#122: Don't Be a Maskhole!

the words. What do you mean? Okay? Today is Saturday. We are recording the Thursday Brooklyn Boys podcast on Saturday. Truth cause of your new fangled equipment. Wait a second, because Thursday you were pre setting it up, and then Friday, and then Friday you didn't return any of my phone calls or text messages when I was saying, hey, let's

podcast today. Uh, why was that scary? Well, it's funny that you ask, because what happens is when you put a new system in and everything is electronic, and everything is on a computer, and I don't want to bore the audience with the minutia of it, but when you put a system in then your computer says, m hmmm, I don't like that system. I'm not going to communicate with it unless you upgrade me. And so there's a domino effect of bullshit that ensues when you introduce new

equipment to a current ecosystem. And that's the best way I can put it without getting too technical and boring you with the details. So what as a result of me trying to get my equipment to talk to my computer, and then my computer to talk to the new operating system. It was a cluster. Now listen, you know, I'm a fan of Apple. I love Apple to death. But but because the system that I got with my with my equipment, which by the way, you gotta admit I sound pretty

fucking good. Right, we'll get to that part in a second. Alright, some would say the microphone sounds great, this is okay. So so when when I when I decided to upgrade and put that system in my the operating system on Apple said, uh no, we can't work with that. You've got to now upgrade to the current Apple operating system. And then I, while you haven't already done that, well

I'll tell you why we hadn't. I hadn't already done it because my editing sero software pro Tools, which is an industry thing that we talked about all the time. Artists use it to record their music and everything, and it's a great, it's a great. It is a the workhorse of the production studio for broadcasters and for artists and musicians. It's all you need to know. Anyway, pro Tools said, fuck you, I don't want to be on

the new Apple upgrading system upgrading system. So I had to have a guy remote into my computer screen share for six hours to get the pro tools system my new equipment with the microphones and mixer and stuff and Apple io os to talk to each other. That in a nutshell, because you just can't change one, you have to change everything. And that is something that I learned the hard way. And I'm sure that some people have gone through similar things in there, you know, in their

upgrading lives. But it's like a new piece of equipment doesn't want to talk to this other piece of equipment because it's old, Like fuck you. You get an upgrade to the latest. Who used to do iTunes? Who's the one who used to send it out? If Firefox iTunes every fucking three days. You do you want to install the new iTunes? Do you want to? It's something like that. It's like because if you don't, then you are up for a security breach. Because there's patches and fixes, bug fixes.

That's my favorite. When the download store the Apple it's like, oh, an update for seven of my apps, and I'm looking at what they've introduced, like what new features? Bugs and fixes? Fuck you bugs and fixes. Yeah. Bugs and fixes, by the way, is a nice way of saying we installed ads in the software, or we took out the feature you liked and left you with not what you wanted, right, because they never improve the app, they only make it shittier.

Bugs and fixes means, you know what, we're gonna fix the glitch, but because we can't use the take the glitch out and make it work right with the cool stuff, We're gonna take the cool stuff out so that it works right. It's like it's like my car has a problem. I'll take it to the mechanic. He says, I gave it back to you. You no longer have air conditioning or radio, but it runs great. Now. That's not what I wanted. I wanted to try to fix the car

as it was. Yeah, bugs and fixes. So there were bugs that worked with the air conditioners, so just roll your windows down. Yeah, So in a nutshell, bugs and fixes. I was chasing it was like chasing my tail for like six hours to try and upgrade everything. So all the bugs and all the fixes came out of it. So now that's a lie. That's that's a blatant lie. Why because today on Saturday, we were supposed to start recording at two o'clock and then when we when I

called you bugs and fixes again once again, bugs and fixes. Yes, so we've spent by the way, bugs and fixes, my favorite morning show from the eighties. We have now spent uh an hour and a half, Yeah, with your bugs and fixes. And to which I said, I sent you a text message last night and I said, huh, I spent on the microphone. I have neither bugs nor fixes

to worry about. So thank you. You spent more than ten times my my microphone and you have bugs and fixes so well, yeah, because it got the equipment got too sophisticated for my current environment. Windows. Sorry, okay, there you've got a case of the COVID there, Brodie, No, I was I was choking on my suparior operating system Windows, okay, because I thought, maybe you should see a doctor. You want to you want to face time your your medic

real quick. By the way, that that's become like the catchphrase now, and I'm not because if you, if you have any any you sneeze or blink, people forget it. People like he's got it, he's got it. Yeah. Well, I wanted to say one thing. Um I saw on Twitter somebody took their um. Somebody actually commented, They're like, why why does scaries mic quality sound better than yours? Brodie? And you were very honest with her. Yeah I was, And you were honest with her, and and and and listen,

we're trying the best for everybody. I'm not trying to criticize Brodie. I'm a little bit of a tech geek. So I love to have that sound. I don't want to have that. And and and as much as I would like Brodie to have that as well, he doesn't. He doesn't have that because that that that's what his

He went with this other microphone. We're lucky were he even has this microphone, so we can even do this, right, I have kids and scary has a super broadcasting unit, so which I call my baby anyway, But he doesn't cry or take ships that I have to change. Neither do my kids any longer because they're old enough. But my equipment just ships the bed. That's right, that's right. Yeah. That that being said, you'll never have to pay for college for your equipment. Um, however, is that what you're

going through now? One now and then one and a year and a half. Yeah, oh, and then one and one in three or four years. Where do you find all this money? I don't spend my money on super equipment. That's where I find my money. And you have to take out loans man. That's the way the world works anyway. Anyway. Um, as far as the microphone, I think we should dig deeper into your financials. Let's do that now. As far as the microphone goes, last week I recorded the podcast

on my laptops internal microphone. As opposed to the microphone. I bought my blue snowball, which I love. So this week should sound much better than last week, I'm assuming, by the way, I didn't realize that until halfway through my Walkers and Talkers podcast this week. So if you listen to that. You'll hear it sound like crap for the first to our fifteen minutes and then it switches over. So does that mike have a mute on it? I want want to perform a test right here live on

the podcast. Does not have a mute button on? You don't get because I was gonna What I've wanted to do was I wanted you to stop talking, don't stop recording, but I want you to and and don't stop believing you. Ye um, But I want you What I want you to do is I want you to get the microphone away from you, and I'm gonna pot you up on

my board here. So when it comes to this part of the podcast, we could go back and listen to see because we you might give that forty four dollars back and return it to the store and we can come right up here through this this audio console. I just want to perform this test. But if I unplug or mute the microphone, how are you going to hear me? No, I'm gonna pot you up. I have I have you're on a fader on my computer right here. You know

that fancy equipment that I got. Yes, okay, So so I see you here on my I have you off though, because you're talking into your microphone over there, but turn do whatever you need to do. Don't stop recording. Turn the microphone off for a second, and I'm gonna pod you up in here. Why don't you just pod me? What? What do you mean pod? Why? Yeah? Why don't you? Okay? So here we all right, So you're on okay, So now you are coming through my fancy equipment. Okay, but

I don't have to unplug my microphone for that. People are hearing you now through my through my my mixing console. Now, if we could put up with this sound, and I bet you used an upgrade. So you're saying, you're saying that the microphone on my tablet is a better sound than the really nice recording microphoney, money well spent. Well, that's what I'm getting at, And that's what I'm saying. You may go get a refund. You may get some free dessert out of this. Why would I want to refund?

I know, because when I want to record my Walking Dead podcast, I have to call you up and room. You can just want to scream into your tablet. No, I'm not gonna do that. Don't scream. All right, I'm turning you off of my mixing console, alright, and then we're gonna go back to your microphone. Alright, let me get now you're back to go back doing the podcast. Now that'd be great. Thanks. Now, well, you know, well, listen, our listeners are with us through thick and thin. Yes,

but but it's getting really thick. We could have done this in the hour and a half that we kept people waiting. I told all I told the slices that have the podcast around four o'clock East Coast time, because we were going to record it too for an hour. All right, let's move on to bigger and better things. I kind of wanted to ambush my father because, oh man, it was like capturing lightning in a bottle. The other day when I got him on the phone, he he was entering the car and he was coming he says,

they were entering the car. He was getting coming in, he was coming back. He was getting in the car. I was on the phone making he was making his entrance into the car. It was a yes, he uh well. He used to Oh my god. For years, we had a Caddy. We had the quintessential Cadillac that. Wait minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. If I don't answer that question, otherwise you gotta hit the jingle. I already know your father got a new car. I forgot he's got the same car company as you. And and uh,

I don't want you to hit the jingle. So I know what kind of car you has. No, you don't want to know what kind of car my father has. No, I don't think it's important. I thought it was important. I thought he had the Caddy. I thought it was very well. He had a Caddy back in the day. Listen, he had the he had the one from that looked like like Tony Soprano style, where you can put bodies in the trunk. That's how big it is back there. Every Cadillac has that trunk. The newer ones, the newer

ones sucked. In fact, he he cried the day that they took two feet off the Cadillac in Wait a minute, waite they were they were they two feet off some guy who rat it out the mob. No. Back in the middle of the eighties, Cadillac finally came around. They were like one of the last car car brands to say, these things are like boats. We gotta take some feet off of this. And my father was like, why, oh why, my Cadillac eight to Coope Deville was the perfect car.

Showing my car Anthony six rolls around. They've taken two feet off they took could you believe me? It could have been tree feet Anthony. That's what sucks. And he and the Cadillac was never the same sense. I mean, listen to they have a great they have great cars now, but they're just different. They're not what they were. So anyway, now he drives that Lexus and he's very proud. All right, hit the jingle that was scary and before anyone says I asked you to tell me, I stopped you like

three minutes ago and said it wasn't important. But it was an accident. It was an accident, an accident anyway. So anyway, so my father was on the phone my mother, and my father gets in the car. He goes whose freaking woman in front of me? To breaking issues all over the place, And I got my mask on and she's like right up, leaning up on me. She's leaning up on me, and and my mother's like, what's the matter,

what happened? Why you're just places to freaking crowded. You canna fit anybody, you know, you can fit people in there. You can just so. So my father's like social distance, social distance, and she's like, uh, yeah, I work in an e er. I'm good. I'm not afraid of anything. And that made my father even more angry, because you're a fucking hospital worker and first of all, you're you're

practicing band social just saying. Secondly, you've been in contact with hundreds of patients who have it and now potentially giving it to me. It's fit to be tied. He was so angry. I kind of wanted to get him on the phone, but maybe not. Yeah, by the way, I got a tweet today that someone asked for my mom to be on the podcast. Yeah, we can call her too. It's it's a little it's a little trickier, especially with scary super equipment, because you'd have to wait

another hour and a half to make that happen. So that's not true. I can do it live right now. We're connected. I'd like to give my mom a heads up in case she's taking a nap um. I thought you're about to say taking a ship. Wow, you are classless. Why would I say that about my mom. I wouldn't say it about your unless she's Because of the way we talk on this podcast, I thought maybe you're going there when you said taken uh, and I'm like, oh my god, is he gonna say ship? Oh nap? Okay,

got it. So so just in case you thought I was, you said it before I could right truth truth. Yeah, No, I'm not gonna talk about my mom that way. No, she's taking a nap in the afternoon. Maybe. By the way, she's fine. I haven't seen her in a month because um, she does not want to get sick um. And so I am going to see her, uh next week I think next Wednesday, A week from Wednesday, I don't know. One Wednesday coming up. I have to drive it to

her doctor for a regular appointment. So I'm gonna be full masking gloves, um, just to you know, make make her feel comfortable. She'll be in masking gloves as well. Also, I don't want your theories on masking gloves, so don't tweet me. Um, you live, you be you. That's the

last thing anybody want. Who wha what you think people are gonna impart their opinion because you say the word mask it said, everybody's a doctor all of a sudden, everyone has an opinion, and that's fine, but I don't want it, so I'm gonna do what I Well, that's that. That's exactly the problem I was facing. We talked about this on The Big Show. If you give me good advice, if you if you say to me legitimately. I heard Dr Fauci on the news, who's America's top expert on

these kind of things? And by the way from Brooklyn. Yeah, by the way, Faucci Pharmacy was in our neighborhood. His parents owned a pharmacy. I posted that, Yeah, there's a place that's now a bakery and now and and it was owned by the Fauci's back in the day. He legit grew up just blocks from me and Brody. Brody and me, No, you had it right, and Brodi in that sense because he grew up a few blocks from me. Is what you said? So and which is correct? Yeah you were good? So yeah, so I so that's kind

of cool. I'm like, this guy is like leading the way. This is a mean, it's kind of like a Brooklyn boy done well. I Mean, we're very Brooklyn proud on this podcast. You know, we always celebrate Brooklyn people, especially, do we really because we named the Brooklyn podcast Brooklyn Boys. So yeah, well, well Faucci, we just wanted to highlight that a fellow Brooklyn nights. So continue. Well, you know what I have to say, though it has no effect on us. We don't get any credit. Like people go, oh,

he went to my high school. That means nothing unless you're Dr Fauci. Only Dr Fauci gets people are like, oh, yeah, oh, this guy is from my town. All that means is his parents had sex in the same town. Your parents had sex. It doesn't make you a better basketball player. It doesn't make your town any cooler. So I'm not one of those people that's like, hey, we went to the same high school forty years apart, and this is

what Now. Look, if if we're making conversation, I'll mention Colin Quinn and Spike Lee went to my high school when I was a kid, you know, growing up. But that doesn't make my high school better and it doesn't make me cooler. Just means coincidentally we grew up on the same neighbor Well those are some would say that's ironic, but that's wrong because it's a coincidence, right, it's a coincidence. So I'm happy that Dr Fauci, you know, came from

our neighborhood. Um, and it only just it only disproves the myth that everyone in our neighborhood was add So we had one that wasn't. But it doesn't make he went to medical school, right, It doesn't make our old neighborhood any We had one. We had one that got out, one that got out. Yeah, I would like to think that I got out. But my point is it doesn't. Well, every town has their hero and heroes. It just so happens. One of the most prominent talked about and important heroes

of the day right now is Dr Anthony Faucci. And so I am proud that he's from Brooklyn. Am I trying to lay claim or get credit? Non associated? Right? I mean, don't you think, Well, I'm more proud of him for getting out and doing this. Well, Um, but it doesn't It doesn't change my You know, people are gonna go, oh, you grew up in Bens and you grew up in a better area now because Dr Faucci lived there, I didn't know Dr Fauci. I didn't help him with if I helped him with his tests, he's

much older than we are. But if I helped him graduate, or you know, I did better than you can if we went to school together and I had better grades than him, well, first of all, it made me look smarter than him at the time, or at least better at taking tests. But then it makes me look like a bigger failure if for not doing as well as Dr Fauci. So anyway, let's move on from Fauci. But yes, he's from our neighborhood. Yes, so, so there was a

reason why you brought his name up. Uh yeah, just the whole thing about the you know, people giving advice and telling you what to do and how to be safe. Look, if you wanna um, if you want to tell people, hey, you should wear a mask because it has these benefits to it, that's fine. But don't you know I see people posting on everybody's pictures. If you put up a picture of you wearing a mask, people, I see it on social media. Oh, you shouldn't be doing that. You

shouldn't be doing that. Look, you should not be wearing an N nine mask because those could be donated to the hospitals where the first responders and medical staff have a shortage now, even though millions are being made and shipped, and we just got planeloads from Russia and and the government is shipping to the States, and I know that they're being supplied. But the average person doesn't need an N nine mask. So if you if you have one,

hold on, I know where you're going. If you have an N ninety five mask, you're only supposed to in theory have one if you are medical professionals or if you are a primary care primary caregiver. So if you're taking care of your mom or dad would cancer and you have to doubly protect yourself and them, you're supposed to have them. But if you have a regular mask. By the way, my my, my youngest learned how to sew. We have a song machine that we have. Nobody's touched

it in at least at least a decade. Uh down downstairs, right, my daughter decided she was going to watch a YouTube video on how so she did and now she's sewing masks for all of us. So shout out to my God. So I have a cool. So what we did was we took clothing that we weren't wearing anymore. Um, that was the right thickness. And she's just cutting up shirts and leggings, um and making really nice patterned masks for us so that we can wear them and rotate them

and wash them and and that's awesome. So thank you YouTube, Thank you my kid. Yesterday's clothing is tomorrow's mask, that's right. And this is not clothing that we would have donated to uh clothing shelters that need clothing. This is ripped up, old, bleached stained stuff that we had that there were good spots of that to cut around and make masks. Because you know, UM, a lot of these trades and things that were forgotten about back in the twenties and thirties

are now coming back to light. And a lot of things that kids kids are picking up on things that are we're considered antiquated even as recent as a month and a half ago, like like like sewing, like like kids aren't, but now they have the time to do it, and they're incentivized to do it. I mean, look at sidewalk chalk. That's made a huge comeback. People are remember when we were kids, we used to buy those big bricks of the big thick chalking and and write all

those paths. I mean, chalk wasn't you know, hasn't been like in but now it's back because kids are looking for stuff to do, you know, outside, I mean aside when you get sick of playing Fortnite or Call of Duty or whatever you're playing in the video game world and you want to get some fresh air. You've got stuff you can actually, like ride a bike, learn to get on a skateboard, which I already agreed I'm not

gonna do. But like you know what I'm saying, Like you're you're discovering other things because in ASP until about a month ago, people were complaining they can't up. What are you laughing at? Fing it your so far it sounds like about three minutes of you explaining kids and

what the kids are in though these days. So although why listen After you're done making TikTok dances and doing coordinated ship in choreography and you're on house party or playing video games, at some point your eyeballs need to take come away from the digital screen. And kids are rediscovering the outside. It was always up until about a month, even as recent as again about a month or two months ago, discovering the outside. No, they're discovering playing and

and doing creative things and making arts and crafts. Those are things that just are required by school sometimes but not every kid is into it. But now they're. It's kind of making this crazy comeback during this pandemic. Don't you agree there's been a resurgence. I wondering what you're basing the auds and crafts thing on. Are you going to kids houses? What do you do? You see, you see pictures online, you see you see videos, you see people making things again. You said your daughter is It

got me thinking that your daughter is now sewing. Man, I'm just giving you when would she have ever taken up sewing under any other circumstance? Probably not, probably not so they I'm just making a point tomorrow. We've always complained, why don't these kids get outside? Why don't they do what we did back growing up in the eighties and the you know, seventies and the eighties and the nineties. She's gonna make you know what you think about that there? Now,

these things are. She's gonna make me a leather belt tomorrow. I'm very excited. Is she really no? Is she gonna is she gonna get uh straight from the cow. Yeah, we're growing our own we're growing our own food now out back. So it's good. So you made a mention of people wearing masks. You're gonna Are you gonna tell this story for the fourth time because you've already done it in around the room on the Big Show three times? No,

I want to skip it. I hate to shoot on you, but you have told the you got yelled at for wearing a mask story a couple of times on air. But if you want to give the short version, but I haven maybe people don't listen, Okay, no, no, no, you know what, No, no no, no, I'm not gonna even I'm not gonna go there, just no, no go there, go no skip it, skip it. They may have. They may have missed it on the Big Show. It's fine, No, no, no, no,

people listen to the Big Show first. And if I've talked about stuff, and you know, we had a huge conversation about it. Scary Scary was in a store and he was wearing a mask from Scotty B from our Morning show that Scotty had from when construction workers were in his house years ago. They left them so he put them aside, like, oh, who knows, I may do construction,

as if Scotty would ever do construction. So they're like eight year old masks or something, And so he brought them into work for people who are coming to work to wear the masks at work and to have they are not it's the medical professional level, and nor are they usable after eight years of dust in them. Really scary's wearing them as a last resort. But what happens and in mask, which it looks like, I mean it is, it is they qualified mask that they say that only

the professionals in the medical field should be used. And it is also the only mask that I have. I'm not making a bend, you know, I'm not like, you know, wearing a bandana or a scarf around my neck. This is the only mask that I physically have. So I'm now embarrassed to wear it because people have already approached me and said, you know, you know, you're not supposed to be wearing that unless you're a medical professional. You know, that does really go to the hospital, which is technically

absolutely correct, which is technically under normal circumstances. But the thing is, if I have to should I choose nothing to protect my face, or should you know, Like, why should I be shamed? You know, it's like my health is important too. You know that that's the thing. And they don't know the history of this mask. They also know, just just for the sake of conversation, if they see you at Whole Foods or wherever you are shopping for food, that's where it was. They don't know you're not a

doctor or a nurse. They don't know that I could be on my lunch hour. So I'm not saying lie. I'm just saying, for the sake of conversation, you could have said, excuse me, I'm a doctor or nurse. Now, I would never lie about such a thing. No, I wouldn't. I'm saying you could have. I wouldn't, especially nowadays. God forbid, someone hears you say you're a doctor and then there's a medical emergency and you can't help because you're you lied.

I'm just saying you you could have just said, or I'm a primary caregiver for someone who's sick, and that's why I have it for medical reasons. So look, people are protective of our of our doctors and nurses. I get that. Um, so I I don't blame them for making mention of it. I'm just saying, you never know who you're talking to. They may be a medical professional. You know. It's like, in my opinion, mind your business. That's a little well no, but really, but who are

these people to come up to me and say these things? Well, it's like yeah, like like you don't know, you don't know anything about me, so they don't. They don't make me feel like because now again I said this on the Big Show, I'll say it again. I feel mask shamed because it's the only thing that I own and

and now I don't want. Now I'd rather now go out without it than to have to be given the third degree of everybody had come up to and you know should I You know Gandhi from our show is saying, I want to just write a big marker this is a used mask. Well, it's clearly a used mask because you're wearing it. I don't think that would help. But this is an old mask from a construction project long ago. That's all. Yeah, you could say it's a mask or whatever,

how old it is. I will say I want to give a shout out to the guy in my aisle at CVS. I want to give a special a special shout out to the guy in my aisle at CVS. I sent some sarcasm. Oh there's sarcasm, which, by the way, when you wear a mask, people can't always tell you being sarcastic, so you have to use hand gestures because people don't know. They can't see the smile on your face or the smirk. So that's the only downside of

wearing a mask. So I go to CVS. No, look, I know, I've been going to Walgreens for prescriptions, but I was at CVS to buy a couple of how to get allergy medicine, and it's closer to my house, and so there's probably six or seven people shopping in the store. The cashier has a plexiglass coming down from the ceiling, so now you can only slide things under

the plexiglass. There are fold up tables in front of the counter to keep you away from the cashier by an additional three or four ft for the width of the table. There's lines on the floor with red tape so that when you're online you social distance from people. So the CVS is doing their part. God bless you. CVS. So I'm on the left side of the store and I have to get to the center of the store to get online. So I go to go down an aisle and I see there's a woman in the aisle.

So I back out of the aisle because she's not wearing a mask, and I am regardless of whether that's gonna protect me not protect me. Things can get in your eyes. Masks aren't perfect. I decided to go down the next stile. There's no one in that aisle. Excellent, it's the toilet paper empty shelf aisle. So who's gonna go down that aisle? The shelves are empty. I walked

down the aisle. I'm now about through the aisle. A guy with no mask and no gloves turns the corner, looks in the aisle, sees me and decides to enter the aisle anyway and walk past me about a foot away. Now, look, I'm not paranoid, but there are social distance rules. Well, let me ask you this. The guy could have taken a step back, Like when you get off an elevator, you step to the side, you let the person come out of the aisle. Understood. If you don't believe in

this crap. It's not. So you're saying the social distancing of the six feet, you can't even have a one and a half second brush within a foot of somebody as people are walking past each other, because that's happened on a number of occasions in the last couple of weeks to me, and I just let it go because to me, the six ft rule is six ft if you're gonna hover and hang out and have a conversation. But if I have to walk past you and I'm two feet away, is that not permissible now? Because I

might have it. It's permissible if it's like a quick walk by, right, Not that they have the exact science on every single thing that can happen, but they're saying now that, um, you can uh if there's any spittle or if he sniffles out or a cough. Spittle was my favorite board game growing up. Absolutely My point is, and I don't want to make this a coronavirus podcast, but my point is not knowing if I'm gonna cough, he's gonna cough, just wait three seconds till I come

out of the aisle. That's all I'm asking. And then I so like, so fuck you I'll guy, and then I get online on my red tape, and a guy and his a girl get online behind me, not wearing any equipment, probably in their twenties, acting like they didn't give a ship what was going on in the world, and they didn't notice the tape on the floor. And now they're like two and a half feet behind me

having a conversation. So I'm second in line. The woman in front of me is an older woman, probably in her seventies at least, with a mask on and gloves at the register, so I move up a little bit, knowing that she's mostly protected, so I will be away from Mr and Mrs fuck Face who don't care about me on the CVS aile. So then the woman turns around and looks at me like, hey, I want my six feet. So I turned around, I look at I give it an old head nod like, hey, look at them.

I don't have my six ft so I'm just trying to take away one of your feet, So give me five ft as opposed to them being two and a half feet. So people are being inconsiderate, and I don't think the message is getting out to everyone, which is why I want to rant about people who think the world revolves around them. So someone from a fan group that I'm in, so it's people I don't know, right,

posted a video of a nurse. The nurse was I think for Michigan, and she was talking about how horrible the situation is in the in the in the er and how they don't have enough equipment. Whatever it was. It was a gut wrenching video and it was clearly labeled what it was, and it was really to get the message across. This was posted I don't know about a week ago that nurses need we that that nurses

and doctors need more medical equipment, more ppe um. And so she was imploring people to understand it's worse than we think, right right. So most of the comments were thank you for posting this, Please thank that woman? How can I thank that woman? What a great woman? Whatever One person wrote, please don't post videos like this. I am already nervous enough. I have old people in my family and I don't need to be scared more than

I already am. Everyone knows to take this seriously. We don't need to be reminded to take it serious, Like, so, what are your thoughts on that? Before I tell you what I wrote to this woman. Well, they shouldn't follow you, or shouldn't follow the feed, or just turned it off or just switch off of it. You don't. They don't have a right to tell you what to post it. I didn't. I didn't. If you were doing, I didn't

post it. It It was in there. But I'm just saying, for you or anyone else, I don't feel that people have a right to have jurisdiction over content. You don't like it, move on, I mean you don't. Don't watch the video. The video is clearly late, but it's there. Don't hit play or if you if if you accidentally hit play on something you don't like, you stop it.

Just stop it. But here's here's the other problem. We already know if you watch the news, if you pay any attention to what's going on in the entire country, at least a third, if not more, of the people in our country are not taking it seriously. There are still eight states that have not shut down their states yet there are still there are still did you see the article about the kids that went to spring break

in Mexico? Uh said, Indie kids charted a private jet or whatever, a plane to Mexico for spring break forty four and and they posted ha ha coronavirus ha ha blah blah blah. Forty four of them are sick and some of them are in intensive care. So not everyone is getting it. People are still breaking the law, having weddings,

you know, getting together. So if we can post a video that reminds people to be safe, to be careful, maybe a save one life, but to this woman to be like, I don't need this kind of negative everybody. Everybody knows, not everybody knows, and don't watch the video, but if you want to watch, if you want to watch an uplifting video, go on Twitter and search f d n Y and the words salute because yesterday in New York and it brought tears to my eyes. I

love my city so much. And I'm sure this goes around all over the country, but this was in particular New York yesterday because we are, unfortunately the epicenter of tragedy right now. Fire trucks lined up outside hospitals and all of the firefighters, all of the firefighters got out of their trucks yea to applaud the nurses getting off their shifts and the doctors. Yeah, I clicked that link and I and it was very it was really it was very, very, very touching. Um. It reminds me of

when people were clapping for the firefighters after night. Yeah, I said the same thing. And I don't know, um, if anyone not from the New York area can fully understand, because if you weren't here for nine eleven, are alive or old enough. Um, the feeling that people had, Like people still take pictures in front of firefighters, in front

of the firehouses and stuff. But people were applauding them walking down the street, cheering for the fire trucks as they drove around around town, cheering for police officers, people that you know. And so those people are now cheering the next wave of New York heroes and the heroes all over the country. Of course, why do you did have to take a global pandemic for that to happen, because you know, you had this, you know whether the

thing is gonna wait. When it was we were in going through nine eleven, we always said, in the days that passed, God, we want to capture these moments because everyone's treating each other so well. And then and then slowly we fell off again, and then we had you know, Hurricane Sandy. We came together for that in two thousand and twelve, I think it was. And you know, and uh, why why do we have to have these It's like bringing back bring you know, coming back to reality. That's

just it's human nature. On my point, my point was there some really good stories coming out of this tragedy. Um, you know, uh, the fact that China just sent a thousand ventilators to New York. The fact that yesterday Russia

sent sixty tons of medical supplies to New York. The fact that the governor of Oregon just sent the hundred and forty ventilators to New York because he's the fact that the New England Patriots, oh my god, huge trailer and you know that the New York Boston rival that goes on if if you're not from this part of the country, it's insane. They have attracted trailer with the masks. So Robert Craft, famous the owner of the Patriots, famous for getting a handy in Florida, Uh last year he

was arrested. Yeah. And you know, as a New Yorker, you know, you you hate the Patriots. You hate because you're probably a Jets fan, you hate them. If you're a Giants fan, you don't necessarily hate them because you beat him twice in the Super Bowl. But as a Jets fan, you hate the Patriots. That's just the way it goes. And as a Yankee fan you hate the

Red Sox so Boston. You know there's a sports rivalry. However, Robert Kraft, the owner UH, flew the Patriots team plane, which is not a private jet, it's a full size airplane. UM paid two million dollars out of his own pocket and flew the plane to Russia, to China rather to pick up supplies UH and fly them back here, and then sent a large percentage of it, I think three hundred thousand surgical masks to New York. UM. So I

get to hate the Patriots a little bit less. It was crazy to be the cover of the New York Post about this giant tractor trailer with the New York New England Patriots logo and blazoned on it. Yeah with three it's like and almost like everyone was like, Wow,

this is awesome. These are the times, you know. I do think though, that we have to remember these now and then just maybe a year from now look back and you know, I don't want to get all uh, this isn't the kind of again when it's not the kind of podcast we wanted to do to No, No, it's but but you know, you know what I'm saying,

But like, let's not forget these moments. Yeah. But also while we're talking about these moments, we talked about this last week about every occupation wants to be shouted out for the heroism. Yeah. I still say it's great that some people are going to work, um, but nothing in my mind compares to the medical staff that's risking their lives because if you watch the news, a lot of them are getting sick. A lot of them are now

victims of the illness they're trying to fight. And so we got more of them at work this week, more text messages of people doing their jobs and then coming up with exotic explanations as to why they should be shouted out for being heroes in this time of of of tragedy. Um. And we shouted a bunch of them

out last week, but there were too in particular. And again, if you do this for a living, I respect you, we need you, but I don't think you rise to the level of doctors and nurses right now, and and and all people in the medical field, and people serving food and so so if I can, I just want to tell you that um exterminator, an exterminator shouted. I wanted to shout out to thank all the exterminators because bugs carry germs and they are fighting back the germs

at bug spread. Yeah, okay, all right. The other one was swimming pool professionals wanted a shout out because because because now I don't know if this was serious or not, but they're putting that they're the ones who put in the chemicals in the pool that kill the viruses in your pool. They want shoutouts. They're doing they're doing the right thing. They're gonna keep us protected all summer long. I feel like you, you guys killed bacteria in the pool all year round. But I don't know if that

rises to the level of the COVID nineteen epido. Oh they think it does, so, so I'm just again thank you for doing your job. But I don't feel like it's shout out level. If that's okay, okay, all right, we have to take a break. In fact, this this podcast, we're only going to have one break just gonna be a little longer, and that's what we're gonna do. Really, We're gonna jam all the commercials in right here, and then we don't take another break for the rest of

the podcast. I don't think you can do that. We can. I physically can do that. I can do whatever the hell I want to do. All right, let's do it. We'll be right back after this, okay, alright, alright, So I got a couple of little things I wanted to hit. You have those sound clips for me I should do so you know, I'm a big fan of Stephen Colbert loved the man to death. All of the late night talk shows have returned in except James Cordon I don't

think has come back. He hasn't. But Colbert and Fallon and Seth Myers and Jimmy Kimmel are doing shows from home. Bill Maher did a show last night from home, and they're doing their best. But some of them are doing the uh the show from home and then either playing uh partial old shows at the end, like when they run out of new material, or sometimes they've got footage that never air and they want to air it now because they're struggling for footage. Sometimes they recorded stuff with

the web. So this first clip, I like, I do love Jimmy Fallon from his house with his kids. Absolutely, So I'm watching all of it because you know, you're in the house, so there's plenty to watch. So Jimmy at Home edition. Stephen Colbert is calling his show A Late Night with Stephen Colbert a late night show because it's not really the late night show. Um. Anyway, so he uh, he played a clip of a song he sang with a singer I believe named John Prine p R I n E. Who right now at the time

of the recording. I hope he's okay, but he's an older gentleman, probably around eighty, and he was fighting coronavirus. I don't know the update. You don't have to tweet me. I'll look it up. But he had a clip that that he sang a song with him that was a fun, upbeat song. Look it up on YouTube. Um. But he prefaced it by telling the man, Hey, we're gonna record this now. It's a bonus song. It'll be just for the web. But I want you to hear what he said.

This was from two thousand sixteen. I believe. Listen to the song introduction of what he said in this clip. I would be so honored if I could do a song with you tonight. Would that be all right? I think be great? Okay, good, We'll probably do this for the internet, unless you know, something terrible happens and we have to cheer up the world on the TV show A right, So how about that? How about that? That

was four years ago? Um, And you know, when you do things, you never know what the world's gonna be, You never know what's going to happen. And so four years ago he said, oh, you know, we'll play it if something terrible happens, and unfortunately, something terrible happened, not only to the world but to John Prine. So that was one clip. Now a minute ago, I said, don't

tweet me. I'm not saying he stole this from me, but um, Daniel Radcliffe was on Colbert Harry Potter in case you didn't know, and he was showing him that one of the things he's doing while he's in confinement at home quarantine is he's learning to put uh, he's learn he's doing massive lego projects and so one of the projects he did was a Jurassic Park Lego project.

You can go watch it on on YouTube. And he built the big doors, the big gates that open to Jurassic Park in the movies out of lego pieces, which I'm sure was a kid he put together, not like he just took miscellaneous pieces and figured it out. And so Colbert says to him, do you have a t Rex? Did you build a t rex out of lego? Right? And so he says yes, and he opens the doors of the lego and there's a t rex back there,

and so Colbert says, clever girl. Now that is a famous quote from the first Jurassic Park movie, and the hunter is referring to a velociraptor, not a t rex. So, because he was just going for the joke, you're gonna hear Colbert correct himself. And although he's spoken over a little bit by um Daniel Radcliffe, I want you to hear what he says at the end of himself correcting what he had said or explaining what he said. So play the clip scary you Rex? Yeah, Oh damn, clever girl.

So that's the raptor. Don't know letters, please, that's fantastic. Yeah, there you go. So so he said, he goes, I know it's a raptor. No emails please, So I thought that was I mean, I'm surprised he didn't say, don't tweet me, but I guess they get emails or whatever.

He was going for the joke, and everybody uses, don't at me, don't tweet, don't at me, don't I gotta kick out of my boy Stephen saying that, because you know, people would have immediately jumped on him, and probably I would have as well that it was it was a raptor in the movie, not a t rex that they were making a reference to. So so there you go, thanks for playing those two clips for me. Um. What else? Oh,

I've got Bluetooth drama that I teased last week. Um, I want to get to in a couple of minutes if we can. Uh. And I also want to talk about the eye doctor experience I had yesterday if I can. And then these the soda sham at the supermarket where people just don't care. So let me tell you about the I went to an eye doctor yesterday because I had to go for our checkup. But I've been getting I don't have I don't have the virus let me

just preface that. Um, all right, every time you every time you hit me up and you're like, hey, scary, what do you do? What are you doing? I'm like, oh, I'm doing this. What are you doing? Oh I'm at the doctor. I'm doing so I want a couple of doctor appointments this week. Um, everyone had masks on, and I did a couple of tele teleconferences on the phone, uh, you know, video conferences. I'm fine, but I was getting headaches for a couple of weeks and they weren't going away,

and nothing was working. So, you know, I googled, what, dude, headaches is one of the symptoms of COVID. It is not. It is not. It's not not that what I have not, it's not. I already saw my primary care for and it's not. I went to an ear nose and throat guy. It's not. I don't have it, all right. What I have is I said I thought I had a sinus infection, and that wasn't it. Because I took sinus medicine. The e n T said I don't have a sinus infection. So they said, you have one of two things that

could be the issue. You might have an allergies, which I don't normally have. So I had taken allergy medicine last week, Claret, and it didn't work. I took afron nasal spray that didn't work. And then, um, so I said, well, it could be because I'm wearing cheap eyeglasses to read the magnification. I just picked one I thought was comfortable, and I and and because we're working from home, I'm using them on the computer for four hours every morning,

and on my phone, I'm using them a lot. So I thought maybe the wrong prescription could be giving me a headache. Right, So I made an appointment, I got I got in. It took me about a week, and I went there yesterday and they said, oh, can you just fill out these forms? So they give me a clipboard with five pages they have to fill out, and I kid you not, the front size was about eight

that's small. Why would you give people at an eye doctor forms to fill out with a small font unless you're trying to increase your business and make everybody feel like they're blind. Well that's exactly what they're trying to do, trying to make the problem worse. If you better get your glass coming in here, if you're gonna get these glasses or you know what, now this is gonna be. This is what gets them to sail. Absolutely, that's my point. I bet you they blurted on purpose too well that

but that todzy, that's what I was saying. I said, I bet you they did a small font. So I feel like I better see a doctor or get prescription glasses. I said something to the to the optometrist optimologist rather, I said, hey, why are your form so small? She's I haven't noticed it that they're small? I said, because you have good eyes. That's why your eyes are fine. I said, why would you make them a font eight

size or ten whatever? What was small? Trust me was small and so so I told her there's a there's an old joke about uh. I think it was a comedian told the story. I forget. It was about his doctor who would deliberately put the photos of his family on his desk, so when you would go into his office for consult all the pictures will blurry so that you'd think your eyes were going bad when you look at his family photos. So I think they deliberately make the form small so you feel like you have an

eye problem. That's what I think. Like if you went to your doctor, fat laws guy, and you got on the scale and they had they had set the scale and be ten pounds heavier than it already is, so you feel like you're more overweight. That's what I think the eye doctor did to me. How about that? How about that? What do you think? How about that? I think so I think he did that to you. I do think that that was on purpose. It has to be all right, so I would, But you can't call

him out on it. You got no proof. I mean, no,

I can't prove it, but I will tell you. Um, I was trying to make a doctor's appointment with another type of doctor and um, you know it's difficult now because you know everyone's going to the doctor and you know, but this is a specialist, right, So I look up online for the reviews of the best doctor in the area who takes my plan and uh so, so I call up the office and the woman says, hey, um, I'm the After I talked to her and explain how what's wrong with my head and everything, she says, oh,

I have to transfer you to the woman who does the the scheduling. Okay, not a problem. So she transfers me and the transfer takes like thirty seconds and then the woman picks up. She's can please hold all right? Not a problem I would have held while I was being transferred. Okay, so she says, um, here's what I'll do. Uh can you can you call back and leave a voicemail? Said, night called back and leave a voicemail. So she doesn't

call me back. So oh, okay. So I called back a few hours later and I speak to one of the women in the office and she says, all right, let me transfer to the scheduler. I finally get the schedule on the phone. So uh. The woman says to me, great, you're a new So I said, I'm a new patient and I want to make an appointment. It's okay, just give me your give me your your last name and your first name. So I say, do you want it

in that order? She's what do you mean? I said, well, you asked me my last name in my first name in reverse order, So is that the way you want me to give them to you? So she says why what? Why? I don't understand. So, like her head's exploding, I said, well, I don't want to confuse you, I said, but you said give me your last name and then your first name, So I'll give you my last name. So I give

her my give her my name. We get that out of the way, and she's all right, let me put up pull up your chart and she puts me on hold. She comes back. I watched it on my phone. Uh it was seven minutes later. She says, I'm having trouble finding your chart. I said, that's because I told you I'm a new patient. Remember I don't have a chart. All right. Then there's like dead silence, she says I. She says, um, what what's your what's your diagnosis? What's

the problem? Why why are you calling us? So I said, well, I have these severe headaches and my doctors told me I should call uh your type of doctor to see what's going on. And she says, all right, well, what kind of medical insurance do you have? Give the medical insurance? Okay, great, give me your phone number, contact information. I give her everything. She's okay. Um, So just so you know, Um, because of COVID nineteen and how busy we are that doctors

aren't making appointments uh until sixty days from now. So I said, well, I need a doctor now, I can't wait sixty days. Well, I'm sorry, sir, that's the best we can do. So I said, why did you put me on hold once, then put me on hold a second time, took all of my information and never mentioned you even asked my birth date? Why wouldn't you mention at the beginning of the call that I couldn't get an a pointment for sixty days? And do I still

want to continue? I don't understand. Why didn't the woman this morning when I spoke to her and I asked the schedule appointment, why didn't she mention I had to wait sixty days? She says, Well, I was trying to provide good customer service and get all your information. I said, if you're trying to provide good customer service, you might have told me up front that you couldn't see me for sixty days. Who is in pain and says, oh, give me an appointment two months from now. That does

that make any sense to you? Why wouldn't you tell me at the beginning? So, I mean this is because I mean you just kind of chalked us up to another bad customer service experience. I mean, people don't use common sense, and they're certainly not trained properly. Somebody, I mean, she had to have had a manager at some point. They needed to have gone over what to do, like how to how to do this job. And there has to be a protocol and asking certain questions and and

cutting people off at the very beginning. You know, if they if they're not going to be able to get the appointment they need right away, well it gets worse, and it doesn't it It just again, who who are these doctors you're going to? It gets no, it's not the doctors. So here it gets but who are these people you're going to? So the next day, which was Friday, But but this person is representative of the doctor work in that office. I understand that I could. I completely understand.

But so the next day the health system so you know, some doctors belong to like a group, so like there's like a group company that overseas. Like okay, So now the next day, the group company woman calls me and she says, Hi, I'm calling my bottle of water. Very nice. Just hey, Mr Brodie, I'm calling from such and such health care system for the area. Uh and um, I'm calling to schedule appointment with the doctors. And I said, oh, okay, because yesterday I spoke to someone who said they couldn't

make an appointment for me. Oh no, no, Well that's why I'm calling to make you an appointment with you. Great, she said, UM, give me your last name and first name. I do. She takes all my information again. She's I can't find your chart. I said, again, as I mentioned to you at the beginning of the call, I'm a new patient for this particular practice. No problem, she's, oh, I have you in the system, because the health group has you in the system. She says, I found I

She's a I found it, so she found everything. Great. So I'm on the phone with her and we're talking and I tell what's wrong with me, and she says, oh, I have an old phone number for you. Oh, so I update my phone number. So now I'm on the phone with her a good seven eight nine minutes talking about what's bothering me. She's okay, great, Uh, let's make an appointment. Great. What day of the week would you

like your appointment? I said, well, I'm in a lot of pain, so you know, uh, Monday would on Monday would be Monday would be great, right, like as soon as possible? Just okay, great? So just you know, due to the COVID nineteen spread, we are sixty days out on all appointments, I said, I said, are you evan kidding me? In so many words? I said, I don't understand. The woman who works for the doctor's office told me this yesterday, right, we made a note of it yesterday.

Now you're calling me because you got my voicemail to tell me the exact same thing I was told yesterday. Why didn't you tell me at the beginning he needs better assistance? Well, no, Now, the health care said the whole the the health group person didn't didn't tell me up front. After again, we went through the whole thing again. She as well, Sir, we're very busy, I said. I know. I understand you're busy. I said, but you can't expect me to have a hair cut, a haircut, a headache.

I I gotta get a haircut too. You can't expect me to have a painful headache for sixty days and not mention it like that. You gotta tell you that the length of this story is giving me a painful headache. I apologize. To you in the slices. I just I want you to know what I'm going through. I'm not a lot. I'm like sitting here. It's like it's more of the same. It's the same beat. We get it. These people are incompetent. They suck. They suck at their job,

and they probably should be. I mean, I mean, I mean, who do you complain to it? I talked about the health care. You're not gonna get free dessert from the doctor, that's for sure. No. I look, I'm not like. I know they're overworked. Don't don't get upset. If you're listening. I know they're overworked, and it's trusted. I get that. All I'm asking is mentioned the important part up front.

Or you're a smart guy. You you this happened to you once, the very next thing you should have done the second time you spoke to somebody the next day. You should have thought to yourself, I'm not going to be burned by this situation. I'm gonna ask up front. I would have hey, by the way, hi, how are you listen? Um? What's your waiting time? And if and she would have told you right up front. Sixty days absolutely,

the conversations going forward. I'm absolutely gonna do that. But the way you trust me, the way the phone call was phrased, she made it sound like she had an appointment for me. She said right away, I'm calling to make an appointment for you. So I assumed that meant we have appointments. I said to her, I was told you had no appointments. Oh no, no, we have appointments. I assumed that was good enough. I won't assume again. And please don't give me the nineteen seventies. You know

what happens when you assume. Thank you for the nineteen seventies. Uh, I get it. Anyway. Did I mention that Walgreen's no longer uses the blue been of Death? Did I mentioned that last week? Well you finally won. Yeah, you got your Well I got my way twice. I got my way with that, and I got my way with Android. Um, Android phones have a it's a it does something I think a lot of phones and tablets do, which which

makes no sense to me. And so, about oh, eight months ago, maybe about eight nine months ago, almost a year, I got a new Android phone, Galaxy Note nine and uh SAMs sends a representative to the radio station usually a tech guy, not usually an employee of Samsung. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Who will train you on the phone right, show you the features and benefits of the new phone, so that when you do commercials for the phone, like Elvis does, um, we can coherently explain the good parts

about the phone. So Elvis got a phone, and I got a phone as his producer, so I can help him with the phone and teach him the phone so that he could talk about it on the air and also learn the really cool parts of his new phone. We both got phones. So I told the guy, you know, I love Android, but there's a couple of things I think are that they should fix. He said, well, like what. I said, Well, what's the I don't want to bother you. He said, well, actually no, I'm part of a group

that meets with the Samsung developers. In fact, in about a month, I'm flying to South Korea to meet with them to give feedback about what things they can improve on. I said, seriously. He said, yeah, So what do you think is a problem. I said, well, there's two things I think are stupid about Androids. He said, well tell me so. Now keep in mind Android phones have been around. I think I got my first Android phone in two

thousand seven or two eight, maybe the droid the original phone. Right, So it's not like this is like a been a problem for a year. It's been a problem for it for for more than ten years, and it's always bothered me. When you turn the data off. Let's say you want to switch to WiFi and turn the data off. It used to give you a message that said, you know you're turning your data off and you may not be

able to access the internet unless you have WiFi. So I said to the guy, you know, when I first get a phone, if you want to give me that message the first couple of times, maybe I'm I'm someone who's never had a phone before and they don't know that. Right. That's helpful, But once you own the phone for a month, do you really need to be reminded every time you turn the data off that you're not gonna have data?

That seems kind of stupid. And then when you turn the data on, doesn't really need to tell me that I'm gonna be charged for my data? That's stupid? He said, that makes sense. What else? I said, Well, have you ever noticed when a phone is dying and it has like one percent left. Right, you run and you plug it in. Right, So what did you do? You turn the screen off to save battery and you plug the charger in. What's the first thing your phone does when

you plug the charger in the charge it scary? What does your phone do? The first thing that happens? The first thing I do it it goes. I have an iPhone, so I just it just you check to make sure the cable is both appears like, okay, I'm not asking what happens when the phone is off when you turn the screen off, but the phone is on when you put the Okay, So I'll tell you what does on an Android? The screen The screen lights up, right. What is the point of having the screen go back on?

If my phone is dying and I plugged it in to save it, the last thing it should do is turn back on. Right. So okay, now you're no, No, you're wrong because when you because when you plug your phone in, you want the phone to at least acknowledge no I that it's being charged. The screen has to turn on, and it doesn't because when it does, it doesn't because when you plug. That's how it works. When you plug in an iPad or an iPhone that's off.

What happens The lightning bolt comes on and the battery logo comes on, right, but the screen and and the screen lights up not not if hold on, man, hold on, I'm talking about your your phone and iPad when it's off, right, the screen turns on in black only to show you that it's charging, But it doesn't show you the desktop of your phone, the whole phone doesn't come back on.

What I'm saying is when Android used to be. When you plug in the phone that was dying, so you turned the screen off immediately, the screen would turn on at full brightness and come back on. Who cares? It's connected at that point. It's connected to it's charging thing. It's not gonna die. Tell you why I care? First of all, sometimes you have more apps running to do with your day. Man, hold on, man, I need you, I need you to not miss the point of my conversation.

You're being a nip pick and prick. I'm not I'm I'm being I'm just I'm I'm listening to what you're saying and taking everything and face value. But the thing that you're arguing about, now, did you tell these people to do this thing to the developers. Is that what you're gonna tell me? Telling the guy I'm telling you, the guy from that Samsung sent I'm telling him, and he said, you're right, that makes no sense. I'll tell you why it's a big deal. Let's say your phone

has one or two percent, right. I don't know if you know this, but if you have enough apps running, right, if you're making a phone call, if you've got WiFi on or Bluetooth, or if you're watching a video, you can use more power then the phone can charge. You're you're using the power faster than the phone charges. Okay. I don't know if you're aware of that, but sometimes right, Okay.

So let's say got one or two on my phone, and in the background, it's getting data, it's downloading emails, it's downloading weather, it's updated Twitter, right, okay, Okay, So if my ultimate goal is to get the phone back up to six so I can take it off the charger and make a phone call or run to my car, or get off the charger, not be stuck to the charger, the last thing I wanted to do is for the screen to come back on and for all the apps

to start kicking in again and everything to start going again. The screen uses most of the battery power, so if I'm charging Apple doesn't. Okay, yes, says the guy who can't use compatibility. What is new multi hundred dollar system because you're comparing apples and oranges? No, what I'm saying. The point of my story scary is not whether you

think it's a good idea or not. It's the fact that, guess what, in the last Android update, it no longer gives you the message about data turning off, and it no longer turns the phone back on you plug it in. That's my point. The point is my two suggestions somehow got to Samsung, I believe, and now after ten years, the phones don't do that anymore. I won and you

are not gonna crush my dreams, bitch, I'm gonna. I do not think that it would have made a damn bit of difference if they left it that way, because you know you're gonnare There is no because the phone has been in existence and all of its models have been for how many years now, and they never had a problem with it. If it was a big problem to consumers, they would have corrected it years ago. Half

half percent. If you're in a half a percent and you plug the phone in, there is no fucking way you're gonna tell me that the phone was in risk of dying completely after it was connected, just because the screen lit up. People are gonna tweet you and tell you you're wrong. And I'm not saying I'm not. You're you. You're gonna be you're wrong, may be wrong for your sad song. I don't think so, though, I don't think so. I don't think anyone would make a device that okay,

that way, I am not would've even released it to market. Scary. I'm not saying that the phone's gonna die automatically. I'm saying it's counterproductive. I just I'm only saying it's counterproductive. Listen to me. It's counterproductive if you're trying to charge a dying phone for the screen to come back on. If I want the screen to come back on, I'll turn it on. But yeah, but it only comes on temporarily.

It comes back on for whatever the setting on your phone. Right, So then you pressed the side button and shut the phone off. Now I don't have to that's my point. Now, I don't know. That's your point. You've got something done that was insignificant. You had this guy's time, you could have absolutely made better, better suggestions for the for the phone. You you, you, you shot your you, you shoot your shot, you shot your load, whatever you want to call it

on that. I mean, if I had this guy's ear and he was an Apple guy, I would have a list of ten things that I would want to be doing. Well. Your Apple phone is perfect. You just said drop a phone is perfect. Other things. I'm trying to tell you, I'm pointing out the fact and calling you out that what you tried to do for this upgrade was an insignificant request when you had a very powerful person in front of you that was a decision maker in the process.

First of all, that's what you wasted on. First of all, your shipping over the fact that I got the message turned off the annoying message. That's a big deal. Second of all, I gave him like ten suggestions, scary. It wasn't just those two. I gave him a list of them. I rattled off a whole bunch of stuff I thought

would be would be, would be more helpful inconsequential. I just I just think this is completely taking it and your your your, your, your your analogy that well, if it was a problem, they would have fixed it sooner. That doesn't make any sense. Problems don't get fixed till someone points it out. Cars didn't have seat belts before. What does that mean we didn't need seat belts because no one noticed. That's another terrible analogy. This is you're

talking about you're talking about a phone. You're talking about a phone which has been in existence and has had so many iterations. Uh, that's not a word, iterations, so many iterations of this phone that if it was phone one point oh, and it was a problem where you plugged it in and the fucking screen get you know, shut the fucking phone off and disconnected and it went off, they would have fixed it in version one point one.

You know what I'm saying, it's it sounds like sometimes it takes a pioneer like me to be the first one to step up and say, you know what, it's nitpicky, but it's kind of annoying, which it is. Every time I put my phone on the charger, like I want to walk away and leave the phone on the charger. Why does the screen come back on. It makes no sense. So now it doesn't look if the screen is already on and I put the charge, how long does it take for the screen to come back on. It's immediate, Okay,

So then it's still in your hands. At that point you can just shut it off. It's not if I put it down on the counter and plug it in, right, I have to then, shot, why do I want to shut it off? I wanted it off. It's not like the thing that that was phone was trying to trick you, brodie where you plugged it in, you walked away, and then and seconds later it wakes up. It's like I'm still alive. It was. It's right there, the screen comes on and there it is. Just shut it off. Done.

But we don't have that problem with Apple. No, you just have no inputs. It lights up, it lights up. You have no helphones. Nope, the phone lights up for a second. It lights up for a second, and then it goes back to bed. Oh so having it go back to bed is a good thing. Well, guess my phone got that right on the first try. Because they stole everything else from Android, every other damn thing that iPhone does in the past fifteen uh, fifteen editions of

iPhone has been stuff they stole from Android. Let's not get into that. Let's not get into that. I would take a commercial here, but you already took out the commercial break. No more. We we did a double commercial break, double commercial break. We're already almost out of time. We should do some email. Well, I didn't get to the Bluetooth ran from last week. Damn it. You want to I don't know what you want to do. We're way over, are we? Yeah? Yeah, I mean we don't have to.

We could do whatever you want to do. You know what, I don't think there's anything here in my emails that's really important. Can I just uh, I want to talk about go ahead for I want to just talk about Mark Hamill for a minute, if I can. Mark Hamill, who is a brilliant Luke Skywalker and Skywalker himself, is a not only a great uh a huge part of the Star Wars saga as Luke Skywalker, but he's made a fortune in a career of being a voiceover artist.

He plays the Joker in the Batman cartoons, among other things. Very talented guy. I've liked a bunch of his movies other than Star Wars like Corvette Summer before you like what else you know? Mark Hamill from all right? So Mark Hamill is very active on Twitter, and a lot of times he tweets things I agree with. So I sent out a tweet or I replied to his tweet, uh, and I said something nice about him, and he liked

my tweet. So I took a picture of the tweet and I posted it and I said Mark Hamill, and I tweeted at him, um at Hamil, mark Hamill himself or right, and I said, liked my tweet. Right. So then he liked my tweet of the picture of him liking my tweet. So I took a picture of that and I put it up on you on Twitter, and I said, Mark Hamill liked a tweet of me liking a tweet of him liking a tweet, and so he

liked that. So I wrote him a nice note and I said, Mark Hamill liked my tweet of a picture of me liking his tweet of a picture me liking his tweet of a pictures liking my tweet. And this one on for over over a week, and each time I did it, I had a funny hashtag like return of the tweet guy, um luke tweet walker. I was hious, right, And this one on for over a week, so it's like a it's like a bit that you guys are

a little funny. You guys have going back. So people were his followers, My followers were commenting, Oh my god, I love this. How do I get Mark Camil to like my tweet? I like this tweet. I liked the tweet that Mark Hama liked, of the tweet that this guy liked, of Mark Hama liking the tweet. So they were adding onto it. It became like a snowball effect, right,

this one on for I don't know. It was about six tweets, and finally Mark Hamill tweeted, and now I have liked your tweet about me liking your tweet about liking your tweet about me, liking your tweet about me liking your tweet about liking your tweet about me again hashtag return of the tweet liking guy. Sure hope my job here is done. So he tweeted a recap of all of my tweets as they got longer and so so of course I liked that tweet and he liked

me liking to tweet. That's that is awesome. That's the story I needed to hear today that had nothing to do with coronavirus. Thank you, so thank you, Mark Hamill. Uh. Luke Skywalker a man from my childhood who gave me a really good week of back and forth tweeting uh and some laughs uh and a lot of fun. So you could have seized the moment, you know, and talked about something less inconsequential. Yeah, I like my phone and by the way, my android phone named after droids and

androids from the SAG. It all goes full circle, doesn't it. Yeah, George Lucas had that you should have tweeted. Maybe you should have asked him about why is it when you plug the phone into the wall, you know what the screen lights I bet you Mark Hammell, I bet you Luke Skywalker when he plugs his lightsaber into recharge, if it came back on and cut the counter top and half, he would be upset with that as well. So I bet he's on my side that challenge. Like it's mail time, Welcome,

you've got mail? You know, you could always email us now that we're really bored at the Brooklyn Boys Podcast at gmail dot com. Now, I wanted to say one thing. If you want to get on this podcast, you must you must email us to that email address. I can't we can't go screen capture Instagram quotes and things and things that you might have asked for back then. You know, you know, you know what I'm saying. You know, like like you you you go to another source and then

I can't. We can't do that. This is where we go for our emails. Brooklyn Boys Podcast at gmail dot com. I've got some or say hey, didn't you get my my my tweet on like I side tweeted you? Or yeah, I know so um, do you want to hear a story of free dessert from Dylan? Of course? Dylan hit us up. Let's go hit me so, Hey, Brooken Boy's name is Dylan. I started from episode zero and I'm almost caught up. You guys are the first and only podcast I've listened to and I love it. Wow, that's

an honor. My wife got a keyboard case for her iPad on Amazon. The issue with case was that it was extremely tight and actually scratched the corners of the iPad. We realized this right away. I immediately got in touch with Amazon and told them I was not happy. Amazon scheduled a UPS pick up so they would come to my house and get it. I also got them to give a fifteen dollar credit because we were not happy

with the quality. Anyway. We thought it had scratched her iPad, but she was able to Oh, she was able to wipe it away. Oh, so it wasn't scratched. Originally, they wanted to give us only five dollars, so Amazon discovered that anyway, got a supervisor on the phone named Boris, who got in touch. I told them that they were gonna have to do was give me the fifteen dollars like originally promised. This is where the fake dessert came in.

What they call it fake dessert. We went went to use the Amazon credit a couple of days later and found out that this credit was only good on items sold and shipped by Amazon, which rolled out a large number of items on their website. So I found this out, got in touch with Amazon. The lady said, uh, can I Can I make this a regular universal credit card? The crappy fifteen Amazon credit? Wow? So she gave me a fifteen dollar Amazon credit card balance on the full account,

not just for Amazon products. Fuck you Boris, Now, I don't. I gotta be honest. By the way they continue to say that I hope everything is safe and you guys are looking forward to hearing more of us. I would have asked more than fifteen dollars because if you're gonna put me through the rigam role of the back and forth, and you promised me fifteen and now you're only gonna give me five, Now I want what say you, Brodie? Okay? So yes, I would want a little more dessert for

the for the inconvenience. However, did you say that they wanted the free dessert because the case scratched her phone and then she realized it wasn't a scratch. It was dirt, were right, Yeah, they realized it wasn't it wasn't a scratch. Okay, So I have to say she got more than she deserved. Some well, somebody realized it. No, it sounds like the oh no, because and Amazon went to go pick up.

It sounds like they came. It sounds like Dylan got free dessert for nothing, which is doubly free dessert he called his fake dessert when they only wanted to give him five dollars, but he fake fake dessert. He faked the fake dessert. He faked out the fake dessert he faked he got so he got free dessert, so he should keep his fifteen and run right. He got free desserve for something that wasn't even scratched. Now, the case was tight. I get that. Who don't like a tight case,

if you know what I'm saying. But the point is, the point is his phone wasn't scratched, so he probably should have gotten just a refund for not like in the case there's no damage to the phone. All right, So this person doesn't want to be named. So this funny sign in Jacksonville, Florida, outside of Chucky Cheese during the COVID outbreak. I thought you guys would enjoy this um and it's a picture of it, says Pizza Wings.

The set five dollars d e s s et on a handmade sign offering to Zette yea yeah, free Dezette to anyone. Love the rants and free dessert stories started from zero long time listening to the Big Show too? All right, thank you so much, Mr Unknown. Regarding Podcast one fifteen, Hey Brooklyn boys, how you guys, doing love you listening to you listening to the rant Brodie did about being upside down. The reason the ground the whole is on top is that why don't you reset that?

The the outlets for right? Okay? Can I yeah? Yeah, okay. Look, we talked about this about four episodes ago, and that was over a month, and everyone who was an electrician or has ever walked in the home depot has already informed and explained what the deal was. The reason why Alex are upside down is so so so that if something falls straight down the wall and knocks the plug out, it'll hit the ground plug first, so you won't electroc

to burn down the house. We all know that the active pieces are the two the left and the right. When was that? When was that email? Sent? Just about a less than a week ago, So there, they're not up to that episode yet. Also, just as a reminder, you got a three day window after that. Probably are other listeners who are very helpful, probably already told us, but we appreciate you letting us know. Thank you. Someone said that they were listening to the Big Show and

they heard a phone caller talking about delivering milk. The caller, Gary on the Big Show said white milk and then changed it and then said plain milk. So this person is wondering. Adam who wrote to us, is wondering if Gary listens to the podcast and he's self corrected live on the Big Show. Well, if he's self corrected, he wouldn't have said plain milk. He would have just said milk, milk. But you never know. Melissa Jacobs wrote to our Facebook page, Uh,

and you can. That's at the Brooklyn Boys, by the way, only a small glimpse at me. But I think the strawberries must be raw. Wait aren't they supposed to be? I love listening to you. What is what is she referring to? Here is up? There's a jpeg along with this. Oh it's okay. She was inside. It looks like Walmart and they were having a rollback dollars seventy eight a pound for rawberry. Someone either crushed out the st So that's the picture she sent to us that accompanied this email.

Uh yeah, the strawberries must be raw. Wait aren't they supposed to be? To keep doing what you're doing, slowly catching up. Been listening since the summer. I'm on episode number sixty two. This COVID nineteen should give me plenty of time to catch up at work calling all of my clients as I work in medical daycare and I need to call them daily to make sure they are okay. Thank you for doing what you do, Melissa, can I can I jump in so we can alternate a little bit. Yeah.

I just want to give a shout out to uh Nick x Edge Nicholas Kassoff, who sent a picture of an ad. He said, maybe, uh maybe, uh my MAT's not good. Maybe I use common Core. So there was an ad for a trial for something. It said monthly seven, try it fourteen days for free. After that it's fifty off is not half of seven? That's true? All right, pretty funny. And then, um, this is Devin June. Um, it's Steven Gannon on Instagram. D m to me with

a picture of a pizza place called Stacy's Pizza. Now, if you remember back from one of the first ten episodes, we talked about how I would not go to a Stacy's Pizza because Stacy doesn't sound like she's Italian, she doesn't know pizza. I'm not buying her pizza. And then lastly, oh, I'm so sorry. I can't get you know what you go on. I want to make sure I get proper credit. All right, A couple more from Lima David uh Dave, David Lima here or Lima Sorry, Hey, guys, I find

you both equally entertainment taining. First time reaching out, but I finally caught up on all the podcast when when um starting a few months ago. I was talking with a friend the other day trying to remember the name of a movie, and mid sentence, I said, I'll look it up later and don't tweet me. My friend looked at me like I was crazy, looking like I was crazy.

I blame you guys for that. My mother was born in New York and his an Italian and his Italian and Jewish hashtag trib and is definitely a free dessert kind of woman, if you know what I mean. Quick story about that one time she bought a seed this watermelon from the supermarket, got home, cut it open, and there were seeds. She went back to the store, got a refund and new watermelon and made them cut it open to show her it was seedless. Hashtag free dessert.

But that's not free dessert. Even that's even that's even that's not free dessert. You gotta get something. She had to get to and now if they gave her a second watermelon, that's all the way back to get to exchange the watermelon. And all they gave her was what she paid for originally. That's a free dessert, not free dessert. Well, the universe balances out now because that other email you read got free deserve for no reason. So okay, I

found out. Okay, So he is the tweet I got from Daniel Dane Shrod He's a Dane s trod d. He said, I want to install these lights, but no matter how many times I follow the instructions, they never work. So scary. See if you can figure out why they don't work. Installation guide. Step one, turn off the power switch. Step two, install the light in E fourteen or g U ten socket or plug into the socket. Step three,

turn off the power switch. Oh that's a mistake. Well that's why they don't work, because they don't work because it keeps turning. Turn on. That's right. So step what's the first line again? So the first line is turned on the power switch. Step two is install the light into the turn use it turn on to turn off the first step is turned off the power switch. That's the problem right there. It's a mistake. No, the problem is the third one, the turn You have to turn

it on and see if the lights work. You turn off the power so you don't let you cute yourself. Do you screw it in and then you turn it on? You turn it on off, turn off the power switches right right, right right? That's what I meant. Don't mind me? Did you write this? What it sounds like you wrote these instructions? The fuck you turn off? Right? Alright? Okay,

that's kind of an obvious. I have one usual. I got one one more email for you, and that's from because this next joke is one of my favorite unused jokes in Kristen Lokes thinks. Uh we were talking about we're talking about the fact that you get a cat, and you said I shouldn't. Um. I wanted to say, I'm a hun percent team scary, get a cat scary. The people who know you best all seem to think that you don't like being home and you couldn't give

the cat the time and affection it would need. Just maybe you would love the cats so much you don't want to go out that much anymore, and this quarantine would be the perfect time to start cat fatherhood and adjust before everything goes back to normal. I just had to write in because I am annoyed at the discouragement you have received on oh not only the Brooklyn Boys podcast with Brody and the Big Show, but speaking volumes with Share because that's my other podcast that we've talked

about it there. Again, it's definitely a commitment, and you have to be fair to the cat, but I think you'd be so happy and love the cat so much. You'd be happy to spend a little more time at home, and your home would be a more fun place to be. I love you both, even though this email is most

is mostly about scary Thank you, Kristen. Well, obviously, Kristen, you don't know me very well, because even with the cat, I would I would definitely want opts for going out, hanging out with my girlfriend, family friends and going to bars and eating and drinking. So I would say, I don't know she's trying to say that you I would fall in love during this quarantine quarantine period. What do you think? I think you would find a way not to spend time with the cat, even if you were quarantined,

you wouldn't be home with the cat. That would be your reason to go out with your mask. And you're like, oh, I'm sorry I'm wearing this mask. I got a cat at home. No, you are not a cat. You are not a uh be in charge of anything else's uh life. Yeah, now you had it right. You shouldn't get a goldfish, you shouldn't get an amiba. You should just worry about keeping yourself along. In high school, we carried around raw eggs, you know, the eggs, pretending like we're trying to raise

a kid. Yeah, I dropped the egg broke. Let me do my one on his youth joke, and let's get out of here. Please, it's cold here in my basement. Okay. So Gandhi on the Elverstrand Morning Show does the news, right. She does a segment called three Things, three things you need to know. So she did three stories. I to say it was Thursday. Now we are all in a chat room. So if I write a joke, everybody sees the joke and it's up to whoever wants to use

it to use the joke. So Gandhi did a story about the app Zoom that everybody's using and how it's there. It's a there's a class action lawsuit because it was selling your information to Facebook. You heard that story scary, Yes, I did, okay, and that you know this new app it's not new, but people are using it like crazy. Is being sued already and it's only been popular for

like two weeks. And then she did two stories about COVID nineteen and people dying and uh, just just negative stories which you have to do as part of the news. I get it. So I wrote this joke, damn Gandhi, all the news is zoom and gloom. Now I will never get to do that joke again. It's a spoof on the term doom and gloom. Obviously I will never have a use for that joke. That never be an opportunity to use that again. And so I feel like

a great joke was completely wasted. Sometimes my jokes are like, Okay, I'll use it another time, but all the news is zoom and gloom. Thank you. I didn't get to use it for the guy for the podcast You Know It? Where Are We Fun? With Dr Fauci is from Brooklyn Boys Brooklyn Brooklyn Boys