#138: Peter, Wood, Dick's & Hiscox

because you can't pronounces I can pronounce it. I just I just feel like, you know, like all the hurricanes, some of them are some of the hurricanes when they name them alphabetically, they just wander out to see and they fizzle out, right. That's why, Like, how could it be Hurricane L There's only been one hurricane? No, No No, they all they all get named when they start in

the Caribbean, in or in the Atlantic Ocean. Every hurricane year from June one to November one, it starts with an A, and the next storms a B, and the next storms the sea. Now some of them, some of them start as tropical depressions and storms and hurricanes, and as Brodie said, you never hear of half of them

because they're just happening in the middle of nowhere. Well, they just fizzle out they make a right turn and all of a sudden And so sometimes like if you talk to Froggy on our on Our Big Show, and you talked to him about hurricanes, they'll be able to tell you like, oh, Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Irma, Wilma, like the ones that um, I guess, uh, Katrina, the big ones, right, you remember their names forever because they did devastation. Well, I feel like I s I know that I know

the name, and it comes from the derivation. It's a it's a hard word, hard name for people to say, even when they see it. I think seeing it as the problem. I think when you see it, it looks like as eyes yea. So it starts with I, which means there's been an A, B, C, D, E, F G H already this hurricane season and we haven't heard of really any of them. If that makes any sense, Um, are you getting message? It makes sense? Nope? Is that

your side piece texting you during the podcast? Wow, Brodie's like muting his microphone here, cough on the mic, because if you cough off the mic, then it sounds terrible. It sounds like you're disconnected. It sounds like you're hiding something. No no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, I'm not

at all okay. So yeah, so, as we were just saying, yeah, so there's been all these hurricanes or storms already and impact it did the first one that I'm hearing people will be saying it is from now right, but not like not like Andrew, like it didn't do the damage

in most places. Obviously there was damage. Um, So we had a tropical storm by the time it hit New Jersey, and so there was a giant tree down a couple of blocks in my house, on the front lawn of somebody's house and on the of the bottom of the tree with all the roots came up everything. The bottom of the tree was about twelve ft wide, maybe more. They hung um construction paper, you know, like, ah, we used to call it oak tag. I don't construction paper now.

They made a sign and it said could be worse, there could be a pandemic, which I just thought was hilarious that even with a tree on the top they fell on the house by the way, that they could still make a joke. I took a picture of it. I'm gonna put up on my Instagram probably this weekend. Um, but anyway, so I lost we lost power on the whole neighborhood. Just getting your power back night. Yeah, So

Tuesday afternoon the power went out. Now sons, it goes out and you go, all right, they'll flip a breaker, it'll be fine. Nope, Tuesday night in the dark, Wednesday all day in the dark, and Thursday all day in the dark. And they kept saying um on the website and in the text messages that the electric company sent us, You'll have your power back Thursday at eleven o'clock, right, which was last night. And we're like, okay, I'm not

gonna not not believable, not believable, not gonna happen. So you see that on Tuesday and you go, what come on? Then you see it on Wednesday, you go, I gotta wait another two days. This is crap. So you're living without lights, you're living without television, DVRs, streaming, WiFi, everything, live without everything. So my laptops dead, and uh, I'm charging everything in the car. I'm driving around with my phone, another phone from someone in my family, my iPad. I'm trying.

I'm I'm horrible for you. Yeah, it was terrible. You know. I was sitting on the driveway. I did the whole show Wednesday and Thursday morning sitting in my car because I can't say in the house. It's dark and there's no power, so you know, yeah, what sucks is you know? And I said this on the big show to a couple of people. I slept through the whole damn thing

because I live. I live in a high rise, the small apartment way up in the sky where I guess, like the Jefferson's in a de luxe apartment, hardly a de luxe apartment, but it's a nice it's a cozy place. And and because I didn't, you know, all I could see is just some bands of rain whipping around. You don't hear the wind. You don't see the trees flowing back and forth. You don't see or experience the destruction.

I literally said, I'm gonna bake some cookies and go to bed, and and then I woke up and the sun was out, and then I got I feel, he's the vegan cookies. By the way, Yes, you baked vegan cookies and you drank chalk, you drank milk with them. I did. I drank milk with vegan cookies. But the vegan cookie. I don't. I don't drink, you don't eat vegan cookies because I'm a vegan, right? Did it because us? As I said, I'll try anything once. And if you're a fan of this podcast, you know that I will

try anything once and I have including your day. Yeah, yes, it doesn't even to be said anymore. So So with that said, I might it intrigued me while I was in the store and I said vegan can and it said can it can. It could be eaten raw, you could be eating you know, cook it whatever. I'm like, I'm gonna try it because that's the kind of person I am. I have this open mind to new things. So I said I'm gonna get something now, not because

I'm trying to be vegan. So it wasn't wrong that I followed it with milk, which is not a vegan product. So it wasn't because I'm not trying to be vegan. See that's the that's the difference. That's what people wouldn't let me explain. I'm feeling like it's going to like like Burger King or one of those places that has like beyond burgers and then and then putting beef gravy on it, like that's what it seemed like to me.

But to me, but my reasons for buying and trying the vegan the vegan cookies was because I wanted to know did it Did it taste better than a regular chocolate chip or as good as and I don't know if it was supposed to taste better, it's just it lacks ingredients that are the animal based. Well that Brody

is where you are wrong. It tasted as good and here's why, because I, like I later learned that all it is is like a marketing ploy because the only thing that's really different is that there's no butter in it. It's because that's the dairy product that would create like the other brands of cookies, right, so so it's replaced with something else or there's something just missing there. But when you I'll tell you they use oils, and they

still use oils in the cookie to make it. I mean there's still types of oil in it, so but it's plant based oil doesn't matter. The point is it came out to be a nice, beautiful sweet chocolate chip cookie, but it was considered vegan, so it was as good as any you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. In fact, I remember another company coming up, not a sponsor, well not a sponsor of mine at least, and you gave these cookies to your daughter, and you couldn't even

believe how great these cookies were. They were vegan. But again we're fooled by the word vegan. You're like, oh, vegan, but all it is is just a marketing ploy for vegans to buy it and eat it. For everybody else, everybody else get employ but from marketing ploy, yes, because it's but it's aimed it's it's a marketing ploy aimed at vegans. Okay, but that's like saying if if it's if it's kosher steak, that it's a marketing ploy to

attract religions to eat it. It's market marketing ploy. It's operation. Yes it is, but but it won't turn off a person like me. Okay, But if you made it, if you made something like you sold loamin without vegetables, that's not a marketing ploy. That's just obviously you're appealing to me. But that's not a ploy. Okay. You like like veganism is a ploy. No, But this this cookie company decided this is their catering to the it's not a marketing employ But the good news here is for non vegans

that it doesn't. It tastes just as good as a regular chocolate chip cookie. Are they cheaper than regular chocolate chip cookies? You know? I mean I don't look at prices when I buy here. I know you boe boe. I just I just like it tastes good. I liked it and with my experiment was was you know. But but that's not the point. The only person I know who would hire an instat cart person halfway through your shopping you just go at you instat cart person. Yeah, can you just take over for me? And I can

just see you go home? Why don't it be time just got instat cart take over for me? Man, he's twenty. You can't keep you bothered with this ship, you know, but shopping. But I wasn't doing it for health purposes. I wasn't doing it because I want to be Nobody thought you were doing anything for health reasons. I'm not trying about I'm not trying to be a vegan. I'm trying I just wanted, like, what does this taste like?

Because I'm curious speaking as sponsors. Scary. We got an email that went out to the whole on air staff up hours ago for a new company that sells dog leashes. Right, it's it was dog leashes and uh that they're made with carabbeinez, you know, the rock climbing thing. So it's like a rope with a caribbean on the end, so you can like latch latch the dog on. And they asked people, they said, well, who on the show wants to endorse this product? You? You said, yeah, you don't

even have a dog. I didn't respond, yes you did. No, I didn't. That wasn't your email. What are you talking about. I didn't even get this email. It wasn't even directed at me. I don't have a dog. Somebody said, you replied, yes, that someone's goofing. I didn't. Did nobody. Nobody sent that to me on the show. Nobody. Did it come from one of the sales people. Yes, no, I was not company to that email, and rightfully so, I don't own a pet. I would never you know, I would never

have a reason for a leash. Okay, but you did a diaper commercial. You don't have kids. Is it a sex leash? Maybe? I could work it in there to think about it, and maybe I could the least could be used for something else. I mean, and now you're looking for an angle to indorse. I'm just looking for an angle I don't have. I'm not gonna lie and say I have a pet. I don't have any pets. Okay, But anyway, back to the hurricane or this this storm, whatever this was, so I lost power. It was it

was terrible. Look, you know, people have it worse. My house wasn't damaged. I can only speak about my pain. I know other people had more pain. I understand that. Well, my my co host on my other podcast is having a lot of pain because we were supported share from speaking volumes because we were supposed to record our podcast two days ago. And she hasn't had power since she lives up in Westchester and I forgot. Why don't you

give him a dress? Well she was in Westchester. Yeah, okay, that's all you need to Yeah, okay, But anyway, that's by the way, that's north of Manhattan, north of the Bronx. If you're not from this area, right and and so, so she's still suffering. But what does Brody do? As soon as the power goes back on in his house. I screamed that the power just magically appears, and he turned on every fucking light, every light, all the air conditioners, everything.

You wasted as much power as humanly. I almost blew the grid again. Well, you know, like you tried to do years ago when I tried to blow my own grid. So what you let me? Said? The stage, it was hold on. We put a spotlight on it because I have power for you. Nice. It was about eleven fifteen maybe, and uh at that point we're like, okay, they set eleven o'clock where there's the power. And my wife checks her phone because she's getting updates from the electric company,

and it says new new time. You should have power back by tuesday. By Tuesday, So now I'm looking at three or four more days right Tuesday morning whatever. And I it's so depressing, scary. It's such an awful feeling to be in a house. You're just sitting there in the dark with uh, you know, with flashlights and candles, and you have all the blinds open during the day, and you have the windows open, the front door and the back door open because you know, he's just trying

to get any kind of air in the house. It's just awful. You're trying to let Yeah, I have no problem doing that, no problem doing that, but I have a question for you. So anyway, so after after my wife says we're not getting power back for three or four days, I just like slumped in my chair, slumped, and then about a minute or two later here and everything came back. How great is that update? Thankfully their update was wrong. Thankfully the update was, well, you know

what they did? They did? What what? What is the marketing ploy of the under promise? And that's what you're supposed to do in life? But says the thing what you're supposed to do is Thursday morning, you tell me it's not coming back till Tuesday. Right, then when it comes back on Thursday night, I'm excited. When you tell me at eleven o'clock that it's Tuesday, and then fifteen minutes later comes on, I wouldn't have been happy anyway.

You didn't need to do that, right, You didn't. You didn't gain anything that they went with the worst possible scenario and they gave you the best possible But that means there are people in New Jersey that won't have power till Tuesday. I feel terrible for those people. Terrible. But here's the thing, So, I I don't know about ten years ago, I bought a head strap that has five lights on it. You were the kid in school

with the head strap? No, no, I wasn't. So it's like I'm like, I'm a spelunker, like like it's like a helmet with a light on it. You know those hats you wear and like a miner, like a minor, have this headband strap that they sell at home depotist. Every yeah, every time we lose power, I walk around with the light on my head. My hands are free and off to carry a flashlight. I can brush my teeth, I can, uh you know, do it. I get get dressed. I don't have to worry about like holding a flashlight

walking around whatever. And every year, my my wife and kids look good that it looks so stupid. Meanwhile they're slepping around a flashlight or a lantern or whatever. So this year home Depot had new ones three ft twelve with floodlights on the front, like they their wide range lights, not just directly in front of you, so it lights up the whole room. Tremendous I walk the dogs. I have two dogs and one leash in each hand. Was

I holding a flashlight? No, no, you're wearing You're wearing your spunker one headlight like the song that right, exactly? And so uh, Given the choice scary fashion over productivity, which do you choose in the case of an emergence, fashion or function? I go for function in times of need, in times of worry, in times of great despair, in times of necessity like this, this is an emergency. You go for function. You don't go for fashion. Why was someone making fun of you? Do you not listen to

this podcast? Your wife and your daughters? Yeah, they keep trying to get a picture of me wearing the headlight. Well, what can I tell you other than the fact that they, you know, they need some content for the Graham or for TikTok or something. Yeah, I know, because it's like, hey, look at my dad. I could see them on Snapchat right now, like trying to get secret shots of you with this thing. So yeah, I mean, well, you're the dad that you're That is your role. You're you're supposed

to take the fall on these things. You're like, okay, ha ha, I'm wearing I'm wearing a headlight on my face. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care at all because I can see where I'm going. Uh. Okay, so you've lost power, right, you've you've been in the past. Oh yes, Oh yes, in previous Superstorm Sandy, I lost power. Yes. What do you do with the food and your refrigerator? The food in my refrigerator? Uh? What if you lose power? At what point do you get rid of it? Every item?

Do you keep the doors closed and pray for me? I unfortunately live alone and have no neighbors that are close to me. Uh, or or building lost power or or no, I mean neighbors in other buildings with generators, people you know, or none that would want to take my food. So that's why I'm asking. Here's why I'm asking. So the stuff and the freezer that'll last longer, and then eventually it becomes to frosted and it's refrigerated level like it needs to be refrigerated, but it's still cold.

The stuff in the refrigerator, you can try try shoving some of it in the freezer because the freezer holds its temp for a while. But my wife and I had this major debate over every item, like, oh we can save that, you can't save it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not gonna go bad. It's it's bad already. Yeah, we'll cook it. And so I was like, I'll eat that, not a problem, and she's like, I don't think it's a refrigerator freezer thing. I think it's a what did

you pay the most four things? So I would take the most valuable items, like, for instance, if I had a couple of steaks or some I don't know, like whatever is expensive, Like if I had produce and thinks not produce is not really as so you take let's go steak. Okay, like steak as in steak dinner. Sorry.

The theme of steak continues, Um, if I had steaks that were I would find I would try and put those aside and see if anyone anywhere can just I can take up some real estate and someone's freezer with with my steak, because that, to me, I paid the most for. Then I immediately cut to what is going to outlast this fucking thing? And I look for the most processed foods possible in my refrigerator, and I say, you know what, mustard. I'm fucking leaving it. Catch up,

no mustard and catch up a fine. What I'm saying is, if there's something in refrigerator, like a block of cheese, like and and because hard cheese lass longer than soft cheese, right, hard cheese can be a refrigerative. Got frozen dinners that are like temp cent the frosted? Are you? Are you someone who airs on the side of keep it well, I'll put ice bags on it. We'll figure it out, yes, or use someone like it's not ads gone. I'm like you, Yeah,

it's okay. I can understand that what's going on between you and your wife because you're you're she's quicker to throw it away and right, and I'm quicker to go. And we paid fifty bucks for that pack, you know, like whatever it is okay. But see this, this is where you and I differ. We are on the same side of this argument, but for different reasons. You because of the cost, right, But for me it's because that fucking whatever it doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's

a bunch of bullshit anyway, didn't lie in you. They always tell you that I don't, I don't, I don't bother expiration date. I don't bother the expiration dates on a lot of ship because they just want you to buy more of that ship. It's the company that's trying to like make you run through it quicker. They say, oh, you need to do this because of the expiration date. So I am very war worry about listening to those. So to me, it's it's a suggestion. What word did

you just use? War wary, wary, w a r y, however you want to pronounce it, where I don't want to pronounce it, it's wary wary. I am wary of that. So for instance, But but when you're talking about like defrosted dinner, defrosted frozen dinners, I think that's where you start to lose it and you have to just done goodbye. Well, so what I did was whatever I thought was frozen enough, I threw into freezer bags and drove him over to

my friend's Gary's house. That's what you did, and that's where we're going with this, right, And so I gave you, I don't know, a dozen rock solid hamburgers, some some boxes of frozen food, and some refrigerator bowls that were still fairly cold. Correct And by the way, everything is whether the storm. It's all safe in my refrigerator and freezer, respectively. Well, that dozen hamburgers I gave you, which are a nice quality hamburger, My wife said, well, they're all yours because

I'm not eating them. I'm up feeding them to the kids. They're all mine. No, me, me, she's talking to me. She's not talking to you, she said to me, David. I'm sure she'd be okay with me having them at this point. Yeah, she doesn't care, So I said, but they were frozen. Not what a motorcycle in the background. No, that's that's the people that that's my gardener cleaning up all the damage, the trees and everything that fell. Okay,

that's like you're about to flight. No, you know it took me an hour and a half to get all the trees and the leaves and the branches that I will forgive that. It's okay, continue all right anyway, So I now have twelve hamburgers. So I feel even better now giving them to you, because now they're all mine. When I thought I would saving him for everybody, I was getting four of them, five of them. Maybe now I'm getting a whole dozen now When I brought him

to you. They were hard as a rock, right right. They sure they didn't lose any any frozen quality about which is when I said to my wife, I see us now. They defrosted because they were in the case. By the way, you could tell your wife that when she shops her frozen food, the time that it takes for her to put it in her car check out, come home and put it in the freezer, it's the same. We don't buy frozen hamburgers. Those were fresh, but anything frozen.

My point is if she if she's ever bought frozen food in the past, long enough, I understand that. But but but her thought process was, and I don't blame her, was that the freezer was off for twenty four hours. It was it was like the whole day, and so I didn't open the door, so the ice cream was still hard. So you're fine, right, So I saved as much as I could. And by the way, she's crazy, she's out of her mind. At this point, I missed

a Porterhouse steak in the back. And by the time we were cleaning out the fridge Wednesday night, the Porterhouse and defrosted. It was cold. So I said, I'll cook it. You can't cook it, so why not because once it's defrosted, I don't know, you know what I see? People are making up their own rules. My girlfriend does the same thing, She does the same ship. Yes it's oh my god, it's no good. Yes it is, it's fine. It never went below it's it's it's it's it's it's not like

room temperature or hot. It's not warm. It's it's still cold. It still has that Goose qualities. And by the way, I'm not I'm not. I'm not buying bullshit where you can't. You could freeze something that's that's refrigerated and then unfreeze it and then refreeze it again. You can do that. It's okay. It really it hurts the quality of the food. But you're not gonna die. You're not gonna kill yourself from it. Right, But what do we care about this?

It must be a testosterone thing. There must be an ingredient in testosterone that breaks down the stuff that kills you on the internet that women are afraid of. Well whatever, I had a lot of old that was in the refrigerator. It wasn't and I lived. One of the things you did put here was what the fuck is I mean, I know what it is from the word it's Mayo

half Mayo f ketchup. But does there need to be a product out there called Mayo chup when all you could do, well you need to do is do a on the Mayo and the on the ketchup and then combine them and don't you get Mayo chup? Okay? So what why sell chocolate milk scary when you can have milk and buy chocolate, right, but exactly, okay, we can move on. No, no, no, but Mayo chup just seems

it just seems like it. Don't buy Why buy soda scary when you can buy the flavor and the far water, put it together in a soda stream, not a sponsor, and make your own soda. Right? Why chup is perfectly blended because it's whatever the balance of ketchup to Mayo. They I happen to love Thousand Island slash Russian dressing. Yes, okay, hold on a second, I just want to go to the refrigerator at for a second and grab the Mayo chup if you may, if I may, if you may,

your Mayo chup out of my refrigerator. By the way, if if the chupp wants to sponsor hold on this podcast. You know I'm a big fan of the Heinz company, So go get the chup. Hello, are you chopping? Brody and scary Brodian and scary Brodian and scary, brilliant scary. Okay, his kids hit by the way, his refrigerators ten ft away and it's it's up, which is the way the commercials. Have you seen the commercials with the guys like you'd be chopping and guys like you know, I'm chopping? Have

you seen those? No? I have not. You haven't seen the chopping, So mayo chup. Oh, by the way, this expired least September. It's a September. I took it from my mother's already is a year old. But you know what's hold on? It says best buy or must use by. It just said doesn't say either, It just says right. So to me, that's the birthday of it. What if it was made that day? My point is this, and you know you know I'm questioning. The point is I would I too, would have this in the refrigerator one

to even three years old. And I'm okay with it so, but I'm just pointing that out, and it says, here, what's what are the ingredients? Soybean oil, which is something that you find in mayonnaise, which by the way, is a bad ingredient. Um tomato concentrate and Mr Vegan cookie tomato concentrate, which is gives you the chup. Oh god. Ingredient Number three is a killer high fruit. Those corn syrup, which is also why I don't eat regular hinds ketchup

and I try and go for the organic stuff. High fruit. Those corn syrup, which is putting everything is what makes us all obese. That you know, you understand that, right, so so so high fruit, those cornship is awful. So anyway, saying, are you telling me, are you telling me, oh, I canssume that mayo chop is not healthy? I am telling you mayonnaise ketchup and I didn't read the ingredients. Yeah okay.

And then you got distilled white vinegar, which is another ingredient that you would find in ketchup um, and then egg yolks and all flavoring. Oh here it goes, potassium sorbates, sodium benz all the things you can't pronounce. That's the preservatives. That's how I know it's still good. That is exactly how you know it's good. But it's not good for you in general. But anyway, it's good and you're not gonna die from that. You're gonna die from have you?

Have you seen anyone who's died from the chup yet? Zanathan the Chup, modified food Stars and Zanathan gum. You could definitely find a more pure xanthon gum. You can definitely find a more pure chup. So that's yeah. Listen, if I wanted just the chup, don't get me wrong, I will chop chop for sure. Of course, of course you gotta henz chop. I'm telling you, are you hey, don't eat my chop. I'm not eating your mayo chup? What are you eating about? Are you? Are you eating

my proos? I'm not. Are you eating my my my tortalini? No? I hate pasta. Okay, okay, don't eat my food. What are you're talking about? I brought it over your house so you could store it from me, knot so you can eat it. No, this is legit, This isn't a bit. Don't eat my food. I'm eating a cozy shack put my pudding down. No, I didn't bring the pudding there for you to eat. Well, it's only fair. You're using my refrigerator, dude, it cost you anything. You're you're taking

up real estate. It's like, I'm I gotta charge you rent um some kind. You're not alone. Your refrigerators empty. I've seen it, right, which is why I could have one rice pudding. Come on, I can't come until Monday. You're gonna want another one over the weekend. No, I only brought you four. Right now, there's three, son of a bitch. Come on, I can't have one fucking rice pudding? How about you ask me? Don't you think you should ask me? Say? Hey, can I have I have one

of your your cozy check? Brody? Can I finish this rice pudding? Well? You could finish it now I will. It's so good. I gotta tell you, I've been staring out forty eight hours. So fucking good. No wonder I told you I was bringing food over. You're like, oh, yeah, bring it over, Bring it over. Absolutely no problem with that. Just consider it rent. It's rent for being in my refrigerator. You really have a problem with me eating one? It's just one I'm not gonna eat all of them. I

have a problem with you eating without asking me. I know how many hamburgers I gave you right, and they'll all be there when you get back. Did you put don't eat the chump? I'm not even gonna open the chump, dude, druss me. I'm staying far away from the fucking chup. Disgusting. Okay, it's delicious. It's rush and dressing, dressing without the pickle. It's called mayo chup, saucy sauce, saucy sauce. What more sauce. You can't get more saucy than that. It's the sauce

that's saucy. Now, I got rice in my teeth, so we gotta also make um take a break take. They make all the you know they make like um, what's the other one? What? They mayo? Mayo tard? Mayo tard? Am I allowed to say that the M word? I think they make mayo tard right, that's the mustard or mustar must musp. Maybe they must chop or catch tard? Is it catch tard? They make dejonnaise, that is that dejonnaise is your mustard. They also they make u uh

ma racha racha or yeah, sarraco. I think maybe that's as sacho mayonnaise. Folks, high fruit, those corn syrup and all of it. Do better, Come on, find stuff that doesn't have that. I think you could find a mayo chup that has that doesn't have either. But you'd eat mayo tard, right, you like mustard mayo tard. I would eat mayotard. That's Djana's. Yeah. I kind of like mine better. I do like yours is better? Okay, alright, yours is yours is all right, let's address the big pink elephant

in the room. Okay, pink pink. Let's dress orange, the blue and orange or the big the big gorilla. Um. We almost people probably wondering why the fund didn't they say it right there at the beginning, because we wanted to just kind of get into the podcast just a little bit. But the truth of the matter is the Brooklyn Boys, your boys, finally have made good on a promise. We have launched our very own store. Say it. We're

so excited. The crowd goes wild. Finally, if you're listening to this podcast right now, you can go to Brooklyn Boys dot Big Cartel dot com m where Cartel is c A R T E L. Or you can go to our social media and find it. We link you everywhere to Brooklyn Boys dot big cartel dot com. You can find tops, you you can find the un sex t you can find women's tank tops, and you could find masks. That's right. I'm very excited. We'll talk about it then, Brodie, Well, I'm excited, but I'm already getting

people what they're asking for. The freebees. Wait, who who approached you for freebee? Okay, uh, my friend um. I don't want to give out names because I've mentioned them before, but my friend with the letter E um, my mom, another friend of mine with a J. They're all like, oh yeah, get me a shirt. Alright, alright, well here's all right. Well, well we have to be completely honest

with our listeners, the slices and everybody that's listening. Okay, the truth the matter is, we fucking fronted the money for this ahead of time. We this is this. We went in the hole to get this done. They don't just print shirts and they appear. There isn't a company out there that magically said we're gonna do you guys a favor and make make shirts. So the reason why they have price tags on them is because we gotta we gotta get our money back that we actually invested

into the shirts. We we they charged our credit cards quite honestly. But but um, I guess we worked long and hard on um, you know, getting this out there to to to finally to the point where there's a website with a store attached to it where people could just go online and order. We have a company that's filling all the orders producing the shirts. I mean, it costs money. And they're not I mean, people are good friends of ours, they're not just great friends. We don't

we don't need to bore everybody. People are good friends, but they're not gonna be so great friends and they're gonna open up the printing press and just start giving us free cotton. Right, And I want to I want to point out that, um, we had a conversation about six months ago when a friend of ours right was selling books and I didn't buy a book because I was given one for free, right, remember that, right? Okay, that person didn't pay for all the books to be made,

and I ended up buying a book. Just so you guys all know it was the right thing to do when I did order a book from Amazon, so I have two copies of the book. Um, but these are scary. Mentioned we had to layout the money. So people of people who don't know, people who don't know how it works, they're like, oh, um, can I get one with blue lettering and orange in the side? And can I get the white logo on the T shirt? And then can I get can I get Brody's name first? Okay, I

want to address that last. Can we remind me? Want I want to address that. Um, But when you make this stuff and you have to front the money, you have to kind of narrow down what you doing. So you have one logo, right, and we made the logo white, which was which was easier. I want to say this, and and you know, I want to give crops to Brody because Brody did a lot of that part of it. Brodie.

Brodie actually said, let's I think we should go with with this logo looking like this, and I think we should go with this this color scheme, and you know, and of course, you know, I'm really very easy going, so I kind of like, oh yeah, but but there was some things that I was like, I gotta have the blue. I need, I need to know the blue. We all agreed on the blue. But here's the thing. You can you can tweet us on this one. We were thinking about doing a second color for a T shirt. Yeah,

and I suggested gray. Medium gray, slightly dark gray, not like pale gray, heather gray, a little darker than heather gray. I hate it because that's the color. First of all, it's generic. Everybody sells shirts and gray. You wear them to the gym, your jog, you work out in them, and I hate gray. I'm not doing gray. Well, I just I thought gray was more of a secondary color. Let's not lead with let's lead with like a nice

I agree with that. But we were talking about maybe the next save we do, and we might do some which leads just to that there will be other versions of these shirts in the future. There will also be we have we have other ideas for products. There will be this. This merch store will only grow over time. We're working with this company that we want them to be very light on our wallets. You know, we gotta go. We gotta sell this stuff. We we don't sell we

all we we have to keep it. So I think you are going to get free after a Yeah, that's what I'm saying, although we are sold in a couple of sizes on things already. Okay, first of all, thank you slices that have already shopped at Brooklyn Boys dot big Cartel dot com. Because some of the sizes and styles are out already. We've already placed our second order for merchandise. Yes, takes the mind. Keep in mind. Let's say you love the tank top, right, You're like, oh,

I love the tank top at the white logo. At some point we're gonna not make that anymore and then have a new item possibly, So if you like the blue with the blue and the blue with the white or whatever, get it now. And this isn't a sales thing, this is just reality. If we want to have more things pizza cutters and few a shirts, yeah, we can only afford to have so many available options for now unless you guys start buying stuff like crazy, in which case that will give us the money to reinvest back

in right anyway, Yeah, that's very well. The first two days. Elvis is excited for us, and uh, I hope we'll be talking about it next week on the Big Show. But thank you very much for all the shopping support.

Take a look and keep checking back in the future because you never know when new items are gonna p Don't check back in the past because you'll see stuff you already saw if you're able to do that, if you're listening to this podcast later at a later date, we may we may already we may already have new items in there, so this might be all the way

we may have been shut down. That's right. We we may need we may need to play the listen in order jingle again though, because we haven't done that in a while, because I mentioned last week that we noticed the previous week's episode, so one thirties six had a lot of listens, but the four before it were medium, right medium. A couple of people confessed to me that, you know, the pandemic going on, They had listened in a while, We get that out of your routine. But

when they saw a Jersey kid, they jumped ahead. And there was some by the way that we're excited to hear the Jersey kid. Don't pool yourself, and there there were a lot of people that were excited about this last week. There were a lot of people that were excited about that episode got a lot of hits. It did,

It did very well. Now, on the other hand, the episode after that, last week's episode, you could probably use a little more kick in the s s. But by the time you hear this, because you've already listened, because you're listening in order, so you do. And uh. On that note, we we bypassed some some soundclips that we had last week. Let's we wanted to. Yeah, we definitely got to play some of this stuff. We have the

State of New Jersey sitting here from last week. And I don't know if this is old or not at this point, but the State of New Jersey. Yeah, State of New Jersey, that's what I called it. That's what it's called. Should just play it? No, I may have to set it up. Let me let me look at my list, go back to that one. Let's go, let's go on to State of New Jersey. No, I don't have State in New Jersey. State in New Jersey. Nope, I've got self subjugated. Rick the Drummer, we did Chad

all that stuff. State in New Jersey did play the State in New Jersey. I don't know what it is. That's a song. No, No, state in New Jersey. I'm on the wrong sound bag. I'm doing it. We're doing this from home, folks. This is not not as easy as it sounds, right, even with your three point seven million dollar sound system. Button. When you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there can seem like no way out. There is no medictate they can help. That's it,

that's it. Okay, listen to what she said. It may seem like there's no way out. Now there is. I'll try it again. It's very good quality audio, Brody, I thank you. When you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there can seem like no way out. There is there stop she said, there's it seems like there's no way out. There is, There is no way out. That's what she just said. No, there is a way out, but not the way she phrased that. I don't know.

It may seem like there's no way out, but there are. You or someone you know is struggling with addiction. There can seem like no way out. There is there is, There is no way out. That's right. So so if she would have said, but there is, well, yeah, but there is a way out. But even if she said, but there is, but there is said, it seems like there's no way out. There is there is, there is no way out. That's right. I don't know, Brody, that gonna be the way man. Well, I play shirt because

it's an old couple talking about volunteering. Is it a Peter Millar shirt? No? No, let's play shirt because that's the same problem with We're Tom and Cindy Thornton. We volunteered our community free health clinic. So we don't just wear the shirt. We live it. We don't just wear the shirt. We live it. We live it. They live the shirt. They live the shirt. Uh, that meet with that, Well, that's kind of a so right before that, they're saying, how it's a metaphor. It's a metaphor. It's a metaphor.

Let's try to get it. Was the logo of the is on the shirt. They wear the shirt from this organization you're getting just wear the shirt. Incredible. We're Tom and Cindy Thornton. We volunteered our community free health clinic. So we don't just wear the shirt. We live it. They live the shirt. That means that they do everything that stay, that stands for everything that shirt stands for they live that that man Trump. But they said they lived the shirt all right, you got they got the

clip for you who do? Okay, now this is people talking about So a couple of weeks ago, uh congress a congressman said something uh in allegedly inappropriate to another, to a congresswoman to a female congressman allegedly allegedly, Uh play the clip. So this is just highlighting. This is not just representative you who. This is much larger and this is not okay, I gotta hear that one. We get again. So this is just highlighting. This is not

just representative you who. Representative you who? Yeah. The problem is his name is ted Yoho. Oh you who? Is a chocolate based drink in the Northeast. As soon as I heard that, I heard the word you who, I immediately thought that there was going to be about the chocolate drink. She called him, yeah, she called him you who. Um. Okay, by the way, it's not chocolate milk either, it's chocolate drink. It's chocolate water water. Do you think it's chocolate milk

but it's water? Down? You who? Thank you beast boys? You who is you? Who? Is a it's disgusting. It's it's a water based it's delicious. I love it. It's nasty. That's ship that doesn't have said. That's stuff that that's like goes down the Mayo chup fucking category. My chop brother, that is the last forever by the way, you boys quote, don't insult my chuck brother. Okay, um play the clip of um oh did we play? We did not? Okay, so it just me. This guy says it like he's

like it's a Peter Malaw commercial. But instead of saying it's he just he says in a way that just annoys me. And he keeps saying it and his mouth doesn't open when he says it. My favorite supplements is quen All turmeric turmeric health of healthy joints and inflamm like regular turmeric supplements. I hate him. He does like he does like a Coque ten commercial. He does a lot of like drug products. He's um. He looks like the guy in um Umbrella Academy, right, the older brother,

but without the muscles and the and the gorilla hair. Spoiler, Um, I have three more for you. We have the we have the Shady Raise. Now Shady Rays has a sound in it. Shady race, that's my favorite barbecue sauce. That's baby race. So Shady Rays has a shost sound and a sound, and I believe it's sunglasses. Those words couldn't possibly have more SSEs in them, right right right, Listen to the guy that got they hired to this commercial. No, I only got half of it because but I haven't

heard it since, So make it a little louder. I was and verified five star reviews, and every time he plays, in order with us, we donate ten to fight hunger in America. We'd be excited to have you joined team Shady Rays, which is now almost a million strong. Head over to shady rays dot com and use code XM for an extremely deep deal off two or more pairs too. Did you hear it? I just heard him doing a commercial for Shady Rays. Okay, which we just did. We have to charge that he has. He can't say the

letter s. He's like, call off. You know, I don't know about that, he says, call us. The Shady Rays was in verified five star reviews and five star plays. In order with us, we donate ten meals to fight hunger in America. We'd be excited to have you joined teams which is now almost a million strongs that filled the cat That's what I'm That's what I'm saying to you.

A lot of people have that that issue. I'm not making fun, but why would you hire a guy who says it like that to do a commercial for shady rays speech impediment? Well, yeah, so I found that. I found It'll be like what, Okay, So you've seen these drug commercials where they have like warnings in them, Right, don't take this drug if you're allergic to penicillin. Don't take this drug if you have a heart condition it affects me include right, don't take this drug if you're

stomach diarrhea. So this this product, Consentics, they give a warning, they say, don't take Consentics if something, and it just seems to me they didn't need to say it. It shouldn't go out saying nice poriasis. How Sentics works on all of this. Consentics treats the multiple symptoms of storiatic arthritis to help you look and feel better. Don't use if you're allergic to Concenics before starting, I don't use your allergic Why would you use any drug if you're

allergic to it. Right, But the point is, like, you wouldn't say don't don't use ketchup if you're allergic to catch up like that, you would say, don't eat catchup if you're allergic to vinegar. Right, don't don't have mustard if you're allergic to mustard seed or whatever else is and mustard. Don't don't use consentics if you're allergic to consentics.

Doesn't that seem like a no brainer. Yeah, But but this is America and people need to be told, Hey, this this was the land of a toilet paper shortage four months ago. People need to be told, you need to spell it out. Unfortunately, we're idiots this entire planet. Okay, don't drink coke if you're allergic to sugar. I get that. Don't drink coke if you're allergic to coke. That sounds it sounds like a cover your ass move by assentics,

Like because somebody, some schmuck who's allergic ingredients. But if some schmuck who took it and then they were allergic to all they were allergic and they took it, at least the commercial covered their ask by saying we told them that if they were allergic, they shouldn't take it so bad. I see where you're going with that, But again it's probably their legal department probably insisted that they

put that in. That's illegally show you're like, you know what you're you're you're you are what you're a wet mop today? What are you talking about? And just like I'm just trying to justify I wanna I'm gonna fill your face with mayo. Chup in a second. I've had no problem with that. Okay, Now this one, this was on I think it was on during a Mets game if I remember correctly, and I thought I didn't hear it right. So you have the commercial with the letter H.

I think it's an insurance company. I think I don't even know I have. I took a picture of it. So in case you don't believe this is real, In case you think we went into a studio and recorded this, this is a real company running commercials. This is a original audio play. The audio I know this one is Okay, this is hysterical. To the average insurance company, small businesses look the same. But because his consist spent decades insuring small businesses. By the way, they also have to start

with small businesses too. Okay, so it's h I s ce X his Cox play the commercial. To the average insurance company, small businesses look the same, but because his concepts spent decades ensuring small businesses, there's more. You got a lot of run. Were giggling like little boys, but

let the whole thing run. To the average insurance company, small businesses look the same, but because his concepts spent decades insuring small businesses, it sees each of them is as unique as a strand of DNA or a fingerprint, with their own unique needs and challenges. That's why America's number one online business insurer tailors its policies to each small business is very specific needs and yours his Cocks business insurance experts. Everybody loves his Cox. Who doesn't love

his Cox? Listen when you when you need an insurance company, the first thing you turned to is his Cox. They'll be firm with their decisions. You're in You're in good hands with his Cox. The we they can insure a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two in his Cox. They don't suck his Cox. That's right, by the way. Flow from progressive, big fan of his Cox. Wow, yeah, alright. Did you notice she's one of these people that says

insurance insurance. Yeah, like people who say I'm going upstairs or Thanksgiving. Thanks It's just different part of the country, that's all right. But she's in she's an insurance person, whereas we are insuring people. And like so she said his Cox where we might say his Cox, his Cox, right, one more time, of course this is please make it loud of to the average insurance company, small businesses look

the same. But because his con sus spent decades insuring some businesses is as unique as a strand of DNA or a fingerprint, with their own unique needs and challenges. I love that. That's why America is number one online business insurance. Taylors Its policies to each small business is very specific needs. Business doesn't matter his Cox business insurance experts. I love that. I love that they had a woman do it and that she like was like, oh yeah, Cox,

his Cox. Look, that may be the guy's last name. I like how they stuck DNA in there as well. Small small, We don't care about the size of your company. Size doesn't matter, does not matter with you deal with your company. It's what you do with it, not how big your company. Yeah, they wrote they wrote that specifically for that commercial, for that name his Cox, his Cox. Do I have any more sound? That's I think we're done for now we end? Are we ending on his Cox?

I think that's where it begins. Uh yeah. So anyway, I was geta what do you have? Because I have some that I wanted to read you. No, No, I want you to I want I want to hear this. I want to hear the car. So this was a car dealership. It's the car company of my wife's car. Got this letter in the mail. They're sending it tours because you know, we're a valued customer, UM, and we can save money on Saturday. They need our car. There's a shortage of quality pre owned the kind of car

we have within the region. UM. The company that makes the car trusts the workmanship of that car, and I have been ordered to pay you top dollar this Saturday. They are offering me sixteen thousand, seven hundred and thirty

eight dollars this Saturday. I will receive an additional four thousand, nine d sixty eight dollars from my car, plus I will give you six thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars and make your first payment this Saturday, combined with zero percent for eighty four months, zero down only this Saturday, plus a free ten dollar Target gift card for attending this Saturday. That's not all. When five thousand dollars cash, one of our customers holds the winning number, present this invitation.

You can win five thousand dollars cash. Now it's sixteen thousand, seven dollars plus roughly five thousand and additional money. That's roughly twenty one plus six thousand, seven fifty dollars. He's just gonna give me. Oh, he's just gonna hand it to you. He's just gonna see. In fact, he's gonna give it you in a briefcase in cash. On another seven,

it's like twenty eight thousand. Where's the catch this? So I gotta come this Saturday between nine and five, right, But if you do, he's gonna hand it to you. Come Saturday July. Scary, Wait a minute, Come Saturday July between nine and five. The letter arrived Tuesday, July, three days later. That's what I figured. I knew it I lost. Did you know? That's Is that a scamboni or what is that? I'll tell you one thing we've learned on this podcast. Anything um, anything less than I guess is

not a discount. I mean, okay, so how about this more? Here's a company point. My point is, by the way, I know the post office real quick, I know the Post Office is being slowed down by outside forces. Before you tweet me, you're like, well, you gotta camp. How would they know. Here's what I'm gonna say to you. If you've got to sale this big, send it out in enough time that even if it's delayed by the

Post Office, I'm gonna get it in time. I might have come in for seventy five dollars at a target gift. That's why I think it's a scamboni, because it wasn't meant for you to get it in time. Well, what's the benefit of me getting it after the fact. I'm not going there. They figured maybe it'll bring you in any way, or maybe you won't read a fine print. Oh it's blatant. It's plain that I have to go there on Saturday July, but I got it three days later.

So when did you mail this? I'm very upset. I was going to call them, but you know, I was too busy yelling at every other company. Why don't they send you direct mail that works exactly that, that's direct mail email. So I got an email. I got an email from a little company that's a humble company that's on its way up, that maybe we'll be famous one day. Is this a sponsor Target? Oh? Those people? I've heard of them Target? Yeah, you know, a little company. Can

you spare the fucking discounts people? The lead The subject line in the email is hey, scary, you save five on your next order. And then you open the email and it's this big red, big read writing just for you, flashing, just for you, just for you. Take five percent off your next online purchase with this code. Use your five percent off code now. And then it's like a million click baits on this fucking thing. Five percent five percent Target? Really? Five?

Is that all you can do? Give me your worthless disgusting You don't even that doesn't even cover the sales tax or shipping five yeah cents out you get a five dollar Target gift card. If you spend, like if you buy forty dollars worth of household cleaning products, give me or or like um Men's grooming products like deodorant and toothpaste. I'm gonna spend forty dollars for five dollars off. It's not a lot of money. That's start talking to me A ten percent? Okay, ten percent? Okay, sorry, yeah,

go ahead. You know I'm just giving you. You know I was temper said Dick sent me the same thing. I got a card in the mail yesterday. No ten dollars off my next purchase, right, big sticker, ten dollars off my next purchase of how much? Wow? A hundred dollars Now, I'm not sneezing a ten dollars. Well, but that's temps is you just spent five percent, five percent of ship. You know what, the temper cent is twice as much ship. Temper Cent's nothing you gotta give me.

You want to come in, right? No, right, if you really want to my needles, If I got a mask up to come in the day, and by the way, it's only in store and I wasn't online. If I got a mask up and glove up and go in and goggle up and put my cape on, if I gotta, if I gotta go in there with my with my Scooba breathing tube. I want off. I think that's fair. Dix his cos his cocks and scary. All right, we have so much email to cover and then I know that, uh,

you wanted to tell me something about some company. What was it you said that you got a letter from someone you got to you started saying fuck you Brent. Oh, Brent was the guy at at bed Bath and Beyond his abilities bed barf and beyond. Yep, and I also gotta I want a bitch about a sports broadcaster who was getting paid a lot of money and should know better. Okay, I want to know about Brent. You don know about Brent.

Why did you say fuck you? Brent? All right? So if you shop at bed Bath and Beyond often you can become like a It's like a prime membership. It's called Beyond Plus. I would have called it beyond Beyond or like really like bed Bath and really beyond, but they called it beyond. I think it's beyond plus or beyond more something like that. No, it's not the best

name they could have chosen. But what it does is it gives you off everything, not just one item you don't need to deal with coupons anymore, not a sponsor. But when you go in the store, you know, bed Bath has those long lines. We've talked about this on the show. You have that long wrap around line through all the like the dollar items that they want you

to get while you're waiting those impulse buys as well. Right, they're hoping that you're just gonna just say, right on the spot, I need this and then just put it in your car. So the bed Bath near me, they all do. But they have a special line on the other end of the cashier row of cashiers just for the Beyond Plus members, right, And so you're only like online with like one or two people, and there's a cashier or two assigned to you, and there's a sign

that says only for Beyond Plus members. Here's the thing. It's great if you have a capable person back there, but a lot of times you go, they go, this line is only for Beyond Plus members, like they're trying to shame you. They assume you aren't a Beyond Plus member. So then you have to go, yeah, I know, right, that's why. Right they should say, oh, hi, are you a Beyond Plus member or just so everybody knows right, but they're like, um, but they look at you like

there's no way you are. It's a discouraging thing. Why would you? Why would you? I'm working on the couch, I'm dressing like an old ze hundred shirts. So I walk in. I'm like, you know, looking like a slob. But doesn't mean I can't afford the nominal fee. Um are you? So? Okay? Yes? So I'm second in line and I'm buying like two or three things, including a kitchen garbage pail which is you know, like four ft high, and it's in my little cart and the guy I get.

I'm next to the register, and the guy behind the counter says, uh, yeah, my register broke. Just give me a minute, okay. So now I assume because it's a row of cashiers, he'll just say to the girl at the register a foot to my right, who's technically a cashier for everyone, Hey, can you let him go? He's been waiting and just take him. He doesn't say that, so the manager I call him no nose covering Brent.

He comes over and he tries to fix the register and he can't fix the register, so then he walks over to another register. The second register in the special area and he looks at me and he says, is anyone helping you? I said, well no, because his register is broken. And he says, oh, are you beyond plus member? Yep, yes I am. I'm pleasant. I'm not, and I'm giving the face I get me up. Besides, I have the mask on, so he can't see the face I'm making.

That's the best part about the masks. I can stick my you know, my tongue out a little bit, I can like make me face. They can't tell. So he says, I'll be with you in a second. I said, okay, great, Yeah, he's gonna help me because other guys registers down. So he starts looking something up on the computer because I guess he someone asked him to look up something, so he looks it up. He picks up the phone. It

must have been a different store. He gives the answer to the response to them, and then he looks He's looking at me the whole time, like I'll be with you in a second, and he he stares at me. He hangs up the phone. He looks at me and the three people who are now behind me online and he starts walking away, just walking away. Up the line of cashiers. I say, hey, excuse me, rather than look back and say I'm so sorry, I'm busy. He whispers to the first girl right something, never turns back. She

looks up, sees me and says, I'll take you over here. Now, do you understand my problem? The guy sitting helped me, and then then he just walks away. And then only after I yelled hey, did he tell the cashier we're out looking back and I'm so sorry, I'm busy. Uh, this young lady will help you. He kind of like leans into and goes help. That guy doesn't turn around, it keeps walking, so she is, I'll take you over here. So f you, Brent, f you hard because you're not

a manager. Number one. Number two, cover your fucking nose because I don't want to go hear you anyway, pointless covering your fucking mouth and out your nose. But then you walk away, So I'm piste off at him. I was very very annoyed. The girl who rang me up couldn't have been nicer, right, but it was just that whole are you a member? Yes, I'll be with you in a second. I'm like, and I gave the guy props. Scary. I gave the guy points. I was like, well, I

look at that. The guy came out of nowhere. He couldn't fix the register. He's gonna personally rig me up. And then was like, yeah, walked away. He didn't want to handle the line. When it was just me, he was like, I helped that guy, but then when it's people behind me, he looked up and was like, funk that, and he walked away. Can you imagine the balls on fucking Brent? Brent, I've never been a manager. Okay, well I've been managers in retail restaurant. If you've got to

help out, you help out. You just right, you just jump in. You know what, Well, why don't you get his employee number and complain to the company. No, you know what I mean. They need to know about this from beyond. They need to know that they have people

out there that are misrepresenting their brand. You're right, So then why you know those are the people that I would report, Those are the ones that I take personally, you know, the ones the managers forget about, the people that just don't know any better, that just started working there, and those two bits, you know, employees that whatever you know, but if you're managing to insult the employees. Not no, no, no, no, I'm talking about No, You've gotten into fights with people

much lower on the totem pole than Brent. But when when it comes when I'm talking about is when you come to a person like a Brent status and I'm assuming he was a manager or somebody in a higher position. Right, So when you come to that, those are the people that really need to be held accountable because they're getting paid the better money to be in those jobs. They're the ones that are being paid to represent the brand.

Not saying that a person in the front just it's you know, bagging groceries as somebody at the cash register is not important. I'm saying is you would almost expect to run into those types of have those dealings with those level people. Whereas by the time you've reached manager, you've learned a thing or three and so brand hope you did not. I mean, so that's that you know, I would go and go to the regional at that point. I mean, not to put on my Karen wig here

and jump into fire. But that that sounded like it was completely I mean, who knows how many people in his day. He's pissing off that way. This is gonna sound like a dick joke. But have you heard of the Peter principal? No, this is gonna blow your mind. It slices when you hear that, You've can like, oh my god, that's the same in my company. So the Peter principle you can look at up on Wikipedia. I'm gonnad right, it's not Peter, like Peter Bread, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter,

Peter Prince. Well, look at you the vegan cookies and making you think of Peter. The Peter principle is a concept in management which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence, not their

level of competence. Of incompetence, employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, As skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another, do you, So let me let me explain in case that didn't make okay, Let's say you're a hostess at at at the theme restaurant at t g I Front Factory. You're you are a fantastic hostess because you are friendly and

bubbly and organized. You really not organized the table seatings, and they promote you to waitress or waiter. Right now, you've taken that organization and that personality and you become a waiter and now people love you. You're friendly and you're making money and you're organized. And then they say, we're going to make you manager. But you don't know anything about budgets, inventory, hiring, firing. Right, but you got promoted because you were really good at your last job.

You just got promoted to the level of your incompetence. Meaning, okay, let's say you're a good manager. Let's say you're great at being a manager. Then they promote you a regional manager. But you don't know how to split your time between multiple stores, and you're terrible at it, and they fire you because that's what it means. You keep getting promoted until your lack of skill for that next job gets you fired for incompetence. That's called the So Brent may

have been a great stock room guy. He may have been a decent floor filler, a pretty good cashier who came in early, worked late, but then when he became a manager doesn't realize you still need to help out, you still need to like jump on a register. He's incompetent as a manager. Therefore he will not get promoted again because he's reached his level of incompetence. The Peter Peter prince I like my favorite things, so and it's a real thing. And why Peter again, I missed that part. Uh,

it's a concept developed by Lawrence J. Peter. Oh oh, it's a guy needed for a guy. And by the way, I think that that is uh, that is what Brent was. I think you just called it out right. There was a Peter Peter principal. And by the way, do you know where Lawrence J. Peter gets his insurance? Fro him his coxsolutely and he got tempted set off because he's Jewish, temptson off a day. It's a Jewish. It's it's mail time. Welcome, you've got mail. You can always email us at the

Brooklyn Boys Podcast at gmail dot com. UH. Episode one seven comment from a Nache Montero huge fan. Been listening since episode zero Slice for Life, uh and um writing because Scary gives Rodie a very hard time about this long rant that Brodie did an episode one seven. I wanted to ask Serri to please not speak for all of us slices, because I can guarantee you myself included that we live for Brodie's rants. And by the way,

so do I. I really do. Uh. And and even if it's all the people letty that tweeted me they loved how long the rant was, if you didn't, I apologize, uh. And I got those complaints, but I'm also reading one that complained against me because it's only fair. Uh. Even if it was two or three hours long, I would be completely submerged in his story. That's all. Thank you for having this podcast. Whenever, please give us two episodes per week. M mmm mmm, Brodie, that sounds like a

good idea. What do you think about two episodes a week? Brodie and I've been fighting off fair. I've been wanting to give you guys two episodes, and we've been fighting. We've been fighting, Brooklyn boys, shut up, Dick, We've been I want. I've been wanting to do two episodes a week for the longest time. Now, funny how Anachi who disagrees with me on the rant length? Watch me? Hey, guess what if we did two episodes a week, we would have time for fucking two hours. Have heart attack.

You would have a heart attack. Yeah, I do think I do think that that. I do think that that rant was sucking long as fuck. Okay, yeah, you complained about it on the Elvis Ran Show. Thanks, I did. I did. Listen. I love law I love Rance, we I love it. I love when they're ten minutes, fifteen minutes longer, but the story go on. You know what he meant. I know you may not like really long, Rance, but you know what you do like really long his cos his Cox, his Cox is really long. Uh've been

around a long time. Dalton would, oh a cousin of his Cox, Peter principal and Dick's morning Goods. By the way, I know that I now know the title of our episode, his Cox his Cox. Peter Dixon would, Peter Dixon would. And that's a great law firm firm. It's a very firm. It's a very firm law firm. You know you Dixon from from his Cox. U Well, Dalton Wood wrote to us. He just wanted to point out, God, there's so many

of these out there. Brody and On Official wrote websites VIN number violation that you know it's VIN stands for Vehicle Identification number, but the websites constantly right VIN number. And we saw one earlier this week from Mercedes official website and this one here is for the Chevy Silverado. Uh. In Stubenville. It was a that's stupid, not stupid, stupid Ville, well stupid for writing VIN number. So thank you Dalton Wood for that. By the way, we love Stubenville. We

were just saying, it's not stupid Ville. Jamie Fazzina often tweets us and this time writes, episode viewership, you mean listenership. It's uh, it's a hi. I love you guys. It could be a heat by the way, that's right, Jamie, I love you guys. Maybe your numbers were lower for episodes one to thirty five because you guys weren't really doing them on the same day of the week for a few weeks there, and it was annoying live you guys.

I love you guys, James, So you want to address that, because first of all, if we did it on a Friday or a Saturday, then people would just listen to it. Eventually, I think we lose them on the weekends. I think its because we can then listen to it on Monday. Now it's nothing like fresh, but we can look. I can see how many more percentage of people listen on Thursday, A lot of them listening. But a few weeks ago we posted an episode on Friday and it blew up

on the following Tuesday. I've always wanted to release I've always wanted to release our episode on a Tuesday because I feel like we have a better chance of people listening to the week. That's just me, but we haven't lived. I do we do it on Thursday, first of all, because it's it fits into my schedule when we're back at work. Number one, number two is gonna happen again. I don't know. I don't know, man, I don't know

Christian Nelson. If you go by the text message person I was texting in this morning who doesn't believe anything and was like conspiracy theories, um and fighting with us, then I don't believe we're ever going back to work. I you know, either you buy in or you don't. But if you want us to go back to work, you know. Christian Nelson also loved your long rant, says listener with the episode something, something was missing, something was missing these past few months. But the episodes one thirty

five to one thirty seven, you guys got it back. Okay, whatever that was, that was this special sauce. That was a saucy sauce called Mayo chup because that's yeah. But one five we saw Spike and listeners, it sounds like you guys got it back, he writes, So sad. It's sad to me that I have to do this. It was fantastic episode one thirty seven up until the end. Brodie,

do not ever apologize for ranting. Your rants are part of why a slice is love, you guys, So if the rant takes five minutes or forty minutes, you get it all out because we want to hear it. I'm sorry, Christian, but there's we we only have so many hours in a day, Christian to listen to to Brodie's ran to anything, to anything straight. It's it's just it's just it has to be annoying. A short version. Well anyway, Uh, I say this with a heavy heart, but fuck you, scary somebody,

Fuck me, dude. If we make a list of all the fun you's, you'll be on that shirt. I felt disgusting to have to do that too scary, But we Slices can't be If we can't be honest with you, then what's the point. You guys are both truly awesome. Keep up the momento you mean momentum, don't you? Christian, he can say whatever he wants. Christian, you can do no wrong s Lifetime listeners, Slice for Life. Hey, can I I want to read a Brandon d M real quick because it plays into what you just said Brandon

at befits b Ball. Yeah, I'm assuming um he said all you went through for a hot tub you should have gotten free. It should have been free plus dessert. Jesus semi related, but fuck Pelican Pools. Wow, that is a great callback, Brandon. Even though I did not buy the hot tub from there, that is a great callback. Thank you. Margaret Buster wrote to us saying she was the first time buster Buster. I don't I don't know, first time email exactly. A couple of questions for you guys.

Do you think this pandemic will ever end? Oh? My god, here comes into the forty minute rant. The pandemic in nineteen eighteen. Uh and even though some people keep saying it's nineteen seventeen, no names, nine eighteen. It did end two years later, right, But look, if you look up the two things and the technology, the science the medicine nineteen eighteen, there were only two things they recommended doing. It's the same two things I recommend now and and

social distancing. Alright a scientist. That's why I you know, I trust. The next question, has it really been thirty four years since the Mets won the World Series? Why are you asking rhetorical questions? You know? The answer is yes, absolutely. WHOA, that's a long time. It is a long time. Does this A Yankee fan being does not say, but she continues to say, I really enjoy listening to your podcast. I even got my boyfriend to start listening to you.

Very nice. Thanks for doing what you do. That sounds like a tank top and a T shirt purchase to me. Yeah, I hope so. By the way, a couple of people tweeted at us. They said they don't normally wear a mask, but they're going to wear Brooklyn Boys masks. I'm fine with that if we if we help you in that way, and you help us and you represent we love that. By the way, a couple of people asked this, scary. I don't know how you feel about this. Now, they notice the masks have the logo in the center, and

the asked, what happened to the logo on this side. Well, the only reason why they're asking that is because you said that you liked it better on the side, which put it in their minds that it was going to be on the side. But but it looks awkward off to the side. Yeah, I see a lot of those in stories. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what next. The next batch will be on the side. Okay for the side. Wait a minute, that doesn't mean don't buy the ones with the center. We got to sell these

out first. We gotta ways to go on the mask center center mask people masks. Masks sales are lagging behind the shirts and the tanks. Zachary Smith uh scier dot dot dot dot dot broad in the subject line and then writes, I couldn't do it, Brody, scary what I love that, Zack Smith. You guys are the best thing to ever grace my ears. Sound wise, of course, I hope you gentlemen are doing well. Glad you could have merchandise. Now I'm still telling everyone I know about you guys.

This is the perfect listener. I love the slices like this. I'm I'm spreading the good word and of course about listening in order. I'm stoked for you guys selling out everything in one weekend. Well dream on, Um, I will be getting my shirt. We came we came close on a couple of items. I know I will be getting my shirt pre ordered. Although if it's worthwhile, I would love to buy some stickers, not little baby stickers, at least four to six inches in diameter. I hope it's

something worth considering. Keep it the amazing work. We we should do a Brooklyn Boy sticker. But do you think but the people even put stickers on their cars anymore? They put them on their laptops. All right? You think someone would actually advertise us on their laptop and cut out the Apple symbol. You know what else is four to six inches? His cocks? His cocks also Peter, Peter Principal, the Peter Principle and Dalton would Dalton would Dalton's would

Daltons would? All right, you have any tweets you want to read. I want to shout out to janevic. He sent me his order. Uh, he ordered a T shirt and a mask. So he sent me a copy of his PayPal receipt. Oh, I want to shout out to Nicolas Cassoff. He said, well, which is it? So he sent me a screenshot and it says, uh, so, I guess this is the Facebook page of his town. The fine admins of this town. Um oh, it says stay vigilant and please call police whenever you see him speeding

or exhibiting odd behavior. So they put up a picture of a guy that apparently is speeding around town in a buick, a white Buick four door, right, but they wrote stay vigilante, please call local police. So he wrote Nicholas wrote, well, which is it? Do I stay a vigilante or do I call the police? So instead of vigilant, they said stay vigilante. So a little grammar police there literally literally grammar police. And then um oh text messaging.

We were on the area yesterday talking about if you lose power, how you can save money, and I said, well, you can call your cable company and tell them you didn't have service for two days, three days, four days, whatever, because they can't charge you, say, with your internet, call your internet provider. And say hey, I didn't have I didn't have the service, I didn't use your product. I

wasn't able to. You can get a partial refund. They pro rate it, so it's important that you do that, just like when I told you about when you're not driving your car, your car insurance company will give you a discount. So we've got a lot of text messages coming in. Brodie's right, I've done it. Um, I didn't have cable for two weeks. I got money back. Brodie is everything. Hashtag even is not even Slice for Life. Um,

Brodie is right. And then uh, this person of Brody did not pay for electric anyways because you had none. We're right, I didn't have electricity. But they spelled my name b R O D I E. I feel like, if you're gonna be a supporter, you know, spell it

with the with the d y Uh. And then this person texted into the Big Show we try to quote be Brody unquote to get a technician from our I guess they're wireless company out here as a He argued for an hour and they couldn't get someone to come out until Friday of the week that we were talking about. We're calling and getting something for free because all our names have their services. Don't they want to be a brody? Yes, and that would be a b R O d Y. Don't don't d y? I now want not a d

Why not? I I have a couple of other emails? But do you want to do a Grammar Police fail. We haven't played the jingle in a while. You have the jingle, the Grammar Police jingle. It's always handy police, Police Police, the Grammar Police under arrest now shout out to Johnny Johnny Jay's arrest A R. E. S T H. Johnny Jay's seventeen tweeted at me, he's one of these

guys that puts the the the avatar for Twitter. His profile pick is him were the female I'm assuming his girlfriend right, So they're evenly in the picture, So if you don't look the name, you're not sure whose it is. And how do I know that she's not Johnny? She could be Johnny, she said. So they sent me um a screenshot of Facebook someone I guess they know, and they wrote to whom the person to whom right, to whom ran Metallica, to whom ran off the road last night.

I hope c a r M A gets why why you like a motherfucker karma ship just got my car back and this happens. So they spelled karma wrong because karma is k A r M. Now Cartel is c a r t eloos dot big Cartel dot com dot com. Thank you. So this person to get my attention to this picture, they wrote it was probably the fucking the grammar police. So I wrote back, you're ironically your tweet has an extra word in it, and they so he wrote back, face pomp face, pomp face, pomp face, pomp face,

pom police call police cop police car. Okay, when correcting someone's grammar, be carefully, you don't throw extra does in So John Scott wrote in about we were talking about Friends and The Office. Yeah, the two shows that don't

don't feature any black people on them. We're talking about No, no, no, no. The Office has black people, but they but they have crazy racial jokes going on that we would never get, of course, And but Friends barely any any any black people are so John Scott writes, always happy to hear your voices every week, as I haven't been listening to the Big Show for personal reasons these days, I guess he's got different scheduling, but hoping to get back into

it soon. I wanted to give some perspective from a black guy's experience growing up watching TV. I loved Friends and my family loved it too. We never cared that there weren't black people featured on the show. We watched it for the content and the left. I still find it funny this day. The Office, I would say, is a cult favorite, but it's also funny and hilarious, even

the episodes of the others may find offensive. We also watched shows like The Parkers, Moitia, The D. L. Hughley Show, Living Single, Ugly hugh Show, Living Single, The Fresh Prince Girlfriends, and Keenan and Kel, all of which featured a majority or if not all, black actors. Watch what you want to If you find it funny, so be it. These are my thoughts and doesn't represent the Brooklyn Boys trademark.

I love that TM. But people can find things offensive. However, they shouldn't tell others what they should and shouldn't be offended by. There's a time and a place. But if I find something funny, I'll find it funny. Just one black guy's perspective and to those snow flakes. Yes, I know I don't speak for all black people. Don't tweet me have fun. I look forward to your next episode. That's a great email. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you very well.

Put I appreciate you, John. And then I don't know, brodio, you up for some relationship advice because this girl is asking for I don't think I need a relationship advice, but thank you. Okay, because we're running somebody else. Yeah, I'll tell you what. We'll save this for next week because I know that we have something else we gotta get into. Then we gotta get out of here. Okay, you know what, I got a lot left over for

next week, so I'm excited about that. Well, i'll tell you what you don't have a lot left over of. It is that's rice pudding. You didn't open up a second. No, you know what stopped me because you motherfucker. This ship expired on the fourth of July and I already ate one good and that contains dairy. Happy Birthday, America. I hope you choke. You're a dick. You're a real dick. That's the theme of the podcast. This is speaking of giving me expire. Why are you saving expired pudding? What

happened to? If it doesn't kill you, it makes you strong. DA day is a whole other thing. Oh male, Trump is fucking soybean oil. There's no dairy in there. Don't dare, don't harsh my, don't harsh my, jomp man, we have another one, then fuck yourself? What are we doing? We're reading Julius thing here? What do you do? I want? I tease something, go for it and people get upset when I tease things. Do it? Please, Julia. We're gonna get to you next week. If you're if you're a

well maybe we go okay. Yeah. Um. If you're a fan of a sports team, right, whether it's your college football team, your locals baseball team, right, you have announcers that your announcers, right, like the Mets announcers, right, Matt's announcers, Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez my favorite on television team. And they know the team, how we rose on the right, They followed the team, they up until

this year, they travel with the team. They maybe we used to be on the team, so they know what's going on. Right. But when you have a national game like in the NFL. This Sunday game, it's not your your home announcer. It's the network's announcers when you do Monday night football. It's the note that they did the research that they were talking about. Well, I'm listening to the Mets game. There's a guy on ESPN who, up until this point I liked. His name is Mark Mark Kestershire.

He sounds like Worcestershire. That's how I always remember his name, Mark Keistershire. And by the way, you wanted how to spell it. Tried finding his name and you can't put you're not spell it. It's almost impossible because you're like you're talking into your phone, Mark Custershire. I'm trying to find him on Twitter anyway. So he's talking about the big game, big Sunday night game of the week last week.

Maybe I think it was Mets Red Sox. So the Mets announcers aren't doing the game because it's a network, so there doing so this guy his job, he's one of two guys. He's doing the pregame, so it's his job to break down the teams. So if you're you're listening on a national audience, right, you don't know the Mets and Red Sox everywhere, everything that's going on. So it's your job to break it down. So you know what you're about to see. You know what the match up,

the stats, who to look for, what to look at? Right, what are the strengths and weaknesses of this game you're about to watch. Okay, so he's talking about now again that's his job, right, He's talking about how the Mets starting pitching has always been a strength. Right, the strength of the team has always been the pitching. He says, Jacob de Gram he's back to back, a young Award winner. You don't have to worry about him. Marcus Stroman, he's

in a contract year, he's injured. And then he says, Noah Syndergoge, he really needs to step up this year. He's been good in the past, but this year he really needs to step up if the Mets are gonna win. Scary if you had a Mets fan, you may not know that. Out for the season with Tommy jury, tom six months ago, he hasn't pitched a game. This guy said it went on the errand said that. He said, Noah uder guard needs to step up this year, step

up his game. Wow, how the hell did They did give this guy the national broadcast mark castershire, and then when I tweeted him, he didn't have the balls to tweet me back and say, hey, you know, and I wasn't nasty about it. I was like, listen, I really enjoy you. Uh, you know, but you really need to know. You should know that Noah Synderguard is out for the year. Yeah, it's been this has been news. It happened in the winter. And by the way, this was national news. This isn't

this wasn't just met fan news. Yeah, he's a star pitcher in the in the league, right, he's one of two or three pitchers who had this surgery this year. He's arguably one of the two biggest stars who's out for the year with Tommy John surgery. Right, And not only do you not know it, but you're telling the guy needs to step up his game. But here's this is well, how did they handle it? And the guy

didn't correct him? Okay, that's that that's bullshit, right there, do didn't correct We came back from commercial and they never addressed That's where I'm going with this. That's what mistakes. Yes, we correct our ship come back from commercial and say, you know what, I fucking fucked up. But you know damn well that they were getting flooded with fucking emails and texts and tweets and fucking killing them. And so he's probably being smashed to this day with tweets like yourself,

and they don't even they just go radio silent. I'm not addressing you always say don't tweet me, right because I'm gonna look something up by the time you're gonna tweet me. But this guy, it was it was live time. It was live. They needed to come on and say, hey, I made a mistake. I heard. That means that means either he doesn't have the balls to say he was wrong that's exactly what it was, or scary nobody at ESPN work in that broadcast heard what he said and

knew what was wrong. I find that hard to believe. So did they not? So it was what was the thought process? Hey, you know, I only met fans. He's got too much of an ego, not too much of an ego to correct himself. Somebody told or somebody told him not to. They're like, you can look stupid. You're a major broadcaster. No, listen, we all make mistakes. We're

all human. Shit happen, So why fucking go on the air and say it or tweet it and go, hey, man, I flubbed it, you know, I flubbed my bed brain fart, brain fart, like I just yeah, Mark Espn. Man, it's the pinnacle of sports. You got to know that. I'm just saying, I'm I think I'm done. Now, I'm done. Put down and put down my pudding. Oh believe me, I did fucking fourth of July pudding. Okay, can I can I just tell you for next week, next episode, I'm gonna talk to you about a road sign that

I saw that will infuriate you. Infuriate you when I tell you what this sign said. That's all I'm gonna say. I promise. Maybe we'll get to Julia's relationship advice, Emil, because you know that when you need relationship advice, you come to the lovers. Now, wait a second, are the boys is the advice that Julie Julia? Julia Julia is the advice that Julia needs the kind of advice that can wait a week? Or is it like I need

to make a decision between two guys today? Uh, it's no it's it's just it's just something that she wants our opinion on. Okay, we'll give the opinion next week, because I gotta be honest here. You notice nobody knows more about romance or relationships, and two guys, you're off. I don't even try by admit your mistake.