WEBVTT - #230: Brown Eggs & Ham 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:07.240 Start uf dot up, Start Up, Brooklyn Boy, start Up, 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:15.600 Brooklyn Boys, start data. They're making noise data dot up. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:21.000 Episode two thirty of The Brooklyn Boys Podcast. Hello, Hello, Hey, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:28.080 oh boy? We out here? Are we are? Yeah? I 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.640 think you out there. I'm out out there. I am 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.200 way out there. I'm in out of space today. I'm 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.120 on my second cup of caffeine, this one now being 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.840 a double espresso that I made here at my house. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:49.320 Little sambuca, Okay, you have a large bottle of sambuoka, 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.840 a little bottle sambuka, Well know, a little a sifter 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.080 they call a sifter of sambuca when you order it 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.400 after dessert. You know, they said, let me get a 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:02.120 sifter of a sambuca. It's a sifter, not a sniffer. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:08.800 Maybe it's I don't even know, but uh, yeah you can. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.320 You can have a little sambuca to night at the 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.120 Italian restaurant you're going to. Oh god, yeah, I'm going 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.920 to that place. Emilio's Blatto, the place that you want 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.440 to And yeah, the name is like Ruth's Chris. So 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.800 it was Bulatos and then Emilio bought it. But because 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.679 it was a famous place, so it's Emilio's really I 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.320 didn't know that. Yeah, in case you're wondering about the name. Yeah, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.720 So go ahead. You hooked for once. Hold on, let's 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.480 work this date in history. It's a big deal. David 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.479 Brody hooked me up to get into this restaurant. Rudy 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.640 had the hook on this restaurant and got me in. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.800 Can you try. Chef Anthony is a big fan of 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.160 the podcast, but he's been asking both of us to 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.000 come eat at his restaurant for years. And you know, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.840 I'm a man of the people. So I reply back 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.160 to all my d m s, and I hug. I 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.600 became friendly with him and I said, you know what 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 we're trying. Then the pandemic hit and that you know, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.080 restaurants were closed and then so finally I said, we're 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.200 gonna go, and so my wife and I went. I 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.880 may have told you the story. My wife and I 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.400 went about a month ago. That was that was yeah, 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.320 that was the night that we went to a Broadway 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.640 show afterwards, and then went to Carmines after that and 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.519 did a chicken palm comparison and Big Clams was good. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.440 It's a good night. So you're so you're going tonight 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.520 thanks to my hook up but on Instagram today, which 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.720 means you missed it yesterday. Uh Dwyane Wade and his 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.040 wife were there for dinner. Oh man, I missed him 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.480 by a day. But you know what, you never know 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.560 what the night is gonna bring, because oh, it's definitely 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.480 a celeb place. It's a who's who kind of place, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.560 but it's not boogie. Let listeners know the slices need 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.160 to understand. This is one of those hole in the 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.799 wall Italian joints that have that are worn in but 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:51.520 still has that cashe where celebrities might stop by in 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.320 the village. Literally it's on Houston Street. It's literally a 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.760 hole in the wall because there's a hole in the wall. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.720 The walls in the original walls on the thirties, they're 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.079 exposed concrete and brick. It's got like that that Oh 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:05.720 my god, this place has been it forever kind of 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.680 vibe but in a good way. But there's only, like 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.359 I want to say, ten tables in the place maybe, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.440 and so it's not a bougie place, but it's a 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.880 hard place to get into because everyone wants to show 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.680 up there and because they have basic run of the 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.840 mill Italian food. It's not bougie Italian. It's like spaghetti 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.280 and meatballs and like things like that, right, red sauce stuff. Yeah, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.280 I wouldn't call it basic, but I would call it uh, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.080 I would call it standard Italian stuff. But it's it's 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.160 it's very good. You'll enjoy it. Well, thank you so, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.760 and I will have another double espresso tonight. Problem. And 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.160 by the way, I've been on this espresso kick because 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.120 I have my my machine here. And no, by the way, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.760 not a sponsor, not a sponsor. No, it's an espresso. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.400 It's an espresso machine. And I'm not not not a sponsor. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.000 But I got a new delivery of coffee, and I 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.400 was excited to try this Puerto Rican blend. It's a 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.640 Puerto Rico. It's a Puerto Rican double espresso. Didn't you 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.080 didn't you date a girl who was a Puerto Rican 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.920 blend a few years, many years ago, years ago. She 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.360 was a blend of Cuban, Puerto Rican Dominican that was 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.080 like years and years. Well, let me know if the 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.080 coffee tastes similar. Oh that that was gross. What the hell? 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.400 But anyway, so I put some sambuca in coffin and 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.320 and I liked it. There's this there's this some bucal 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.760 called Molinari. So Molinari comes from Italy. It actually is 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.160 cheaper than the Romana, which is the classic one that 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.360 everybody the one with the colosseum on at the blue 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.839 and silver label. That's the one of the place's car. 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.279 That's like double the price of the Millinari. However, the 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.240 Millinari tastes ten times better than the Romana. Romana has 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.840 a little chemicals and ship. Pardon may, but it does. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.200 The Mollinari comes from Italy and it's it's a better 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.599 tasting sambuca. So I didn't have my three beans though 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:55.960 to put in it. You know, he's supposed to put 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.800 three beans in every espresso Martini. They put those in 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.920 the in the espresso Martinez, that's right. They they stand 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:07.200 for the things like life, health, and I don't know 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.760 there's three look google it, don't tweet us. But anyway, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.800 they each bean stands for something. And if you if 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.760 you put any less or more beans in, uh, it's 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.480 bad luck. That's what we're saying. Well, you don't. Again, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.440 you don't have to tweet us because I can google it. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.800 I just haven't. But my wife and I went out 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.159 to dinner with Two nights ago, my daughter went to 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.680 see Sabrina Coppenter Webster Hall, madhouse of a place, crazy busy, 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.960 with a line around the block to get in, uh, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.800 you know, like even ticket holders. They lined up early anyway, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.640 so we were like, oh, let's kill time while she's 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.720 in the concert. We went for dinner on the Lower 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.320 East Side of Manhattan at a place called Fiasha Terria 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.760 f I A s H E T T E r 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.239 I A. Now Alphabet's it's on alphab It's an alphabet 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.680 city on Avenu see. Alphabet City is one of those 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.159 neighborhoods that's not a really good neighborhood, but it's trendy 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.560 but it's not so there's people on the street you're 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.279 afraid of, but then it's really cool bars and restaurants 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.560 and trendy people, very hipster neighborhood. And then also like 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.960 you feel like you're gonna get killed as you go. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.520 Well actually, actually, you know, the Lower East Side starts 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.640 with Avenue A and then it goes B C D 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.920 like that A B C D east, it goes east. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.520 So there was a time where you couldn't go past 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.480 Avenue A, like you you wouldn't go east of Avenue 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.920 A to Avenue B because B, C D were like 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.240 the pits. But then they over the years, I guess 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.760 they just got they got gentrified or whatever you want 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.560 to call it, and they started doing that in the nineties, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.200 they started adding like you know, because the rent was 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.760 cheap and the real estate was cheap. Actually, the Broadway 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.640 show Rent was based on the Life Cafe, which I 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.000 believe was on Avenue B. So in that areas, it 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.760 was in that area so and and it was like 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.559 everyone was down and out and and and desperate and stuff. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.800 So rent had a big factor in people moving there 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.760 and making it a trendy hipster sort of. But again 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.600 there's also so what so the restaurant how are we 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.920 on names? And it was on a band street, but 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.080 but it had it's a beautiful restaurant and had lights outside. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.359 So the lights make it stand out like a beacon 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.400 through the fog of the neighborhood. Yeah, And the reason 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.120 I'm bringing it up is is that we had uh 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.760 It's Italian food, but not red sauce Italian food, So 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.960 we had uh it's like they make their own pasta. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:22.640 You know, I know who you like this. There's a 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.560 guy in the corner of the restaurant making fresh pasta. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.440 Does he bathe it in in a bowl of a 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.960 wheel of cheese? Do you ever see the parmesan regiano wheel, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.520 the giantass wheel, and they it's carved out in the middle, 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.920 and they throw the pasta in there, and the hot 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.760 pasta is in there, and they're tossing it in the 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:44.640 fucking cheese. It's literally even. It's like the cheese cheese 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.480 is the bowl, and then and then and then they 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.400 flipped the pasta and then they pour it into your dish. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.640 I'm like, oh no, no, wait a minute. It tastes 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.520 fantastic if you don't think about what's happening, because everybody's 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.400 food has been in there. Yeah, but it's before it's 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.040 been in there. That a bet there's other flavors in there. Wait, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.920 and and I don't know how refrigerated that cheese is. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.080 Every time the hot food hits it, it cooks the 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.240 cheese and then it just sits there in the in 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.720 the in the dining room, not meant to be in 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.480 the refrigerator. Pomeser On reggiano is supposed to be out 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.080 is never in refrigerator. In fact, I know, but but 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.160 once it's cooked by the hot food, I don't know. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.600 I feel like something's wrong. Now. Anyway, the guy's making 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.000 pasta and it's the menus were like printed out pieces 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.520 of paper um clotheslined like close pin wooden clothes pinned 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.000 to a brown paper bag. So one side of the 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.800 menu was appetizes and one side of the paper bag 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.320 was was close pinned to print it out of the entrees, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.200 very like low key, right, But the food was fantastic, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.839 But they come up with the wine list. You know 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.080 what the wine list was. It's a it's a metal 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.960 handled basket with eight bottles of wine. And he goes, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.000 here's your wine list, And it's actually the bottles with 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.200 prices around the neck of the of each bottle, and 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.640 it says like glass and bottle, that is the wine list. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.000 He brought the bottles of wine in a basket, but 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.439 he is the wine list. Like it was as low 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.200 key as possible, like rather than print up a wine list, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.640 whatever bottles they have, they bring over in the beast. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.120 Oh my god, I love that. I love that. Yeah, 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:18.440 but the food was excellent, really good. Now by the way, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.800 that wasn't my question. What is your question? I'm sorry 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.559 to interrupt you. After that, we realized that the content 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.800 had two more hours, so we went to a local 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.800 bar and the bar was empty when we got there 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.480 because it was like, I don't know, seven o'clock, seven thirty, 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.040 and so we were like the only ones. There was 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.280 two people in the whole bar, and I got my 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.560 wife her usual drink, which is a dirty martini extra 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.680 dirty extra olives with uh whatever the the vodka she 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.720 likes that they have at the time, and the guy 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.400 gave her four olives because she has for extra There 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.880 were so many of these fat olives that they didn't 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.000 fit in the glass. She had to put him in. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.280 A guy had to put him. But my wife said 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.080 that bought tenders as a rule, only give odd amounts 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.000 of olives, and then it was unusual to get four olives. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.880 It is unusual. I've only seen one or three. I've 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.840 never seen four or two. So I said, maybe it's 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.520 an extra one for good luck. She's like, that's not 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.199 how it works, or three, it's usually three. So is 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.720 the fourth one the extra one? When she said extra olives, yes, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.920 then she should then he should have given five then, right, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.240 or she should have done three. Yeah, you're right, odd 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.960 numbers only or three and then a couple on the side, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.360 because but then that would be five. Yeah, but it 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.680 was it on the toothpick? Four on the toothpick? Was 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.280 it blue cheese olives? I don't know what. No, No, 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.160 they were, they were They didn't have anything in them, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.959 but one of them had to pick. You know me, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.680 I'm a vodka soda guy, but I'm a sucker for 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.760 a nice, uh dirty martini when they have blue cheese 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.360 olives available. If that, if I see that, I'm getting 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.719 I'm getting a dirty martini. I want you to get 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.120 to the blue cheese olives. I know you're vodka soda, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.679 but weren't you like cranberry soda for a while? Cranberry 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.800 vodka dude, that was back in the beginning of my 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.760 drinking days. I as soon as I learned that the 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.600 cranberry is nothing but sugar and it's not really good 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.160 for your urinary tract like that, I said, I'm abandoned 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.400 in the cranberry. I thought it had health benefit. It 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.760 does not. That's what you're doing for your healthy I'm 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.079 gonna have cranberry and yeah, I don't. I figured the 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.040 cranberry juice because you know what, once again, this is 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.080 like it's an old wives tail. People said, oh, have 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.120 cranberry and vodka because the cranberry juice is good for you. Well, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.680 no it's not. It's fucking sugar and it's like seventy sugar. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.400 But the time did a woman tell you that? Because 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.080 you know, cranberry juice and pineapple juice allegedly, um, it 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.880 makes it makes a sweet, sweet sweet semen, thank you, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:46.360 Jack Harlow, Oh oh, oh, don't say that. I quoting 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.480 a hip hop a lyric from first class Jack Harlo 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.079 first version that's said, the version I hear on the radio. Well, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.480 because they block it out, I'm gonna try to block out. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.719 I'm gonna try to block that out as well. Up 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.800 in the sky. Hey, So when we come back, I 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.080 gotta tell you about the balls on these people. And 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.080 they're from Brooklyn, of course, the balls on these people, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.640 all right, on these people on these people. Okay, I'm waiting. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:23.559 I'm embarrassed to be associated with them. Oh is he 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.000 your family members? Before the break talking about the people 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.600 that I don't want to be associated I was gonna 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.760 go back because it's it's my people, your people, our people, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.160 people from off the people. I made this on the people, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:44.000 now people from So all right, I'm not gonna give names, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:49.000 but I may know they're women, and I may give occupations. 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.600 You love Maria and Rosalie. Probably I don't know. Um, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.439 you know this sucks, but you know we've talked about 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.720 this place on our podcast before. You know, the Butcher's Block, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.960 New Jersey down in there, the place you go to 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.480 for steak and never invite me that place yet. Um 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.120 five knives, they're down a long branch. Okay, yes, the 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.439 steak knives. We've talked about the stake knives. Yeah, five 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.160 hundred dollars, did we? And we've talked about we've talked 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.719 about the stolen steake knives before. That's why I keep 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.240 saying five hundred dollars, Right. Did we talk about the 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.120 two women specifically that were caught on camera with the 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.760 steake knives that they Yeah, it was in during the summer, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.760 So just a quick recap. This place has really expensive. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.600 They're two steak knives and and and they look like 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.480 butcher's mallet. Um not a mallet. What do you call 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.719 that thing that clevers cleavers. They look like they look 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.600 like a little mini cleavers, and you cut your steak 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.160 with them anyway. They cost about two fifty dollars to make, allegedly, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.800 that's what they're I'm told, and that if you if 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.240 you get caught stealing them, or if you don't return them, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.760 if if there's six people at the table and only 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.280 five come back, they will charge you on the bill 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.880 five to dollars and it will say stolen state knife. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.839 Because they have the balls to do that. Now they 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.560 try and get the knife back. They do everything they 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:08.920 can because they don't want to charge you, and they 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.480 don't want they want just want their money their knife back. Well, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.840 every once in a while people get away with the 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.679 knife and the waiter or bus boy never sees it, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.720 so they find the surveillance camera and the surveillance tape 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.400 and they embarrass people on their Instagram the block en J. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.400 You gotta follow them um at the block ENJ. So 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.320 you go there and and and every once in a 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:36.480 while they'll put up litteral surveillance tape showing idiots on camera, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:41.840 probably half drunk, like shoving knives in their purses on 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.880 this one occasion, they posted the video of the surveillance. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:51.320 One woman had fire engine red hair. All right, you're 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.640 gonna steal a state knight when you fire and fire 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.600 and and her friend, the two of them, and I 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.800 heard at the woman the other woman has like a 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.200 high profile job for the city. I won't go beyond that. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.560 So what ended up happening is the block says we. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.920 We tried to get the steake knives back. We saw them. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.680 They left without without the stake knives. Our our bad. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.400 I'm sorry they left without us finding out. Then our bad. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.080 We didn't realize that they did. And then we found 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.000 the surveillance, and then we called the woman, because keep 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.360 in mind, every table is attached to a reservation with 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:32.680 a phone numbers. Oopsies, they called the woman's number. She's like, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.720 you stole our steake knives. We just want a knife back. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.120 Click hung up on her. They keep calling, click, They 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.520 start the woman's blocks their number of the block. Do 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:47.320 they think the block doesn't go quietly? Brodie? So these 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.240 went so so they put the surveillance tape on on 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:57.360 Instagram and within minutes dozens of people are identifying. I 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:58.800 think they took it down by now, by the way, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.360 because they eventually got their knives that, um, they embarrassed 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.160 these women and and and people were like, this is 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.440 so and so, this is her name, this is what 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.880 she does for a living. I found her. I know 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.800 who that is. Oh my god, they're friends with my 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.680 friends from Staten Island. I mean, you don't realize how 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.760 much of a small world this is until you steal 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.760 stay and they blow up, and they blow you up 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:26.760 on on social media. So so they got embarrassed. And 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.080 keep in mind, do you think they really got embarrassed. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.360 This doesn't sound like the kind of woman who gives 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.840 a ship the block. Yes, they had to have because 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.880 the block that they blocked, the block's phone number, and 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.920 and then and then they blocked the block, they moved 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.840 the block block, they blocked the block on the phone, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.520 so they put them. After the surveillance went up, they 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.200 you know, they people started giving them hot tips on 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.880 who these people were. They had the woman's name, and 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.560 then they googled her. They found they started putting up 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.040 their their social media profiles and stuff, and it became 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.600 like thousands and thousands and thousands of views on social media. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:16:59.960 Why don't you tell me this as it was happening. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.640 Needless to say, these why didn't I tell you? I 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.760 mean this was I mean month, this was like a 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.920 month ago in August, and the morning I should tell 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.800 the podcast time I was going to, I was going 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.240 to we were off for a few weeks. It's happening 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.720 during the time we were off, so so so they finally, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:22.359 I guess it's enough. People called the two thieves and 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.400 they said to them, Um, you're all over their social media. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:26.880 Why don't you give the knives back? I mean, it's 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.080 embarrassing to get caught. They're showing video if you're putting 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.280 it in your fucking purse, and then you just leave 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.560 and then you do you ignore everybody and you ghost them. No, no, Well, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.600 needless to say, eventually they got there to stay knives back. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.360 I spoke to the people at the block. I said, dude, 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.640 what happened with that? And they were telling me, yeah, 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:49.120 we got our knives back. But fast forward two weeks ago, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.720 I was in Brooklyn at my friend's restaurant, Brooklyn Roots, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.520 remember another Italian restaurant, Brodie yea yea, And I was 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.760 in there for this the the the what was it, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.960 the sunrise of the sunset of sunset of Sidi Siste. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.520 It was a Sicilian dinner. I walk in, sit down, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.119 I see these two women that look so familiar to me. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.240 It was the woman with the fire engine red hair. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.160 And yes, they were having been about four tables away 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.520 from me. And I'm telling my friends, those are the 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.280 fucking knife steelers. But isn't it amazing how I remembered 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.840 them from social media because of the video that they 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.600 posted on I mean, talk about embarrassing. I wanted to 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.280 warn my buddy, Hey, do just just watch table six 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.399 just gonna take your Sta state knives. I mean, well, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.160 did you go over and say hello. I was going 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.119 to and I was gonna make a funny joke, you know, 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.919 because you know whatever, n knife to knife to me, 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.040 knife to me. But isn't that hilarious? Though? You know, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.040 you think you uh, you know, you catch these people. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.280 They were caught red handed. Is that even a thing anymore? 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.840 Red handed? I don't know. Uh? And and then and 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.640 then they finally give the knives back, but now they 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.880 have a lifetime of embarrassment ahead of them. It's it's 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.840 price you pay, It's the consequences. Because the block fought 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.399 back and put the surveillance tape up on their social 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.359 I don't know. I find it really hilarious, but um 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.280 sad at the same time. I mean because we all 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.320 know people who have stolen from restaurants, right, like salt 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.280 shakers and ship Oh sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely, we do 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.800 know people like that. But you know, I don't do it. Um, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.760 you know, but we It's just it gives you it 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.119 lets you think about it twice now because this so 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.439 this video cameras everywhere. Why would you want to do 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.239 anything so foolish, right, especially when it when it's such 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.720 a high profile thing. Yeah, right, Like if you're an 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.320 outback steakhouse and you steal a knife, they're not gonna 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:42.760 go after you. But it's not And I have to 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.240 be honest with you. What do you want the knife for? 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.080 What do you want to uh butcher blow? I will say, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.119 they're really cute and when you're when you're drunk, you 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.000 may want to steal ane. I warned my so um, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.040 I warned my friends who went there. I said, whatever 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.240 you do, don't steal the knives. I know they're cute 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.920 and I know they'll make great little souvenirs. There's nothing 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.240 like them. They're very unique. They're one of a kind 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.200 these nights that you can't find them anywhere, so people may, 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.120 you know, get a little hammered and take the ship. 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.520 But anyway, these two women are from the neighborhood Brodie. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.960 So that's our constituent, and that's the kind of neighborhood 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.360 we come from. That's where we're from. If there ever 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.760 was a lesson to be had, it's don't trust trust 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.600 where we're from. My wife is a big fan of 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.680 TikTok restaurants, so she follows a lot of food ease, 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.919 and so if she sees a well presented restaurant on 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.119 TikTok that she wants to go to, she'll send it 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.440 to me. Right she's challenging me to eat at food 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.119 for your places with fancier food. So she sent me 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.600 a place. The food looks a little foofy. It's Italian, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.520 but it looks delicious, and I have a feeling you 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.639 may have been there, but it doesn't look like it 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.520 belongs in the neighborhood it's in. It's a place in 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:55.199 Brooklyn called Fausta. Have you been have? Okay, tell me 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.119