#110 Fisted & Forked

have not gotten one summer sausage yet. Well, this is the this is my complaint. Why is it that, after all the cookies and cupcakes and pastries that have made their way to the stud video and through you and through me, do we have to order art Choke pizza on Friday? That's like the big fuck you. I made a mistake. We made a huge error. Do we need more carbs? Hold on, just call me CARBB. So today one of Elvis's friends was it Vinny what's his name?

Vinny Vinny Vinny Pastries, Vinny Vinny Cakes, Vinny Cakes, v I n n Y Cakes, Vinny Cakes on Instagram like a mom the guys. He's from our old neighborhood. He's he's from ty Heights in Brooklyn's like next next nigh good guy. Good guy. He brings up unbelievable assortment of like a dozen different cookies, pastries, mostly cookies and then filled pastries. Okay, So it was a blueberry crumb cake like like it was like a little square like two why two? But I said to him, I go, this

is I'll tell you why this is special. You know, some kind of sometimes cakes they put the filling, the fruit filling right in the middle, a little squirt in the middle. He put it like a ribbon throughout throughout, so like from the sides you could see the blueberry. It was everywhere. I said, Vinny, blueber everywhere. He goes, Yeah, that's that's our specialty. And then I started giving him. I started giving him because I was joking around him. He was in the like you know, because some Staten

Island He's like, hey, I'm Vinnie. So I was joking around with him, like, you know, he's from a tough neighborhood with you know, people who might be in an organization, let's just say organized at what they do. And so I said, you know, he said, what are those called? They said? He said, those are called thumb prints. That chocolate they called thumb prints. I said, you should call him. IM going to break your thumb prints because I love that. I said, And you could call I said, I said,

see that muffin, you can call out it. You didn't see muffin. You don't know muffin. He's like, you're good at puns. I'm like, you're very small. You know. The the thumb prints obviously someone put their thumb in the middle to create a little divid and then they poured a dollop of chocolate and they baked it in and it's so damn good. The best part, you know. I And I told him, I said, look, dude, I said, you're not on the map. And a lot of people

you know from the borough's Brooklyn Staten Island. It's like, you don't know nothing. You didn't say nothing. You didn't know nothing. I'm like, why don't you be that guy? It will go viral. You'll be the biggest business known to man. I said, get your certificates, whatever you need for the Board of Health, but don't have a location ever. Don't have a brick and mortar. Just keep it on

Instagram because that's how he has it. Right now, Folks like you can't get in touch with it, I said, I said, I said, how do you if somebody wants a book, a wedding or something, or you know, buy your pastry. He doesn't want to make money, just just I do it for fun. He goes hit me up on Instagram dm me. I said, yeah, but you have a whole business that you don't really he doesn't have any employees, I know, but he can grow his business and be the bakery. But it's we're really not baker.

His mother though. His mother mother sent up one thing. She said, Oh, I want to send it up for them. I love them. She's not spaghetti pie. You don't know what spaghetti pie is. Your life is not what it could be. Google it. It's uh, what's basically like, you put a little cheese in it to keep the spaghetti together, maybe a little ham. Some people put peas. I screw

you on the piece. This guy his mother putting no peas and anyway, So my point was that you bake it like big z D. But it gets to spaghetti crispy, and then you slice like a like like squaz cut like squaz out. It's like noodle pudding. If you're jew you know what noodle pudding is. But it's spaghetti. Some people put a little sauce on top, sauce on the side. His mom is so oh, it's so good, Thank you mom, Mom. Of any cakes, well, he made a thing called chocolate

syrup cake. He made terms yeah it's no oreo cookie, term messieux. He didn't even know that. I got, yeah, we're scary going. So the point was Andrew or that was this is Andrew. You know he's a co host of the serial podcast. He says we should have pizza to martws our last day before vacation. Where do you want pizza from? So I gave him a list of a couple but I was like, you know, you can't go wrong without a choke, I said, mom, Mom, Mom is two is great? H A bunch of places that

are you hearing the words? Coming understand that of carbs? I know, but autochoke pizza is my is one of my favorites. But haven't we had enough carbs? Each slices five pounds. But don't forget scary. It's keep this in mind. It's Friday. It's getaway day for me. I'll bring a roll of tinfoil. I'll bring that whole box. Right, almost all you're thinking about the leftovers. You're not thinking about the winter. I'm like a squirrel, not think. You're not

thinking squirrel. You're not thinking about what's going on here though. It's it's carbs on carbs on, carbs on carbs. Can't we bring in beef skewers? Can we bring chicken s? Give me some protein? Screw the carbs. You want to give you some protein? So what do you do? By the way, you said squirrel, I want to give a shout out um couple. By the way, the guy on Twitter, fred Freddie Gordon Jr. Freddie Gordon did a video. This is another one. I haven't seen this one yet. Is

that Freddy Fastbender. No, Freddy Gordon. Let me go to the one he did yesterday. Okay, is a town called Snowfla. Oh my god. Okay, I have not caught up this more free dessert stories. Let me find Freddy's video from Okay, here's Freddy in the snow. We talked about how in the Northeast it was gonna be a squall, a squall, which and Elvis is having you say, squirrel and squall and restaurant. So he went out into the into the cold and did a video. I hope you can hear.

But this is Freddie today yesterday. Oh my god, Oh my god. It's the snow school, the snow milk. You gotta get the squirrels away from the school. That guy made me left. You missed it? Hold on the very ending? Is there is the best part? Are you ah? That's why I talked over you. I don't know what you're talking about. You know that guy was hilarious. Let's see what I we have not heard this. Let's see what he recorded today right here? Uh see episode zero. I

listened to order. Got one question for you, Brody, we're good, right. He's referencing the time Brody stole a candidate did not Chinese restaurant after he thought he was even He grabs a soda and holds it up and goes, we're good as he's walking out. Okay, that guy's a slice for life. That's not exactly what happened. Go back to listen city the episode. Anyway, The point is that we've had way too many carbs in here as it is, how do we end our year and our decade? Here? Have five

pounds of more carbs and sauce and cheese. There's no protein? Is protein? Here's the problem. So we have sausage pizza. We're launching into two weeks of more eating. You have Hanaga coming up. I got Christmas Eve pancakes coming again about New Year's Eve, and I'm a god one on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. We got plans at one of my favorite steakhouses. Where are you going? I'm not telling I can't. I gonna say. I'll tell you when it come back. But you're not taking me,

so that the are you exactly? Because you already getting by the way, Nate from from the up Staring Morning Show, he's been out for with a brain to a brain aneurysm slash stroke. It's called a sub arachnoid. It's something hemorrhage. Yeah, it sounds like a spider and it sounds like a video game. He used to place rachnoid. I said that he because you can break the bricks. D it was arachnoidid. Yeah, that was archonoid, was it? No, it's arachnoid. It could

have been archonid. I think it was. D dude. Let me say, hold on video game archid. My friend could be archonoid. I have a rachnoid on my head for arachnoid. Do you have a rachnoid phobia? I do not, So I said, I have a spider in your head. Anyway. My point is, Nate, it's archonoid. That's what I yeah. Anyway, So, uh, Nate's back. So when he was when he like a week before he came back, he called me and we were we were bullshitting and catching up on stuff and

you know, talking about health and whatever. And you know, one of the things I'm doing while he's out is I'm covering all his work, which is no problem. You know. I had to do it. I did it before he got here. So it was like riding a bike. No. I mean, I'm not bragging. No, I'm not bragging. My point was, I mean we didn't really need him. No, I never said that, dude, I don't know. No, that's not what I said. I said, I know how to

do it. I did it for uh eleven twelve years before he was hired, so that I could free myself up to other stuff. He's listening. It's his role now, God bless him, but it's a It can give you an aneurysm. That the clerical stuff and the sales and the promotions. It's a lot of work. I don't envy either one of you. Right, So to thank me, he said, Brody, I just gonna come back to work. I'm so weak, but I I Brody. I miss you guys, all of you. He says, I'm brody when I come back. I don't

care about Skier. I'm buying you a steak dinner. He said, yeah, just like that. Obviously he wasn't fully recovered from my guess is he won't remember, and I'm never gonna get my my steak dinner from Nadia. But he goes, I'm bian, I'm so get your scar. He's never gonna. I'm gonna get your steak dinner, Brodie for steaks. You now, you have a lot of extra work these days. I gotta like a lot of extra pounds these days. Didn't because we're having more pizza tomorrow. We don't eat pizza. I'm sorry,

I can't get off of this. You don't have to eat the pizza scared. Oh you know, I'm gonna though, I'm gonna I know with the Brooklyn boys have pizza. Okay, So I a an art of Choke pizza place open in Hoboken. Vodka. I have the vodka, by the way. Not a sponsor, by the way. I I d m the guys who owned Auto Choke because they're friends of us. And I said, you know, we talked about pizza all the time. You guys should be would be a great sponsor. I'm her back, yet you are. They franchise it out now,

so up in a location in Manhattan. And so here's what and here's what they do. And I found this out because other places around the country do this when they franchise their products out. If you've got something that's awesome, you have a central essential commissary. They do this with fala falafel from mo Moons, where they force you into buying the actual like for instance, with the falafel place, you have to buy their falafel, their balls, of course,

their sauce, their secret resci franchise. That's what franchise means. You got to know. But the thing you can't that means that gives them quality control, and all you gotta do is pretty much heat it up. And that's what they're doing with with with art Choke and Hoboken, because they have to get the special They get the sauce from a location, they get the crust come from. That's why it tastes just as good as the other locations.

I'm not gonna speak for it Choke, but most franchises, if they pre backage, like if they're getting like the buns and the burgers and everything that's like pizza dough should not come pre made, I'm saying usually, I'm pretty sure that even that is done now if they shipped the dough and the flower, Like when I worked at Chuck E Cheese, a fine establishment back in the day, you would get Chucky Cheese flower and then every franchise

you could buy like your own tomatoes. But you how to use their recipe, how to use the Chucky Cheese recipe. But the thing is, you can't trust them at the local. But no, no, there was a Chucky Cheese seasoning pack like of the regano and the salt pepper pre made. Nothing's left the chance, nothing even but even a Chucky Cheese convey about pizza, which, by the way, we've talked,

we talked about we've talked about this well, conveyer belt pizza. Dude, if you go into a play, if you're a favorite place, god bless you if you like it. But if the best pizza place in your town puts the pizza in one end of an oven and it goes through on a conveyor belt it comes at the other end, it's not the best pizza. It's not. No, it's not, And it's okay when you hungover in a world of some world, in a world of so many choices, unless you don't have a lot of choices. Well here in our area

we do, so there's no excuses. I just can't believe what I see every day. And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna out any specific place, but I'm like, really, I'm like, we got five the best pizza places within any of these places we're thinking of could end up as a sponsors. But guy, I'm always surprised living in Jersey now, Like in North Jersey area, there's a lot of Italians who know good pizza. I'm not saying Irish don't know pizza pizza, but like do better but like

I I know a guy. Uh, he's a friend of a friend. So he's not like my friend because I could never be his friend. But he's a friend of a friend. He's a Talian guy, and uh, he'll go. Yeah. I like ordering from that place, the conveyor belt franchise place, Like, why would you do that when such and such is right there? Yeah? I like it. It comes to bread sticks. It like the salad. I know, you don't want to be Okay, you don't know what the pizza to get breadsticks? Right?

You don't go to a steakhouse because you like the sliced tomatoes. Necessarily you go for the steak, right, you know? Oh, I like I go there at fish place because the tatto sauce is really good. No, you go for the good. If the tatto sauce is good, that's great, But if the fish sucks, who goes there? I go for the breadsticks. You don't go to the pizza place for bread sticks, Okay, so that shouldn't be why you choose your pizza. You know. The other thing is, you know, people sometimes will tweet

me for food advice. I'm coming to the city. Oh, I have a feeling I know where you're going with this because I was writing about this to Ganda and they're like, so I'm gonna be in there? We could December twelfth. Yeah, where should I eat? Where should I go? Wh should I eat? But I'm sitting there like, are you fucking kidding me? There a two thousand restaurants in Manhattan alone. Yeah, no, you know what? Give me parameters? Right? What's your price point? What are you gonna be? Are

you going on a Saturday night? What time of day? What you pick a cuisine narrowed down? Give me a short of vocation of where you're gonna be in Manhattan is huge. And when you say you're coming to New York? Are you going to Brooklyn? Are you going to Queens? I will glad are you going? I will gladly give you. But but zone. We had a text message that came in Wait, a text message came in late last week. Hey, I'm going to Florida. What should I do? Florida? Florida

it's a giant long state. Like are you going to Orlando? You're going to Tampa, You're going to Tallahassee? Where are you going? Are you gonna go to see? S The key even if you're like someone said to me, where should I go for palm in New York? Again, I don't know where you go and what your price point is? Are you going alone? Listen? You know I love cam mines with their family style, which means you spend twenty four dollars for a chicken palm, but it feeds four.

You can go by yourself, you cannot walk. I did, well, then you take home right, But but you like you gotta go with three, four or five people so you can all share like four platters. So I got to know the parameters. That's the way he haul to help you. So there's another this this is kind of embarrassing. So somebody said into my d M s and said, look, I'm visiting my son. My son lives in Jersey City, just moved to Jersey City, right outside Manhattan. So he's

saying that we're going to go to this place. Blah blah blah. Now I'm saying, is that good? Is there? Is there? Better write it down on a piece of paper. Okay, let me see where. So there's not Keep in mind, it's a mother asking me right about the sun because the sun's bringing them there. Okay, son just went to Jersey City, and she knows that I live in Jersey City. So she's slewed into my d M s and said, hey see this place right? Oh oh no, right, I've heard.

So so here's my question. I'm gonna I'm gonna look that place up on YELP real quick, hold on, it'll it gets okay remarks, but it's not. Listen, it's it's it's okay, but it's not. It's not. There's about ten. So I wrote back to her, I'm like, I don't want to insult your son because like it's a mother and son, and I don't want the son to be pissed at me. So I said, look, I said, if I'm gonna be honest, I say, and you know me, I'm the foodie and you came to me for a reason.

But your son seems to have his heart set on this. Yeah, I said, it's okay. I mean, if he doesn't love you, it's fine. It's pub grub. You guys have a strained relationship. I mean, if you like, if you like food that's boiled in a bag and just they cut it with his scissor and they PLoP it onto the plate. Then you're good, but it's not like if you're like a place that gives your limited bread sticks. This is the place. It's not a chain, by the way, But so I said,

I said, here's what I said. She was, oh, she was, so they are better places. She goes, give me your suggestions, and I legitimately listed twelve and I emailed it back to her. She was, oh, my god, she was, all these places are better than yeah, and I said, yeah, I said, a lot better. She's, well, you know, good food. She goes. You know what she was, I'm gonna tell I'm gonna take this list. I'm gonna give it to him, and I'm gonna tell him to pick one of the

restaurants that you suggested. Scary, now, I feel like a dick because the kid is gonna be like, this could be his favorite place, it could be fair anything. He could maybe have been waiting for like months to take his parents. But he wasn't waiting months for a reservation at that place. No, he was. No. In fact, it's one of the places that I'm sure that they stand out on the sidewalk with a menu and usher you in,

say we got specials here. So I feel like I really feel like I did a bad thing because I came between a mother and a son. Because then the mother and the mother is gonna be like, this is what you're think of me. You're taking me right to this place. Scary Yeah, scary, Jones said. Trash scary said, these twelve places are better, right, I mean, if you want to eat out of a paper container, God bless you. So I said, I said, I said to the mother, I said, I'm so sorry. I'm like, I said, I

don't mean to intervene. I said, but you did ask my opinion, right, and I gotta be honest, that was my opinion. Right. So now they're gonna try one of the twelve restaurants on my list. The kids. The price is the price point the same of you your restaurants in that place. Some of them are I feel like not, I feel like you're recommending more more dollars signs on Yelp. She wants, she wanted the best. That's what that's two

dollar signs, yeah too. Yeah. Maybe I had a couple of three dollar signed places for her that maybe one four Yeah, yeah, I don't spend. If you're coming to Jersey City, I want to show you the best of Jersey City. I know, I know, but listen, she asked, Okay, but I didn't you just said you're a foodie. Can I can I address something happened at at a holiday party? Ms the foodie, because when I think about this, maybe

you shouldn't be recommending anything to this woman. I'm gonna paint the picture so like, forty of us went to lunch and by the way, we it was snowflake alert with snowflake alert with the picture. We'll get to that in a minute. I'm gonna start at the end. We had a lot of food. Went to an Italian restaurant in the Greenwage. I'm sorry, little literally sat town called four Lanes. Old World nineteen fifties looks like nineteen fifty they have They haven't fixed a place up, which is

great because it's classic looking. It looks like any old like like an all neighborhood. This is the way the places looked back in the day. Great guys run the places. Derek and his a cousin. All right, I forgive me Derek's cousin, I can't remember your name, but both great guys. Anyway, After we eat, Derek says, oh, you're not gonna have a dessert, and so we're like, oh stuffed, can't I can't even. We gotta tie and cheesecake here, you gotta have a piece. So Scary goes all tie and cheesecake

because you love it. China cheese. Who doesn't love it? Time and cheesecake. It's fluffy, it's well somehow, Well, hold on a second, if I may interrupt for a second, I would never dump to putting on their coats right and getting up, and I'm like, okay, yes, we're not staying for dessert. I usually this is the part of the meal where I order a double espresso with some sambuca in Molinari. Please no Romana. Romana's garbage. Monari's okay, now what now? What if this woman's son is gonna

take it to that place to get a romano. Romano Romano is the one with the hyper looks like the Colosseum is on it, right, That's that's the crappy one you can ask for. Mollinari. Trust me, if your family is in the romana zambuca industry, make it. Don't get Millonari a thousand times better than you'll thank me later.

By names Scary sitting there with like a bib tucked in his shirt and a fork and a knife in his hands like a five year old waiting for Stabettos who led the charge to put on the jacket, because everyone, this is something that you do sometimes when you just like, is it time to go? Can we go? Who's gonna

make the first move? And someone does the coat reach with the chair or the chair shuffle they like shuffle their feet and they pull the chair out in here, but the chairs coming up as soon as she's get one of those, like seventeen people, well we'll bring on put on their coats, all get up at the same time, which leads me to believe everyone was in the fucking rush to get out of there. I don't know what

was going on. By the way, there were two spouses there, and I think it was like the spouses wanting to leave. Whatever it was, it wasn't me because I'm ready for some sample of the forty people. Thirty eight well up, Scary was down and one or two people were standing around Scary. So Derek brings over the cheesecake, which, by the way, I did not order, so where it came from. You have a reputation. The cheesecake fell out of the sky. Nobody, by the way, they would have broken. The table was

a massive was given the menu. No one ordered dessert. I was to get up with everybody. So I'm standing up. I'm like, I guess we're leaving, so I put my coat on. And then then Derek came from boom, big cheesecake right in front of Scary. But it wasn't just a cheesecake. It wasn't an American cheesecake, which is made of cream cheese cheesecake, right that is. I hate cheesecake, but tag and cheesecake and my favorite. I love all cheese. Gotta taste of like a tinge of vanilla in it. Okay,

so good. So Scary starts. He's forking it down pretty fast and he gotta have some, and it's falling out of his mouth. He's like onto the table. There's chunks, like there was a food fight. But it was also given some to other people. I'm like, I can't eat this by myself. And by the way, now fifteen and the forty people are already out the door, right and now like I got tal and cheesecake starts come back. And now it's on his shirt. So he says to me, Brod,

he gotta have to cheesecake and cheese. So I said, well, I just wanted a forkful on my way out there. Now we've established Scary like people like to drink alone, Scary likes to share his food. He wants everyone indulging in the food. Yeah, I don't just want you gotta try this. You gotta trying to make no mistake about it. I share my food, right, I love it. By the way, Scary got stymming at the beginning of the meal because the menus come out and the first page had like

thirty five different appetizers to choose from. And you know, Scary, we've established this. I'm gonna appetizes for the table. Give me, give me three of everything over here. Whatever. Before I go Scary appetizing for the table, he goes, oh yeah, it gives me the wink because we were sitting diagonally from each other. Before he can start placing an order, the staff comes out with pre ordered, predecided appetizers to put on the table. Scary's face dropped like his day

was ruined. Like I was I was gonna be in charge. I was gonna tell you what though. Yeah, whoever did the order, they did right. They did the right thing. They ordered bike clams, bike clams, cold seafood sound. That is my favorite. You know what. I gotta say, that's the stuff I wouldn't want anyway. So I was okay, right, But when he first saw the way it is coming out, you want to wait, whoa, whoa, what what do you do too much? I don't want people to order for me.

And then they had that that cannellini pasta with it got in the seasing it. But anyway, that's story, okay. And what were those little cheese puffs? They make their like little raviolis, but they were over triple stuffed amazing. This by the way, there was spinach in there, and you ate it. I picked it out, by the way, I cut them in half and scraped away the pot without the green What do you think I didn't look? Do you think I eat a pocket or anything without

looking inside? Do you think I eat a dumpling but I open it up? Come on to the audience. I really thought they I really thought that they put one past Brody because he said it was the best thing of his life, the best thing he's ever eaten, and and and I'm sitting here and thinking like why can't we for the podcast? I'm gonna tell him there was spinach. No, you know what, you can ask Froggy. He saw me picking it out. You picked up the spin It was

good otherwise anyway. So I said, the cheesecake ches gonna cheesecake delicious. So I said, all right, I don't have a fork because at this point the table is trashed, everybody's eating already. It wasn't like they came around with like, oh, here's your dessert fork and dessert spoon, because there was no time. They were like you're leaving. He has a cheesecake, okay. So scary see is there's an unused fork next to him, because you know, you get a big fork, a salad fork.

You got a couple of forks, and they give you a little little big clam fork, a little like little poseidon fork right looks like a like a pitchfork. For so he gives me. I guess it was a salad fork that was clean, and he hands it to me, but he grabs it with his fist and he grabs The time's part, the fork part, the part you put in your mouth and hands it to me, handled first, and I went, I'm good, scary. He said, what you needed a fork? I said, I wanted a clean fork,

no offense. But you just fisted my fork. But it sounds really dirty. Since when do you care about cleanliness? Since when do you care about germs? Since when do you care about what am my animal? Think about it for a second. You do filthier things and put filthier things in your mouth that have touched filthy things things. I don't put pencaps in my mouth like you do. I don't put pencaps in my mouth. But you know what I'm saying. You don't like what you don't think.

Everything is ski box. You don't think. I don't mind hand jamming and cereal exactly. Hold on because you're grabbing, and you're grabbing, you're just taking the cereal out. You're not putting your hand and rubbing the cereal. But no, no, but when you when you put your hand in a cereal box, you go hand ford for split second. That means your your fingers touch your mouth. Then you go back. I don't, I don't know, I don't double hand jam. You go back into the No, I never go back

in the box. You're surlive it gets on the cereal. Nope, I don't go back in the box. You don't double hand. You know that's disgusting. Alright. Also, you're sweaty meat hooks after a meal, we're grabbing the fork. You're like, oh god, okay. So I was like scared, what are you doing? I'm so embarrassed. I'm so embarrassed. I apologized. You acted like I'm surprised. You were surprised, like you had never done it before. Brain fought sorry about that. It was that time,

there was like, no big deal. That was Monday. Tuesday, Nitro ice cream comes up. What were the name of those guys? Nitro Girl? Nitro Girl not a sponsor. They come out from. By the way, scary goes to coincidence. I had this conversation with Mario from a comedy department. I was talking about They were talking about Elana's mar set his new Broadway show Jagged Little Pill, which the reviews are fantastic, and they were saying about, oh, yeah, I'm sure she does ironic. I said, you know, half

the ship in that song is just shitty. It's not ironic. And I and I said that to Elvis a couple of days ago. We're talking about the jagged little pill, and he had never heard of say that before. I said, rain on your wedding day. That's just shitty. That's not ironic anyway. So Fork and river right spelled fork coincidence. Scary's out there all broading. Oh, he always gets there

first because he runs for the food. And he's like, oh, what they did was at this place, Nitro girl, they put cereal into ice cream at they home, make the ice cream right, and then they freeze it so the cereal stays hard in the ice cream. Outrageous. So Scary like, oh the shot they put alcohol in some of it, right, that was really good. So I said, oh, I don't see any spoons. Scary says, oh, here's a spoon, Brody,

And he didn't do it delivered to be funny. He grabbed the spoon by the scoopy pot and handed me the handle again, and I got scared. What are you doing two days in a row. You said, you've told my mother on this podcast that I eat like an animal, which I do not. You have no manners, and you hand people handle first, handle first. That's that's new level ship. Dude, you can't you look you do it once brain fart twice sober. What's up with that? Yeah, I don't know

what it is. I think I'm overworked. Haven't you seen what I've been doing lately? Yeah, you've missed eight hours. You missed every day. You have been filling in and doing the job of former member of our show, Greg T. I have been Greg to use the schedule the best of So we go on vacation. We've talked about this. Let's pull the curtain back, Brody, Let's tell him what

goes on here. In order to doing days, Fri too was taking a two week break, So the three weeks leading up to us going away for two weeks for the holidays, we have to edit, plot out and plan so it fits in a four hour format. To go out in a in a in a in a predetermined set schedule where commercial breaks and and traffic and weather reports and promos radio shows, We'll just say fuck it and just run an entire day like we're gonna take and it's gonna run the whole show. They don't even

edit it. We don't do They're like, oh, Mike's gonna be at a comedy club tonight, Mike was just six months ago. But they didn't edit it. No, we don't do that. In this show. We edit, we take out timely references. That makes sense, plane like, oh that was those eight minutes were funny. Let's make that the best, right. So back in the day, producers, Sam will take the twenty minute conversation on the radio, make it like eleven

or twelve minutes so it's streamlined and all quality. And then back in the day, Greg T the frat book by or Greg T or Carolina with Gregg Tea now as it is, Uh, greg T would sit in the back, go through this giant book of of all the things we've done and what time we did it, because if it ran at six forty on our show, we'll running today twenty different audience. Usually he plodded it out neatly,

but he and Scary would yell. He would go, Scary, you know, eleven minute bit for this segment, and Scary give him choices and great, no, it's no guard. We already talked about relationships. I need a different but it worked out. They would fight like like Ernie and Bert we call them from Sesame Street. They would just fight. It was great. Always worked out great, well well great.

And by the way, that was Greg T's job, mainly air that he was when he was sitting there at his desk, when he wasn't doing fantasy football on Tuesdays for his way of time, he wasn't on the air, he was back there and he was getting these shows ready right. Well, now he doesn't exist anymore on the show by our show, and so b Boom scary used to do it with him. Now you do it by yourself.

And now I'm like dying here because I'm spending four or five hours a day after the shows for in fact, when this podcast is over already we started, this started, we started three hours late. It's a quarter after three where we are, yeah, where we were calling now, Yeah, it's after And I was supposed to work for the Community Department at two and I was supposed yeah, and I'm not gonna And by the way, I got more to do, and I got to hop a flight tomorrow.

By the way, Spruce was gonna stop by at some point. We have that new Spruce intros. You'll make sure you pull it up. Pull it up. We've got some things to talk about. I got I got a massive corporate rant. I want to get to It's holiday time and by the time you're hearing this right now, I don't know if it's gonna be too late. Hopefully, I don't think it won't be. I don't think it will be because

it's still before Christmas and before the holidays. But you know, you can get someone special something in you, someone special in your life, a special something that they might take for granted. Yeah, we're talking about scrubs, big scrubs, big scrubs from the tree that yeah, or you're like your great grandfather used to have one and used to pick the figs off. We're talking about an actual company that has made where ring hospital scrubs and doctor scrubs cool.

I mean it's for everybody. So first of all, for the person in the medical field, check get you know that that's like a no brainer. Give them figs scrubs for the holidays. And if they're used to wearing those green with the string and they're not form fitting, they fall down all the time, the elastic breaks. These are high quality, uh designer fashionable scrubs and and and they're not just for nurses, doctors, dentists, and healthcare people anymore.

Think of them as just comfy every day person. I warm last weekend just laying around the house. I put on my scrub pants with the pockets. Were your Netflix and chilling. I was Disney Plus and chilling Demandalorians fantastic, by the way. Uh And I was wearing the scrub bottoms one day over the weekend, and I slept in the scrubs top, which, by the way, you can wear out. You can just go out what I what I like about, especially because you know I get food on me when

I eat. We both do. It's anti microbial, so it protects you from germs and bacteria. It's really soft, it's moisture wicking, so if it's not gonna get you all like hot and sweaty. Look, medical professionals work fifteen eighteen hour days. Sometimes you want something that's comfortable, lets you breathe. FIG scrubs and you know what's what's awesome is they

are a company who cares. They give back. Uh. Figs give scrubs to health providers in need around the world that let's say they can't afford them, Well, guess what they have this threads for threads initiative. And that is the part which I love most about Figs because every time you go to their website, you're actually contributing to healthcare providers in need around the world. So far, uh, hundreds of thousands of sets of scrubs, you know, with

thirty five countries donated because people bought their scrubs. They donated scrubs. You mentioned the websites, it's where figs dot com w E A R figs dot com. Of course, if you put in our code boys, you get off your purchase, your first purchase. Uh, just using the code boys, you know, use the code boys off at where figs dot com. How about that? How about that right hand? Right? All right? I got some audio clips. I have some unused jokes you want to want to want to run

through some audio clips? Yeah, alright, So on the on the on the on the clips page I got. I made them waving to us outside the glass. Yeah, that's Cooper aar and from w R who used to work with us and see many years ago. Okay, so I got them. They're all in red. I made them in red. You tell me which one you want to play on the Brooklyn Boys clips? Okay, tell me which one you want to play? How about mac? Okay? So man Crates is a great company, So this is not anything bad

about band Crates um. In fact, they're gonna be advertising with us on Elvistran in the morning show. There are a subscription service where you get it. They're not my client in the atisode. I'm not promoting them. But this commercial came on. I want you to hear it, and I'll tell you why I caught my attention. It's a it's a monthly gift of like cool stuff for you for I guess for your man, but he's uh the

sales pitch. Well, I don't know about you, but maybe some of the guys in your life are hard to shop for, whether it's your dad or your brother. I find it that I kind of get stuck. But I do want to give a unique gift to my brother or my dad. Well you gotta check out man Create. She says, I want to give a gift to my brother, not a creative gift to my brother or my dad. So she's only given a creative gift to one of them. I got a problem with that. I got a problem

with that. I'm going I think she should buy two and get him for both. All right, you know I played the other one played the pajama grams. One plays Christmas is knocking on the door. Are you still looking for that special gift for your wife or girlfriend? Okay? Are you looking for a special gift for your wife or girl? So that means anybody else? No, that applies you have a wife and a girlfriend. No, yes it does.

Play it again, Christmas is knocking on the door. Are you still looking for that special gift for your wife or girlfriend? Yeah? I want to job. I'm gonna get a set for my wife, except for my girlfriend. You're you're you're literally this is a literal translation. That's not good. You're not doing this. No, you know you're off. I think they could have rephrased knife or girlfriend. How are you looking for a gift? Maybe for the woman in your life? Your wife or if you have a girlfriend,

if you're not married. Okay, they only have sixty seconds to talk, so they're gonna get ripped for Play it again. You tell me you don't hear what I'm here. Christmas is knocking on the door. Are you still looking for that special gift for your wife or girlfriend? Yeah? You're crazy. You're you're crazy, you're nit picking. If I want to if I want a gift for my wife, all my girlfriend, I'll go there. What else you got dred yards? Okay?

So do you know what um when you project stats in any math, right, if you like, if that guy gains ten pounds every week, you're gonna go you know what, it's probably gonna gain sixty pounds in six months. So in sports, they'll go at the at the at the halfway point, they'll say, he's got thirty home runs, he's on pace for sixty because if you double how many games he's played, it's sixty. Right on pace means mathematically, based on what he's done so far, this is what

he's going to get. That's it math. Listen to what this guy says. This is a guy that was on pace for what hundred receiving yards maybe more, maybe more. You're on pace for fourteen hundred. You can't be on pace for fourteen hundred maybe more. You can if if you accelerate. What if next week he throws more, but then the pace then the pace changes, the pace changes, right, But he's he's he's saying next week he he's going to improve his performance even more, that maybe he'll be

on pace for even more. He's saying currently, he said, currently, currently he's on pace for fourteen hundred yards or more. You can't say or more. What are you smoking? I'm not smoke anything. These people three strikes on this one. No no one, no no. Usually I'm with you on the grammar ship. You know that you know him right on the right there with this is you can't say you're being nit plus you say pace once, you say pace,

the guy's on pace, And give me this again. I don't believe this was on pace for what four hundred receiving yards maybe more? You can't be this guy is the guy who was on pace for fourteen hundred yards or maybe more. No, he was on pace. There's a pace there. Or he could be unsure of how many yards he was on pace for. So he's covering his ass. Was on pace for what four hundred receiving yards maybe more? Maybe Okay, So let me interpret it that with maybe

he didn't have his statue in front of him. He's like in his head, he's thinking like maybe he was on page for like one thousand, four hundred fifty yards um but I just had the word fourteen hundreds, so I'm gonna say maybe more to cover myself. I don't like to hear defending people don't like it at all. But I don't like that. This is why the Beatles broke up, just being logic because now listen with that ear was on pace for what fourteen hundred receiving yards

maybe more. He he obviously didn't have handle a handle of the facts. He didn't know the English language, he didn't know no nothing, nothing in front of him buying it. He didn't have the answers in front of him. So he's covering himself, not liking it. Got one more clip there, that's all. I got a son of a bitch that really that's it? Yeah, oh oh yeah, there's this one.

Peter Millard would like to introduce the Gentleman listening to their twenty nineteen summer favorite, The Peter Millard because the Peter I tell I want to tell you what the listeners are slices, by the way, what you've been doing lately. Anywhere we go now in a meeting where meeting with that guy out there, that scar he goes so is the head of our sales team. And he one hundred. Here in New York is Alex. We're in a meeting with him yesterday. We're talking about getting new clients. So

Scary goes, hey, man, that shirt's really nice. Yes, say thanks, Scary goes, that is that Peter Malar at Alex's what are you talking about? You know, we love Peter Mallar. We always talked about Peter on the show. He's Peter Lar of sponsor, but now he does it it with different places. He's like Peter Malar, yeah right, exactly, not a sponsor, no, I know, but but he looked like

he was. I had that same shirt. I have a Peter Malar shirt and it looked exactly like the one he was wearing, so I thought that it was a Peter Millar. By the way, here we are three months later, still still know Peter Millar. I saw our team here. What will it take? I don't know where is the mark director of Peter More? Where are you? I don't want to give out number. I don't want to give out numbers. We have tens of tens of tens of

tens of tens of don't add up my tens. We have a crapload of listeners every week to this podcast. If every one of you, half of you, if half of you are more or more and more. At tweeted at Peter Miller and said, you've got to advertise at the Brooklyn Boys, at the Brooken Boys. We get some traction here. I'm just saying, let's get them on board. What is wrong with them? Not one person show them our podcast. People did, unless they took it as a negative.

They're like, oh no, we don't want to be associated with those guys. I don't know. I got one last. Uh, but we got to talk about our friends and tales over cocktails. You wanna do that now? Yeah, we'll no get talk about your one last No, I gotta get a I got a bunch of rants. Okay, So about five episodes ago, we have an episode called the Vadge Game. Right, we talked about the Vadge Game. Now you guys listen to order. But if this is your first episode, by

the way, God help you. This is your first episode, so one of our I don't know one O four, one oh five, doesn't matter, don't tweet us. Uh. We had episode called the Vage Game and what I told scariest story about a game where And we haven't heard this clip. We're at bachelorette parties. By the way, I can't even find it because they didn't label it anything. But they put the cut number in the email search

by cut number. These guys unprofessional. In the Tales of Cocktails, we love them, but when it comes to they should have just named it the vadge game. What are they afraid to write the vadge game? And it's vague, it's VG like, what's the big deal? I did you find it? You look by cut number? I'm sure, yeah, but in what category? All of them? It should be under bits t O c oh No, they coded it. They they

named it t OC clip for Brooklyn Boys. Okay, okay, so just to reminder, just reminder the vadge game, I said, I heard I heard this story that that at bachelorette parties and at bridle showers, some women play the vage game with a compare the width of the opening of the orifice right, and then at the at the baby shower, they recompare the numbers and they see who has the least difference, and you win prizes. They hand up prizes. I don't go to these things and so scarce like,

I don't. I've never heard of this thing. No, never heard of it. It's crazy and you're talking about And then we had Diamond from our show called a friend of hers live on the podcast and said, hey, friend, female friend, have you ever been a bachelor party? Would pay the badge games? Like? Absolutely been a couple? And Scarce like I didn't know. So the guy's over tales of the cocktails, Astro, Wendy, Daniel de Lulo and West by the way coming up West ranting about you. I

have a rant and it's it's about us. Love you. Though. These guys heard us talking about the vadge game and they said, oh, you know what, I'm on the podcast with three women. I'm going to bring it up as a topic. I alright, Well, once you do it, send us the clip. How long is the clip? Three minutes? We have not heard this? If not, that's the truth. This isn't like a radio thing. But I mean, I think, how is this? How is this gonna be funnier? Well? I will play the clips the clip? Yeah, yea that

I think of your comedy. Yes, okay, I want the orders to hear them talking about it. Okay, play the clip. All right, let's let's play the clip. Clip. The first brought this out already. Okay, alright, we're playing the clip. Our friends the Brooklyn Boys, I guess we were talking about in their episode one oh five I believe it was. And how I guess some people played a badge game. I guess it's a bunch of females at a party

or something like that. Apparently they play this thing called the badge game, which I've been to so many baby and bridle showers. I like this. I've never even seen any of my friends badges. Okay, so I heard it. I'm like, you know of them? It's two guys on a podcast talking about it. I heard it. I was like, you know what, we should talk about it here? It's one guy. We couldn't really find anything about it. But the only thing I did find there was, um, you

can name it. They have the yes party vage game names. Okay, so actually compile the list for us. Let's hear him. Would hope we have grant? Can you we got real? Well, I'm not saying I'm not saying the last names. I mean, the only last time I'm using is Danielle because she always says Daniel delil. So it's you take the you take the first initial, the first name in the first initial the last name. So danielle Um, according to the list, would be Harry Pouch. How did you get to Harry Potch?

You take the pace? No, I mean it's there's a website. It's it takes this. You take the word from the first unitial post. Malone guy his name, but it's not a Harry Pouch because she's as a tap like nobody. I got no Harry pal and I'm sorry. Astor's was probably the funniest. Astra is crusty doughnuts, noss going on. It's squeaky clean baby? Is that why you haven't gotten a date? And then Wendy was whiffy pedal pedal? What's mine? I'm actually going to mind mine. I wrote that down. Also,

mine would be Whiffy destroyer. And if I use J and J for you, you would be Tuna Tuna wallet. It's a good tuna. So we really don't know what the badge game is. We couldn't figure out what it is. We just show you. Actually, actually I think I saw the badge game being played when I was in Thailand. It's called the Ping Pung Show wait Game. When that was round two of the Bally, we learned that it is anything you wanted to be and the boys likely

made this thing up on that ship. That was again our friends from Tales Over Cocktails had a long way. They're very funny. Yeah, you gotta listen to them. Download their podcast. I feel like the first couple episodes like ours were growing pain experience right right, and then they added the lilo and it's just mayhem every time. Now we'll all four of them are amazing, hilarious. I I tipped my cap, you know what, I raised my cocktail.

You and I have to say Astra and Wendy on the show Radio Professionals, We've known him for a long time. Who are the sweetest women and most talented women in I know? I know Wendy since she was like sixteen. Didn't she like want to be an intern and you got an internship another radio station. I had nothing to do with it, She wrote to me in America Online. Yeah, in an I am and goot name was like Kiwi Flower or something exactly, and she said, you know, she

wanted to talk, she wanted to radio. She saved that note. Uh. And then she got a job at the w b l I on Long Island, in Long Island or on Long Island whatever, and then Astro followed suit. They worked at the same radio station, doing nights in afternoons. Yeah, we don't need anyway, the point is it now they're here. But but they partnered with Daniel, who was not a radio professional, and and West who's an engineer, and hold

On West. Hold On is an I guy. West is supposed to be an I T guy, but he's also a photographer. Yeah, the guy's great. Everything he puts his hands on on that guy, it turns to gold. But I should I talk about my problem with the with I T now or wait till later? Because West is all okay, okay, why don't you let so. West came to me two weeks ago and he says, there's the vege game thing is we're gonna talk about that. It's gonna be a good segment. We talk about it and

do some research, see if the girls have heard about it. Whatever. So as you could see, they did initiate a conversation on this show which was turning out very very very funny that we'll take credit for that, and then they called bullshit on us, which I don't think. It's very nice with friends in it. We promote them all the time because we love the podcast. It very funny. Also on iHeart radio anywhere you get your podcasts. Um. But

here's the thing. We did that like five six weeks ago, right, Yeah, I made that up. I made that up. There's no such thing as the vege game. But I had scary convinced. Okay, Diamond called her friend, uh and she played along. If you listen back to the episode where I was convinced that there was no such thing. But then, but then Diamond's friend gets on the phone, and I know Brody

didn't set her up. Nope, did you set her up? Nope, you did not, because I saw her just just dial the phone and put her on the fact that Diamond's friend claimed to have played it right led me to believe that maybe there was such a thing. Right then, We finished the podcast that afternoon and Brody let me off the hook. He goes, dude, it was the fucking which, by the way, kudos to Diamond's friend for not ruining the joke. She was she was thrown into the Listen

back to the how long? For thirty minutes? You were in on it though you felt like it was I felt like it was a thing. When when Diamond's friend was on the phone, Yeah, said, yeah, you did not set her. I did. I texted Diamond when she went to go call her friend. Also, you texted her and then she because I don't know how Diamond came in and all of a sudden the friend was on the phone. I thought that it was too quick. No, it was all I mean. I I texted her like play along. Okay,

So you did text her right now? Yes, I had you beat for forty minutes. Right, well, well you I gotta give it to you, sleight of hand. Whatever you were doing, you quickly texted her to tell you her friend to get on board. I thought her friend just jumped on board and was like I'm gonna go. I mean, I also gave her the like the winky face every time you looked at her in the eye when you were looking at me was on the phone. There was no way. So either way she must have prepped her friend.

Yeah that's great, awesome, Yeah, well you know what. Okay, after that, Brod, He's like, because I said, look, we gotta go back on the air in the next podcast and just lock the audience off the hook that the whole thing was a joke. And then he said, no, no, no, I'm gonna give us the tales over cocktails and I'm gonna and I'm gonna let them talk about it on their podcast first, and then we're gonna play back the audio and then we're gonna let everybody off the hook. Right.

But that, as you can see, backfire now face because they called bullshit on us, Right, But that's okay. We still got to do a topic and talk about us and promote us. So that's fine, all right? Can I talk about Wes from it? I'm talking about this whole new thing that's going on. So we have a system here, the trouble ticket system where if something breaks. Back in the old days, I didn't like up to like two years ago, if something broke, you said, hey, Jeff, George

west raj whatever, can you come fix my laptop? Yeah, I'll add it to my list. I'll be there later. Well, then corporate was like, how do we know how much they're working every day? We don't know if these guys sit around and throw darts or they're doing work. So now at my fat head droom cardboard fath ahead of me and through darts at by the way, you shouldn't. That's really not a fathead picture, right, So I didn't want to say that. Okay, but I don't get big.

I don't want to imply that they sit around throwing darts. I was sort of being the tongue in cheek. You have to go say that anyway. They do work very hard. So now if you want them to fix something, you have to go to a website, right, the internal website, and you put in some information what's broken, what department, where is it located? In a brief description, And it

used to go right to them. They would see it pop up on the screen and it would go all I'd be right there and like five minutes later, boom, boom boom. So a couple of things went wrong this week? Is it tast Thursday? So Tuesday, my phone doesn't log onto the free WiFi, the I Heart WiFi here in the building. Now, in order to get on that WiFi, you have to work here and have a code, right, all employees have codes. I have a code, it's in my phone. I walk in it goes on WiFi. So Tuesday,

it's not going on WiFi. It's not connecting. Nope. So they have an I heeart guest account, which is like, oh, here's some freebee. It's like you wanted steak dinner and they hand you like dog bones. It's the worst WiFi ever. But you can go on like Google dot com. But you can't go on like Twitter sites with high volumes and refresh rates. It's terrible. It's like, if you want to send an email slowly, that's fine before it uploads anything.

So the whole day, I keep trying to log in, log in, log in, switched, I heard switched, I heard switched, I heart. So I'm like, oh my heart's down. So I put in a trouble ticket for I Heart. I don't hear anything back. Later that day, like I don't know. Nine o'clock, I'm out by the bathroom. I see Raj. Raj's the head of our I T department. Right at this point, I've texted West three times, Hey man, what's wrong with the WiFi? No response, thanks West. So now

he's my body. So I text them, even though that's not really the corporate way, but okay, so I see Roger and go, hey man, what's going on with the WiFi? I can't get on the WiFi out my phone. He says, oh, uh yeah, that's a known problem. They corporate did some things with the certificate and blah blah blah technical stuff and Android phones have to be reset. I said, well, wait was the email telling people at I guess corporate didn't send the email. So I said, well, whoa, why

can't you send the email? Well, corporates and the email all right, listen, I love you, Raj. I'm not complaining whatever. Can I please get my phone fixed? He's just putting a trouble ticket. I said, I did put in a trouble ticket for the WiFi. Goes, we'll put it in for your phone. Okay, doesn't say anything to me, Business as usual. I go to my desk, I put a trouble ticket in and uh, I says, I can't get my phone on online. Please fix my phone. I'll be

at my desk after ten o'clock. So I see West in the hallway and go hey, West, like an hour later, Hey man, what's going on? Hey? Uh, I put in trouble ticket. Can you get my phone back on the WiFi? I'm not gonna put trouble ticket in. Yeah I did. I didn't see it all right, Well, can you go check. I'll be at my desk. I'll go to my desk. Nothing shows up at this point, I'm gonna go do Walkers and Talkers with Jaimie, my co host from my podcast.

So I go in that studio. My phone still not on the WiFi, and uh, we have double screens, the kind where you can drag stuff from one screen to the other. So I gotta set up things on the screen so I can get already, Like when you play clips, you gotta have like a button bar or like one of your favorite things they click on them, right, Okay,

well I can't do the podcast without that. So I log into my account and all the important screens are off the screen, where like you can see the bottom of it, but you can't drag the bottom, don't drag the top, but you can't get to the top. So I'm like, well, what the hell someone changed the resolution? You're right so on the desktop. So I go to change the resolution back and it's all screwed up. It

won't go back to the settings, it's all messed up. Whatever, So I text Wes and Jeff Smith or Engineering, and I go, hey, guys, somebody screwed up the resolution and to some other settings messed up. I'm doing my podcast. Can you please come down and fix it? By the way, I like how you going to specific detail? They do? They need to know, they need to know what happened broad strokes. Really, is that what this this is, this podcast is about. No, that's what this part of the PODOCT.

We spent twenty minutes talking about cheesecake. But that's fun. This is like, I don't know, I don't follow what you're saying. If I can't understand what you're saying, let me explain, re explain for scary the screen wasn't working. I couldn't click on stuff, I couldn't get it. But give them the podcast. Let's get to it. So I text what today wroughte me back trouble ticket. Trouble ticket. So I'm like, these sons of bitches. I go, guys, come on, I'm in the middle of my podcast. Come

down and fix it. While you're fixing it, I'll go put in trouble ticket. They're right back trouble ticket. I go, okay, I get it. Fine, I'll play the game. I go to my desk, I put in a trouble ticket. Come to this studio. The screens are working. I go back in the studio and I wait and I wait, and I wait and I wait. I wait forty five minutes, an hour, hour and ten minutes. I got These guys must be busy. I don't know what's going on. I text them again. I put in the trouble ticket. We

didn't get a trouble ticket. At this point, Jamie's gotta leave. Can't do the Walkers and Talking podcast. Uh, screw you, screw me, screw the sponsors of the podcast. Gotta go. No Walkers and Talkers. She's in a hospital all week doing charity broadcasts. Can't do the podcast. So I go up to Raj Raj. I see West in the in the kitchen, sitting at a table by the window, not doing any work. I go, I don't understand what's going on on. I see rag a garage. I'm putting in

trouble tickets. Nobody's fixing anything. I mean, I love you guys. What's going on? He says, Oh, they change the trouble ticket system. What yeah, Now, when you're putting the trouble ticket. It doesn't go to US, it goes to corporate in Cincinnati, and Cincinnati decides that makes sense. Cincinnati now decides in order of importance for the whole country, who should be assigned to what and when? So they haven't been told into you know these people. No, No, there are people

in Cincinnati. We don't have a station in Cincinnati for our morning show. I don't like the Cincinnati Reds. I don't like Cincinnati. So okay, nobody got back. Nobody's signed to think, well, we can't fix that. Go but I can't do my podcast. That's the policy. Where was that the policy? They changed it two weeks ago. Where was the email telling people you changed the policy. Oh, nobody emailed. No, nobody emailed because well, you should have put you should

have put emergency, must fix right away. How are I know to do that? Well, that's the new policy. You didn't tell me it was a new policy. Okay, So at this point I gotta go home. So I go home. It's like three o'clock, no podcast. My phone's not working on on the WiFi, and I couldn't do the podcast. So at at ten thirty Tuesday night, I'm getting ready for for for Bad. I'm doing work. My phone was in the bathroom charging and I see, like twenty minutes later,

my heart helped us called. They left a message they wanted to know if I need any help on my phone. Thirteen or fourteen hours later, they called me at home at ten thirty at night to see if they can help me. Okay, So I didn't get them on the phone. I come in the next day and I say, hey, Wes, can you look at my phone. I gotta put trouble ticket in Wes. He says, uh, yeah, they didn't sign. They've been reprogrammed, so I'm not made at So West says to me, hey, man, just let me see your phone.

He says, you do. It was dropped us down, entered this, put this here, cut that thought, I do all these steps. Guess what it says cannot connect to WiFi. So he says, yeah, you're gonna have to call the corporate help desk. I go what So he says to me, you know what, George our engineer. Furious George, he's he has an Android phone like you do. Because it's an Android problem, not because it's Android. Just put a trouble ticket in to

get to him. At this point, Well, I said, George, can you come by or betty it, I'll come to you. Let me look at your phone. Just I'll look at the settings. I'll do the work. He says, you gonna put a trouble ticket in. I got a trouble ticket in from my buddy George, so he I said, look, I put a trouble ticket in. Here's well, we should have it any minute now. That was Tuesday, yesterday. I

get an email from corporate. It says, hello, David Brodie, the ir RT Media Service Desk appreciates the opportunity to your says you. Oh good, we're getting somewhere. Your case I n C one six blah blah blah blah has been resolved. If you are satisfied with this resolution, no further action is required. If you have any questions, please contact your HEART Media Service desk. Are you kidding me? They closed the case? The case has been resolved? Nor

it hasn't. It hasn't been resolved and dissolved. Yes, you didn't resolve anything. You waited two days and didn't fix it to do it on purpose. So I'm fucking pissed. Pisted two minutes later, I get another email from my Heart Media Service help desk David Brody. Now they want something from me. Would you please take a few moments to complete our customer satisfaction survey. There are just five

short survey questions less than one minute to complete. Thanks, our Heart Media Service desk has randomly selected closed incidents to better monitor customer Satisfi's not closed, it's not closed. My phone is not fixed. This is some We don't have this problem with iPhone. It's not about iPhones. You pricked if you have screens, wouldn't be to be much easier if you had an iPhone and not that complicated goddamn Android which is complicated. It's it's a second thought.

I'm sorry if you can't figure things out. I'm just saying it's an after Android or an afterthought everywhere. And though you've never had a problem, you follow your battery dying softoret issue. But you know what happens here. I don't have these corporate issues that you And what happened to your iPhone Monday morning when you upgraded the iOS on the way to work. What happened? All right, it happens. What happened? No, no, that that that that that that

what happened. It took an hour and a half to update. Yeah, but you know what, it figured itself out. I didn't have to call on the corporate desk and put it in them. That's a double negative. Yeah, I gotta say this. Yeah. I think it's disgusting though, what's going on in corporate America. How it's getting worse and worse. How you have to email out to halfway around the country to a problem that's gonna be fixed ten feet down the hall from you, right,

Why does it to go in terrible circle? I don't know if they trust our guys. We have the best engineers in the world work here. But that's when he helps me. Is fantastic. Only answer to it in an office in Cincinnati. Now some pencil pusher has gone. You can go ahead and fix that now. I don't like that a central hub decides what's important. I feel like we're franchise and they're just sending us tomato sauce at this point. Fuck these guys. I got some unused jokes

and I got some email. Oh you got email. I got some stuff on the phone, so I could do a couple of you wanta do some email and I'll do some jokes then it let's do it. Talk like it's mail time. Welcome, you've got mail, you can always email us at the Brooklyn Boys Podcast at gmail dot com. If the emails working, so many of you. Um So, this came in from Joey p And it was a screenshot of a video game they were playing, and they

wanted to know if the Jersey Kids submitted this. Well, they were playing Wheel of Fortune online, okay, and it was a party puzzle and it was chicken, sausages and salami, but the sausages were spelled s a U c E a g e s sauce sauages. By the way, is something that that that the Jersey kid would submit? Robert Creagan writes, Hey guys, this morning Tuesday, December sevent you had Jason Derulo on the Big Show and played his new song. I just wanted to throw it out there.

Then it sounds like Genie in a bottle. Please pull the two together now, thanks Slice for life. Now we gotta tell you something, Robert and we were if you we we work here in top forty radio for all these years, and you don't think that a hundred and fifty people texted that, but but it's Robert we love. It's obvious. It's one of those where you go the radio. Guys probably know that. Probably, but it's okay, said, it's okay. I but I went up to Jason Dulo as it

was playing, I go, dude a bottle. He's like, yeah, you like it. I was like, oh, it's good. Kevin Keslawski said peanuts, and you're right by the way, it's um. I didn't know peanuts and lagoons, but they are healthful and eating them can make you healthy. What say Brody? Well, I mean, I'm not a dietitian, but peanuts helped lor cholesterol I believe, right. But if you eat like salty

honey roasted, they're fattening. Yeah. I know it's the good cholesterol, but it's still not the greatest thing if you'd eat but in moderation, it's fine. I guess. Jason Curley saw this on a tech website. No need to hit the jingle, don't say it just in case scary advertises for them, don't tweet me posted this article about Apple having a memoji option. All I could hear is Brody saying damn now you memoji me, you fucker anyone you just wanted

to just wanted to share parents cheg fuck following guests. Oh, the following helped the following guests. Again, if you don't know what if any of these references, it's because you're not listening to order. Shame on, right, go back and started deal. And by the way, if I know the I Heart Radio app for Android, and here we go, it still doesn't allow you to do it in order properly. You can still stop it and jump to the next one, but all other platforms were on allow you to do that.

And okay. So oh the interview for the internship when Brody said they can interview with the other eight and they want me to, I can interview with them ninth I had to pull over because I laughed so hard. I started to serve. Actually, you meant swerve. Try explain water. Try explain that one to a cop. You want to talk about that reference that was Yeah, so somebody said, oh my god, I really love you shaw I listen

all the time. They started off with Dear El Scotty B. Wilson, the cleaning guy, Mike, the guy runs that do not caught right, and then it was like one person after me. But I mean, come on, now, I worked really hard interviewing interns and going through resumesing couple you just didn't rank. Well guess what they didn't either because they didn't get the intern Mike Felix said, okay, you need his assistance from you guys. I need help identifying a record album jacket.

The first and last time seeing the album was somewhere in the mid eighties. I've asked several people and Google of the years, but always comes up empty. If you could reach out to me via a phone call and allow me to describe the album government, why wouldn't you already put it in the email, send us a picture, or maybe they don't have a picture. I promise I will take up much of your time. I will order you, guys a pizza of your choice if you can help me identify. So now it's a game. Now want to

win the pizza. So I have to identify. My friend Billy back in a day, used to call me on leave a voicemail. Hey it's Billy. I gotta ask you a question, But he wouldn't asked me the question. I got something important, right, there. Why wouldn't you say, I guess he's asking for permission to see if we're interested.

Obviously I read this, you have permission. Oh. By the way, I got three emails and d ms this week and text messages on the Big show that all start off with I'm sure you're not gonna read this, but I'm probably I know no one's gonna see this, but but you're probably not gonna respond. But if you write you, I know you're not gonna see this. But who is that for? Because if I do see it, you wasted your time. And if I don't see it, you wasted

your time. So what is the purpose of that? That's what you say to your friend, You say, hey, Mike, I know they're probably not gonna see this, and then you send me an email. Don't put that in the email. That's a sense anyway? All right? One more from fred. I guess I just don't you should know. I'm a Slice for Life. Currently re listening to the podcast from zero Love It a second time around, and yes I have an all email account, also love and fuck You two.

I was watching the show called Atypical on Netflix about a boy with some type of autists with a boy, Michael, don't tweet me. It turns out that Michael Rabbitport is one of the main characters you just said. I just really wanted him to go off and say fuck do you you fuck? Oh? Yeah, but haven't heard it yet. Anyway, the Michael Rabbitport show is one of my favorites. Just thought I would share Slice for Life. You know what I think, I think I think we got didn't with

someone send us a Michael Rappaport video. Oh here it is. Hold on, this is Michael Rappaport. You fucking blowjob you. Okay. Michael was getting a little political there, but he but he said you fucking blow job you, which is what we said. He's known for you fuck you he said, Oh he said again. Also okay. Jamie Fezzina had his ship up a new listener Jamie Fezzina and media specialists saying, want to let you know, I know how much I love your podcast. I'm a new listener. I'm the episode

number twenty two. I have to tell you that episode twenty one when you talked about Antrovies on the Greek Salad cracked me up. And then the Ben's and Her song on episode twenty two is fantastic, so funny. I can relate to everything you say. I grew up on sixty Street and Eleventh Avenue, and then in Brooklyn, and then moved to stan Island, and now I live in Jersey. I am exactly Scary's age, and I find just about everything you say so relatable. You're talking about Christmas, even sushi.

I love it because my family doesn't do the whole fish dinner anymore either, seven fishes. It's kind of save. It's sad if you think about it. You lost the tradition there. I do listen to the newest episodes in between catching up on old ones. I would love it if you email that I like that Happy Thanksgiving? Why you're listening to the new ones? Just listening between the old ones. She's gonna hear this sooner than later. How is there an in between Merry Christmas? Order? Okay, listen

to order? All right? All right? Right? So here's some emails. Here we go. Uh. This one is from Live Chic s h G A K or Lip Chic, Love All Your Rants. This is to me Love all your Rants, huge free dessert all over here. But I had to send you this riddle this, riddle me, this question scary? Maybe you could help. I just took a phone survey for a company, and its stated on your phone keypad. Please rate your score of how great the service was between zero and ten, tend being the highest. Maybe I'm

missing it, but with only using one key stroke? How do you give a ten? How do you give it? Ten? Is a riddle? What what is this? You do you have to you're not paying attention? How do you give a ten with one key stroke? You can't on your phone physical possibilities? Rate your score of how great the customer service was between zero and ten, tending the highest

and only one key stroke? You have? You need the one thing because if you hit the one right, So that doesn't make sense unless unless they're counting to zero as ten. Yeah, the zero is ten. I can go for the zero because you can't go less than one. So it's got to be between one and zero or zero and nine. No, because but if you look at the keypad, it goes one, right, But okay? Uh? Joel at Diamond Joe Elka at David Brodie, I need your

rant music playing for this one. The post office delivers a postcard to my mailbox, saying it's too icy to deliver my mail. Then how did you deliver the postcard? Couldn't you just bring the mail with the postcard? Dick, you suck good good point Uh highway explore free dessert. Question a flower company, How the hell do you make a decision on changing a delivery date without notifying the customer,

then trying to deliver eight days later? Your customer service keeps telling me it's okay and they will deliver What the funk a week between? A week later rather from what I ordered it? So I said, you deserve a full refund. Three flowers accept nothing less. Explained to them it was a birthday present and it's useless. A week later, he said, they keep pushing me to accept them. A week later, their manager is too busy to call me back. I d M them. They said they'll call me tomorrow.

I said, if they come a week later, they had better be a free gift plus a gift card. Uh, they've better be free plus a gift card to keep you as a customer. If you were getting these for a birthday, that birthday has passed. It's ruined, they wrote back. Update. After arguing with them, they gave me a full refund uh, plus a twenty dollar gift card. And I said, here's what you're gonna do for me. And I had them a call and apologize to my girl for their mistake.

She tried to be nice, but they pushed her buttons. And then she got them to send her flowers as an apology, uh. And two days later flowers arrived. There you go, good news, all news jokes. When me come back in the New year, I would hey, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Boys, boys,