WEBVTT - #138: Peter, Wood, Dick's & Hiscox 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:07.400 Start aft dot Up, Start Up, Brooklyn Boys, start Up, 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:15.560 Brooklyn Boys start Data. They're making noise data dot dot Up. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:24.079 Episode one thirty eight, The Brooklyn Boys podcast, still recording 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.680 on a Friday from our house is nothing has changed, Okay. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.440 Last week we talked about recording on Thursday and the 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:38.239 Tuesday afternoon Hurricane Ed. That's what I'm calling it, hurricane 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.760 because you can't pronounces I can pronounce it. I just 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.560 I just feel like, you know, like all the hurricanes, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.760 some of them are some of the hurricanes when they 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.440 name them alphabetically, they just wander out to see and 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.240 they fizzle out, right. That's why, Like, how could it 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.520 be Hurricane L There's only been one hurricane? No, No No, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.320 they all they all get named when they start in 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.160 the Caribbean, in or in the Atlantic Ocean. Every hurricane 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.480 year from June one to November one, it starts with 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.560 an A, and the next storms a B, and the 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.679 next storms the sea. Now some of them, some of 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.560 them start as tropical depressions and storms and hurricanes, and 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.000 as Brodie said, you never hear of half of them 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.600 because they're just happening in the middle of nowhere. Well, 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.560 they just fizzle out they make a right turn and 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.360 all of a sudden And so sometimes like if you 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.840 talk to Froggy on our on Our Big Show, and 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.720 you talked to him about hurricanes, they'll be able to 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:35.520 tell you like, oh, Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Irma, Wilma, like 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:41.360 the ones that um, I guess, uh, Katrina, the big ones, right, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.400 you remember their names forever because they did devastation. Well, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.680 I feel like I s I know that I know 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.560 the name, and it comes from the derivation. It's a 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.800 it's a hard word, hard name for people to say, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.720 even when they see it. I think seeing it as 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.400 the problem. I think when you see it, it looks 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.880 like as eyes yea. So it starts with I, which 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.040 means there's been an A, B, C, D, E, F 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.560 G H already this hurricane season and we haven't heard 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:16.280 of really any of them. If that makes any sense, Um, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.560 are you getting message? It makes sense? Nope? Is that 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:25.560 your side piece texting you during the podcast? Wow, Brodie's 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.360 like muting his microphone here, cough on the mic, because 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.160 if you cough off the mic, then it sounds terrible. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.280 It sounds like you're disconnected. It sounds like you're hiding something. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.400 No no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, I'm not 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.000 at all okay. So yeah, so, as we were just saying, yeah, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.200 so there's been all these hurricanes or storms already and 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.760 impact it did the first one that I'm hearing people 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.280 will be saying it is from now right, but not 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.840 like not like Andrew, like it didn't do the damage 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:02.120 in most places. Obviously there was damage. Um, So we 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.520 had a tropical storm by the time it hit New Jersey, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.080 and so there was a giant tree down a couple 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.440 of blocks in my house, on the front lawn of 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.200 somebody's house and on the of the bottom of the 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.919 tree with all the roots came up everything. The bottom 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.639 of the tree was about twelve ft wide, maybe more. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:25.480 They hung um construction paper, you know, like, ah, we 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.760 used to call it oak tag. I don't construction paper now. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.760 They made a sign and it said could be worse, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.440 there could be a pandemic, which I just thought was 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.920 hilarious that even with a tree on the top they 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.560 fell on the house by the way, that they could 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.200 still make a joke. I took a picture of it. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.640 I'm gonna put up on my Instagram probably this weekend. Um, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.360 but anyway, so I lost we lost power on the 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.680 whole neighborhood. Just getting your power back night. Yeah, So 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.160 Tuesday afternoon the power went out. Now sons, it goes 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:54.720 out and you go, all right, they'll flip a breaker, 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.760 it'll be fine. Nope, Tuesday night in the dark, Wednesday 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.280 all day in the dark, and Thursday all day in 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.200 the dark. And they kept saying um on the website 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.800 and in the text messages that the electric company sent us, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.600 You'll have your power back Thursday at eleven o'clock, right, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:16.120 which was last night. And we're like, okay, I'm not 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.560 gonna not not believable, not believable, not gonna happen. So 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.600 you see that on Tuesday and you go, what come on? 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.560 Then you see it on Wednesday, you go, I gotta 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.560 wait another two days. This is crap. So you're living 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:34.320 without lights, you're living without television, DVRs, streaming, WiFi, everything, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:40.360 live without everything. So my laptops dead, and uh, I'm 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.840 charging everything in the car. I'm driving around with my phone, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.960 another phone from someone in my family, my iPad. I'm trying. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.000 I'm I'm horrible for you. Yeah, it was terrible. You know. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.640 I was sitting on the driveway. I did the whole 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:59.479 show Wednesday and Thursday morning sitting in my car because 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.279 I can't say in the house. It's dark and there's 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:07.840 no power, so you know, yeah, what sucks is you know? 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.560 And I said this on the big show to a 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.760 couple of people. I slept through the whole damn thing 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.080 because I live. I live in a high rise, the 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:19.599 small apartment way up in the sky where I guess, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:24.520 like the Jefferson's in a de luxe apartment, hardly a 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.200 de luxe apartment, but it's a nice it's a cozy place. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.360 And and because I didn't, you know, all I could 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.560 see is just some bands of rain whipping around. You 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.080 don't hear the wind. You don't see the trees flowing 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.839 back and forth. You don't see or experience the destruction. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.320 I literally said, I'm gonna bake some cookies and go 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.520 to bed, and and then I woke up and the 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.440 sun was out, and then I got I feel, he's 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.719 the vegan cookies. By the way, Yes, you baked vegan 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.479 cookies and you drank chalk, you drank milk with them. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.919 I did. I drank milk with vegan cookies. But the 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.360 vegan cookie. I don't. I don't drink, you don't eat 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.320 vegan cookies because I'm a vegan, right? Did it because us? 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.480 As I said, I'll try anything once. And if you're 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.400 a fan of this podcast, you know that I will 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:09.479 try anything once and I have including your day. Yeah, yes, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.560 it doesn't even to be said anymore. So So with 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.440 that said, I might it intrigued me while I was 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.880 in the store and I said vegan can and it 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.240 said can it can. It could be eaten raw, you 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.080 could be eating you know, cook it whatever. I'm like, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.880 I'm gonna try it because that's the kind of person 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.119 I am. I have this open mind to new things. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.320 So I said I'm gonna get something now, not because 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.520 I'm trying to be vegan. So it wasn't wrong that 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.920 I followed it with milk, which is not a vegan product. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.240 So it wasn't because I'm not trying to be vegan. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.360 See that's the that's the difference. That's what people wouldn't 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.480 let me explain. I'm feeling like it's going to like 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.240 like Burger King or one of those places that has 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.120 like beyond burgers and then and then putting beef gravy 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.080 on it, like that's what it seemed like to me. 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.320 But to me, but my reasons for buying and trying 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.039 the vegan the vegan cookies was because I wanted to 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.360 know did it Did it taste better than a regular 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.520 chocolate chip or as good as and I don't know 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.040 if it was supposed to taste better, it's just it 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.760 lacks ingredients that are the animal based. Well that Brody 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.400 is where you are wrong. It tasted as good and 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.520 here's why, because I, like I later learned that all 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.440 it is is like a marketing ploy because the only 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.080 thing that's really different is that there's no butter in it. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.800 It's because that's the dairy product that would create like 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.760 the other brands of cookies, right, so so it's replaced 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.840 with something else or there's something just missing there. But 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.600 when you I'll tell you they use oils, and they 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.680 still use oils in the cookie to make it. I 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.040 mean there's still types of oil in it, so but 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.760 it's plant based oil doesn't matter. The point is it 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.480 came out to be a nice, beautiful sweet chocolate chip cookie, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.120 but it was considered vegan, so it was as good 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.280 as any you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.640 In fact, I remember another company coming up, not a sponsor, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.040 well not a sponsor of mine at least, and you 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.480 gave these cookies to your daughter, and you couldn't even 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.080 believe how great these cookies were. They were vegan. But 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.360 again we're fooled by the word vegan. You're like, oh, vegan, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.320 but all it is is just a marketing ploy for 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.520 vegans to buy it and eat it. For everybody else, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.800 everybody else get employ but from marketing ploy, yes, because 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.520 it's but it's aimed it's it's a marketing ploy aimed 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.080 at vegans. Okay, but that's like saying if if it's 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.240 if it's kosher steak, that it's a marketing ploy to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.600 attract religions to eat it. It's market marketing ploy. It's operation. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.599 Yes it is, but but it won't turn off a 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.679 person like me. Okay, But if you made it, if 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.640 you made something like you sold loamin without vegetables, that's 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:49.000 not a marketing ploy. That's just obviously you're appealing to me. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.680 But that's not a ploy. Okay. You like like veganism 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:57.679 is a ploy. No, But this this cookie company decided 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.480 this is their catering to the it's not a marketing 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.720 employ But the good news here is for non vegans 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.280 that it doesn't. It tastes just as good as a 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.840 regular chocolate chip cookie. Are they cheaper than regular chocolate 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.080 chip cookies? You know? I mean I don't look at 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.600 prices when I buy here. I know you boe boe. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.120 I just I just like it tastes good. I liked 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.400 it and with my experiment was was you know. But 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:23.839 but that's not the point. The only person I know 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.880 who would hire an instat cart person halfway through your 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.839 shopping you just go at you instat cart person. Yeah, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.640 can you just take over for me? And I can 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.800 just see you go home? Why don't it be time 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.840 just got instat cart take over for me? Man, he's twenty. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.040 You can't keep you bothered with this ship, you know, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.400 but shopping. But I wasn't doing it for health purposes. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.679 I wasn't doing it because I want to be Nobody 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.040 thought you were doing anything for health reasons. I'm not 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.520 trying about I'm not trying to be a vegan. I'm 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.160 trying I just wanted, like, what does this taste like? 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.000 Because I'm curious speaking as sponsors. Scary. We got an 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.440 email that went out to the whole on air staff 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.920 up hours ago for a new company that sells dog leashes. Right, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.120 it's it was dog leashes and uh that they're made 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.600 with carabbeinez, you know, the rock climbing thing. So it's 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.240 like a rope with a caribbean on the end, so 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.880 you can like latch latch the dog on. And they 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.640 asked people, they said, well, who on the show wants 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.520 to endorse this product? You? You said, yeah, you don't 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.880 even have a dog. I didn't respond, yes you did. No, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.880 I didn't. That wasn't your email. What are you talking about. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.240 I didn't even get this email. It wasn't even directed 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.320 at me. I don't have a dog. Somebody said, you replied, yes, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.640 that someone's goofing. I didn't. Did nobody. Nobody sent that 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.600 to me on the show. Nobody. Did it come from 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.320 one of the sales people. Yes, no, I was not 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.959 company to that email, and rightfully so, I don't own 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.800 a pet. I would never you know, I would never 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.079 have a reason for a leash. Okay, but you did 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.040 a diaper commercial. You don't have kids. Is it a 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.360 sex leash? Maybe? I could work it in there to 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.360 think about it, and maybe I could the least could 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.640 be used for something else. I mean, and now you're 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.400 looking for an angle to indorse. I'm just looking for 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.240 an angle I don't have. I'm not gonna lie and 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.319 say I have a pet. I don't have any pets. Okay, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.200 But anyway, back to the hurricane or this this storm, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.440 whatever this was, so I lost power. It was it 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.800 was terrible. Look, you know, people have it worse. My 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.480 house wasn't damaged. I can only speak about my pain. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.400 I know other people had more pain. I understand that. Well, 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.600 my my co host on my other podcast is having 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.800 a lot of pain because we were supported share from 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.800 speaking volumes because we were supposed to record our podcast 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.240 two days ago. And she hasn't had power since she 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.120 lives up in Westchester and I forgot. Why don't you 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.960 give him a dress? Well she was in Westchester. Yeah, okay, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.800 that's all you need to Yeah, okay, But anyway, that's 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.480 by the way, that's north of Manhattan, north of the Bronx. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.559 If you're not from this area, right and and so, 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.319 so she's still suffering. But what does Brody do? As 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.600 soon as the power goes back on in his house. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.640 I screamed that the power just magically appears, and he 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.640 turned on every fucking light, every light, all the air conditioners, everything. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.920 You wasted as much power as humanly. I almost blew 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.440 the grid again. Well, you know, like you tried to 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.360 do years ago when I tried to blow my own grid. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:18.400 So what you let me? Said? The stage, it was 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.560 hold on. We put a spotlight on it because I 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.040 have power for you. Nice. It was about eleven fifteen maybe, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.720 and uh at that point we're like, okay, they set 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.720 eleven o'clock where there's the power. And my wife checks 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.719 her phone because she's getting updates from the electric company, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.920 and it says new new time. You should have power 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:48.560 back by tuesday. By Tuesday, So now I'm looking at 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:54.000 three or four more days right Tuesday morning whatever. And 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:59.000 I it's so depressing, scary. It's such an awful feeling 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.439 to be in a house. You're just sitting there in 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.280 the dark with uh, you know, with flashlights and candles, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.240 and you have all the blinds open during the day, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.599 and you have the windows open, the front door and 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.000 the back door open because you know, he's just trying 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.720 to get any kind of air in the house. It's 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:20.520 just awful. You're trying to let Yeah, I have no 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.880 problem doing that, no problem doing that, but I have 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.200 a question for you. So anyway, so after after my 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:27.760 wife says we're not getting power back for three or 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.439 four days, I just like slumped in my chair, slumped, 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:36.760 and then about a minute or two later here and 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.160 everything came back. How great is that update? Thankfully their 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.880 update was wrong. Thankfully the update was, well, you know 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.959 what they did? They did? What what? What is the 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.520 marketing ploy of the under promise? And that's what you're 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.840 supposed to do in life? But says the thing what 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.280 you're supposed to do is Thursday morning, you tell me 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.640 it's not coming back till Tuesday. Right, then when it 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.800 comes back on Thursday night, I'm excited. When you tell 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.320 me at eleven o'clock that it's Tuesday, and then fifteen 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.360 minutes later comes on, I wouldn't have been happy anyway. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.120 You didn't need to do that, right, You didn't. You 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.880 didn't gain anything that they went with the worst possible 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.480 scenario and they gave you the best possible But that 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.120 means there are people in New Jersey that won't have 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.120 power till Tuesday. I feel terrible for those people. Terrible. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.720 But here's the thing, So, I I don't know about 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.960 ten years ago, I bought a head strap that has 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.240 five lights on it. You were the kid in school 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:36.600 with the head strap? No, no, I wasn't. So it's 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.840 like I'm like, I'm a spelunker, like like it's like 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.160 a helmet with a light on it. You know those 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.480 hats you wear and like a miner, like a minor, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.800 have this headband strap that they sell at home depotist. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.000 Every yeah, every time we lose power, I walk around 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.040 with the light on my head. My hands are free 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.680 and off to carry a flashlight. I can brush my teeth, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.240 I can, uh you know, do it. I get get dressed. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.360 I don't have to worry about like holding a flashlight 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.800 walking around whatever. And every year, my my wife and 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.360 kids look good that it looks so stupid. Meanwhile they're 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.000 slepping around a flashlight or a lantern or whatever. So 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.160 this year home Depot had new ones three ft twelve 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.160 with floodlights on the front, like they their wide range lights, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.200 not just directly in front of you, so it lights 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.840 up the whole room. Tremendous I walk the dogs. I 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.040 have two dogs and one leash in each hand. Was 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.160 I holding a flashlight? No, no, you're wearing You're wearing 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:37.360 your spunker one headlight like the song that right, exactly? 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:46.520 And so uh, Given the choice scary fashion over productivity, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.080 which do you choose in the case of an emergence, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.760 fashion or function? I go for function in times of need, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.800 in times of worry, in times of great despair, in 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.760 times of necessity like this, this is an emergency. You 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.200 go for function. You don't go for fashion. Why was 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.680 someone making fun of you? Do you not listen to 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.920 this podcast? Your wife and your daughters? Yeah, they keep 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.880 trying to get a picture of me wearing the headlight. Well, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.840 what can I tell you other than the fact that they, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.960 you know, they need some content for the Graham or 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.400 for TikTok or something. Yeah, I know, because it's like, hey, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.440 look at my dad. I could see them on Snapchat 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.600 right now, like trying to get secret shots of you 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.160 with this thing. So yeah, I mean, well, you're the 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.720 dad that you're That is your role. You're you're supposed 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.280 to take the fall on these things. You're like, okay, 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.560 ha ha, I'm wearing I'm wearing a headlight on my face. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.320 I don't care. I don't care. I don't care at 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.760 all because I can see where I'm going. Uh. Okay, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.960 so you've lost power, right, you've you've been in the past. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.240 Oh yes, Oh yes, in previous Superstorm Sandy, I lost power. Yes. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.000 What do you do with the food and your refrigerator? 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.200 The food in my refrigerator? Uh? What if you lose power? 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.560 At what point do you get rid of it? Every item? 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.639 Do you keep the doors closed and pray for me? 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:13.760 I unfortunately live alone and have no neighbors that are 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:18.000 close to me. Uh, or or building lost power or 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.640 or no, I mean neighbors in other buildings with generators, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.160 people you know, or none that would want to take 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.919 my food. So that's why I'm asking. Here's why I'm asking. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.439 So the stuff and the freezer that'll last longer, and 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.480 then eventually it becomes to frosted and it's refrigerated level 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.720 like it needs to be refrigerated, but it's still cold. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.560 The stuff in the refrigerator, you can try try shoving 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.920 some of it in the freezer because the freezer holds 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.560 its temp for a while. But my wife and I 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.560 had this major debate over every item, like, oh we 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.040 can save that, you can't save it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.360 that's not gonna go bad. It's it's bad already. Yeah, 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.000 we'll cook it. And so I was like, I'll eat that, 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.360 not a problem, and she's like, I don't think it's 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.200 a refrigerator freezer thing. I think it's a what did 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.760 you pay the most four things? So I would take 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.560 the most valuable items, like, for instance, if I had 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.280 a couple of steaks or some I don't know, like 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.560 whatever is expensive, Like if I had produce and thinks 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.960 not produce is not really as so you take let's 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.600 go steak. Okay, like steak as in steak dinner. Sorry. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.240 The theme of steak continues, Um, if I had steaks 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.080 that were I would find I would try and put 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.399 those aside and see if anyone anywhere can just I 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.520 can take up some real estate and someone's freezer with 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.639 with my steak, because that, to me, I paid the 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.840 most for. Then I immediately cut to what is going 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.919 to outlast this fucking thing? And I look for the 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.440 most processed foods possible in my refrigerator, and I say, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.560 you know what, mustard. I'm fucking leaving it. Catch up, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.639 no mustard and catch up a fine. What I'm saying is, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.679 if there's something in refrigerator, like a block of cheese, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.800 like and and because hard cheese lass longer than soft cheese, right, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.840 hard cheese can be a refrigerative. Got frozen dinners that 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.200 are like temp cent the frosted? Are you? Are you 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.480 someone who airs on the side of keep it well, 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.840 I'll put ice bags on it. We'll figure it out, yes, 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:16.320 or use someone like it's not ads gone. I'm like you, Yeah, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.040 it's okay. I can understand that what's going on between 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.040 you and your wife because you're you're she's quicker to 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.080 throw it away and right, and I'm quicker to go. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.199 And we paid fifty bucks for that pack, you know, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.119 like whatever it is okay. But see this, this is 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.120 where you and I differ. We are on the same 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.720 side of this argument, but for different reasons. You because 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.320 of the cost, right, But for me it's because that 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.840 fucking whatever it doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.399 a bunch of bullshit anyway, didn't lie in you. They 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.600 always tell you that I don't, I don't, I don't 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.399 bother expiration date. I don't bother the expiration dates on 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.119 a lot of ship because they just want you to 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.000 buy more of that ship. It's the company that's trying 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.639 to like make you run through it quicker. They say, oh, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:57.920 you need to do this because of the expiration date. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:03.000 So I am very war worry about listening to those. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.200 So to me, it's it's a suggestion. What word did 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.800 you just use? War wary, wary, w a r y, 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.119 however you want to pronounce it, where I don't want 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.840 to pronounce it, it's wary wary. I am wary of that. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.720 So for instance, But but when you're talking about like 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:26.560 defrosted dinner, defrosted frozen dinners, I think that's where you 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:31.880 start to lose it and you have to just done goodbye. Well, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.080 so what I did was whatever I thought was frozen enough, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.280 I threw into freezer bags and drove him over to 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.760 my friend's Gary's house. That's what you did, and that's 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.320 where we're going with this, right, And so I gave you, 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.960 I don't know, a dozen rock solid hamburgers, some some 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.800 boxes of frozen food, and some refrigerator bowls that were 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.960 still fairly cold. Correct And by the way, everything is 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:59.760 whether the storm. It's all safe in my refrigerator and freezer, respectively. Well, 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:01.920 that dozen hamburgers I gave you, which are a nice 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:06.080 quality hamburger, My wife said, well, they're all yours because 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:07.840 I'm not eating them. I'm up feeding them to the kids. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.879 They're all mine. No, me, me, she's talking to me. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.480 She's not talking to you, she said to me, David. 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.160 I'm sure she'd be okay with me having them at 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.320 this point. Yeah, she doesn't care, So I said, but 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:25.080 they were frozen. Not what a motorcycle in the background. No, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.280 that's that's the people that that's my gardener cleaning up 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:34.159 all the damage, the trees and everything that fell. Okay, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.000 that's like you're about to flight. No, you know it 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:38.280 took me an hour and a half to get all 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:40.520 the trees and the leaves and the branches that I 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.960 will forgive that. It's okay, continue all right anyway, So 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.120 I now have twelve hamburgers. So I feel even better 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.240