#395: Straight Eye For the Straight Guy

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Speaker 1: Episode 395.

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Speaker 2: It's the Brooklyn Boys podcast.

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Speaker 1: How's it going?

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Speaker 3: What are you doing, David Brody? What are you up to? I'm up to 11.

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Speaker 1: Hold on.

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Speaker 3: 12.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm up to 12. 12 what?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. I'm just up to 12. Yes, I'm up to 12 now.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to stop doing that other thing. We have a podcast to do, so I'll get up to 13 later.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: 13 what? No, now I'm kind of curious.

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Speaker 3: Scary?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You're overanalyzing a joke, dude. You're overanalyzing a joke. You're just killing it. Am I really? You asked me what I'm up to. I said 12. It's a joke. It's like, oh, what's that book about? Oh, 400 pages. Oh, okay.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I take you literally.

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Speaker 3: You thought I was really up to 12. I just said 11, 12.

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Speaker 2: There might have been something else going on.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't you have seen me go from 11 to 12 just now? What is wrong with you? You know what the problem is? I'll tell you what the problem is. Slices, I got it all figured out. Welcome to the podcast. We are recording this on a Friday. That's the problem. Because Scary's already thinking about his rooftop bar and his drinks and appetizers for the table and what he's going to post. And his mind is already like on the next thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So he's not really paying attention. It's Friday afternoon. I don't have the bandwidth to do this podcast on a Friday night.

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Speaker 2: It's not, that's so not me.

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Speaker 3: This is not Scary Jones.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: Scary Jones already said to me, we should do this Monday. I'm like, no, we're doing it today. So let's get into real quick why we're doing it on a Friday. I was sick earlier in the week.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you were. You delayed everything.

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Speaker 3: And then, well, oh, Scary and I went to a charity event. What night was that?

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Speaker 1: Monday?

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Speaker 2: Monday night.

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Speaker 3: Right. So I was sick Sunday. Monday afternoon, I wasn't feeling well, but I went to the charity event Monday night for Encouraged Children. Encourage kids.

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Speaker 2: It's encourage kids.

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Speaker 3: Encourage kids. Right. Yeah. Encourage kids. You can check them out. Encourage kids website and all social media. And this was a scary set to me last minute. He was so you want, you want to come to that thing on Monday? What thing? The thing you've been putting on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I said, Oh hell yeah. Some of my favorite restaurants with that. So this is a charity and scary. You can, you can explain it better, but this is a charity. that entertains sick children in hospitals with singers and magicians and service dogs. They do a world, you know, they build teddy bears and they give it to the kids. Anything that puts a smile on a kid's face who are in the hospital long term. So I was chosen to host this event last Monday. And I was just going to go by myself. I'm emcee it. I didn't even think about asking anybody. But then I'm like, wait a second. Katz's Deli is going to be there. And Brody's favorite restaurant is Carmine's. And Virgil's Barbecue. And I said, you know what? Let me see if Brody wants to come along. And then I also invited my girlfriend, of course. And she said yes, too, because she doesn't have anything going on right now. So long story short, you all came out to support. But even my personal trainer came out. And Brody got to meet my personal trainer. Because guess what? He exists. Most, some people think that it's a figment of my imagination that I have a trainer. Well, it was weird because, and we'll talk more about why we're late on the podcast, but let's stop at Tuesday. Cause a lot, a lot happened on Tuesday. So this event was a Chelsea peers, which is on the West side of Manhattan with massive, like the peers that we did. There was, it was abandoned peers for years and they built this great, massive, uh, event space, uh, on each pier and connected them all. So on one of the piers we were in and all around the outer rim of this massive room was like a wedding. And there were like tables set up of people serving food from some of the top restaurants in New York City.

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Speaker 2: But Brody didn't tell you the best part. It was free.

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Speaker 3: Free for me. Free for him. I mean, obviously you got to buy a ticket to get in, but you know, I know some people. Well, it was a charity event. Skiri was guest speaking. He was able to bring a couple of guests. We did promote it on social media. I'm sure you guys saw the pictures of me with Skiri. We got dressed up, which we'll talk about also how that happened. And we had a great time. But the personal trainer, Skiri is stuffing his face. Oh, oh, oh, Caesar salad. Oh, test day pizza. Oh, the cat's his deli. And the trainer is looking at him like giving him the dirty look. Because Gary's like going way off his diet. Way off his diet. He's like, oh, it's so good. Brody, you got to get the pasta. The part, one of that was I missed my GLP shot this weekend.

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Speaker 2: And if you miss it by more than a day.

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Speaker 3: You're fucked. You can't do it till the next week. So here I am now. Now the hunger pangs are coming back. I'm scary of old. I'm in there. I'm in the ring.

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Speaker 1: I'm eating.

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Speaker 3: He's in there hardcore. When you got the smell of the aroma of pastrami wafting through the air, there ain't no stopping me. No. So the trainer was beside himself. I think he was going to jump off the pier. He could not believe... At some point, I thought he was going to tell Scary to do sit-ups right there just to burn it up.

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Speaker 2: He was eating a little bit himself, okay? I mean, he imbibed. He imbibed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was a great event. Scary gave the speech.

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Speaker 1: And the goal....

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Speaker 3: They said, oh, we'd like to raise $ 10, 000 at the auction because they were auctioning off, you know, celebrity memorabilia, tickets to different cool events. Scary goes up and gives the speech. He goes, oh, and we're looking to raise $ 50, 000 tonight. And I was like, dude, it's $ 10, 000. What are you doing? Well, my script said $ 50, 000. Apparently, somebody made a typo and they didn't. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So that was bad. But that's okay.

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Speaker 3: That's okay. Because it helped raise more money. People were like, oh, the goal is $ 50, 000. Let's go. A lot of people were very generous.

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Speaker 2: Set the goalposts.

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Speaker 3: Tickets to sporting events. Tickets to, oh. How about dress rehearsal of Saturday Night Live.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Scary was like, oh, because Scary was too busy on stage. He didn't get to bid on it.

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Speaker 1: He lost out.

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Speaker 3: I lost. And he's like, well, can I? I got a bid on it.

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Speaker 1: I got it.

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Speaker 3: It's already sold. So then he asked the person running the event, did they take it? Were they happy? Did they want it? Because I'll buy it from them. Like, no, dude, they left. No, but if they can offer a second lot of that, I will match the price that they paid.

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Speaker 2: That's how you do it with these auctions. You sell two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so... Scary is hoping that they'll come through with another pair. He can donate money for the, for the cause. Anyway, it's a great event. That's your friend.

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Speaker 2: Glenn.

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Speaker 3: Encourage dash kids.org is the website.

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Speaker 2: If you want to make a, make a donation, $.

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Speaker 3: 25, you get a teddy bear delivered to a child in a hospital.

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Speaker 2: It's really, really nice.

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Speaker 3: Really nice.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah. So that was a fun event. And it was the first time I've seen Brody in a while.

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Speaker 1: Brody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, it was nice to see you. Not long, but anyway, We met at Scary's apartment. I parked nearby. Right. Oh, we're going to go into this right now? Okay, go for it. Yep, go ahead. Brody could not wait to come up to my apartment. Could not wait. And so Scary says, oh, when you get there, come to the desk and they'll call up and they'll let me know you're here. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no. You know I'm coming. You be a nice guy. You call down and say, my friend is coming. When he gets here, he's going to give his name.

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Speaker 1: Let him up.

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Speaker 3: Why should I have to wait for them to call you? I just parked the car. I'll be there in five minutes. I forced him to do the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't know, like, he's not Kuth. Okay, that's great. He's not Kuth. All right, so I go upstairs. Is Scary in the hallway waiting for me?

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Speaker 1: Hey! No.

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Speaker 3: I have to knock on his door.

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Speaker 1: Like, what?

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Speaker 3: He doesn't know how to be, like, the extra step.

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 3: If you live in an apartment building, you open the door. If you live in a private house, you come out on the porch. You're like, hey, Mike! You don't, like, wait for someone to ring the doorbell when they called you and said I'm there. Plus, they called you and said I was on my way up. Wow. I knew I was coming. Wow. You're just full of raids this afternoon. I walk into the apartment. I see what Skiri's wearing. Now, I'm wearing a... You saw the pictures on Instagram. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I have to thank you, by the way. I want to thank you.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to that. Yeah. I'm wearing a dress shirt and a blue blazer and khaki pants and some Wingtip shoes. Right. But also know that I'm the master of ceremonies here, so I have to look tight, right?

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Speaker 2: So I have a full-on suit.

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Speaker 3: And he said business casual. I have a full-on suit. I thought I expected Scary would be Brooklyn Industrial, as we all did. No, but the thing is, look, if it's a serious charity and I'm hosting and I'm going to be emceeing, I think I need a suit and tie with a pocket square and just to be proper. But you looked at me and you were like, uh.

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Speaker 3: You know what, that's not Scary Jones. You need to relax it a little bit. He had his father's tie on with a nice blue suit, but with a plain off-white, like a peach-colored shirt. It was fine if you were going out for Mother's Day or like a funeral, or you were paying your respects in a wake. It wasn't like emceeing this great event at Chelsea Piers. He goes, so, bro, what do you think of how I look? I go, you look fine. No, do I look okay? You look okay.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wanted people to take me seriously.

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Speaker 3: But then you were like, look, sometimes you have to, you know, you dress the part, but most of the time.

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Speaker 2: You're supposed to dress your personality.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, is it going to be a red carpet event? He's like, yeah. I go, they're going to be photographers? Yeah. Are you there because you're a celebrity?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Then you've got to dress like Scary Jones. You're dressed like Anthony right now. So we went in his closet and he had a really nice pink lavender pocket square. And I said, pick out a shirt with lavender. So we went to the closet, found a really nice lively shirt with lavender and light blue. I said, put that on. And he put it on and all of a sudden, like magic, he became Scary Jones. And then for the rest of the night, he's like, do I look okay? Do I look okay? Do I look okay? So I said, you look great. So as soon as his girlfriend showed up, I saw her and I went over to her before he saw her. And I went, listen, Skiri thinks he should be wearing a tie. Tell him he looks great. So she's like, oh, you look great. And then it was fine. Then it was fine. Then it was fine. And truthfully, Skiri looked much better. And so I feel I took credit. Well, I felt better. You know, I will say this.

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Speaker 2: When you.

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Speaker 3: When you dress with your personality and you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, I think you do.

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Speaker 2: A better job.

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Speaker 3: You perform better on stage. I mean, I felt super relaxed before.

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Speaker 2: On the microphone.

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Speaker 3: Whereas if I was in a, you know, tight fitting suit with the collar and the whole thing all buttoned up, choking me with a tie choking me. I think I might, I might've felt stiff. I think I might not have done as well.

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Speaker 2: So I thank you, Brody.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Am I thanking you for doing something here? Speaking of stiff, I did feel a little bit being in your closet. No pun intended for my next comment, a little queer eye for the straight guy. I felt a little like I was like, oh, look at your lavender pocket square. It brings out the lavender in this shirt. It'll coordinate beautifully with the blue suit. And I was like, oh, my God, I am way too out of here. Like I I did not. I was like, we got to talk about football. I felt strange, but I nailed it. Not scary, by the way. I thought I picked out a great shirt. He looked good. It all matched and it worked out well.

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Speaker 2: It did.

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Speaker 3: But. We should have taken pictures before and after so people could see and then give their opinion on which, which outfit was better. Now that being said, the highlight, there were two highlights of my time at scary's apartment. Number one was seeing the new window that he paid $ 5, 000 for. It's actually behind a chair and a couch. You never would see it. I was like, why don't you just put like plastic over it? You know, my father said the same thing. He says, why the hell did you even buy it?

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what?

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Speaker 3: I just know that it's there. I know that there is a broken window there. I had to get it fixed, dude. I had to. No, there was no cold air coming in. No one would have known. It was a big chair. The only thing is, you could never move the chair. That's the only problem. You could never move the chair. Anyway, Lorena, his interior decorator, redid his studio. I hadn't seen the redo of the studio. He had a zebra carpet down, where normally I would say like, dude, zebra carpet, it fit perfectly. It was great. His radio wall of radios, excellent. But I know, Slices, you're all waiting.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.

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Speaker 2: You're all waiting for the big moment. They're waiting for the big reveal.

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Speaker 3: As soon as I walked into the apartment, right by the washer and dryer closet, there they were. Got the music ready. The music. Buster and Punch light switches. Buster and Punch light switches. What am I supposed to play music for? Am I supposed to do this?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: No, I thought maybe a little Curb Your Enthusiasm. But anyway, so I went, I told him to film it. He goes, no, no, you'll film the other ones and the rest of the house. These are like the entryway ones. We didn't end up filming anything. Brody, I want, listen, before we take a break and we got to take a break, what is, what was your, after knowing everything about Buster and Punch that there is to know about Buster and Punch, including the price tag, What did you honestly think about the light switches and the knobs in my apartment?

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Speaker 1: Be honest. You know what?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to need more time. When we come back from the break, I'll tell you what I think. Come on, BF. The question is, was it worth the price?

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: Did it feel like luxury that you were putting your fingers on, that you were twisting luxury, that you were pressing luxury? I'm going to have to post pictures. I took pictures of some of them. I'm gonna have to put them on my Instagram so you could see them. They're weird.

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Speaker 1: Weird?

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Speaker 3: Okay, they're cool looking, but they're not comfortable. So it's like a metal rod that comes out of the wall. Then the middle of them is like a screwy, like a rotini, a rotini pasta. Okay. Like it looks like a battery almost in the middle. And then another metal prong coming out of it. So it's thin, fat, thin. So when you go to like your hand goes towards it, you could spike your hand on them. But if you hit them from above and below, it's a sturdy, it's a well-built, it feels like it's substantive, right? Like you feel like, okay, it feels like it might be an expensive light switch. But to me, it feels like a $ 90 light switch. Like, ooh, you paid $ 90 for that. It doesn't feel like a buster and punch level, I have a Porsche and these are my light switches. But they're nice. The thing is, you got like the same light switches in all the rooms or very similar, right? They're all the same, right? Well, the different colors, but yeah, I would have maybe had variety styles, Harry's brother, variety styles, but they were nice, right? You got it. They like butter. They like butter. I will say everyone who comes, comes to this apartment. They all comment on everyone's like, whoa, where'd you get those light switches?

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Speaker 2: Because they're different.

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Speaker 3: They're unusual. They're unusual. I tell you, they fit the motif of the apartment. They do. They fit the vibe, the radio vibe. They sort of look like transistors. So in that sense, yes, I'll give you that. Although he's got, what is this, skunk tail lamp in your bedroom? No, it's a porcupine quill light lamp. Okay. So a bunch of porcupines died.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: They didn't pluck them out. It's not like that. The quills of the porcupine, the long needle, they're all stitched together in a circle. Yeah, so it's a lot of WTF moments.

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Speaker 2: That's an African lamp. That's a beautiful lamp. Don't you like it?

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Speaker 3: It was very nice. Though it's off-centered, though. It's not in the center of the ceiling, and it's not over the bed. It's over the foot of the bed, which is kind of weird. But anyway, you can live with that. My other issue is, Skiri became self-conscious then. Because he paid money for the light switches, but he didn't get the Buster and Punch door handles. Okay, enough. That seems to be a problem for him. All right, all right. We've gone on too long about this. Please, we move on. Look at my plain door handles. They look like any office in America. And I was like, no, they're fine. But then when we went to Chelsea Piers, he saw a closet, like a maintenance closet, with the same door handle. And that ruined his evening. He's like, Cody, look. Look, it's got door handles like my house.

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Speaker 1: I don't want them.

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Speaker 2: I want new handles. Yeah, the door handles are pretty chinsy here.

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Speaker 3: You know, whatever.

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Speaker 1: Listen.

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Speaker 3: So Scary's getting Buster and Punch door handles. No, they're not going to be Buster and Punch. I'm going to do something else. But I got to upgrade the door handles, especially after I saw the fucking broom closet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Oh, look at that. It's the same exact fucking door handles that I have on every door in my house. It said maintenance on the door. He's like, that's my door handle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Laugh your ass off.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead. So other than that, it's very nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Very nice. Yeah. Um, you know, it's crazy. It was comfortable. It would be a bonus.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how I can bring this up without.

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Speaker 3: So, I'm just going to say it, I guess. I don't know. I mean, this is what we do on the podcast. No, this is crazy. I didn't know senior citizens could have such drama in their life. Oh, sure. Of course they do.

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Speaker 2: Well, apparently, my dad, who is 80 years old and hangs out with.

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Speaker 2: Basically late 70s and early 80s people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And lots of them. There's drama in the groups. Apparently, how do I even say this?

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Speaker 2: Large groups of them hang out.

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Speaker 3: And they go places.

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Speaker 2: Are we talking about love triangles? They go to dinner.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: They hang out with each other. They go places.

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Speaker 3: They go to dinners.

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Speaker 2: And then they go back to someone's house for coffee and cake.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Apparently two of the women got into a fight, a fist fight where so much so that like they had to like pull them apart. People, the guys had to come in and pull them apart. They were pulling each other's hair. They were lunging at each other. And I'm like, the guys think this was hot.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: But these are, these are people in their eighties, bro. 80s. If you knock somebody's teeth out, is it their dentures?

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Speaker 2: When I heard this, I was like, I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 3: It's like, you would think that by the time you're well into your 60s and 70s, that you don't have fistfights anymore.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't go on.

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Speaker 3: But apparently now, two of these elderly women are not talking to one another of the group, and now they have to be separated, and now they can only hang out. My dad can only hang out with them separately because they've divided. But imagine having like a, you know, like your posse, you know, your group of people that you hang with. And then all of a sudden, like, just... fists start flying, you know, because of whatever. And I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Someone talked shit behind someone's back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Fighting over one of the men.

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Speaker 2: No, it has nothing to do with any of that bullshit.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to think it does.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We'll make a great story, but I don't want to lie. It's not, has nothing to do with that. It's, but you know, I'm thinking at what, at what point do we grow up and stop having fistfights?

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Speaker 2: Apparently we don't. How do you know? Like, People, like, fighting in the senior citizen home? Do we know of, like.

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Speaker 3: Do we know that there are, you know, are there people out there that, you know, they go visit their, like, their granny? Oh, I would imagine, yeah. You don't think it's old people? What is that, the villages in Florida? You don't think old people are fighting down there?

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Speaker 2: Like, fist fighting each other?

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Speaker 1: Yeah!

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Speaker 3: It's one thing to talk shit and curse someone off.

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Speaker 1: I get that.

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Speaker 3: They're always banging everybody down there. There's gotta be, when there's banging going on, someone's hitting somebody. Someone's cheating on somebody. But, I mean, but thinking about, like, you know, the senior home, you know, like, one of those, like, Are they people in their wheelchairs, like, rolling around and, like, sucker punching each other? Like, obviously there's some shit going on. People have beef. And if you're a fighter from when you're a kid, I guess it never leaves you, no matter how old you are.

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Speaker 2: I guess you're like, all right, I'm going to.

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Speaker 3: Fuck this bitch up.

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Speaker 2: Like, 78 years old.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you could knock someone over and kill them, though.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, I'm not condoning it.

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Speaker 3: I'm just appalled that this exists. When I found out from my dad, he.

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Speaker 2: Was like, oh, yeah. And I said, is this a regular occurrence? He goes, come on, man. He goes, you know, we've just gotten older, but it doesn't mean.

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Speaker 3: That, you know. Still scrappy.

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Speaker 2: Still like.

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Speaker 3: It's the weirdest thing I've heard of. Because you would think that you smooth out around the edges when you get older. But is it weirder that it was women fighting? I think that seems a little weirder to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it's bizarre there too. Two women hair pulling at 80 years old. You bitch. They had to be separated. They had to be separated. So So I'm just trying to understand. Yeah, Slices, do you have a grandparent or someone in your family that age who fist fights? That's what I want to know. Leave us a talk back. I bet you there are. Wow, I can't.

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Speaker 2: Some bullshit going down.

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Speaker 3: You know, we mentioned it on the big show and somebody texted in that. I know people in their 60s, right? I know I have cousins in their 60s.

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Speaker 2: They fight?

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine.

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Speaker 1: No.

00:23:09
Speaker 3: My family's not fighters. But I know how old they are. I know what 60 looks like when you have family.

00:23:14
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.

00:23:15
Speaker 3: I can't imagine any of them at that age. They're always like, my back hurts. Right.

00:23:21
Speaker 2: That's where I'm going with this. What's the cutoff?

00:23:24
Speaker 3: Who's to fight when everything hurts?

00:23:25
Speaker 2: What's the cutoff?

00:23:27
Speaker 3: I play pickleball, and I see some of the other levels. I don't play with a lot. Well, I play with some. The people in the 60s and 70s in the other courts, they don't look like they'd want to fight anybody. They're, like, happy to be alive.

00:23:42
Speaker 1: What are you doing?

00:23:42
Speaker 2: Are people still throwing punches well into their 50s?

00:23:46
Speaker 3: No, they're throwing their hips out. That's what they're throwing. Oh, 50s.

00:23:49
Speaker 2: 50s, I think.

00:23:50
Speaker 1: Maybe.

00:23:50
Speaker 3: Oh, 50s, you're fighting.

00:23:52
Speaker 2: But once you start hitting, like, 65, 70 years old, I.

00:23:56
Speaker 3: Think you've retired. Once you're getting Social Security, you know.

00:24:00
Speaker 2: You've retired from fighting.

00:24:02
Speaker 3: You know, you could, like, flip someone off with, you know, all you want and, you know, curse them off.

00:24:07
Speaker 2: But physical, like, coming to, like, blows with each other, it just.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: I still am not believing it because I just, I don't picture an 80-year-old person going, lunging towards someone. As I was saying earlier, someone texted into the big show when we mentioned it, because I brought it up on the big show. They said, oh, yeah, at the old age home, some guy tried to hit on my grandma. and tried to sit on her lap or try to say, Hey, come on, come sit on my lap, honey. And my grandfather came over and then punched him in the face. Yeah. I think that's a bit, I mean, okay. Did he know she was married? I don't know. She's married.

00:24:54
Speaker 2: I don't know.

00:24:54
Speaker 3: And you're still hitting on her, but you could go over and tell the guy stayed the hell away from my wife, but to go, I don't know that. I don't know if I was in the same situation at 80. Someone was hitting on my wife who knew she was married to me. Yeah. I don't know if I'd hit them, but I'd want to. Thinking about it now, maybe. I don't know. I don't know.

00:25:15
Speaker 2: Nah, 80 years old. You're brittle.

00:25:17
Speaker 3: You'll break your hand. You'll break your arm.

00:25:19
Speaker 1: Whatever.

00:25:20
Speaker 2: Drop us a talk back.

00:25:21
Speaker 3: Let us know if you know about senior citizens coming to blows. I did want to talk about one more thing that happened on our hanging out night. Oh yes. Um, we, uh, scary was kind enough. Well, to invite me to come with him because, you know, being the MC, they sent a call for him, you know, like a, like a limo, like a little limo, but like a, you know, like a SUV to pick us up. It was an SUV going home, but I think it was at a car going. Yeah. Anyway, it's like, it's like, it's like Uber. They send the car and they come pick you up. Very nice with nice people both ways. But then these are people whose job it is. With navigation systems, it's their job to drive, right? Now, Skiri lives five minutes outside a tunnel to go right into Manhattan. And we were maybe five minutes from the tunnel in Manhattan to get back in the tunnel to go back to New Jersey. Skiri has to give them directions. You should turn here. You should go this way. You should go that way. Which way are you going? And I'm like, Skiri, let them drive. Let's you and I talk, look out the window. He does this when any, hold on. He does it when I drive. He always has to go. You should take the, you should take this. I got a shortcut. He's always got a back road and he's telling everybody how to drive. So it reminded me, I said, you remind me of that commercial, the progressive commercial. Are you turning into your parents? So here's the audio. Oh no, I'm not turning into my parents. Here's the commercial called ride share. Hey, Chris, there's room behind you if you want to pass this turkey. Okay, let's let him drive and we ride. It's a lot. Safe travels. Thank you. Good luck to you. You too. Great talking with you.

00:27:13
Speaker 4: Progressive can save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home an auto with us.

00:27:18
Speaker 3: And that sort of reminded me. So once I'm on the road and once we're going somewhere, I stop paying attention. However, the initial moments of getting into the car and getting the hell out of my personal neighborhood, which is a which is a puzzle and it's hellish and there's a ton of traffic because I'm surrounded by traffic in the Holland Tunnel, then I like to give them pointers on how we can quickly escape. Because it could cost you 25 minutes if you don't know the right way to go. There's a way to get out of here that only I know because I live here to dodge all the bullshit, the traffic lights and the traffic, To get where we, at least to get to the tunnel in like seven minutes rather than 24. So I'd rather not like waste bullshit time when I know those first three or four turns are very crucial.

00:28:18
Speaker 2: So I tend to. I do it all the time. When I get in the Uber, I always say.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: You know what? You should probably, I know your nav is telling you to make a right, a right, and a right. But if you go to the stop sign and just make a quick U-turn, which you're allowed to do here, that just cuts five minutes off right there.

00:28:38
Speaker 2: And then I know that.

00:28:39
Speaker 3: And then there's another turn and then there's like a five minute traffic light, which only turns green for like 20 seconds and only lets 12 car, you know, six cars through.

00:28:48
Speaker 2: So that's bullshit.

00:28:50
Speaker 3: So I basically like, look, you want to cut 20 minutes out of the route right now, cut through this parking lot and make a left. We went up, we went up over a curb into a strip mall.

00:28:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:29:00
Speaker 2: We did the old strip mall getaway. Get the fuck out of here.

00:29:03
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay. Now that makes partial sense. How about when we got back in the car to go home, you were telling the woman how to get out of Manhattan to the tunnel? Well, because I didn't want her to go to the Lincoln Tunnel. Because sometimes the nav says, go to the Lincoln Tunnel. But I'm like, I live near the Holland Tunnel. So I just want to make sure that that first turn toward the Holland Tunnel is the right one. Yeah, yeah. So even though we were two blocks from the Holland Tunnel, you thought she was going to go north and go the other way.

00:29:30
Speaker 2: Listen, it's irrelevant. The thing is this.

00:29:33
Speaker 3: If I'm going to try and help you save time, you should thank me. Now, I do know my Uber rating has suffered because of this. I've noticed it creeping downward one hundredth of a point at a fucking time with every ride. What's your Uber rating, Brody? My Uber rating used to be a 4.97%. It is now a 4.88, which is bullshit.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: I went below 4.9.

00:30:06
Speaker 3: So that means when the drivers pick me up, they see my rating. Now, I still think 4.88 is an excellent rating for Uber, but Brody, watch this, folks. Brody's like a fucking 4.2. Well, I'll hold it up.

00:30:23
Speaker 2: What are you?

00:30:23
Speaker 1: Can you see it?

00:30:24
Speaker 4: No.

00:30:24
Speaker 3: Hold it up. You read it. What does it say? 4.84.

00:30:26
Speaker 2: 4.84.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: 4.84.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: That's okay. That's worse than mine.

00:30:31
Speaker 3: No. Well, I'll tell you why. Uh, when I was out in LA for a walking dead event, some guy gave me a shitty review because my phone died and I hadn't tipped him. And so by the time I charged my phone and gave him a nice tip, he gave me a shitty, a shitty score. So that's why it dropped my, I don't take Uber. I've taken maybe, uh, one Uber in the last four years. So one bad score drops me. Everybody else is fives. They love me. I'm nice to them. Oh, they love me. Oh, they love having me in the back yacking up a storm. No, I'm chill. I compliment them on their music. I tell them they have a nice car. I make them laugh. They love me.

00:31:08
Speaker 2: Slice, what's your Uber rating? I'd love to know. Anyone have a shit rating?

00:31:12
Speaker 3: Only if it's shit. If you have a 4.9, it's boring. If you have like a 2.6, leave a message. Drop us a talk back if you're below a 4.3. Can you imagine? Yeah. What else is happening? I have a bunch of things that left over from last week that we never went into. I told you I was going to give you a license plate. We were playing the license plate game last week. Oh, the license plate game. Yes. And my friend, Paper Menu, sent me a license plate that he got a big kick out of. Let me pull it up here. Hold on. Pull up in the folder here. And I told Skiri... I would ask him the license plate. So here's what I'm going to do. Slices, I'm going to tell you what the license plate is, and I'm going to give you until next break to figure it out.

00:32:00
Speaker 1: Okay?

00:32:01
Speaker 3: The license plate is O-M-W, the number two, Y-M-H.

00:32:10
Speaker 1: Ha!

00:32:14
Speaker 3: I know it.

00:32:15
Speaker 2: I know I got one. I know exactly.

00:32:18
Speaker 3: O-M-W-Y-M-H. I figured it out immediately and texted Paper Menu back exactly what it was.

00:32:25
Speaker 2: I shouldn't give you my guess here because it's the right answer.

00:32:28
Speaker 3: I know what it is. I'll hold off. Are we going to break here or not? No, we just came back from one. How can we do that? Let me give a shout out to Bree Johnson. Bree Johnson sent me a girl I went to high school with just had a baby. The child's first name is Brody, and the middle name is David. How about that?

00:32:54
Speaker 2: How about that?

00:32:55
Speaker 3: She must have been inspired by you. The kid's name is Brody David. That's pretty cool. Good for that kid. Hey, can we talk about Brandy Melville stores? I don't know what that is.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: Exactly.

00:33:09
Speaker 3: When I was in Charleston... There was this one store, clothing store for women that was... The line was wrapped around the block. Kids waiting to get in. Talking about Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Trying so hard to get in there. I'll say this. It's everything old is new again in there. But.

00:33:32
Speaker 3: I went down a rabbit hole on Reddit to try and find out, you know, what is so special about this store? You know, they basically are, they have like late 90s, early 2000s fashion. So that's when I went on Reddit, you know, because I was curiosity, right? What's the name of the store again? It's called Brandy Melville. And the kids go crazy for it. The kids? Yeah, the kids, teens, tweens, and like early 20-somethings. So when I was on Reddit, though, because I wanted to find out about it, these kids were talking like they just invented the wheel. That's why they call Gen Z the Christopher Columbus generation. Because they're discovering something that was already there. And they are the kings and queens of that online, on TikTok. It's like, oh, look at this.

00:34:30
Speaker 2: I just, look at this. I just discovered this. This is brand new.

00:34:34
Speaker 3: Well, all the fucking fashions in this store is like from like Clueless or Mean Girls or like think of like that era, like the oversized sweaters and the what the belly shirts and stuff like that. The low rise jeans, all the stuff that they sell in this Brandy Melville store. But these kids are talking about it like they discovered that this is new fashion and that nobody ever wore the shit before. I mean, I guess you could consider it the same as when we were younger and we rediscovered bell-bottoms from the 70s.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: I guess you can say that.

00:35:09
Speaker 3: I don't know. But I just think— Scary, when we were younger and it was the 70s, what are you talking about? No, no, no, no, no. We didn't grow up in the bell-bottom era. Maybe you did. I grew up in the 90s.

00:35:19
Speaker 1: Yes.

00:35:21
Speaker 3: Oh, Nicki Minaj.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: My fashion.

00:35:23
Speaker 3: No, Nicki Minaj was the 2000s. But like I'm saying, this place, like it's like, oh, flannel shirts. I'm looking right now. I'm on the website. Look, does that not look like shit that you wore.

00:35:36
Speaker 2: In the 90s and like 2000s?

00:35:38
Speaker 3: Well, I don't see any men's stuff right now.

00:35:40
Speaker 2: No, it's all women. It's all girls.

00:35:43
Speaker 3: Right. So I didn't wear women's clothing in the 90s. I'm not sure if you're aware.

00:35:45
Speaker 2: But like that whole California cool like vibe.

00:35:50
Speaker 3: It's definitely, yes. It's all been done before. But I just love... Okay, Barenaked Ladies. Oh my God. I don't have any points on you on this one. It's all been done. Yeah, I'm going to roll. Okay. So anyway, I'm just saying it's just funny that no matter what they do, no matter what they eat, no matter what they wear or put their hands on or see or watch or listen to... They've discovered this and it was never there before them. Meanwhile, they're regurgitating like rhymes and rhythms and beats that have been reused over and over again in our generation. If they have an appreciation for the things that we had an appreciation for, that's fantastic.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not shitting on them.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: I just want them to come to terms with the fact that This is the second, third go-round on some of this shit. Yeah, but I got to be honest with you. When we were growing up, if somebody said to you, you know those shoes you're wearing? That was from 30 years ago. You'd be like, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Because it only matters what's trendy right now. And I feel like, I feel like you're getting a little, uh, get off my lawn-ish trying to take ownership of the nineties.

00:37:02
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:37:02
Speaker 3: Like, Oh, you don't know the nineties. I know that. Now look, when that girl had the Nirvana shirt on and thought it was folk music, like that, that's, you can't do that. Right. But if you, if you discover, like I I'm on Tik TOK, you know, every once in a while and you order the for you page, you're scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Sometimes you get young people and their music is like crowded house, right? You know, they're playing like Tears for Fears, and they're singing, and you're like, how do they know this song? How do they know this song? You know what song they really know? They love Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Sweet dreams are made of these. Oh, it's Eurythmics. The Eurythmics. Not the, no the. Right.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: And Marilyn Manson, of course.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, you know what I say? I say good for them. That's what I say. I say if today's youth are loving the music we grew up on, like Nicki Minaj, for you, then God bless. When I see kids and I go to a heavy metal show and I see like, you know, 18-year-old kids loving the band I love, that's great. I love it. So if young people want to wear clothes from the 90s... Oh, no, again, not faulting them. I'm just saying recognize. Hopefully their parents say to them, wow, I wore that 20 years ago. I'm glad you're wearing it. You know what they'll say? Ew, I don't want to wear this now. You know, but probably, or I have people that are hoarders that don't dump out their closets. They can just introduce their, their entire wardrobe to their kids. Something that they hadn't worn in 25, 30 years. I don't know. Well, I got to be honest with you. I have given some of my clothing to my kids because really they're like, Oh, I'll take that old flannel shirt. Oh, cause it's like, it's cool looking. And so if I have like stuff that's small enough, you know, like, oh, whatever size, and they wear it baggy, they'll go, oh, can I grab that? Can I take that? You don't wear that anymore. I'll go, yeah, take it, whatever. And plus, don't forget, this generation loves thrift stores.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: They do, right?

00:38:59
Speaker 3: I mean, love. I mean, Gen Z does. I don't know about Gen Alpha, but Gen Z loves thrifting. They love the throwback.

00:39:07
Speaker 2: They love the thrift shop.

00:39:08
Speaker 3: Macklemore. Macklemore, yeah. Our show just got canceled. Anyway, yeah, so tell me, how did you come across an all-girls clothing store, Scary? I was walking down the main street in Charleston, and it was the only store that had buzz around it on a Saturday afternoon. people were standing there waiting to get in they were basically playing the one in one out game because it was just too crowded in the store I didn't go near it I didn't know what they sold at the time I just knew that where there's a line there's some you know this must be either a bargain or something cool is going on inside you know All right. And that's the problem. Everything's viral. Everything's gone viral.

00:39:53
Speaker 2: But Brandy Melville.

00:39:55
Speaker 3: Yeah. What are you going to do?

00:39:56
Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll be right back after this.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: All right. Thank you. The Brooklyn Boys Podcast. We will be right back. I have a story that's become a big news story here in the New Jersey area.

00:40:09
Speaker 2: Before you do that, can I tell you what the license plate is?

00:40:13
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. License plate. Okay. Let me refresh everybody's memory. Let me pull up the license plate again. Hold on. Here it is. Okay. So the license plate is O-M-W-2-Y-M-H. Okay. What do you think it says? On my way to your mother's house. That's correct. Okay. As you were. Now, isn't that amazing? Just a bunch of letters and numbers. You're like, oh, I know what that is. You just know. You just know. You just know. So, again, just loving the license plate game.

00:40:45
Speaker 1: Now....

00:40:48
Speaker 3: This story is, you know the person because you got to meet them. They came up to the radio station.

00:40:55
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:40:56
Speaker 3: Recently and brought food. But there's a story going on here in New Jersey that I saw because I know the guy. And he doesn't like a couple of politicians who tried to make things very difficult for his business. And it's election season, as you know. And, you know, people put up lawn signs. Oh, vote for Jim, vote for Mike, vote for... Because that makes a difference.

00:41:22
Speaker 1: Right.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: I always disagreed with lawn signs. I'm like, people, their mind is their mind and they're going to read the news or whatever or see things. They're not going to decide to vote for a candidate because of a lawn sign ever. Nothing's going to change anyone's mind from a lawn sign. But go ahead. All right. So he decided, he made up signs that said, don't vote for A and B. Don't vote for A and signs that said, don't vote for B. And they look like vote signs, but they say don't vote for those people. And he put them up around the property near his business because he was adamant that these people should not win in the local elections. Okay? You understand? Don't vote for A.

00:42:06
Speaker 2: Don't vote for B.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of the B signs started disappearing. The don't vote for B. The signs were just magically at night disappearing. So he put Apple air tags in the signs and they got stolen. And he tracked the age, you know, an app. So if you don't know what an Apple air tag is scary, explain an Apple air tag.

00:42:29
Speaker 2: The Apple air tag is basically a homing device. It's a GPS. And it's just like a little, little, like the size of a, of a, of a quarter.

00:42:38
Speaker 3: And basically you could plant it somewhere, and then you could track whatever it's attached to, wherever it goes. You could put one on your dog, you could put one in your wallet, on your phone, so whenever that thing disappears, you know exactly where it is. Right, you could put it in your luggage, so when your luggage is going around the carousel, you find it right away at the airport.

00:42:58
Speaker 2: You just know, right.

00:42:59
Speaker 3: I like Apple AirTags, and then their competitors. I think it's cool technology. He put the Apple AirTags in, And he saw, he tracked it right back to the home of B, of don't vote for B. That woman was stealing the signs. Okay. So he calls the local authorities and he calls the media and local news channels, ABC and local, like big deals, stop her getting out of her car, like stop her in her car. And they say, hey, politician B, Can we ask you a few questions? We have evidence to show that you stole signs and that it's been tracked to your car. And so she opens up her trunk and takes the signs out. And there they are, the signs that say don't vote for her. Right. And she says, I'm allowed to take them. They have my name on them.

00:43:56
Speaker 1: No, you don't. No, you don't.

00:43:59
Speaker 3: So now half the town thinks he's brilliant. He's going on the news. He's going on... And some people in the town are like, dude, that's entrapment. You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't have made the signs. But he's allowed to make the signs. She's not allowed to steal them. So, you know, there's lots of political scandals right now. Everybody's trying to like go, oh, this one did this, this one did that, and they're running commercials about... He caught this woman stealing the signs with Apple AirTags. I think that's hysterical. So... Shout out to my boy who thought to do that. Now, if you think that's tacky, whatever, you can make your own opinion. But I thought it was clever. And she was stealing the signs that said, don't vote for her. Now, again, if the signs that say vote for her don't work, do signs that say don't vote for her work. Because then you go, wait a minute, why shouldn't I vote for her? What's going on? Is she corrupt? Is she dishonest? What's going on? So I'm asking you, Scary, since you're so strong about these signs, you think a sign that says don't vote for somebody has more impact than the signs that say do vote for them? Slice it, leave it, talk back, let us know what you think. Yeah, I don't think, I personally don't, don't think that they do a damn bit of anything. I think that people will form an opinion based on, you know, a speech they heard by that person or whatever. It falls on party lines or whatever, or, or things that they do. If it's on a local level, you know how they feel about what they're doing in the, in the town. I don't believe lawn signs do any, do really do anything other than, but you don't think that's it. You don't think it's a problem putting up signs that say, don't vote for somebody. No, no, You know, I wouldn't put up a sign in either direction. So, yeah, I mean, putting up a sign to say don't vote for someone is, to me, just as ineffective as putting up a sign to say to vote for someone.

00:45:56
Speaker 2: So in my mind.

00:45:58
Speaker 3: What if your nephew Lucas is running to be president of the school, class president? He's like, you heard about the rest, vote for the best, Lucas. That's a pizza box. Yeah, and then his opponent puts up Lucas Pukas, don't vote for him. Right? Don't vote for Lucas. He's terrible. Do you think that's okay? Don't vote for Lucas.

00:46:20
Speaker 2: No, no.

00:46:20
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, but this is, have you seen every ad on TV right now? Every ad for TV is the same.

00:46:28
Speaker 2: It's basic.

00:46:28
Speaker 3: There's as many, don't vote for this person. There's 10 times more of that than there is to vote for a candidate. But those are politicians and they're supporting supporters who, They're super PACs or whatever. They're usually approved by the politician.

00:46:46
Speaker 1: Right.

00:46:47
Speaker 3: Like, oh. But how is that different?

00:46:50
Speaker 2: You're talking about this on a micro level.

00:46:52
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. Because the guy who had the signs made doesn't work for the other candidates. He's not saying who to vote for. He's just saying of the four people running, don't vote for these two.

00:47:05
Speaker 1: That's it.

00:47:06
Speaker 3: He's not part of a political action committee. He made the signs himself. He paid for the signs.

00:47:11
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess.

00:47:14
Speaker 3: The signs aren't endorsed by their opponents. So then I don't have a problem with it. I just... I don't think they're effective.

00:47:22
Speaker 2: I don't have an opinion, really, because to me, I see through them.

00:47:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.

00:47:29
Speaker 2: Very good.

00:47:29
Speaker 3: But the AirTag story, I love the AirTag thing.

00:47:31
Speaker 2: That's great.

00:47:31
Speaker 3: He tracked them to her house.

00:47:33
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:47:33
Speaker 3: The signs are at her house. It's pretty wild.

00:47:37
Speaker 2: I wanted to.

00:47:40
Speaker 3: To direct your attention toward a website. And I wanted to see if this is something that you would do. Um, and you know, we talked about this briefly on the big show, but I wanted to get your take on it. Cause you never heard about this. There's a website called not a wedding crasher.com. This is a site where, and it's, it's brilliant by the way. And they're not a sponsor, not a wedding crasher.com where people who are getting married are, are actually inviting you to their wedding. And it lists the price of how much, how much it is to get in. And, and now you ask, you know, and what, what the stipulations are and what, what's being served and all that stuff. you could search by date, by time, by region. So let's say, Brody, you have nothing to do like tomorrow night on Halloween. You could search October 31st, North Jersey, what's going on or whatever. And you can, and there are couples and they show you a picture of the couple. Now, why would someone even put their wedding up here to begin with for strangers to come?

00:48:54
Speaker 2: Well, a couple of reasons.

00:48:55
Speaker 3: Number one, it's because they wanted to maybe have their wedding at a certain place that there's a seating minimum. So if you love, if you're in love with like a wedding venue and you have to, let's say hit a hundred, a hundred is the minimum for them to do the wedding, but you only have like 75 or 80 guests. You might put 20 seats up on this, not a wedding crasher.com. Or Let's say I got fucked And I paid for all these plates And people cancelled on me And I want to recoup some of that money back Oh Yeah So you put it up on notaweddingcrasher The thing is you could fill your social calendar right now by going to this website and just.

00:49:43
Speaker 1: Going to weddings.

00:49:46
Speaker 3: And, and not against this, you know, and, and Brody, these weddings are on sale. Like, $ 25 a head or $ 50 a head for something that when you see you get a full Venetian hour and a.

00:50:01
Speaker 2: Course out dinner.

00:50:02
Speaker 3: I mean, you pay far less going to this person's wedding and you eat like 10 times more. So I'm helping somebody out and you're helping someone out. The thing is, would you feel awkward? And would you have to come up with a story about how you know the bride and the groom? Which side are you on? At weddings, obviously, not everyone knows everyone. So you could be incognito. But ultimately, someone's going to ask you the question, oh, so you're here with the bride or the groom? Who are you friends with? And then, you know, maybe you could come up with a funny story. Or would you be honest and say, yeah, I don't know. I just found this online. A seated at wedding. I think it's a cool concept. I think I would love to tell stories and make shit up. Yeah. And I would have fun improv-ing. So, no, I would absolutely do that. Absolutely do that. Like, for instance, we can go to J & C. They only give the initials. J & C' s wedding at Greensboro, North Carolina, if we want. It's a bit of a drive.

00:51:01
Speaker 2: It's a bit of a drive.

00:51:02
Speaker 3: They show you a picture of the happy couple, or the hippie couple in this case. They give you the time, 6 to 10. There's a ceremony. There's a reception. There's a food with a buffet style with salmon and turkey legs. There's an open bar. They give you the dress code. The wedding is Viking-themed. And the entertainment will be a DJ. We'll be playing a mix of Celtic and 90s music.

00:51:29
Speaker 2: And there's on-site Celtic music. On-site parking. $ 50 for that.

00:51:36
Speaker 3: I would consider, if I lived nearby, and I had something Nordic, Celtic, like I would do that for 50 bucks. A great idea. I love that. Maybe you want to go to R & M' s wedding in Athens, Georgia.

00:51:49
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:51:50
Speaker 3: Talk to me.

00:51:51
Speaker 1: All right.

00:51:51
Speaker 3: Starts at 3.30 in the afternoon. I don't have the date here. It ends at 10 o'clock at night. Food will be a more casual style, home-style food with lots of options. Open bar on the drinks. Wheelchair accessible. The dress code is semi-formal. Oh, it's a Halloween wedding. So it's vampire and gothic vibes.

00:52:12
Speaker 2: This is tonight.

00:52:14
Speaker 3: This is tomorrow. Formal, semi-formal ceremony. The music will be a little bit of everything. Guests are welcome to request songs. Oh, I kind of like this. Yeah, you like this? Find something local, Scary. We should do this. How great would that be for the podcast? Oh, my God.

00:52:34
Speaker 2: Imagine that. Let's see what's coming up in the area. Let's do that.

00:52:38
Speaker 3: Hold on a second. And by the way, just for the record, it doesn't count as my steak dinner if we go. Right.

00:52:43
Speaker 2: Oh, I got to find where. How about New York City?

00:52:48
Speaker 3: Oh, I got a map. We got maps. We got maps here. Let's see here. Oh, there's a lot going on. Actually, you know what? This seems to be more of a down south thing.

00:53:01
Speaker 2: The nearest one going on here... Oh, this is expensive, Brody. Yeah, you're not going to... Oh, that's for tonight, though.

00:53:09
Speaker 3: Oh. Oh, the date range. Okay, yep.

00:53:13
Speaker 2: This one's in Massachusetts.

00:53:15
Speaker 3: It's N & P. This is Metro West Boston, Massachusetts. N & P' s wedding... And this is going on. Nancy and Pete. They're going to have a traditional Coptic Orthodox ceremony at 2.30. Let us know if you plan to attend the ceremony. Cocktail hour starts at 6.30. The party goes until 11.30. So you're talking 2.30 to 11.30.

00:53:37
Speaker 2: Black tie. Here we go.

00:53:37
Speaker 1: How much?

00:53:41
Speaker 3: Here we go. Hold on. Suits, tuxedos. We kindly ask our female guests to avoid black, ivory, and white attire. Lots of Egyptian and Arabic hits with top 40 in American music and millennial bops.

00:53:57
Speaker 2: Millennial bops.

00:53:58
Speaker 3: Millennial bops.

00:53:59
Speaker 2: Millennial bops used to do mornings in Z100 back in the day.

00:54:02
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, it's millennial bops. Food, buffet style. They're going to have a cocktail hour with bar and past hot hors d'oeuvres. Two stationary reception stations with, and the dinner choices are chicken and braised short rib with starch. Okay, how much, Gary? How much? A lot of food.

00:54:18
Speaker 2: Oh, and a full dessert bar. David Brody.

00:54:20
Speaker 3: How much?

00:54:21
Speaker 2: $ 120 a person. So they're charging.

00:54:23
Speaker 3: That's not bad.

00:54:24
Speaker 2: Still not bad.

00:54:25
Speaker 3: Still not bad. And you know, and guess what? You don't have to bring a gift because... It's just, you're paying for a price of a ticket. It's basically, it's basically a meal ticket. Anyway. Right. They probably paid 300, but I'm getting them back 120. They're recouping a little bit of money.

00:54:39
Speaker 2: That's right.

00:54:40
Speaker 3: Anyway. Now, you know what they should do? If, let's say there's like 12 people that have to fill in, right?

00:54:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:54:45
Speaker 3: They should have like, ladies and gentlemen, the seat fillers. And like do the thing, like. Do like an introduction for them.

00:54:51
Speaker 1: Yes.

00:54:52
Speaker 3: Let them play musical chairs together or like, you know, Coke, Pepsi, whatever. I mean, you could really, really fuck with them and be like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to blow the groom, you know, back in the day. Oh, no. I'm not saying that. You can tell the guests that. You know, you can make up your own story. Anyway, all right.

00:55:11
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool if you're into that sort of thing.

00:55:14
Speaker 3: I think that's fantastic. That's my new favorite thing now.

00:55:16
Speaker 2: Notaweddingcrasher.com. Not a sponsor. But maybe you guys should be if you're listening. You're still on that site there? You're looking for.

00:55:29
Speaker 3: No, I'm not on the site. Oh. I'm thinking about what I want to do next.

00:55:34
Speaker 2: You know what?

00:55:34
Speaker 3: Let me see. Hold on a second. Oh, you know what? Did we talk last week about the people that named their kids, their new baby, Nixon 5? No, we did not. But I think that child is doomed. I posted this on my Facebook page, my personal Facebook page. Oh, as a reminder, Slices, I love you. Facebook is not for you guys to contact me. So, uh, cause I don't see messages. You guys get put into like a requested folder. And then like eight months later, I see your messages sometimes. Yeah. Instagram and Twitter or X if you prefer calling it that. Okay. Anyway. So I put this up on my Facebook page and the majority of people liked it. So these, these people are Knicks fans and you know, you spell Knicks K N I C K S Knicks for Knickerbockers.

00:56:22
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:56:23
Speaker 3: And they won the championship in five games. They named their newborn son Nixon, K-N-I-C-K-S-O-N, Nixon, F-Y-V-E. Okay. I have a problem with this. First of all, take the K off. Every news station covered it.

00:56:42
Speaker 1: I know.

00:56:43
Speaker 3: Get the K out of there. Get the K. You want to name.

00:56:47
Speaker 2: Your kid Nixon?

00:56:49
Speaker 3: Spell it N-I-X-O-N. What are you fucking with this kid's entire childhood?

00:56:53
Speaker 1: What?

00:56:54
Speaker 3: And then my middle name, the middle, middle name is five F Y V E. Yes. Nixon five.

00:57:02
Speaker 2: Terrible.

00:57:03
Speaker 3: Terrible. Now it's cute now, but a lot of the comments would, it was split between, Oh my God, I love this. And he's going to get beaten up when he goes to school. The thing is when he's 30, no one's going to remember the Knicks one, uh, a five game series. It's just like, what's with that name?

00:57:21
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:57:22
Speaker 3: It's cute. It's cute for the first two or three years. Yeah.

00:57:25
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:57:26
Speaker 3: Let's say this year. And by the way, they're not playing well. Let's say the Knicks make the championship and they sweep. They win in four. Now Nixon five is outdated because Nixon four is the way to go. Yeah. So I, I just look, you want to name the kid Nixon or Knicks maybe, or Nick K and I C K.

00:57:48
Speaker 1: Maybe.

00:57:49
Speaker 3: But he's got to spend the rest of his life spelling it wherever he goes. Okay.

00:57:53
Speaker 1: Nope.

00:57:54
Speaker 3: I can't find a license plate with my name on it. That is so selfish of the parents to do that.

00:58:00
Speaker 2: It's awful.

00:58:02
Speaker 3: A lot of my friends thought it was awesome. It's awesome because they're Knicks fans. But imagine being saddled with that name your entire life now. And you had no choice. I mean, I guess you can, I don't know, like change your name or something.

00:58:16
Speaker 2: You could. Pay for a name change?

00:58:18
Speaker 3: I don't know. There are, there are, you know, there's athletes that we, they're famous. So when we hear their names now, we don't think twice about their names, right? Like Shaquille O'Neal.

00:58:32
Speaker 1: It rhymes.

00:58:32
Speaker 3: It's great. But Shaquille, that's an unusual name.

00:58:36
Speaker 2: It is.

00:58:37
Speaker 3: There's a guy on the 49ers named Debo Samuel. Debo.

00:58:41
Speaker 2: Debo.

00:58:42
Speaker 3: But wait, there's more. I play fantasy football. And I get, I'm on a page that gives you breaking news for NFL players. And I get an alert that a cornerback, cornerback. Yep. For the Miami Dolphins. That's a defensive position.

00:58:58
Speaker 1: Right.

00:58:58
Speaker 3: They cut him from the team. His name, not a nickname. Before you're like, oh, it's probably like his boys call him that.

00:59:04
Speaker 1: No, no.

00:59:06
Speaker 3: His name is Storm Duck.

00:59:10
Speaker 2: That's his name. Storm Duck.

00:59:12
Speaker 3: Storm Duck. Now, is that better or worse than Nixon Five? That's terrible. At least someone by the name of Jackson Dart sounds like you could be a football player. You know, like, oh, Jackson Dart. He's going to dart around the field. They spelled his name J-A-X-O-N or J-A-X-S-O-N?

00:59:32
Speaker 2: X-O-N, X-S-O-N, something like that.

00:59:34
Speaker 3: That's also unusual, mate. There's a guy on the Steelers right now.

00:59:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:59:38
Speaker 3: I think his name is Jeremy, but it's spelled G-E-R-M-I-E.

00:59:44
Speaker 1: Jeremy.

00:59:44
Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, stay away from that guy. Right. He's Jeremy. He's gone through his whole life with a name that looks like Jeremy. Now, it may be pronounced Jeremy.

00:59:55
Speaker 4: Right.

00:59:55
Speaker 3: Or Jeremy.

00:59:56
Speaker 1: Jeremy.

00:59:57
Speaker 3: But it looks like Germany. All right, Pearl Jam.

01:00:00
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.

01:00:02
Speaker 3: How about our favorite Green Bay Packer of all time, Ha Ha Clinton Dix? Yeah, well, that was a nickname. Clinton Dix was his real last and hyphenated name. But the Ha Ha wasn't his real name. okay the haha wasn't but i needed to believe it was now look i know a lot of people are screaming at their phones i am well aware of the key and peel amazing bit that they do with football player names if you haven't seen it go look on youtube for the key and peel bit about nfl plays i did it three times i think so look for the mega montage that has all of them uh it's like uh uh, dry query is Triceratops was like, he's like, you know, and they, you know, the football players announced who they all like David Brody, university of Brooklyn. Right.

01:00:47
Speaker 2: They do that on Sunday night, put football. Yeah.

01:00:51
Speaker 3: So they, they did that with fake player names that were very unusual. But anyway, Nixon five is the name of a newborn little boy in New York. Uh, I wanted to get your opinion on that. So, and storm duck, storm duck, storm duck, storm duck, storm duck. Um, What? No, before we get out of here, what else do you have? You have something else? Because I had something else that I'm going to save for next week.

01:01:14
Speaker 2: But... Yeah, I have one more thing.

01:01:17
Speaker 1: I had.

01:01:17
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not going to play him. I had told you about a similar story. Remember I told you a story about how there was a piece of metal in my Wild Berry mix that I bought at Costco?

01:01:32
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:01:33
Speaker 3: And I sent the piece of metal. I bit into it and it scraped the top of my mouth. It hurt. And they said, it's impossible. We have metal detectors. It couldn't have happened. We can't identify that metal. I said, I don't care how you can identify it or not. And they offered me Ugots. They gave me a coupon for a free bag. Well, there's a girl, a woman you and I both follow on Instagram, Bianca from Brooklyn. Bianca sounds like the people we grew up with. My name's Bianca. She calls everybody Brazil.

01:02:05
Speaker 1: Okay?

01:02:05
Speaker 3: You'll hear her accent. She's terrific. I've been trying to get her on the podcast for a while.

01:02:09
Speaker 2: She's not the Barada babe, is she?

01:02:12
Speaker 3: No, she's not. She's Bianca from Brooklyn. She's someone else. Okay, gotcha. Okay. Anyway, for the past month, she's been posting videos because she cooks. That's what she does on her page. She makes Italian dishes that are outrageous. They look fantastic. And she always uses one company's flour for all of her products. Well, it was a piece of metal which she showed like I did.

01:02:35
Speaker 2: I saw this.

01:02:37
Speaker 3: In her flour. So she called them and said, hey, look, I got this piece of metal. I have pictures to put on social media. They said, just like me, to me, they said, send it to us. We got to track this down. We've got metal detectors. There's no way. But we'll look into it. So, They didn't get back to her for like three weeks. She put up surveys. Should I just accept an apology? Or should I accept an apology and a little extra? Should they do the right thing by me? Or as I call it, free dessert. People voted. Everybody said she deserved something. They gave her, as she said, ugots. They gave her a coupon for a free bag of flour. So this company fucked her over the same way that Wildberry. Why don't you tell everybody who it is then? Well, here's the video.

01:03:22
Speaker 4: Warning, if you use King Arthur flour, you need to stick around and watch this video. I was opening up a brand new bag of King Arthur bread flour, transferring it into a bigger container. And as I'm pouring it, a giant piece of metal falls out of the bag. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I was honestly in shock. I couldn't believe that this piece of metal was in the bag of flour. I reached out to the company on social media and I even emailed the customer service this whole long letter saying, saying how I do love the brand. I use the flour all the time. I have seven more bags of flour in my morning. If you, you, and in my head, I was like, you know what they're going to do right by the customer. This is pretty serious. It's a couple of weeks for media. And he even emailed the customer services, whole long letter saying how I do love the brand. I use the flour all the time. I have seven more bags of flour in my pantry. You know, it was very, Oh, I'm sorry.

01:04:07
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

01:04:08
Speaker 4: Can you please send us the piece? And for a while I kind of waited out on sending them the piece because I was just trying to wrap my head around this, okay? I said this not in my stomach because all I could think about was what happens if I made these little muffins for my nine-month-old daughter? What happens if I gave one to my five-year-old daughter? And maybe there was a little screw in there and they choked on it. It was something more serious. I wanted to see how they were going to handle the situation because in my eyes.

01:04:28
Speaker 3: This was horrible.

01:04:29
Speaker 4: And in my head, I was like, you know what? They're going to do right by the customer. This is pretty serious. After a couple of weeks, I said, you know what? Let me send them the piece in the mail. They had someone come pick it up. Okay, go do your investigation. And then yesterday, I got a letter in the mail from King Arthur. I said, oh, Let me open it up and see what they said. Generic letter, oh, I'm sorry, over here. And a coupon for one bag of flowers.

01:04:47
Speaker 2: A coupon?

01:04:48
Speaker 4: Let's get one thing straight. Even though I contacted them through my social media, I wasn't expecting them to go above and beyond just because I'm a content creator. That means nothing to me, okay? If this happened to me, my mother, my sister, you or your mother, I would want them to handle the situation the same way. I found a giant piece of metal in your flower. Never going to take the chance for me, my daughters, my husband, my family.

01:05:07
Speaker 1: No.

01:05:07
Speaker 4: It's going in the garbage. You even bought their bread book a month ago.

01:05:10
Speaker 1: And guess what?

01:05:10
Speaker 3: This is going in the garbage. The garbage.

01:05:12
Speaker 4: It just pisses me off because where is the customer service? As it is on a daily basis, I'm sitting here worrying about what chemicals, what shit is in the food that I got to feed to my kids. And now I got to worry about metal pieces in the flower. You're a multimillion dollar company. And you're giving me a measlet out one coupon for one bag of flour. Are you kidding me? I have people on here sending me lawyers. You want a lawyer, you want to sue them. Yesterday when I posted that story asking how would you expect the company to handle it, I tagged them in the video. And guess what? They saw it. And they didn't even do guts. That was like me giving them this little bit of a chance.

01:05:45
Speaker 1: Nothing.

01:05:46
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm making this video. I don't like to do stuff like this. But you know what? Sometimes people have to be calmed down. And King Arthur, you could do a hell.

01:05:53
Speaker 3: Of a lot better.

01:05:55
Speaker 2: First of all, slices.

01:05:58
Speaker 3: That woman is every girl Brody and I grew up with. That is the sound of it.

01:06:06
Speaker 2: It's going in the garbage.

01:06:08
Speaker 3: It's going in the garbage. But I love her. I do too.

01:06:12
Speaker 2: I love her as well.

01:06:13
Speaker 3: You should follow her. She does great recipes. She's hilarious. But she had the exact same story and got the exact same response. Oh, we're sorry. Here's a coupon for a free bag. Get the fuck out of here is what she said.

01:06:25
Speaker 2: Exactly.

01:06:25
Speaker 3: That's what I said. Get the fuck out of here. You got to do better than that. You got to be kidding me. King Arthur Flower, you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves.

01:06:31
Speaker 2: You have scumbags. Now I'm pissed. That was excellent.

01:06:38
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:06:39
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening today.

01:06:40
Speaker 3: Enjoy your day. The Voice from Brooklyn.

01:06:47
Speaker 1: Brooklyn. The Voice from Brooklyn.