#116: Skeery Has a Heart On For Valentine's Day

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Speaker 1: Start up that up Brooklyn by Up Brooklyn by Data they make a noise Data up Episode one sixteen. This is the Brooklyn Boys podcast and we made it this far. Here's the problem with releasing a podcast almost every Thursday. Well, on Valentine's Day, today's Friday. People are going to expect us to do a Valentine's Day episode with Valentine's Day theme things. And you know, I couldn't think of two more relevant guys who love Valentine's anymore then the two of us. Well, I've got I've got poetry written. Well, I know you have a list of dudes and don't for Valentine's Day Happy most Romantic song list. Yes, in fact, we were. I have a segment coming up called please her, don't tease her, right, and we'll get to that. Unless you're run at a time she were not time. You have to take a lot of pressure on this day, not for you, not for you, because you made a joke a couple of days ago to me. I did. Yeah, So Skear E's girlfriend really wants him to pull out all the stops on Valentine's Day. Expect the best restaurant, a nice gift, can't be the day before candy something expensive. And I said, look, there's one thing you can do to get your girlfriend to stop caring about Valentine. What does marry her? And then you're off to Is that what your Valentine's Day is going to be? Like? We're ordering, Uh, you want to talk about romantic? We are ordering heart shaped pizzas to eat in the house. You're gonna heart shaped penises? No, first of all, how would that work? That would be really crooked, heart shaped boobs, maybe like two boobs. And then you know, imagine a penis that goes around in the shape of heart. I'm not going to I'm not going to imagine that. So you imagine heart shaped pizza. Nothing your heart out. Yeah, I'll be at a restaurant. Okay, you know what I wanted? It like card shaped pizza. I'm saying it's just not. That's like Mickey Mouse pancakes. It tastes the same, that's it. Yeah. No, when you go to Disney the Mickey Mouse waffles completely different taste. Everyone know, you know what they taste like. They taste like twenty five dollars a waffle. They taste like two dollars to get in the park. That's what they taste like. They taste like one waffle and then two little waffles attached to make ears silly. Why you're not even getting hold on? Hold on, I know that it's a Mickey shaped waffle maker. They don't really attach them. I get it. I know, but I know. But you're you're not even getting a full order. I give me three large waffles, please, I don't need to ear sized waffles. Well, no, it's all one waffle. It's all connected by the way. I's about to say, don't tweet me, which reminds me. I want to update everyone from last from episode. I'm not doing Valentine's Day. Just let me slip this in. So we were talking about the upside out outlets in the studio and how a three prong outlet is usually traditionally used to be the two um rectangular slots for the plug and in the round one for the ground underneath right to on top one on the box. Apparently that'shioned well now elect the electrical code in most places now is upside down of that, so the prong is on top. The problem is most box plugs now don't fit right or they're upside down, and so nineties seven electricians listen to our podcast that right now. One guy was three days later. He just made the rule. So you know we're good. But who knew that that that's modern day coding. Because they're afraid that something is gonna fall on top of the plug, knock it out of the socket. At least hit the ground first, the ground plug first, when it's upside down. When it's the other way, it hits the electricity first. Now I don't know how often drop off the wall plug. I don't know. Apparently it happened once, maybe a house burned down. So now I can't sleep at night because all my plugs are the way. You didn't believe me that there are people out there that have the old fashioned sockets with only two and whenever they get a three pronged plug, disgusted, they would saw the thing off, and you thought I was joking. Several people tweeted and oh, I did it, or my grandmother did it, or I know someone in my building. Don't do that people, So it's so dangerous you can scratch it. You could not only that you're gonna start a fire. There's a reason why that third pin needs to be there for the ground plug. Look, you don't want to put the third pin on the top, okay, but you don't break the plug. You're like it off. I'm gonna jerry rig this thing up, Jerry rig and I'm gonna make it work. No, you're buably an adapter for nineties seven cents and I'm depot. But rather have my house burned down. You know that thing. I ripped that thing off. The man's not gonna tell me how to plug in my electronic device. Sometimes day you always get sidetrack ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to know, first of all, if you think, in your humble opinion, humble does one half ago in a relationship to have to have a successful Valentine's Day with minimally speaking, just give me. Look, what are we to do to get over the hump? To get to get a hump? Because I don't want to get extravagant and like you know, but unfortunately that's what Valentine's Day is. But that's what some pee, that's what you have allowed it to become. How I have set those ground rules because year one you were extravagant, Year two you should have been like as extravagant is the last year and slowly phased out so that after like ten years or at McDonald's. So I I start high, yes and go low. Right. Look, she knows how you feel about her. You're very generous to her. I am all, by the way, with her all year. Yes you do. You are not one of those Hallmark guys who goes it's a holiday. You're a nicer all the time. But I'm gonna be the guy that did the right thing. I made the reservation in advance, so you know that I was thinking of her. You get the card, maybe some flowers, and get a She isn't like steak now she does, but she prefers. She prefers to halibate just for the hell, just for the halibut. And and and are you going to a Victoria's Secret event after that? I did that one year. Did we talk about them? We did? Well, we've been we've been on for that long y third year coming up the summer year. No, we're not doing anything crazy like that. But I will say, wherever I go, I will where I probably will wear red. Is she gonna wear red? Yeah? You can't both wear red couples. I've seen it, Brodie. I've seen couples wear red and pink. It's bad enough people do that at a music you're going to be out there wear red people on Valentine's Day. Couples they go out to dinner and they go out and they wear red together. No, no, what's wrong with that? Then you're gonna look like you're gonna look like her, her gay friend from work. Get it not on Valentine's Day? Yeah, she's like, oh, I got my guy. He's here, he's with me. No. No, And I'm not saying where does that mean day? I'm just saying, you can't wear red. Were a plaid maybe, but not alread? Can't match her? You know, wear a solid red shirt. It's gonna you look like it's Christmas. I was gonna match the green, but whatever, that'll be matching on Valentine's Day? How donout you match where you're a couple? You both like Italian with black hair? Isn't that enough? Okay, you're gonna wear red? I was gonna now, now you just kind of you talked me out of it. Sign you actually harassed me out of it when you never wear red. I have a couple of red shirts. You have solid red like button down shirts. So you have a short sleeve which I wore to the pizza festival. Yes, the sauce doesn't show up. I'm not exactly right. That's the one you went to it out me this year. Yeah, you gotta bring that up. Yeah, I didn't mean to. And then I wear I have another red shirt for Oh so Christmas, you're right Christmas? Yeah, and then Valentine's Day? What are pink? I got plenty of pink at I got a Peter malar pink sure. By the way, we have a new Peter Malack type. Explained later, explained later. Alright, so you guys know what that Peter Malarck commercial. Can we just finalized? Don't wear red? Okay, all run red? I do have a pink shirt. Looks like a tubal lipstick our pink shirt. Wear red, that's still Valentine's pink. You're gonna wear pink. Real men wear pink. Wait a minute, I said don't wear red. So your response to that is I'm gonna wear pink. Yeah, I'm not gonna look bad. I'm gonna look worse. No, pink, pinks a great color. You can't rock pink. No, you're not a real man. Now I can rock lavender. You're a charcoal I do rock. I rocked the hell out of charcoal and blue. That's just Navy Navy. So so Peter Millar. So, if you haven't been listening, is a company that just got into our ear somehow because of this repetitive commercial that Proti's trying to find. I have the commercial, okay, and we we put Peter Peter Malar. You'll hear it. Peter Millar would like to introduce the gentleman listening to their twin nineteen summer favorite, the Peter Millard Seaside Polo, because the Peter Millar Seaside Polo is the most comfortable but over and over and by the way, prior to this commercial, and I was talking about it on the podcast Sponsor not yet, I never really thought twice about Peter Millar. I thought it was some golf shirt gear whatever. But now you know about But now now there's been Peter Malar sightings everywhere. And I even screenshot at you a couple to Peter Millar videos. I'm like, oh my god, it's happening again. So it's like all of a sudden, we bring it something to the forefront of attention and it's in your face everywhere, Peter Malon, right, and so so I've all I've done is seen Peter Milair now right, and still not a sponsor. Not a sponsor. They should have been on board months ago. By the way, it would be great if we had a not a sponsor, sponsor like they paid us to say they have a sponsor. Come on, Peter. So we have a new Peter Millar. So we've played this guy before on our show. This is Mike Francessa. He is a legendary guy in New York radio. But over the years, over his thirty five years, whatever it's been, he's been a line of Fox given on the radio, right, zero Fox given. Now he doesn't even It's like he has a microphone in front of him and he's just taught, grumbling and talking to himself. Right. He used to have a partner and they would have fun conversations, mad dog. Now he just sits in a room by himself. Listen, he's excellent at what he does. He's amazing. He's an amazing guy with amazing mind. But he's like he's don't give a fun about the listener, but also pauses forever. He takes his time. He looks on his phone for stuff. He repeats. Here's a clip of him and through his phone for fifty three seconds trying to find the answer to something live on the radio. And there's nobody else in the studio to bounce off of. At least Brodie and I have each other. So if one of us fucking has been in our phone looking for something, like right now, Brodie looking for something, I can actually vamp and talk like this and talk to the audience. But not Mike Francesse like he's by himself, so he starts grumbling ship to himself, but he can't find let's playing the clip of him scrolling through. So he's he's the local afternoon sports guy. He or in New York, at least he was. Now he's retiring. He's gonna do part time. But he has a Tennessee to repeat himself. So here he is looking through his phone for something. This was on the I like him as a player, I really do. Um let's see, I'm not getting the reds come up here. You don't give a funk about us? No, he was number one. This was the number one after the trap. Now he's also on television. They film him in the rate and the station. He's got a camera on him. I can't find anything in his phone because isn't how the phone works. Well, get him, I can't find them right now, any good fun. I couldn't like hand his phone to his producer and say, pulled us up for me? Right? So after all that, but to me, that that's a major. To me, that's a major like X, that's a that's a red flag, and that is that a big fuck you to the audience. It's like I don't value value your time, all right. So he was talking about the New York Mets. About a month ago. They were about to be sold to Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen is a billionaire, billionaire billionaire. He would have been the richest owner in baseball, but the Mets blew it. However, at the time of this clip, he was talking about how the Mets owners don't have a lot of money and they're very moderate within their spending. But this guy is gonna come in make a big splash. He wants headlines. He really is an out there guy. So see if you think I'll tell you what he refers to him as flamboyant. So the same way we were, we counted to Peter Millars. This is in the span of about a minute and a a half. How many times does he referred to Steve Cohen as flamboyant? I would think he wants to make a splash. I think that's who he is. If you read up on him, you'll know he is a very flamboyant guy. He's a controversial guy. It's a flamboyant guy. Okay. Uh, he's got a lot of money, He's you know, he's a he's a guy who's like I said, he's controversially, he's flamboyant, and he's got a ton of money and uh, and this is a very flamboyant man. So this is a very aggressive you know, this is a guy. You know these big Wall Street guys, they're very competitive. They are very very aggressive. And you know what, that's that's how they're gonna play it. Cone. I can tell you this right now. I know enough about him. This guy is gonna want every big He's gonna want if there's a big player out there, he's gonna want him. He's gonna want the biggest. He's gonna want the best. That's how this guy lives that he's a flamboyant guy. He owns a lot of art. He's got a lot of it. He's a spender. This guy is flamboyant. He shows off his wealth. He is gonna want to play it at the highest level. I'm just telling you so six times in that clip and the other way. There were other words he used over and over again too, like aggressive and here's the sixth time. But did you notice he goes he's flamboyant, he has a lot of art. He was Is he trying to imply that he's gay. I don't know what he means. He was trying to believe be politically correct, and he wanted he probably wanted to say other things that he that he later was like, no, I'm not gonna say that because that's gonna get me in trouble. Or he's just doing a synonym search in his head. He's looking to he wants to come off smarter than he is, and he wants to use a colorful vocabulary. But he couldn't find a synonym of flamboyant. You think, yeah, I think that's what it is. Well, he's just rambling he's trying to kill four hours of a radio show. Oh, judging from the last clip, we pay no but to me that the first clip was more of a just a blatant disregard for the listener, like, you know what, you tune into me every day, you give me your time. I the least I could do is give you quality content. But you know what, you're gonna wait for me. Everyone's gonna wait fifty three seconds in that clip there with the flamboyance, maybe he didn't want to offend, so he felt like he was trying to say the only safe word he could use was flamboyant. But he could say he's a show off. Showoff was what the word that I was thinking that he could have used, he's a headline flashy, but he kept saying flamboyant. Flamboyant is like code, like he's on Broadway like that. You know what I'm saying, Like people would use that terminology, you know, Yeah, well whatever, I've lost interest in him, Yeah, well yeah, I know over the years. But you know, unfour, it's unfortunate because he does have great insight. He's incredibly rude to his callers and he cuts them off really quick. Yeah. Absolutely, He's like he doesn't care for and a lot of times he doesn't hear them, so he yells at them because he they said something, but they said the opposite, and he's yelling and they're like, I didn't say that side. Yeah, he should have stayed retired the first time. Can I play one more? So? Last week we were talking about great states. We're talking about the I played this clip about Clarma Caskell from a United States Senator from the great state of Missouri, the great state of Missouri. So we were talking about great states and how every state can't be great. So you said, well, if I had to pick a state, that's right. You said, maybe Wyoming is not so great. So that day, riding home listening to the news, there was a conversation on the Electoral College and how some states have no people living there they want representations. So this was what was on the radio. Part of the goal of the Senate is to make it so that there is value in living in Wyoming and weighing mm things as opposed just being like, well, I guess I'm just gonna se a California New York want you, Well, if you're argument is that people in Wyoming should have a voice in the presidency. Well, they already have a voice in the Senate, so perhaps it's not as urgent a need for them there, right, So if you want, if Wyoming wants to say some value in living in Wyoming. So they agree, they agree of all the Scary says, So I send them that clip. Some people tweeted, I'm gonna read what the tweets are. But here's the thing. So I send that clip to Scary. I'm like, Scary, listen to that. They were talking about Wyoming in giving you an example of a state that you know doesn't get a lot of respect. So Scary writes me back, what are the odds? Fifty two one, Scary, the odds of picking a state is the same as the one you picked one? He said, what are the odds? What are the odds? No, what are you but listening closely, though you there's something you're not factoring. It's not funny. What are the odds? Meaning? What are the odds that you have heard a story like that on the very day I said that? So those are astronomical? Yes, I understand, Okay, so don't take me literally. Okay, So let's read some of this. Uh, milk manager, manager, I'm sorry, milk um m E l k m n a g R milk manager. Is he a manager? He says? Great, we told people tot milk man. No, yeah, we told people the hashtag great state. He says, I'm from Florida. I live in Montana. Everything you said about Montana is true, but I like it because it's quiet. But not a great state. Nebraska. Then Chris says, I'm gonna say not a great state. Pennsylvania, not a great state. Great city, Philadelphia is great, great Pittsburgh's Granton is a fun little town, Irish countryman everything Bagels with a Z says, uh, I'm gonna come out and say the obvious. The state of New Jersey not so great. It basically has no reason to exist once the gas prices went up. Oh that's harsh. They did go up, though. Do they put tax on it? Okay? Uh? Megan extra And says, I agree with you about North and South Dakota. They should be one state. I'm from North Dakota and it's just flat. Okay, So we can't can't argue with that. Present. Adam Catch says, fuck. The state of Indiana absolute garbage hashtag great state. Someone agree with me on the frozen hostile wasteland of Montana. Do you have that one? Hold On? I called Montana frozen hostal wasteland and they said that's partly true. Hold On, I gotta find that Joel Diamond Guy Joel says, scary Jones. Have you ever been to Cheyenne or Wyoming? L O L. I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Great state. I laughed so hard when you called out Wyoming and then Cheyenne. I'm a slice for life. But now it's officially brody and scary because you insulted my state. I didn't insulted your Your state insulted itself by not having anything cool to do there. Don't look at me. Titius Snodgrass, who is a regular tweeter of ours, She said, West Virginia is a pretty good state. That's why it's brody and scary. Way she didn't put an and she put brody scary. She said, brody. It's the Appalachian Mountains. I want you to know. I know you said, don't tweet you, but I couldn't help myself. I got I think I got the mountains wrong. Last week I don't remember what I said, but it's Appalachian. Okay. She says West Virginia is a good state, but she didn't say which was a bad state. And now now now that you're talking about the state thing, I'm looking for the state. Tara Baggerman, who we quoted last week. She's the dog trainer who listen to both of my podcasts. She says, uh, hashtag great state ever driven through Louisiana. My advice don't nothing but snakes and rats and terrible rest stops. Okay, I'm not a fan of shady Juw Mobster says, uh, bad state, great state of Montana. Oh hub hub one to O two says great state Kentucky. Never been but people suck from there in Ohio to that's harsh hub Oh. I was okay, all right, um yeah, while we're doing tweets, I'm gonna be my princess. I'm gonna be um. Let's see here, uh, let's see trying to find out on the scirrel. Remember I told you that about lemons. I don't know about lemons, about lemons, people eating lemons. Well, le Beau l A b e a u X on Twitter said that they love Lemons with Little Salt lives in Arizona and lucky to have a lemon tree in the backyard. Hashtag suck a lemon. So it is a It is a fruit for people to eat. It is something that people actually will snack on other than apples and oranges. Here, Brodie have a lemon for not doing it. That's like, why would I choose a lemon when I could have a grapefruit or an orange or a steak for that matter. All Right, I'm gonna take my head out of my phone and contrate back on the podcast. Speaking of a food, Can I just can I just tell one thing? Sure? You know what? I have a story about a vegetable that I want to tell you guys about. Well, i'll tell you about right after this. Hey, this is Joe Gadda from a Practical Jokers and you're listening to two of my favorite idiots, the Brooklyn Boys with Brody and Scary. All right, So I said I was gonna tell you about a vegetable. Yeah. Now, it's it's rare that I know anything about a vegetable. This is this is mind boggling because you know a lot about a lot, but things that you don't eat or putting putting your mouth. I know, I know how things are spelled usually, and how to pronounce that. I feel like you ignore vegetables completely. What could you possibly tell me about a vegetable I don't already know, not that you don't know, but but someone else didn't know. So I'm online at my grocery store and shut that out shop right, and not a sponsor. That's why I didn't say it anyway. So I'm online. I'm second in line. There's a guy shopping by himself from self, big cart of food, and he's got a lot of vegetables, and the way you you know most places, when you ring up vegetables, you gotta look for the vegetable code. They go in, they go, oh, that's a number seventy nine fruit and it comes up apple and then they tell you away whatever. So she's looking at this bag of peppers and she's like, I don't I don't see the sticker on there. And he says, oh, yeah, those are whatever, seventy nine cents whatever they were. I remember the price is well, I need I need to know what what the skew is or do you know what they are? I don't know what these are. There's a reason why she was asking the number, right, She doesn't know. She doesn't know what kind of it was a pepper, so he says, oh yeah. She goes, I can type it in if you tell me the type of pepper it is. He says, it's a publamo pepper, pablamo, pablamo. So she starts typing in pablamo and she goes, there's nothing coming up. He's like, what do you mean it's not coming up. She goes, well, can you spell it for me? And he says p A b l a m O pablamo. Oh my god. Right, So I'm set. Thanks, thanks man, That's where I was going with it. So I'm standing there. I'm going it's poblano. Why don't you jump in? Because the guy was a big dude, and I thought maybe he would get upset if I corrected his spelling, so I said, So I'm waiting and she's like, I can't fight it. He's like, why I gotta go. Well, guess what. They're both they're both to blame because she should have he's never heard of it and he can't spell. But she works. Then he's like, so, I said, so, I said, those are on sale and he says, yeah, who's I said, are they good? Oh? Man, these are my favorite pepper. There is favorite pepper. He calls him pablamos. If they're your favorite, you should know what your pepper had a spell it at least, so, I said. So I saw I trying to figure out what you know, I've never had those. I've had a similar pepper. I said, So, maybe they put it in the system wrong. Maybe they you know, put try poblano pepper. And she she goes, oh, yeah, that was in there, and he goes, Okay, he goes, so he says, rather than figuring out what I did, he says, is it the same price as the poblamo? She shouldn't. I'm sorry, but if she's working there, she should know her produce. But there's a lot of produce, Like I mean, she doesn't know. Okay, here's a little tip. I bet you didn't know. Do you know? The stickers mean something in the on the fruit and the vegetables. When they put a little sticker on the on the fruit, like an apple or an orange has a has a sticker on it. You know that if the number starts with the number nine, it's organic. If it does it scam. Wasn't that wrong? If it's the arts with a four, then it's regular generic, you know, not organic. I think if it starts with a three or two, it's some kind of a hybrid or it's a GMO fruit or something like that. Anyway, just to let you know. If it starts with the number nine, and this is universal throughout the board across the country. Um so the more you know, the more it starts with nine on the sticker, it's it's or. And what if the sign says organic and all the fruit there is more money? Not a good hint. Also, it's still the sticker. Will the sticker on the skew the number of the sticker will start with nine? All right? I had a valuable lesson learned on the elevator lab Monday. What's that? So I got on the elevator and there's a guy. Don't trust a fart. There's a guy. There's a guy in the back of the elevator standing on the elevator. It's coming down, right, so I have to take the elevator down. So I get on the elevator and I hear you know Chris from light f M. Yes, so Chris comes running, Hey, hall the elevator. So so he's I'll be there in a minute. So I put my foot in the door and I say to the guy in the back of the elevator, is it okay if I hold the door for a coworker? And he smiles at me, like, yeah, that's fine. So I let so because it's not you know, I could say, holy elevator, but it's not my place to right. So he's already putting you in the middle of this, right, So I let Chris on the elevator and I turned it a guy and I say, hey, I'm sorry. You know. Chris gets off on the second floor. He goes down one floor and I said, hey, I'm sorry. You know, just because I held the door for a friend, it doesn't mean you approved that I could open the door for a friend and hold it. I said, It's like when I let a car. If you let a car in front of you on the parkway, you're doing that, but you're speaking for everyone everybody behind you. And this is the same thing as the uh the flight line we remember with the with the group one to five or or the or someone cut the line in a you were trying to get on an airplane, right, Yeah, we did this, right. So I said the guy, Hey, I'm terribly sorry, I said, you know, I'm joking with him. I'm like, you know, it's like when you let somebody in front of you on the parkway and an exit is something you of giving him permission, but everyone behind you didn't get permission. I said, So, I'm sorry. You know what I mean, all right, And so I had this whole conversation with him while your foot was in the door of the yellow no no, after Chris got off way to go down and cutting on the flight, and I say, I speak quickly and he goes look, he looks at me, and he goes on Russian. He didn't even understand I'm doing. I'm apologized. I asked his permission. He smiled. Then I then I like, I give him this whole story and make an analogy. I laughed. I give him the cell you're a good sport, and he's like, don't Russians rus it does. So I go, hey, you go on your bed self. Love that. Yeah. Then I made a political joke and I let him I'm not gonna tell you the joke, but it doesn't matter. He's Russian something. I know where your mind goes it did have something to do? Did you figure that one out? Oh? I know the guy who called it a plablamo pepper. He didn't figure that out. Yeah. Um, I got stalked by a card dealership this week front Door. Yeah. Now, somebody who works here has a relative who works at that car dealership. So I told you, I'm looking to buy a new a new new car. I bought a used car recently for my daughter and I bought a new I'm looking to buy my new car. My lease is up in May. The rates are really bad in December and January for financing and leasing. So I call this dealership up where this guy we work with has a relative of works there. I don't use I don't give my name, and I've previously I had gone in and given my name like five years ago. So I call up and I get a woman on the phone exp be someone's sales. I'm in sales. How can help you? Hi? I just want to know what the rates are for leasing and financing of this car that I want, because they were bad and now that it's the new month in February. I know the rates change. Oh, let me let me check that, Jeff. Uh, and when would you be looking to purchase the car? I go, just I just want to know the rates and uh, what's your name in number? In case we're disconnected? And you know what, if we get disconnected, I'll call you back. Don't you worry. Can you just tell me what the finance rate is on the car and the lead price for such and such car. She gets fact to me, says, uh, that haven't changed since last month. I said, all right, just well, why don't you give me your name and I'll call you if the right No, I'm good, I'm good, but you have a nice day. Thank you so much. Okay. Five minutes later I get a text from her, it was so nice talking to you today. I hope I can be of assistance in the future. What whoa so that come from? They either they have call or I D or they have switchboard caller. I D because I had switchboarded to to get the sales, so I didn't get directly to home. So now now they're trying to sell you. Hold on such is if you need anything, you know, I'm here for you. Let me know, here's my name, just whatever, okay, all right, it was a courtesy tax, but I was like, I'm trying not to give my name. Whatever. I get an email from the sales manager, probably a form email. Hey, thanks for stopping by and inquiring it our dealership blah blah blah. You know, please let us know if you need anything else. We're always available. Whatever. Okay, so good an email. I get a text message from another salesperson. I underst and you're in the market for a Dodge charger. Oh my god, they sold your name to their fucking third party. No, it's this dealership, the same dealership. They're poaching. They're poaching off each other to try and get your business right, So so then I get to do that. I get another text message now from the first woman. So just checking in to see if anything's changed. Nothing's changed it because because it's all working in the same roof. Right, it's been a week and a half since I just asked a question, and the rates haven't changed. You know, I was calling about now. I didn't give you my name, but you're taking advantage of the fact that you have my number. Then I get a phone call on Friday, and they said, hey, it's uh, such and such from such and such dealership. I just want to say, uh, we've got a big sale coming up next week for President's Week, but uh, you know, if you we'd love to have you come down check out our inventory. I said, listen, I'm not looking to buy a car un till May. I just want enough to rate. I'm good, all right, No problem. Saturday. Another one call eleven o'clock on Saturday. You you gotta be kidding. I'm gonna say his name was was Donnie. I think it was Donnie. Hey, hey, it's this is Donnie from such and such dealership. Yeah. I just wanted off if you're gonna be keeping you two o'clock appointment, We got you in here for two o'clock. I just want to confirm that you're coming. I don't have an appointment today. No, yeah, you have an appointment today. You lucked got you from two to two thirty. You locked in there, so, uh, you know, I just want to make sure you're coming to two o'clock if you need to make a later appointment or earlier. It's Saturday. I don't have an appointment, Donnie, And did you make an appointment. Oh, I have you in my system? Yeah? Yeah, I've gotten four text messages. This is the second phone call. Plus I've gotten two emails already in the five days since I called to ask a question and I didn't give my name. So I speak to the person who works here, the manager. Well, I'm afraid to they'll they'll think I called again. So I spoke to my coworker here, our co worker, and I say to them, Hey, can you go ask your relative of works there what's going on? And they said, oh, I know what's going on. Do that to me. They stalk me. It's their new customer service initiative where they want to do they give everybody on like getting you, getting you, getting you, and they go and they tell you they made an appointment for you. Because some people will go, well, if you're have an appointment for me, I might be in the area. I'll just come in. Wow. Because they have a small percentage of desperate today to move cars, well, lower the fucking rates, how about that? So then I get a letter from them. They've got no integrity and they're willing to walk all over each other for the same business. Today's Friday, the commissioned days. This happened last week. Yesterday, I get a letter in the mail that says, big President's weekend sale, zero percent financing on select models up to twelve thousand off M S r P. Crazy deal. We'll take your lease over. We don't care, but we bring you bring your car in whatever. Bad credit, no credit, no money. Right? So I called. I called, but I start six. We gotta make room for one, right, So I start six, seven before my before I dial, because that blocks a phone umber makes it come up private better. So I started six seven of them. I say, yeah, yeah, I got a question for you. I got this letter says, uh, select vehicles, all all these companies, right, what about the charger? Yeah that's not included. Oh yeah, why did they waste your time? They know what you know what? They know what I want. They know what you want. So you think I'm gonna buy a truck? Yeah, or a jeep? Bastards, I could say. So, you're not the only one who's been stalked. I'm being stalked by a real estate guy, a real turn. Maybe about two years ago I entertained the thought of moving from New Jersey City to Manhattan. So I Uh, you know, I was talking to a real turn hold on, I got an number calling you. Put that on the on the Hello, let's see if it's maybe then Hello, who's to Oh I'm sorry, I know, I understand what you're calling. I already bought a car. But but but thank you. I'm good. Uh and I don't need a loan, so I'm fine though, but thank you. Oh my god, this tast no problem. You have a good day. Okay, yeah, okay, okay, Well there was one, right, So that was the other part of the conversation. In looking to buy a used cardcast and looking to buy a used car from my kid, I google. I googled used car loans, right, so you get get like carvon on cars directing car Gurus, which, by the way, is car Guru. I'm sorry, I'm not calling it gurus. I don't care. It's guru. Yeah, of course, but I called him and like you could say it either way. Whatever. So I put in I put in a uh, I filled out a questionnaire for an order loan from one company, right, And then when you get to the middle part, it says what type of car on cars direct dot com will you want to buy? So I don't want to buy a cause direct, I just wanted to loan. I already have the car picked out. That was all I did. Seven credit unions are calling me, everybody, Will you open the floodgates? I know, I know, I know, opened the floodgates. That's what happened. That's what that was. I all I did was make an inquiry that I may be selling my apartment. Maybe No, that was that was two years ago. Oh you're not moving? No. But so there's one guy. I'm on his fucking mailing list and he's got my number. I gotta call. Hey, Hey, scary, Hi, howaiia. This is Dan from blah blah blah agency. Hey, yeah, you are any movement there on your unit? So many answers I could have given him, but I said, I said no, I said, listen, I told you in the beginning I would contact you when I'm ready to sell. I said, because, Dan, where the funk am I gonna go? Where am I going? You? So you think that by by making this call today, you're gonna say, you know, oh, well, the market's way up. You can get top dollar for your condo unit. You know, now is the time to make that move. Where am I going? I can make all this money, but I still got to buy something to replace it with. I'm not going to live on the street in a box. The only way it works if you move to a cheaper state so you can make a problem. But why is this until you're talking about probably the number one life decision in in moving your money and moving your and planning your your future is what kids? Maybe no, but I'm talking about whatever. It's your big it's the biggest purchase you'll make in your life. Yeah. Probably you think by you cold calling me with a marketing call, you're gonna get me to change my mind. You know you're trusting flowing ten free boxes for your move. Deals aren't made over the phone like that. I'm not just gonna like flip my decision on the phone with the guy because he said in me NonStop, but he calls me like every month. And I said, Dan, I said, I told you I will call you when I'm ready. Yeah, but you have to understand market conditions are an all time high, and now is the time. I'm like, Yeah, but Dan, I got nowhere to go. I'm not moving anywhere. I didn't, but I said, trust me, when I'm good and ready, you'll know when it's time for me to sell my place. What it really means is my my apartment probably is in a very high value area, and that the prices gone up so much. They don't give a funk about you. They just care about flipping it for top so they could sell it to someone else. Dan's sales commission has been slow, and they told Dan, you got to make some sales. You're out of a job. But in that industry, it's dumb because you're you're talking to a wall. Trust me, when when I walk into your realty, you know that that that is movement, and I mean business. But already that I've had, I've had things in place that have happened to that point like I've I've also I've gone to look for a new place in the city. I've got you know, you have to move your job? Yeah, right, things like that. You know that when I walk in that I'm halfway serious. But there are people like you. You're called calling me. I'm watching holds on a fucking Sunday afternoon. Wait a minute, I can make a profit. I'm out. You're a single guy who does that, who makes decisions like that. You know what, somebody there must be one person because I got cold called by a realtor and they're like, oh, they set up with a whole bunch of offers and then they're like, you know what, all right, let's talk. I'm gonna move based on this conversation. Coincidentally, he called at a time when you were thinking about moving. Maybe you're gonna upgrade your house, maybe you're gonna move in with somebody, and you were just about to get ready. He could be timing wise, right, he could be. You don't know, I mean, could happen. I mean it's as who do that that are wasting them when you when you when you go on zillo, how many conversions are made that way? I don't know why you're gonna be jewish, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, if you go on zillo dot com, you can find house listings and prices, but treat easy. You can put your own listing and Zello. I can only speak to Zillo's I know about Zillo. You can put down like what you're looking for your house, or you can put down and make me move price, make me move price. Oh that's the equivalent to buy it. Now on what that means is what that means is, let's say you have a house where three hundred thousands talk. But if somebody really wants that street, really wants to be by the school or the train or the temple of the church, and they've got money and this is the perfect location, and they like your pool in the backyard, they gotta have it. So you know, I'll go. You know you want me to move, even though I'm not thinking I'm moving for I'll move like that so that you know what you can you can when it comes, give me and make me move. Price like, I'm not moving for three hundred. I could sell a house with three twenty. I'm not my house. I'm just saying in general, I could sell a house for three twenty. You give me four fifty. I'll go to the wife and go, we've just been an hundred thirty dollars. We weren't thinking about. Let's move because now you've got profit. Right now you've got money you weren't thinking about you can put down on somebody else's house and make them move. I like that. Here's that extrogery in thirty for your dump. I'll make your ass move, Okay, that that that, How about that? I got some email for you? All right, that's fine, I mean it's not fine. I just a couple of emails. I'm just you know, my legs shaking. I got a couple of things that didn't let him out. I got no no you go emails. I got some emails. When you see your leg is shaking, is just like when you have to go to the bathroom. A couple of people made me angry, and I got I got a guy that made me piste off. But I don't know if I should expose him. Here. Well, i'll tell you what. I'm just gonna you know what I'm going to because I want to give everyone an example of how how to do things and how not to do things and get your points across. Do you want to work your way up? And I'll talk about the guy who critiqued our podcast, and then we'll talk about the person who could teach you. Yeah, okay, I'm not going to mention names because we're on good terms now. But this is what they wrote. Now. Now listen, if you agree with them, I apologize. We're doing our best here, he wrote, I missed the brody rants lately. It's been all about punctuation and improperly worded phrases or sentences. I agree with him, Okay, we're I agree with him. All right. We spent a lot of time on correcting bullshit. I'm not going to play the cruise clip. Then save that. You save that for next week's podcast because we're on vacation next week. Oh do we not tell? And then he wrote, this isn't something that keeps the listeners? Now, he said, can we get back to the way the podcast used to be? So what I said, now, look, we'll listen. We're scared and are honest people. I could have hidden that and be like, don't mention that. No, we we we come out in the open with pretty much everything that. So I went back and I looked at the interactions we've had with this gentleman and who has been all negative, no, no, all positive. But over the past month he sent us a picture of white milk, which bothered him right, and a sign, if I remember correctly, a sign with us. Hold on, let me see what what what he did? Um? I said? So I wrote back, we appreciate your feedback and appreciate that you listen, but if you don't mind leave out the part where you explain what listeners enjoy. I didn't quite like that very much. I felt like, you know, I feel like you know that telling us what we what listeners? Are you speaking for everyone? Yeah, don't do that right, you don't like it, that's fine, okay, but you know you want to give you a feedback. That's fine, So I said, talking about punctuation and improperly worded phrases a sentences. You sent us a picture of a pin number photograph and of white milk, So you're guilty of the two things you said we do too often. So he wrote back, yeah, he's He was like, he's not mad. He was like, no valid point. And then I said, look about rants. We have rants, but if we don't do one one week, it's because they didn't happen to me or scary, and we're not going to make up a rant. We have to. Now I have a rant. You want to you want well, well, Nicole Morelli, go ahead. She loves uh. She seems to like them. The double phrases, thing like the the pin number and the GPS system. She sent us a screen shot. She's part of the problem. I guess right, it's okay, Nicole Morelli, she found h a t M machine on Jeopardy was a clue ready, Oh, the whole category? Hey, Brooklyn boys, I texted into the Big Show today about a t M machine being an answer on the redundant Phrases category. Right. I thought my favorite podcast would want to know about this picture attached, So she sent us this screenshot of the Jeopardy clue, which was an abbreviation begins this redundant phrase for a device outside some banks to make the withdrawals and deposits. And the answer was what is a machine? That's how they had a whole category on Jeopardy with that. Anyway, thank you. Nicole has been in our life for twenty years listening to the Big Show and listen to us. Uh want a grammar police? Are we allowed to do that? Now? I feel like I don't know. I don't know this said you said, I agree with I agree with him. That's what you head, Well, Melissa Jacobs just saying that you don't worry about it, skip it, skip it. Why would we skip it? Not? Because we just came off of that high. Yeah, you know, well at the Genda love grama pololize GMA police police running the board so low, Muissa Jacobs says an email Boys podcast at gmail dot com. She said, so, my husband and I were sitting in bed and talking about the podcast with him and I from Halsey the song she does a song called him and I What's Easy about how it was incorrect? And I was mentioning that Brody says that you take out the other person and you can tell how the sentence is supposed to go between me and I. But he says that's wrong. I asked, how well, if John and I are going to the store, it doesn't work with I or me if you take out John. Mind blown. My husband is now singing the Brody is Wrong jingle. By the way, I'm so far behind because I'm listening from the beginning, So see you guys in about seventy more episodes, which is when she will hear this finally right on her on this podcast. That's Nicole. Yeah, I'm sorry, that's that's Melissa Jacobs. Um just Desserts from Dylan E at A l A at gmail dot com. I wanted to I wanted to thank you for teaching me about just desserts, meaning free desserts. Yeah, I wanted to order my wife's stuff from Victoria's Secret for Valentine's Day, but didn't want to pay for shipping when she has a Victoria's Secret credit card. So I reached out to the customer service, who had first offered free standard shipping. Right away, I told him that's not good enough, that my wife and I have bought a lot from them over the years, and I want free express to day shipping. Well I got my free express to day shipping. Now I know in this case, I have not been wronged really, but a nice to see the methods working. So this person didn't even so Dylan didn't even have a problem that they needed fixed. They just fucking walked into the restaurant and and just said, give me free dessert with the Victorious Secret. I want free to she he demanded it because we've just been loyal customers all these years, and they got it. That's like, okay, that's why the audience is trying to do that to us this week, trying to ask freed is for free dessert. Today is Friday. We're recording this podcast. We always say within a calendar week will issue a new podcast. We try, we try and guess what Even though we didn't do it yesterday, we did one today. Today is Friday. It's part of the count. We do not owe you free dessert for a podcast. We are still going to issue by the time you're hearing this, and maybe later than that, but you just know it came out Friday afternoon on val what's the Halsey song Him and I? Right now? I played this in an earlier episode, but just as a reminder, I hate to be grammar police. In English, it's him and me the way its song drives me crazy, not him and I. It's him and me. To sing this song properly in English, it's him and me and me in English, it's him and me. Okay, so you go I did correct the song? You did? I did? We did? I had played that in an earlier episode. We did. I think we played it. Okay, if you listen to order, you heard it. Yeah you did? You did blanch? Yeah, yeah you blanch. Speaking of listening that come from you did blanch. It's a TV thing. Um. We got a text message on the Big Show today, have a good vacation. Morning Show started listening to Brooklyn Boys after Brody helped me via d MS with my oil change snaffoo two weeks ago. I'm on episode thirty four now and hope to be caught up while y'all are away. We don't have a name for that person, but thank you. Uh and in about three weeks you might hear this. Well, when you're hearing it, it's you're hearing it. But anyway, that person will hear it in a couple of weeks. But just because I helped him with a d N the like, uh, I give the podcast a shot. I mean, you know, and Andrew crope k r o u P wrote to us Slice for Life has it going Scary and brodie slife life here. I just have to share a new way. My wife describes how I'm acting if I start complaining or being a sarcastic jerk, she tells me to stop being a brody. I find myself telling when done wrong, don't ask what are you going to do for me? But to tell them here's what you're gonna Here's what you're gonna do for me. She then explains to be more like Scary, he's nicer and doesn't complain as much. You guys definitely rub off on me. Love the podcast. I listen every single day. You wait a minute, make my work days so much better. God bless you. My man's We could nice, but I didn't. We discussed that last week of the week before that we rub onto you. Yeah, rub right, jerk out and rub on. I want to ask Mason Link. Mason Smith is his real name. He said, Hey, I'm sending you a bottle of wine for your wife. It's not terribly expensive, but it's a cabin It's two thousand twelve vintage. Hope she likes it. I sent it out today, very cool. That was almost two weeks ago. Alright, so I said, you're insane. Thank you so much so, Mason, I really appreciate it. I don't know where you sent it. I said it to us, have not gotten it yet, that that will be free shipped for us on a future episode. Again, well, Katie McGinnis wrote to our Facebook page yet that those are two in a row. That went to the Brooklyn Boys on Facebook our page and emailed from there using the link. Katie McGuinness says, as a Montanian m HM as a month. As a Montanon, she wrote, m O N T A N A N do they call themselves? That? I don't know. I would think it's Montanian, but okay, But as a Montana I will have you know that Montana is not a frozen waste land. This is the one I was telling you in response to my comment that it was a frozen, hostile waste land. Montana is great because we don't have major cities and oodles of people. Montana's they don't have roodles of people. We also don't use oodles in other states, but she does. Everyone. Everyone can find oodles of noodles. I know. Yeah, that was from our CHILDHOODY don't make that anymore. Uh. Everyone can find space away from their neighbors. However, we are not fans of major city folk buying our land. So if you visit, which you should remember to go home? Your problem A Montana girl, PS, I'm not angry. Good out of anger. Hashtag brody and scary said what I said, Montana was a frozen hostal wasteland. You said hostile. It could be hostile. I mean she's hot, that's a hostile. Scot's done it very nice. So you learned it's Montana's. Uh. Laura, by the way, uh, if we call, I promise you were not going to buy land and state. So it's all it'll work out perfectly. Lauren Handley Schneider finally listened to the Brooklyn Boys episode. I have to say it's the best thing I've ever heard in my life. I laughed so hard in my car must have looked like a maniact other drivers. Thank you for all the greatest content. Thank you for the greatest content of all time. Happy bladed Birthday is very nice. Um, I'm gonna read that next week. Oh, I got this recommendation. Scary. What would you do with this? It's a compliment, but what do I do with it? So? Uh, someone sent this to me. One of our listeners, Gary Vanner Chuck van Vayner, Chuck, that's Gary V. Gary V. Right, he gave you free sneakers. He's also a motivational speaker. What look him up on YouTube watches stuff. It's very inspiring. You want more sneakers that what you're doing. And our friend Jake works for him now. Jake the producer from our morning show, a video guy. He wrote on his tweet at Gary V E looking for people who are comedy writers. We're working in or on shows as writers. Probably meant TV shows but I'm working to show him coming writer or think they have the skill and are doing something they hate all ages and backgrounders, all kinds of epic new friends go to this website. So he's offering you a gig. No, well, Gary didn't get but a listener of ours, one of our slices sent me this screenshot and said, you'd be perfect for this. What you're saying is hey, quit your job the Broken Boys. Gary said, I'm looking for funny people to make extra money on the side. Love to have you part of the team. That's I got time. I got a couple of hours time. No, I don't have a lot of time. You certainly don't have to go home for Valentine's Day and wait for your heart shape P two Right, I have to pick it up. You don't have anything to do. You have to pick it up or you have not even having delivered. I'm going to pick it up. Oh my god, what did you get it for a gift? By the way, free delivery? Okay, anyway, so she until he says, if you hate what you're doing, it's not gonna not gonna be me. And then also Gavy Russ says is tweeting what's happening live at the Oscars a spoiler alert, to which I replied, no, it's a spoiler's spoiler alert is what you give when you're about to give a spoiler. But you say, but everybody confused. People shouldn't have their head in Twitter dworing the OSCAR if you're not if you're not watching it. By the way, the Oscars is a live event. You can give away every fucking award as it happens. Don't be on Twitter, then if you can, because it. But my point was, it's not a spoiler alert, it's a spoiler spoiler. By the way, DP wrote to us double penetration. I don't know. I was thinking double play. You're a baseball tim You're I'm thinking of a pornography. Upside down outlets. One more comment on that the so the outlets in my parents house are upside down, but the guy who built it was a fireman. He bought the property after the prior house burnt down, so he probably installed them upside down because they were up to code and he knew that he didn't want another fire breaking out there. And by the way, thank you Benjamin Long, who also wrote in on that topic. Uh and uh, yeah, all right, I got a scamboni. I gotta drop on you. Let's do it, and and it's it's a rant into a scamboni, and we'll do that coming up right after. Hey, this is Neil Patrick Harris, and you're listening to the Brooklyn Boys with wait for it, Brody and Scary. I don't understand something just before that. Yeah, both those every you know I rotate bro Brody scary. You didn't you played two in a row Brodie scary. You know what, I didn't brieve with them. That's okay, I'm just calling you out on that, right, I got two scary Brodies. Next. Hold on, I'm a petty bastard, all you know what here, you know what, we'll give a little love. You don't have to. I'm kidding. I'm not feel bad now. No, let's move on with it. Seriously, we we we want to get a rant in here at some point. So well, this is a little bit of both. This is a rant into a scamboni and I got a new jingle for that, so hold on. Okay, So the used car I bought it wasn't starting every couple of times there was a problem with you Okay, so out of automotive talk today. Yeah, I know, I know. So I want to thank Kenny Rowe Arc from Texas, big fan of our podcast, and Shady Jew Mobster. Both of them stepped up on Twitter and offered me help. Kenny is a Ford mechanic and Shady Jew Mobster has friends who work for Ford, and both of them are trying to figure out the problem. However, the mechanic gets a lot of work. I'll tell you that. Yeah, broken forward. So I go to nothing against auto Zone. This is but I was at auto Zone, so I was like, you know what, maybe it's the battery. Even though it's starting, there's some symptoms. It might be a bad battery. So I go to auto Zone, uh, Tuesday on a late night, late night Tuesday in the evening, and they test the battery and he puts the machine on the batteries. Battery is completely dead, but not like a dead battery. It needs to be put on a machine we have in the back and fully charged and you'll be fine. And it's free. They do that for free. Oh that's fantastic. But we're swamp tonight. Come back tomorrow, no problem. So I go on Wednesday, The next day in the afternoon, and I go back to Auto Zone. Nice people there, and I said, listen, I'm back. I want to charge my battery. No problem, just bring in the battery. I said, well, I'm I don't have tools with me. They wanted you to dismantle the battery from your car, right, So I said, well, I don't have any tools for that, and they go, well, we can give you the tools. Then. By the way, you're gonna save on labor, right right. So I said, well, can't you guys are you guys install batteries? Can you just take the battery out? Yeah, we don't. We don't take the batteries out, all right, that's your policy. I'm not upset. Here's well, we'll give you the tools if you want. I don't want to take a battery out, at least I didn't. I go, I don't know what you take the which cable comes off. It's bolted down, it's gotta it's got a bar over it that's screwed down. You need a long ratchet to get this. I'm like. So this guy says to me, hey, I'll help you customer. So I said, uh, oh, that's very nice, because yeah, I got tools in my car. I'll help you out. We'll take the battery. Good Samaritan, right there, Good Samaritans. So we go to the car. He takes the the get off the top of the battery, takes out his long ratchet, takes the bolts out, takes like the ratchet. And we said that before, but it was in terms of a bad thing. It takes the battery out for me, puts the parts up on the by the windshow wipers. It takes the battery out. We bring it in, no problem. And I said, well, you know, thank you very much. I said, I'm glad you need to do that. He goes, well, I'm a mobile mechanic. If you don't know what a mobile mechanic is, it's someone who will come to your house, who who makes a doctor, who used to make house. He says, my name is Darnell. And I said, well, you have a card case. I haven't needed a mechanic. He said, well you can take a picture. I'll google. I'll google myself and you can see my company. Right, okay, thanks Darnell. Pleasure to meet you. So we go in. They take the battery and it turns out the battery is dead as a door nail. It will not charge. So I said, they showed me on the machine dead battery. And so you guys told me last night with that, who are they putting up the dead battery graphic? Enter dead battery graphic comes up right by the battery right. So I said, well, he told me last night. I just needed to be charged by the guy. Must have read the thing wrong. Yeah, but I came back. Now I get a battery, I go, will you will you put the battery back in the car for me? Now, we don't put batteries in the car. What if I bought a battery, Oh, we'll put that battery in the car. So I'm like, listen, guy, what if I gave you a five bucks? Can you put because I gave by the gave Darnald. I gave Darnell five bucks taking my battery out. But he didn't work the guy, So I said, did you agree him? So I said, well, would you put in for ten? He goes, no, we're not allowed to put him in. And I can't put all batteries back. You should have just said what your price. I'm not gonna I got a dead battery and buy a battery. Now at this point, so what how much is the battery and how much is hold on? Hold on how much the battery? So hold on, hold on? Man. So I called the guy I bought the car from, and he says, terribly sorry. We didn't realize the battery was bad. He says, if you drive back forty miles to where I bought the car, we'll we'll give you a new we'll put a new battery in. I said, well, I'm an auto zone. I said, how much is the battery there? I tell him it's one fifty nine. Well we can get a battery of for seventy Come down and we'll put the battery. So I said, you can get a battery for seventy dollars. Well we got a deal. We got a guy. So I said, well, I gotta drive forty minutes I go, Plus I gotta put the battery back in the car. Do not put the battery back in the car. So I'm looking at the battery, and on the side of the battery it says uh name of a relatively famous roadside repair company, and it says three year battery, full replacement, full warranty, three year battery, and how long have you had this battery? Well, I bought the car. This was Tuesday. So I looked at the battery. The day on the battery says, uh July. Oh well, no, it means it's two years old. It's a three year battery. Okay. But someone had the car before you. Okay, so you don't know what the fun they did. Hold on, hold on, back pedal. When I first brought the car, I noticed. I noticed that the person owned the car before me, who gave it to the dealership, didn't erase their address book. So I have their home address. Their favorite person's phone numbers are in there in the car, in the car, in the KNAP system. Are you idiot? Right? Okay? You eat, you eat? It's deep. So I'm like, okay, I know who I know who owns the car, and I have their phone numbers. So I call the roadside company and I said, listen, I got the call. I don't say I just bought. I don't have plates on the car. I have the temporary white plate because don't have the car, so it's gonna be obvious. I'm not the owner for right original owner. So I called my said, listen, when you guys call I got the serial number and the year the battery was made. Do I need Do I need any paperwork? Because I don't remember what I brought. The something's about to go a right quickly. So she says, uh, no, no, as long as you have the battery and it's the date is within three years? What did you what did you unearthed? So it's just you're fine. I don't need any paperwork. No, you're good. Okay, that's happened to have members hip. I have a membership with this roadside company coincidentally. So they go, we'll get it, we'll get we'll get a we'll get a guy out there. Uh within forty five minutes. So I say jokingly, hey could be a woman, you never know, and they go, oh yeah, I guess so okay, So I'm in my cough. Forty five minutes later, the roadside van pulls up. It's a third party with the roadside company's logo, but they were towing place locally, and a woman gets out. Oh my car. So she's like, oh, let me see the dead battery and the whole thing, and she's looking up the the how old it is? And she says, uh, do you have the paperwork on this, uh this battery, And I said no, no, I said, I called the woman at the headquarters and I said, you know, do I need any paperwork? And I even had a whole conversation about She said, I'll send the guy. And I was like, what if it's a woman and you're a woman, How great am I? And she's laughing. I'm trying to like butter and up, I go, how great that you're a mechanic. And the whole thing she's feeling good about, Like, I get that all the time. People think I'm a guy and I show up and I'm a woman. Whatever I can cook, I can clean, and I can fix a car, and I could scam you out of money. No, So she says, I just give me your give me your account number on the battery. And I said, well, um, you know I don't have that. She's oh, well, let me just take your license plate and she looks on the car and she says, did you just buy this car? I said, well, yeah, oh well then you're not the original of the battery. I said, well I told him on the phone. They said, no problem. She's well, we have to get reimbursed by this roadside company, because we buy from them and we have to prove that the batteries in the warranty. Said, well, the batteries two years old. You can see it's under warranty. Well who'd you buy the car from? So I can't say I border from a dealer. So I said, uh, my brother in law. Oh, what's your brother's name? Well, actually know, I said so, so so they so I give him a name, and she was ill, let me call that in. I'm like, oh fuck, oh my god, this is federal case. I said, I don't understand. They said, no problem, Well you gotta check. So they called under my brother in law's name, and there's no. Of course, he didn't buy the battery. So she's well, who else could it be? I said, well, my brother in law's mother is the owner of the She drove the car, but she didn't drive anymore. And so did you give me your mom's number? No, no, she didn't the battery either. He's like, so she's looking at a computer system for me. She's calling in her cup, right, she's looking in the computer right, So okay, she can't they just match the battery if they call the number. I said, no, no, they can't because they couldn't find the record for it. So she's so, she's so, she says, what's your your brother in law's mother's name. I don't know, man, it's my brother in law's mother. Who knows that I don't know her name? Well, we need her name. So I said, well, look, I bought the car. It's he he bought the battery, or she bought the bat One of them bought the battery, So I said, it's under warranty. Well, we don't know the data purchase. I go, well, the battery is two years old. Whatever the data purchase was, it's not lower than three years. That's not an issue. So she says, well, let me go back on the phone, my super as I'm trying here, I'm doing whatever I can, like some butter in this woman up for twenty minutes whatever. At this point, she's already put the battery in my car to see if it worked. So the new batteries in my car, I said, what happens if you can't find the price of the car just well, then then you're gonna always like a hundred and sixty dollars for the battery. I don't want the battery for hundred sixty dollars because if I drive forty minutes, the dealership will give me the battery for free. I don't tell her that, but I'm thinking that. So it occurs to me that in my car, I've got the names and addresses of all the people that owned this car and friends of the people in the car. So I call slot number one in the navigation system, which is someone named Baby. So I called Baby up, figuring Baby must be closely related or friendly, uh, to the cars. I mean, it's number one in the right. So I called Baby up, and I say, Baby, you don't know me. That's not a scam. But I'm in the car. I described the car that someone you know used to own, who lives in this town in New Jersey. Oh, yeah, that was my girlfriend's car. Great, listen, I owned the car. Now I'm I and I explained the situation. Can you tell me what her name is that she bought the battery? Well, it's either Horror or her mother. Great, can I have those? I said to you, Baby, Yeah, she called me baby. It was like b A B B E E, like baby, who puts that in there? And that system weird? So she's well, my my girlfriend's name is blah blah blah. Her mother's name is blah blah blah. But I really can't give you any information because I don't know who you are. Do you listen to the radio, now you pull the scary Jones on Well. I wanted him to feel comfortable that if it, if it was a scammer, that you know who you were. So I said, look, I got, I got, I got. Let's mark this date down to know. I was just trying to relieve his fears in case. Okay, and I do that every time I need to get into a hot restaurant. Okay, continued. Okay, So he gives me the last name of just his girlfriend's mother. So I go out to the woman and I say, try blah blah blah. I just to my brother in law, and this is his mother's name. Try that, because yeah, that was it. Okay, Wait a second, a scam No I scanned them. Oh I got you. You're done at all on scambonies have done on us. You're trying to say, you pull the Scamboni on them indirectly. No, you grape soda them them. In retrospect, I guess I did. But the bottom line was there was a warrity. There was a wartity on the battery. I understand that they are obligated to change to fix the batches, even which you didn't really scam them, You just got what was coming to you. Well, hold on, now, keep in mind I asked them when I called, am I qualified to get the battery? Said, as long as it's not three years old, you're qualified. It says July eighteen on it, right, so you know. She didn't say to me, are you the original owner? She said, oh, yeah, as long as it's three years Who cares if you were the origin owner or not. Because it's three year warrants and it's only two year old, they said, automatically owe you a new battery. I later found out from the woman who put the battery in that their non transferable warranties. But I didn't know that. I said to the woman, I don't know. You were trying to associate yourself with babies girlfriend's mom, and I had to at that point. It's the problem. I didn't want to. I said, please, am I qualified for the battery? I called him? I asked, and I said, because I don't want the battery paid for the family there. Now, that's what you're trying to assume. She come up and she so, let's see if it's your car or the battery. So she put the new battery in my car. Right, So, what did you get for free? A free battery place? I got No, wait a minute, I got the free battery. And she handed me paperwork for a three year warranty on the new battery. So the new battery and three years, and now I've got the paperwork for the battery. It didn't buy for three years because baby hooked me up and gave me the name. But again, it wasn't my intention to get understood to do that. But as it turns out, it was a yeah, I know you're scamming them, but it wasn't my intention to do that. But listen, once I was in, I had to keep digging, you understand, I unders I had no choice. I already dunk myself once, I said, I bought it from my brother in law to hold on. So she puts the battery in and she says, where's the bracket that holds the battery in? I said, I don't know. Well as a bracket, I said, well, did you said when you took the battery on. Did you use a ratchet to get to the screw at the bottom. Yeah, no, Damien did. So I go, holy crap. I don't know why Damien put the thing that holds the battery down. So I called Damien and they said, hey Damien, because I got his number. Hey mobile mechanic that you want to be my my mechanic going forward. Hey Damien, Hey, I'm a quick question for you. Where's the bracket from the battery. Maybe it's in your pocket? Maybe? So he says, I put it up by the windshow log but laper. I go, well, it's not there, and it didn't fall in the engine. It's nowhere anywhere around. It looked under the car, did all that? He says. I. I I don't know, man, I don't know where it is. I put it up there. I said, all right, no problem. So I go back and she's like, you need that bracket. You know. I looked in the engine. It's not there. So I text him. I go as I call him back. First he doesn't answer the phone. I let it ring and ring and ring, goes to voicemail and calls. Probably discovered that he had it. Well, I don't know. Well, if he's a mobile mechanic, you should deliver that to So I call him back. He doesn't answer the phone, so I text him. I go, hey, Damien, listen, can you check your pockets? Can you see if it's you know, maybe you put it in your because he had a big coat with big pockets from a big winter coat. Maybe you like subconsciously just put it in your pocket. But I don't have it. Can you just check? Didn't return my text sry rot back. I go, guess what, Damien, you will not be my mobile mechanic because you lost my bracket, even though you're doing me a favor, and now you won't answer the phone, So fuck you, Damien. So now you're out of a bracket. You gotta pay for that. Yeah, I'm not gonna pay for maybe ten bucks. The point is I got a free battery, but it's marred by the fact that you have to you have to negate ten dollars from that for the free bracket because he lost the bracket. Oh my god, now my luck, it'll it'll bounce up on I'll hit a pothole, It'll bounce up and hit my my hood and dent it no, we're not good because I I'll save this for next weekend. How long are we going here? How long are we doing this? I mean, I don't know. You tell me all right, because you know what I got. I gotta I want to, but you look at you. You're like a steam coming from your ears. I do. I wanted to talk about the guy. I'm not I'm not giving his name out, but the way he went about ship was sucking older. I just just just summarized the beginning withoutetting specific because I feel like I don't want to shoot on the guy. But I understand why you're upseting. No, no, no, no, what are you looking for? Brodie? Brodie's running the board because we're in the crappy studio. If you're han't heard by now, if you can't tell, it's it's it's execution. David Brodie at the boards, running ship. Okay, we're good, we're good. What don't you add something? Tell? Tell the story about the guy? No, you know what a guy asked you for? I'm really paraphrase. No, no, no, I'm okay, I'm gonna read his fucking text. I'm not I will power phrase. I'm not. I'm not an idiot paraphrase summarize. So somebody, somebody asked me for help on Instagram. Hey, scary, could you give me examples of what you eat daily during during the week on your fat lost program. We'll call it that I gained about fifty pounds since my mom died years ago. Okay, hold on, I lost my job. Hold on, hold on, Wait, he's trying to make me feel bad for him. I lost my home. Life is not good. Please help with examples. I'm just these are paraphrase. Is there was? We went into much more detailed. Okay, he's having a rough health is going downhill. I just want someone to truly help me. But how is reading verbatim paraphrasing? I left out a lot. That's not what paraphrasing means. Hold On, I love the show so much, super big fan, Thank you very much done. Worst job in paraphrasing. That was Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. That's right, on Thursday afternoon. Two days later at noon, how many followers do you have on Instagram? Fair enough? I'm sorry, slightly more than me, just slightly less than Two days later, he writes, I guess if I was a hot chick you'd give me advice. They are right on the show. You're a douche and he spelled deuced d you. I'm like, wow, you're a fucking asshole. You're an ash first of all, give me a chance. Yeah, the passage give me. And by the way, this was hidden on my d MS in Instagram. Am it was so you know, and it was I'm not friends with the guy. So it goes to a separate folder which you have to actually actively click on that says do you want to see messages from these people? We all know what that is. It's the hidden folder and I happen to discover it last night, four hours after he called me a douche. So I would have answered him, but instead this, Yeah, passive aggressive. I mean, well, you're a fan of the show. You just finished buttering me up. You're telling me how much you love us, how much you know, and I'm sure you know he follows me on Instagram, so obviously he's a big super fan. Right. Sure he didn't mention the podcast, but but I didn't expect him to. I don't think he goes that far. But yeah, I mean, what a fucking moron. I mean, at least give me a chance to respond to people. I get a lot. I get dozens of of these a day, and I was going to take some time out. But is that what you do? I mean, that's like the guy that that's the that's the guy who like whistles at a girl in the street or says, oh, yeah, hey, what's up, hattie, and she either like flips him off or keeps walking, and then two seconds later he goes, you're a bit like people like, that's the mentality. That's what this guy did to me someone, Because you don't get your way right away all of a sudden, I have to be a call like it's like you asked a guy for an autograph, you're a big fan of a baseball player and doesn't give an autograph. You like, Yeah, that's fucking terrible. It's not right. It's it's more than not right. Now. Look it works. Clearly the gentleman has some things going on in his life. They are making him a little more agitated. Maybe the normal think, but that's not the way to respond. Never, we try our best to get back to everybody. We do, and when we don't, it's because we didn't see it or I would like some of would like some of your hundred nine thousand to come over to forty and spruce that up a little bit. Absolutely, they should know. I just I was just a little put off, and and and maybe I will. I don't. I don't know how I'm gonna answer him. I'm going to I think you just did all right, I gotta tell you what happened, but it happened to me Calls, and then we'll get out of here, because as because you're upset about that, right, Yeah, I'm not happy. But ever been? Ever been? The calls? Of course? So I bought. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago, I was at Calls and I bought a couple of button down shirts, some wrinkle free button down shirts, very specific, had a little stretching them, but they didn't have my size and two of the styles I wanted. I got a couple I liked and a couple they didn't have. So they have a thing. They have a computer screen, a kiosk. You can order what you want right on the screen and then it chips the house for free, for free. So I took the shirt that I wanted, and I would a way to scan it, because if you scan it, you can then change the size. Otherwise you have to go in and start searching. So I scanned the item and says, item I found. So there's another shirt I wanted. I scanned the items, I am not found. So as a guy walking by, he looks like he knows what he's doing, I said, can you come over here? I'm having a problem. Is there a way to search for this type of shirt by putting in the company name and the style, because because there are hundreds, if I just searched for I think the shirt was made by let's say crofton Barrow whatever. If you just put in crofton Barrow, they have twenty styles of shirts, colors, styles, hundreds And I go, I just want this shirt and this style. So he says uh yeah um, And before he could say anything, a woman named Mania Mania comes over out of nowhere. I didn't even see her all of a sudden, Mania is there like the road runner me me flying over? She says she had an accent like that. But okay, she says, I can easily search on the computer to find the item rather than scanning the barcode. So you put in a search for the shirt? I said, excuse me, ma'ma I'm well aware, but I was trying to make sure I got the exact same shirt, and I was trying to scan it. She ignores me and starts searching and showing me how the buttons work. You search the magnifying glass and then you go, I know how it works. How to search is my problem, ma'am. She just she actually pigeonholed you as a Most people don't know how to work it. That's her basic function is to teach basic people to do that. But you're not basic. So she completely ignores me, and now she's searching for a shirt. I said, again, searching wasn't my problem. She's all you have to do. I say, no, what I have to do? I just want to be able to scan the barcode and it keeps coming up item not found. So she says, well, you want that style of shirt, here's what you do. She puts in the search, six hundred shirts, come up, six hundred shirts. Again, I said, I wasn't trying to find how to search for shirts. I want to scan the barcode. Is your barcode broken? It's coming up with an error? Just you don't need the barcode. You can just search and I said, I'm not gonna tell you again. Step away from the kiosk, and the guys like, come on, manya, let's just he's fine. She says, no, no, no, no no, I'm gonna show you how to find the shirt. And I said, I didn't ask for your help. I just asked if this I asked this guy. I asked this guy if the scanner was broken. I don't need you coming over and do when your search? Did I say, hey, manya, come over and help me. No? I did not. I said, excuse me, sir, because I saw him first. Is your bark code scanner broken? I didn't ask for your help, no offense, your scanner is not working. Look, and I showed her. I scanned it, just found not foul. I said, I don't need you help anymore. I'm good. And she says, oh, but let me just shout no no, no, no no no, And I actually said the stop. I said, bat mania, bat mania, because I don't understand it. She's not this in English? Should I say to the guy, I said, excuse me, John, can you because I was his name, tech, can you please tell your co work out and help? He goes to mind you come on let's go. No, I just want to show him how to search. I don't want your help, man, you please please let me complete my sale, my transaction. She had a look on her face that said, I can't believe you'll let me help you and try to make me look bad and put a sad face on and walked away. Am I wrong? No? I don't want your help. Did you try and go to another machine that maybe the bar code scanner was not broken yet? Oh, now you're taking mind your side. Well that's what I would have done if I worked there, I would be like, you know what, we have five machines in this funk. They don't they have one by customer service in this particular location. I would have walked away from customer service and when somewhere else in the store there is no other key. This is the duck usk Some some call stores have like six by the registers location, just the one so I scanned, I scanned something else. It worked fine. So the two shirts I wanted just happening. Maybe they were discontinued. They could have told me that once you buy them online, I'm sent to your house. What a great idea I should use the chaosk to buy them online. No, did you go on you go on your phone. Hey, Manya, go on your phone. Go on my phone. Then I gotta search through six hundred shirts on your phone. You could limit it. Do you know what the shirt looks like that you want? Yes, I searched by short, by stretch, relaxed. I searched. I searched, but yes, I searched by brand name, by color. There were four different styles of relaxed, and each one had like another forty shirts. There's gotta be a way to narrow a search if you go on your phone and get it online. It's the same as the chaos that barcode wasn't available anyway. It turns out those shirts must have been old returned shirts. They were no longer in the system. But Manya wants me to search. Oh, she actually said, you hit the magnifying button. But that's how you search. Mother, I don't need that ship sometimes to the services and service if you don't want it. I can't like this because I'm bro Dah Boys, Brocklin Brookline, bah Boys, brock Brocklass