, Maggie is
Speaker 1: one of the five people sitting at a podium with
Speaker 1: a computer. So all these people now are watching because
Speaker 1: there's nobody else there at four thirty on a Friday.
Speaker 1: They're all just sitting there looking at me. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm human, but I'm not. Yeah, I'm not mad, I'm
Speaker 1: not yelling. I'm a regular customer there. So Paul comes out.
Speaker 1: Paul's an older gentleman, and he says, Mr Browny understands
Speaker 1: the promise that yeah, Paul, I just wasted uh three hours.
Speaker 1: My day is ruined. You guys installed the wrong armrest.
Speaker 1: He says to me, all right, first of all, stop yelling.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So I said, I said, Paul, you
Speaker 1: know you obviously don't know me. Well, Paul, I said,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I'm from Brooklyn, and if
Speaker 1: I was yelling, you'd know it. I'm calm. I'm upset,
Speaker 1: but I'm not yell ling. And I don't think telling
Speaker 1: me to stop yelling. I said, does that work to
Speaker 1: you with the women in your life to tell him
Speaker 1: like relax and calm down, because I'm more upset now
Speaker 1: he telling me not to yell. And I wasn't yelling.
Speaker 1: He says, listen. Uh, it's a it's an honest mistake.
Speaker 1: No it's not. He says, Look, you said driver's side armrest.
Speaker 1: That could be either one no no, no, no, no no. Dry.
Speaker 1: He goes, you're the driver. You put your arm on
Speaker 1: the console. Also, I said, I said Paul, when I
Speaker 1: made the appoint where Maggie, I said, driver's door, armrest,
Speaker 1: driver's side on the door. I was very clear. Nobody
Speaker 1: calls the console the driver's side. Both people in the
Speaker 1: front using O. God, if my car gets hit on
Speaker 1: the driver's side by another car, it didn't hit me
Speaker 1: in the center console. It hit me on the door.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? He says, Well, you didn't
Speaker 1: come in and have the car looked at first. You
Speaker 1: tried to save time, So I said, no, I called
Speaker 1: Maggie I asked her. Your employee said, I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to come in. He says, you're a regular customer here.
Speaker 1: You know the routine. You come in, have the car inspected.
Speaker 1: I said, you're saying it's my fault that I asked
Speaker 1: for the driver's side door to be replaced and you
Speaker 1: did the center console. I said, well, you have a
Speaker 1: half hour. Can you put in the arm rest? Oh,
Speaker 1: we don't have it. What Maggie ordered the wrong part. Oh,
Speaker 1: Maggie ordered the wrong part, and you put in the
Speaker 1: wrong part. So you don't even have the right part.
Speaker 1: So I have to wait two weeks for the part
Speaker 1: to come in. You want to come in, so, he says.
Speaker 1: So he says to me, he says hello, He says, listen,
Speaker 1: we're both This is a learning experience for both of us,
Speaker 1: meaning me and him. It's a learning experience for me.
Speaker 1: He says, yeah. He says, you know you didn't come in.
Speaker 1: Now you know you gotta come in. I said, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Maggie said, I don't gonna come in. I saved time
Speaker 1: by not coming in. She said, I have to. Oh.
Speaker 1: He says, ah, so you knew you were saving time.
Speaker 1: I said, are you trying to play got me like
Speaker 1: got you with me? Yes, I saved time, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't my intention to save time. I just trying to
Speaker 1: save you guys time. So then he says, God, listen, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we both took a loss here. What what are you? No? No?
Speaker 1: So that he he says, well, I paid for an
Speaker 1: armrest they don't need now it's in your car. I
Speaker 1: love how he tried to drag you into the mud
Speaker 1: with him. Yeah, so I said, wait a minute, what
Speaker 1: do you mean we both are at a loss here?
Speaker 1: He he goes, I paid for the armrest, I said, Paul.
Speaker 1: First of all, you didn't pay for the armrest. The
Speaker 1: Dodge dealership paid for the armrest. Second of all, your
Speaker 1: cost on the armrest is not my cost on the armrest.
Speaker 1: Third of all, uh, you can take the armrest back
Speaker 1: if you want. And fourth of all, you're gonna charge
Speaker 1: Chrysler for the armrest that you installed as a warranty repair.
Speaker 1: So who are you bullshitting? Don't tell me that you're
Speaker 1: you suffered. It's not your money, Paul, it's Mr Blahba
Speaker 1: Blush who owns the bumba ba dealership. Right, it's not
Speaker 1: your money. And so then he says to me, he says, listen,
Speaker 1: you tried to cut corners. I tried to cut corners.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about. You wasted my whole day.
Speaker 1: He goes, We don't waste you all day, sir. You've
Speaker 1: only been here an hour. What I got here four
Speaker 1: hours ago, and that is my whole day. I was
Speaker 1: sleeping in the morning and I was working. This is
Speaker 1: my whole day. I could have spent it with my
Speaker 1: daughter who gets out early on Fridays, but instead I'm
Speaker 1: here now I have to come back. So then, so
Speaker 1: then he says to me, he says, you know what,
Speaker 1: he didn't even buy the car here. What what what
Speaker 1: difference does it make? I didn't buy the car here.
Speaker 1: I've bought twenty cars here. Now you're gonna hold this again.
Speaker 1: So you're saying you funked up my dry he says,
Speaker 1: sw you off the curse. No, I do need to
Speaker 1: curse now. Now keep in mind, I'm not yelling at
Speaker 1: I'm not young. I'm yelling now, but I wasn't yelling them,
Speaker 1: you know what. And I'm looking around, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: hope nobody's filming me, because you know, everyone films the
Speaker 1: person who's causing a scene. So I'm trying hard not
Speaker 1: to cause a scene. So I'm like, I'm talking through
Speaker 1: my teeth, but I'm not yelling. I'm like, are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Paul? What does it have to do with
Speaker 1: the fact I bought the call here or not? You
Speaker 1: have to fix my car properly? Do you want me
Speaker 1: to call Dodge and tell them that you funked up
Speaker 1: my car because I didn't buy the car here? Dodge
Speaker 1: doesn't care. The whole point is you want me to
Speaker 1: service the car here? You make more money. Do you
Speaker 1: know they make more money of service repairs than the
Speaker 1: actual cars when when yours of co wors that's where
Speaker 1: they get when you buy the car. They're like, oh
Speaker 1: here's a free oil. Oh my god, dude, my head hurts.
Speaker 1: My head hurts right now. And I said, so, what's
Speaker 1: the outcome here? What is that? Where are we going
Speaker 1: with this? So I said, So, I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go tell my sales guy Joe what you're doing here,
Speaker 1: because he said, I'm a regular customer for a long Dice,
Speaker 1: and I've been buying costs you a lot longer than
Speaker 1: you work here. Paul. And you know what, except for you,
Speaker 1: I'll probably be buying costs you long after you're gone,
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna be here much longer. I said, when.
Speaker 1: And I know I'm exciety asked for the supervisor, the
Speaker 1: guy runs the whole day. That's uh, Roger. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back tomorrow and talk to Roger. He's like, listen,
Speaker 1: let's listen, listen, we're gonna work something out. I said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna give me two oil changes when I come back.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get credit me for too oil changes. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna install my armrest. Here's oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: here's what I'll do for you. You're gonna come in
Speaker 1: and I'll install your armrest for you as fast as possible.
Speaker 1: That that's not even as not even. So, I said,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not even How do you figure? I go? Well,
Speaker 1: where do I get my four hours back that I
Speaker 1: wasted today? You gotta give me oil changes for my trouble.
Speaker 1: That's unheard of. Oh it's not. It's called and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a book written about it someday. Right, So,
Speaker 1: So I said, So, I said, see the I see
Speaker 1: these guys. They all know me. I said, they know
Speaker 1: I'm a regular customer. I said, hey, is this the
Speaker 1: way Roger would run things? And they were all looking like,
Speaker 1: don't bring us into it. So then said, then Roger
Speaker 1: has me goes, come here, let me talk to you.
Speaker 1: Because now I'm like, I'm setting him up right, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm shipping fire. So we go out to
Speaker 1: the area where you pull the cars in. We go
Speaker 1: through the sliding doors, the doors, and he goes, listen, man, listen,
Speaker 1: here's what I'm gonna. Here's I go another thing. I go,
Speaker 1: and you didn't fix my flat either, did you? He says, no,
Speaker 1: we didn't fix the flat because we we we uh,
Speaker 1: we didn't find the flat. I said, I told you
Speaker 1: when I came in, there's no flat. I said, it's
Speaker 1: not seated on the rim properly. It needs to be
Speaker 1: reseated on the rim. I told you. I told Maggie that.
Speaker 1: Oh she didn't tell us that. So he gets me
Speaker 1: to say, goes, listen, man, listen, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be upset. You're obviously upset. Listen between you and me.
Speaker 1: You come in next time, I'll give you a free
Speaker 1: oil change. We'll take care of you. All change and
Speaker 1: I put them. I'm gonna put some nights, uh, some
Speaker 1: nitrogen and your tires. It will slow the lead down,
Speaker 1: will check the rim for you, no charge and floor
Speaker 1: mat floor mats. Get the floor mats. Yeah, so I said,
Speaker 1: I said, well, that's nice to you, but you just
Speaker 1: made me yell for twenty minutes. So now I want
Speaker 1: to I want to all changes. So he goes. He goes,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, give it to all changes, just please.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be upset. I said, you want
Speaker 1: to be a set. You've been upsetting me for the
Speaker 1: best twenty minutes. He's like, no, no, he's you're a
Speaker 1: good guy. I know you come me all time and
Speaker 1: you got a cool I love to go out the
Speaker 1: rims on your call really nice. And he's he starts
Speaker 1: smoozing me and he's like, you know how it is.
Speaker 1: It's a Friday. You know, guys are tired. You know
Speaker 1: mistakes happen. I said, you know, I understand that. I
Speaker 1: understand that. Uh did you get your free dessert from
Speaker 1: Paul So? Or you're gonna end up with a few
Speaker 1: Paul So No so So not only do I get
Speaker 1: the free nitrogen which costs like forty in my time? Nice,
Speaker 1: I get two oil changes of that's a hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, but I'm still giving you a fuck you, Paul,
Speaker 1: because you made me jump through fucking hoops and everybody
Speaker 1: thinks I'm a crazy. We have a happy recap, a
Speaker 1: happy ending. Brodie. He gave you a hand job. He
Speaker 1: gave me the hand job. I had a fucking buy
Speaker 1: him dead. Oh you didn't buy the cab one? What
Speaker 1: would you have done if? He said? And you didn't
Speaker 1: even buy the car? Here, Brodie, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you other than sometimes people are in the
Speaker 1: in the thick of it, are gonna say things that
Speaker 1: they don't know the answers to, or you're just gonna
Speaker 1: be throw He threw Maggie under the bus so badly.
Speaker 1: He's like, listen, it sounds like, well, that's what that's
Speaker 1: that's what I was about to say. Maggie sounds like
Speaker 1: she's the one that's gonna be fucking she got rolled
Speaker 1: over by everybody. Here's the follow up. So he tells me, goes, listen,
Speaker 1: Maggie's new here, we'll talk to her. Made a mistake.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. When she she screwed up, I'm sorry whatever, like, okay,
Speaker 1: no problem. Now I want Here's the one thing I
Speaker 1: didn't tell you. When I dropped off my key fob.
Speaker 1: It was my my extra key fob, not my main
Speaker 1: key fob. So because I didn't want to give up
Speaker 1: my my house keys or take it off, so I
Speaker 1: gave him the garage one that I used at work
Speaker 1: for the garage. So I gave her the key fob.
Speaker 1: So I drive off in my car with my regular
Speaker 1: house keys and key fob. I get, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: a hundred yards away and realized I gotta go back
Speaker 1: to my key fob. So I go back and I
Speaker 1: come in the stores, but they don't hear me because
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like the stores, like ten twenty feet away
Speaker 1: the far the farther end of the way, and I
Speaker 1: hear him going to talk. He's huddled now with four
Speaker 1: people at Maggie's desk and they don't see me, and
Speaker 1: I hear him yelling at horror and he's going, do
Speaker 1: you see where you cost me? This guy? I got
Speaker 1: by two oil changes now and I can't get nitrogen
Speaker 1: because you wanted the wrong part, and and and and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I threw under the bus, but this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: This guy, you messed up? Is you ordered the wrong part?
Speaker 1: I put them apart in I gotta pay for the part.
Speaker 1: And I walk up and go, hey, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 1: And what I by all means keep talking about me?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Did you get to the part yet where
Speaker 1: I was? I yelled, and I was, Now you're rubbing
Speaker 1: it in their face? Yep? He goes, no, No, why
Speaker 1: we weren't gonna say that, because there's three people that
Speaker 1: that weren't there before. I go, hey, just see you,
Speaker 1: just see you know I didn't raise my voice at
Speaker 1: all when he tells the story. Uh, And I ended
Speaker 1: up right and I got to all changes at a
Speaker 1: deal to prove I'm right. If you have a nice day, everybody. Maggie,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry Maggie. And she had this look on
Speaker 1: her face like help me, help me, rescue me. So
Speaker 1: Paul threw her under the bus and then let her
Speaker 1: for good because ship rolls downhill. And all I had
Speaker 1: to say was I'm sorry, Maggie made a mistake. How
Speaker 1: can I make it right? Instead tells me it's my fault. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, that ship don't fly with people like
Speaker 1: us because we're from Raclan, Paul Boys, Bland Boys,