Speaker 1: There's two boys in this South for blin boys in
Speaker 1: this South, Boys in this South, boys in this souse.
Speaker 1: There's two boys in this South, boys in this house,
Speaker 1: boys in this South. This. Yeah, I feel like we
Speaker 1: need if we're gonna make that a show intro alternate,
Speaker 1: I think we need more of lyrics for it, don't
Speaker 1: you drink? I have the lyrics. I'm stuck on one line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I can, Maybe I can help you right here
Speaker 1: on the podcast episode. I don't do that. No, No,
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't share, you don't share. No, I
Speaker 1: write stuff by myself. But I'll try to finish it
Speaker 1: this week and have it ready for next week. Episode
Speaker 1: one fifty two. It's the Broken Boys now Wednesday. It
Speaker 1: is WHATP Wednesday, which is why we play that intro,
Speaker 1: because we're doing this on a Wednesday night, Wednesday night. Now, Brodie,
Speaker 1: why don't we run a contest where we could have
Speaker 1: the listener fill in the missing line. I think we
Speaker 1: can have several versions of it, you know, and and
Speaker 1: we go with the best one, which which will definitely
Speaker 1: be you. Yeah. No, I'm not. I'm not up to that.
Speaker 1: It's it's not my thing. I don't let's have some
Speaker 1: fun with it. Tell you what, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: I take pride in my parodies a lot like beyond,
Speaker 1: like I've written parodies twenty years ago that I remember
Speaker 1: the lyrics right of everything I've ever written. And so
Speaker 1: I I work in addition to the morning show, I
Speaker 1: worked for our comedy department at Heart Radio. And before that,
Speaker 1: I worked for a secondary company, a separate company that
Speaker 1: produced all my comedy that I worked for in the
Speaker 1: afternoons and we would then play it on on on
Speaker 1: the morning show, on the Elvis Show. But I had
Speaker 1: two separate jobs. But I happened to work for the
Speaker 1: comedy company that produced the comedy for the Elvis Strain
Speaker 1: Morning Show. What does that have to do with I'm
Speaker 1: telling you hello? Why would you know? I always have
Speaker 1: some place to go. So I had a boss at
Speaker 1: that other company who is now currently my boss at
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio, because he came over to our company,
Speaker 1: and right, we're following, ok So, he would have sometimes
Speaker 1: if he was like feeling hands on, he would he
Speaker 1: would look over the lyrics to my comedy scripts, my
Speaker 1: spoof commercials, my song parodies. He would go, huh huh, great, Okay, great,
Speaker 1: get it done. But every once in a while he
Speaker 1: would change a word. Well, he would say that's too risque,
Speaker 1: change that line, or he would take it upon himself
Speaker 1: to change a couple of words because he didn't like
Speaker 1: the way it was going, or he he thought his
Speaker 1: line was better. I can't sleep at night for weeks,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I would get my version produced just for
Speaker 1: me because I just can't stand other people tweaking my stuff.
Speaker 1: That goes back to the fact you're an only child
Speaker 1: and you you can't share. You can't You think Picasso
Speaker 1: let his boy his best friend come over and paint
Speaker 1: the ear on something, or painted the hands of a clock. No,
Speaker 1: he painted his paintings. I'm just saying you've done part okay, ahead,
Speaker 1: continue to references, work together. That was that thing, right,
Speaker 1: But John Lennon didn't say, Hey, I'm gonna open it
Speaker 1: up to the fans to write lyrics to my song.
Speaker 1: You've written thousands of parodies. Here's at the point is this.
Speaker 1: You offered it just now at the top of this podcast,
Speaker 1: that you're stuck on this one lyric, and I thought,
Speaker 1: let's turn it, let's turn it into a bit because
Speaker 1: I think the collective minds of the slices might come
Speaker 1: out with something better than anything the two of us
Speaker 1: can think of. What do you think that every time
Speaker 1: I hear it would be bothering me that I didn't
Speaker 1: finish it? So then why don't you write your own version?
Speaker 1: Then well that's what I'm doing. No, I'm saying just
Speaker 1: for ships and giggles. We put one on one year,
Speaker 1: one one one week. We say this is the one
Speaker 1: with the slices stuck on a line that I can't
Speaker 1: write it. I was like, oh, that line is not
Speaker 1: coming to me right now. I'll get back to it.
Speaker 1: And I've been busy and I'm procrastinating and I just
Speaker 1: didn't get to it. I'm not going to have some
Speaker 1: fun and we're having fun. I'm having fun. Sound having fun?
Speaker 1: This is You're sitting in your cold, dank basement. It's
Speaker 1: not dank, it's not danking. You have you have humidifier
Speaker 1: de humidifiers. Yes, yes, it's not dank down here. It's
Speaker 1: a finished basement. But I'm by the washer and dryer
Speaker 1: and the heat is off. That not glenfry. The heat
Speaker 1: is on, the heat is off. The heat is off.
Speaker 1: See where's that parody? By the way, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I one of our our slices. I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: remember who it was quoted a lyric and then thank
Speaker 1: the celebrity, thank the singer. The game we talked about
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, you know, like, but we
Speaker 1: didn't played our game, a little lyric game. By the way,
Speaker 1: did you um are you down in the basement with
Speaker 1: your hot water heater? You see that someone tweeted us
Speaker 1: saying they bought hot They bought a water heater. It
Speaker 1: says says water heater on it. It says nothing about
Speaker 1: the word hot. Well, let me explain you are correct, okay,
Speaker 1: that it is now called the water heater. They actually
Speaker 1: complimented me for for actually calling you out. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. They used to be called hot water heaters. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let me ask you a question. Scary the thing
Speaker 1: that your tires go on on your car? What are
Speaker 1: the centerpieces called nuts? No? Oh, rims? Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: they're not called rims. They're called wheels. Well, wheels. The
Speaker 1: rim is the rim is that the lip of it
Speaker 1: right right? When we when we grew up, why people
Speaker 1: called him rims? And when rappers used to say, I'm
Speaker 1: riding on twenty in rims. Right, nobody calls them rims anymore,
Speaker 1: their wheels, So I'm saying things change names. You have
Speaker 1: to adapt. So, yes, hot water heater not longer, but
Speaker 1: they used to be called hot water heaters. In fact,
Speaker 1: Stephen Stephen Wright, very famous comedian, used to have a
Speaker 1: bit what he'd say, why is it called a hot
Speaker 1: water heater? Who wants to eat hot water? Shouldn't it
Speaker 1: be a cold water heater? And he was right, it
Speaker 1: should be a cold water heater technically cold water, right,
Speaker 1: So yes it is now it's a water heater that
Speaker 1: is an adaption that people stream. But just calling you
Speaker 1: out that Listen did say that it's no longer, but
Speaker 1: we were trying to argue it's a force to have it.
Speaker 1: It's just like cars don't have carburetors anymore unless you
Speaker 1: have a car with a carburetor, right, Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 1: You're looking over your shoulders there? Yeah I am, because
Speaker 1: my dog just ran down to the basement. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? That means there's intruders above, That means he's
Speaker 1: a distraction. That's all okay, Well, so come on the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn boys whop you can't do a fill in the
Speaker 1: lyric by the listeners and now spent thirty eight minutes
Speaker 1: on this. I can't get through to you're so thick
Speaker 1: headed man. Now, when people leave Apple podcast reviews, they're
Speaker 1: gonna say they spend too much time talking about this.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Apple podcast reviews, keep those coming in, please,
Speaker 1: we love them, we want to see them, we want
Speaker 1: to don't forget about Apple podcasts because that's aside from
Speaker 1: my Heart radio, that's where we get the lion's share
Speaker 1: of our listen. Yeah, so and so, if you haven't
Speaker 1: left a review, five stars would be great if you're
Speaker 1: so inclined, if you feel it, if you're feeling it.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna steal an idea from our our former
Speaker 1: interns and friends at the Twentiesome Things Doing Nothing podcast,
Speaker 1: They now put up screenshots of people leaving reviews on
Speaker 1: their instant stories. We'll do the same. We'll do the same.
Speaker 1: We're gonna steal that idea. We've gotta go back and
Speaker 1: find the classic Ape seventy seven, the one that started
Speaker 1: at all. If you don't know who Ape is clearly
Speaker 1: not listening to orders. So now people have been sliding
Speaker 1: into d m s and I forgot all about this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I keep reading remonding to listeners, but no,
Speaker 1: I respond to them, but then I don't read them.
Speaker 1: We've got We've had some people say some nice things
Speaker 1: on the Brooklyn Boys podcast. Um, um, d M yes.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to just read a couple of those,
Speaker 1: just really quick, because I think this will brighten your
Speaker 1: day and it'll hit the reset button on this on
Speaker 1: your mood oh my moods fine before you read this,
Speaker 1: a shout out and a call out for help. Um,
Speaker 1: we would love for you guys to follow the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Boys Instagram account at the Brooklyn Boys Yeah right, because
Speaker 1: there's only what eight thousand followers right now, six thousand,
Speaker 1: and that's way below mine and super below Scaries followers,
Speaker 1: and way way way below how many people listen every
Speaker 1: week to our podcast. So we wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: get those numbers up. And that's also why I'm spotlighting
Speaker 1: a couple of d m s so up close, just
Speaker 1: just up close, said hey, I've been a long time
Speaker 1: listener since moving to the United States inven to the
Speaker 1: Big Show started Brooklyn Boys podcast a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and Glad I have so many to catch up on.
Speaker 1: You guys are hilarious, interesting, and I agree, a great
Speaker 1: general interest podcast hard to find these days, so many
Speaker 1: of them are so damn niche. I just want to laugh.
Speaker 1: Best to you and Brody ps as an English PhD
Speaker 1: slash pan college professor. I love. They go on to write,
Speaker 1: love is luv on purpose hearing the grammar police, but
Speaker 1: don't judge my texting. My thumbs are fat and texting
Speaker 1: is hard. Otherwise I'm a skinny short Pisano freely region
Speaker 1: and Sardinia f R I U L. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for a niche podcast, or niche if you prefer walkers
Speaker 1: and talkers podcast, Yeah, yeah, we have plenty of room
Speaker 1: for more listeners over there. And another one joined another
Speaker 1: one from the d M s uh Deep in the
Speaker 1: Bowels of the Brooklyn Boys uh Instagram after Brodie complained
Speaker 1: that you don't post about the podcast now, you're oversharing
Speaker 1: real slices know when there's gonna be a new episode.
Speaker 1: And that was um a comment to a picture because
Speaker 1: I reposted somebody's dashboard listening to the Brooklyn Boys that week,
Speaker 1: and obviously they're saying that I'm over sharing ever since
Speaker 1: you got into my head that I will promote the podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, well you know what more, people said they
Speaker 1: like when we promote the podcast. So yes, some of
Speaker 1: you know exactly when they go up. But like today,
Speaker 1: we're doing this on a Wednesday. It'll let you know
Speaker 1: it's a day early and it's not the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world. If you get an extra tweet or
Speaker 1: an Instagram store and a few more. We have a
Speaker 1: Jess J. Schichel Schieber on Instagram. Love your podcast and
Speaker 1: the Big Show. I'm in Atlantic City this week for work,
Speaker 1: and I would love to take my crew to see
Speaker 1: Halloween lights. Oopsa and that one's a little old. Any recommendations,
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, get back to me next October. I'm up.
Speaker 1: Oh here, here's where the fund starts. I'm a pilot,
Speaker 1: by the way, and when I listened to that one
Speaker 1: episode about clapping when the plane lands, I cannot care
Speaker 1: less if y'all clap, I can't hear it anyway, the
Speaker 1: cockpit door cockpit doors closed. However, if it's a bad landing,
Speaker 1: the captain will let you know for sure, So don't
Speaker 1: say don't say something about a bad landing. If you're
Speaker 1: a passenger. Chances are we are already internally punishing ourselves
Speaker 1: for it when we go up and like you suck.
Speaker 1: When they walk off the plane, well, they know they're
Speaker 1: saying that. Internally, they know they're like, okay, right, But
Speaker 1: in other words, they're beating themselves. No, no, they're beating
Speaker 1: themselves up in their heads. So don't so they don't care,
Speaker 1: they don't carry the way. They just saying, don't let write,
Speaker 1: don't let them know. They're just I have a plane.
Speaker 1: I have a plane question for you. Scary. I saw
Speaker 1: a video. Actually I've seen a few videos lately, but
Speaker 1: one in particular. People post videos of Karen's who won't
Speaker 1: put their mask on planes and get yelled at and
Speaker 1: kicked off the plane. So I saw one video on
Speaker 1: I guess it was TikTok, and the woman was causing
Speaker 1: a scene. She wouldn't put a mask on and people
Speaker 1: yelling Karen, Karen, and she she slapped the stewardess, the
Speaker 1: flight attendant in the face right, and then two very
Speaker 1: large men got up good out of their seats and
Speaker 1: said get off the plane. She was so frightened she
Speaker 1: got off the plane. So sometimes you gotta stand up.
Speaker 1: You gotta help out, you know. Yeah. Um also Vincent Yardo,
Speaker 1: Vinnie the Vinny the Guinea twenty one. I love it.
Speaker 1: Um made my day seeing the Brooklyn boys masks are
Speaker 1: made right here. It drives me nuts. The ship I
Speaker 1: find is made in China. He means right right here
Speaker 1: in the USA. Right. I'm a fellow Benson hers Dyka
Speaker 1: Heights Pison. I've listened to every episode most most more
Speaker 1: than once. You guys make my days go faster. Some
Speaker 1: of the ship you two get into, I feel like
Speaker 1: only uh one us would get brings me right back.
Speaker 1: One of us bringing brings me right back to growing
Speaker 1: up in Brooklyn. I'm in Freehold now that's New Jersey,
Speaker 1: but still have all my friends and family in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Keep doing what you guys do. Been listening to The
Speaker 1: Big Show since two thousand. Started listening when I was
Speaker 1: still in high school. Did either of you go to
Speaker 1: Zavarian again? Very local here and they're saying that he's
Speaker 1: I can't wait till the Rona Ship is over. I
Speaker 1: make brick oven pizza, would love to send some of
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he sends pictures of his brick ovens
Speaker 1: outdoor and look at these pies. Holy ship. Brody, Well,
Speaker 1: when we're back in the studio, absolutely absolutely, I love you,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Send pizza. Absolutely all right, let me
Speaker 1: read one and then we'll move on because we allot
Speaker 1: to get to and then later in this podcast, at
Speaker 1: the very end, I'm gonna do a roll call, and
Speaker 1: Brody and are gonna new roll calls of people that
Speaker 1: got their free I'm sorry, not free that they bought
Speaker 1: their merchant. Call of people who got free merch you
Speaker 1: can go on forever. We'll talk about that too. So alright,
Speaker 1: I want to just shout out Nicole Danielle. Nicole underscore
Speaker 1: nd I she you guys are the best. I'm following
Speaker 1: your rules and listening in order from zero and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to catch up. I'm on episode forty seven.
Speaker 1: She put a little uh see no evil monkey emoji
Speaker 1: hashtag late to the party, and she put a slice
Speaker 1: of pizza and a couple of hearts in blue and orange.
Speaker 1: She totally gets it. So welcome aboard again, I say,
Speaker 1: so many people have just started listening to the podcast
Speaker 1: and have like a hundred episodes to go, so hopefully
Speaker 1: by the time you catch up and hear this. You're
Speaker 1: you're still listening and your fan and that you heard
Speaker 1: this because you get a long way ago. So the
Speaker 1: first forty seven and everyone knows are the best. After that,
Speaker 1: who the hell knows? Um, Okay, so we we definitely
Speaker 1: want to get to you giving away free nice. But
Speaker 1: I want to play an audio clip because we play
Speaker 1: an audio clip real fast, because we didn't get to
Speaker 1: audio last two weeks. I think one piece of audio.
Speaker 1: This was on the news. This was a secondary level reporter. Um.
Speaker 1: She's not someone who's on a lot, but she was
Speaker 1: on and she was doing a report. I want you
Speaker 1: to listen to the report she Um. She's trying to
Speaker 1: say that a group of people was very gung ho
Speaker 1: about what they were working on right now. Gung Ho
Speaker 1: as you as you may or may not know, the
Speaker 1: name of a very funny movie from the with Pat Marina.
Speaker 1: I hated that. Let me let me I'm sorry, let
Speaker 1: me let me change that. A comedy called gung Ho,
Speaker 1: I think, directed by Ron Howard. I hated it as well. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I was I was thinking of Night Shift, which is
Speaker 1: very funny, but not gung ho anyway, gung Ho, gung Ho,
Speaker 1: has a long history of of a term, a couple
Speaker 1: of terms that were morphed into from from China. An
Speaker 1: Australian guy took the term, and then the Marines got
Speaker 1: ahold of it and they used the term. It means
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, I'm gung ho about it, g
Speaker 1: u n g space ho. Here's the reporter the same
Speaker 1: face and have a grateful exit. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: you can trust that with a Don Jr. And Eric Trump,
Speaker 1: where they have been much more aggressive, much more gun
Speaker 1: ho gun ho gun ho. Right, there's no mispus. She
Speaker 1: didn't like swallow the g It wasn't like she said,
Speaker 1: gung ho. She said gun yeah, that's no, No, that's
Speaker 1: not an accident. She she's applying that that the Trump
Speaker 1: kids who hunt are shooting, going after people with their guns,
Speaker 1: which they are not. I'm making a joke. She said,
Speaker 1: they're a gun ho gun ho. Yeah. No, she that
Speaker 1: that right. There is somebody who clearly like but that's
Speaker 1: what it was her whole life, her whole life, and
Speaker 1: nobody corrected her. Nobody has said, hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's gun ho. I haven't. I didn't, I didn't tweet
Speaker 1: her anything. I'm not the one to do it, but
Speaker 1: someone should, someone should say, hey, hey, honey, it's uh gung. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does she think gun home means like going like so
Speaker 1: excited they're gonna shoot at you. You're gonna shoot their
Speaker 1: guns in the air like they just don't care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I just so, speaking of grammar police, I hope
Speaker 1: our listener who was as a PhD appreciate that it's
Speaker 1: it's And by the way, if you are now tweeting,
Speaker 1: you were today years old when you learn this, you're welcome. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I got a scamboni. You gotta get easy. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: all right, hold on a second. Yeah, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: unprepared because we're going out of water. We don't do
Speaker 1: a sound and e and like emails and stuff and right,
Speaker 1: that's right. No, no, I recommended I recommended that everyone
Speaker 1: use gas station apps, especially during the pandemic. Well, you
Speaker 1: don't want to open your window, hand your card to
Speaker 1: somebody get their fingers on it, have to interact with people.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know, use gas apps. Will you
Speaker 1: just pay through the Apple on your phone. You never
Speaker 1: have to open the window. It turns the pump on
Speaker 1: for you. But I was hit with a Scamboni this
Speaker 1: week and when as soon as the music is ready,
Speaker 1: I will tell you what happened here we go there.
Speaker 1: It is so I am a big fan of BP
Speaker 1: British Petroleum, your BP gas stations. They are usually the
Speaker 1: lowest price of the gas stations in my area that
Speaker 1: accept apps. So I've got Snocco and Shell and BP
Speaker 1: and x on. Those are the main ones I use,
Speaker 1: and they never have to open open my window. So
Speaker 1: there's two BP stations near me that are very affordable,
Speaker 1: and then there's another one not near me, ten minutes away.
Speaker 1: But if I really need gas, I end up stopping there.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty cents a gallon more. I'm not paying that,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. But but if I really need gas, I
Speaker 1: might put in I don't know, dollars, you know, let's
Speaker 1: just give me ten dollars. I'll over pay in a
Speaker 1: couple of gallons, but then I'll go somewhere else the
Speaker 1: next day or whatever. So I go to this BP
Speaker 1: gas station and again it's not b peace fault. It's
Speaker 1: the guy who works there, or the guy who owns
Speaker 1: it made a rule, or the guy is just lazy.
Speaker 1: So I rolled down my back window right. I powered
Speaker 1: down enough that he can hear me, and I say, uh,
Speaker 1: the app, I activated the app, I showed the app.
Speaker 1: I said ten dollars regular. He says to me, that's
Speaker 1: not how the app works. You have to fill it up. Really,
Speaker 1: So I said, hold on, didn't we do this? I
Speaker 1: feel like we talked about this on this podcast. No, no,
Speaker 1: I have told you this. I may have told you
Speaker 1: the story that the guy said that to me. But
Speaker 1: here's my realization that I know, and I now know
Speaker 1: it's a scam. I fell for it once. I was like, oh, I,
Speaker 1: well I didn't I think either. I left. I don't
Speaker 1: want I don't think I filled it up at that price,
Speaker 1: so I think I drove off. Okay, he ended up
Speaker 1: back at the gas station and he tried that ship
Speaker 1: on me again. Well, well, the guy a different guy,
Speaker 1: but this time I was prepared scary. You know why,
Speaker 1: because I realized that the app and the pump I
Speaker 1: don't know when my tank is filled. That is true,
Speaker 1: if you think it through, right, If I get ten
Speaker 1: dollars nothing, the pump doesn't know that my car isn't full.
Speaker 1: What if my car only took ten dollars? So I
Speaker 1: said to the guy, just stopped pumping the gas at
Speaker 1: ten dollars. He didn't want to only sell me ten dollars.
Speaker 1: And he and he and he didn't want because maybe
Speaker 1: it doesn't let him pre set it. Sometimes when you
Speaker 1: get give me ten dollars, they pump it. They punch
Speaker 1: in ten dollars. You don't want to run up to score.
Speaker 1: He wanted to run up the score on you, right,
Speaker 1: or he didn't want to not be able to walk
Speaker 1: away and help somebody else, because you don't have to
Speaker 1: stand there and turn the pump off at ten dollars
Speaker 1: in convenient, I said, So, I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: just turn the pump off at ten dollars. It doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. Oh, sure it does, I said. The
Speaker 1: pump doesn't know whether the my tank is filled or not.
Speaker 1: He stood there for a minute, looked at me. When, Oh,
Speaker 1: because I busted him. Yeah, I busted on my busted him.
Speaker 1: So don't take any ship from people, especially if they
Speaker 1: try that bullshit with you that you gotta fill the tank.
Speaker 1: All they're lying to you because the tank and the
Speaker 1: pump they don't talk to each other. Another Scamboni is
Speaker 1: and and I don't know if if this is the
Speaker 1: case in your city where you live, If you live
Speaker 1: in a city, um, if you have a metered taxi
Speaker 1: camp service, the New York City taxi people they have.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't feel like running credit cards because obviously
Speaker 1: they get dang that they make less commission on it.
Speaker 1: So they'll tell you, oh, the credit card the credit
Speaker 1: card machine is broken, so you can only or you
Speaker 1: can only use cash pay cash only pay cash, which
Speaker 1: they obviously make much more money that way. They'll still
Speaker 1: run your meter. But then when the meter, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say it's like dollars and sixty three cents, and
Speaker 1: then you go and try and swipe your card you know,
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, or do a tap to pay.
Speaker 1: All they do is they have that feature turned off.
Speaker 1: You know. They could just turn it off and cut it.
Speaker 1: So this way it looks like, oh it doesn't work, sorry,
Speaker 1: cash please, So don't fall for that scamboni either. The
Speaker 1: cash the credit card machine almost always is working despite
Speaker 1: what they say. Well, you know what, I busted the
Speaker 1: Chinese restaurant in my house for the same thing. I
Speaker 1: called up. Normally I make a normal size order, you know,
Speaker 1: I ordered dinner for the family but every once in
Speaker 1: a while. No, no, I won't go back there, not
Speaker 1: because I'm banned. I mess stuck going back there. Foods
Speaker 1: terrible anyway, No, it's the place I normally go to.
Speaker 1: Husband and wife. You think after all these years they'd
Speaker 1: stopped trying to fuck you. Well, it's a husband and wife.
Speaker 1: The husband's name is David. He speaks uh English really well.
Speaker 1: Now never a problem taking the order, no problem. The
Speaker 1: wife speaks about English, so our vocabulary is limited. They
Speaker 1: can also get by on you that way too. By
Speaker 1: the way, with the the the not speaking too much English,
Speaker 1: Sting says, every time I out of a small, she
Speaker 1: claims out of a large, yeah, oh no, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know how it is right, And they hope to get
Speaker 1: you exasperated and wear you down to almost be like that,
Speaker 1: Fuck it, I'll just take the larger size or call
Speaker 1: up to order. And I only wanted two things. I
Speaker 1: ordered a small chow fund roast pork, no vegetables. I had,
Speaker 1: you know what, I have lomaine the day before Lomaine.
Speaker 1: They make a really good chow fun because it's got
Speaker 1: a little um, a little I'm not gonna say it's
Speaker 1: gravy because it's well like flavored grease, but it's it's
Speaker 1: got um whatever the brown sauce they used on the
Speaker 1: lomaine that used on the chow fund and it's very moist,
Speaker 1: really good chow fund. Okay, so I was I had
Speaker 1: a craving for chow fund, so ordered my chow fun
Speaker 1: and my wanton egg drop suit makes no greens or
Speaker 1: one word, and she says to me, okay, um, machine,
Speaker 1: no work? What machine? No work? What machine? Credit card? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Got that cash only? Cash only. So I'm driving right becau,
Speaker 1: I'm on the way. I'm on the way there because
Speaker 1: it's on the way to where I'm going. So I
Speaker 1: reached them right, well, or she's saying you're not spending
Speaker 1: enough to make it worth us paying the credit card. Right.
Speaker 1: Usually they say minimum ten dollar minimum, right, Okay. The
Speaker 1: bagel place near me has the same rule, ten dollar minimum.
Speaker 1: But if you get to like eight ninety, they let
Speaker 1: your slide. Right. It's an it's an ish, it's ten
Speaker 1: dollars ish. So I'm like, oh, the credit cards down,
Speaker 1: that's a shame. I have cash, but now I don't
Speaker 1: want to you know, pay cash handle change. So I
Speaker 1: get there and I guess she was figuring because it
Speaker 1: was it was Friday, around one thirty, then it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be busy. Well I walked in and guess what. The
Speaker 1: guy in front of me credit card, credit card, big
Speaker 1: bag of food, and I walk up says okay cash,
Speaker 1: I said, uh no credit card, No machines broken. I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into a fight with them because
Speaker 1: I eat there all the time a lot. David, the husband,
Speaker 1: looks up. He's over by the walk, he's over by
Speaker 1: the he's cooking behind and he looks up like busted.
Speaker 1: He looked up like, oh hi, like he didn't want
Speaker 1: to like come over and go No, we just me
Speaker 1: that complains and now he's about to bust us. No,
Speaker 1: I don't complain because they're awesome. They're my favorite Chinese
Speaker 1: restaurant takeout in the area. Well, maybe you should find
Speaker 1: another one because they're trying to get one over on
Speaker 1: you with a scamboni. They definitely tried to scambone to
Speaker 1: me on the cash only scam. So I'm just saying this,
Speaker 1: everybody scamming everybody, that's all. Just be aware of people.
Speaker 1: Everybody's scamming you, everybody's lying. Everybody rather than just tell
Speaker 1: me there's a minimum. It was easy for her to say,
Speaker 1: you know, machine broken for her, no work, that's oh
Speaker 1: the tangled web we weave when we aim to deceive,
Speaker 1: that's right now. I took a couple of sales people
Speaker 1: out for lunch, a couple of it was about a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago and now and here's and Brody it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was supposed to be me and two
Speaker 1: of our sales people. Now these are people that are
Speaker 1: smoozing them, so I'll get some work. Absolutely, I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's the way business work, Brodie. It worked in
Speaker 1: both directions. In the summertime, I took a few sales
Speaker 1: people out to dinner that did right by me all
Speaker 1: last year and they always and they're always looking at it.
Speaker 1: We went out to dinner, and then I did a
Speaker 1: second wave where some other people I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: let's go to lunch. Well I went to lunch with
Speaker 1: the with two of them, and it was just supposed
Speaker 1: to be me and I'm not gonna name them. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: the day that male and female a male and a female, yes,
Speaker 1: and on the female, male and female. And on the
Speaker 1: day of the lunch, about an hour before I, you know,
Speaker 1: we go there to where we were going. It was
Speaker 1: just the three of us. They said. The female says, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: can my friend come. She's a huge fan of the show,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know her. You you met her. Hold On,
Speaker 1: you met her a few times, so she wasn't she
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to pull a it's a fan awkward thing
Speaker 1: like bizarre. It was more. It was more like you
Speaker 1: met her before a couple of events. She's a big
Speaker 1: fan of the show. It's just an hour lunch and
Speaker 1: now I'm but but here's the quandry prody. Of course
Speaker 1: when I take a salesperson out, so so I actually
Speaker 1: and you know, they know you did not know the
Speaker 1: male and the female um salespeople. They both knew. They
Speaker 1: both knew that that I was kind of going because
Speaker 1: we've done this once before. You know. It was tradition.
Speaker 1: It's been tradition where I was taking lunch friend knowing
Speaker 1: you were going to treat yes, and I can't get
Speaker 1: a steak dinner out of you and everybody else is
Speaker 1: getting a free meal. It was a lunch. Hold On, now, listen,
Speaker 1: we went, We just went. It was it was it
Speaker 1: was a basic so what did you say to her?
Speaker 1: Don't skip over? So I said, oh, I'm like, and
Speaker 1: I just gave her the signal like this is this
Speaker 1: is the quote scary paying for you lunch. This is
Speaker 1: the scaries kind of treat lunch. Like hey, when we
Speaker 1: did this last year, this is like a tradition. So
Speaker 1: I'm taking this. I said, I'm taking you out. I'm
Speaker 1: taking you guys out. And probably the way, there's no
Speaker 1: reason why this male and female would hang out with
Speaker 1: each other otherwise, other than other than these aren't two
Speaker 1: people that are currently sleeping with each other at the office. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's only said the two salespeople that would never be
Speaker 1: so they know damn well that this is a business thing.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna pay. But then she says, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring my friend. And I'm like, oh, that's awkward.
Speaker 1: That's all. You don't do that because they hope you
Speaker 1: said no. I said, I said fine, I said, f you,
Speaker 1: you're worse than your girlfriend last week. I'm more matter.
Speaker 1: It gets better. It can't be okay, it gets better,
Speaker 1: it gets worse, it gets worse in your eyes. So
Speaker 1: we go, we go to lunch. Aster. So I was
Speaker 1: waiting for a moment that's that their friend would get
Speaker 1: up from the table and go to the bathroom. And
Speaker 1: then I was gonna say, hey, guys, look, you know
Speaker 1: I want to take you guys out. This is on me,
Speaker 1: but let's just divvy it up now and I'll then
Speaker 1: mow you back the money. So this way I can
Speaker 1: get around it and let this person pay her share, right,
Speaker 1: that's the fair thing. I don't want to pay for her.
Speaker 1: Guess what, the girl never got to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: There was never a moment that I was alone. So
Speaker 1: the bill came, and you know, I wasn't gonna let
Speaker 1: people dig into their wallets. So I said, all right,
Speaker 1: I got it. He's on me, guys, and like thank you, scary,
Speaker 1: but no time. But then I'm like thinking, like, wait
Speaker 1: a second. The woman that was with, you know, the
Speaker 1: female salesperson, is going to hit me back after we
Speaker 1: leave here and feel bad. Oh she should and say scary,
Speaker 1: Oh that's just terrible. You did that. I didn't realize it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I gotta give you back her portion
Speaker 1: of the money in the bill. At the very least
Speaker 1: she hasked to email you go, hey, thanks for doing
Speaker 1: that for my friend. Well she did that, but she
Speaker 1: didn't pay me back her portion of the of the meal.
Speaker 1: That's that's terrible, bullshit, terrible. But have you ever been
Speaker 1: in a situation where you're paying? And then I think
Speaker 1: I think we had this situ ration with the Morning
Speaker 1: Show once on a vacation where it was like a
Speaker 1: multi market deal and we were we were having dinner
Speaker 1: with people from other cities, and the people in the
Speaker 1: one city wanted to pay for the personalities in that city,
Speaker 1: but not the people in in our city because they
Speaker 1: were kind of together. It was a grouping of them.
Speaker 1: How I do I'm not gonna go further on that,
Speaker 1: but there's got to be awkward. There's gotta be ways
Speaker 1: of getting out of that situation. I had one of those.
Speaker 1: I had one of those, and it's it's a little
Speaker 1: older skewing in what happened. Um, I threw a birthday
Speaker 1: party for my mom about ten years ago, and so
Speaker 1: we invited some cousins, some friends of ours, and I
Speaker 1: think we had it in u We had in a
Speaker 1: big restaurant. We got a private room in the back,
Speaker 1: big thing. Right. So one of her friends, older woman
Speaker 1: had a home character ended right, like someone who lives
Speaker 1: with her and or comes to take spends the days
Speaker 1: with her and helps her get around in a wheelchair. Whatever,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, doesn't tell us she's bringing her right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the woman brought her daughter and healthcare attendant to this.
Speaker 1: The daughter wasn't invited, the home care attendant wasn't invited,
Speaker 1: but she originally invited her home care attendant. And then
Speaker 1: her daughter's trying to change your plans and was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can make it, I'll help you. So she didn't
Speaker 1: want to tell the homecare attendant she couldn't go, so
Speaker 1: she had both of him come and wouldn't you know what?
Speaker 1: They both ordered liquor? Of course they did. They don't
Speaker 1: wanted to fuck you, not wanting to drink as Morelda
Speaker 1: as Morelda had some kind of blue Hawaiian How did you?
Speaker 1: How did you get around that? I didn't. I had
Speaker 1: to pay the whole shot. Was I gonna do? Well?
Speaker 1: I was in a similar situation. I see, and here
Speaker 1: you are, Mr tough guy saying, oh no you can't.
Speaker 1: I'm pissed you you girlfriend, he said, there and you
Speaker 1: took it. No, I'll tell you why. First of all.
Speaker 1: I assumed that her friend would say, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pay for my daughter and and my home character tendant
Speaker 1: because they were already there. I didn't know there was
Speaker 1: showing up. She didn't call me and ask me. That's different.
Speaker 1: You got preemptively uh shipped on because they say she says, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll bring my friend. You're big fan. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: I watch a big fan, have her follow you on Instagram.
Speaker 1: That's how life works. Oh you know what? Like that's
Speaker 1: like like Elvis saying I'm having dinner with um Bobby Flay,
Speaker 1: and somebody go, oh, I love Bobby Flake. Can I
Speaker 1: go to dinner with you? Do that? Here's my friend Mike.
Speaker 1: He watches you all like twice a week. He's he
Speaker 1: loves you, big fan. Well do that. What what the
Speaker 1: sales person should have done was tell her friend, hey, look,
Speaker 1: we'll do this another time on a more informal night
Speaker 1: or afternoon whatever. But this is we'll go, I'll meet
Speaker 1: you at Starbucks. We'll have some call. You should have
Speaker 1: read between the lines. This is the sales payback kind
Speaker 1: of like kind of fun lunch. It's a business lunch.
Speaker 1: Business right, it is a business lunch. You know, and
Speaker 1: you can't talk privately about business when someone else is
Speaker 1: at the table. That's another problem I have when you
Speaker 1: mixed company like that. You know we're gonna have this problem.
Speaker 1: And it's not like your single. A few of us
Speaker 1: are going, Uh, the guys, we're going to the Butcher's Block,
Speaker 1: you know that place that we awesome looking place it
Speaker 1: goes someday, Yes, in Long Branch, New Jersey. Maybe steak
Speaker 1: They sell steak, Brodie, Yeah, they sell steak. Huh. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. Mhm m. We're not going with the
Speaker 1: COVID the COVID gang. All right, you suck because I'm
Speaker 1: about to I was about to invite you to dinner
Speaker 1: with us and to us, and I was going to
Speaker 1: give you your steak dinner there. But okay, I don't want.
Speaker 1: I don't want. I don't want COVID dinner. I don't know. No,
Speaker 1: So then we'll go another time. Yeah, so okay, So yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're doing this Butcher's Block and it's a few
Speaker 1: of us and then one of the guys is like, hey,
Speaker 1: can I bring so and So's brother in law And
Speaker 1: I'm like no, because he's connected to he's connected to
Speaker 1: this person and that person and if we're like ship
Speaker 1: talking and acting like guys, I don't want I don't
Speaker 1: want this. You know, we know he's like an outside source.
Speaker 1: We don't need a circle friend of a friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so on so many levels it's wrong. Yeah, don't don't
Speaker 1: mix company. I don't know, unless his wife just died
Speaker 1: and he has no friends, then that's different. Blue Hawaiians
Speaker 1: for everyone, Yeah, blue Hawaiian. Yeah. Well this as morelda. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let me um, let me bring up a dinner
Speaker 1: that I did sort of agree to. So last week
Speaker 1: you invited me to go to dinner. You're doing a
Speaker 1: big thing this couple of days from now at a
Speaker 1: very nice Italian rest wrong where I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of the food. And you said, oh, going out with
Speaker 1: a bunch of people, it's gonna be a big thing.
Speaker 1: Friends giving a Calandras, Italian village. In fact, why don't
Speaker 1: you guys book your table now and join me for
Speaker 1: friends giving. It's happening. Hit it, hit it this Friday night,
Speaker 1: Hit the full jingle, full jingle, the hit the full jingle.
Speaker 1: Now you did that on the Office Strand morning show
Speaker 1: this morning, and somebody texted in, hit the jingle Bach.
Speaker 1: Did you see that? It's friends giving Brodie. Okay, and
Speaker 1: then it's leading into your story. It's leading into your
Speaker 1: story because I know but that where it is isn't
Speaker 1: isn't relevant? Okay, So first of all, I wasn't we
Speaker 1: have we have plenty tables out there dining. Stop it,
Speaker 1: stop it. It's a great restaurant. The food, the food
Speaker 1: is excellent, and I'm gonna introduce you to the owner,
Speaker 1: so you better love the pastry. Let me explain. So
Speaker 1: Calandra's not doing a commercial for clandres. They have a
Speaker 1: bunch of locations. One is just a bakery, but this
Speaker 1: this one is it's a massive like it's a block long,
Speaker 1: practically huge parking lot in perfect place to social distance.
Speaker 1: They've got like a small restaurant that has like live music.
Speaker 1: Then down the hall is a huge open restaurant, a
Speaker 1: lot of tables and everything, and they have um prepared
Speaker 1: foods on the other end of the building. And in
Speaker 1: the middle is a huge bakery with amazing pastries. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm a fan. I'm not getting paid to say
Speaker 1: that anyway. So Scary texts me last night, You called me,
Speaker 1: calls me last night and says, Hey, listen the night
Speaker 1: of Zoe New York's jingle Ball, which is it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a Madison Square Garden. It's only gonna be on
Speaker 1: you can you can plug it in a minute? Hold on,
Speaker 1: he says, I'm booked to host a viewing party because
Speaker 1: it's only gonna be on the c W. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be on t you know whatever. It's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the on YouTube, on the law online. It's a streaming
Speaker 1: on Thursday, right, Oh, it's a Thursday. Okay, he says. Listen,
Speaker 1: we have feelers out for a moderately big name New
Speaker 1: Jersey celebrity, but we haven't heard back from them in
Speaker 1: about a week. It's not looking fine. Wait, I'm getting
Speaker 1: I tell my story, my story, okay, he says. This
Speaker 1: person hasn't gotten back to us. It would be nice
Speaker 1: if she could do it, but it's not looking good.
Speaker 1: And so they said, who would you like to have
Speaker 1: if she can't make it? So scary, says Brodie, I
Speaker 1: thought of you. Let's do a Brooklyn Boys viewing party.
Speaker 1: It's at the place that you didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to this week. You weren't able to go, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's and we're gonna be at a table by ourselves,
Speaker 1: will host it, will do some games, will do giveaways.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have like Brooklyn Boys, merchant Nie will throw
Speaker 1: it out to the crowd. We'll sell some stuff. It
Speaker 1: to be great. And I said, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. He says, Brodie, they want to give us
Speaker 1: a decent amount of money. Yeah, I said, really goes Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know you get paid for an appearance. And he says,
Speaker 1: you'd be getting this much money. I said, that much money.
Speaker 1: That's very nice to them. I will, I will, you
Speaker 1: know what, I will go and scary, like listen, they
Speaker 1: have the best safe COVID precautions. They really roped off.
Speaker 1: They keep people on a list. Listen, you guys know
Speaker 1: how how I am with this whole thing. Scary one
Speaker 1: down a list of all the precautions and I felt,
Speaker 1: you know what, this sounds really legit, really safe. I
Speaker 1: feel comfortable and I normally don't. I'm yes, I'm in.
Speaker 1: Yes for the precautions, Yes for the company scary and
Speaker 1: I hanging out, And yes for the money. I need
Speaker 1: the money, that's great. And yes for having inviting the
Speaker 1: slices to come on out Enjoy. That was going to
Speaker 1: be the big kicker, was we're gonna talk about it
Speaker 1: on this week's podcast and next week's in the week
Speaker 1: after and have slices finally come to an event and
Speaker 1: hang out with okay, and we were gonna throw T
Speaker 1: shirts and whatever. Okay, So Scary texted me this morning. Uh,
Speaker 1: the woman got back to was she's in your out?
Speaker 1: Well no, no, you were never in, and you gotta
Speaker 1: let me rebuttle this story because you're your facts. You
Speaker 1: went back, you went back to the sales guy and
Speaker 1: you said Brodie's in as long as she doesn't confirm.
Speaker 1: So I was in. Because it was over a week.
Speaker 1: She hadn't gotten back to us. Right now, when the
Speaker 1: woman got back to us, I was thinking, Hey, Scary,
Speaker 1: if she gets back to you, just say Brodie's in,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. But they got back to the
Speaker 1: sales people directly, and now I'm out. I got pumped.
Speaker 1: You didn't get bumped. You would never never second choice,
Speaker 1: You were never in. Okay. So so here's and now
Speaker 1: let me tell the story the way it really happened
Speaker 1: last week on this podcast. That was how I that's
Speaker 1: how we Okay, this is gonna be This was two
Speaker 1: events at the same place. A second last week on
Speaker 1: this podcast, I was talking about this friend's giving that
Speaker 1: I'm doing this frid Right, it's at the same place.
Speaker 1: It's Calondris, it's a sas. Just say it. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. And and I said, look, if that
Speaker 1: goes well, I said, they're probably also going to sign
Speaker 1: on for something for a jingle ball watch party. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now I didn't say that on the on our podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: I told you that in private, but on this podcast.
Speaker 1: The sales guy, he's the guy in charge of that
Speaker 1: client of of Calandre's. He he heard the podcast and
Speaker 1: he heard your aversion. If you guys will listen back
Speaker 1: to episode one where we talked about He's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not in. This is terrible. Like I was trying
Speaker 1: to get Brori to come to friends giving with me
Speaker 1: this this this Friday kind of test the waters a
Speaker 1: little bit, but he wouldn't even do that much because
Speaker 1: he's so hell bent against it. Hold on, wait, so
Speaker 1: then so our sales guy who represents the Calandra's account
Speaker 1: heard that. So he was in the background. So in
Speaker 1: the background I was trying to finesse. I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get this this reality star to come through. Okay,
Speaker 1: I said, she actually was. The ask was in for
Speaker 1: her all along. But but if he she doesn't come through,
Speaker 1: I said. That's when I told him, look what about Brodie?
Speaker 1: And he was like, dude, I listened to the podcast
Speaker 1: Brodie's not Brodie's not gonna come and then I kind
Speaker 1: of talked him off that ledge and I said, I said, listen, Vinnie.
Speaker 1: I said, you have to understand. I said, I went
Speaker 1: down the list. I'm a big fan of Vinnie's just
Speaker 1: just sort on the same page. So we all so
Speaker 1: so so. Vinnie and I had a sidebar conversation because
Speaker 1: I was trying to line you up in the event,
Speaker 1: in this event that the reality did I not do that? Yes,
Speaker 1: you did, in the event that the reality star couldn't
Speaker 1: make it or wasn't gonna make it. Remember, and I
Speaker 1: did tell you, Brodie. I was very forthrighted. And I
Speaker 1: also made me feel like the clock is taking it.
Speaker 1: I said, Brodie, the clock is ticking. I said, we
Speaker 1: haven't got online to it. We haven't gotten an answer
Speaker 1: from her. I said, she's not out yet I said,
Speaker 1: but but if she's out, you are in. And you
Speaker 1: knew that that was the deal, the whole the whole way. Yes,
Speaker 1: but but it was it was I I got the
Speaker 1: impression that she was that that you know that the
Speaker 1: clock struck twelve, she turned back into a pumpkin, and
Speaker 1: I was in, like Flynn, I'm in baby Brooklyn Boys
Speaker 1: jingle Ball viewing party. I'm in at one of my
Speaker 1: favorite area restaurants. Understood, Brodie. But the thing is, she
Speaker 1: was never out and so and so she was almost
Speaker 1: she was out in my mind, well so so. So
Speaker 1: the what ended up having was the her people called
Speaker 1: Vinny and said, hey, uh late word, she's in. She
Speaker 1: was never out, so but she was in. She was
Speaker 1: never in. She was on the outside looking in, but
Speaker 1: she was. The offer had been put out to her
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, before we even aired the Friends Giving
Speaker 1: podcast from last week. And then you texted me at
Speaker 1: ten o four today she's in your It's not bad news.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not it's just bad news for you.
Speaker 1: It's still news to me. Yes, it's great news for you.
Speaker 1: It's great news for Calandres. They gotta they gotta celebrity coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, Melissa Gorga from Real Housewives of
Speaker 1: New Jersey. She's a huge star in that world. And
Speaker 1: guess what, that's her local that's her local place and
Speaker 1: it's a great place. She was so super sweet. Um,
Speaker 1: she said, I gotta tell you, um, you know, you
Speaker 1: guys have been great to me jingle Ball years past
Speaker 1: my daughter, and so she said, yes, she'll do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm out. So it slices if if listen, you
Speaker 1: should go and meet Hard and meet Scary, you should
Speaker 1: still go. But for those of you that are thinking
Speaker 1: I'd rather meet Brodie, I appreciate it. That's all. I
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you to those of you
Speaker 1: that would have preferred me to go. But bigger name
Speaker 1: online too, and I totally get it. But she has
Speaker 1: a bigger name. She has a great relationship with the
Speaker 1: radio station, and I know for a fact she eats there.
Speaker 1: But here's the how how I felt good for a day,
Speaker 1: Why I was pumped, Why am I getting Why am
Speaker 1: I getting ship on? For coming up with the idea
Speaker 1: in an environment when you were resistant to come to
Speaker 1: be given like a horse that I was trying to
Speaker 1: even convince you and then I said, this could be
Speaker 1: a good idea. You like the water, and I drank.
Speaker 1: I drank it in. You drank before you invited in.
Speaker 1: Here's what I would have done. I would have called
Speaker 1: I would have called her people the minute you got
Speaker 1: off the phone with me and said, yeah, we already booked.
Speaker 1: We already booked somebody, so don't worry about it. I
Speaker 1: don't have to get back to us. We're good. Good.
Speaker 1: You gotta ship or get off the pot. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I got off the ship. You called me last night.
Speaker 1: You said you're ready to ship. I said, I'm shift,
Speaker 1: let's do this. I'm ready to shoot. So now I'm
Speaker 1: fucking turtle in and I gotta a text me from
Speaker 1: you that says you didn't want it out. No, you
Speaker 1: didn't want to sit on the toilet to begin with
Speaker 1: because you thought it had COVID, That's exactly. And you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to take here.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anyone at COVID. I just said you like,
Speaker 1: I'm still not dreen coomfortable. But then you explained to
Speaker 1: me in detail what their systems are and how a
Speaker 1: watch party is different than a than an eating party
Speaker 1: because I wasn't coortable. No, no, no, there's still gonna
Speaker 1: be people eating. It's still they still serve food. And
Speaker 1: the whole people is to like have people again. Once
Speaker 1: you once you not on the podcast last week, but
Speaker 1: once you privately explain to me what their protocols are.
Speaker 1: I was very impressed with their protocols. And even I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, if I'm gonna go anywhere,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there. I was very impressed by the
Speaker 1: level of protocol nest they have. And it's outdoor, heated
Speaker 1: openings on all sides. You know, It's it's like that,
Speaker 1: you know. But but at the same time, I'm listen,
Speaker 1: I'm excited that because this is a huge get. As
Speaker 1: it's a huge get to have her. We're very excited
Speaker 1: she's coming. She's a big star. I I I understand
Speaker 1: why you went with her. I'm just saying I feel
Speaker 1: bad for the slices who aren't gonna go. If you
Speaker 1: should still go, because it's gonna be a great night,
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. And you should still go. It
Speaker 1: will be a great night, and and they might show
Speaker 1: up for maybe some big clowns. I may show up
Speaker 1: for free. That's how much like the food. If you
Speaker 1: can get me a little chicken palm on the arm,
Speaker 1: chicken palm on the arm, I will come. I will
Speaker 1: meet Melissa Gorga, I will be thrilled to meet our
Speaker 1: I will hang out with you. Uh. And so if
Speaker 1: a lot of slice ago and I may show up,
Speaker 1: that's that's how excited I am about going that night.
Speaker 1: That's all so I said, and then and now and
Speaker 1: then the cameo this Friday, and also I may show
Speaker 1: up to the friends giving just to see the layout
Speaker 1: and see what's up. And made him say hi and
Speaker 1: grab a little palm on the arm, pom on the arm.
Speaker 1: And and that's just that. That's just having dinner. That's
Speaker 1: just a bunch of us just sitting there having dinner.
Speaker 1: So you know, so that's cool, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: well you know that's that story. I'm not a I'm
Speaker 1: not a I don't I feel good because well, first
Speaker 1: of all, we're in our zone right now in this podcast,
Speaker 1: and so we're talking to the very people that would
Speaker 1: love to do an event and come out. Um, but
Speaker 1: I would like to take a poll aside from this,
Speaker 1: if we were to do something with the Brooklyn Boys
Speaker 1: in these COVID times. What kind of response would there be,
Speaker 1: Would people show up or they scared? Because I know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the right time for us, for
Speaker 1: us to to do something like that. Yeah, only because
Speaker 1: one thing, if we're in an event like the ones
Speaker 1: that we've been talking about, where there's entertainment as food,
Speaker 1: there's uh, you know, there's a Jingle Bowl show on
Speaker 1: the big screen. But if we're the entertainment, we gotta
Speaker 1: do a podcast live without masks people who I want
Speaker 1: to take pictures and interact with us. I want everyone
Speaker 1: to be comfortable. I don't want anyone not to come
Speaker 1: because they're uncomfortable. But okay, we can wait, right But
Speaker 1: I just want to know at this juncture here we are,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not comfortable doing it. So okay, well
Speaker 1: then that's a moot point. But only because I don't
Speaker 1: think we can give our fans, our listeners the proper event. Besides,
Speaker 1: you know, people are gonna want to come from Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: and Massachusetts, you know, and a different drivable areas and
Speaker 1: they want to sit and spend some time with You
Speaker 1: can't you can't cross state lines. Right now, there's that. Um,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if we can. I just want
Speaker 1: to put a poll out there. Who's who's scared and
Speaker 1: who's not? Like, who would do it? Who can? I can?
Speaker 1: I can? I ask you your opinion on a free
Speaker 1: food story and slices. I'd like your opinion as well.
Speaker 1: I want you to put yourself in the position of
Speaker 1: this business owner. All right, Uh and tell me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, if they if they missed an opportunity, Uh, scary,
Speaker 1: you tell me how you would have handled this? Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: A woman who is a friend of a friend. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know her, but she's a friend of a
Speaker 1: friend and she is a fan of the show. Shouldn't
Speaker 1: listen to podcast to my knowledge, but she's a fan
Speaker 1: of the show. She hit me up on Facebook, my friend.
Speaker 1: My friend said, Hey, my friends just opened up a
Speaker 1: new business. She's a fan, and um, you know she's
Speaker 1: not that far from your mom where your mom lives.
Speaker 1: She may hit you up on Facebook. She wants to
Speaker 1: invite you to come for for lunch or whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, all right, maybe I pick
Speaker 1: up lunch, bring it of my mom's house. Whatever. It's
Speaker 1: it's probably forty minutes away from where I live, maybe
Speaker 1: twenty minutes away from my mom, so it's a little
Speaker 1: bit out of the way. So she hits me up
Speaker 1: on Facebook and she says, oh, I'd love for you
Speaker 1: to come in. The mutual friend of ours says, you're
Speaker 1: sometimes in the area, which is an exaggeration, but you know,
Speaker 1: sort of in the area, and make sure when you
Speaker 1: get there you tell my my staff that you're coming in.
Speaker 1: I want to come out and say hi. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to meet you. I'm a big fan. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'd love for you to come and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you're like the food and uh, you know whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: So at this point, scary, Um, would you be thinking
Speaker 1: one way or another about anything or just like, oh,
Speaker 1: she just wants you to come in. Nothing and you're
Speaker 1: nothing popped anyway yet so far nothing. So I d
Speaker 1: m her that I was coming in right well, yeah,
Speaker 1: on Facebook. I I messanged her and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for the generous uh you know invite. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: probably going to be in the area for dinner a
Speaker 1: couple of fridays ago. So that was, like I said,
Speaker 1: Then tomorrow was the next day at that point, just
Speaker 1: letting you know. He said, to let you know, Oh great,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'll be there. So I got there
Speaker 1: around four o'clock. It wasn't that busy. I told an employee.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, let's so and so. No, I'm here,
Speaker 1: because she said if I'm here, I should let him know.
Speaker 1: So I told the employee. He went in the back,
Speaker 1: came out and she said, oh, so and So says,
Speaker 1: HI didn't come out. So I was like, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1: She didn't come out. I said, is she really busy? No,
Speaker 1: she wanted me to say. She said, hi, okay, what
Speaker 1: all right? Okay, So I get the food and I
Speaker 1: ordered I don't know, or something like that, a couple
Speaker 1: of hamburgers, some sides, um, whatever it was, and I left.
Speaker 1: Now something's not ending up. Well, hold on. So she
Speaker 1: instant messaged me like that night and said, I hope
Speaker 1: you liked everything. Now it's it's a little weird she
Speaker 1: didn't come out. Number one. Maybe she was busy. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe she's on a phone call. I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying she should have. But you've been in
Speaker 1: this situation before, right you know the power of social media. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you think. And by the way, that's not why
Speaker 1: I went. Before you say it, it's not why I
Speaker 1: But don't you think she should have thrown in, like
Speaker 1: literally a free dessert or a coupon or taking ten
Speaker 1: percent off the bill, like you wait, you wait, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't go for anything. It's just no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, she invited you. You should come
Speaker 1: check out my place. Yes, you you, it's hers right,
Speaker 1: you showed up, you sat by yourself. No, I went.
Speaker 1: It was take out. It was taken Oh, you went
Speaker 1: in to take out, to take out, and then you left. You,
Speaker 1: you and I. Usually when people recognize us, they do that,
Speaker 1: they do a little something for you as a way
Speaker 1: to say like I'm a big fan, thank you, not expected,
Speaker 1: by the way, never expected, never expected. And then usually no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no. Usually when they do that, you know
Speaker 1: you may be more apt to, you know, post a
Speaker 1: picture or tweet about it that they you know, good service,
Speaker 1: good food. I will say the food was pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I I just found the whole thing weird.
Speaker 1: I found it weird. She doesn't know me, right, she
Speaker 1: only invited me to come because she likes the show.
Speaker 1: I went as sort of a favorite to invited you
Speaker 1: over Facebook as a favorite to you gotta come in
Speaker 1: to check it out, and didn't ask you, didn't ask
Speaker 1: for a picture, didn't come out. Maybe she feels like
Speaker 1: you're you're not there yet because of its COVID, right,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't want to. No, No, she could have
Speaker 1: come on, said high waved from behind the counter. No,
Speaker 1: I just found the whole thing weird. But do you
Speaker 1: think that's a strategical mistake on her part. I think
Speaker 1: it is an error. I think it is an error
Speaker 1: on her part that she wasn't a little more hospitable.
Speaker 1: She had David Brody from No. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but she had I don't know, somebody with you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, not that not it's not like
Speaker 1: it's a pay for play thing, but maybe maybe it
Speaker 1: would have posted up her food and stuff and been
Speaker 1: like excited. Not not that it's not that you do
Speaker 1: that for that reason, but you're excited to be in there.
Speaker 1: And by the way, surprise, you could have a million
Speaker 1: of the places you could have gone a day for
Speaker 1: take out. I thought out of how far out of
Speaker 1: the way, was it, Uh, it's about seventeen or eighteen
Speaker 1: minutes you away from my mom, So maybe it was
Speaker 1: like it was around a half hour out of the
Speaker 1: out of the way around the trip. Is it something?
Speaker 1: Is it a place that you would have gone? Otherwise
Speaker 1: you would have never trials would have never taken you there. Right,
Speaker 1: I would go back because the food was pretty good.
Speaker 1: But you know, I would have made a bit out
Speaker 1: of the free dessert, like I would have made a
Speaker 1: bit out of oh I have free dessert. I just
Speaker 1: I found it weird. But she didn't even come. She
Speaker 1: didn't even come out to say hello, like forget about
Speaker 1: the free part or any any like asters or any
Speaker 1: eight throwing some extras, And she didn't. And she didn't
Speaker 1: she didn't write hey, so sorry, I didn't come out.
Speaker 1: I had the pipe burst in the back. You know,
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, you enjoyed the food. You you invited
Speaker 1: me and said, oh, make sure you come and say hi,
Speaker 1: and don't let me know when you're here. And she didn't.
Speaker 1: It was a little a little weird, a little weird.
Speaker 1: Maybe she was star struck by not she wasn't. She
Speaker 1: didn't see me and I'm not gonna be star struck
Speaker 1: about I'm missing Oh my god, he's out there. I
Speaker 1: can't go out there right. And I just want to
Speaker 1: be clear. I didn't expect anything. I know. I just
Speaker 1: aprised by the whole, the whole thing, the whole. It
Speaker 1: was just a bizarre I would feel like I told
Speaker 1: my friends, told that point. I told my friend what happened.
Speaker 1: She's like, she didn't hook you up. She didn't not
Speaker 1: even hook you up, but just didn't say hello. Well,
Speaker 1: she didn't understand that party that. She's like, that's so weird.
Speaker 1: She wanted to meet you so badly. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess it was a bad bad timing. But did
Speaker 1: you go in the middle of like a lunch rush
Speaker 1: or something, clock or o' clock that's before dinner, right,
Speaker 1: I got there early, it wasn't during the rush. I
Speaker 1: just thought I would share that story because that's what
Speaker 1: we do here, we share stories. So that's all. It
Speaker 1: was just kind of a yeah, all right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel unfulfilled right now. I feel a little empty. Well,
Speaker 1: would you rather hear some some free ship from me stories? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And just just a couple of minutes, boy and scary hey,
Speaker 1: before we do free ship for us or free ship
Speaker 1: for you, I didn't get dick. Yes, well, I know
Speaker 1: you're still trying though. Yeah, every day become a little
Speaker 1: bit more flexible every day. So here in the area,
Speaker 1: we have a a store called Fairway, or we had
Speaker 1: a store called Fairway, which leads me to my story.
Speaker 1: There's a great supermarket. It was a supermarket for groceries.
Speaker 1: It was a featured very often on Impractical Jokers. So
Speaker 1: they're all gone in this area now. And they went
Speaker 1: out of business, they went bankrupt, whatever they did. Fair
Speaker 1: went away, but they but they there's one. There's one
Speaker 1: that exists in the city. It's still there. The sign
Speaker 1: is still ups and it's in Manhattan. Yeah, in the state.
Speaker 1: When I say the city in Manhattan, you guys know
Speaker 1: that we live in the suburbs of Manhattan. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: so um. I had a non expiring fifty gift card.
Speaker 1: I'm holding it right here. I left it. I left
Speaker 1: it here on my desk because to remind myself that
Speaker 1: I have to bring this up on the podcast. Now,
Speaker 1: we all know Scotty be the king of coupons, who's
Speaker 1: on a big Well, some of you don't know him,
Speaker 1: but he's also on the serial Killers podcast. He's he is,
Speaker 1: he is. Do you think Brody gets free dessert? Good God.
Speaker 1: Scotty b is a coupon clipper from way back and
Speaker 1: has literally a suitcase full of them, and they pay
Speaker 1: him to take groceries home. That's how great he gets
Speaker 1: free groceries. He doesn't get free shot like he gets groceries.
Speaker 1: It is different lane. It's the Express lane, supermarket lane. Joe.
Speaker 1: Ten items are less and I gave the card to him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, dude, come on man, after the show
Speaker 1: one day, go get us some groceries at Fairway. The
Speaker 1: last remaining one here fifty dollars. Let's go. Let's get
Speaker 1: what we need for the morning show, because we worked
Speaker 1: together in the morning still and you know where he's.
Speaker 1: He comes in and he's like, dude, I can't do
Speaker 1: that because they went out of business. I said the
Speaker 1: one in the city didn't. He was, oh, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was a different company now everything. I'm like, dude, I
Speaker 1: don't know about this. He was resistant for the first
Speaker 1: time ever, he turned down free money. And he's like,
Speaker 1: because he's like you, Brodie, He'll fight till the toll
Speaker 1: the death and he's I said, emailed him something website.
Speaker 1: Come on, he goes, He goes, All I did was
Speaker 1: was I I could look into it. And then he
Speaker 1: gets back to me an hour later. Yea, I punched
Speaker 1: it into the website. The numbers, nothing matches, everything's off.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take it. It's rejected, it's over, it's garbage.
Speaker 1: And he goes to go throw it away. I'm like,
Speaker 1: go give me that. I'm like, wait a second, I said,
Speaker 1: David Brody will find Way absolutely so apparently this is
Speaker 1: He says, this gift art is no good. I disagree
Speaker 1: with him. I think that even though Fairway went out
Speaker 1: of business largely, that one store still standing, and even
Speaker 1: if it's owned by a different company and sold in
Speaker 1: the background, that's not customer facing. I don't see that.
Speaker 1: I'm still a consumer, and I see their fucking logo up.
Speaker 1: When there's a buyout like that, they usually make it
Speaker 1: public or they put it on their website that they
Speaker 1: will accept gift cards from the old regime up until
Speaker 1: a certain date. Well, this just happened recently. I think
Speaker 1: this is still good till the end of the year.
Speaker 1: But who the hell am I? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: could throw it away and call them and ask them.
Speaker 1: He called them that he did go that and and
Speaker 1: but he got some some you know, some random on
Speaker 1: the corporate office. You tell him your aunt was dying
Speaker 1: and the last thing she did was give it his card.
Speaker 1: Or it's your aunt, she's dying, and this is the story.
Speaker 1: You know what your hard care a tenant es Morelda
Speaker 1: needs the fifty dollars to buy Blue Hawaiian Alliance. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But what do you think? How would you
Speaker 1: handle it? You just call them up? Or would you
Speaker 1: just show up in the store and ask to speak
Speaker 1: to the manager. Well, you can do one or two things.
Speaker 1: Put on your Karen wig. Let's go. You can. You
Speaker 1: can call corporate, get a name, hang up, go to
Speaker 1: the store. And when you get to the register and
Speaker 1: they go, oh, we don't accept that, you go whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I spoke to Marjorie Operated seven to nine and he
Speaker 1: assured me, assured me I could use this. Well, she's mistaken. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm already here. You gotta honor it. And at the
Speaker 1: very least you haven't give you twenty five dollars for it.
Speaker 1: At the very least you fight it and you go, well,
Speaker 1: at least give me, give me something. I mean, I
Speaker 1: came here specific you would just you wouldn't just say
Speaker 1: you know what, fuck it and just leave your grocery
Speaker 1: and walk away, leave the grocer talking to walk away.
Speaker 1: Just take it, accept it. No, I would. I would
Speaker 1: get that they'd take it. Oh you bet your ask
Speaker 1: they take it. Oh, I bet they'd take it. I
Speaker 1: would tell him who I am. I'm the guy who
Speaker 1: paid full price for Hamburg. There. If you think for
Speaker 1: a minute I'm not using this card, you're crazy. I don't.
Speaker 1: All right, well it's just a little thing there. So
Speaker 1: I've had that happen to me. I I get them
Speaker 1: to take the card. I mean, I mean, think about
Speaker 1: all the money we waste in gift cards where they
Speaker 1: just go. Now it's illegal for them to expire. It
Speaker 1: used to be they would expire in you a fund
Speaker 1: it is, yeah, gives inspire. No, gift cards don't expire.
Speaker 1: Is that easily when he's that across the board rule
Speaker 1: like federally, like he's a yes, Yes, gift cards don't expire.
Speaker 1: Merchandise credits might expire, I think some do, but gift
Speaker 1: cards don't talk about that, Brody, we better check into that.
Speaker 1: I'll check into it right now. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: like a nationwide blanket statement that. Do you think it's
Speaker 1: just my neighborhood. Well, I don't think that every food chain,
Speaker 1: in every place that you get a gift card from,
Speaker 1: or store or clothing store. I don't think that it.
Speaker 1: I don't think they all have that policy, or unless
Speaker 1: they're forced to. But I don't know that that would
Speaker 1: be have to be a federal law. But I've never
Speaker 1: heard of that they can expire whenever the hell they want.
Speaker 1: Well whatever, well, we don't have to. It says it
Speaker 1: can't expire within Okay. I don't know how this is
Speaker 1: from two eleven. So let me look when do your
Speaker 1: gift cards expire? From nerd wallet? Okay? So by law,
Speaker 1: let's see, money on a gift card cannot expire for
Speaker 1: at least five years from the date the card was purchased,
Speaker 1: perfect or from the last date money was added onto
Speaker 1: the card. According to the FTC, many cards won't have
Speaker 1: an expiration date, but check the fine print so you
Speaker 1: don't hang onto us too long. Expiration dates must be
Speaker 1: clearly disclosed on the card. Keep your options open if
Speaker 1: you're not so hard about gift I had read that
Speaker 1: they changed the law at one point because they used
Speaker 1: to expire, so I guess maybe they made the law
Speaker 1: five years alright, right, all right? Cool. Also, there used
Speaker 1: to be some really great websites that you don't have
Speaker 1: to tweet me because just google it where you could
Speaker 1: exchange gift cards, Like if I got a gift card
Speaker 1: to Amazon, I could swap with somebody for a gift
Speaker 1: card to Best Buy. Card swaps, yeah, card swap sites?
Speaker 1: Is that like white swap? No? Did you bang them? See?
Speaker 1: That's what I have to listen in order, all right,
Speaker 1: So let me tell you how I got stuff for free.
Speaker 1: I hadn't counted on all right, So this story is
Speaker 1: a is A is a over a month old because
Speaker 1: it was it relates to my swimming pool, but I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to it. I keep telling you I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get to it, and then after that then we roll
Speaker 1: out of here. So I have two stories. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to back them, like, and we didn't do
Speaker 1: the names people bought merchants. That's the last thing we
Speaker 1: have to do. So tell your stories real quick, all right.
Speaker 1: So my pool vacuum got the cable. Even though it
Speaker 1: has a floating device on it has a little floater
Speaker 1: on the on the cable so that that the vacuum
Speaker 1: doesn't roll over the cable and tangle in it. It
Speaker 1: did it anyway, even though I bought this particularly unit
Speaker 1: because it says tangle free floating cable. It got caught
Speaker 1: up in the wheels. So in order to get it out,
Speaker 1: it's not always as easy as when it goes in.
Speaker 1: You gotta pull it through and pull it through, and
Speaker 1: one end is thick and it doesn't fit, and it's
Speaker 1: just a nightmare. So I I yanked it and pulled
Speaker 1: it in the whole thing, the cable in my vacuum
Speaker 1: cleaner by the white pervert, and I finally got it
Speaker 1: out and untangled. And then I noticed there was a
Speaker 1: short in the cable. It no longer worked right. So
Speaker 1: I'm under warranty. I got a three year warranty on
Speaker 1: so I call my I call the company and they say,
Speaker 1: we're back ordered. We don't have any cables. What we
Speaker 1: don't have any cables COVID nineteen out of production. We
Speaker 1: don't have the cables. I said, there you are cables
Speaker 1: you have to call a local distributor local repair store.
Speaker 1: So I call the local repair store. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: say to me, we'll order it, no problem, give us
Speaker 1: you're in formation. Should it should take about a week.
Speaker 1: So I said, now, wait a minute. I can't be
Speaker 1: without my pool vacuum for a week. What I was
Speaker 1: doing was I'd have to like jiggle the cable so
Speaker 1: it would be in the perfect spot where the thing
Speaker 1: would go on. But then like if it moved a
Speaker 1: little bit in the wind, it would stop working. And
Speaker 1: if you have a pool, you know, the dirt builds up.
Speaker 1: You got a vatium the thing almost every other day,
Speaker 1: if not every day. So they said, well, I said,
Speaker 1: can you expedit shipping it. We'll try to expedit shipping.
Speaker 1: We'll see if we can get that overnight. And okay,
Speaker 1: so they tell me it's out of stock. As soon
Speaker 1: as they have it, we'll get it for you. Here's
Speaker 1: the confirmation number. So now I'm livid, like that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The cable costs about a hundred and forty dollars. It's
Speaker 1: a waterproof cable with a float device on it, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. So I called the company back and I say, listen,
Speaker 1: it is unacceptable. I have a three year warranty that
Speaker 1: you don't give me a cable. Well, we don't have any,
Speaker 1: I said, that's not my problem. I pay for the
Speaker 1: you in it. It includes a three year warranty. So
Speaker 1: either you fix my unit and send me a cable,
Speaker 1: right or you ship me a new unit. That's how
Speaker 1: that works, because ultimately you need to replace or repair
Speaker 1: my unit. It's your problem you don't have the cables.
Speaker 1: It's your problem you didn't stock up on cables. I
Speaker 1: understand you can't get more cables, but how exactly did
Speaker 1: you run out of cables. You're the company, they're your cables.
Speaker 1: No answer, I say'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I want you to take my number. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take your name. I'm gonna call you back in
Speaker 1: an hour, and you're gonna have a solution for me.
Speaker 1: Are you're gonna send me a new unit. You're gonna
Speaker 1: give me credits I can go to a store and
Speaker 1: get a new unit, or you're gonna find me a cable. Hameda, hamma, hamma, hammeda.
Speaker 1: I'll call you back in an hour, okay, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you call me either one. She calls me back in
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. She says, they have a satellite repair
Speaker 1: place in Philadelphia outside of Philly, and they have cables.
Speaker 1: Here's the number. Call them. Okay, So I called the
Speaker 1: Philly place. The guy says, yeah, I got him to you.
Speaker 1: I'll have a tienna. I'll have a ten in two days.
Speaker 1: We'll get ground shipping, no charge. You'll have it in
Speaker 1: two days. I have no problem. So I get the
Speaker 1: cable in two days. Because because you have to threaten
Speaker 1: people sometimes you have to threaten them like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You can't just they were they were
Speaker 1: gonna be content to say, sorry, we don't have a cable.
Speaker 1: That was their answer, Sorry we don't have a cable. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I get the cable, I bring it home. I
Speaker 1: take a part the unit. I attached the cable inside
Speaker 1: to the motor. I attached the cable to the box.
Speaker 1: Now that the control box is what plugs into the
Speaker 1: electrical unit. It's all digital. It's got presets for cleaning,
Speaker 1: days off, days on, all off everything, and you plug
Speaker 1: you plug it into the box, right and guess what
Speaker 1: the same short as there it's still not you have
Speaker 1: to jiggle the cable. So I realized, now it wasn't
Speaker 1: the cable. The short must be in the box because
Speaker 1: I already changed the cable. So now I've got the
Speaker 1: new cable, I've got my original cable. Now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I can sell the hundred and four dollar cable because
Speaker 1: they're not gonna ask for back for me, right, They're
Speaker 1: not gonna ask, which they didn't. So I called them
Speaker 1: back and I say, hey, listen, I've got the model.
Speaker 1: I give them the model number and I say it
Speaker 1: must be the boxes bed, Oh, we have those in stock.
Speaker 1: Will get that right out to you. I said, well,
Speaker 1: you got overnight it to me because your tech guy
Speaker 1: told me it was the cable. So they overnight the
Speaker 1: box to me, and guess what. They send me a
Speaker 1: box for a more expensive model. But it doesn't work
Speaker 1: with my unit. Oh my god, full of problems. So
Speaker 1: I called them back and I said, oh, oh, you
Speaker 1: sent me the wrong box. Terribly sorry, We'll overnight you
Speaker 1: the right box. So they overnight me the box. I
Speaker 1: get the right box. So I said, well, you didn't
Speaker 1: give me a turn label for the new box. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it us to ship back. Just keep it, okay.
Speaker 1: So that that that box, the control box is worth
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty, so you could sell that ship right,
Speaker 1: And I have the second cable that's worth a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty. Guess what happens? A week later? The pool
Speaker 1: store calls me, my pool cable is in. So I
Speaker 1: go and picked out up another hundred and four dollar
Speaker 1: cable I can sell. Now. I've got you at two cable,
Speaker 1: a two hundred four control box, and nobody wants it back.
Speaker 1: It's all mine. That's brilliant. With the merchandise. Before next summer,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell all of it. Of course you are.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hold on to it, hold on to it, okay,
Speaker 1: that not now? Now with that knowledge, I had bought
Speaker 1: a recumbent exercise bike. A recombent bike is where you
Speaker 1: sit you let you sit back and you paddle with
Speaker 1: your feet. You don't sit up like a regular bike,
Speaker 1: kind of laid back. I bought it off of Facebook
Speaker 1: swap site. I had it for about six months and
Speaker 1: the pedals stopped registering, so you'd pedal and the screen
Speaker 1: would say start peddling, You're not peddling, and it would
Speaker 1: end the workout. So I called the company and they say, well,
Speaker 1: are you under warranty? And like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm under warrant it I bought it off guy on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't tell them that. So she says, well,
Speaker 1: you have to call a local repair guy to come.
Speaker 1: So I call a hundred different repair guys. I finally
Speaker 1: get one that's relatively reasonable. He says, it's a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty dollars to come in, but most likely it's
Speaker 1: a four dollar cable, a speed cable. It's called that
Speaker 1: is the problem. So go ahead and order the four
Speaker 1: dollar speed cable. So I ordered the four dollars speed cable.
Speaker 1: It comes, the guy shows up, George of the hundred
Speaker 1: thirty dollars, and he says, yeah, it's not the cable.
Speaker 1: You need a new head unit. Now. The head unit
Speaker 1: is the whole display that sits on top of the
Speaker 1: pipe that runs in the big wheel in the front
Speaker 1: up to the thing, and it's all the buttons, everything,
Speaker 1: that whole unit comes off and I need one of those.
Speaker 1: It's not the fourth all apart. I'm like, you gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding me. How much is the head unit? Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta order from the from the factory. But it's
Speaker 1: it's about two But then I might as well just
Speaker 1: buy a new unit. At that point. It's a four
Speaker 1: all bike. Yeah, that's what that's what happens. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I call up the company and I say, I tell
Speaker 1: him what's going on. And I said, look, she's, well,
Speaker 1: I under warranty. I said, I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: under warranty. I give it a serial number. She says,
Speaker 1: that bike is like six years old. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not under warranty. She's Look, I said, I just
Speaker 1: paid a guy a hundred and thirty dollars. I wasted
Speaker 1: my money, and now you want two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars for this new unit, she said. I said,
Speaker 1: come on, I'll be paying more than almost as much
Speaker 1: for a new bike. She says, here's what I'll do.
Speaker 1: I'll give you the thing for half price. So I'll
Speaker 1: give it to you for like one ten she said,
Speaker 1: and uh, it might if it's not that, it might
Speaker 1: be this secondary cable. This other cable could be the problem.
Speaker 1: The other cable is another for dollar cable. I said,
Speaker 1: I fine, send me the hundred dollar head unit. Whatever
Speaker 1: it was have price and the fort dollar cable. Sent
Speaker 1: it to my house and I'll install it. She's it's
Speaker 1: easy to watch a YouTube video. So it's four screws
Speaker 1: and you snap in the plugs. It couldn't be more simple.
Speaker 1: The cable is easy. You feed it through the pipe.
Speaker 1: It's easy to replace the cable. And uh, if it's
Speaker 1: the cable, return the unit to us and we'll refund
Speaker 1: the money. Okay, right, she says. And if it's the unit,
Speaker 1: you'll have the unit, keep the cable use for four dollars.
Speaker 1: You never know, you might need it as a backup. Okay.
Speaker 1: They send me the head unit and the cable, and
Speaker 1: the head unit is not the head unit from my unit. Again,
Speaker 1: they sent me the wrong one. So I put it on,
Speaker 1: figuring it's close enough, maybe that maybe it's the newer version.
Speaker 1: I put it on and I hook it up. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work. I changed the cable and with my old
Speaker 1: unit and it works fine. I fixed it. I fixed
Speaker 1: it myself for the four dollar cable, which I should
Speaker 1: have just put on myself. But I paid some made
Speaker 1: at a hundred thirty dollars to misdiagnose my bike. So
Speaker 1: now I've got the wrong head unit and I don't
Speaker 1: need it. I don't. I gotta be honest. I'm not
Speaker 1: following you, okay, I'm just like this is okay. They're
Speaker 1: talking about cables and plugs. It is a point to this.
Speaker 1: I'll make it simple. Okay. Everyone else is following along.
Speaker 1: Have you have a set on a piece of workout equipment,
Speaker 1: the digital part that you push the buttons and set
Speaker 1: the workout? Dude you're talking to the guy never works out.
Speaker 1: I've never set on a piece of digital. That's that's okay.
Speaker 1: Imagine there was a TV set on a bike. The
Speaker 1: TV sets broken, scary, so I put a different TV
Speaker 1: set on. They sent me the wrong TV set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the computer. The computer was the wrong computer. Okay. So
Speaker 1: I called them back and I say, hey, listen, he
Speaker 1: sent me this this unit. It's not the unit. I
Speaker 1: don't need the unit and it's the wrong unit. So
Speaker 1: she says, all right, well, we'll refund your money, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we have to pay the ship it back.
Speaker 1: I said, paid the ship it back? Why would I
Speaker 1: pay the ship it back? Well, we only you know,
Speaker 1: we we gave it to have price and we don't
Speaker 1: cover return shipping. How much. I feel like you've been
Speaker 1: down this road twelve times already with different companies. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's the same thing. They don't want
Speaker 1: to cover your shipping. You don't right. So I said, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you sent me the wrong unit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you still don't need it, right, But you guys
Speaker 1: messed up, So you guys should take it back. And
Speaker 1: I'm not paying the shipping. So she she puts me
Speaker 1: on hold. She comes back. She says, all right, UM,
Speaker 1: we're gonna refund the money. And um, here's the thing
Speaker 1: about the shipping. If we pay for the shipping, when
Speaker 1: we get the unit back, we just throw it in
Speaker 1: the garbage. What. Yeah, we just throw it in the garbage.
Speaker 1: So it's not worth it us to pay the twenty
Speaker 1: dollars to ship it if we're gonna throw it out.
Speaker 1: I said, why would you throw it out? It's a unit.
Speaker 1: She says, well, if we get it back, it's been
Speaker 1: shipped to you and shipped back. It probably got jostled
Speaker 1: a couple of times. We can't verify it's in perfect shape.
Speaker 1: I said, well, what can't you use it for parts? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just our policy. We're gonna throw it out, So
Speaker 1: I said, well, can I just keep it? Then? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, keep it. So now I have a two
Speaker 1: dollar unit that I'm now gonna sell, of course, because yes,
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're gonna make a couple of grand
Speaker 1: this summer. I'm making money left and right because companies
Speaker 1: don't want to bother again. My point is, slices push
Speaker 1: a little bit. I could have been in a position
Speaker 1: where I paid them twenty dollars to ship theme from
Speaker 1: episode zero zero baby don't take any ship. So now
Speaker 1: just to cap, I've got recap. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of money up. The money ended up. How much final
Speaker 1: tally between these two transactions, how much is David Brody
Speaker 1: going to make free? Seven forty five approximate? God bless you?
Speaker 1: There you go. Now you can buy your own steak
Speaker 1: dinner and buy me when while you're at it, if
Speaker 1: you you're getting an appearance favor going to Colladris twice.
Speaker 1: Now listen to me. Um, we want to thank everybody.
Speaker 1: I promised everyone we would. We would say hello to you,
Speaker 1: give you guys a shout out. And now, by the way,
Speaker 1: that ends right here where we're done with gratuitous shoutouts.
Speaker 1: But I said for the one week period, I think
Speaker 1: we can do next week. Okay, maybe we can do
Speaker 1: some more shout outs next week. Can I give Can
Speaker 1: I give it on shout out? I want to give
Speaker 1: it on shout out to Froggy's wife Lisa. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a whole other story, and that's a that's a whole
Speaker 1: other ten minutes. Let's let's not do that right here.
Speaker 1: But now it sounds like I'm ad at her. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I want to give. It's a tease. It's a teaset.
Speaker 1: We just write that down. Okay, so really quickly. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you go by the way, we're starting right now
Speaker 1: with the sound of our voice, or a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes or a couple of hours after he voices, I'll
Speaker 1: tell him about the special first. Let's read the names. No,
Speaker 1: we're telling you about the special first before they tune out. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you go to our merch store, no, Brooklyn, because
Speaker 1: people are listening for their names, but they're not listening.
Speaker 1: It's the same as the birthday. Things stop, but you
Speaker 1: want stop to listen for the for the bonus, for
Speaker 1: the big, the big, the big discount we're telling you,
Speaker 1: guys right now, we're not playing games. You are not
Speaker 1: going to Brooklyn Boys dot Big cartel dot com. Between
Speaker 1: now boys, I don't get it. That's that's ahead, that's
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Boys Dot, Big cartel dot com. We got hoodies,
Speaker 1: we got t shirts, we got tanks, and we got masks.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. Here's the sweet thing. We have
Speaker 1: different Literally, here's the deal starting now through Black Friday
Speaker 1: and then the month of November at the very least,
Speaker 1: here's what we're doing for the holidays. By any two items,
Speaker 1: could be a teeth, could be t shirts, hoodies, or tanks,
Speaker 1: or any combination thereof. And we can't retroactive, and I
Speaker 1: we're sorry. Yes, this is from now, this is new.
Speaker 1: By any two items, you get a free Brooklyn Boys mask.
Speaker 1: The mask can't be one of the items, right right,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so pick any so from the top,
Speaker 1: any two tops, Okay, So feel free to go there
Speaker 1: and shop. This is a good time to buy a
Speaker 1: gift for somebody, you know, because I know that you
Speaker 1: know you may not want to wear two pieces of
Speaker 1: the same thing, or someone in your family, whatever it is. Well,
Speaker 1: we have different patterns. You get the gray, get the blue.
Speaker 1: So let me do a couple of shout outs in Brody.
Speaker 1: You're gonna introduce erst with your shoutouts as well. Um.
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for buying in the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Boys store. Kathy Shints from York, Pennsylvania. Also Andrew um
Speaker 1: Our Peo Special, shout out to you in Queensberry. Where's Queensberry, Brodie,
Speaker 1: It's next to Kingsbury, Hio. Uh, Melanie Hill. Also, I
Speaker 1: don't know where Melani Hills location, Kaysville, Kaysville, Utah. Is
Speaker 1: there there's a Merrill get this someone with just the
Speaker 1: name Streamer in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Thank you first, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Heather. I hope they got the hoodie.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be cold. Heather get Part from North Richland, Texas,
Speaker 1: shouting out to you. Also, Mary O'Brien in Marlton, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: That's down in our Q one O two area. Um
Speaker 1: bad Boy Music were shouting you out. I'm sorry buddy
Speaker 1: boy Buddy Boy Music Music, and he tweeted at us
Speaker 1: he ordered a hoodie Moundsville, West Virginia. We actually put
Speaker 1: him up there on our site. Also, Jessica Patty from Auburn,
Speaker 1: New York. Look at all these people, Brody from all
Speaker 1: over the country. Um, Jason Jones in Asheville, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Gina Cook in West Jordan, Utah, Brody, that's two Utah people.
Speaker 1: All right, how many more do you have? Because I
Speaker 1: have a few people that actually posted pictures Themselve hold On,
Speaker 1: I want to give them props. Pansuda Cam Siri in Flemington,
Speaker 1: New Jersey made a purchase. And Mark Charnoff in Green Acres, Florida. Um,
Speaker 1: you want to do a couple and I have a
Speaker 1: few more. Caitlyn Zacaro, she put together an outfit. Um.
Speaker 1: She she bought the gray Brooklyn Boys hoodie and layered
Speaker 1: it beautifully with a dark blue vest over it, which
Speaker 1: is wonderful. She's got I guess she's got a company.
Speaker 1: She's I don't know. Check my instant story. It's Caitlin
Speaker 1: Kay Creations. So shout out to her company. Andres Soto
Speaker 1: made a nice purchase. Thank you. Andres Uh the Real
Speaker 1: kick Low, Real Kick Real kick Low bought a blue hoodie. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he bought a a gray T shirt I believe.
Speaker 1: So he bought two items and posted pictures of himself
Speaker 1: wearing both of them looks pretty good, I gotta say.
Speaker 1: Also shout out to Mark Marky Mark b B got
Speaker 1: himself a great T shirt and Ms Trish, big fan
Speaker 1: of the show. Huge Chase tweets us Ms Trish although
Speaker 1: her um her avatars here with her man so and
Speaker 1: her face is partially cut off, but Miss Trish eight
Speaker 1: three she got herself a blue hoodie, So thank you.
Speaker 1: Jordan Jordan's Jordan's Surrenza from oak Brook Terrace, Illinois, shouting
Speaker 1: out to you, Ethan Meaning in Berlin, Maryland. And Bradley
Speaker 1: Krawski from North Little Rock, Arkansas. Look at that broady
Speaker 1: coming in from Arkansas. Kwanta Wofford in Oakwood Village, Ohio.
Speaker 1: UM shout out to you, Shannon mass A or Massey
Speaker 1: in Reenville, South Carolina. So we got the Carolinas covered
Speaker 1: and we got we can say for next week. We
Speaker 1: gotta keep a couple more. Angela Hodgi or hog h
Speaker 1: o g g e Uh in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. And
Speaker 1: John Guitardi from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and maybe Frank Montalvo from
Speaker 1: ron concam On, New York that's in Long Island. And
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Kaiser from West Babylon Wow. And John Lounga Bardi
Speaker 1: from Orange, Connecticut. A lot of people ordered this this
Speaker 1: on this day. We had a lot because that was
Speaker 1: when we first announced it. Stacy bart Or Bartet Stacy
Speaker 1: Bartet in Ponte Pontevidra, Florida. That's when where Froggy is
Speaker 1: and Justin Campney in Lake George, New York. And Paul
Speaker 1: sakal or Sockle in Um York, Pennsylvania as well. What
Speaker 1: do you have a couple of more, Brodie or no?
Speaker 1: I have? Ah? You know what? I want to send
Speaker 1: a thank you to Mason. I mentioned Mason last week
Speaker 1: who saved up worked extra hours. Uh. He and his
Speaker 1: daughter are big fans of the podcast, and he made
Speaker 1: a purchase of our merchandise last week and he sent
Speaker 1: me a video of him with his daughter. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to play the audio off my phone. If you
Speaker 1: don't mind for here we go play the video. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Hmm hey, uh so my daughter Madelyn going
Speaker 1: to say something start up star Brooklyn with Prodi. All right,
Speaker 1: have a good night man. There you go. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: heard the whisper se Brody first heard yeah, which that
Speaker 1: means she wanted to say Scary, so Madeleen wanted to
Speaker 1: say your name. So thank you guys, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: She's adorable. The video's price absolutely priceless, so thank you. UM.
Speaker 1: All right, so we're coming back next Week's a short week.
Speaker 1: We'll give you a podcast. We think we're gonna try.
Speaker 1: We will. We will give you a podcast. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you about the Stumpies, the Stumpies, and we gotta
Speaker 1: get to Froggy's wife, Lisa. You know what, I think
Speaker 1: it's important to have her on for this. I think
Speaker 1: that will be great. I think you need to put
Speaker 1: her on the spot. I think no, because I have
Speaker 1: an idea how it happened. We'll figure out. We will
Speaker 1: figure it out, because I'm not so sure how it happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know, big mystery. Yeah, and you know where.
Speaker 1: Scary will not be for Thanksgiving because his family barred
Speaker 1: him Brooklyn. But I will by