#394: A Big Tip For Your Big Tip

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Speaker 1: Episode 394. It's the Brooklyn Boys podcast. What's going on? I'm Skiri Jones.

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Speaker 2: I'm David Brody.

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Speaker 1: We are creeping up to 400. Holy crap. When we say creep, do we put the creep in creeping up to 400?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we know that there's... Who sings Creep? TLC. TLC. No, also I'm a Creep. Radiohead. Radiohead, yeah. Radiohead, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so let's just get this out of the way. Scary was on vacation last week, of course.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 4: And we posted a classic episode, episode 21.

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Speaker 1: 21. Brody's big box rant.

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Speaker 2: And we got more listens to that episode than the live episode, the new episode we did the week before.

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Speaker 1: How is that possible?

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess because the Elvis Duran show is on vacation, everybody tuned into the boys. needed some new content. So time permitting, whenever we, whenever he goes on vacation, we will put up a best of classic episode that we feel is one, especially for slices for you guys that maybe haven't listened to all 400, you know, three night, whatever. And, or, or, you know, you've only listened, you don't want to like, I can't go back 400 episodes.

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Speaker 2: Just tell me which ones are the best ones now. So I hope you guys liked it. Yeah, but it was different. Now we did a lot of stuff that we don't do. We did.

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Speaker 1: Yes. And we were together in the same studio. So the dynamic is different. We still have great energy.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about that, but we don't do listener emails because we do slice time now.

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Speaker 1: We do talkbacks.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: And we don't do unused punchlines because... I'm not there to write punchlines anymore. You don't work for the show. And of course, I'm leaving for the Bahamas tomorrow morning after the show.

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Speaker 1: But this is the episode for this week. But this is the episode. This isn't a vacation.

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Speaker 2: So we don't need a throwback episode.

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Speaker 1: But we could. But not this time.

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Speaker 4: And I got to use our blue logo, which I was very excited about.

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Speaker 1: I saw that. To be like, oh, it's a throwback. It's blue.

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Speaker 2: It's blue.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I see what you did there, Brody. So we have a Slice Time logo.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, so we have a website. Yeah, the Brooklyn Boys podcast.com. That's the Brooklyn Boys podcast. By the way, it's the or the. Either way, it's TNG. There's your rhyme. Right off the bat, right from the jump, I have to say. I've been a lifelong Knicks fan. And yesterday, here in New York, was the Knicks home opener. Oh, we're starting off with sports now? LeBron James. No, this is going to transfer real quick. Are you dissing on Philly?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no. Listen to what I'm saying, Brody.

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Speaker 2: LeBron James, obviously now a 76er. He was visiting the visiting team at the Garden. The Knicks got their flags raised. The banners hanging from the rafters now from the World Championship. They got their rings last night. It was a beautiful ceremony right before the game.

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Speaker 1: They had gold lettering on the jerseys. Did you see that? Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But here's something. That being said, and me being a Knick fan... I'm going to come out on the side of LeBron James on this because during the game, there was a guy in the third row. And as you know, when you got courtside seats, you're right next to the fucking players. You're like three feet away. So anything you say, they can hear. So LeBron, Bernie, did you see this? This is a viral moment. This is everywhere right now.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about it. I only watched part of the game. Pull this up because you're going to see it. It'll be the first video. So LeBron is standing there.

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Speaker 2: And some guy, some quarter zip guy with gray hair and his fucking gray haired friends, he's probably some trust fund dude because he had the second or third row, starts talking shit to LeBron. Like LeBron is like waiting for the play and he's, you know, LeBron's on the court.

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Speaker 1: And he's like saying, yo, you're soft, man. You're soft, LeBron.

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Speaker 2: And LeBron gets into a fucking heated argument with the guy, starts pointing at him and saying, I ain't fucking soft. I ain't from the Midwest. I'm from Ohio, baby. I ain't from the Midwest. It is the Midwest, right? But so that, that might've been a shitty comeback. He goes, he goes, fuck you mean boy. Something like, like, like LeBron got crazy. In fact, on the next play, like the guy, he went back in on the guy. He's, he's like fucking jaw jacking with this dude. And this gray haired fucking freak, like, You know, LeBron would just fucking pummel you if he saw you in the street and you fucking said that.

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Speaker 1: So Spike Lee got involved.

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Speaker 5: Watching his high school highlights over the last three weeks.

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Speaker 2: He's so long from his freshman year till now, and he still plays with the same joy.

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Speaker 1: The same preparation. Wait, wait.

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Speaker 6: I can't hear what he's saying. He's mouthing it. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I'm not from the West Coast.

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Speaker 2: I'm from Ohio, is what he said.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But the point is.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's it. Enough of that.

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Speaker 2: No, it's Mike Tirico, NBC. Anyway, so they didn't really get into it there. A lot of commentary, though, afterwards online. The thing is, first of all, that's the equivalent of the fucking keyboard cowboys in the comment section.

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Speaker 1: In every comment section. Every fucking troll everywhere.

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Speaker 2: It's that gray-haired dude in the stands saying, like knowing that no LeBron is not going to fucking do anything, but he's going to hear what he.

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Speaker 1: Has to say. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So he said to LeBron, Hey LeBron, just because you have a helicopter and you live in New York, doesn't mean we're going to cheer for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he says, you're soft, man, you're whatever. And then Spike Lee got involved. He's like, you know, just leave this guy alone, whatever. The thing is this. I side with LeBron on this, and not that bitch-ass punk Nick fan who was protected, of course, by the rules that LeBron's not going to come after him. But if this was in the middle of the street and he said that, he would have got his lights punched out. And so I am— So you think it's a— Big fan ball energy? Is that like we talked about big buddy ball energy? Big fan ball energy. But I'm on LeBron's side here because good thing you clapped back. I bet you this guy didn't think for a second you'd even acknowledge him. And you're sitting there talking shit and he's got to listen to that crap?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I know we have a lot of examples of this in society. We've seen this a lot in other games. We've seen it. They heckle the right fielder or the left fielder, right? A lot of times at baseball stadiums, Brody, because it's so close to where they play. You're in the stands and you're screaming at them.

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Speaker 1: They take a lot of shit. They're like sponges. But at some point, someone's going to snap. And, you know, I.

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Speaker 4: Oh, fans have gone into this. Players have gone into the stands before and punched people. Well, thank God LeBron held his cool. I think it was the Golden State Warriors a few years ago. But yeah, you don't have to tweet me or anything. I could be wrong on the team.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, players have gone into the stands and punched people.

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Speaker 1: The thing is, don't be a douche. He can hear you. You've got those great seats.

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Speaker 4: He was cool about it afterwards. He wasn't complaining about the fans. He's like, it was a good night for the New York fans. I know what it's like to be on a team that doesn't win a championship for 50 years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but also.

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Speaker 2: He was cool about it. Yeah, but then the Sixers took the game anyway. So he said it did feel good beating the Knicks on their home turf on opening night. So LeBron got the last laugh there.

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Speaker 3: But.

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Speaker 1: you know, I, I just don't agree.

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Speaker 4: With, well, he's been, he's been a thorn in the next side for a long time.

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Speaker 1: He has been.

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Speaker 4: And then in spring and spring, not spring training in, in training camp, he said he had a dream. He was going to play for the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then he didn't. Don't be a turd. Don't be a turd. Let's get back.

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Speaker 4: Let's get back to the helicopter thing. He has a deal with fanatic sports, right? He lives in New York, plays in Philly. They fly him to and from every game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. To get to the Sixers games. That's a good deal. It's a great deal. It's part of the game. It's an hour and a half car ride. It's part of the contract. He takes a helicopter ride. But listen. He signed you.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be honest with you. Listen, if you fly a helicopter, I'm not trying to jinx you. But Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter. If I'm a basketball player who knew, who knew Kobe, I'm not, I'm not flying in a helicopter.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is, you know, this is the equivalent of Brody, you know, is, is me getting all the vacation time I get because you see LeBron wrote that into his contract that he gets a helicopter.

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Speaker 1: So he gets it. No, he did not.

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Speaker 4: He got a separate deal with Fanatic Sports. Whatever it is, he's got it.

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Speaker 1: He, he has a deal where he gets to do that. Yes. Yeah, God bless. And I wrote my vacation time into my contract. So there. All right.

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Speaker 2: Very, very good.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about something that I talked about a few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago, where I told you about finding a piece of metal in my mixed berry, wild roots, mixed berry bag of trail mix.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I bet you that one, that bowl had extra iron in it. No! That's a nutrition joke, folks.

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Speaker 4: I've been fighting with them for months because so far all they want to do for me, they sent me a check for like $ 4 for the price of the bag, which I still haven't cashed yet because I'm standing on principle. Oh my God, who's the principle? Oh, she's in pain though. I'll tell you right now, she's not happy about it. There's a young woman on Instagram that we've talked about on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I've played clips from her before, I think.

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Speaker 4: And I've asked her to be on this podcast and she told me, you know, I'm very busy. You know, I have a young child and I can't, I got a lot of, I'll get back to you.

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Speaker 1: That's fine.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping she gets back to me eventually because I'd love to have her on the podcast. Bianca from Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: She is the epitome of our old neighborhood. But she's younger. She grew up way after we grew up there. But she still sounds like all the people that live in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 4: She calls people Brajol. Hey, what's up, Brajol? So yesterday, she posted a video. Well, she posted a picture. There was no audio for me to play. And she said, or maybe there was.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember.

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Speaker 4: That she bought a bag of flour from King's Flour or King something Flour. And there was a piece of metal in it. And she showed the picture of the metal in the flour.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: And she said, what should I ask them for? Should I expect an apology?

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Speaker 2: An apology with a little extra.

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Speaker 1: A little cash back? What should I ask?

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Speaker 4: So I, of course, put down, you should ask for an apology with some cash back.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think you get an apology, a new bag of flour, and maybe $ 50.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: So she had the same problem I did. Here's today's so far update. She's not done yet, but here's her update.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not.

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Speaker 1: Hold on. It's not connected. We can take a break and come back to it. Here it is.

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Speaker 5: I don't have it for you right now, but I'm going to give you something even better.

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Speaker 1: I'm making a whole video.

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Speaker 5: Uh, the truth is I came to you guys asking your opinion because I didn't know if I was overreacting and I was second guessing myself. So I said, let me see if all the people agree with me. Um, I thought they should have went above and beyond and spoiler, they didn't. And I had over 4,000 of you agree with me that you thought they should have went above and beyond. And, um, funny thing is I tagged them in the video yesterday. They saw it. They had nothing to say. So if they have nothing to say, I'm going to have to say a little something. I don't like calling out people, but this was serious. A giant piece of metal in the flower.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I know.

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous. They did nothing.

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Speaker 5: Where's the customer service?

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for the video. It'll be up later. Where is she from? Montana? That is a beautiful.

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Speaker 2: That's a Brooklyn accent right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can tell.

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Speaker 4: She says they should have went instead of they should have gone. Anyway, I'm going to ask her again to come on and talk about this so that she and I can compare notes.

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Speaker 1: Because, again, if you find metal in your food, they should do right by you. They should. We'll be right back. Thank you so much. I love that last story from you, Brody.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, she's definitely do a lot more than just an apology.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. No, but she didn't even bite into the metal. I bit into the metal. Yeah. And I got who gots. You got gots and ghoul. That's right. Gots and ghoul. Speaking of which, I got another story for you. It's not customer service, but I want your opinion. I'm going to show you this video.

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Speaker 3: He's suing for $ 500, 000?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to watch this video and you tell me. Hold on. And what, can you see this watch in the mall? Oh my God. What the fuck happened to her? She got thrown. Okay. Yeah. So there's a, there's a video. I don't know what mall it is. I don't know a lot of the details. So look for a girl.

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Speaker 4: She's an Asian girl with long black hair wearing, um, like a mauve long sleeve shirt and jeans.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised she didn't get a, didn't get a concussion from that. That's she like landed on her head. So she's walking through the mall. I don't know what mall it is. Um, But it's search for mall chair swing incident Alexa. I think that's what you search for. She's walking through the mall with her head down, eating ice cream. And this restaurant has a giant swing. It looks like the size of a table. And it's people in it. Like kids. And it swings out and hits her and she goes flying and she lands on her back and her head hits the ground.

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Speaker 1: She's swing.

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Speaker 4: the restaurant, and the mall for $ 500, 000. Now, the reason I mention this is that some of the people in the comments... Oh, so it was one person said she got paid $ 520, 000. Some people are saying she should have been paying attention.

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Speaker 1: She shouldn't have had her head down looking at the ice cream. Why would you be looking up thinking a giant chair swing is going to fly out of a restaurant and a mall? Yeah. Yeah, so... So I said, first of all, I said, who was filming? Like, how do they have this on film?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Who was filming?

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Speaker 4: Unless maybe like the parent of the kid in the chair, swing, swing. People are actually like, why was she not paying attention? Why was she looking down?

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Speaker 2: Why, you know, If you're on the sidewalk, let's say, and you're eating ice cream, you're talking on the phone, and you're not paying attention, and a car comes up on the sidewalk and hits you, is that your fault that you weren't looking?

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Speaker 1: No. No, it's not your fault. The car shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It shouldn't be, no. So, Slices, if you got a concoction... She goes flying. Flying in this video. Literally flying through the air and lands on her head. How much would you have asked for? She.

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Speaker 4: She apparently, according to one of the comments, got $ 520, 000 for her concussion.

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Speaker 1: Right. Which is a shitload of money. Now, here's my other question.

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Speaker 4: Would you let yourself get hit by that chair for half a million dollars?

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: But I'd have to wear a helmet because I don't want to crack my skull.

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Speaker 2: No, you can't wear the helmet. No, you can't wear the helmet. Like, for all we know, look, I'm sure the girl legitimately got hurt. But we don't know if she deliberately, like, took one for the team, put her head down and was like, hit me, baby.

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Speaker 1: And then, boom. I mean, she went flying. Listen to this guy who explains the video, giving his opinion, because I want to punch him.

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Speaker 3: From our store, and she walked right into it, and it sent her flying. Now, she's saying that she got a concussion after the swing had hit her. Her ice cream went everywhere, and now she plans to sue for $ 520, 000. Now, technically, she might not be in the wrong, though I think she's trying to sue the mall when it's not actually the mall's negligence.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's the negligence of the store that installed a swing without any kind of safety precautions, letting people know that there could be swinging in this area, protecting anybody from being hit. Though people will say that she was so into her ice cream, she couldn't even see anything around her and was not paying any attention to her surroundings.

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Speaker 1: Okay, she wasn't paying attention. Who would think a.

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Speaker 4: Giant swing would fly out of a restaurant and hit you as you're walking by?

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Speaker 1: No one. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right. So half a million dollars. Scary says, go ahead and hit me. Go ahead and hit me. Hey, leave us a talk back. Would you, would you want to get hit for half a million? Did we get a concussion? Did we talk about the music, the thousand dollar tip that a woman left.

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Speaker 1: On a check? It was a, she was, she was in a restaurant and the bill came to $ 81. Okay. And then, she left and the guy, the waiter was hot in her eyes. Okay.

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Speaker 2: She left a thousand dollar tip for him, making it a thousand 81.

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Speaker 1: And it said, call me.

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Speaker 2: But later that day, she gets a text message from the guy's girlfriend. Unbeknownst to her, he had a girlfriend and said, Hey, You think you could buy your way into my man's life? Well, he's got a girlfriend. And just so you know, I own three properties and this and that. And he doesn't need your fucking money here. And she Apple pays everything.

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Speaker 1: The woman backed the $ 1, 000. She gave her back the $ 1, 000 tip. Yeah, but he had the $ 1, 000. Well, that's exactly it.

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Speaker 2: So, obviously, the dumbass must have went home and said, I got a $ 1, 000 tip because I'm hot. And this woman said, call me. I mean, obviously, we know he left or he left. We left it out on the table. We know who has the power in that relationship. She does because she probably has the money. But so she's like, oh, yeah, well, watch this. And she wrote wrote the woman back. Hands off my man. Fuck you.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's all kinds of wrong happening here. First of all.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that she makes as much as she does the wife or the girlfriend, because why would he, her boyfriend have this waiter job anyway, that makes like 20, $ 30 an hour, whatever it is.

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Speaker 4: What kind of dumb question is that? Scary, you know somebody who's very, very rich and their spouse has a very mediocre paying job.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, we know a lot of people like that in our life. Don't you have a woman?

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Speaker 5: No, no.

00:19:03
Speaker 4: I'm not going to mention her name, but you know who I'm talking about who works in TV.

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Speaker 1: I forget about that argument. It's a bad argument. I retract that statement. What about this?

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Speaker 2: It's his tip. Why doesn't she turn it around and be like, you know what? why don't if we want to write to the woman and be a bitch like hey we're going to use this money toward going on this vacation or whatever yes that's what i would have done in your face i bought lingerie for him tonight or whatever so she's going to help you know she's going to help spend the money on that that would make her feel low but but even that aside How.

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Speaker 1: Is this woman supposed to know that he had a girlfriend? Right. She's not shooting her shot. She's shooting her shot.

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Speaker 4: So truthfully, you could have gotten him to call for $ 500, no?

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Speaker 1: Right, maybe, or even $ 100, you know, $ 100. Yeah, $ 100, $ 200.

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Speaker 4: Listen, I'll show up for $ 50.

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Speaker 2: $ 100 goes, well, $ 50 is the new $ 20.

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Speaker 1: That's a whole other conversation. You know about that, right? You know $ 50 is the new $ 20. No, I don't know about that. No, you'll tell me about that later.

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Speaker 2: Because in my world, $ 10 is the new $ 20. Oh, what about tipping versus bribing? Oh, my God, we have a bigger conversation coming.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back to that.

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Speaker 2: We'll get back to that. But anyway, think about this. It sounds like a, it sounds like a bribe almost. It sounds like prostitution. Well, that's what it sounds like.

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Speaker 1: Okay. That's another element of this conversation.

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Speaker 2: Where, where do you draw the line between male prostitution or prostitution in general? I mean, a thousand bucks. It's pretty much like, call me like wink, wink. Forget about the fact that he had the girl.

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Speaker 1: He has a girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: If he calls her back and they hang out and they hook up, Is that prostitution? Or was that a tip?

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Speaker 1: Only if she gives him another thousand afterwards. Yeah, but I think it sounds like a transactional moment.

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Speaker 4: Like, no, if you meet a hooker in a bar, no, if you meet a hooker in a bar and you buy her dinner, you buy her drinks and then you go home and have sex, that's not prostitution unless you pay her again.

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Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Okay, so.

00:21:10
Speaker 2: Because otherwise, what you described scary is called modern American dating.

00:21:15
Speaker 1: That's right. But is it transactional? Like, okay, you buy me this expensive dinner.

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Speaker 4: Well, Scary, answer that question yourself as a single guy.

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Speaker 1: If you bought a woman a $ 300 dinner... I'm not a single guy, but I'm... No, no, no, no. You're harking back to my single days. I want you to answer it. I want you to... Right. Answer it as you would as a single guy. Hold on. Let me put my single cap on here. Oh, yes.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: If you took a... You know a lot of guys... I do. who, if they spend $ 300 on dinner... Yeah. they expect a little thank you. A little thank you?

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's right. You know what I mean by a thank you. You know what I mean by... You know what I mean by a thank you. But a woman's not obligated... No!

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Speaker 1: 100% not.

00:21:52
Speaker 2: But is she wrong for accepting a date knowing that she's leading a guy on? There's so many ways you could flip this one. But let's stick to this.

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Speaker 1: Or the woman. Let's stick to this. This is a woman who had no idea she was shooting her shot.

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Speaker 2: I give her a lot of credit, and I don't think there's anything wrong with her saying that. But it is a bit of bribery, I think, at the very least. The tip is a bribe. It's like, here, call me. Thousand bucks. I'm leaving a thousand bucks for you. This reminds me of that awful woman who said, I want you to pay for my trip to the Hamptons. And then maybe I'll go to dinner with you or whatever. Nate for Nate straight Nate from the show. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: She told, right.

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Speaker 2: She told Nate, I want you to pay for my trip to the helicopter ride to the Hamptons.

00:22:40
Speaker 1: And then maybe we can, uh.

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Speaker 2: Only difference there was he wasn't included in the, in the ticket.

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Speaker 1: He's she's like, no, I'm going, you know, I want you to pay for me to go on my own.

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Speaker 2: Right. And then maybe when I get back, we'll talk. That's what I'm saying. So that this woman gave a thousand dollar tip. So maybe we can talk.

00:22:57
Speaker 1: Same thing. So to me, that's just a gamble. She's gambling. You're right. She's making a bet.

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Speaker 4: You're investing. You're investing in a, right. Listen, if this woman, scary Jones would say, if this woman was hot, she wouldn't have to leave a thousand dollars. Well, I don't know what you look like.

00:23:10
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not. Well, I was thinking, I was thinking maybe.

00:23:13
Speaker 2: Yes, you are.

00:23:14
Speaker 1: Maybe she was. Because if this woman was hot, she would just say, Hey, Hey Mike, call me. Here's my number. Call me. They might be like, oh, she's hot. I'll call her.

00:23:23
Speaker 4: So my guess is she was probably throwing money around like Jeff Bezos, who's bald, but he's a billionaire, so he gets women.

00:23:29
Speaker 2: Right.

00:23:29
Speaker 1: But you know what? Sour grapes.

00:23:31
Speaker 2: And shame on the guy's girlfriend for being a petty... Well, shame on the guy for giving the phone number over to his girlfriend.

00:23:39
Speaker 1: Well, yeah. Shame on him.

00:23:40
Speaker 2: He should have just kept the fucking money, put it in his pocket and spent it however he wanted. But instead I got a big tip from some woman who hit on me, whatever. And then be like, but I would never call her. I threw the number away. Don't fucking like leave it out. First of all, that here's the problem with this story. When you work in a restaurant, the signed part, right? has to go back to the restaurant. So did she write the note on another paper?

00:24:04
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. She could screenshot it. He could screenshot it and say, he didn't have to take the receipt away. Yeah, I guess he could have. He screenshot it and brought it home. Hey, honey, look at this.

00:24:12
Speaker 4: He would have taken a picture. He wouldn't have screenshot it.

00:24:14
Speaker 1: Well, he would have taken a picture. Yes. Take a picture of it.

00:24:17
Speaker 2: Done.

00:24:17
Speaker 1: Take a picture of it. Yeah, so okay, but why show your girlfriend the phone number? Drop that shit out.

00:24:22
Speaker 3: Right.

00:24:23
Speaker 2: And then shame on her for having to, you know, be, you know, be insecure to get in touch with the woman. You're going to cross that line. You're going to get in touch with her.

00:24:33
Speaker 1: No.

00:24:33
Speaker 2: Or if you're going to get in touch with her, just say, Hey, we're going to, I'm going to spend this money on, on, on me, on the two of us. How do you like them apples? And which is, which would be wrong in of itself. But then she does a stupid thing by giving her the money back. To show like, I don't need your fucking money. We don't need your money.

00:24:51
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's really dumb. Yeah. You go, Hey, thanks for the cash. Okay.

00:24:56
Speaker 4: So slices, uh, if you're the guy, are you telling your girl or your partner? If you're gay, you tell your partner that you got the, would you give him the phone number? And also if you're the other woman, if you're the girlfriend or the, the other, the significant other of the person that got the thousand dollars, Do.

00:25:13
Speaker 1: You call the phone number and give them shit?

00:25:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:25:17
Speaker 4: And what do you say? What do you say you do with the money? But also, would you give the money back?

00:25:21
Speaker 1: No. Hell no on my part. That's a non-starter. But also, who cares? Take the money. You know, obviously she doesn't trust her boyfriend because she.

00:25:32
Speaker 3: Had to get to be.

00:25:32
Speaker 2: I don't know.

00:25:33
Speaker 1: She trusts him because he told her.

00:25:35
Speaker 4: I think she just wanted to feel like he's my man and don't fuck with us.

00:25:39
Speaker 2: But that's stupid. That's dumb. You don't have to do that. Just disappear into the ether. Ghost the woman and that's good enough.

00:25:45
Speaker 1: You took her money and you're gone. Here's my last question. If you're the original woman who gave the $ 1, 000 and this happens to you, right?

00:25:52
Speaker 4: The girlfriend gives you the money back. She yells at you, whatever. Can you ever go in that restaurant again?

00:25:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, for a follow-up. Like, hey, you going to call me or what? Douchebag.

00:26:01
Speaker 2: Douchebag.

00:26:02
Speaker 1: And why did he say something on the spot to her?

00:26:04
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what?

00:26:05
Speaker 1: I have a girlfriend. No, because you probably signed it and left. Yeah, probably. Probably signed it and left. All this, this conversation, there's so many components to this and it's all kinds of wrong. You'll tell us later why 20 is the new 50. Yeah.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:26:18
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. The Brooklyn boys podcast. We will be right back. Still, it's a bad take. I know. Just that less conversation, but whatever. So I got a story for you, scary. It's about you.

00:26:30
Speaker 4: I'm at Pickleball a few days ago, and I'm wearing one of our Brooklyn Boys shirts. By the way, you can go to thebrooklynboyspodcast.com and click on the merch button and get all your merch. Get a hoodie for the winter, people.

00:26:40
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: Come on, let's go.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: Get a hoodie to cover that woody.

00:26:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not that long, I don't think. That's pretty long.

00:26:50
Speaker 4: Anyway, so I'm wearing the Brooklyn Boys shirt, and it says, you know, Brody and Skiri and Brody.

00:26:55
Speaker 1: The bottom.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: And one of the guys I played Pickleball with for like two years now, he says... He looks at me and he goes, oh, Scary Jones?

00:27:02
Speaker 4: And I said, as if there was another Scary. I go, yeah, Scary Jones.

00:27:05
Speaker 1: He goes, oh. I go, I listen to the morning show. You a big fan?

00:27:08
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, another guy who doesn't know who I am. Because he knows me, but doesn't know I was on the show. So I'm like, oh, another fucking Scary fan. I go, oh, you listen to the show? He goes, no.

00:27:19
Speaker 1: I used to live above him where Scary lived.

00:27:22
Speaker 4: So the guy I've talked to, the guy who's hard of hearing that I work with, so he won't hear this.

00:27:27
Speaker 1: I know exactly who it is. I already know who it is because you mentioned his, you know, his... Right.

00:27:33
Speaker 2: I told a story a couple of months ago on the podcast about how I went up to him and I was speaking Spanish because in my mind I was like, he doesn't speak English.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: I can't talk to him in English. Then I remembered, you know, it's because he's deaf. So Spanish isn't going to help. But he reads lips, so it's fine. Anyway, turns out, small world, he used to be your neighbor upstairs.

00:27:51
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:27:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a good neighbor, Scary Jones is there.

00:27:54
Speaker 3: I am.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: Scary Jones is there. Scary Jones, like a good neighbor. Yeah, honestly, he was a great guy. He lived directly above me. And so, yeah, and then he moved away. Never heard from him again. Little did I know or expect that he would turn up in your community or wherever you play pickleball. But isn't it crazy the way paths cross? And he didn't know me from the radio show because he never did listen. He even told me.

00:28:20
Speaker 1: When he met me.

00:28:21
Speaker 2: Yeah you know well who are you scary like yeah he's he's deaf that's why he doesn't listen.

00:28:28
Speaker 1: Oh there's that yeah i forgot about that Well, he has a hearing aid. He has a hearing aid. Maybe he just... No, no, no, no, no. The hearing aid wouldn't allow him to listen to radio. So, yeah. He picks up a little bit of sound, like he can hear the pickleball hitting, but he can't really hear you. Yeah. It doesn't matter. He doesn't listen to the show. Still a great guy. He's obviously not listening to this podcast. Our ratings are very low with deaf people, unfortunately. Yeah, unfortunately. But anyway.

00:28:53
Speaker 4: That being said, I have two stories involving paper menu that I wanted to share with you.

00:29:00
Speaker 1: Before you do that, can we talk about... Okay, we'll skip.

00:29:07
Speaker 2: Oh my God, I have five things I want to talk about right now.

00:29:10
Speaker 1: Let's go right to this one. Go right to yours.

00:29:13
Speaker 4: I'll give you the short one. I'll give you the short, quick one. I used to play this game in the car, and I hadn't played in a while. And paper menu is my boy from Brooklyn. He's got the same... sarcastic, profanity-laced sense of humor that I have.

00:29:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:29:28
Speaker 1: So have you ever played the license plate game? Always. What do you do?

00:29:33
Speaker 2: What do you call that? What's your definition of that? We call it the license plate game.

00:29:38
Speaker 1: Basically, you have to find an A, a B, a C, a D in that order, right? License plate. Yeah, no, not that one. Okay, which one are you talking about then? Oh, the states. You have to find the states.

00:29:50
Speaker 3: No.

00:29:51
Speaker 4: This is the one where you look at a license plate that usually ends in three letters.

00:29:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:29:55
Speaker 3: Right?

00:29:55
Speaker 1: In New Jersey, it does.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: I know that.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: And you try to, you come up with an anagram for it. What do the letters stand for? Right on the spot, you have to say, what do those letters stand for? Like if it said FBI on the license plate, you'd say, oh, Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:30:12
Speaker 1: I got that, right? So- I, I didn't, I've never asked him to play this game before.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: I just looked at a car in front of me and the license plate, uh, was Y D F.

00:30:23
Speaker 1: And then I said to him, you don't fuck. Yes. See, that's what came to my mind.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: Y D F.

00:30:30
Speaker 1: I said, I said, I said, I said, Hey, what does that stand for? And I was already thinking, he goes, Oh, you dumb fuck. We were playing the game all afternoon driving around. So another one, the third car, it was, okay, see if you guys, license plate at home, we'll give you a second. The license plate was LMD. Okay, I got one. Okay, go ahead. Lick my dick. Yes!

00:30:59
Speaker 3: Yes! See?

00:31:02
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it. Because our minds, great minds think alike. Yes, so Paper Man, you and I, we're getting almost identical responses. Okay, you have another one? You have another one? No, is that it? No, those are the two that I remembered, but I mean, I can, hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:31:16
Speaker 2: You dumb fucking LMD. All right, Brody's writing letters. We'll give the slices a minute.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: I like this. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, KDN. K, ooh, stuff starts with a K.

00:31:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:31:33
Speaker 1: That was the other one I remember. KDN. Yeah. Let's see. I'm thinking of. If you don't get it, it's fine. No, I was thinking of kill something.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: Kill. But then, you know, I don't have anything for D, you know?

00:31:55
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:31:55
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:31:55
Speaker 1: So you got me.

00:31:58
Speaker 4: So I came up with kiss these nuts.

00:32:00
Speaker 1: Kiss these nuts. All right. Yeah. these anyway so that's.

00:32:03
Speaker 4: That's that's the that's the license plate game i grew up with in brooklyn brody my boys smd yeah.

00:32:12
Speaker 2: Yeah smd you know you already know you slay my donkey yeah of course that's not you slices i think you even got that one oh how.

00:32:22
Speaker 1: About this slices might disagree Slices might disagree. Oh, hey, there you go. That's nice. Very nice. I'm good at this.

00:32:31
Speaker 4: Anyway, you guys can play it now. Let me know the fun license plates and what you come up with.

00:32:35
Speaker 1: It's fun. Play it at home. All right. There you go. Should we take a break?

00:32:37
Speaker 4: Is there something you want to throw at me? Yeah, after this. The thing that you were shaking your leg about. We're moving fast on this one.

00:32:43
Speaker 1: Moving fast. Moving fast. Okay. So we got into a fight in the control room today on the big show. With Gandhi. When you said the control, you mean the studio?

00:32:57
Speaker 2: On the studio, the control room, the big show.

00:33:00
Speaker 1: In the studio.

00:33:00
Speaker 2: It started off air and spilled on the air a little bit, but I wanted your take on it.

00:33:04
Speaker 1: Because everyone said I was crazy.

00:33:07
Speaker 2: Okay, first off, tell me who you were fighting with. Well, it was Gandhi, and then it was Nate involved. Then I got in there, Elvis, Froggy, Danielle. We all jumped in, but we all had an opinion on it.

00:33:16
Speaker 1: Okay, so, all right. Gandhi wanted it. Nate said that he was going to have tuna fish. For lunch or whatever. And then Gandhi's like... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. In the studio? Yes.

00:33:31
Speaker 2: Like eat it in the studio or after work? This has nothing to do with the act of it. This has to do with wordplay. So Gandhi's like, yeah, I'm going in a different direction here. So she's like, tuna fish. She says, why do you have to call it tuna fish? It's just tuna. And then we thought about it and we're like, for whatever reason.

00:33:54
Speaker 2: She goes, that's like saying chai tea or naan bread or ATM machine.

00:33:59
Speaker 1: So I said, no, no, because chai means tea. Tea, tea.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: Naan means bread, bread, bread. And ATM machine, we already know, is automatic teller, machine, machine. So in those cases that you gave, tuna doesn't mean fish. Tuna is a type of fish. So therefore, tuna fish is fine. So she was not hearing that logic. Because to me, tuna is a descriptor of fish. Just like, then I threw out there, and then she's like, well, we don't do that with other fish. It's just halibut. I said, okay, gefilte fish. Gefilte fish is a type of fish.

00:34:40
Speaker 1: But... No, no, no.

00:34:41
Speaker 4: Gefilte is not a fish. You can't catch a gefilte.

00:34:44
Speaker 3: Oh.

00:34:44
Speaker 1: But either way... You thought a gefilte was a fish that only Jews catch? Pretty much. So why doesn't... Who cares?

00:34:53
Speaker 3: Whatever.

00:34:53
Speaker 1: Okay. Discount that one. But my argument still stands. She's now... Why do we say.

00:35:01
Speaker 4: It shouldn't be that.

00:35:02
Speaker 1: You should just say tuna.

00:35:05
Speaker 2: But if you say tuna melt, if you're going to have a tuna melt sandwich, you don't say tuna fish melt.

00:35:10
Speaker 1: You say tuna melt. Why is it.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: But if you're ordering off the menu and you say, oh, I'll have the tuna... I'll have the seared tuna. You don't say fish, right? Or I'll have the halibut or I'll have the bronzino. You never say bronzino fish.

00:35:29
Speaker 1: Why?

00:35:31
Speaker 2: So then Danielle goes and looks it up. And she says specifically that back in the early 1900s. Yeah, I'm reading that.

00:35:40
Speaker 1: Why don't you read it to the slices? And Danielle found this out. And this is why we call tuna fish bronzino.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: A tuna fish sandwich, tuna fish, and not just tuna.

00:35:50
Speaker 4: Because the early 20th century American food marketing, when canned tuna was first introduced... the U S public around 1903, most consumers were unfamiliar with it as food.

00:36:00
Speaker 1: Right.

00:36:01
Speaker 4: And the word tuna also occasionally referred to the fruit of the prickly pear cactus.

00:36:06
Speaker 1: That's right.

00:36:07
Speaker 4: So, um, early canned marketers marketed Albuquerque tuna with mild flavor profiles, like chicken at the sea, adding the word fish helped clarify what the product.

00:36:17
Speaker 1: You're eating is a fish.

00:36:18
Speaker 2: And therefore Elvis said, when he's, when he's getting in, in the can, uh, That sounded bad. No, when he's getting the tuna. I realized what he said as I was saying it. I didn't mean it on purpose. That was an accidental joke. By the way, when Elvis is getting in the can, he's not thinking about tuna.

00:36:36
Speaker 1: No, when he's getting tuna. He's not into tuna. When he's eating.

00:36:39
Speaker 2: Tuna from the can or canned tuna that you chop up and add mayo and put on a sandwich, he will say tuna fish as well.

00:36:47
Speaker 1: So tuna fish. Everybody does. We all do. Right.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: But Gandhi was like, no, just call it tuna. But I disproved her with her non-bread and her chai tea examples.

00:36:59
Speaker 1: Because that doesn't hold weight. What are you thinking?

00:37:05
Speaker 2: Is there any other fish that we say we identify what it is in a sandwich? I'll have a sardine fish sandwich.

00:37:12
Speaker 1: No. Or I'll have salmon sandwich. I'll have smoked salmon. No, but you already.

00:37:18
Speaker 4: Explained why they say tuna fish. I just looked up whether or not they say tuna fish in India. where her family is from.

00:37:25
Speaker 1: Right. And they do not. They said they rarely use it.

00:37:28
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:37:28
Speaker 1: They said, hold on. What do you got? Yeah, they don't call it tuna fish. They call it simply tuna or chura. Chura.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: Hindi.

00:37:40
Speaker 1: Right. Chura.

00:37:41
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:37:41
Speaker 4: So I can understand why maybe her parents didn't say tuna fish when she was growing up. And her, you know, her relatives didn't say it, but that's the common expression. And that's the reason why we say tuna fish in America.

00:37:54
Speaker 1: Right. Yes. Also, you could say the same thing about, about chicken. Why is chicken?

00:37:59
Speaker 2: When you say you're eating pork, you don't say you're eating pig. When you're eating cow, you don't say you're eating beef, but you eat chicken.

00:38:05
Speaker 1: It's chicken.

00:38:06
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:38:06
Speaker 4: I'm eating chicken. You don't say I'm eating a pig. I'm not eating a cow.

00:38:10
Speaker 1: Chickeny China, the Chinese chicken. You have a drumstick and your brain stops ticking? Yeah. By the way, when you're in a restaurant... Starts ticking. Yeah.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: Do you look at the restaurant, the menu ahead of time? Do you care if somebody tells you what they ate.

00:38:27
Speaker 1: At the restaurant? Or do you need a spoiler alert? And you say, no, don't tell me what's on the menu. Don't tell me what's on the menu. Or do you care?

00:38:37
Speaker 2: No, in fact.

00:38:38
Speaker 1: Okay, so... No, I check out the menu before I go to a restaurant.

00:38:41
Speaker 2: You do?

00:38:41
Speaker 3: No.

00:38:42
Speaker 1: Yeah. Cause I need to make sure that's something I'm going to eat.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: This is another thing. This caused a big stir in the control room, the radio show at the, you know, in the studio. So I went to this restaurant a couple of weeks ago with my girlfriend and we're sitting there and we ate, we had a wonderful meal and this is a restaurant that Elvis hadn't tried yet, but wants to go.

00:39:03
Speaker 1: Oh, you beat him to it. I beat him to it on this one. Only, only this time. Um, So he says, can I interrupt for a second? Just for a split second. Yeah.

00:39:12
Speaker 4: I have found four or five restaurants in New Jersey and in Manhattan that I'm like, Oh my God.

00:39:18
Speaker 3: Right.

00:39:18
Speaker 4: And every time I look at them, it says liked by Elvis Duran followed by Elvis.

00:39:22
Speaker 1: I can't beat him to anything. Nah, he's been there. He's been all over. But I know it's probably a good place. Oh, it's Cafe Charmant in the city, in Manhattan. It's part of, you know, that's one of them. I saw he liked it. Yeah. So I went there.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm going there after we're done with the podcast today for the farewell Jet Ski Brian dinner.

00:39:42
Speaker 1: Anyway. So by the way, he just followed me on Twitter. Oh, nice. And oh, and tall Darren is in town. And guess what? Slices.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: He chose to stay at a hotel in New York City and not my couch. Or an inflatable mattress.

00:39:55
Speaker 1: Or an inflatable mattress.

00:39:57
Speaker 2: He's making progress. Anyway, we're meeting him for dinner. A bunch of us are going. So I'll be at Cafe Shaman the second time. This is the place, like, you know, the Taylor Swift goes there. All the celebrities go to these places.

00:40:09
Speaker 1: Oh, that's why you have to go there. Well, I beat Taylor there, apparently. She hasn't been. She's been to the corner store at the 86.

00:40:14
Speaker 2: The other two restaurants, this is part of a restaurant group, the catch group.

00:40:19
Speaker 1: Anyway.

00:40:19
Speaker 3: All right.

00:40:19
Speaker 1: Blah, blah, blah. Nobody cares. Anyway, that said, I came in the next day. Hooting and hollering to Elvis. Oh, Elvis. First, we started with this. And then we tried that. And then we went into this. And Elvis was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And he starts covering his ears. He goes, what are you doing? He goes, don't spoil it for me.

00:40:37
Speaker 6: I said, what are you talking about?

00:40:39
Speaker 1: I said, he goes, you've got to give me a spoiler alert. I don't want to know. I want to be surprised. I said, but what kind of food a restaurant is? No, apparently. And I kind of am with him on this. So I probably broke my own rule.

00:40:54
Speaker 2: I don't look, he doesn't look, I don't look at menus ahead of time.

00:40:58
Speaker 1: Do you just go to a restaurant? You don't know what they serve? Oh, I couldn't do that.

00:41:02
Speaker 2: I go to a restaurant sight unseen and he was upset that I was ruining it for him because he says part of the restaurant experience is being handed the menu right there, cold, and you're staring at the menu cold and you're looking at everything as you go. And I respect, much respect to that because I kind of am like that too.

00:41:21
Speaker 1: I said, but I did, my argument for that moment was... It's printed everywhere. It's online. The restaurant, the menu is not a mystery to anybody.

00:41:31
Speaker 4: But he looks at videos on Instagram and sees like, oh, I had the crab souffle.

00:41:36
Speaker 1: And does he go, oh, fuck, they ruined it for me? Part of that. Yes. I think he just scrolls off of it.

00:41:43
Speaker 2: But there are people out there who listen, who are more like you, who actually do the research. And I say, if you know you're going to, okay, we're going to a restaurant tonight, Brody. Are you going online? Are you going online and you're going to the menu? As you're telling me we're going, yes. Because I need to know what I'm going to order, what I'm going to order it without.

00:42:03
Speaker 1: I got to see if they accept substitutions. And I got to see if this, yes. And I got to see how much the place is.

00:42:09
Speaker 2: Because if I go and it's like, oh, the only thing I like is the Tomahawk steak for $ 210, then I'm fucked.

00:42:16
Speaker 1: Well, you're looking at prices. I'm talking about all of it.

00:42:19
Speaker 4: I need to know if I go to a place, I need to know, let's say it's an American place. Do they have steak and do they have potatoes or gratin? If I'm going to an Italian restaurant, do they have chicken parm? Do they have lasagna? Or is it one of these new wave Italian restaurants where it's like it's a stuffed olive?

00:42:36
Speaker 1: I'm not going there. Devil's advocate. I don't want to eat that.

00:42:38
Speaker 2: Why can't you just leave yourself in the hands of the chef? You know it's a great restaurant. You know this guy has been to college.

00:42:47
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll tell you why.

00:42:49
Speaker 4: I know a gynecologist is a great doctor, but I'm not going to him because I don't need a gynecologist. I go to the doctor that I need. If I'm going to a right, you know, listen, I'm not the everyday person.

00:42:59
Speaker 1: I get it.

00:43:00
Speaker 4: When I sit down at a new restaurant and I get handed that menu, because sometimes the menu is not online.

00:43:05
Speaker 2: They'll go, oh no, we changed the menu. It's different every week. And I'll go to the restaurant. I feel dread. I feel like, really? Oh God, please let there be something. Please let there be something. And the people who go with me to dinner, they'll look at me and go, oh God, please don't find something. Please don't find something.

00:43:19
Speaker 1: God damn it. I'm, I'm difficult. So I'll find like, okay. So then I'll go, okay, I will eat the salmon, but I don't want.

00:43:28
Speaker 2: It with the spinach. I want the thing that's served with the thing I don't like.

00:43:32
Speaker 1: Wow. So I want the potatoes from the other thing.

00:43:35
Speaker 2: So you're already in your mind making notes of how you're going to fuck the waiter over and be like, hey, could you sub out this for that? I want to take this from that dish and put that on this dish. Don't fucking choke you out. If that's the only thing I'm going to eat, I call ahead.

00:43:48
Speaker 1: I go, listen.

00:43:49
Speaker 4: If I want the salmon with the potatoes or gratin, can I do that? And if they go, the chef doesn't make, the chef prepares, he plans the meal, there's no substitutions.

00:44:00
Speaker 1: You know what? I substitute the restaurant and go somewhere else. That's what I do. That's me. I'm paying a lot of money. I want to get the food I want.

00:44:06
Speaker 2: So for me, my experience is, and again, I'm on Team Elvis.

00:44:10
Speaker 1: I have a problem with, deciding what not to order. I'm like, fuck. There's 11 things on this menu that look great.

00:44:19
Speaker 2: So I interview the waiter usually. I'm like, hey, so what are your signature things that we must have that everybody talks about that you guys do exceptionally well? Also, did we order too much? Did we order too little? And also, because I need to usually have to narrow it down because you know me with the apps. I love everything, you know? So for the table. And then even if I like three entrees, I try and... bargain with people at the table. I try and get them in on the conversation. Hey, you want to do the, like when I was in South Carolina, I was in Charleston.

00:44:52
Speaker 1: Everything on the brunch menu looked amazing.

00:44:54
Speaker 2: So I said, Hey guys, I don't want to order this as my main, but The sweet potato pancakes with maple honey butter look fucking fantastic.

00:45:04
Speaker 1: Should we get that for the table? Even though that was an entree.

00:45:07
Speaker 2: And they said yes. So I negotiate with my friends and my.

00:45:10
Speaker 1: You know, whoever. But my point is.

00:45:14
Speaker 2: I'm okay with walking into a restaurant cold, sitting down, handing the menu, and scrutinizing it and saying, oh, this looks great, that looks great, and doing the process of.

00:45:26
Speaker 1: Elimination thing because it is part of the experience.

00:45:29
Speaker 2: And if I'm in a great restaurant where I know that there's a reputable chef or they have their gold stars and they're rated high, I know they cook well and no matter what.

00:45:40
Speaker 1: I order is going to be good. No, I go on Google reviews and I look at all the pictures. I want to see the food. I want to see what it looks like. I got to know.

00:45:48
Speaker 4: I'm not going in and call. Listen, let's say I was single and I was on a date, right? And if the woman said to me, hey, I'm taking you to this really nice restaurant.

00:45:57
Speaker 1: I love the restaurant. It's this little place.

00:46:01
Speaker 4: And I didn't know what was going on and I couldn't choose the restaurant. I had no choice because she picked it. Then I'd be like, I'll go and I'll figure it out. But I would call first.

00:46:08
Speaker 1: I would look at a menu. I would go, but.

00:46:12
Speaker 2: If one of my friends said, hey, you want to try that new blah, blah, blah? First of all, they would know better than to ask me.

00:46:18
Speaker 1: That's first of all. That's true.

00:46:19
Speaker 4: But second of all, I would tell them, I go, there's nothing I'm going to eat there. And they would understand that. They would be like, oh, yeah. They would know. You, on the other hand, you'd be like, fuck it. We're going to Siddal's to put Dylan everywhere. I don't want to go to Siddal's.

00:46:32
Speaker 1: We're going to Siddal's. Right.

00:46:34
Speaker 3: All right.

00:46:34
Speaker 1: All right.

00:46:36
Speaker 2: I got a food-related thing when we come back about a celebrity. You tell me if they're a celebrity. We'll be back in two and two.

00:46:42
Speaker 1: It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast.

00:46:45
Speaker 4: You like my Chuck Woolery reference? We got two breaks left or one?

00:46:49
Speaker 1: This is the last one. Oh, okay.

00:46:52
Speaker 4: This I put on my Instagram. Got me very upset. I opened up my Taco Bell app. And for a limited time, I'm going to show you the ad. Don't say it out loud, but I'm going to show you the ad.

00:47:09
Speaker 2: Okay.

00:47:09
Speaker 1: It says... Yep. It says, Paris Hilton's usual for only $ 4. You heard usual?

00:47:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:47:17
Speaker 4: So, first of all, they're implying Paris Hilton goes to Taco Bell all the time. She has a usual order.

00:47:21
Speaker 1: She may. We don't know that. We don't know she doesn't. Yeah.

00:47:25
Speaker 4: It's National Taco Month. And she gets the Diablo Ranch crispy chicken crunch wrap slider, a crunchy taco, and a medium fountain drink. And I don't know what that normally costs. It's irrelevant to this conversation. But that's Paris Hilton's order. And you can get it for four bucks. So look, I understand Paris Hilton was a big deal 20 years ago. And I know that she's got a makeup thing and she's an influence.

00:47:50
Speaker 1: I get it, right?

00:47:51
Speaker 4: She's a mom now. I don't know how many people in the course of the average day give a fuck what Paris Hilton is eating at Taco Bell, where I'm going to go, I can get Paris Hilton. Look, if you told me that my favorite player on the Mets ate something at Taco Bell, I still wouldn't give a shit. But I give less of a shit that it's Paris Hilton. First of all, are you trying to tell me that a billionaire eats at Taco Bell and that I can eat the same thing she does for only $ 4, that she usually gets an expensive meal, but I can get it cheap now?

00:48:23
Speaker 1: What is the angle on this?

00:48:25
Speaker 2: The angle is you attach a celebrity's name. Don't you remember a couple of years ago when Sabrina Carpenter had the song Espresso out and it was like the song of the summer, song.

00:48:34
Speaker 1: Of the year. Yeah, it was like last year.

00:48:35
Speaker 2: And then she went... No, it was several years ago at this point. And she went into... I think she partnered with Starbucks and.

00:48:45
Speaker 1: Or was it... Oh, no.

00:48:46
Speaker 2: She partnered with... Was it Van Leeuwen Ice Cream? And she had the espresso flavor.

00:48:51
Speaker 1: The point is.

00:48:52
Speaker 2: You attach your name, you partner with someone, and you put your name on it, and it sells more. But is she the only celebrity that eats a Taco Bell? You're telling me Seth Rogen doesn't eat a Taco Bell? Like somebody, like I go, oh, that's pretty cool. I guarantee you, I guarantee you that if Taylor Swift went to Burger King and had a special meal that she would get.

00:49:16
Speaker 1: All the time a certain way. Remember, have it your way. Hold on. That's different. are cult members. And then have it Taylor's. Let me finish. Yeah, go ahead.

00:49:26
Speaker 2: And she has a meal put together, and then they advertised, have it Taylor's way.

00:49:32
Speaker 1: You don't think.

00:49:33
Speaker 2: That millions of people are going to go into those Burger Kings around the world and order it Taylor's way just to say, just to feel a little bit more connected to their idol?

00:49:43
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, they would call it Taylor's version. Taylor's version. Okay, very good. Very clever. Hello, there's a marketing idea. Taylor's version. Yeah.

00:49:53
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift's fans are cult members, and I don't mean it in a bad way. They worship her, right? They hang on her every word and clue and everything else. I don't think, okay, how would you describe the average person that goes to Taco Bell? Would you say it's a young, impressionable female goes to Taco Bell?

00:50:12
Speaker 1: Yes. Okay, really?

00:50:14
Speaker 2: When you think of Taco Bell, you don't think it's like some dude smoking pot needs a Taco Bell? That's a stereotype. I think Taco Bell is mass appeal. I think men and women go there of all ages.

00:50:24
Speaker 4: Look, I love Taco Bell, but are Paris Hilton's fans going to Taco Bell and saying, oh, that's what Paris Hilton needs.

00:50:32
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat that. It's a niche.

00:50:33
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, is she the best spokesperson for the typical audience member?

00:50:37
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, so now it becomes a level. Like, meaning, is it.

00:50:42
Speaker 2: Is Paris Hilton worthy of calling out for fast food?

00:50:47
Speaker 1: Like, you see the Taco Bell, like, oh my God, Taco Bell spokesperson. It's incongruous. Why would Taco Bell, like, Paris Hilton's a billionaire.

00:50:55
Speaker 2: I think it may move the needle a little for some people. There are Paris fans out there. There's an ass for every chair.

00:51:02
Speaker 1: I know that. Listen, there's people that watch poop videos. I understand that.

00:51:05
Speaker 2: So maybe it may move the needle for Taco Bell by putting her name on it. Listen, by not doing anything, there's no harm in that either. There's no harm, no foul either way.

00:51:16
Speaker 1: It's a win-win. If it doesn't move the needle too much, at least... You know what?

00:51:21
Speaker 4: Just tell me this shit's on sale. Just tell me that the $ 7 thing is now $ 4.

00:51:24
Speaker 1: 50, and I'll buy it. I don't know. What do I care?

00:51:28
Speaker 4: This is all Paris Hilton's usual. I will tell you this, though.

00:51:31
Speaker 2: After I posted it on Instagram, a lot of people DM me on Instagram and said, I don't give a fuck about Taylor Swift.

00:51:38
Speaker 4: I mean, about Paris Hilton, rather. But what's David Brody's go-to order at Taco Bell? To which I say, what does that matter? I don't want you ordering what I order. And also, knowing me, you know I order it without stuff. And now, oh, they have a new thing now. In the Taco Bell app, they have a thing called, um, Modify?

00:51:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:52:00
Speaker 1: I think it's called Modify.

00:52:02
Speaker 4: And what you do is you go in and you tell it, I don't ever want onions or sour cream or lettuce or pico de gallo on anything.

00:52:10
Speaker 2: Forever. So when you build your order, you just hit add the Modify button and it takes out all the shit you don't like.

00:52:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:52:17
Speaker 4: However, if they have a new item on the menu, like there's a new thing with avocado sauce.

00:52:21
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:52:23
Speaker 2: There's no button in the modifier. I love, that'll be on mine. I want double avocado sauce. I'll pay extra for more. You can have my avocado sauce. So what I'm saying is the guy, the people in charge of the app, they don't go the extra mile. When you have a new item, you got to add it to the thing.

00:52:38
Speaker 4: You got to say, you can modify that too. Also, they got a new thing you can do now.

00:52:44
Speaker 2: Any burrito you buy, you can hit the grill it for me button and you can get it grilled, which completely changes the taste of.

00:52:50
Speaker 4: The flour tortilla. So I'm loving Taco Bell, except for the Paris Hilton bullshit. So slices is Paris Hilton getting you to buy her food.

00:52:59
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, Paris Hilton. What is this?

00:53:01
Speaker 4: I can get it for four bucks. I don't think so. I want to hear from a slice who goes, Oh, well, Paris Hilton. Let me know if you're. That's my personal rant. Yeah, I got, um, I got one, one piece of, One piece of audio. Two pieces of audio. Do I have time for two pieces of audio?

00:53:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.

00:53:20
Speaker 4: One is baseball related and one is sports related.

00:53:24
Speaker 1: Here, okay.

00:53:24
Speaker 4: Here's the, this is Harold Reynolds on MLB Network talking about putting pressure on the defense, right?

00:53:31
Speaker 1: Running the bases, putting pressure on the defense. Always putting pressure on the D.

00:53:40
Speaker 2: And the thing I love about it is always putting.

00:53:43
Speaker 1: Pressure on the D. Putting pressure on the D. Love that. On the D.

00:53:48
Speaker 4: Now, there's a radio show in New York that I love. And I'm not poking fun at the guy. He's very talented. I like him a lot. He's very good. But he occasionally fucks up words and his grammar is a little off. Kind of drives me crazy. Always says me and him, me and him. But anyway, There's a few words he absolutely can't say. Now, you remember we worked with a girl.

00:54:13
Speaker 1: She couldn't say pistachio. Yes. She said pistachio. Pistachio.

00:54:19
Speaker 4: And we would tell her it's pi-stash-e-o. Go ahead and say it.

00:54:26
Speaker 1: Pistachio. Yeah. She could not say it.

00:54:28
Speaker 4: So this guy, I'm not going to say his name.

00:54:32
Speaker 1: If you know him, you know him.

00:54:33
Speaker 4: He's trying to say, and the people he co-hosts tried to help him.

00:54:36
Speaker 1: Yeah. Here we go.

00:54:38
Speaker 4: Tell me if there's, now Slices, think about this. Is there a word you just can't say?

00:54:41
Speaker 2: I think it's more the specificity towards some of the questions.

00:54:46
Speaker 1: Specificity. Specificity. Specificity. Specificity. Yeah, whatever. He couldn't say specificity.

00:54:55
Speaker 2: Could not say, he's on the radio in New York.

00:54:58
Speaker 1: He can't say his mental block, and I get it. Some people have those, you know, words.

00:55:02
Speaker 2: Yes, yes.

00:55:03
Speaker 1: So I'm not making fun of him. I'm saying everyone's got, like, scared. Do you have a word you can't say other than squirrel? Oh, episcopal church.

00:55:15
Speaker 2: Episcopal?

00:55:16
Speaker 1: Episcopal. Episcopal. Episcopal. I sat on the air once.

00:55:21
Speaker 2: Oh, it went to the episcopal church.

00:55:23
Speaker 1: Episcopal, Episcopal, Episcopal. I did it.

00:55:26
Speaker 2: See?

00:55:27
Speaker 1: Yeah. Words like that. Yeah.

00:55:28
Speaker 2: Okay.

00:55:29
Speaker 1: That's yeah. So slices, let us know what word by saying it, let us know what words you can't say. Yeah.

00:55:34
Speaker 4: I just, I can't think of any words I can't say. I'm sure there must be one.

00:55:37
Speaker 2: I'm sure that I, at the moment I can't remember, but for the most part, pretty good with words.

00:55:43
Speaker 1: Um, but, uh, yeah, he couldn't, he couldn't say specificity. Um, I know we're running out of time here. Did... Okay, Alexander Hamilton. Okay.

00:55:55
Speaker 2: So, Gandhi on our big show had mentioned how.

00:55:59
Speaker 1: Tuna fish? She discovered the world of bribes. Like, bribing someone. Yeah. So.

00:56:06
Speaker 2: I wondered, well, what is the, I mean, I know we kind of touched on it earlier with the conversation about the tipping the boyfriend. What is the difference between a tip and a bribe?

00:56:17
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:56:18
Speaker 2: When it comes to like, if I go to the doorman or door woman at a club and I'm like, Hey, you.

00:56:24
Speaker 1: Know, I know it's crowded in there. I know you can, and I slip them, slip them a 20. Oh, that's a bribe. That's a bribe.

00:56:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're paying him to do something. Okay, so bribery... A tip is after the job. So there's a clear-cut difference. Bribe is when you use the money to... Well, not necessarily.

00:56:46
Speaker 4: If you tell a cop, hey, if you do this for me, run a license plate, I'll give you money. Well, let me off and I'll give you money. That's a bribe. You can pay him after he does it. It's a bribe, right. But a tip is on top of what you... A tip is what you're supposed to do on top of the amount of money you gave them for the thing they did.

00:57:05
Speaker 2: I walk into Katz's Deli. I order my pastrami on rye and I go up to the counter. And as he's making the sandwich... What?

00:57:13
Speaker 1: $ 35. Yeah, $ 35.

00:57:14
Speaker 2: And as he's making the sandwich, I slip him a fiver. Now that's a tip, right?

00:57:21
Speaker 3: Or.

00:57:22
Speaker 2: Is it a bribe to get more meat? Because you know... It's definitely a bribe. No, it's a bribe to get more meat. Otherwise, you would have waited until after the sandwich and then given him the five bucks. 100% it's a bribe.

00:57:31
Speaker 1: So if you... Really? That's a bribe to me? No, but it's a tip jar. I'm putting it in a tip jar. No, no, no, no. Here's $ 5. No, no. No, nope.

00:57:40
Speaker 2: If you didn't want extra meat, you would have waited until he was all done. He gives you the sandwich. You go, hey, man, thank you so much.

00:57:45
Speaker 1: But a bribe is illegal and a tip is legal, right? So you're saying that one is an illegal act.

00:57:50
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.

00:57:51
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.

00:57:52
Speaker 2: It's a, you can, you can, the pastrami guy is not a, it's a bribe, but it's not an illegal bribe.

00:57:56
Speaker 1: You're, you're schmoozing them a little bit.

00:57:58
Speaker 2: You go, Hey, you know, it should meet them for five bucks, but you give a cop five bucks to look the other way.

00:58:02
Speaker 1: That's a bribe. That's illegal.

00:58:04
Speaker 2: It's against the law. Now, what if I'm checking into a hotel show up bribe, but we don't even hear the scenario yet.

00:58:10
Speaker 1: You dick.

00:58:12
Speaker 2: And I go up to the front, I'm checking in and I'm like, oh, okay.

00:58:15
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a nice day out there. Oh.

00:58:17
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden I say, you know what? You're doing a great job. I just want to, I want to tip you here. Here's a, here's, you know, 10, 20, here's 20 bucks. And then, and then I get a room upgrade. Is that a tip or a bribe?

00:58:31
Speaker 4: That is a, a, a non, a non expected tip. benefit from your tip.

00:58:38
Speaker 1: But you know you wanted the upgraded room, so it's kind of the understood language of love. Wait, wait, wait. Did you give the money after they gave you a room? No.

00:58:49
Speaker 2: As you're checking in.

00:58:50
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a bribe. That's a bribe.

00:58:53
Speaker 2: That's like going up to the maitre d'. Get a little table by the window. Here's a little something for you.

00:59:00
Speaker 1: That's a bribe. That's like, hey, I don't want to wait on this line. Here's a 20. Give me a table by the window. That's a bribe. But is it legal or illegal? Is it wrong? Is it nefarious? No.

00:59:11
Speaker 2: You know who's pissed? The people behind you are pissed because you just cut the line.

00:59:14
Speaker 1: You cut the line? Well, maybe that.

00:59:17
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:59:19
Speaker 2: Well, listen, on Mother's Day, when you cut the line on Mother's Day, that was a bribe. You bribed them with your celebrity. What if, okay, what if I gave them, I don't know, a bag of chocolate?

00:59:35
Speaker 1: What if I give them a gift? Is a gift a bribe? Is a gift a bribe on the hotel check-in? Of course it is. Of course it is. Of course it is. I don't know.

00:59:46
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask you a question. If you gave them a bag of chocolate.

00:59:49
Speaker 1: Yep.

00:59:50
Speaker 4: And they gave you the same room you thought you were getting.

00:59:52
Speaker 1: Yes. Nothing, nothing extra. Would you bitch and moan on the elevator right up to the room? You're like, fuck, I gave her a bag of chocolate. I got nothing. I'm looking at the parking lot.

01:00:00
Speaker 2: Yes.

01:00:00
Speaker 1: Shitty room. Yes. Then it was an attempt to bribe. But it was a gamble. I placed a bet and I lost. That's what that was. Yes, but you gambled on a bribe. You gambled that the bribe would work and it didn't. So you lost. So I lost. So to me, I just lost my bet. But it's not. It's a tip. No, no.

01:00:19
Speaker 3: No, no.

01:00:20
Speaker 2: If she gives you the room and gets you checked out quickly and she calls the bellhop.

01:00:24
Speaker 1: What about the room attendant? What about the housekeeping?

01:00:27
Speaker 2: When you, you know, that cart comes by and you say, oh, here's your tip.

01:00:32
Speaker 1: Here's 20 bucks in advance.

01:00:34
Speaker 2: And they leave you extra bottles of water and they leave you chocolates on your pillow.

01:00:40
Speaker 1: That's a bribe.

01:00:41
Speaker 2: That's better service, though. That's a tip to ensure proper service, as we say.

01:00:46
Speaker 4: That's a tip. That's not real. That's not what tip stands for. It's not, you know, that's a false algorithm.

01:00:50
Speaker 1: It's a false. Okay. All right. But you're saying that's a bribe. So you know why it doesn't scare, you know, why tips doesn't stand for to ensure proper service. Do you want to know why? Why? How do you spell insure? E and sure. Yeah. Right. Hey, right. That's why. Well, by the way, mind blown for half our audience just now. Yeah. It's ensure. Anyway, that said, what about, Hey, here's 20 bucks. Keep my car up front. Is that it? Watch my car. And don't bring it to the back. I don't want the valet. You're paying them for a service. So that's a tip. You're specifically telling them what you want. That's a tip. Not a bribe. No, you're paying them for service. It's a bribe.

01:01:30
Speaker 2: I think this is all one big gray area and you're just like throwing shit out at.

01:01:34
Speaker 1: 100% not.

01:01:36
Speaker 4: No, if the waitress comes over at the end of the meal and gives you the check, then you leave a tip.

01:01:40
Speaker 1: You thanked her for what she did. But at the beginning of the meal, if you're like, you know, hey, um.

01:01:46
Speaker 4: You know, if there was a couple extra crab's legs on my plate, you know, something for you there.

01:01:49
Speaker 1: That's a bribe.

01:01:50
Speaker 2: But if I come back tomorrow after leaving a huge tip and she takes better care of me, that could be.

01:01:56
Speaker 4: Then that's a well-spent tip. Well-spent tip.

01:01:58
Speaker 1: So that's not a bribe then? It's a bribe for the next day. I'm bribing you from the day before. Hey, remember that yesterday? Remember that? And all of a sudden she gives you more shit. So there's a restaurant I go to... That she's not authorized to give you.

01:02:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a restaurant I go to and I go like once every other month, but I go on the same night all the time because there's a bartender there that I like.

01:02:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:02:23
Speaker 4: So I gave him, he started becoming friendly with me. He's like, oh, you're the guy who comes in on this night. And so I would give him a nice tip because he remembered me and he remembered my order. He remembered the thing I order without the thing, with the thing, no pickles, always remembers my order.

01:02:36
Speaker 1: So I give him a very nice tip. Well, now the minute I walk in the door, he hands me a Corona and doesn't.

01:02:42
Speaker 4: Charge me for it. I don't even have to ask for it. Now, I don't drink a lot, but I'll have a Corona once a month, and he knows it. Now, I didn't bribe him, but I gave him nice tips.

01:02:53
Speaker 1: So, there you go. Money well spent on my part.

01:02:55
Speaker 2: Boom.

01:02:56
Speaker 1: Shalaga laga. Boom. All right. I still disagree with you.

01:03:01
Speaker 2: I think it's a very gray area, especially when you're dealing with people from Brooklyn.

01:03:06
Speaker 1: Oh, yes. From Brooklyn.

01:03:09
Speaker 2: Brooklyn. Voice from Brooklyn!