#389: Try This XXXXXL On For Size

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Speaker 1: Guess who just got back today?

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Speaker 2: They're Brooklyn boys that have been away They both have so much to say You know their names are Brody and Skiri The boys are back in town The boys are back in town Brooklyn The boys are back in town Episode 89. 389. 389. Come on, man. Is it 89? I'm thinking of 1989. I was just watching some videos on YouTube from 1989, so I'm getting confused. It's the Brooklyn Boys podcast. We're back in town. Well, I'm back in town. Brody never left town. The boy is still in town. The boy never left town. The boy never left town. God, I got a lot of jet lag, David Brody. I can't help it. I was in the way. Where's my violin? The world's smallest violin? Is it about to play for me? Hey, everyone. Scary had some jet lag from flying back from Greece or Italy, whichever the airport was. You poor son of a bitch. I flew to Athens. I flew out of Venice back home. Get it straight. Didn't I just say that? I said Greece or Italy, wherever the airport was. I covered that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could tell you right now. I just, I've been waking up at the middle of the night, like one o'clock in the morning, and then I can't. Okay, Billy Joel. Go back. In the middle of the night. That's called River of Dreams.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't say River of Dreams, though. But you said in the middle of the night, one o'clock in the morning and not coming, not actually going back to bed. So I've been, then I have to get dressed, showered for the show, all that. So now it's like really like time to go to bed. Cause if you think about it, it's seven hours ahead in Greece right now. We're recording this at four o'clock in the afternoon. I mean, it's gotta be 11 o'clock at night. You're not thinking about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I am just, although you want to talk about jet lag tomorrow night, The San Francisco 49ers are playing the Los Angeles Rams. In Australia. In Australia. That's a day ahead. We're doing the future. No, they're not. But yeah, they're a day ahead. So it's better than when they play in London. You got to get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, 9 o'clock in the morning to watch the game. I'm so sick of all of these... All right, Neo. Of all these football games on all these different stations, now you need Netflix, you need Amazon, you need NBC, Peacock, right? And then you get the free ones in the old school places. CBS, Fox, but they're fanning it out. Baseball's worse. It's on Apple. It's on Apple TV. Netflix has baseball games now. I don't like it. I feel like they're taking it away from the people. And then you need all these apps to catch every game. And I don't think that you get, like on an NFL Sunday ticket, you only get the Sunday games. You don't even get the Wednesday. You don't get the Wednesday. Not if they're on another network. Which sucks because you really need all of them and they're all, I feel like they're holding it hostage. It's extortion. Yeah. To watch every base, to watch it. Like, let's say you have an out of town baseball fan. You're not, you want to watch. It's, it's a lot of money. It's thousands of dollars to watch every game of your team. Even if you buy the MLB package, it's a lot of money. And you know, my problem is, and again, if you're, you don't have to be a sports fan to at least relate to this. Some of the apps, let's say, so like, um, I think it's Peacock, maybe. If you get to watch, let's say you want to watch Sunday Night Football, but you get home an hour late, it gives you the option of starting from the beginning, watching it at the point it's at then and there, or doing rapid recap, which is my favorite. So what it does is it shows you all of the scoring plays and interceptions that And like the sacks, anything important, it shows you like a highlight reel. And then the game starts from that point. Some of them can go fuck themselves.

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Because they don't let you back up. They don't let you start from the beginning. And if you want to start from the beginning on some of them, when you, when you sign into the, to the app, it shows you the current score and says, would you like to start from the beginning? Why would I want to see the current score? And then ask me if I want to start from the beginning or the fucking score. I don't need the splash page to have the current score and ruin it for me. Imbeciles. Wow. I'm going to click on the game. I don't need to know the score. I'll click on the game and I'll know the score. All right. Wow. You're taking this very personally. Do you have a fantasy team this year? Have you not met me?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: You have a fantasy team? How many leagues are you in? Three fantasy football. I may join a fourth one tonight. How creative have you gotten with the names? The league names or the team names? the team names. Cause I'm the commissioner of all my leagues. So I named the leagues. Yeah. The league is one thing, but the name, your team, that's an individual preference. So, well, but a league name is everyone's preference because I make the league name. So I'm going to pick them league and I need a name for my, my team or my picks, whatever the case. So I went, it's scary. Doesn't know shit stuff. I want, I want, well, it was going to be Sunday scaries or something like that, but scaries or skieries, whatever. But I figured, why don't I ask chat? And I said, you know, chat, come on, you know, me and my friends, you know, you know, the way we are, you know, you know, I said, Give me some names. Give me some fun, like, you know, but something risque. Give me something filthy. Give me something dirty. So it came out with this. It just spewed out this list. And a lot of them are plays on players' names, so you might or might not understand some of these. I would go Bougie Bastards, but that's just, I would call yourself the Bougie Bastards. So see, these are some of the names that they wanted me to use.

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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.

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Speaker 2: DAC me down for like Dak Prescott. Do you have Dak Prescott? No. Just pick them. Show me your TDs. That's been going on for years. Oh, my God. Let me tell you something right now. If you have a fantasy football team, show me your TDs, delete your account, don't play fantasy football anymore. How about this one? You're 15 years late on the joke. Two girlies, one cup. So you got girlies and cup, K-U-P-P for Cooper Cup. Um, how about, well, who's the girl? He's Todd Gurley. Cause he retired years ago. I don't know. My ball, Zach Ertz. No, like Zach Ertz. Like my, my, my ball sack Ertz. He's he's old. And the joke is old. Yeah. So then I said, nah, nah, nah, nah. This isn't, this isn't cool. I was like, give me some filthier ones. So they said, okay, how about two inches is enough. T-U-A, like Tua, the quarterback, right? How about suck my cocks, C-O-X?

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Or Nakua Matata, motherfuckers. Nakua Matata. Puka Nakua, yeah. Brock Hard Purdy. Puka my balls. May I finish, M-A-Y-E. Bend it like Burrow. Dak that ass up. That's funny. Goth balls deep. Hurts when I T-D. My Kittle Pony for George Kittle, CDs Nuts. And I said, come on, you're going to embarrass me in front of my friends. I need better ones. And then it got really raunchy on me. I said, okay, Baby Got Dak, Brock Hard, Puka on my Nakua. You already just said all of those. Kareem and My Hunt. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. He's not playing anymore. I know, but Tua Girls One Cup, Tua Girls One Cup. It's a 20-year-old video. And then, Dack Off.

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Speaker 1: Hurt.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: Hurt's Donut Hole. What? And, I don't know. That's about it. That being said... None of those are good. None of those are good. I would go with Bougie Bastards. I like Nakua Matata. That's all right. Nakua Matata. That's it. It's cute. That's all right. I'm going to choose that one. 30-year-old movie.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: But still, you know... It's the best of the bunch. Hey, I'm... Drop us a talk back, Slices. Let us know if you have a funny, clever, punny name for your fantasy team. You didn't ask me, though. Well, what are yours, David Brody? Well, I didn't go with any creative or funny or punny because that's not my thing with team names. But I did rename one of our leagues in honor of some current events going on. I changed the name of the league to League Ontario. League Ontario. Cute.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because it sounds like Lake Ontario. Lake Ontario, right. Yeah. Specifically for one person in the league to annoy them. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Great. But no, I.

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Speaker 2: Oh, and I was in a league where everybody named their teams after classic rock bands. So I'm the Def Leppards in one league.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I like the on-brand sports teams. I'm sorry. I did use... a photo editing software to change my New York jets helmet, the J E W S. And I'm the Brooklyn Jews. That's funny. Yeah. And it looks, it looks like the jets logo. It looks like the jets logo, but it's the Jews, the Jews. Yeah. The Brooklyn Jews. All right. That's fair. I predict like 10 wins, but for you seven. Okay. I'm not in any leagues. I'm in these pick-em ones where I have to... Yeah, you're not good at fantasy football. All right, so Titans or Jets? What do you got this week? Oh, I'm going to go with the Jets only because the Titans are even worse. I picked the Titans. They have a very young... The Titans are at home. Their quarterback is very inconsistent. Their running game is not great, and their receivers are below average. Giants, Cowboys. Cowboys. Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Tremendous offense. I picked them too. All right. I picked a few of these.

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Speaker 3: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: No point spread. And if you're a fan of any of those teams, I'm sorry. Don't leave talkbacks about it. You know, Titans. By the time you hear this, the Titans will have won. Game will be, oh, well, they may have won.

00:10:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: As a Jets fan, I mean, not to get too sportsy, but I'm rooting for them to lose every game. Because there's five or six top quarterbacks coming out in the draft. And if ever the Jets were going to draft a quarterback, next year's the year. So them winning games is just not helpful. Not since Joe Namath. Chad Pennington. Chad Pennington is their only real, like, yeah, that, that, that was like a franchise level multi-year, not like a guy that got for like, like Vinny Testaverde was like two, three years, but that was it.

00:11:03
Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. They're due. Thanks for listening to the fan. Thanks for listening to the hammer, to the, to the pennant.

00:11:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast. You can't go to a commercial after that. We took off on a tangent. What do you mean? Yeah, but we should have done something non-sportsy to get into the commercial break. Oh, okay. Well, it's too late now. It's too late, baby. Yeah, baby, it's too late. It's too late for love, Def Leppard. I went on the cruise and a lot of you had asked about, tell us about your vacation. No, well, it's more about, you know, we needed a conclusion to, you know, did, did my cousin, my cousin, my nephew, Lucas have a good time? Was he a douchebag about it or was he a good kid? So did you give him the talk? Okay. So, okay. Um, I did not give him the talk. I, in fact, I pre had a pre-talk with my sister and my brother-in-law about it. And I said, look, I said, I know he wasn't looking forward to this. And, Not much excites him these days. I said, so talk to me about what's going on. And they pretty much said, look, we gave you a lot of latitude all summer to do whatever you want, hang out with your girlfriend and this and that. Were they talking about you or your nephew? Talking about my nephew. This is a one-week thing. It's a trip of a lifetime. Enjoy it. So he kind of had moments of fading in and out, having these times of, Interest versus disinterest. Basically, because we were seven hours ahead, his girlfriend was pretty much asleep when we did a lot of the stuff during the day, right? And you figure out the time difference. We were seven hours ahead. Right. In the waking hours in Greece, in Italy, wherever, Croatia... You know, we're six, seven hours ahead. Six, seven. And we're out doing our thing all day. But as soon as the dinner time came and it's like now it's evening here and it's like morning in New York, he just like kind of did the old eat and run, disappeared with the room, didn't want to explore the ship. He took interest in the daily activities, which is all you could possibly ask of a teenager. He loved the Acropolis. He spent a lot of time in the bathroom. The Parthenon. I'll just keep ignoring you. I'm going to just keep talking over you because I'm not even going to address that. And, you know, he loved going through the caves of Postonia in Slovenia. We did a wonderful boat. Slovenia. Slovenia, Slovenia, the former Yugoslavia. And Danielle and I and her family and our family, we had a nice boat day in Corfu, Greece, where we went swimming. So he loved all that. He did enjoy being out in Montenegro and doing all these fun things and walking and taking a lot of pictures. I don't think we have to mention every city. We're taking pictures and this and that.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: So during that. But he was not. When it came to ship activities, he was a zero. He would just run to his room and whatever. Oh, he was in a ship, all right. A relationship. A relationship. He was shipping the older woman. But my God, NCL. They've got so many things on board to do. You never have to leave the ship. I did a whole spa day. Did you see the Scary Jones spa day that I did? I did not. I did not. But I've been on. You were on Jade? No, I was on Pearl. And I did like five treatments in a row because I didn't want to get off the ship in Zadar, Croatia. So I said, you know what? I saw this last time. Fuck it. I'm staying on board. And I did one treatment after the next. And I got to say. You had to do it while the ship was at sea? You had to do it while you were in port? Yeah. Well, the ship was in port all day, all night until the evening came. I mean, yeah, you don't want to do it. Treatment after dinner, whatever. That being said, it was all in all was a great time. Yeah. So for those who care, Lucas had a pretty good time, loved seeing other countries. And, you know, but when it came time to like, you know, hanging out with his girlfriend on whatever, on WhatsApp, that's what he did at night, which was, you know, OK, whatever. He split his time. Um, so that was my, that was my, my, my, the big time, big fun time. You know, Tony enjoyed it. My dad, you know, it was a lot, a lot of, uh, shared memories, you know? All right. Well, I'll, let me tell you a story about my, uh, my, my staycation. So, you know, we have a pool here where I live and it closes at seven o'clock every night. Yeah. So I set my, I go, I like to swim later in the day when it's, there's nobody there. Everyone's eating dinner. Uh, I'll, I'll go. And I'll set my alarm. If I happen to go from 6 to 7, then I'll set my alarm. I didn't say that. So I'll set my alarm for like 6.55. So this way I know the pool's closing in a few minutes. I'll get out. I'll dry off, put my shoes on. And this way, by 7, I'm walking out and the lifeguard can lock up, pull the umbrellas down, whatever they got to do. Okay? Never had a problem. I lived here for years now. Every time I go in the pool before closing, on nights when I know I have time to go from like 6.30 to 7, 6 to 7, I have my alarm set, and it plays a song, and I go, oh, I got to get out of the pool. Okay? That's why I don't keep anybody waiting. I don't want to be disrespectful. So last year, we had the same lifeguard almost every day, like four or five days a week, and then someone else said it two days. This year, every day is a new 20-something high school kid, whatever. Every day, it's somebody different. And then like a week or two later, you might see somebody again. Oh yeah, I saw you a couple of weeks ago. Well, on Saturday, it's, I believe it's around 6.52. I had recently looked at my phone and I went, I swam across the other side of the pool and my phone is out on the deck leaning against one of the railings. So I can hear it when it goes off. And the lifeguard girl says to me, I'm closing the pool soon. You have to get out. So I said, I have an alarm set on my phone. It's all good. I'll get out before I need to get out. You don't have to worry. I have like eight minutes. She says to me, you have seven. So I said, you know, it's irrelevant to point out whether it's seven or eight. I told you I have an alarm set. The alarm's going to go off at 6.55. So did you really need to point out that it's seven minutes instead of eight? Well, I got to close up and take all the umbrella. I go, you can take the umbrellas down now. Did she? I think that's kind of like a snooty. That's catty, bitchy, pissy. Did she give you the Gen Z stare? Yes. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: She gave me the, dude, I got things to do. It's Saturday and I want to go. Well, Gen Z stare is more of a blank stare, a disinterested. Yeah. I'm too cool to respond. it's, it's actually a thing and it's becoming a problem. This is all over the place. If you Google slices, Google Gen Z stare, this is what fucking kids are doing now. Like, um, so basically there's a psychology behind it and it's basically based off of, you say basically one more time, I'm going to jump through this phone and slap you. Did I say basic? Is that really, am I using that word over using that word today? You just said basically, basically in the same sentence. So basically go ahead. Well, fuck me running. You know, so it's it's a it's a deliberate signal way of of saying I don't want in on this. It's like a social armor that they have. It could also I don't give a fuck.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Genuine talk to the hand like genuine talk to the hand. It's genuine disengagement. So that or cognitive overload. They come from, you know, there's this, I guess they see a lot of the videos online and they find it funny to be expressionless. They just sit there. Like they say, there was actually sort of a meme of, or actually a video, a viral video of a waitress or actually a hostess. And it says hostesses in 2026. And there's a woman that you can hear asking her questions. And the woman is staring at the camera at her. point of view, first person. And she's just giving her a blank stare. She's saying, excuse me, what, uh, do you have availability for two? And she's like, uh, like looks around, looks up, looks down, looks everywhere. I mean, obviously this is more of a visual and we are an audio podcast, but you can imagine that it just person just freeze frames and just sits there like you're stupid for asking that question. If, if we could just do a walk in and instead of having a reservation, you do have a reservation. No, we just decided we swing by and she's, uh, uh, um, um, The Gen Z stare. So they're doing it at their jobs, but it makes it look like they're mocking you or they're making you look foolish.

00:20:16
Speaker 4: They are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what I got. I got the Gen Z stare because I said eight minutes and she's like, it's seven minutes. And then she expected me to just take that. So I was like, you don't need to, you don't need to, you know, to nitpick the minute. Either way, I'm getting out of the pool so you can go. Like I already said in the law, I'm out of respect for you. You're like, it's eight minutes. It's seven minutes, not eight minutes. Okay, so this is, this would not be the Gen Z stare because that's more, the Gen Z stare is more of an unbothered. After I made my comment, I got the Gen Z stare. Okay, right. She just looked at me like, And what do you want me to do? Yeah. I'm too cool to care or, you know, I'm unbothered by this. You're talking to me. Why? Yeah. Speaking of POV, POV, the term POV means point of view. It means from my view. Yes.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: In the first person. Social media has ruined that. Because now it's like, POV, you're getting up for school. But it's me watching you get up for school or whatever. I'm using it as an example. Like, oh, POV, me getting up for work.

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Speaker 3: No, no.

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Speaker 2: POV would mean you have a helmet on your forehead and I'm watching what you see. I'm watching the world through your eyes.

00:21:26
Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: It's your... So if you said... POV, you're watching me get ready for work. Yes, it's my point of view watch, but it's not your point of view. So they've bastardized the term POV. That being said, the New York Mets posted a video. You can go on New York Mets on Facebook and Instagram. They posted a video. It said POV singing the national anthem. I'm sorry, signing the national anthem. In other words, for deaf people, right? Signing, right. Signing, like sign language. So the video is a view of the field and a woman on the big scoreboard singing the national anthem. And what you see is occasional hands fly by the camera because the woman, it was a woman, is sign languaging the national anthem. So it's POV legitimately from her perspective, what it looks like. Right. Okay. So these are the comments. That's not POV. I can't see the person. This person wrote, not pictured, sign language.

00:22:28
Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: This person, cameraman, must be drunk because the camera was on her head or her neck. Well, she was probably wearing the Ray-Ban. Headgear. The Ray-Ban specs. You know, the ones that.

00:22:39
Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: So, of course, the camera's moving. She's waving her arms around.

00:22:43
Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: All these people are complaining they can't see the sign language person. And why is the camera moving? And why can't the person holding the camera hold it still? It's because that's a true POV. Right. Right. So one person wrote an actual POV video that's properly marked. Fantastic. And then someone wrote, no, it's not. I can't see the person. What a fucking idiot. What a bunch of idiots. Nobody knows. I mean, most people on social media do not know what POV means.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It means from your eyes. It's like when you watch porn, from what I've heard. And you're like, oh, POV, a sex act.

00:23:19
Speaker 3: Right.

00:23:21
Speaker 2: Oh, you mean like that might or might not be a whole category in porn? I don't know. You don't know? I heard that somewhere. You heard that from a friend? Someone told you? I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend. Okay. Well, you know, more morons in the comments section.

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Speaker 3: So....

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Speaker 2: Mike D from the Beastie Boys. Love him. He's got an album out now on his own, a solo album. He's touring. He's doing his own thing. He was on Jimmy Fallon last night, being Tuesday night, September 8th. And Fallon posted a couple of clips of him. Somebody in the comments writes, who is this? Never heard of this guy. And then someone under that person wrote, there's no... Nothing like bragging about your ignorance. Right. It's you like you're a fucking tool. Anybody. And this isn't just for that clip or because it's Mike D, the Beastie Boys, the goat and fucking royal rap royalty. This goes for any comment like that in any comment section about any fucking topic. When somebody writes willingly and offers anything, never heard of this or did it, who is this person or what is this? All you're doing is showcasing and being proud of your fucking ignorance and your stupidity. Like, why would anyone write that? Like, because there's no purpose because, well, for, for somebody, you're going to clip. What I'm saying is, You can Google it. My instinct, if I see something I don't know, my first instinct isn't to run to the fucking keyboard and say it out loud, the quiet part. I'm like, maybe I should fucking know what this is. I don't know. Let me Google this. Let me have a conversation with chat. I don't know. We have computers in our pockets, as we always say. You're on a computer. You're on your fucking phone. Why don't you open up a fucking tab and Google... who is Mike D or who is this person on Jimmy Fallon last night? Or who, what is, what am I looking at right now? And just get your answer and move along. There's no need to share that with people. Why is that comment in any comment section at any point ever? Like, it's just a stupid thing to say. Is that, or do you remember, I don't remember what, how many episodes ago it was, but there was a, it was a post that came up and it was about, um, a priest in Chicago that, was famous for something. I forget what the story was. It doesn't really matter. And so the person wrote, nevermind.

00:26:05
Speaker 3: What?

00:26:05
Speaker 2: I was going to say Metallica. No, that's nothing else. That's exactly.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:26:09
Speaker 2: So it was like, Oh, let's say Reverend James, uh, Hercules.

00:26:16
Speaker 3: Right.

00:26:16
Speaker 2: From Chicago did this thing. Very specific name. Oh my God. I wonder whatever happened to him. How much could you wonder? Go fucking Google it. Yeah. You care that much? Google it. It isn't that difficult. Oh, I wonder if only it was some way to find out what he's doing these days. Yeah, it certainly is. Put his name in Google, hit enter. Yeah. I just, it's, it's beyond me why people don't, you know, and they constantly post it. But to showcase your ignorance is a whole thing. It's like, that's a whole, it takes a whole fucking, you know, where it happens a lot in the chicken palm group. I'm in on Facebook. People are right. Oh, had this amazing chicken parm at Elizabeth's, right?

00:27:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: Down the shore. And they go, what town is it in? Just go to Google Maps. I mean, and I'm using Elizabeth's as an example, but usually it's a more specific restaurant name. Like, it's probably this one.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: Right.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: It's not that hot. No, yes. The person who posted it should have put the town. But you can just look it up. It's not that difficult. It's not that difficult. Yeah. One person... Now, one of the places that gets recommended constantly for best chicken parm in New Jersey, and I think I mentioned this on the podcast. Oh, yes, you have. Le Bebe Prime. L-E-B-E-B-E. Le Bebe Prime. And the way they serve their chicken parm is on a wood plank, like a cutting board. And on the cutting board, it's carved Le Bebe Prime restaurant on the cutting board. Okay. Somebody posted a picture of the cutting board and the chicken. And they said, this is the best chicken parm I've ever had. And at the top, it said Labibi and on the cutting board, it says Labibi prime restaurant or whatever it says on the cutting board. Somebody wrote, it'd be nice if you told us where this is. I mean, it says it in the picture and at the top of the post.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:28:17
Speaker 2: They go, well, I don't know what town it's in. There's only one Labibi prime.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: Right.

00:28:22
Speaker 2: So you don't know what restaurant and you don't know where it's located and you can't, you can't figure it. Like you can't do the math on it is beyond me. So. All right. F that.

00:28:32
Speaker 1: Now.

00:28:33
Speaker 2: More on to the comments. We're going to take a break and then we're going to come back. I have some audio to play. Ooh, cannot wait. Let's do it. Scary. You get a lot of shit for a lot of things in life. Always. Always, always. Bon Jovi.

00:28:50
Speaker 3: So.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: Oh, always? Yeah. Okay, hold on. Okay, so what's the word? It's a woodland creature, climbs trees, gathers nuts, that we always made fun of you for the way you say it.

00:29:06
Speaker 4: Squirrel.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: Squirrel. Squirrel. It's a two-syllable word. It's squirrel. It's squirrel. It's not squirrel. But it's still a two-syllable word. Yeah, it's squirrel. It's not squirrel. It's not squirrel. Right, it's squirrel. But you say... Squirrel. Squirrel. Squirrel. I have never heard anyone say that before the way you say it. Really? Until, until, you know, when you're on TikTok and you scroll and you're like, there's live lives going by.

00:29:39
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:29:40
Speaker 2: So i follow a lot of gamers right now i'm addicted to a game called shield wall not playing it i just love watching it shield wall it's a bunch of little little fighters and you go and you say capture the flag but the the lead guy sounds like cartman everyone to me. It's, it's terrific. So sometimes when the live is over, you scroll. So I came across this woman. Oh, you watched it. Did your wife know about that? No, I did not. No, I did not. So I, the next, the next, one of the next videos and scrolling was a woman talking and she said the word you just said. So I, I started screen recording and I typed in, can you say that again? And I want you to hear the way this woman who says the word you just said. Please say squirrel.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: Why did I say it weird? Say squirrel again.

00:30:32
Speaker 2: It's awesome. Why say squirrel? Please say squirrel. I don't sound like her. Yeah, you say squirrel. Squirrel. Okay. All right. Why did I say it weird? Squirrel.

00:30:45
Speaker 3: Say squirrel again.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: It's awesome. Why say squirrel? Squirrel. She's British. She's British. She says squirrel like you do. Squirrel. It may be scary. You're not saying it wrong. You're just saying it like the British do. Exactly. I got more audio. Oh, you do? Keep going. No, no. If you got a thing, you got a thing.

00:31:08
Speaker 3: No, no, no.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: I want to hear all the audio first. Okay. I've gotten a bunch of a new wave of of creative calls about me getting a loan approval. So I wanted to play a couple of the new ones now cause they're, they're trying new tactics. Okay. Um, listen to this one. Okay. Yeah. Now listen, there's a guy talking on cause cause you know, when they call, they start talking to me and you pick up, but my voicemail picked up after like 20 seconds. So his part of the call is, had finished and then her part of the call because it's a loop. Okay. But listen to what she says.

00:31:47
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, there it is. I'm looking right at your file. It's Sandra on the lending underwriting side.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.

00:31:54
Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great day today. So I don't usually call people personally, but this one was worth it. Your approval came through and it's a good one. $ 42, 000 ready and approved personal loans. Use it for whatever you need. I just didn't want it sitting here closing out without you even knowing.

00:32:15
Speaker 2: She wouldn't want it just sitting there.

00:32:16
Speaker 1: So do me a favor. Write my number down.

00:32:18
Speaker 2: Okay, so did you catch the beginning? Listen again.

00:32:20
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, there it is. I'm looking right at your file.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, she found it. She found it just as she was calling me. Yes, just as, right, just as you answered, she somehow got your file. She pulled all your information out. Where is that David Brody? There it is.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:32:36
Speaker 2: It's so good. Here's another one.

00:32:40
Speaker 3: To close out the... Hello, this is Laura. Listen, I've been trying to post this file out, but I didn't want to before reaching you because it came out better than I expected.

00:32:48
Speaker 2: It's better than she expected.

00:32:49
Speaker 3: Not only were you approved for a personal loan up to $ 55, 000 at just 6%, but we were actually able to get you an exception for an extended payoff term. which means a lower monthly payments than usual. That's not something we can always do. So I didn't want that to flip past you, whatever you've got going on cards to pay down something big coming up. This can cover it. So do me a favor and just give me a call back.

00:33:11
Speaker 2: I'm going to give her a call. Yeah, this is Laura. Yeah. It gets worse though. Here's two more. This one came in on Monday.

00:33:20
Speaker 4: There's still happy labor day. I'm at my desk, which tells you something about my life choices.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: Oh, she's working on Labor Day, huh? Did you hear her? Listen, listen.

00:33:30
Speaker 1: There's still.

00:33:31
Speaker 4: Happy Labor Day. I'm at my desk, which tells you something about my life choices. Marla, approval side. Everyone else is off. I came in for about 11 files that expire whether the country's on holiday or not. Yours is one of them. A personal loan.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: $ 54, 000.

00:33:52
Speaker 4: 6% sick.

00:33:54
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:33:54
Speaker 2: Did you notice what she read? She read, she read the thing that said Marla approval side. She, she read the, like the notes on the side.

00:34:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: The sidebar. I'll say this. She's got party girl voice. She sounds hot.

00:34:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: But she's AI and she's still reading the, they must've typed in, like they must've uploaded a script.

00:34:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:34:12
Speaker 2: And it said Marla approval side. And she just read it. She just read it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm here on labor day at my desk, which tells you something about my life choices and, Now she's being passive-aggressive. She's AI. So here's my new favorite one. This one came in yesterday.

00:34:27
Speaker 1: New rule on my desk this week. If you call back, I owe the whole office donuts.

00:34:36
Speaker 3: Technically, you're calling these seats about 12 people beneath the lending side.

00:34:42
Speaker 1: And the thing they've all been calling you about is actually decent.

00:34:45
Speaker 3: A personal loan, bigger amount.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: Did you catch that? Yeah. New rule on my desk this week. If you call back, I owe the whole, and she's laughing.

00:34:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: She's like, I owe the whole office donuts. So technically you calling me feeds about 12 people beneath the lending side. So if everyone gets a callback, everyone buys donuts for everyone else. That's how that works. You know, it's just funny how they're becoming more playful and more, they're less polished about their script and they're laughing. They're talking a little staccato in the middle of their script. I think it's hysterical.

00:35:19
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:35:20
Speaker 2: I got that. I noticed it. I know you. You slammed. My life sucks.

00:35:24
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: I got nothing. I'm a loser. I got nothing to do but come in on Labor Day and deal with these 11 files. And I'm hoping my coworker buys me donuts if she gets a call back. Fuck you. Hey, question. What would happen if you fell into that trap? Is that a scamboni? Or are they trying to get money out of your bank account? I asked ChatGPT what the purpose of this is. Yeah, what is the end game for these people? Because what I did was I called back from my Google number and I star six sevened it so that they couldn't see the number. And when you call, it says there's nobody here to answer your call right now, right? Leave a message if you want. But it's a company, right? So somebody would answer the phone. You just called me. What they want to know is, is your phone active? And a lot of times they're just getting you to call back so they can sell your phone number to companies that are trying to like scam you or sell you stuff. They're just trying to prove that your line is legitimate, which is why if somebody calls you and I've said this before, don't hit the hang up button because then they know you're monitoring your calls. Don't do anything. Anyway, my point was AI. One last AI story. I called, I had a problem with fanatics, which is a, um, Sports memorabilia. Not sports memorabilia. Sports stuff. Yeah, Michael Rubin's company. I don't know who that is. He owns Fanatics. Oh, all right. Well, I don't know who Michael Rubin is. You're saying it like I should know who Michael Rubin is. Anyway, I'll tell you the problem I had with Fanatics the next break if you want. Okay. When I called, I needed to speak to a real person because my issue was something a little unusual. So I get it. She goes, hi, hey, thanks for calling Fanatics. how can I help you? My name's Kim. I said, Hey Kim, my name's David. Um, I would love to talk to, uh, uh, I said, I, I, I need to talk to a representative about a problem. Well, I can help you tell me what your problem is. And I could hear it. She was good. And I said, uh, Kim, um, I really need to speak to someone about my return. Well, I can help you tell me what the problem is. And I was like, you know what? Um, Kim, are you AI? Well, as a matter of fact, I am, I'm a, I'm Canada, uh, uh, Canada fanatics, Canada, uh, AI, uh, your, your, uh, electronic assistant, whatever she called herself. He didn't say AI electronic assistant, but I'm sure I can help you. And I said, Nope, I'm pretty sure you can't help me. If I could speak to a live representative, I know you want to speak to the library representative. I get that all the time. Oh my God. She did the, the, the, the half, half choke off.

00:38:02
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: Off. Yeah. Mike. Yeah.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: Laugh.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: Like, but trust me, I can probably help you. I know you're doubting that right now, but go ahead. Give it a shot. Run your problem by me. I said, are you pretending to be AI? Like, is that the joke? Like when I go, when people like say they answer their answering machine, they go, hello, hello. I can't hear you. You can be like, ah, just kidding. Leave a message. I go, are you pretending to be AI, Kim? And you're not AI? No, I'm an automated electronic system here, but I'm trained to help on any problem. So whatever it is, you go right ahead. And she's talking to me like a normal person. And I said, listen, I trust you. I get it. But I have a problem with an exchange. Oh, I wish change. I'm an expert exchanges. How can I help you?

00:38:47
Speaker 1: No, really?

00:38:48
Speaker 2: I want to speak to a person because I have a unique exchange. Yeah. Everyone thinks it's unique, but I'm telling you, I can help you. I said, I'm telling you, you can't. You know what? Give it a shot. What do you got to? And she's having a real conversation with me. It was the honest thing. Everything I said, she's like, yeah, I know. It takes getting used to. She's rolling with it. Yeah, well, they're smarter now. And they're only going to get smarter than this. So how did you get off the phone with this AI creature? I cursed like I did the last time I told you. I go, you know what? I don't fucking trust you. Please fucking transfer me. Hold on. Oh, really? Because once it starts, you're getting upset. Yeah.

00:39:32
Speaker 3: Once.

00:39:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So I was like, you know what? I appreciate you. I do get, I get me the fuck off. I got to speak to a human. I'm sorry. I apologize. I'm going to offend you. I got, when I, when I got to the person, it was, um, It was a difficult process. Do I have time to tell you this story real quick? After this break. Okay. Well, when we come back, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what happened with fanatics and how I had to pull teeth to get the thing fixed. You're such a busy man while I'm on vacation, Brody. Well, so a friend of mine had a birthday party, a milestone birthday party, and I ordered him a shirt and, He's a Yankees fan. He's one of my few friends that's a Yankees fan. I ordered him a Spencer Jones jersey, which is the t-shirt with the number and the name on the back. Okay. And he wears an extra large. So I placed the order and I realized that I made a mistake with the coupon code. First time customers get 20% off, something like that. So I voided the transaction. I had to create a new account with a different email address, reorder the shirt and then send it. To me, I had it mailed to me and I brought it to the party, put it in the bag and I gave it to him. Well, three days later he says, Hey man, I never chance to look at the bag, but the shirt doesn't fit. It's not even close. It's like a child's extra large. Oh shit. I go, I don't, they must've sent you the wrong shirt. So I, I look up their return policy and it says free returns and exchanges will cover shipping. I go, that's, that's really nice. I said, okay. So I'm like, you know what? Let me call. and confirm how I handle this because he has the shirt. Can I forward something to him? What do I have to do? So I call. And this is when I get the AI woman. And I realize I looked at my order. I had ordered him a women's extra large instead of a man's extra large. In my reordering, I clicked the first Spencer Jones shirt. I was like, oh, extra large, boom. And it was a woman's shirt. So I couldn't, that's why I couldn't talk to the AI because it's a free exchange for size. Yeah. But I also got the wrong gender. Okay. So I was like. They have to plan for that, that that happens, you know?

00:41:51
Speaker 3: Yes.

00:41:51
Speaker 2: So there has to be a fix.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: Right.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: So I get the guy on the phone, very nice guy. And he says, here's what you need to do. I'll send you a label and you can ship back the other one. And when we get it, we'll give you your money back. Okay. And you'll, you'll, but you need to order the shirt again. And I said, I don't want to order the shirt again. I don't want to, first of all, I don't want to pay the money again, but also I got a first time customer code, but 20% off. So can I, will you get me that? No, no, you're not a first time customer anymore. And he goes, and yeah, and I, you have to pay for shipping. I go, Oh no, I don't. You're supposed to do free exchanges, right? oh, well, yeah, but the way to do it is you have to buy a new one and then we'll credit you the old one when we get it back. And I said, but it's supposed to be a free exchange. I'll lose my discount with like 12 bucks, whatever it was. He's like, well, we can't. I go, either get me someone else on the phone or go reread your policy. I said, I don't want to have to. So I had to argue with this guy for a while. Finally, he sent me a return label for the first one right? That it's easy to mail back because originally he's like, you got to bring it into a store. And I go, no, no, no. Just it's a, it's a free exchange. You're going to pay the right. Okay. So he goes, I go in, order the shirt.

00:43:13
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:43:13
Speaker 2: And I'll, I'll put the credit on your account for 10%. I said, no, no, it was 20%. Oh, I can't give you the 20%. Oh yeah, you can because you're supposed to do an even exchange for me. So he's like, well, I can't do that. I go, Yes, you effing can. I said a little nicer than that. I go, go find out, go ask somebody how you do it. Comes back, goes, I can do that for you. Okay, great. So I go in, I go in, he talks me through it. I go to place the order and it says $ 6. 99 for shipping. I said, sir, I'm not paying $ 6. 99 for shipping. Well, you have to, you have to ship it to your, I have to ship it to you. I said, I already paid for shipping. Your return policy is supposed to be We exchange it. We pay the shipping. Yeah. Oh, well, well, we don't pay the shipping. This new one, you know, you made the mistake. I go, I know.

00:44:00
Speaker 4: Oh boy.

00:44:01
Speaker 2: But your policy is, that's why I didn't buy it on Amazon. Your policy is free exchanges. We cover the shipping. Yes. So we'll ship it back, but we're not going to cover the shipping to get the new one to you. I go, that's not a free exchange. So he says, well, it's just 699. I said, go ask somebody. So he goes, he comes back. He goes, all right, we'll cover the shipping. So if you don't, if you don't ask for things, you don't get, you don't get things. Yeah. I've learned that. I've learned that.

00:44:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:44:35
Speaker 2: So thank you. Thank you. They did the right thing. Um, but yeah, I ordered a women's and I told, I first, I was like, dude, did you gain weight? You don't fit in the shirt. And it turns out it's a woman's shirt. So yeah, it happens. It happens. Did you ever do that? Did you ever buy like a, the wrong, uh, gender or, or, or age. Yeah, no, no. I bought the wrong size thinking I was a large when I'm really an XL and I'm like, Oh fuck, this thing is too small for me. Do you remember, I don't know if it's still the case now, but, um, my, my many, many, many years ago, my wife bought me this really cool skater shirt from Abercrombie and it was an extra large. And I put it, I could barely get it on. Scary. It was like, it was like putting on a hat. Like I was like, do you do a little stretch? Do you stretch the shirt a little bit? I tried. So I was like, listen, I said, I said, I, I, I don't think I've gained any weight. And I know Abercrombie runs their clothes very small. She's like, yeah, that's why I got an extra large. Cause I wear like a larger and extra large depending on the cut.

00:45:35
Speaker 3: Right.

00:45:35
Speaker 2: I can wear a larger and extra large. So she's like, maybe it's just cut small. I'll go back and I'll, I don't know. I should maybe get your double X. I go, no, no, no, no, not one, not one, a double X. Even if it's really an X, I'm not wearing a double X. Yeah.

00:45:50
Speaker 3: Right.

00:45:51
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, which we didn't know at the time. Cause it was new. Back in the day, and I don't know if they still do it, Abercrombie was for kids, and Abercrombie and Fitch was for adults. She bought the shirt in Abercrombie. Abercrombie. Oh, okay, okay. It was a kid's extra large, and that's why I couldn't fucking fit it. That made you feel a little better. I will say, though, there's this great company. It's a European company called Reiss, R-E-I-S-S. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I loved it. Wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not a sponsor? No way. No way. I wish. I wish they were a sponsor. Slices, you heard it coming. Slices, you heard it. Reese, if you want to join, please, I beg. They have some amazing shirts and some clothing and pants. The thing is, if you Google Reese, R-E-I-S-S, well, you'll notice. Well, unless you try it on, you won't notice, but... Their shit runs so fucking small because they're a European company that it kills me that I'm a double XL in their shirts. It's such a mind fuck that if I really want to buy one of their shirts, I'm like, it says XXL on it. And I'm just like... I've lost all this weight, Brody. I'm down like close to 30 pounds now. I'm doing well for myself. This is third quarter scary. We're going into the fourth quarter, and I'm looking like second quarter scary. I don't know if you noticed, but I'm keeping the weight off. It's a rolling. It's a slow, slow burn.

00:47:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:47:29
Speaker 2: But I'm continuing to lose weight slowly, step by step, and I'm not gaining it back. And I feel great. And I'm just letting you know, I don't want to buy a fucking XXL shirt because I feel like I've earned the right to not wear an XXL. But their clothing is so fucking cool that... I don't care. Well, can you get the label off? Can you put a label over the label? I bought three of their shirts, Brody, and they're all double XL. And I'm like, what am I doing? But can you imagine just.

00:48:03
Speaker 2: It's just because I'm looking at it. Just because there's another fucking X there, I have a problem with it. Why? I shouldn't have a problem with it. I know damn well their fit model is fucking a twig, and that's the reason why. By the way, I didn't mean to imply it's not that big. Double XL is not... XL is what they consider XL. But it's for whatever reason, it's all in my head, I didn't want to buy XXL because it said XXL, but knowing that I'm much smaller than I was. Yeah. You know who does that? Like when you buy sports jerseys on the bottom of the, like the, the tail in the front, like the, the flap, the, the, the, you know, the bottom of the shirt, they'll put like Rawlings or Nike and then the size of the shirt. Why do I want to advertise to people what size the shirt I'm wearing is? Why was that the place? Nobody tucks in their shirt. Yeah. So when you wear a sports jersey, you don't tuck it in your pants unless you're playing the game. Oh, who used to do that on the jeans label? They used to be branded in there. Like, was it Levi? Yeah, Levi does that. Levi. It's a size fucking 40. Yeah, I need people looking at my ass going, oh, yeah. It's a 40. Now, look, if you're a double X man shirt, No offense to the 40s out there. No offense.

00:49:16
Speaker 3: Right.

00:49:16
Speaker 2: But like, I don't, yeah, you're right. You don't want that shit on display. No, Levi. ladies and you can leave us to talk back on this if you want if i gave you a dress to wear you love the dress loved it you fit perfectly in the dress but let's say you're a size six but the dress says 14 are you buying it Yeah. You buying that dress? That's the same. That's the same thing with the research right there. Same exact scenario. Let us know. But I'm like, you know what? I kind of like their style. I don't give a fuck. Who's going to see the label? Nobody but me.

00:49:47
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:49:47
Speaker 2: But okay. Let me, let me, let me take it to another extreme. Cause this just happened to me. I was looking at, um, a type of footwear. Now, you know, I wear a size 12 shoe sneaker and it said, uh, this company sizes is, is always recommends you go one size up because they, their shoes are a little, they, they little narrower. So they want me to buy a 13. First of all, if this is the company writing it, if the company knows they size up, they just fucking size down. Don't make a 13 to 12. I don't want to buy a 13. Don't tell me buy a 13. Just make a 13 to 12. Why can't companies... Just say, let's appeal. Listen, let's appeal to the masses. Let's make people feel good about themselves. No, no, no. Let's change that into a medium. Let's change that to a, let's make that, hey, Scary Jones, who fits into our XXL shirt, let's resize everything, call it something different like Starbucks does, and make that a medium. Then I'll buy 12 of your shirts. Doesn't that double? No. I'll tell you why they don't do that, because they worked in retail. That would double the revenue. In many years. No, it won't. Yes, it will. It will kill the business. I'll tell you why. If you're Abercrombie and Fitch, what's the image of Abercrombie and Fitch? At this point, who even knows? They're so outdated. What are their ads known for? They're known for like hot, skinny girls and guys. Yes.

00:51:14
Speaker 3: Right.

00:51:15
Speaker 2: So if you think of the brand Abercrombie and Fitch, you think of thin, toned, muscular, hot girls wearing skimpy clothing, right? If they make their clothing for fat people and put the fat guy who's a double X into a large and people go, oh, did you buy that shirt, fat guy? Oh, Abercrombie and Fitch. Now fat people are wearing their clothing. They don't want fat people wearing their clothing. They deliberately size their shit small so that small people wear their clothing. So that when you think of them, you'll think of hot, trendy, thin people. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. Completely wrong. And by the way, a big miss because most of America is on the larger side. No, it's a little miss. It's a little miss. Little miss can't be wrong, spin doctors. That's right. Thank you. But I don't understand where the logic is. It'll kill their business. No, it won't. It's like clubs, Gary. If the clubs let in all the freaks and the weirdos instead of the hot people, what's going to happen? It goes to shit.

00:52:16
Speaker 4: Right.

00:52:16
Speaker 2: They want the trendy people. So they're like, well, I don't understand. Why can't they let the untrendy people in? Because the trendy people won't want to go there. But my economic logic brain says... Let's see. Most of America is pretty large. So if we size everything down and make large people feel good about themselves and we allow and we size and we have sizes for those bigger people. I already told you why. I already told you why. We're going to make more money. We're going to make quadruple. Oh, scary. You're going to answer your own question because I'm going to put it in terms you can understand. In 1992, 1993, What was the biggest genre of music? Grunge.

00:52:58
Speaker 3: Right.

00:52:59
Speaker 2: Now, what radio station in New York played the biggest hits? Z100.

00:53:05
Speaker 3: Right.

00:53:06
Speaker 2: And what happened when Z100 opened up their playlist to add grunge to their playlist because it was popular? What happened to Z100, Scary? It tanked in the ratings. That's right. It went down to 17th place. But it should have opened up a larger audience. But what happened? The thin people didn't want to hear the fat people music. And I'm not saying grunges. I'm saying and making an analogy. The pop kids did not want to hear grunge on the pop station. And, by the way, conversely, the grunge kids were not coming to Z100 to hear their grunge because that's the pop kid station. So it was a lose-lose. Well, I went to a rock concert in 1994 or 95, 94, 93. And Z100 showed up.

00:53:47
Speaker 3: What?

00:53:47
Speaker 2: Did Z100 show up? It was a Z100 concert. And by the way, at that time, this was before you were working for Z100, and you were just a rock kid. Right. Like, what the fuck is this station doing here? The Z100 DJ came out. I know him now. Professionally, I know him. But the Z100, hey, everybody, it's DJ blah, blah, blah from Z100. Scary, they almost picked up chairs and threw them at the stage. Homo, poser. every word you could imagine, get off the fucking stage. You have no credibility. So the same reason why Z100 doesn't play country music and doesn't play hard rock and heavy metal, even if it's popular, because you got to do what your brand is. Z100 plays pop music. But don't you know that Ella Langley, you know, choosing Texas- Well, I'll tell you what. It was the number one song of the summer, according to Danielle this morning on her report. Yep, and it doesn't play on Z100. We played it. Because that's not your core audience. We played it this morning. Elvis can do that. No, it actually got added to Z100' s playlist this week. Did it? Yes. Okay, two months too late because they're fucking desperate at this point. Stop it. To play it. No, I don't mean desperate. I'm saying like they realize now it's an avalanche of fame and popularity. It's still polarizing. We played it today on the air. It got positives and negatives. Yes, because it's a song about Abilene, Texas, and doing the two-step. And New Yorkers don't want to hear that in general. The point is, you have to know your market. You can't have fat people wearing Abercrombie. You can't. Okay. Man, this is depressing. We've got to take a break. Listen, I'm not a small person. I feel you. That's why I don't shop at Abercrombie. Okay, Depeche Mode. They don't want me to. Ooh, nicely done. That wasn't even– I pulled that one out of my ass. That was good. The Depeche Mode reference before the break. That was good, yeah. So I just wanted to promote something before we move forward because– You know, sometimes Brody promotes his podcast that he's on when he makes special appearances. A couple of weeks ago, I told you about this, but now it's been released. It's been released. I was on a podcast called The Brooklyn Stoop. Two sanitation workers, New York City sanitation workers, Who work early in the morning and then have all their afternoons off. Decided to put a podcast together. And these guys are hilarious. Ralph and Chris are fucking hysterical. And they have the Brooklyn Stoop. It's on YouTube. You can see it. And basically, if you don't know what a stoop is, it's basically a porch with a staircase. And usually in a row attached row house. And, um, we filmed it at, I guess, one of their mom's houses in Brooklyn in, in the heart of Bensonhurst. And we, we sat on the stoop and then one guy was on the left. One guy was on the right. I was the guest. I was in the middle. And if you want to hear a little bit, you know, me of me shooting the shit about Z100, about, about my career, about anything like that. Um, watch the 45 minute video. We also did Brody, you'd be proud. We did a live phone tap on Ralphie's mom. Now, I explained to Ralph, I said, bro, I said, these phone taps are prepared in advance where we get these emails. They give us a scenario of what's going on in their life. And we do a shit ton of research before we make a phone call. And before we ever get on the phone with the target, because when we get on the phone with them, we better be fucking prepared for 11 ways till Sunday. So we don't get, so they don't think it's a joke. And Ralph didn't care. He goes, nah, don't worry about it. He goes, here's the scenario. My mom has had the floors ripped up, and she's waiting on compensation, and the house is a mess. She gave me some basic sketchy details, and she wanted me to call as the adjuster or the person who's giving them the money from the city, whatever it is, the insurance company, whatever, and that she's expecting a large sum of money, and I was going to tell her that it's worth like nothing. Brody, we did on speakerphone, on the stoop, a live fucking phone tap on his mom. And I just was winging it. And it turned out to be hysterical. Do you have airable quality audio or no? I might next week. It's a little, because, listen, the phone taps took us 10, 15, 20 minutes to wind somebody up and make them fucking pissed off and curse. And they're just in the magic of editing and post-production. We condense it to the four minutes that you hear on the radio. Not what I call them. Well, sometimes Brody would light them up like a Christmas tree right away. Well, so this one took about 10 minutes before she got, and you know, it went somewhere, I guess. Was it great? No, but for, for live on the spot, convincing me to do it in the moment. I thought it was pretty damn good. And we got her really good. And, you know, I had to be a little mean to her to get her to kind of curse. But she was a nice woman, too. That's the other thing. Did you call her the C word? No, I was not going to do that on camera. I did. I did indirectly call her a bitch as I was handing the phone away. I said, you just talk to this bitch. Classic Skeeter. I was like, yeah, you talk to this bitch. Just like that. Yeah, yeah, I got it. You know how it's done. Anyway, so watch the Brooklyn Stoop. So now that was just one part of it. That's on YouTube. That's the video. But then we went into the city and we actually did the other part of what they do is they got paid, you got played bit, where... They review the reviewer. So if someone like Jack's dining room went to go, uh, review like Ellen B's promoting gardens pizza and said it was awesome. These guys show up there and eat it for themselves and decide if the influencer got paid to say that, or if it was really good. So we went to Danny and Coop's cheesesteaks in the city in, in Manhattan on the East village and, which is Bradley Cooper's spot with the guy, the collab with the guy from Philly. Yeah, you told us this a couple episodes ago. We did that. We did G's Cheesesteaks, and then we went to, I told you about the Shangata Cannoli from Venero's. Yeah, in the refrigerator. It was cold and soggy. It was pre-piped. Anyway, those clips are on YouTube. Those clips are on their Instagram page. Why don't you post them? Post a link on your Instagram so people can find you. I reposted them, and I did collabs. I actually accepted the collaboration. But go to the– watch the 45-minute sit-down I did with them and the unedited versions of these reviews if you can. And these are good guys. It's Ralph and Chris. I don't know. I think we should do something with them, Brody. I could feel something coming. I'm telling you. Will they acknowledge me this time? Of course. They know you. They remember you. They love you. They grew up listening to you. Oh, my phone must have been, I must have been getting a call from a lone person. While you were spinning Nicki Minaj, you were doing phone taps in between. Yeah. Hey, by the way, do you know why a stoop is called a stoop in Brooklyn? Is it short for stupid? No, you'd think it was. Stupid. It actually comes from the Dutch word S-T-O-E-P, which means step. And when Dutch settlers came to America, they brought their architecture of the stoop, the steps leading to your front door, to avoid getting water damage when the floods would rise. Manhattan is an island. Brooklyn is off the water. So before they built the proper barricades along the water, water would come up through the streets. So they elevated all the buildings. We had to walk up a few steps to get to the front door. So that when the floodwaters... Who knew? When the floodwaters would come by, it wouldn't get into your door because your door was five or six steps up. And as New Yorkers, we utilize those steps for hanging out, for bouncing a ball off of, or hanging out on the stoop. But the stoop is a Dutch word for step, and that's where the name came from. We always used to sit on my stoop. The stoop was a special place. There's one to grow on. There's one to grow on. Hey, did we take our breaks already? I think we're done taking breaks. I hope so. If I missed one, iHeart's going to catch me. That fucking AI is right in there, man. They'll go to commercial for me. Well, I'll tell you what. If you have to add a commercial break, let's pretend we're going to commercial here. All right? Hold on. We'll be right back. except we're not back except we never went away unless right but you need to stick one in there if you just heard commercials no no no no but no no what happens is the ai if i don't put enough breaks in there ai will take over and just find a break what i'm saying is when you go to post this you'll see how many breaks you oh okay yeah okay all right very good um So in the case that we may have to get out of here, you want to hear about my medical scamboni or the fight I got into at Costco with an old man? I want to, I mean, there's nothing, who's the old man in this? You or the, is there somebody else? You asshole. I said a fight with an old man. Oh, okay.

01:03:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:03:12
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the old man fight. You tell me how, on a scale of one to 10, how wrong am I in this one? All right. So I'm in Costco. And I'm pushing my cart. Now, Costco has a self-checkout line, right? There's like six registers where you can go and you check out your own stuff. And if they're very busy, there'll be an employee there with a gun, with a scanning gun, and they'll scan everything for you. Right. Okay? Or you can get online at the registers. But the register lines are usually very, very long. Yeah. And because there's six self-checkout registers, it moves faster. But the line usually goes up an aisle. Like it goes like all the way up an aisle because there's people waiting to use the six registers. So I'm going up the main aisle behind all the people online for the registers. My target has a, has the same layout with the youth. You go up the aisle because they can't fit people. They can't snake. There's not enough room. That's correct. So I have to now make a right turn. and because the aisles are two carts wide, I have to now make a right and go against the line all the way to the back of the line and then turn around and get on the end of the line. Okay? So I make the right turn, and as I'm making the right turn, one of the wheels of my cart hits the corner of the display at the end of the aisle. So it catches the corner. Whoops.

01:04:35
Speaker 3: Right?

01:04:36
Speaker 2: Whoops. And so my cart jerks forward, and it bangs... Scary. I wasn't running. I was walking. The cart bangs into the guy's cart. Who's the first in line in the aisle. Right. He's a, he's an older guy and he, he sort of like takes a step back. Like, Whoa, like that.

01:04:56
Speaker 3: Right.

01:04:56
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, like he got bumped. So I go, Whoa, Whoa. So I'm so very sorry, sir. Very sorry. Immediately. And I put my hands up and go, sorry about that. I could have fallen. I go, are you okay? What, are you kind of crazy person are you? Sir, are you all right? Oh, man. Yeah, but I could have been hurt. Okay, but were you hurt? No, but I could have been hurt. I'm 82 years old. Okay, but it was an accident, sir. I said I was sorry and you're okay. I could have fallen backwards, hit my head. I could have been killed. Okay, but you didn't fall backwards. I didn't hit you deliberately. I wasn't speeding. None of the above happened. Crisis averted. He should be thanking himself and thanking his lucky stars that he didn't get hurt. I'm being apologetic, sir. I'm very polite. I was raised well. I'm very sorry. I understand you're older. I understand you could have been hurt, and you might have gotten a scare. Are you okay? You seem like you're okay. You're back on the cart. I apologize. It was an accident. I hope you have a nice day. Again, I'm sorry. Ah, you're an asshole. I said, sir, there's no reason to curse me. You're fine. You didn't do any of the things that could have happened. I said, but if you're 82, maybe don't give yourself a heart attack. Stay calm. Are you saying I'm going to have a heart attack? Nope. All right, Billy Joel. Yeah. You also said have a nice day earlier. That's Bon Jovi. But continue. Yeah, that's correct. I missed that one. Oh, the Bon Jovi have a nice day story. We got to talk about that. Not yet, but continue with this one first.

01:06:34
Speaker 4: Oh, no.

01:06:35
Speaker 2: It was It's My Life. Was it It's My Life? It was It's My Life.

01:06:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.

01:06:39
Speaker 2: Next episode. All right, Dr. Dre and Snoop. Oh, next episode. All right.

01:06:44
Speaker 3: Sorry.

01:06:44
Speaker 2: Continue.

01:06:45
Speaker 3: Okay.

01:06:45
Speaker 2: So I, I, I turned my cart to go up the aisle and I start walking away and I hear him go, eh, crazy fucking asshole. I go, sir, drop it, drop it. You're fine. You're fine. Let it go. Let it go. All right, Elsa. So the guy behind him who has witnessed all of this says to him, sir, just go to the next register. Calm, calm the hell down. Tells the guy to calm the hell down. I heard. Wow. And he gave me the wink. The guy was like, give me, give me like the nod and the wink. I go, thank you, sir. Was he looking for trouble? He, listen, he's an older guy. He was, I get it. He was scared for a second. I get it. And, and listen, between you and me, like after the fact, I get you're old and you're upset. I get it. But I get what point you're like, he's going running down the list. I could have had my leg amputated. I could have, I could have, I could have, could have, could have, could have, could have any fill in the blank med libs. I don't know. It could have, but you know, I guess again, it wasn't like I was speeding. I don't want to get, I don't want to be like that when I'm older, please don't let me get like that when I'm older, please.

01:07:52
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:07:52
Speaker 2: So that was my, that was my cost. Thank God for the guy behind him who took, who took my side and told the guy to be quiet. Cause I was like, dude, why do you want me? What do you want me to do? I have apologized. I asked if you're okay. Do you need anything? I could have. I could have. I might have. I should have. I could have. So I'm sorry you're old. I'm sorry you got scared. It was an act. Legitimate. And it wasn't like hot rodding it. I wasn't like riding on the back of the car and I flew in there. Right, right. Hey, as we get out of here, and again, it was so long ago, I don't even remember. Did we do the podcast after the Harry Styles concert that I went to? Because I have this on my list. Tell me what happened in the Harry Styles concert. The firehouse, the firehouses, the firemen after the show? Yes. We talked about that on the podcast. Yes. Yep. Another one tonight, by the way. Man, they got 30. God bless that firehouse. They are right down the block from Madison Square Garden, and there's 30 Harry Styles shows, including one tonight and a couple more this weekend. So I'm sure they'll be out there after the show, hanging out, blasting the music. Lauren, speaking of which Lauren and the fans, I don't know who this guy is. Let me go to, let me go to my tick tock, my tick tock activity here. Hold on. Tick tock, tick tock activity, tick tock activity, talk tip. What's been going on in your talktivity? This guy, have you ever heard of a performer named Nori N O R Y? No, I just know a guy named Noriega, old school rapper from New York. No? No.

01:09:23
Speaker 3: Norie?

01:09:24
Speaker 2: No, this is a young guy with a mustache. He looks like Benson Boone with long curly hair. Okay. Anyway, he says it's actually crazy. By the way, actually and literally in the same sentence is a bit much for me. Actually crazy, literally played MSG yesterday, and I'm doing it again tonight. This was August 8th. So whoever he is, he played. And then he says, I played the garden and here I am literally 10 minutes later. I'm on the New York city subway. So yeah, I'm going to ask you what you think the comments were. First of all, I never heard of this guy. I don't know how he played. Well, is he an opener for someone? What was the night bro? As we say, we have a computer in our pocket. I want to know. I want to know who we opened for. So look it up. August 8th. Some guy named Nori N O R Y. He's a singer. Okay. And he's wearing his own concert shirt, it looks like. He's wearing himself on his shirt. And he says, New York City is crazy because how am I on the subway 10 minutes after playing MSG? Okay. It looks like Nori opened for... Here comes Gemini, the Google search engine, the Google AI. Hurry it up. He opened for... Oh, he's, he was a featured artist alongside the jazz duo Zohar and Adam to open the main stage of the inaugural Brooklyn jazz festival. Now that, that doesn't make any sense. Okay. Thank you. It doesn't matter. He played the stage of MSG.

01:10:51
Speaker 1: All right.

01:10:51
Speaker 2: But anyway, so, so the point was, he's like all excited that now I'm riding the subway that I was on the stage at MSG. Okay. So the comments, if you know, New York city, you know, New York city, um, One person wrote, Jay-Z did the same thing. He just didn't post about it. New York City don't care. This city humbles you no matter what. Let's see. And no one's bothering you. New York City's great. New York City has been that way for centuries. That's why it makes New York City the best. No one cares who the hell you are.

01:11:29
Speaker 3: Great.

01:11:31
Speaker 2: Let's see. You walk off stage, and the subway's right there. Perfect. New York City's awesome. And some person wrote, who are you? And Nori wrote, Nori. His response was, he's Nori. Once again, who are you in the comments? Or who is this person? Never heard of you.

01:11:48
Speaker 3: Right.

01:11:49
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you're following the account? I'm not. He just popped up in my... No, I'm saying, did he write that on his own account?

01:11:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:11:59
Speaker 2: Okay, then how the fuck did somebody get in his comments if they... They had to have been following him. So they had to have known who he was. Well, scary. It comes up in your for you section. I guess. Anyway, all the people are like, dude, it's not a big deal. Rich, famous people ride the subway all the time. That's true. He was like, but his thing was like, I can't believe I'm on a New York City subway. I just played Madison Square Garden.

01:12:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:12:20
Speaker 2: Dude, everybody does that. Everybody does it. The fucking New York Knicks ride the subway to the game. Like, it's not. Of course. It's not everybody. It's New York. It's New York, baby. It's New York. Yeah. The greatest city in the world. By the way, By the way, did you see who's hosting the first episode of Saturday Night Live this season? No, who? Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks.

01:12:38
Speaker 3: Nice!

01:12:39
Speaker 2: He's hosting? Hosting. Wild. Well, he's not the musical guest. Yeah, he's hosting. That's great. All right. Thank you so much. Let's get on the subway, Brody. And go where? To Brooklyn! The Voice! From Brooklyn!

01:12:58
Speaker 4: Brooklyn!

01:12:59
Speaker 2: The Voice!

01:13:02
Speaker 3: Brooklyn!