#392: Big Buddy Balls

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Speaker 1: Episode 392.

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Speaker 2: This is the Brooklyn Boys Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is. Hello, everybody. I'm Scary Jones.

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Speaker 2: I'm David Brody, and you just did a little tribute to Scott Shannon, the radio legend.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I did. A legend.

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Speaker 1: Who's talk like that?

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Speaker 3: Hello, everybody.

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, a lot of people don't know that, but Scott Shannon is the, you know, I mean, he's the guy who... Who's responsible for Z100' s success. He built this radio station.

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Speaker 3: He's the reason.

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Speaker 1: And the format of a large morning show.

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Speaker 3: Yes. And the zoo, zoo style ensemble format.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: So he kind of like perfected it. And yeah, I mean, that's, we are following in his footsteps. I'm.

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Speaker 3: Sitting in the job that he once had.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that was like six morning shows or five morning shows before Elvis became the morning show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Something like that.

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Speaker 3: A lot of morning shows in between.

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Speaker 2: He reached out to me on Facebook. He posted a picture, a throwback picture of the two of us. I was like, that's pretty fucking cool. I grew up, I emulated him when I was a kid. I actually did. He was one of the, him and Cousin Brucie were the two voices of my childhood.

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Speaker 3: So nothing but love for Scott.

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Speaker 2: My favorite moment. And this is again, listeners slices. If you don't know who he is, it's fine. But my favorite moment is New York legend. He had moved on to another station in New York at the time. And we were at a, there was a, it used to be an award show for radio called the air awards achievement in radio air awards. And one of the categories was best song parody or spoof commercial and funniest minute of radio.

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Speaker 1: And the air awards existed for maybe five years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then they stopped raising money and they stopped doing it. But for the five years that there was a New York's funniest song parody category, I.

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Speaker 3: Won every year. You did.

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Speaker 1: And so I did.

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Speaker 3: You have a piece of glass for every year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I have a glass statue of all of the awards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And our morning show won almost every year as well.

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Speaker 3: We did.

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Speaker 2: And so Scott's co-host, I don't need to mention his name. But Scott's co-host on the show that he was on was a song parody writer who sang his own song parodies. He was very proud of himself that he was the, I'm this funny guy, I'll do my own song parodies. So every song sounded the same because it was his voice on every song. Anyway, some of them were funny. I'm not going to disparage the guy.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I won every year.

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Speaker 2: So by the third or fourth year, I come off the stage. Scott stands up, blocks the middle aisle because I'm walking back to my seat. And he says, Hey man, he goes, can you let my co-host win one year?

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Speaker 3: Let him win.

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Speaker 2: He's either that or can I hire you? And I said something like that. And I said, nope, I can't let him win and I'm not available, but thanks.

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Speaker 3: It's very, very funny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He's like, can you let us win? I'm like, no, I'm not going to let you win. They have a lot of hunks of glass. Radio used to have a lot of conventions and a lot of award shows. There's not that many these days. There is this one called Morning Show Boot Camp that happens every August in Chicago, or.

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Speaker 3: I think they move city to city. It's everywhere but New York. Everywhere but, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's in Texas. It's usually in the Midwest. See, they say it's in the Midwest so that it's equidistant from both coasts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. But here's just once, have it New York. You know, it's kind of crazy. Of all these years.

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Speaker 2: Of all these years, and I'm talking about 30 years now that I've been doing the morning show. They've had the morning show bootcamp for 30 years. I've never been asked to be on a panel, to be, for my expertise, and neither have you for that matter. Same. You would think, and again, this is not sour grapes. I'm so beyond it at this point. But like, you would think that after being on a nationally syndicated show for all these years and for having, you know, being on the right hand side of Elvis Duran, the, one of the greatest to ever do what that job, you would think that maybe they would want to tap into me for, for some of my knowledge, some of my experience, anything, something. Well, I once asked one of the big poobahs who ran that event, And they told me that you'd be great but there aren't enough producers left in radio. Most shows can't afford producers, so there's not enough people for you to educate. That's not true, because they've moved on since the days of just radio broadcast. Now, podcasters show up, all kinds of content providers, influencers, people, because if you think about it, every one of you listening is an influencer and a podcaster and a broadcaster. All you got to do is open up Instagram and go live or Tik TOK and go live. Oh, it's not that easy. Let's not diminish what we do here. No, but everyone has the power to be seen and heard. Whereas back in the day, it was like this, this club, exclusive club, like, Oh, only these people are the chosen few.

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Speaker 3: And you have no way of getting your word out there.

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Speaker 1: How about singers? You no longer need a record label or a recording studio.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: You just record at home. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the equipment is getting damn fucking close. If not perfect perfection. you know, to record, you know, um, a studio quality album in your own house for, you know, speaking of something that sets us apart, at least for the moment, something that we have a new cool thing that we should have had a long time ago, something that Brooklyn boys podcast should have.

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Speaker 3: Now, what are we missing?

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Speaker 2: Well, if only there was a way to like a one-stop shop for everything, Brooklyn boys in one location, uh, a link to our merch store, a link to our episodes.

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Speaker 3: If only.

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Speaker 2: If only there was some way to go that you could read the reviews from Spotify and Apple, all in one place.

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Speaker 3: Everything you want in one place. Where, where, where? Oh, David Brody, where could we find that?

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Speaker 2: Where on the internet would you find the Brooklyn Boys podcast information? If only there was a website, maybe at thebrooklynboyspodcast.com.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, there is.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean thebrooklynboyspodcast.com? That's thebrooklynboyspodcast.com. And if you can't remember our merchandise website, brooklynboysatbigcartel.com, there's a little link at the top that says store. So is this now the official rollout of the Brooklyn Boys podcast.com? Yes. It's live now, folks. The Brooklyn Boys podcast.com. I can't remember what website that is. What's the website for the Brooklyn Boys podcast? Yes, that's the website. The Brooklyn Boys podcast. Now, Scary originally said to me.

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Speaker 3: Did we talk about this? The price?

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: He says, oh, we should do the Brooklyn Boys.com. No, we didn't talk about this. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because the Brooklyn, by the way, the Brooklyn boys, the Brooklyn boys.com could have been available to us. Yeah. So the Brooklyn boys.com, uh, is for sale. Somebody owns it. Somebody owns it already. Right. $ 5, 000 for the name to sell the, you know, being me, he's like, he's like, maybe we should do it. Maybe we should do it. I'll just, I just won't have a $ 60 sourdough bread for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we should do it. And I said, I don't have that kind of money. You want to spend.

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Speaker 3: $ 5, 000?

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Speaker 1: He's like, well, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: What else you got? He goes, see if Brooklyn Boys is available. I said, all right, but with the Brooklyn Boys. Brooklynboys.com, $ 11, 000. So Brooklynboys.com, so someone's holding on to it. And by the way, people do this for a living. They sit on websites and they just own them.

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Speaker 3: And they wait for somebody, some schmuck to come along like us.

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Speaker 2: Now, you can't have it forever without using it, but we weren't paying $ 5, 000. So if you're somebody who thought, oh, I know, I'll buy the Brooklyn Boys website and sell it. It'll be worth a lot of money someday. We just added the word podcast, and we got the thing for free. So if you own the Brooklyn Boys, I don't know who's buying it from you.

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Speaker 1: We would have given you $ 500. Yeah, but they don't want $ 500.

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Speaker 2: They clearly want $ 5, 000.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's no option to negotiate.

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Speaker 2: It's either you spend $ 5, 000 or you don't. So rather than look up the registry and see who owned it, we're like, ah, fuck it. It's the Brooklyn Boys podcast. We are the Brooklyn Boys podcast. So thebrooklynboyspodcast.com is now live and it's free. Just know we didn't pay a penny for it. Although I still think it's worth the five grand to own thebrooklynboys.com.

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Speaker 3: Well, no.

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Speaker 2: Because we're so much more than a podcast, if you think about it. We're not just a Brooklyn Boys podcast. What are we, a cooking show? No, but we can expand our horizons. We're the Brooklyn Boys podcast today, but what will we be tomorrow? What if we're something else?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: If we become something else or we, you know, king of all media, we expand our footprint, then we will have enough money to buy that. My guess is if somebody sees us expand, they will raise the price of the domain.

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Speaker 3: Damn it. Do you think a Slice is holding on to it?

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Speaker 2: No, I just think somebody who saw our podcast was like, oh, let me see if they have a website. Now, look, if Elvis Duran would like to buy that for us, that'd be fine.

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Speaker 1: That'd be nice.

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Speaker 3: He could do that. TheBrooklynBoys.com.

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Speaker 2: Slice is... Could you remember TheBrooklynBoysPodcast.com or is that too much to type? I mean.

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Speaker 1: we could just benchmark it once at one time.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: We could start a GoFundMe and everybody chip in to help us buy it.

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Speaker 3: We don't have to do that. That I don't want to do. I don't want to grovel.

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Speaker 1: Well, then everyone can be part of that.

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Speaker 2: If everybody gave us 50 cents... Well, you don't think that it's worth it to go have these on the Brooklyn boys.com you and I know. Cause I think the Brooklyn boys podcast has a, now we have a website, the Brooklyn boys podcast.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So go there. Uh, we're just getting started. There's not a whole lot to see, but we're still, we're still painting the walls. We got no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: No painting.

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Speaker 2: Here's what it is at the moment. It's a, it's a link to everything. That's our podcast. If we ever do video, the videos will be there. But all the episodes are there. You'll get email notifications when there's a new episode. Right.

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Speaker 1: Regardless of what platform you're on.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Also, there's an instant player. Let's say you're at work and you can't open your phone. Go to thebrooklynboyspodcast.com and there's a player right there to play the new episode.

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Speaker 1: Boom, right there.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: And there's also a link to the merch store.

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Speaker 1: A link to the merch store right there.

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Speaker 2: You can scroll through all of our episodes on a bigger screen on your laptop if you want.

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Speaker 1: Or, you know, on your phone. There's a mobile.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: All right. I see some advantage to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Also, here's the biggest thing.

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Speaker 2: If you want to share our podcast with people and they're like, oh, I got to search for it in the app.

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Speaker 1: Which app is it? Just go to the Brooklyn Boys podcast dot com.

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Speaker 3: Copy the URL.

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Speaker 1: There's no copying of URL.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you just press a button.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an iHeart button, a Spotify button, an Amazon Music button, an Apple Music.

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Speaker 1: And you just go, oh, I want to listen to Apple Music. Right there, click it. That's it, you're done.

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Speaker 2: So if you want to share the podcast with people, you can then, if you want, bookmark it on your phone and then send that link out to people.

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Speaker 3: Hey, check out this podcast. Is there a button for Deezer?

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Speaker 2: Not yet.

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Speaker 1: I have to get around to doing that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's an important one. Don't forget.

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Speaker 2: It takes a couple of minutes for each platform. I just added Amazon Music. I have to go back in and add the other ones.

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Speaker 3: I'll do that.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 1: But I got the big four. I got the big four so far.

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Speaker 3: What about Pandora? Where's Pandora in this?

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: You asked me this last time, dummy.

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Speaker 3: Hey, listen.

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Speaker 2: Pandora is not a podcast platform. You can listen to podcasts on Pandora. But they're not known for that. Yeah, but sometimes, you know, listen, I have friends that swear by Pandora and they won't get rid of it. When I look at our stats, Pandora doesn't show up as anyone listening to us on Pandora.

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Speaker 1: However, when we come back, because I know you want to take a break.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm itching.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you if you know, in order, what our five or six biggest countries of listeners are. Obviously, the United States is number one. I'll see if you can know number one or two. And then I'm going to ask if you know what cities... Are in our top 10.

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Speaker 3: All right. We'll do that when we come back.

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Speaker 1: I have all of that.

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Speaker 3: Right after this.

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Speaker 4: Yes. The Brooklyn Boys Podcast. We will be right back.

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Speaker 3: All right, David Brody.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to contain the excitement that's in me right now to find out the big countries. But I would have to know that number one is the United States of America.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is. Okay. Ding, ding, ding, ding. What's number two, Scary? What's number two? The number two most listened to Brooklyn Boys country?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at least in the past six months, because I pulled up the last six months.

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Speaker 3: I mean, is it a European country? Could you give me a hint? I mean, no. Not in Europe?

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: South America? Somewhere in South America?

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 2: Why would you think that our second biggest country of listeners would not be on the continent we are currently on.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Canada.

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Speaker 1: That's their national anthem.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Canada.

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Speaker 1: Canada is number three.

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Speaker 3: So number two is Mexico?

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Speaker 1: That's correct. Numero dos es Mexico.

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Speaker 3: But we speak English. So do people in Mexico. Well, it may not be their first language.

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Speaker 1: How about all the people in Texas who work across the border?

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Speaker 3: There's that. So, okay.

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Speaker 2: So the big three are... People who go to Cancun. United States, Mexico, and Canada. Now, if I asked you what the number four country was, you would never get it.

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Speaker 3: The Balkan Islands.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Singapore. Singapore? Shout out Singapore.

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Speaker 2: Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.

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Speaker 3: We're getting listens from across the world? Yep. Get out. Yep. Why don't they drop us talkbacks?

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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, if you're one of those people listening in the countries that Brody just mentioned, we definitely need you on a talkback. Leave us a talkback if you listen to the iHeartRadio app. All right, thank you. Drop us that. Click on that microphone.

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Speaker 3: All right, very nice. Hey, listen, I wanted to... Do you want to know.

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Speaker 1: What states of the 50 states listen to us the least?

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Speaker 3: Oh, now we're getting granular. The least?

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you the bottom three. Wyoming.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute.

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Speaker 3: Did I hit on something?

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Speaker 1: No, let me see where Wyoming is. Maybe I didn't go to the last page.

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Speaker 3: South Dakota.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: No, I stopped after a while. Wait a minute. Vermont. Hold on. Let me go. I got to keep scrolling.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Scary Jones.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Wyoming is the least listened to Brooklyn Boys state. It is. I guessed it. How did I get that? You nailed it.

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Speaker 1: This is eight people living there.

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Speaker 2: 90 people in Wyoming listen to the Brooklyn Boys.

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Speaker 1: Shout out Wyoming. After that, North Dakota.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I said South Dakota just now.

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Speaker 1: No, South Dakota. So from the bottom.

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Speaker 3: Montana started from the bottom. Now we're here. Now we're here.

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Speaker 2: All right, Drake, Wyoming, Wyoming, North Dakota, then Idaho, then Hawaii, Mississippi, South Dakota, not Montana.

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Speaker 3: We got, we were, we're, we're, we're living strong in Montana.

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Speaker 1: Montana is on the next page. Montana is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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Speaker 3: I got to check it out.

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Speaker 1: Montana is 11th from the bottom.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Shout out Montana. I'm going to go with New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Miami, Florida are the states.

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Speaker 3: That we are.

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Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Connecticut.

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Speaker 3: What did I tell you? Did I not nail that? And then Ohio.

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Speaker 1: It's because of where Elvis Duran's biggest affiliates are.

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Speaker 3: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: They most likely know us.

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Speaker 4: Nope.

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Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Connecticut.

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Speaker 3: Got it.

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Speaker 2: And then, and then Ohio, Texas, Virginia, California, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so interesting.

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Speaker 2: A nice shout out to the 90 people in Wyoming, checking out the Brooklyn boys podcast. So a lot of slices hit me up in the DMs and say, Skiri, you need to expand on your thoughts of the VMAs on the Brooklyn Boys podcast. Oh, I don't want the hate. It's not about, no, you're not going to get hate. You are not here in our universe. See, here's something that I learned. I learned that if I make a statement, a big statement, a strong opinionated statement on the Elvis Duran Big Show, and it's on the radio, we're good when it comes to what I said.

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Speaker 3: We're fine.

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Speaker 2: 99% of the listeners texting in and DMing were in high agreeance, agreeing. The problem comes when they take that said statement that I made and they make a social media clip out of it. Because what happens is, It starts with the Elvis Duran show Z100 universe with a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Love and a lot of like, yeah, I agree what he said, what he said.

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Speaker 2: But once that shit goes viral and the algorithm takes over and it lands on people's For You page and Discovery and bullshit... That shit goes worldwide. And these are people that comment that have no fucking clue who I am, who Elvis is, what Z100 even is. It's just a, to me, to them, I'm a, as one person called me a talking thumb.

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Speaker 3: He called me a thumb.

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Speaker 2: Do I look like a thumb? These people from around the world. So what are we talking about? We're talking about the travesty. And I could say it here to the slices because I know I'm at home here.

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Speaker 3: I'm on the couch.

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Speaker 2: This is like the living room. We're hanging out on the couch all talking to each other. And the slices will agree for the most part, I think. Most of you will. And I'm not afraid to say it and be brazen and stand on and die on this hill.

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Speaker 3: Sienna Spyro, that's a new artist. Great song.

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Speaker 1: I like her.

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Speaker 3: She's great. She won Best New Artist at the VMAs, as a matter of fact. Yeah, well aware.

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Speaker 2: Her one hit, the one song I know from her is excellent. She's very Amy Winehouse with the wig or whatever she did with her hair. It looks like a wig. Brody, you know who won Artist of the Year?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would have thought Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 2: Well, think about who was nominated. Morgan Wallen, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift, Madonna. Madonna won artist of the year okay and then for album of the year look at all the albums you had Olivia Rodrigo had an album out Sabrina Carpenter these people were all nominated Taylor Swift Taylor Swift arguably the biggest album of the year maybe Bruno Mars huge album Ariana, again, there's like nine artists in this category, including Madonna.

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Speaker 3: Who wins album of the year? Madonna.

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Speaker 1: Who performed the opening act?

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Speaker 3: Madonna. Madonna, yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I, this was my statement, Slices, if you didn't, if you were living under a rock and didn't see this and it didn't cross your social media feeds, I went on the air in the big show. By the way, after I saw this clip that you're about to explain- I looked at my phone and I said, oh no. Oh no, you're fucked. Well, I'm fucked because they turned a radio clip.

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Speaker 1: Into a video. No longer allowed in South Beach, Florida.

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Speaker 2: They took an audio clip and they made a social media video clip. So it's me talking to the camera.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a thumb.

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Speaker 2: That's when shit hit the fan because Madonna's fandom came out to defend her. All I said was, I'm sorry, but I'm a pop culture person, and if you're looking at all the streaming, all the radio airplay, all.

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Speaker 3: Of it, the albums purchased, the number of albums purchased, if you're looking.

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Speaker 2: At everything in pop culture, those artists were robbed because Madonna won seven awards, by the way.

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Speaker 3: She won seven.

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Speaker 1: So my whole thing was.

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Speaker 3: I can't understand how Madonna.

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Speaker 2: Who arguably wrote.

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Speaker 3: The best album.

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Speaker 2: That's what they're saying. They're saying this was the best album she's done in years. And the critics, it's a critically acclaimed album.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 3: I read the reviews. Yes.

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Speaker 2: Great reviews for this album. It's a dance album, remixes, everything. And I fucking love Madonna. I grew up, hey, I grew up with Madonna. I grew up listening to Madonna.

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Speaker 3: I can say that.

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Speaker 1: And Nicki Minaj.

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Speaker 3: And Nicki Minaj. So I can say that.

00:22:03
Speaker 2: And I can say I respect and love everything that this woman does. has added to pop culture, to music, to art, to all of it.

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Speaker 1: All-time, all-time icon. But all that being said.

00:22:15
Speaker 2: In the year 2025 to 2026 timeframe, if I'm a pop culture junkie and I'm everywhere online and listening on streaming and on radio and I'm like... She's not on my radar. In fact, I can't tell you how many people said... In the mainstream said... I didn't even know she came out with an album.

00:22:34
Speaker 3: What the fuck? And 99% of our audience....

00:22:40
Speaker 2: Agreed with me and said skiri is 100 right you had to see i never got so much love on the texts in my life in fact people were even saying to elvis like holy shit i'd never agree with skiri but on this he is absolutely spot on i thought and i accused the vmas of bribing her to show up and perform by giving her all all the gram all the grammys all the uh the war awards There's.

00:23:05
Speaker 1: A couple of things.

00:23:06
Speaker 2: I think that the awards are partially decided by fan votes.

00:23:10
Speaker 3: They are.

00:23:11
Speaker 2: And she does have a big fan base spanning many generations. Also, it's not a pop culture award. It's not best pop album. It's best album. In other words, Morgan Wallen, or however you pronounce his last name, that's not on your radar.

00:23:25
Speaker 3: Scary.

00:23:26
Speaker 1: Z100 doesn't play it.

00:23:27
Speaker 4: Right.

00:23:27
Speaker 1: None of Elvis Duran's affiliates play that.

00:23:29
Speaker 3: That's not true. No, we played three Morgan Wallen songs. Bad example. We know we were on Morgan Wallen.

00:23:34
Speaker 2: Oh, that's new. But for the most part, Morgan Wallen's a country artist. You don't play a lot of country.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: No.

00:23:40
Speaker 1: Anyway, Morgan Wallen is not necessarily pop culture.

00:23:43
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:23:43
Speaker 2: Um, Oh, Ella Langley also was up for the award, which, by the way, surpassed Mariah Carey.

00:23:51
Speaker 1: She was the biggest hit for the longest time.

00:23:53
Speaker 3: She was in Texas. She was also beat out by Madonna on this. So I just said, this is a crime. She doesn't have an album.

00:24:00
Speaker 2: She's got a song. I don't know how good the rest of the album is. The album is supposed to be great. By the way, in my mind, song of the year right now, and I'm going to pronounce the name wrong, Elaine Angel.

00:24:10
Speaker 1: Do you know what that is?

00:24:12
Speaker 2: No.

00:24:13
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the AI song.

00:24:16
Speaker 2: That everyone is lip syncing to and dancing to on Tik TOK that.

00:24:19
Speaker 1: I keep sending you videos to.

00:24:21
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:24:22
Speaker 3: All right.

00:24:23
Speaker 1: That's I'm saying that's not even a real person.

00:24:25
Speaker 3: No, of course. That's a pop culture phenomenon.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: Yes. Well, so, so I thought in my head that I was justified. Thank you, Jason Derulo. Yep.

00:24:37
Speaker 3: Very good. I thought I was justified. All right, Madonna, Madonna.

00:24:43
Speaker 1: Is that also Justin Timberlake has a song called justify.

00:24:46
Speaker 3: That's the name of the album. So, you know, justify my love is Madonna, you know?

00:24:51
Speaker 2: So I thought I was in, you know, making a very, I was representing our audience and the anger and the, what the outrage. And I, I definitely fully encompassed that by saying what I said. And I still don't feel differently. I feel like I, It's the way this happened was we're all at a party, just chilling. Everyone's like hanging out. And all of a sudden, Madonna just comes out of nowhere and crashes through the roof.

00:25:21
Speaker 3: Like, what? Where did this come from? Or the Kool-Aid guy that busts through the wall. Oh, yeah. Here I am.

00:25:26
Speaker 2: Give me seven awards. How does this happen? Like, how did that how did it get there? Now, you could say, yeah, fan vote. But it's not 100% fan vote. There's still a council. There's still a committee that makes that happen as well. And they all would have had to vote for her as well. So that's why I'm saying in this case, there were more deserving and pop culture artists that we all have had listened to all year. I'm not even going to pick one. Again, but it's not a pop culture event. But it's more than that. The MTV Awards should be a pop culture event for young people. It's no longer, it's not even for young people anymore. You know, some people didn't even realize the awards are still happening because MTV barely has a channel, but it was on CBS this year and last year did simulcast. So it got 51% more viewers than in years past. And I understand why you bring an artist like Madonna to the table, because for the mass broadcast CBS audience, uh, Of course you want Madonna. So I'm not saying I'm not criticizing any of that shit. And I'm not trying to, I would say people know.

00:26:40
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:26:42
Speaker 2: You and I both know that sometimes when, when an award show happens, needs to get the juice to get people to watch, they will suddenly give a Lifetime Music Award or a Lifetime Achievement Award to an artist to get them to show up. The Video Vanguard Award is the VMA's version of that, which I'm sure Madonna won that in 1996. I would imagine if the Grammys really want Taylor Swift to show up, they might let it leak that she's probably going to win a couple of awards.

00:27:15
Speaker 1: If I'm not, I'm not saying Taylor wouldn't show up.

00:27:18
Speaker 2: People show up when they, when they get paid or they, or they get their, their, their flowers. And, and yeah, Taylor walked out of there with a couple of awards too. She got, she won a video of the year. It could be anybody, any artist that's big enough to that. You want them at the show. You might drop a hint to their publicist. They really should show up to this one. This one is one you want to come to as opposed to if you're not going to win any awards, Maybe, you know, I'm on.

00:27:45
Speaker 3: Tour that week. I can't make it. Anyway, I'm just going to say that....

00:27:50
Speaker 2: Madonna's fandom came at me. The worldwide fans that have no clue of my existence. They have no clue we even have a podcast.

00:27:59
Speaker 3: They don't know who the thumb is. Who is this thumb? They gave a thumbs down.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: To the thumb. They accused me of being ageist. They're saying I'm misogynistic. Did you hear about this one?

00:28:11
Speaker 1: By saying a different woman should win.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: Right, exactly.

00:28:15
Speaker 2: How am I misogynistic if I thought Taylor or Sabrina or Ariana should have won?

00:28:19
Speaker 3: Or Olivia Rodrigo, my favorite.

00:28:22
Speaker 2: You and I had a conversation, and I asked you to screenshot all of the really nasty comments so we could do this as a bit. Do you have the nasty comments?

00:28:31
Speaker 3: I could just go right to the video and start scrolling through right now. So you didn't do it?

00:28:36
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to double down on this. I don't know if I want to give that any light. I want the slices to hear how people have been abusing my boy, Skiri Jones. It's a funny bit. It's like when Jimmy Kimmel reads mean tweets.

00:28:49
Speaker 3: Mean tweets? So this is the version of mean tweets. You really want to go there? All right.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: I'm going to read some to you because I wasn't planning on doing this. These are people who disagreed with Skiri's take on the MTV Awards.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: What do you got?

00:29:01
Speaker 2: Make sure this radio host never gets to interview mother, please. We need to show them to have respect towards Madonna. He's too old not to know the genius of Madonna. He's too old not to know the genius of Madonna. He's just trying to get clicks since his face is straight out of a horror movie.

00:29:19
Speaker 3: This is disgusting and disappointing.

00:29:21
Speaker 2: Who the hell made Elvis Duran allow his staff to dish with horrible comments about Madonna? Because she has made an amazing comeback comparing her to kids who haven't even proven themselves. What's the deal, guys? Oh, kids who haven't proven themselves? Like Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift? Yeah.

00:29:40
Speaker 3: Okay, great.

00:29:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:29:41
Speaker 3: You never play any of our music. Vomit, vomit emoji.

00:29:45
Speaker 2: Is this because of a past rift or does she not give you the time of day to go on your show? Listened for years, extremely disappointed on what you said on this morning show. Seven vomit emojis. And just like that, Madonna fans are done with you.

00:30:03
Speaker 3: Scary who? Question mark.

00:30:05
Speaker 1: I hope none of these are slices who are hearing us talk about their posts now.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: This guy is out of touch. Even I know it broke records. We're talking about the long-form video and songs she released. It was pretty big this year. I heard more about this than I did of any of those other noms this year.

00:30:21
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah?

00:30:23
Speaker 2: Why don't you, in the meantime, Brody, pull up the how many albums sold count for Taylor Swift versus Madonna?

00:30:30
Speaker 3: Bullshit.

00:30:31
Speaker 2: She was not number one on these charts. She was number one because she came on strong with a strong week, and she charted for five weeks. Five weeks later, she was off these charts. She was gone. Who is this man? How dare he talk about the legend this way? Dude, you look like a thumb. Sit this one out.

00:30:51
Speaker 3: He is full of it. I am sorry.

00:30:53
Speaker 2: I had to listen to this vomit out of his mouth.

00:30:56
Speaker 3: We voted for weeks. She deserved it.

00:30:59
Speaker 2: Wah, irrelevant radio crying because they didn't get to pick the winners. Okay, I got you some of those numbers for you. Taylor Swift, Life of a Showgirl. First day sales, 2.7 million pure copies in the United States.

00:31:16
Speaker 1: First week, 3.5 million. Madonna first week, 126,000.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: Exactly. And then the first week was 48,500 compared to Taylor Swift's first week, which was 3.5 million.

00:31:23
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:31:23
Speaker 3: Currently, if these.

00:31:25
Speaker 1: Numbers are accurate, Madonna....

00:31:40
Speaker 2: Confessions 2, worldwide sales climbing to around 700,000 units.

00:31:47
Speaker 3: Has it broken a million yet?

00:31:49
Speaker 2: Not even diamond status, platinum status.

00:31:53
Speaker 3: 700,000 globally. Okay. Taylor Swift.

00:31:56
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, 12.3 million. Oh, look, old white men, the ones who always hated Madonna.

00:32:05
Speaker 3: What a surprise.

00:32:07
Speaker 4: What?

00:32:08
Speaker 1: What?

00:32:09
Speaker 2: Confessions is an incredible piece of art, especially for the dance genre. If you don't understand its importance or how amazingly fluid it is, then.

00:32:16
Speaker 3: I feel sorry for you. How much ignorance and hatred? Deal with it.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: Madonna deserved all the awards she won. Probably you're just an envious nobody. Remember, you live in a world where you talk about her just to have a few more miserable likes, and she doesn't even know you exist.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's cutting. That's really cutting.

00:32:46
Speaker 2: As a fan, I was voting for Madonna every single day just to hear insults and hate from misogynistic, ageist people like you that can't stand that hardworking 68-year-old woman could be successful and receiving praise.

00:32:59
Speaker 3: Shame on you. Apologize to Madonna, pressid hater.

00:33:03
Speaker 2: Scary you're going to apologize to Madonna?

00:33:08
Speaker 3: I had nothing to apologize for. I said what I said. I'm sorry. Am I not allowed to have an opinion?

00:33:14
Speaker 1: You are allowed to have an opinion.

00:33:15
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:33:16
Speaker 1: Even though you're misogynistic and ageist.

00:33:17
Speaker 3: I'm ageist.

00:33:19
Speaker 1: You're ageist, yeah.

00:33:21
Speaker 2: Listen, she had a good album, a good comeback. Slices, leave us a talk back. Do you think Scary, I mean, Scary obviously has a right as an American to have an opinion, but do you agree that Madonna probably shouldn't have won nine awards or whatever she won? Seven.

00:33:33
Speaker 3: Elvis Duran is 62 years old.

00:33:35
Speaker 2: You refuse to play music by a female pop star who is 68 simply because of her age. Please explain to me why Madonna can't be on your airwaves, but Elvis and his ageist buddy, Scary Jones, can be. Sounds like white male privilege to me.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: In Elvis's defense, he and Scary are not buddies.

00:33:56
Speaker 3: Hi-oh. For someone on the radio, you know very little. Bruno is a singles artist. His albums suck.

00:34:03
Speaker 2: He's had one mediocre hit from the album that just came out, and Harry Styles' album flopped. Z100 kisses Swift's ass. So you'll play whatever she releases. Legendary artists like J-Lo, Selena, Madonna, and Cher have all released music in the last 10 years that Z100 has ignored simply because of their age.

00:34:25
Speaker 3: Based upon your age.

00:34:27
Speaker 2: And Elvis' age and the rules Z100 has, I'm confused as to why you are still on the air.

00:34:33
Speaker 3: Your privilege is showing, babe.

00:34:35
Speaker 4: Wow.

00:34:35
Speaker 2: Harry Styles and Bruno Mars both sold over a million copies in America alone.

00:34:40
Speaker 3: That's right.

00:34:41
Speaker 1: That beats Madonna's worldwide sales.

00:34:43
Speaker 3: Exactly. Just saying. Thanks for fact-checking.

00:34:47
Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: I love it. All right. I think we've done enough of this.

00:34:51
Speaker 2: I want to play a clip of the number one, in my opinion, the best song around right now. And it's entirely created by AI. And we'll do that right after this.

00:35:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we come back.

00:35:03
Speaker 3: I'm sorry if that was too much slices, but.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: No, listen, Scary got heat and he stood up to it. Good for you, Scary Jones. Now, this song was created entirely by Suno. The AI program that I use for some of our jingles and my songs attacking Skiri.

00:35:21
Speaker 1: I mean, paying tribute to Skiri.

00:35:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.

00:35:24
Speaker 1: The good news is.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: This song, 100% AI created songs cannot be copywritten. So even though this song is tremendously popular, we are allowed to play it.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: I looked it up.

00:35:35
Speaker 1: So you got to look, I've re I've reposted this.

00:35:39
Speaker 2: There's some, you know, people that they, they break dance and they pop and lock and they do waves and they, they make their head move, but their neck doesn't all kinds of crazy dance shit.

00:35:47
Speaker 1: They are having a field day with this.

00:35:49
Speaker 2: Also the father and daughter that lip sync, the Australian guy, the father and daughter, you know, they are.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: Yup. Oh yeah. I love them.

00:35:56
Speaker 1: Love them.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: They did this song as well. This song is frigging awesome.

00:36:01
Speaker 3: Hold on. What if we put... Here it is.

00:36:03
Speaker 2: This one.

00:36:03
Speaker 4: You know this?

00:36:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:36:04
Speaker 3: The lyrics make no sense.

00:36:22
Speaker 4: Anyway, that song is 100% AI, and it's huge on TikTok. Okay. Everybody's doing something with it. Is that moving to the sun, or is that just that?

00:36:27
Speaker 2: No.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: No, so the song by Nagel or Hagel, whatever his name is, the DJ. Okay, hold on.

00:36:45
Speaker 3: So, Hujel, the DJ.

00:36:48
Speaker 1: Hujel, yeah.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: And Ultra Nate, the famous, who did, because you're free to do what you want to do, from the 1990s, that fame. She sings a song for Hujel, moving to the sun, and it goes, ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba.

00:37:06
Speaker 3: That sounds just like that, using....

00:37:09
Speaker 2: Pieces, right?

00:37:10
Speaker 1: So they sampled this to make his hit song.

00:37:13
Speaker 2: However, he got denied a Grammy nomination once they found out that part of the song, too much of the song, was AI created.

00:37:21
Speaker 1: So that's the controversy with moving.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: To the song.

00:37:23
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know that.

00:37:24
Speaker 2: Because for me, that was the best dance song of the year.

00:37:29
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. So this song is.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: I love this so much.

00:37:34
Speaker 4: And the dance moves that go along, amazing.

00:37:39
Speaker 3: Amazing.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: So everybody's trying to lip sync. So that's the raw version of that song. And he sampled that song for his.

00:37:45
Speaker 1: Uh, he sampled his own. He made this and then he sampled it for his other song.

00:37:49
Speaker 3: Oh man.

00:37:50
Speaker 2: Well, that being said, who Joe great DJ worldwide sensation. So, but not huge D he's not huge D though. You know, he came out and said that he's here to make the women dance, and he refuses to play night concerts anymore. He's not going on at night. He only does day parties. So remember earlier in the summer?

00:38:11
Speaker 1: They're called darties.

00:38:12
Speaker 3: Darties. Day parties?

00:38:14
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:38:14
Speaker 2: So do you remember earlier in the summer when Robin and I went to go see that big DJ down in Atlantic City?

00:38:20
Speaker 3: We got fucking rained on. It was insane. It was chaotic. Insane in the rain?

00:38:25
Speaker 2: We went to go see Hujel in Atlantic City. So we were there and it poured rain on us. We had the best time in that afternoon. And yeah, he came to Ocean's Casino. So you had a good time.

00:38:37
Speaker 1: So you didn't take a huge L?

00:38:40
Speaker 3: No, I did not.

00:38:41
Speaker 1: Okay, good. Very good.

00:38:43
Speaker 3: But yeah, moving along. Moving along.

00:38:49
Speaker 1: I met a guy.

00:38:50
Speaker 3: He's at the podcast convention I went to a couple of weeks ago.

00:38:54
Speaker 1: His name is Jay. He's a big deal in the podcast world.

00:38:56
Speaker 2: Yep. And he told me that, uh, cause he does podcast consulting and he's run podcast networks. And he said for him, he rates every good podcast on a scale of the three E's that each show, each episode should check off three E's entertainment, educational.

00:39:19
Speaker 3: And engaging.

00:39:20
Speaker 2: Did I, did you entertain me? Did I learn something? And was I engaged? Was I motivated to keep listening? I believe that was the 30. I could be mistaken.

00:39:31
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: So I started thinking about that. So we should run our, run our episodes and our content through the three E filter.

00:39:40
Speaker 1: According to him, a good podcast will have those elements.

00:39:43
Speaker 3: I got to write this down and put this in front of me. Is this engaging? Is this entertaining? And is it?

00:39:48
Speaker 1: Is this educational?

00:39:49
Speaker 3: Educational.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: And I like to think that we teach our audience a little something every episode.

00:39:52
Speaker 3: A little something.

00:39:53
Speaker 2: Whether it's how to get free dessert or how to win a customer service or how to get, you know, beat the line at a club or whatever. We always try to come up with like, hey, here's something you probably didn't know. We try to be educational. So I confidently said to him, I feel like, yes, our podcast is the three E's most of the time.

00:40:11
Speaker 3: So hopefully, Slices, you agree. You can let us know.

00:40:13
Speaker 1: Leave us a talk back in the iHeartRadio app.

00:40:16
Speaker 2: Now, you want to hear the gross story about how AI saved my life or the fight I almost got into with an Asian man today? I mean, always the fight. I mean, the fight's where it's at. Because that's, to me, that I'm engaged and I'm entertained. Will I be educated? Probably not. But at least I got two of the three. Two out of three ain't bad. Thank you. I went to, I went to lunch today with my friend paper menu and he says, Oh, why don't we try that? That Asian place, you know, near where I live. Uh, it's great.

00:40:48
Speaker 3: I've never been there.

00:40:49
Speaker 1: I hear good things. Let's go. I said, Oh, it's on my list. Absolutely.

00:40:53
Speaker 2: All right.

00:40:54
Speaker 3: So let's go.

00:40:56
Speaker 1: Oh, let's go on my list.

00:40:58
Speaker 3: Calvin Harris. Yeah. Okay.

00:41:00
Speaker 1: So we went, the food was fantastic.

00:41:04
Speaker 2: I mean, really, really good Chinese food.

00:41:06
Speaker 3: Upscale.

00:41:06
Speaker 1: A little pricey, got to be honest with you. A little pricey. Everything was like $ 3 or $ 4 more than it should have been. But very good. We were in a rich town. That's why. I passed like mansions to get there. But the food was excellent.

00:41:19
Speaker 4: And.

00:41:21
Speaker 2: The staff there, scary, unbelievably attentive, friendly, joking, water left and right, bringing hot tea over, more noodles, more duck sauce. They kept bringing it. Oh, you must have been in heaven. Oh, I was in heaven. The food came out perfect. My pan fried noodles came out. No vegetables, no scallions. Absolutely perfect. Couldn't have been happier. So paper menu and I- All right, Marshmallow and Khalid, happier.

00:41:45
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:41:47
Speaker 2: We spend like an hour there and he says, you know what? I want to get some fresh air, but we're having a good conversation. Let's go outside and hang out for a little while. So we go outside, and there's a table. There's tables and chairs outside with umbrellas. And it was a nice day out today. So we go sit outside. We're talking for a little while. And all of a sudden, I start coughing. I start choking.

00:42:08
Speaker 4: Oh, boy.

00:42:09
Speaker 2: Somebody behind me is smoking a cigarette. And I am very, like, susceptible. I can't breathe. So I pull my shirt over my face.

00:42:19
Speaker 3: I go.

00:42:20
Speaker 2: And I turn around and there's a guy maybe 20 feet away. He's at the edge of the concrete, which is the front of this restaurant. And then there's a parking lot. So if he just walks 10 feet to the right, he will be around the wall of the building and there'll be no issues. But he's standing on the patio area of this Chinese restaurant. He's a guy with black hair. I just see the smoke coming out and it's blowing right at me. So I turn around and say, excuse me, sir. Um, if you have, if you don't mind, I can't breathe. Can you just, can you move a little, like go around the wall or something? I, you know, he turns around and looks at me, gives me a look like fuck you asshole and goes back to looking at his phone. Now I want you to just a little reminder. My friend paper menu is six, two maybe and muscular. He's a big man and I have seen him fight. So I've got big friend balls now.

00:43:21
Speaker 4: Ah, yes.

00:43:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get the balls because you know you're with big friend.

00:43:24
Speaker 2: Right.

00:43:24
Speaker 3: I'm with big friend. I got big friend balls.

00:43:26
Speaker 2: That's happened to me when I'm in a car with one of my police officer friends.

00:43:34
Speaker 3: I get cop balls, or I guess you'd call them that.

00:43:38
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:43:38
Speaker 3: A big cop balls. Like, oh, you know what?

00:43:40
Speaker 2: Well, there's lights turning yellow to red. Well, I'm just going to fucking chance it because I got my cop, cop, cop guy. My cop friend is in the, we, we did this once going, Oh my God, we did this. So I was with one of my, and I don't mean to sidetrack you, but that's what we do on this podcast.

00:43:56
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:43:57
Speaker 2: So, so, uh, You know the Holland Tunnel traffic could be fucking murder, right?

00:44:02
Speaker 3: Rush hour.

00:44:03
Speaker 2: It could be an hour and a half. So I was with my boy, cop friend, and he was sitting in the passenger seat. He goes, just roll up around the traffic and just go right to the front.

00:44:17
Speaker 3: I said, no, there's a.

00:44:19
Speaker 2: police officer in the middle of the intersection and anytime anyone tries to cut in at the last minute after the traffic light you know what i'm talking about brody to you know to be in the left lane and then cut right he pushes the cars off he goes don't you worry i got this so all of a sudden it's like popeye eating his spinach and getting the muscles i got big cop balls i grew cop balls and i'm fucking speeding past all the fucking cars this was the easily a 90 minute wait I roll right up to the fucking mouth of the Holland tunnel, right where that fucking traffic light is. And I'm on the left side of all the fucking traffic. I'm bypassing everybody. I come right in. And as the light turns green, I start making my way. I cut toward right. Of course, he blows his fucking whistle, holds his fucking hands up in the air.

00:45:05
Speaker 3: He goes, no. And he's screaming. And he's like pushing me. No, you go this way, this way.

00:45:10
Speaker 2: Right. You want to, you kind of come from the left. You stay to the left. You don't get to enter the tunnel off to the right.

00:45:15
Speaker 3: Fuck you. And then he goes, just pull up next to him. I pull up next to him. He rolls the passenger window down.

00:45:22
Speaker 2: And he flashes his badge and he goes, and the cop goes, oh, okay, go, go, go.

00:45:30
Speaker 3: Got right in the tunnel. Big cop balls. Big cop balls.

00:45:33
Speaker 2: By the way, for those of you, obviously you guys can't see it because we're not doing video. You know, they expressed that if you wanted to mime big balls, you'd put your hands by your watch.

00:45:41
Speaker 3: All right, ACDC.

00:45:42
Speaker 1: Thank you. She's got big balls. I've got the biggest balls of them all.

00:45:46
Speaker 2: Skiri made big balls gestures by going by his breasts like you'd say big boobs on a woman. He went, oh, I have big balls. But he made big balls by his boobs. I thought you were saying he had big boobs. And speeding, too, is another one. On the highway, my friends are like, let's go 90 miles an hour.

00:46:02
Speaker 1: Let's not break the law. Hey, big cop balls.

00:46:07
Speaker 2: I've got big buddy balls and I say to the guy, I go, what, are you just going to ignore me? I politely asked you to move. You're just going to turn your head and I'm talking off.

00:46:17
Speaker 3: I can't breathe. He looks back.

00:46:20
Speaker 1: He goes, and I see now he's Asian.

00:46:22
Speaker 2: And I say this because I'm now getting into a fight with an Asian guy outside of an Asian restaurant where they were very nice to me.

00:46:30
Speaker 3: I don't know if he works there, owns it as a manager or is connected to the people inside.

00:46:37
Speaker 2: Now I'm worried if I fight with this guy, I may get banned from the restaurant I just loved.

00:46:41
Speaker 3: And you know why?

00:46:41
Speaker 2: Because a lot of Asian people don't eat at Asian restaurants. So he probably is connected to the people of the management. But I wasn't thinking that in the moment. I think of that after the fact. Like, now I'm worried. I'll go in there for dinner one night.

00:46:52
Speaker 3: No, it's too late to turn back. I remember you.

00:46:54
Speaker 1: Right, okay.

00:46:55
Speaker 3: You got big buddy balls at this point. I got big buddy balls. So he looks at me and goes... What?

00:46:59
Speaker 2: You can't give me a second? You can't give me a second? I said, I asked you nicely to move. Are you doing an accent right there?

00:47:05
Speaker 3: Nope.

00:47:06
Speaker 4: Nope.

00:47:06
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. I asked him nice.

00:47:08
Speaker 2: I asked you nicely. And you looked down at your phone. You didn't say to me, give me a second. I said, you're still smoking as you're looking at your phone. I asked you, I can't breathe. I'm asking you to be nice and just walk five feet to your right and go behind the wall. So he says, Ah, screw you. And then he, so I stand up and I go, all right, ludicrous.

00:47:32
Speaker 1: Thank you.

00:47:33
Speaker 2: Uh, so I go, why, what'd you say? Again, I've got big buddy balls because I'm, I would never do this. So he didn't see me stand up and he, he, he goes and walks behind the wall. I sit down, he goes, okay, is that better? Are you happy now? Oh boy.

00:47:48
Speaker 3: And I said, yes, thank you.

00:47:49
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:47:50
Speaker 2: So we go back to talking and then I don't know, five minutes later, he must've finished smoking. He starts walking towards his car. He goes, I'm leaving. So I go, okay.

00:48:01
Speaker 1: He gets in his car.

00:48:03
Speaker 3: Scary.

00:48:03
Speaker 1: He's driving a Bentley.

00:48:05
Speaker 2: He's driving a Bentley, which says to me, he's either rich from the neighborhood or he owns the restaurant. Yeah.

00:48:11
Speaker 1: I just thoroughly enjoyed.

00:48:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:48:13
Speaker 1: Probably that back. He backs out of the spot again.

00:48:16
Speaker 3: I'm not looking.

00:48:18
Speaker 2: And my friend, my paper menu says, turn around.

00:48:21
Speaker 1: And he goes, goodbye. And he's waving his hands at me.

00:48:23
Speaker 3: Goodbye.

00:48:25
Speaker 1: And then he gives me the finger and he drives off.

00:48:28
Speaker 3: He drives off. Of course it could have been worse.

00:48:30
Speaker 2: You could have went back in the restaurant and he could have been your waiter or something, you know?

00:48:35
Speaker 3: Well, we were.

00:48:36
Speaker 2: Luckily we were done, but I'm telling you, he may be the waiter next time, but he's driving a Bentley.

00:48:41
Speaker 3: So I feel like he's not the waiter. He's the owner.

00:48:44
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:48:45
Speaker 3: So now I'm worried.

00:48:46
Speaker 1: Like I'll go, I can't go back there now for a few weeks.

00:48:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:48:48
Speaker 3: Because he's going to remember you.

00:48:50
Speaker 2: Yeah. You don't, you know, you have a very memorable face. Well, I don't look like a thumb. That's good. So should I have been more careful and not fought with the Asian guy outside the Asian restaurant?

00:49:04
Speaker 3: I don't know. I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have picked a fight.

00:49:07
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't have any. Normally I wouldn't have, but I had big buddy balls there. When you got your guy right behind you, he's ready to defend you. Listen, paper menu has shown up to places on my behalf. and, and stared down people who were threatening me and he made them apologize to me.

00:49:26
Speaker 3: He really is your bestie. He's one of my, he's on my list.

00:49:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. He's one of my, my top tier guys. He, he, he does, he does write by smaller people. He looks out for us. So I appreciate you, Paper Menu. But yeah, I had big buddy balls. Slices, have you had a moment where you had big buddy balls? Where you got tough because you had somebody tough with you?

00:49:45
Speaker 3: Let us know.

00:49:46
Speaker 1: Give us a talk.

00:49:47
Speaker 4: It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast.

00:49:52
Speaker 3: Hey, I didn't know this.

00:49:54
Speaker 2: Did you know, and maybe, I don't know, maybe I'm just late to the party on this.

00:50:00
Speaker 3: I mentioned this on the big show and everyone is like, huh? Huh? You're crazy, Scary. How did you not know?

00:50:06
Speaker 2: Did you know that, and you may not know this because you don't like green things, you don't like green vegetables, but you know the green onions, the scallions?

00:50:15
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:50:16
Speaker 2: Do you know that if you, when you buy them, you could cut off the bottom part, the bulbous part with the root, you could put it in water.

00:50:27
Speaker 3: And they grow, they regrow.

00:50:32
Speaker 2: Most root vegetables do that, don't they? In a week, you have brand new ones, which really begs the question, why are we always buying green onions when we can just grow our own and save the money for them? I mean, I know they're not very expensive, but I mean, if we're going to be a little frugal and you want to Shouldn't we all be doing that? I mean, I didn't know that until like yesterday. And I want to kind of experiment.

00:51:02
Speaker 3: Where does it end, Scary?

00:51:03
Speaker 2: Before you know it, you'll be raising your own cows. I've always wanted to have my own chickens. Because then I know that the eggs will be pure. Because I know that when I'm feeding them, I'm going to only feed them good food. Organic chicken. At some point you go, you know what? These are organic chickens.

00:51:21
Speaker 3: I'll eat them. No, I just didn't know.

00:51:24
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that you can grow your own green onions and you could save yourself some money if you're a big green onion scallion person, you know? You can grow your own way.

00:51:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:51:36
Speaker 2: Oh, green onion isn't, oh, that's a banned green onion. No, but you know, I saw a TikTok video. They put them in a glass of water and the stem has to be above the water.

00:51:47
Speaker 3: The root has to be submerged.

00:51:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:51:49
Speaker 3: Yeah. And there you go. How long did it take? A week, a week and a half.

00:51:52
Speaker 2: They showed one of those time-lapse videos.

00:51:55
Speaker 1: Oh, well, how do you know it was a week and a half? Maybe they time-lapsed six months.

00:51:58
Speaker 3: You don't know. It said a week and a half, one week later.

00:52:01
Speaker 1: So they couldn't have lied.

00:52:04
Speaker 3: It's just amazing that they regenerate like that.

00:52:07
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:52:08
Speaker 2: So I feel like if I eat green onions, I'm not doing it. That's why I save money completely. I just don't buy them.

00:52:14
Speaker 3: You don't buy them. You don't eat them. I just found out.

00:52:17
Speaker 2: And would you, would you really want like green onions growing in your kitchen? You have bugs growing on them on the windowsill.

00:52:22
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:52:23
Speaker 1: You're broken windowsill.

00:52:24
Speaker 3: Hey, I want to know.

00:52:25
Speaker 2: Well, the reason why I ask is because I want the, I want this to, to go out into the world, into the ether for the slices.

00:52:32
Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Scary.

00:52:34
Speaker 1: That was educational. We just got to 30.

00:52:36
Speaker 3: There it is.

00:52:39
Speaker 1: There it is.

00:52:39
Speaker 2: Our podcast is educational. I didn't even realize I was being educational there, but I was. That's the beauty of the Brooklyn Boys podcast. That might not have been entertaining, but it was educational.

00:52:48
Speaker 3: And it was engaging. I was looking to see where it went.

00:52:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the reason why I brought it up is because I would love to hear some talkbacks from our slices.

00:52:59
Speaker 3: If they're growing anything in their house, are you growing? Besides marijuana. Are you growing? What are you growing? Are you growing vegetables? Do you have a garden? I want to know if slices grow stuff. I want to hear from them.

00:53:11
Speaker 2: But we have people, again, the chart I read of the states that people listen to us in, there could be people who are actual farmers who.

00:53:18
Speaker 1: Actually grow crops. Does that count?

00:53:22
Speaker 3: I don't think we have any farmers listening.

00:53:24
Speaker 1: Oh, that's bullshit, Scary. You know how many thousands of people listen to us?

00:53:28
Speaker 3: Well, I haven't heard one.

00:53:30
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard a farmer check in with us on the talkbacks?

00:53:35
Speaker 1: They probably get up so early, they're not leaving talkbacks early in the morning.

00:53:38
Speaker 3: This is their cue.

00:53:40
Speaker 2: That's why I'm prompting anyone who grows anything, if you grow stuff, leave us a talkback.

00:53:45
Speaker 3: Let us know what it is.

00:53:47
Speaker 2: What if they have a backyard and they have a stick with a tomato vine?

00:53:51
Speaker 3: Yes, that counts. I'd like to know.

00:53:54
Speaker 2: I want to know what our slices are growing because my next question is going to be, can you send us some?

00:54:00
Speaker 3: Because I want to taste your fruits.

00:54:02
Speaker 2: Well, I told you one of the women at Pickleball gave me a whole bag of tomatoes that she grew.

00:54:06
Speaker 3: Right.

00:54:08
Speaker 2: Scotty B's girlfriend, his fiancee, Megan, she lives pretty much in farm country.

00:54:16
Speaker 3: Her neighbors have chickens and they lay eggs.

00:54:20
Speaker 1: That's what chickens do.

00:54:21
Speaker 2: No, but they lay eggs and they say that sometimes they have to throw them away because the chickens.

00:54:27
Speaker 1: Continue to lay... They throw.

00:54:28
Speaker 3: The chickens away?

00:54:29
Speaker 4: Oh.

00:54:29
Speaker 2: The chickens, they lay so many eggs, like one or two a day per chicken, they don't know what to do with all the eggs. So I said, are you kidding me? I'm fucking paying $ 13. 99 a dozen for this organic bullshit. Yeah.

00:54:43
Speaker 3: So I said, give me.

00:54:44
Speaker 2: Can you, and they're like, Scott is like, no problem. Monday morning, they loaded me up two dozen. They handed me two dozen eggs. They're like, we just want the carton back. I'm like, Oh my God, this is amazing. I got eggs for free. So I brought them home, put it in my fridge. And then about, you know, a month later, here I am. I'm like, so, uh, Can you do an egg run for me? And Scotty laughed at me today. I would love nothing more than to get free eggs like that. That's phenomenal. Eggs are expensive, man.

00:55:14
Speaker 3: Come on.

00:55:14
Speaker 1: I'm surprised she's giving them to you for free. She could at least get five, six bucks.

00:55:17
Speaker 3: Well, I offered money. I said, I'll pay. I'll pay for these. And they laughed. And they're like, no, no, no. We love it.

00:55:23
Speaker 2: We love the fact that you're actually doing us a favor because we don't have to throw them away. Because a lot of times the eggs have, you know, they can't just, they have more than they know what to do with.

00:55:34
Speaker 3: You could donate them.

00:55:35
Speaker 2: Somebody's got to be hungry in the area. They could donate them. I just think that's pretty fucking cool.

00:55:40
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're giving them to you. That's very nice. That's nice. Nice to be able to be self-sufficient. Now, speaking of food, I need your opinion, Slice. I need your opinion.

00:55:48
Speaker 2: There's a restaurant not far from Paper Menu's house.

00:55:54
Speaker 1: I know where it is.

00:55:55
Speaker 2: And they have this new deal. All you can eat pasta. Like pasta dishes. Bolognese, vodka sauce, whatever their pasta dishes are. It's an Italian restaurant. All you can eat pasta. That sounds like a good deal, right?

00:56:09
Speaker 3: To me, it does.

00:56:11
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:56:12
Speaker 2: And you have to make a reservation. Because they know who's coming. They know how much pasta to make. You have to make a reservation. The seating is every hour. So you can make a reservation for 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 7.

00:56:27
Speaker 1: O'clock, or 8 o'clock. Does that sound good so far?

00:56:30
Speaker 3: So far, so good.

00:56:31
Speaker 2: Here's my problem. Let's see if any slices have already picked up on the issue. What this sign really should say is all you can eat in 50 minutes. Because then your ass has to get up so we can get the 7 o'clock people in. It's not all you can eat. It's all you can eat until you have to get up. Wait, so there's a time limit. There's an expiration date on a moment. Like, okay, time's up.

00:56:54
Speaker 3: You're out.

00:56:55
Speaker 2: Yeah. You can eat there from six to I'm assuming six 45, six 50. They flip the table around, you know, clean it up. Then the seven o'clock people come in. They kick you off the table. Is that confirmed? I'm assuming if you can make a reservation for seven, then you got to get out of six. Well, no, they stagger the tables. They stagger the reservation so they can handle. Yeah, they do that on purpose. I guess that's just a guess. I don't know.

00:57:25
Speaker 3: I could be wrong. But to be kicked out, is it worth the money?

00:57:29
Speaker 2: I mean, all you can eat pasta in 50 minutes. You've eaten dinner. You go longer than an hour sometimes.

00:57:38
Speaker 3: Don't you?

00:57:39
Speaker 2: Dude, when I go to dinner, it's an experience. We do two hours, and that's without dessert.

00:57:46
Speaker 1: That's correct.

00:57:48
Speaker 3: You can't rush the food down my throat. You cannot.

00:57:51
Speaker 2: Right.

00:57:51
Speaker 3: I asked Paper Menu.

00:57:52
Speaker 2: I said, is like half the restaurant comes in at six, half the restaurant comes in at seven?

00:57:57
Speaker 3: He says, no.

00:57:57
Speaker 2: He knows somebody went, and they told him that it's six o'clock. You're out before the seven o'clock rush.

00:58:03
Speaker 3: Wow.

00:58:03
Speaker 2: They got to turn the tables over. Then that's not a bargain. I mean, how much can you ask for leftovers? Can you say, can I take, can I take, I'm sorry. Can, can I, can I take leftovers home with me? That I don't know. But sometimes the all you can eat places don't let you take food home. Cause I used to go to like a, you go to Maggiano's and like Maggiano's used to give you free refills on the food. So you'd get chicken parm, eat as much as you could till you're ready to explode and then go, I'll have another round. And then like you take a bite and you go, I'm done. I'll wrap this up. And you'd have food to take home. A lot of places will not let you take leftovers home because they know you're going to do that one more round for the ride home for the take home. So I don't know what the policy is. I'm just saying if I got to leave in 50 minutes, that's not all.

00:58:47
Speaker 3: I can eat. That's all I can eat.

00:58:49
Speaker 2: No.

00:58:49
Speaker 1: Until you tell me I got to get up.

00:58:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:58:50
Speaker 3: That's bullshit.

00:58:52
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, no.

00:58:52
Speaker 1: That's what I said.

00:58:55
Speaker 3: You go now.

00:58:57
Speaker 1: Oh, John Panette.

00:58:58
Speaker 3: John Panette.

00:59:00
Speaker 2: If you don't know what we're talking about, Google John Panette, P-I-N-E-T-T-E.

00:59:04
Speaker 3: At the Chinese buffet.

00:59:05
Speaker 2: At the Chinese buffet. You will watch that sketch a thousand times over.

00:59:09
Speaker 3: It's wonderful. the funniest sketches.

00:59:12
Speaker 2: When Paper Menu was telling me the story today at lunch, he said, you go now.

00:59:16
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my God, John Panette. You've been here for an hour.

00:59:21
Speaker 4: For an hour.

00:59:22
Speaker 3: You go now.

00:59:23
Speaker 2: All right.

00:59:24
Speaker 3: Okay, great. All right. We're doing impressions. Got to take a break.

00:59:28
Speaker 1: I'm doing an impression of John Panette.

00:59:30
Speaker 2: You're doing an impression of John Panette doing an impression.

00:59:33
Speaker 3: Got it.

00:59:34
Speaker 1: That's it. Yep, there you go.

00:59:36
Speaker 3: Okay, tell that to HR. Wait a second. We don't have HR.

00:59:39
Speaker 1: Nope, not on the.

00:59:43
Speaker 3: Podcast.

00:59:47
Speaker 2: So I just got a notification on my phone. Skiri asked me to sell a piece of furniture for him.

00:59:53
Speaker 3: And it's been.

00:59:55
Speaker 2: It's been up for a few weeks and I've lowered the price a couple of times. And we agreed if somebody offered this amount, he would take it. So about an hour before we started the podcast, he told me, you know what?

01:00:07
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep the thing.

01:00:08
Speaker 2: It's not selling. I'll just keep it. Take down the post. Well, I forgot to take down the post. And now I have somebody messaging me that wants to offer me more money. And I'm asking for it.

01:00:18
Speaker 3: Shut up. But I got it.

01:00:21
Speaker 2: I got to tell them it's not available. Because you told me you didn't want to sell it. I'm not selling it. I'm not.

01:00:28
Speaker 1: But did you suddenly realize you need that furniture now?

01:00:30
Speaker 2: It's in this closet. I found a spot for it in the closet. I knocked out a couple of things, switched some shelves around, and now it fits in perfectly. And it's a filing cabinet, folks. It's a white filing cabinet on wheels.

01:00:41
Speaker 3: And it's now not for sale. How much were they offering?

01:00:45
Speaker 1: $ 70.

01:00:46
Speaker 2: And you're talking about I could take $ 60 for it?

01:00:50
Speaker 1: They're offering 70.

01:00:52
Speaker 3: Fuck it. Not worth it. I'm keeping it.

01:00:54
Speaker 2: Because Slices, you know he bought a bougie-ass filing cabinet.

01:00:58
Speaker 3: It is a bougie-ass filing cabinet.

01:00:59
Speaker 2: Of course it is. And he's going to put it in his closet, but no one will see it. Should we tell him about the lamp? We got to tell him about the lamp.

01:01:04
Speaker 3: It's time. Hold on.

01:01:05
Speaker 2: Hold on.

01:01:06
Speaker 3: Hold on. Hold on.

01:01:08
Speaker 2: Scary's going to have people come over his house. Hey, I love your light switches.

01:01:11
Speaker 3: Hey, come here. Come in the closet.

01:01:12
Speaker 1: Let me show you my filing cabinet.

01:01:14
Speaker 2: So 19 years ago.

01:01:20
Speaker 3: When I got my first place, I went crazy.

01:01:25
Speaker 2: Remember the $ 4, 000 couch that we had to deal with that we got rid of? Yeah.

01:01:30
Speaker 1: Hey, Scary, don't mention the name brand of the lamp.

01:01:33
Speaker 2: No, I won't. You don't want me to mention the name brand? Okay, I won't mention the name brand, but it's also irrelevant. It's a bougie brand. It's a bougie brand of a lamp. We're going to leave it there, okay?

01:01:44
Speaker 3: Leave it there. I'm going to leave it right there.

01:01:46
Speaker 2: So.

01:01:49
Speaker 2: I bought this lamp and night, this was like 19 years ago. And I spent, I spent like, I guess it was like, Oh God, I'm going to sound so bougie here.

01:02:00
Speaker 3: It was like $ 1, 500. It was a $ 1, 500 lamp.

01:02:06
Speaker 2: And it's a beautiful, it's not just a lamp that sits on a thing.

01:02:09
Speaker 3: It's a, it's a big lamp. It's a floor lamp. It's like a big lamp.

01:02:12
Speaker 2: Okay.

01:02:13
Speaker 3: We'll keep it there.

01:02:15
Speaker 1: It looks like it's, it's white.

01:02:16
Speaker 2: It looks like a chopstick with a, with the hats that the rickshaw drivers.

01:02:20
Speaker 3: All right. You dick.

01:02:21
Speaker 2: All right. Anyway, it was nothing to it. It's white and white and white, but in its time, it was a beautiful lamp and it was very fashionable. And I held onto it in pristine condition for 19 years.

01:02:35
Speaker 3: All right.

01:02:35
Speaker 4: Yep.

01:02:36
Speaker 3: Now, fast forward to my new place. Lorena, the interior designer. Remember her? Out with the trash!

01:02:44
Speaker 2: She goes, I don't know how to tell you this, but that lamp has no business being in your new apartment.

01:02:51
Speaker 3: There's no room for it. I'm like, what do you mean there's no room for it? I hear ageism.

01:02:58
Speaker 2: I doubled my space! And she's like, nah she goes it's gotta go.

01:03:04
Speaker 3: It doesn't go with the decor of the rest of the place.

01:03:08
Speaker 2: Come on i said i love this lamp but you know what the more white lamp it goes with everything it does however to her in her defense said she found me a.

01:03:19
Speaker 3: Lamp that was so fucking cool to replace it with.

01:03:23
Speaker 2: Yeah and i'm like oh i gotta have this lamp $ 75? $ 80? I bought the lamp and it's now sitting in the place and I unplugged the white one and I said, parting is such sweet sorrow. And I put it in a corner and I said, Brody, now, here's the thing. In the 19 years that I spent all that money for it, remember I told you it's.

01:03:51
Speaker 3: About $ 1, 500? Oh my God, stop. This lamp now retails new.

01:03:55
Speaker 2: For over $ 3, 000 Same lamp They still make it 19 years So I told Brody You're a man on a mission I want to I want to I want to I want to get as much value As possible for this lamp I want to recoup as much as I can Do you think you can move this lamp For me So Brody has it put up And it's been sitting there for a while and people are like, we don't, it's up.

01:04:30
Speaker 3: For a, it's not up for $ 3, 000. People could buy it.

01:04:34
Speaker 2: I'll mention, we started the bidding at 8.50. Because I looked at other lamps by the same company.

01:04:40
Speaker 4: Used ones.

01:04:40
Speaker 1: And they were all around that price.

01:04:42
Speaker 2: $ 850 to $ 1, 000 is a steal for this lamp, which even though I paid $ 1, 500 at the time, is now $ 3, 000 new.

01:04:50
Speaker 3: So you're getting a beautiful new lamp.

01:04:52
Speaker 2: But for $ 850, I'll come to your house and stand in the corner with a flashlight. That being said, Brody's having trouble. You know, we're kind of, I had this, I had this guy who messaged me.

01:05:06
Speaker 3: Go ahead. I'm going to, I'm going to read the conversation. This guy's got, this guy's got balls.

01:05:11
Speaker 1: Not big buddy balls.

01:05:12
Speaker 2: He says, hi, would you, would you do three 50 cash? Again, I have to remind you slices.

01:05:19
Speaker 3: Everybody pays cash. There's no bet.

01:05:21
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not taking credit cards.

01:05:24
Speaker 3: It's all cash. They all think if they offer me cash.

01:05:27
Speaker 1: That's like a bonus.

01:05:28
Speaker 3: Okay?

01:05:28
Speaker 1: They'll give me $ 350 cash. It's all fucking cash.

01:05:32
Speaker 3: If you Venmo me, that's cash. It's all cash.

01:05:36
Speaker 2: So I said, I'm asking $ 850.

01:05:40
Speaker 1: Come back with a legitimate offer. Which, by the way, is a steal.

01:05:43
Speaker 2: Okay, I know the slices are like $ 850 for a lamp, but.

01:05:46
Speaker 3: I had to give you the context and the timeline, and this is $ 3, 000.

01:05:50
Speaker 2: You guys know Scary. You guys know Scary. You understand the story here.

01:05:54
Speaker 3: Bougie lamp.

01:05:56
Speaker 2: So the guy writes pass. I sold mine for 200 bucks each. I had two of them during the pandemic. Yeah.

01:06:02
Speaker 3: They had two of them. Fuck you. You did not. Yeah.

01:06:06
Speaker 2: So, so I said, he sold for $ 200 a piece during the pandemic. I said, congratulations. I already have an offer on the table for 700. I turned it down, which is nope. So he says, must be a fucking chump who offered that much money. I sold an $ 8, 000 console for $ 800 last week. I don't know what that's supposed to mean.

01:06:27
Speaker 3: Who's the chump now? He's the chump.

01:06:30
Speaker 2: You sold an $ 8, 000 console for $ 800, so you're bad at this and that's my fault?

01:06:36
Speaker 4: Sorry.

01:06:37
Speaker 2: Must have been some chump. No, it was a doctor who offered $ 700 for his Manhattan apartment. And Scary said, I'm not selling it for $ 700. Now Scary would absolutely take $ 700 because no one's buying it. That's the funny part. Nobody's buying his fucking lamp. Listen, we started it. We were over, we were like $ 1, 200. I was like, well, let's try and get like, let me recoup a thousand. Imagine I can have a lamp that was $ 1, 500 and I paid 1,500 and I could get, you know, make $ 500 off of it.

01:07:07
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Lose only 500 in value. Anyway.

01:07:09
Speaker 4: Yeah.

01:07:10
Speaker 2: No, we're, we're below the thousand dollar mark here, folks. We're, we're, we're, we're headed toward 500 very soon.

01:07:17
Speaker 3: But anyway, how's that going? It's not going well. No, it's not.

01:07:20
Speaker 1: But your filing cabinet now, you know what you can do, Scary?

01:07:22
Speaker 2: Put the lamp in your closet so that you can have light so you can stare at your expensive filing cabinet.

01:07:29
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't work for you? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are you doing? I don't know. We're almost wrapping it up. What else you got?

01:07:36
Speaker 2: You got something else before we.

01:07:39
Speaker 1: I got a quickie here.

01:07:41
Speaker 3: Hold on. By the way, should I go to Ibiza next week?

01:07:48
Speaker 1: Are you on vacation again, you son of a bitch?

01:07:52
Speaker 2: Starting next Friday. Yeah, yeah. We got a week off coming up.

01:07:57
Speaker 3: I cannot wait.

01:07:58
Speaker 2: But I don't know where I want to go. I don't have a place to be. I'm going to be in Charleston. I'll be in Charleston the following weekend. Oh, you will not see DP from NC there? DP from NC won't be there. I have like six days to play with and I want to go to Europe or something. Okay, so next week we'll be here. The week after.

01:08:18
Speaker 3: Oh, no, we will.

01:08:18
Speaker 2: Right.

01:08:19
Speaker 3: We will be here next week. Yes.

01:08:20
Speaker 2: Yes. And then the week after, we'll have to figure out slice time because Scary will not be here again. And I think this is his last vacation for October.

01:08:28
Speaker 3: For October, yes. But November. Leave it at that. We got another one coming. Okay, continue. Stop it. Stop it. What do you got?

01:08:33
Speaker 2: Stop.

01:08:33
Speaker 3: What do you got? What do you got? What do you got?

01:08:36
Speaker 2: Okay. All right. I am done with people who end sentences with, and so, yeah, I'm done with that.

01:08:45
Speaker 3: I'm done.

01:08:45
Speaker 2: I'm done with people who can't complete a thought. I'm done with people on TikTok, people at the podcast seminar. They're like, you see this chart? These are the five things that are important to every podcast. So, um, uh, so yeah. Sounds like someone who lost their train of thought and then just wanted to just turn the page and forget about it. But that's this again, I can't stand the people who start every answer to every question with, so, uh, you threw 90 pitches tonight.

01:09:13
Speaker 3: Uh, how did it feel? Yeah.

01:09:14
Speaker 2: I mean, they sought everything, but yeah, I mean, And now people are ending it with, yeah, and.

01:09:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, so... And nothing follows it.

01:09:23
Speaker 3: They just stop. They ghost you. They ghost you.

01:09:26
Speaker 1: On the rest of the sentence. So I'm done with that.

01:09:28
Speaker 2: Also, if you follow anybody doing live streams on TikTok, right? I told you I like to watch funny people and streamers. You have a gift gallery. So there's like, I don't know how, but let's say there's like 12 different gifts. You can give somebody a hat, a heart, a glass of champagne. Each one costs a different.

01:09:48
Speaker 3: Amount of money, right?

01:09:50
Speaker 2: And if you get one of each, you complete your gift gallery. Everybody on TikTok speaks in the plural sense. Oh, we need more likes. We have to hit our goal. We have to, we have to. No, no, you, you have to.

01:10:07
Speaker 3: Not we, you.

01:10:09
Speaker 2: We need to complete the gift gal. That's also called the gift gal. The gift gallery is not the gift gal. Oh, got to complete the gift gal. I'm looking for champagne glasses for the gift gal, the gift gal. And you know how like there's a lingo. The lingo is when they get gifts, they got to thank you as they're talking. You're like, all right, so if I go in this room, thank you for the heart me. Thank you for the heart me. The heart me is like a little thing that says heart me.

01:10:34
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep. Oh, thank you for the hearts.

01:10:36
Speaker 1: Thank you for the heart me. Thank you for the hat. Thank you for the heart me.

01:10:40
Speaker 3: Thank you for the follow.

01:10:41
Speaker 2: We need to interrupt their own sentence because they're getting gifts. Thank you for the heart me. They got to thank you for the heart me.

01:10:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:10:47
Speaker 2: And it's like an auctioneer. They just sit there and make money. And I just want to watch you play this video game. I love Shield Wall, by the way. I think I've mentioned it. Love watching Shield Wall and Granny. But as they're talking, they're like, I think I need to expand my armor. Oh, thank you for the heart, me.

01:11:04
Speaker 1: Thank you for the heart.

01:11:05
Speaker 3: Thank you for the follow. Thank you for the heart, me.

01:11:07
Speaker 2: Hit those likes. Thank you for the heart, me. Thank you for the heart, me. Fuck you and your heart, me's. I'm just trying to watch you play a video game. You don't need to thank everybody. It's so annoying, but it's TikTok lingo. So I'm, I'm trying to accept it as, as you know, like just ignore it. Like, but it's like, they got to thank you for every gift. So, but yeah, the gift gal, did you know about the gift gal? No, I didn't know about the gift gal. Got to complete our gift gal. We got our goals, you know, our goals, a hundred thousand likes our goal. It's not our goals. I'm not making any money.

01:11:35
Speaker 3: You know, you want, by the way, you want to make money.

01:11:37
Speaker 2: Uh, Gary V is big on this and he claims the next big thing. Um, and you're, and it's going to be big in your algorithms. If it isn't already is, um, live is live shopping on video in real time so obviously ebay live is a thing uh i think they're opening up to more people now i know that privileged view was able to.

01:11:59
Speaker 1: Isn't that qvc isn't that basically.

01:12:02
Speaker 2: Qvc yeah but it's for yeah but here's the thing um you don't even need a lot of followers so if you open up tiktok live you go live on tiktok You and TikTok favors that algorithm and you end up in for you pages. So the thing goes, can go viral and you can get seen very quickly by people. So what you do is you set up a live show and you literally say, all right, I'm selling this, this piece of art behind me. It's a Keith Haring replica. We're going to start the bidding and literally you can set up a shop and And Gary, mark his words. Again, we may sound foolish in a couple of years when you're listening to this. If you're listening to this in the future years, this might already be the thing. He says it is absolutely catching on like wildfire as we speak in Asia. It is a multi-billion dollar industry where people in Asia are all over TikTok live and just doing live shopping.

01:13:03
Speaker 3: And it's catching on here.

01:13:05
Speaker 2: So Slices, here comes the E, the educational moment. If you're short on cash and you have stuff to sell, think of it like a virtual garage sale, but.

01:13:16
Speaker 3: You're doing it live.

01:13:18
Speaker 1: Is there taxes?

01:13:20
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.

01:13:22
Speaker 1: If it's going through TikTok, they probably report it.

01:13:24
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.

01:13:25
Speaker 2: But we are on the precipice of something big. We are on the cusp. And Gary has a lot of stuff he's predicted in the past. A lot of that stuff he's on point with.

01:13:37
Speaker 3: He was so.

01:13:39
Speaker 2: He spent about 10 minutes on the show talking just about live.

01:13:43
Speaker 1: Does he have money invested in this?

01:13:45
Speaker 4: No.

01:13:45
Speaker 3: He's going to make money off this? No, he doesn't. It's TikTok.

01:13:47
Speaker 2: He's telling you to go to eBay and TikTok. eBay live, TikTok live. But doing the live and selling your shit live is becoming a thing. At least in other countries it already is. We're just late to the party as we always are. Consider that, Slices, as a way of selling stuff. Maybe I should start doing that here. So speaking of Asian, as we get out of here selling stuff, there's a website. I don't have the website, but I'll try to provide it next week if I can find it.

01:14:15
Speaker 1: There's a website.

01:14:16
Speaker 2: It's an Asian website that allows you to shop, to buy stuff, to go to your cart, to check out, to get shipping updates, but you don't spend any money and nothing actually arrives. But it's for people who need to feel like they're shopping. They have that itch to shop.

01:14:32
Speaker 3: So recovering addicts, they get to use this. Right.

01:14:36
Speaker 1: You can go shopping.

01:14:37
Speaker 2: So you get that endorphin rush of like buying stuff and putting it in your cart and clicking, you know, buy, but you don't actually buy anything. And you don't get anything. Your items have shipped. They'll be arriving on Thursday. And it goes up. Your items arrived. You're like, yes, but you don't get anything. You didn't pay anything.

01:14:53
Speaker 3: It's all virtual.

01:14:54
Speaker 1: It's all virtual. It's all fake. I kind of like that.

01:14:59
Speaker 3: What's the point? Waste of time.

01:15:01
Speaker 2: Anyway.

01:15:02
Speaker 3: But you saved money.

01:15:03
Speaker 2: All right.

01:15:03
Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.

01:15:04
Speaker 1: All right, so next episode, I'll tell you how AI saved money.

01:15:06
Speaker 3: All right, Snoop and Dre. Next episode.

01:15:12
Speaker 4: Okay. Okay.

01:15:13
Speaker 3: Very nice.

01:15:14
Speaker 1: I forgot about Dre.

01:15:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, boy. Brooklyn! The Voice from Brooklyn! Brooklyn!

01:15:25
Speaker 1: The Voice from Brooklyn!

01:15:27
Speaker 2: Brooklyn!