#152: Can My Freeloading Friend Come?

you don't. You don't share, you don't share. No, I write stuff by myself. But I'll try to finish it this week and have it ready for next week. Episode one fifty two. It's the Broken Boys now Wednesday. It is WHATP Wednesday, which is why we play that intro, because we're doing this on a Wednesday night, Wednesday night. Now, Brodie, why don't we run a contest where we could have

the listener fill in the missing line. I think we can have several versions of it, you know, and and we go with the best one, which which will definitely be you. Yeah. No, I'm not. I'm not up to that. It's it's not my thing. I don't let's have some fun with it. Tell you what, I'll tell you why. I take pride in my parodies a lot like beyond, like I've written parodies twenty years ago that I remember

the lyrics right of everything I've ever written. And so I I work in addition to the morning show, I worked for our comedy department at Heart Radio. And before that, I worked for a secondary company, a separate company that produced all my comedy that I worked for in the afternoons and we would then play it on on on the morning show, on the Elvis Show. But I had two separate jobs. But I happened to work for the comedy company that produced the comedy for the Elvis Strain

Morning Show. What does that have to do with I'm telling you hello? Why would you know? I always have some place to go. So I had a boss at that other company who is now currently my boss at I Heart Radio, because he came over to our company, and right, we're following, ok So, he would have sometimes if he was like feeling hands on, he would he would look over the lyrics to my comedy scripts, my spoof commercials, my song parodies. He would go, huh huh, great, Okay, great,

get it done. But every once in a while he would change a word. Well, he would say that's too risque, change that line, or he would take it upon himself to change a couple of words because he didn't like the way it was going, or he he thought his line was better. I can't sleep at night for weeks, and sometimes I would get my version produced just for me because I just can't stand other people tweaking my stuff. That goes back to the fact you're an only child

and you you can't share. You can't You think Picasso let his boy his best friend come over and paint the ear on something, or painted the hands of a clock. No, he painted his paintings. I'm just saying you've done part okay, ahead, continue to references, work together. That was that thing, right, But John Lennon didn't say, Hey, I'm gonna open it up to the fans to write lyrics to my song. You've written thousands of parodies. Here's at the point is this.

You offered it just now at the top of this podcast, that you're stuck on this one lyric, and I thought, let's turn it, let's turn it into a bit because I think the collective minds of the slices might come out with something better than anything the two of us can think of. What do you think that every time I hear it would be bothering me that I didn't finish it? So then why don't you write your own version? Then well that's what I'm doing. No, I'm saying just

for ships and giggles. We put one on one year, one one one week. We say this is the one with the slices stuck on a line that I can't write it. I was like, oh, that line is not coming to me right now. I'll get back to it. And I've been busy and I'm procrastinating and I just didn't get to it. I'm not going to have some fun and we're having fun. I'm having fun. Sound having fun? This is You're sitting in your cold, dank basement. It's not dank, it's not danking. You have you have humidifier

de humidifiers. Yes, yes, it's not dank down here. It's a finished basement. But I'm by the washer and dryer and the heat is off. That not glenfry. The heat is on, the heat is off. The heat is off. See where's that parody? By the way, oh my god, I one of our our slices. I'm sorry, I don't remember who it was quoted a lyric and then thank the celebrity, thank the singer. The game we talked about a couple of weeks ago, you know, like, but we

didn't played our game, a little lyric game. By the way, did you um are you down in the basement with your hot water heater? You see that someone tweeted us saying they bought hot They bought a water heater. It says says water heater on it. It says nothing about the word hot. Well, let me explain you are correct, okay, that it is now called the water heater. They actually complimented me for for actually calling you out. Okay, here's the thing. They used to be called hot water heaters. Okay,

so let me ask you a question. Scary the thing that your tires go on on your car? What are the centerpieces called nuts? No? Oh, rims? Yeah, you know they're not called rims. They're called wheels. Well, wheels. The rim is the rim is that the lip of it right right? When we when we grew up, why people called him rims? And when rappers used to say, I'm riding on twenty in rims. Right, nobody calls them rims anymore, their wheels, So I'm saying things change names. You have

to adapt. So, yes, hot water heater not longer, but they used to be called hot water heaters. In fact, Stephen Stephen Wright, very famous comedian, used to have a bit what he'd say, why is it called a hot water heater? Who wants to eat hot water? Shouldn't it be a cold water heater? And he was right, it should be a cold water heater technically cold water, right, So yes it is now it's a water heater that

is an adaption that people stream. But just calling you out that Listen did say that it's no longer, but we were trying to argue it's a force to have it. It's just like cars don't have carburetors anymore unless you have a car with a carburetor, right, Yeah, what's going on? You're looking over your shoulders there? Yeah I am, because my dog just ran down to the basement. What does that mean? That means there's intruders above, That means he's

a distraction. That's all okay, Well, so come on the Brooklyn boys whop you can't do a fill in the lyric by the listeners and now spent thirty eight minutes on this. I can't get through to you're so thick headed man. Now, when people leave Apple podcast reviews, they're gonna say they spend too much time talking about this.

Speaking of Apple podcast reviews, keep those coming in, please, we love them, we want to see them, we want to don't forget about Apple podcasts because that's aside from my Heart radio, that's where we get the lion's share of our listen. Yeah, so and so, if you haven't left a review, five stars would be great if you're so inclined, if you feel it, if you're feeling it.

And we're gonna steal an idea from our our former interns and friends at the Twentiesome Things Doing Nothing podcast, They now put up screenshots of people leaving reviews on their instant stories. We'll do the same. We'll do the same. We're gonna steal that idea. We've gotta go back and find the classic Ape seventy seven, the one that started at all. If you don't know who Ape is clearly not listening to orders. So now people have been sliding into d m s and I forgot all about this.

I mean, I keep reading remonding to listeners, but no, I respond to them, but then I don't read them. We've got We've had some people say some nice things on the Brooklyn Boys podcast. Um, um, d M yes. So I wanted to just read a couple of those, just really quick, because I think this will brighten your day and it'll hit the reset button on this on your mood oh my moods fine before you read this,

a shout out and a call out for help. Um, we would love for you guys to follow the Brooklyn Boys Instagram account at the Brooklyn Boys Yeah right, because there's only what eight thousand followers right now, six thousand, and that's way below mine and super below Scaries followers, and way way way below how many people listen every week to our podcast. So we wanted to kind of

get those numbers up. And that's also why I'm spotlighting a couple of d m s so up close, just just up close, said hey, I've been a long time listener since moving to the United States inven to the Big Show started Brooklyn Boys podcast a few weeks ago, and Glad I have so many to catch up on. You guys are hilarious, interesting, and I agree, a great general interest podcast hard to find these days, so many of them are so damn niche. I just want to laugh.

Best to you and Brody ps as an English PhD slash pan college professor. I love. They go on to write, love is luv on purpose hearing the grammar police, but don't judge my texting. My thumbs are fat and texting is hard. Otherwise I'm a skinny short Pisano freely region and Sardinia f R I U L. If you're looking for a niche podcast, or niche if you prefer walkers and talkers podcast, Yeah, yeah, we have plenty of room

for more listeners over there. And another one joined another one from the d M s uh Deep in the Bowels of the Brooklyn Boys uh Instagram after Brodie complained that you don't post about the podcast now, you're oversharing real slices know when there's gonna be a new episode.

And that was um a comment to a picture because I reposted somebody's dashboard listening to the Brooklyn Boys that week, and obviously they're saying that I'm over sharing ever since you got into my head that I will promote the podcast. All right, well you know what more, people said they like when we promote the podcast. So yes, some of you know exactly when they go up. But like today, we're doing this on a Wednesday. It'll let you know it's a day early and it's not the worst thing

in the world. If you get an extra tweet or an Instagram store and a few more. We have a Jess J. Schichel Schieber on Instagram. Love your podcast and the Big Show. I'm in Atlantic City this week for work, and I would love to take my crew to see Halloween lights. Oopsa and that one's a little old. Any recommendations, Sorry about that, get back to me next October. I'm up.

Oh here, here's where the fund starts. I'm a pilot, by the way, and when I listened to that one episode about clapping when the plane lands, I cannot care less if y'all clap, I can't hear it anyway, the cockpit door cockpit doors closed. However, if it's a bad landing, the captain will let you know for sure, So don't say don't say something about a bad landing. If you're a passenger. Chances are we are already internally punishing ourselves for it when we go up and like you suck.

When they walk off the plane, well, they know they're saying that. Internally, they know they're like, okay, right, But in other words, they're beating themselves. No, no, they're beating themselves up in their heads. So don't so they don't care, they don't carry the way. They just saying, don't let write, don't let them know. They're just I have a plane. I have a plane question for you. Scary. I saw a video. Actually I've seen a few videos lately, but

one in particular. People post videos of Karen's who won't put their mask on planes and get yelled at and kicked off the plane. So I saw one video on I guess it was TikTok, and the woman was causing a scene. She wouldn't put a mask on and people yelling Karen, Karen, and she she slapped the stewardess, the flight attendant in the face right, and then two very large men got up good out of their seats and said get off the plane. She was so frightened she

got off the plane. So sometimes you gotta stand up. You gotta help out, you know. Yeah. Um also Vincent Yardo, Vinnie the Vinny the Guinea twenty one. I love it. Um made my day seeing the Brooklyn boys masks are made right here. It drives me nuts. The ship I find is made in China. He means right right here in the USA. Right. I'm a fellow Benson hers Dyka Heights Pison. I've listened to every episode most most more

than once. You guys make my days go faster. Some of the ship you two get into, I feel like only uh one us would get brings me right back. One of us bringing brings me right back to growing up in Brooklyn. I'm in Freehold now that's New Jersey, but still have all my friends and family in the neighborhood. Keep doing what you guys do. Been listening to The Big Show since two thousand. Started listening when I was still in high school. Did either of you go to

Zavarian again? Very local here and they're saying that he's I can't wait till the Rona Ship is over. I make brick oven pizza, would love to send some of Oh my god, he sends pictures of his brick ovens outdoor and look at these pies. Holy ship. Brody, Well, when we're back in the studio, absolutely absolutely, I love you,

thanks for listening. Send pizza. Absolutely all right, let me read one and then we'll move on because we allot to get to and then later in this podcast, at the very end, I'm gonna do a roll call, and Brody and are gonna new roll calls of people that got their free I'm sorry, not free that they bought their merchant. Call of people who got free merch you can go on forever. We'll talk about that too. So alright, I want to just shout out Nicole Danielle. Nicole underscore

nd I she you guys are the best. I'm following your rules and listening in order from zero and I can't wait to catch up. I'm on episode forty seven. She put a little uh see no evil monkey emoji hashtag late to the party, and she put a slice of pizza and a couple of hearts in blue and orange. She totally gets it. So welcome aboard again, I say, so many people have just started listening to the podcast and have like a hundred episodes to go, so hopefully

by the time you catch up and hear this. You're you're still listening and your fan and that you heard this because you get a long way ago. So the first forty seven and everyone knows are the best. After that, who the hell knows? Um, Okay, so we we definitely want to get to you giving away free nice. But I want to play an audio clip because we play an audio clip real fast, because we didn't get to audio last two weeks. I think one piece of audio.

This was on the news. This was a secondary level reporter. Um. She's not someone who's on a lot, but she was on and she was doing a report. I want you to listen to the report she Um. She's trying to say that a group of people was very gung ho about what they were working on right now. Gung Ho as you as you may or may not know, the name of a very funny movie from the with Pat Marina. I hated that. Let me let me I'm sorry, let me let me change that. A comedy called gung Ho,

I think, directed by Ron Howard. I hated it as well. Sorry, I was I was thinking of Night Shift, which is very funny, but not gung ho anyway, gung Ho, gung Ho, has a long history of of a term, a couple of terms that were morphed into from from China. An Australian guy took the term, and then the Marines got ahold of it and they used the term. It means to be like, yeah, I'm gung ho about it, g u n g space ho. Here's the reporter the same

face and have a grateful exit. On the other hand, you can trust that with a Don Jr. And Eric Trump, where they have been much more aggressive, much more gun ho gun ho gun ho. Right, there's no mispus. She didn't like swallow the g It wasn't like she said, gung ho. She said gun yeah, that's no, No, that's not an accident. She she's applying that that the Trump kids who hunt are shooting, going after people with their guns, which they are not. I'm making a joke. She said,

they're a gun ho gun ho. Yeah. No, she that that right. There is somebody who clearly like but that's what it was her whole life, her whole life, and nobody corrected her. Nobody has said, hey, by the way, it's gun ho. I haven't. I didn't, I didn't tweet her anything. I'm not the one to do it, but someone should, someone should say, hey, hey, honey, it's uh gung. Yeah. Does she think gun home means like going like so excited they're gonna shoot at you. You're gonna shoot their

guns in the air like they just don't care. Yeah, So I just so, speaking of grammar police, I hope our listener who was as a PhD appreciate that it's it's And by the way, if you are now tweeting, you were today years old when you learn this, you're welcome. Yes, yes, I got a scamboni. You gotta get easy. Yeah, right, all right, hold on a second. Yeah, yeah, I was unprepared because we're going out of water. We don't do a sound and e and like emails and stuff and right,

that's right. No, no, I recommended I recommended that everyone use gas station apps, especially during the pandemic. Well, you don't want to open your window, hand your card to somebody get their fingers on it, have to interact with people. So I said, you know, use gas apps. Will you just pay through the Apple on your phone. You never have to open the window. It turns the pump on

for you. But I was hit with a Scamboni this week and when as soon as the music is ready, I will tell you what happened here we go there. It is so I am a big fan of BP British Petroleum, your BP gas stations. They are usually the lowest price of the gas stations in my area that accept apps. So I've got Snocco and Shell and BP and x on. Those are the main ones I use,

and they never have to open open my window. So there's two BP stations near me that are very affordable, and then there's another one not near me, ten minutes away. But if I really need gas, I end up stopping there. It's like twenty cents a gallon more. I'm not paying that, that's crazy. But but if I really need gas, I might put in I don't know, dollars, you know, let's just give me ten dollars. I'll over pay in a couple of gallons, but then I'll go somewhere else the

next day or whatever. So I go to this BP gas station and again it's not b peace fault. It's the guy who works there, or the guy who owns it made a rule, or the guy is just lazy. So I rolled down my back window right. I powered down enough that he can hear me, and I say, uh, the app, I activated the app, I showed the app. I said ten dollars regular. He says to me, that's not how the app works. You have to fill it up. Really, So I said, hold on, didn't we do this? I

feel like we talked about this on this podcast. No, no, I have told you this. I may have told you the story that the guy said that to me. But here's my realization that I know, and I now know it's a scam. I fell for it once. I was like, oh, I, well I didn't I think either. I left. I don't want I don't think I filled it up at that price, so I think I drove off. Okay, he ended up back at the gas station and he tried that ship on me again. Well, well, the guy a different guy,

but this time I was prepared scary. You know why, because I realized that the app and the pump I don't know when my tank is filled. That is true, if you think it through, right, If I get ten dollars nothing, the pump doesn't know that my car isn't full. What if my car only took ten dollars? So I said to the guy, just stopped pumping the gas at ten dollars. He didn't want to only sell me ten dollars. And he and he and he didn't want because maybe it doesn't let him pre set it. Sometimes when you

get give me ten dollars, they pump it. They punch in ten dollars. You don't want to run up to score. He wanted to run up the score on you, right, or he didn't want to not be able to walk away and help somebody else, because you don't have to stand there and turn the pump off at ten dollars in convenient, I said, So, I said, you know what, just turn the pump off at ten dollars. It doesn't work that way. Oh, sure it does, I said. The pump doesn't know whether the my tank is filled or not.

He stood there for a minute, looked at me. When, Oh, because I busted him. Yeah, I busted on my busted him. So don't take any ship from people, especially if they try that bullshit with you that you gotta fill the tank. All they're lying to you because the tank and the

pump they don't talk to each other. Another Scamboni is and and I don't know if if this is the case in your city where you live, If you live in a city, um, if you have a metered taxi camp service, the New York City taxi people they have. Sometimes they don't feel like running credit cards because obviously they get dang that they make less commission on it.

So they'll tell you, oh, the credit card the credit card machine is broken, so you can only or you can only use cash pay cash only pay cash, which they obviously make much more money that way. They'll still run your meter. But then when the meter, you know, let's say it's like dollars and sixty three cents, and then you go and try and swipe your card you know, or whatever, you know, or do a tap to pay. All they do is they have that feature turned off.

You know. They could just turn it off and cut it. So this way it looks like, oh it doesn't work, sorry, cash please, So don't fall for that scamboni either. The cash the credit card machine almost always is working despite what they say. Well, you know what, I busted the Chinese restaurant in my house for the same thing. I called up. Normally I make a normal size order, you know, I ordered dinner for the family but every once in a while. No, no, I won't go back there, not

because I'm banned. I mess stuck going back there. Foods terrible anyway, No, it's the place I normally go to. Husband and wife. You think after all these years they'd stopped trying to fuck you. Well, it's a husband and wife. The husband's name is David. He speaks uh English really well. Now never a problem taking the order, no problem. The wife speaks about English, so our vocabulary is limited. They

can also get by on you that way too. By the way, with the the the not speaking too much English, Sting says, every time I out of a small, she claims out of a large, yeah, oh no, yeah, you know how it is right, And they hope to get you exasperated and wear you down to almost be like that, Fuck it, I'll just take the larger size or call up to order. And I only wanted two things. I ordered a small chow fund roast pork, no vegetables. I had, you know what, I have lomaine the day before Lomaine.

They make a really good chow fun because it's got a little um, a little I'm not gonna say it's gravy because it's well like flavored grease, but it's it's got um whatever the brown sauce they used on the lomaine that used on the chow fund and it's very moist, really good chow fund. Okay, so I was I had a craving for chow fund, so ordered my chow fun and my wanton egg drop suit makes no greens or one word, and she says to me, okay, um, machine,

no work? What machine? No work? What machine? Credit card? Yeah? Got that cash only? Cash only. So I'm driving right becau, I'm on the way. I'm on the way there because it's on the way to where I'm going. So I reached them right, well, or she's saying you're not spending enough to make it worth us paying the credit card. Right. Usually they say minimum ten dollar minimum, right, Okay. The bagel place near me has the same rule, ten dollar minimum. But if you get to like eight ninety, they let

your slide. Right. It's an it's an ish, it's ten dollars ish. So I'm like, oh, the credit cards down, that's a shame. I have cash, but now I don't want to you know, pay cash handle change. So I get there and I guess she was figuring because it was it was Friday, around one thirty, then it wouldn't be busy. Well I walked in and guess what. The guy in front of me credit card, credit card, big bag of food, and I walk up says okay cash,

I said, uh no credit card, No machines broken. I don't want to get into a fight with them because I eat there all the time a lot. David, the husband, looks up. He's over by the walk, he's over by the he's cooking behind and he looks up like busted. He looked up like, oh hi, like he didn't want to like come over and go No, we just me that complains and now he's about to bust us. No, I don't complain because they're awesome. They're my favorite Chinese

restaurant takeout in the area. Well, maybe you should find another one because they're trying to get one over on you with a scamboni. They definitely tried to scambone to me on the cash only scam. So I'm just saying this, everybody scamming everybody, that's all. Just be aware of people. Everybody's scamming you, everybody's lying. Everybody rather than just tell

me there's a minimum. It was easy for her to say, you know, machine broken for her, no work, that's oh the tangled web we weave when we aim to deceive, that's right now. I took a couple of sales people out for lunch, a couple of it was about a few weeks ago and now and here's and Brody it was. It was. It was supposed to be me and two of our sales people. Now these are people that are smoozing them, so I'll get some work. Absolutely, I mean, but that's the way business work, Brodie. It worked in

both directions. In the summertime, I took a few sales people out to dinner that did right by me all last year and they always and they're always looking at it. We went out to dinner, and then I did a second wave where some other people I'm like, you know, let's go to lunch. Well I went to lunch with the with two of them, and it was just supposed to be me and I'm not gonna name them. Wouldn't the day that male and female a male and a female, yes,

and on the female, male and female. And on the day of the lunch, about an hour before I, you know, we go there to where we were going. It was just the three of us. They said. The female says, oh, hey, can my friend come. She's a huge fan of the show, and yeah, you know her. You you met her. Hold On, you met her a few times, so she wasn't she wasn't trying to pull a it's a fan awkward thing like bizarre. It was more. It was more like you met her before a couple of events. She's a big

fan of the show. It's just an hour lunch and now I'm but but here's the quandry prody. Of course when I take a salesperson out, so so I actually and you know, they know you did not know the male and the female um salespeople. They both knew. They both knew that that I was kind of going because we've done this once before. You know. It was tradition.

It's been tradition where I was taking lunch friend knowing you were going to treat yes, and I can't get a steak dinner out of you and everybody else is getting a free meal. It was a lunch. Hold On, now, listen, we went, We just went. It was it was it was a basic so what did you say to her? Don't skip over? So I said, oh, I'm like, and I just gave her the signal like this is this is the quote scary paying for you lunch. This is the scaries kind of treat lunch. Like hey, when we

did this last year, this is like a tradition. So I'm taking this. I said, I'm taking you out. I'm taking you guys out. And probably the way, there's no reason why this male and female would hang out with each other otherwise, other than other than these aren't two people that are currently sleeping with each other at the office. No, no, it's only said the two salespeople that would never be so they know damn well that this is a business thing. And then I'm gonna pay. But then she says, oh,

I'm gonna bring my friend. And I'm like, oh, that's awkward. That's all. You don't do that because they hope you said no. I said, I said fine, I said, f you, you're worse than your girlfriend last week. I'm more matter. It gets better. It can't be okay, it gets better, it gets worse, it gets worse in your eyes. So we go, we go to lunch. Aster. So I was waiting for a moment that's that their friend would get

up from the table and go to the bathroom. And then I was gonna say, hey, guys, look, you know I want to take you guys out. This is on me, but let's just divvy it up now and I'll then mow you back the money. So this way I can get around it and let this person pay her share, right, that's the fair thing. I don't want to pay for her. Guess what, the girl never got to go to the bathroom. There was never a moment that I was alone. So the bill came, and you know, I wasn't gonna let

people dig into their wallets. So I said, all right, I got it. He's on me, guys, and like thank you, scary, but no time. But then I'm like thinking, like, wait a second. The woman that was with, you know, the female salesperson, is going to hit me back after we leave here and feel bad. Oh she should and say scary, Oh that's just terrible. You did that. I didn't realize it. Oh my god, I gotta give you back her portion

of the money in the bill. At the very least she hasked to email you go, hey, thanks for doing that for my friend. Well she did that, but she didn't pay me back her portion of the of the meal. That's that's terrible, bullshit, terrible. But have you ever been

in a situation where you're paying? And then I think I think we had this situ ration with the Morning Show once on a vacation where it was like a multi market deal and we were we were having dinner with people from other cities, and the people in the one city wanted to pay for the personalities in that city, but not the people in in our city because they were kind of together. It was a grouping of them. How I do I'm not gonna go further on that,

but there's got to be awkward. There's gotta be ways of getting out of that situation. I had one of those. I had one of those, and it's it's a little older skewing in what happened. Um, I threw a birthday party for my mom about ten years ago, and so we invited some cousins, some friends of ours, and I think we had it in u We had in a big restaurant. We got a private room in the back,

big thing. Right. So one of her friends, older woman had a home character ended right, like someone who lives with her and or comes to take spends the days with her and helps her get around in a wheelchair. Whatever, blah blah blah, doesn't tell us she's bringing her right. Yeah, the woman brought her daughter and healthcare attendant to this. The daughter wasn't invited, the home care attendant wasn't invited,

but she originally invited her home care attendant. And then her daughter's trying to change your plans and was like, oh, I can make it, I'll help you. So she didn't want to tell the homecare attendant she couldn't go, so she had both of him come and wouldn't you know what? They both ordered liquor? Of course they did. They don't wanted to fuck you, not wanting to drink as Morelda as Morelda had some kind of blue Hawaiian How did you? How did you get around that? I didn't. I had

to pay the whole shot. Was I gonna do? Well? I was in a similar situation. I see, and here you are, Mr tough guy saying, oh no you can't. I'm pissed you you girlfriend, he said, there and you took it. No, I'll tell you why. First of all. I assumed that her friend would say, hey, I'm gonna pay for my daughter and and my home character tendant because they were already there. I didn't know there was showing up. She didn't call me and ask me. That's different.

You got preemptively uh shipped on because they say she says, oh, we'll bring my friend. You're big fan. Hey, you know I watch a big fan, have her follow you on Instagram. That's how life works. Oh you know what? Like that's like like Elvis saying I'm having dinner with um Bobby Flay, and somebody go, oh, I love Bobby Flake. Can I go to dinner with you? Do that? Here's my friend Mike. He watches you all like twice a week. He's he

loves you, big fan. Well do that. What what the sales person should have done was tell her friend, hey, look, we'll do this another time on a more informal night or afternoon whatever. But this is we'll go, I'll meet you at Starbucks. We'll have some call. You should have read between the lines. This is the sales payback kind of like kind of fun lunch. It's a business lunch. Business right, it is a business lunch. You know, and you can't talk privately about business when someone else is

at the table. That's another problem I have when you mixed company like that. You know we're gonna have this problem. And it's not like your single. A few of us are going, Uh, the guys, we're going to the Butcher's Block, you know that place that we awesome looking place it goes someday, Yes, in Long Branch, New Jersey. Maybe steak They sell steak, Brodie, Yeah, they sell steak. Huh. I'll tell you what. Mhm m. We're not going with the

COVID the COVID gang. All right, you suck because I'm about to I was about to invite you to dinner with us and to us, and I was going to give you your steak dinner there. But okay, I don't want. I don't want. I don't want COVID dinner. I don't know. No,

So then we'll go another time. Yeah, so okay, So yeah, So we're doing this Butcher's Block and it's a few of us and then one of the guys is like, hey, can I bring so and So's brother in law And I'm like no, because he's connected to he's connected to this person and that person and if we're like ship talking and acting like guys, I don't want I don't want this. You know, we know he's like an outside source. We don't need a circle friend of a friend. Yeah,

so on so many levels it's wrong. Yeah, don't don't mix company. I don't know, unless his wife just died and he has no friends, then that's different. Blue Hawaiians for everyone, Yeah, blue Hawaiian. Yeah. Well this as morelda. Yeah, so let me um, let me bring up a dinner that I did sort of agree to. So last week you invited me to go to dinner. You're doing a big thing this couple of days from now at a very nice Italian rest wrong where I'm a big fan

of the food. And you said, oh, going out with a bunch of people, it's gonna be a big thing. Friends giving a Calandras, Italian village. In fact, why don't you guys book your table now and join me for friends giving. It's happening. Hit it, hit it this Friday night, Hit the full jingle, full jingle, the hit the full jingle. Now you did that on the Office Strand morning show this morning, and somebody texted in, hit the jingle Bach. Did you see that? It's friends giving Brodie. Okay, and

then it's leading into your story. It's leading into your story because I know but that where it is isn't isn't relevant? Okay, So first of all, I wasn't we have we have plenty tables out there dining. Stop it, stop it. It's a great restaurant. The food, the food is excellent, and I'm gonna introduce you to the owner, so you better love the pastry. Let me explain. So Calandra's not doing a commercial for clandres. They have a

bunch of locations. One is just a bakery, but this this one is it's a massive like it's a block long, practically huge parking lot in perfect place to social distance. They've got like a small restaurant that has like live music. Then down the hall is a huge open restaurant, a lot of tables and everything, and they have um prepared foods on the other end of the building. And in the middle is a huge bakery with amazing pastries. Okay, So I'm a fan. I'm not getting paid to say

that anyway. So Scary texts me last night, You called me, calls me last night and says, Hey, listen the night of Zoe New York's jingle Ball, which is it's gonna be a Madison Square Garden. It's only gonna be on you can you can plug it in a minute? Hold on, he says, I'm booked to host a viewing party because it's only gonna be on the c W. It's gonna be on t you know whatever. It's gonna be on the on YouTube, on the law online. It's a streaming

on Thursday, right, Oh, it's a Thursday. Okay, he says. Listen, we have feelers out for a moderately big name New Jersey celebrity, but we haven't heard back from them in about a week. It's not looking fine. Wait, I'm getting I tell my story, my story, okay, he says. This person hasn't gotten back to us. It would be nice if she could do it, but it's not looking good. And so they said, who would you like to have if she can't make it? So scary, says Brodie, I

thought of you. Let's do a Brooklyn Boys viewing party. It's at the place that you didn't want to go to this week. You weren't able to go, but you know, it's and we're gonna be at a table by ourselves, will host it, will do some games, will do giveaways. Maybe we'll have like Brooklyn Boys, merchant Nie will throw it out to the crowd. We'll sell some stuff. It to be great. And I said, well, you know, I don't know. He says, Brodie, they want to give us

a decent amount of money. Yeah, I said, really goes Yeah, well, you know you get paid for an appearance. And he says, you'd be getting this much money. I said, that much money. That's very nice to them. I will, I will, you know what, I will go and scary, like listen, they have the best safe COVID precautions. They really roped off. They keep people on a list. Listen, you guys know how how I am with this whole thing. Scary one down a list of all the precautions and I felt,

you know what, this sounds really legit, really safe. I feel comfortable and I normally don't. I'm yes, I'm in. Yes for the precautions, Yes for the company scary and I hanging out, And yes for the money. I need the money, that's great. And yes for having inviting the

slices to come on out Enjoy. That was going to be the big kicker, was we're gonna talk about it on this week's podcast and next week's in the week after and have slices finally come to an event and hang out with okay, and we were gonna throw T shirts and whatever. Okay, So Scary texted me this morning. Uh, the woman got back to was she's in your out? Well no, no, you were never in, and you gotta

let me rebuttle this story because you're your facts. You went back, you went back to the sales guy and you said Brodie's in as long as she doesn't confirm. So I was in. Because it was over a week. She hadn't gotten back to us. Right now, when the woman got back to us, I was thinking, Hey, Scary, if she gets back to you, just say Brodie's in, don't worry about it. But they got back to the sales people directly, and now I'm out. I got pumped.

You didn't get bumped. You would never never second choice, You were never in. Okay. So so here's and now let me tell the story the way it really happened last week on this podcast. That was how I that's how we Okay, this is gonna be This was two events at the same place. A second last week on this podcast, I was talking about this friend's giving that I'm doing this frid Right, it's at the same place. It's Calondris, it's a sas. Just say it. Okay, that's

what it is. And and I said, look, if that goes well, I said, they're probably also going to sign on for something for a jingle ball watch party. Okay. Now I didn't say that on the on our podcast. Okay, I told you that in private, but on this podcast. The sales guy, he's the guy in charge of that client of of Calandre's. He he heard the podcast and he heard your aversion. If you guys will listen back to episode one where we talked about He's like, no, no,

I'm not in. This is terrible. Like I was trying to get Brori to come to friends giving with me this this this Friday kind of test the waters a little bit, but he wouldn't even do that much because he's so hell bent against it. Hold on, wait, so then so our sales guy who represents the Calandra's account heard that. So he was in the background. So in the background I was trying to finesse. I'm like, look, you're trying to get this this reality star to come through. Okay,

I said, she actually was. The ask was in for her all along. But but if he she doesn't come through, I said. That's when I told him, look what about Brodie? And he was like, dude, I listened to the podcast Brodie's not Brodie's not gonna come and then I kind of talked him off that ledge and I said, I said, listen, Vinnie. I said, you have to understand. I said, I went down the list. I'm a big fan of Vinnie's just just sort on the same page. So we all so

so so. Vinnie and I had a sidebar conversation because I was trying to line you up in the event, in this event that the reality did I not do that? Yes, you did, in the event that the reality star couldn't make it or wasn't gonna make it. Remember, and I did tell you, Brodie. I was very forthrighted. And I also made me feel like the clock is taking it. I said, Brodie, the clock is ticking. I said, we haven't got online to it. We haven't gotten an answer from her. I said, she's not out yet I said,

but but if she's out, you are in. And you knew that that was the deal, the whole the whole way. Yes, but but it was it was I I got the impression that she was that that you know that the clock struck twelve, she turned back into a pumpkin, and I was in, like Flynn, I'm in baby Brooklyn Boys jingle Ball viewing party. I'm in at one of my favorite area restaurants. Understood, Brodie. But the thing is, she was never out and so and so she was almost

she was out in my mind, well so so. So the what ended up having was the her people called Vinny and said, hey, uh late word, she's in. She was never out, so but she was in. She was never in. She was on the outside looking in, but she was. The offer had been put out to her two weeks ago, before we even aired the Friends Giving podcast from last week. And then you texted me at ten o four today she's in your It's not bad news. It's just it's not it's just bad news for you.

It's still news to me. Yes, it's great news for you. It's great news for Calandres. They gotta they gotta celebrity coming. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, Melissa Gorga from Real Housewives of New Jersey. She's a huge star in that world. And guess what, that's her local that's her local place and it's a great place. She was so super sweet. Um, she said, I gotta tell you, um, you know, you guys have been great to me jingle Ball years past my daughter, and so she said, yes, she'll do it. Yeah,

So I'm out. So it slices if if listen, you should go and meet Hard and meet Scary, you should still go. But for those of you that are thinking I'd rather meet Brodie, I appreciate it. That's all. I just want to say thank you to those of you that would have preferred me to go. But bigger name online too, and I totally get it. But she has a bigger name. She has a great relationship with the radio station, and I know for a fact she eats there.

But here's the how how I felt good for a day, Why I was pumped, Why am I getting Why am I getting ship on? For coming up with the idea in an environment when you were resistant to come to be given like a horse that I was trying to even convince you and then I said, this could be a good idea. You like the water, and I drank. I drank it in. You drank before you invited in.

Here's what I would have done. I would have called I would have called her people the minute you got off the phone with me and said, yeah, we already booked. We already booked somebody, so don't worry about it. I don't have to get back to us. We're good. Good. You gotta ship or get off the pot. Here's the thing. I got off the ship. You called me last night. You said you're ready to ship. I said, I'm shift, let's do this. I'm ready to shoot. So now I'm fucking turtle in and I gotta a text me from

you that says you didn't want it out. No, you didn't want to sit on the toilet to begin with because you thought it had COVID, That's exactly. And you're like, I don't want to I don't want to take here. I didn't say anyone at COVID. I just said you like, I'm still not dreen coomfortable. But then you explained to me in detail what their systems are and how a watch party is different than a than an eating party because I wasn't coortable. No, no, no, there's still gonna

be people eating. It's still they still serve food. And the whole people is to like have people again. Once you once you not on the podcast last week, but once you privately explain to me what their protocols are. I was very impressed with their protocols. And even I was like, you know what, if I'm gonna go anywhere, I'm gonna go there. I was very impressed by the level of protocol nest they have. And it's outdoor, heated openings on all sides. You know, It's it's like that,

you know. But but at the same time, I'm listen, I'm excited that because this is a huge get. As it's a huge get to have her. We're very excited she's coming. She's a big star. I I I understand why you went with her. I'm just saying I feel bad for the slices who aren't gonna go. If you should still go, because it's gonna be a great night, That's all I'm saying. And you should still go. It will be a great night, and and they might show up for maybe some big clowns. I may show up

for free. That's how much like the food. If you can get me a little chicken palm on the arm, chicken palm on the arm, I will come. I will meet Melissa Gorga, I will be thrilled to meet our I will hang out with you. Uh. And so if a lot of slice ago and I may show up, that's that's how excited I am about going that night. That's all so I said, and then and now and then the cameo this Friday, and also I may show up to the friends giving just to see the layout

and see what's up. And made him say hi and grab a little palm on the arm, pom on the arm. And and that's just that. That's just having dinner. That's just a bunch of us just sitting there having dinner. So you know, so that's cool, all right, all right, well you know that's that story. I'm not a I'm not a I don't I feel good because well, first of all, we're in our zone right now in this podcast, and so we're talking to the very people that would

love to do an event and come out. Um, but I would like to take a poll aside from this, if we were to do something with the Brooklyn Boys in these COVID times. What kind of response would there be, Would people show up or they scared? Because I know, I don't think it's the right time for us, for

us to to do something like that. Yeah, only because one thing, if we're in an event like the ones that we've been talking about, where there's entertainment as food, there's uh, you know, there's a Jingle Bowl show on the big screen. But if we're the entertainment, we gotta do a podcast live without masks people who I want to take pictures and interact with us. I want everyone to be comfortable. I don't want anyone not to come

because they're uncomfortable. But okay, we can wait, right But I just want to know at this juncture here we are, I'm not I'm not comfortable doing it. So okay, well then that's a moot point. But only because I don't think we can give our fans, our listeners the proper event. Besides, you know, people are gonna want to come from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, you know, and a different drivable areas and they want to sit and spend some time with You

can't you can't cross state lines. Right now, there's that. Um, I just don't know if we can. I just want to put a poll out there. Who's who's scared and who's not? Like, who would do it? Who can? I can? I can? I ask you your opinion on a free food story and slices. I'd like your opinion as well. I want you to put yourself in the position of this business owner. All right, Uh and tell me if I'm wrong, if they if they missed an opportunity, Uh, scary,

you tell me how you would have handled this? Okay, Okay. A woman who is a friend of a friend. Okay, Um, I don't know her, but she's a friend of a friend and she is a fan of the show. Shouldn't listen to podcast to my knowledge, but she's a fan of the show. She hit me up on Facebook, my friend. My friend said, Hey, my friends just opened up a new business. She's a fan, and um, you know she's not that far from your mom where your mom lives. She may hit you up on Facebook. She wants to

invite you to come for for lunch or whatever. You know. So I was like, oh, all right, maybe I pick up lunch, bring it of my mom's house. Whatever. It's it's probably forty minutes away from where I live, maybe twenty minutes away from my mom, so it's a little bit out of the way. So she hits me up on Facebook and she says, oh, I'd love for you

to come in. The mutual friend of ours says, you're sometimes in the area, which is an exaggeration, but you know, sort of in the area, and make sure when you get there you tell my my staff that you're coming in. I want to come out and say hi. Uh, you know, I want to meet you. I'm a big fan. Um, but I'd love for you to come and uh, you know,

I think you're like the food and uh, you know whatever. Okay, So at this point, scary, Um, would you be thinking one way or another about anything or just like, oh, she just wants you to come in. Nothing and you're nothing popped anyway yet so far nothing. So I d m her that I was coming in right well, yeah, on Facebook. I I messanged her and I said, hey, thanks for the generous uh you know invite. Um, I'm probably going to be in the area for dinner a

couple of fridays ago. So that was, like I said, Then tomorrow was the next day at that point, just letting you know. He said, to let you know, Oh great, oh my god, I'll be there. So I got there around four o'clock. It wasn't that busy. I told an employee. I said, hey, let's so and so. No, I'm here, because she said if I'm here, I should let him know. So I told the employee. He went in the back, came out and she said, oh, so and So says, HI didn't come out. So I was like, oh, that's weird.

She didn't come out. I said, is she really busy? No, she wanted me to say. She said, hi, okay, what all right? Okay, So I get the food and I ordered I don't know, or something like that, a couple of hamburgers, some sides, um, whatever it was, and I left. Now something's not ending up. Well, hold on. So she instant messaged me like that night and said, I hope you liked everything. Now it's it's a little weird she didn't come out. Number one. Maybe she was busy. I

don't know. Maybe she's on a phone call. I don't know. Um, I'm not saying she should have. But you've been in this situation before, right you know the power of social media. Yeah, don't you think. And by the way, that's not why I went. Before you say it, it's not why I But don't you think she should have thrown in, like literally a free dessert or a coupon or taking ten percent off the bill, like you wait, you wait, No, I didn't go for anything. It's just no, no, no.

I was gonna say, she invited you. You should come check out my place. Yes, you you, it's hers right, you showed up, you sat by yourself. No, I went. It was take out. It was taken Oh, you went in to take out, to take out, and then you left. You, you and I. Usually when people recognize us, they do that, they do a little something for you as a way to say like I'm a big fan, thank you, not expected,

by the way, never expected, never expected. And then usually no, no, no, no, no no no. Usually when they do that, you know you may be more apt to, you know, post a picture or tweet about it that they you know, good service, good food. I will say the food was pretty good. That's pretty good. I I just found the whole thing weird. I found it weird. She doesn't know me, right, she only invited me to come because she likes the show.

I went as sort of a favorite to invited you over Facebook as a favorite to you gotta come in to check it out, and didn't ask you, didn't ask for a picture, didn't come out. Maybe she feels like you're you're not there yet because of its COVID, right, and she doesn't want to. No, No, she could have come on, said high waved from behind the counter. No, I just found the whole thing weird. But do you think that's a strategical mistake on her part. I think

it is an error. I think it is an error on her part that she wasn't a little more hospitable. She had David Brody from No. But I'm just saying, but she had I don't know, somebody with you know, maybe I don't know, not that not it's not like it's a pay for play thing, but maybe maybe it would have posted up her food and stuff and been like excited. Not not that it's not that you do that for that reason, but you're excited to be in there.

And by the way, surprise, you could have a million of the places you could have gone a day for take out. I thought out of how far out of the way, was it, Uh, it's about seventeen or eighteen minutes you away from my mom, So maybe it was like it was around a half hour out of the out of the way around the trip. Is it something? Is it a place that you would have gone? Otherwise you would have never trials would have never taken you there. Right, I would go back because the food was pretty good.

But you know, I would have made a bit out of the free dessert, like I would have made a bit out of oh I have free dessert. I just I found it weird. But she didn't even come. She didn't even come out to say hello, like forget about the free part or any any like asters or any eight throwing some extras, And she didn't. And she didn't she didn't write hey, so sorry, I didn't come out. I had the pipe burst in the back. You know,

She's like, oh, you enjoyed the food. You you invited me and said, oh, make sure you come and say hi, and don't let me know when you're here. And she didn't. It was a little a little weird, a little weird. Maybe she was star struck by not she wasn't. She didn't see me and I'm not gonna be star struck about I'm missing Oh my god, he's out there. I can't go out there right. And I just want to be clear. I didn't expect anything. I know. I just

aprised by the whole, the whole thing, the whole. It was just a bizarre I would feel like I told my friends, told that point. I told my friend what happened. She's like, she didn't hook you up. She didn't not even hook you up, but just didn't say hello. Well, she didn't understand that party that. She's like, that's so weird. She wanted to meet you so badly. I was like, well,

I guess it was a bad bad timing. But did you go in the middle of like a lunch rush or something, clock or o' clock that's before dinner, right, I got there early, it wasn't during the rush. I just thought I would share that story because that's what we do here, we share stories. So that's all. It was just kind of a yeah, all right, Yeah, I feel unfulfilled right now. I feel a little empty. Well, would you rather hear some some free ship from me stories? Yeah?

And just just a couple of minutes, boy and scary hey, before we do free ship for us or free ship for you, I didn't get dick. Yes, well, I know you're still trying though. Yeah, every day become a little bit more flexible every day. So here in the area, we have a a store called Fairway, or we had a store called Fairway, which leads me to my story. There's a great supermarket. It was a supermarket for groceries. It was a featured very often on Impractical Jokers. So

they're all gone in this area now. And they went out of business, they went bankrupt, whatever they did. Fair went away, but they but they there's one. There's one that exists in the city. It's still there. The sign is still ups and it's in Manhattan. Yeah, in the state. When I say the city in Manhattan, you guys know that we live in the suburbs of Manhattan. Okay, great, so um. I had a non expiring fifty gift card.

I'm holding it right here. I left it. I left it here on my desk because to remind myself that I have to bring this up on the podcast. Now, we all know Scotty be the king of coupons, who's on a big Well, some of you don't know him, but he's also on the serial Killers podcast. He's he is, he is. Do you think Brody gets free dessert? Good God. Scotty b is a coupon clipper from way back and has literally a suitcase full of them, and they pay him to take groceries home. That's how great he gets

free groceries. He doesn't get free shot like he gets groceries. It is different lane. It's the Express lane, supermarket lane. Joe. Ten items are less and I gave the card to him. I'm like, hey, dude, come on man, after the show one day, go get us some groceries at Fairway. The last remaining one here fifty dollars. Let's go. Let's get what we need for the morning show, because we worked together in the morning still and you know where he's. He comes in and he's like, dude, I can't do

that because they went out of business. I said the one in the city didn't. He was, oh, yeah, he was a different company now everything. I'm like, dude, I don't know about this. He was resistant for the first time ever, he turned down free money. And he's like, because he's like you, Brodie, He'll fight till the toll the death and he's I said, emailed him something website. Come on, he goes, He goes, All I did was was I I could look into it. And then he

gets back to me an hour later. Yea, I punched it into the website. The numbers, nothing matches, everything's off. It doesn't take it. It's rejected, it's over, it's garbage. And he goes to go throw it away. I'm like, go give me that. I'm like, wait a second, I said, David Brody will find Way absolutely so apparently this is He says, this gift art is no good. I disagree

with him. I think that even though Fairway went out of business largely, that one store still standing, and even if it's owned by a different company and sold in the background, that's not customer facing. I don't see that. I'm still a consumer, and I see their fucking logo up. When there's a buyout like that, they usually make it public or they put it on their website that they will accept gift cards from the old regime up until

a certain date. Well, this just happened recently. I think this is still good till the end of the year. But who the hell am I? I don't know. I could throw it away and call them and ask them. He called them that he did go that and and but he got some some you know, some random on the corporate office. You tell him your aunt was dying and the last thing she did was give it his card. Or it's your aunt, she's dying, and this is the story. You know what your hard care a tenant es Morelda

needs the fifty dollars to buy Blue Hawaiian Alliance. I don't know. But what do you think? How would you handle it? You just call them up? Or would you just show up in the store and ask to speak to the manager. Well, you can do one or two things. Put on your Karen wig. Let's go. You can. You can call corporate, get a name, hang up, go to the store. And when you get to the register and they go, oh, we don't accept that, you go whoa, whoa, whoa. I spoke to Marjorie Operated seven to nine and he

assured me, assured me I could use this. Well, she's mistaken. Well, I'm already here. You gotta honor it. And at the very least you haven't give you twenty five dollars for it. At the very least you fight it and you go, well, at least give me, give me something. I mean, I came here specific you would just you wouldn't just say you know what, fuck it and just leave your grocery and walk away, leave the grocer talking to walk away. Just take it, accept it. No, I would. I would

get that they'd take it. Oh you bet your ask they take it. Oh, I bet they'd take it. I would tell him who I am. I'm the guy who paid full price for Hamburg. There. If you think for a minute I'm not using this card, you're crazy. I don't. All right, well it's just a little thing there. So I've had that happen to me. I I get them to take the card. I mean, I mean, think about all the money we waste in gift cards where they

just go. Now it's illegal for them to expire. It used to be they would expire in you a fund it is, yeah, gives inspire. No, gift cards don't expire. Is that easily when he's that across the board rule like federally, like he's a yes, Yes, gift cards don't expire. Merchandise credits might expire, I think some do, but gift cards don't talk about that, Brody, we better check into that. I'll check into it right now. I don't think that's like a nationwide blanket statement that. Do you think it's

just my neighborhood. Well, I don't think that every food chain, in every place that you get a gift card from, or store or clothing store. I don't think that it. I don't think they all have that policy, or unless they're forced to. But I don't know that that would be have to be a federal law. But I've never heard of that they can expire whenever the hell they want. Well whatever, well, we don't have to. It says it can't expire within Okay. I don't know how this is

from two eleven. So let me look when do your gift cards expire? From nerd wallet? Okay? So by law, let's see, money on a gift card cannot expire for at least five years from the date the card was purchased, perfect or from the last date money was added onto the card. According to the FTC, many cards won't have an expiration date, but check the fine print so you don't hang onto us too long. Expiration dates must be

clearly disclosed on the card. Keep your options open if you're not so hard about gift I had read that they changed the law at one point because they used to expire, so I guess maybe they made the law five years alright, right, all right? Cool. Also, there used to be some really great websites that you don't have to tweet me because just google it where you could exchange gift cards, Like if I got a gift card to Amazon, I could swap with somebody for a gift

card to Best Buy. Card swaps, yeah, card swap sites? Is that like white swap? No? Did you bang them? See? That's what I have to listen in order, all right, So let me tell you how I got stuff for free. I hadn't counted on all right, So this story is a is A is a over a month old because it was it relates to my swimming pool, but I haven't gotten to it. I keep telling you I'm gonna get to it, and then after that then we roll

out of here. So I have two stories. I'm gonna go back to back them, like, and we didn't do the names people bought merchants. That's the last thing we have to do. So tell your stories real quick, all right. So my pool vacuum got the cable. Even though it has a floating device on it has a little floater on the on the cable so that that the vacuum doesn't roll over the cable and tangle in it. It did it anyway, even though I bought this particularly unit

because it says tangle free floating cable. It got caught up in the wheels. So in order to get it out, it's not always as easy as when it goes in. You gotta pull it through and pull it through, and one end is thick and it doesn't fit, and it's just a nightmare. So I I yanked it and pulled it in the whole thing, the cable in my vacuum cleaner by the white pervert, and I finally got it out and untangled. And then I noticed there was a short in the cable. It no longer worked right. So

I'm under warranty. I got a three year warranty on so I call my I call the company and they say, we're back ordered. We don't have any cables. What we don't have any cables COVID nineteen out of production. We don't have the cables. I said, there you are cables you have to call a local distributor local repair store. So I call the local repair store. Yeah, and they say to me, we'll order it, no problem, give us you're in formation. Should it should take about a week.

So I said, now, wait a minute. I can't be without my pool vacuum for a week. What I was doing was I'd have to like jiggle the cable so it would be in the perfect spot where the thing would go on. But then like if it moved a little bit in the wind, it would stop working. And if you have a pool, you know, the dirt builds up. You got a vatium the thing almost every other day, if not every day. So they said, well, I said, can you expedit shipping it. We'll try to expedit shipping.

We'll see if we can get that overnight. And okay, so they tell me it's out of stock. As soon as they have it, we'll get it for you. Here's the confirmation number. So now I'm livid, like that's ridiculous. The cable costs about a hundred and forty dollars. It's a waterproof cable with a float device on it, the whole thing. So I called the company back and I say, listen, it is unacceptable. I have a three year warranty that you don't give me a cable. Well, we don't have any,

I said, that's not my problem. I pay for the you in it. It includes a three year warranty. So either you fix my unit and send me a cable, right or you ship me a new unit. That's how that works, because ultimately you need to replace or repair my unit. It's your problem you don't have the cables. It's your problem you didn't stock up on cables. I understand you can't get more cables, but how exactly did you run out of cables. You're the company, they're your cables.

No answer, I say'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I want you to take my number. I'm gonna take your name. I'm gonna call you back in an hour, and you're gonna have a solution for me. Are you're gonna send me a new unit. You're gonna give me credits I can go to a store and get a new unit, or you're gonna find me a cable. Hameda, hamma, hamma, hammeda. I'll call you back in an hour, okay, I said, oh, you call me either one. She calls me back in

forty five minutes. She says, they have a satellite repair place in Philadelphia outside of Philly, and they have cables. Here's the number. Call them. Okay, So I called the Philly place. The guy says, yeah, I got him to you. I'll have a tienna. I'll have a ten in two days. We'll get ground shipping, no charge. You'll have it in two days. I have no problem. So I get the cable in two days. Because because you have to threaten people sometimes you have to threaten them like you know

what I mean. You can't just they were they were gonna be content to say, sorry, we don't have a cable. That was their answer, Sorry we don't have a cable. Okay. So I get the cable, I bring it home. I take a part the unit. I attached the cable inside to the motor. I attached the cable to the box. Now that the control box is what plugs into the

electrical unit. It's all digital. It's got presets for cleaning, days off, days on, all off everything, and you plug you plug it into the box, right and guess what the same short as there it's still not you have to jiggle the cable. So I realized, now it wasn't the cable. The short must be in the box because I already changed the cable. So now I've got the

new cable, I've got my original cable. Now I'm thinking I can sell the hundred and four dollar cable because they're not gonna ask for back for me, right, They're not gonna ask, which they didn't. So I called them back and I say, hey, listen, I've got the model. I give them the model number and I say it must be the boxes bed, Oh, we have those in stock. Will get that right out to you. I said, well, you got overnight it to me because your tech guy told me it was the cable. So they overnight the

box to me, and guess what. They send me a box for a more expensive model. But it doesn't work with my unit. Oh my god, full of problems. So I called them back and I said, oh, oh, you sent me the wrong box. Terribly sorry, We'll overnight you the right box. So they overnight me the box. I get the right box. So I said, well, you didn't give me a turn label for the new box. Well, it's not worth it us to ship back. Just keep it, okay.

So that that that box, the control box is worth two hundred and fifty, so you could sell that ship right, And I have the second cable that's worth a hundred and forty. Guess what happens? A week later? The pool store calls me, my pool cable is in. So I go and picked out up another hundred and four dollar cable I can sell. Now. I've got you at two cable, a two hundred four control box, and nobody wants it back. It's all mine. That's brilliant. With the merchandise. Before next summer,

I'm gonna sell all of it. Of course you are. You're gonna hold on to it, hold on to it, okay, that not now? Now with that knowledge, I had bought a recumbent exercise bike. A recombent bike is where you sit you let you sit back and you paddle with your feet. You don't sit up like a regular bike, kind of laid back. I bought it off of Facebook

swap site. I had it for about six months and the pedals stopped registering, so you'd pedal and the screen would say start peddling, You're not peddling, and it would end the workout. So I called the company and they say, well, are you under warranty? And like, I don't know if I'm under warrant it I bought it off guy on Facebook. I don't know. I can't tell them that. So she says, well, you have to call a local repair guy to come. So I call a hundred different repair guys. I finally

get one that's relatively reasonable. He says, it's a hundred and thirty dollars to come in, but most likely it's a four dollar cable, a speed cable. It's called that is the problem. So go ahead and order the four dollar speed cable. So I ordered the four dollars speed cable. It comes, the guy shows up, George of the hundred thirty dollars, and he says, yeah, it's not the cable.

You need a new head unit. Now. The head unit is the whole display that sits on top of the pipe that runs in the big wheel in the front up to the thing, and it's all the buttons, everything, that whole unit comes off and I need one of those. It's not the fourth all apart. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. How much is the head unit? Well, you gotta order from the from the factory. But it's it's about two But then I might as well just buy a new unit. At that point. It's a four

all bike. Yeah, that's what that's what happens. Yeah. So I call up the company and I say, I tell him what's going on. And I said, look, she's, well, I under warranty. I said, I don't know. I'm not under warranty. I give it a serial number. She says, that bike is like six years old. I said, well, I'm not under warranty. She's Look, I said, I just paid a guy a hundred and thirty dollars. I wasted my money, and now you want two hundred and twenty

five dollars for this new unit, she said. I said, come on, I'll be paying more than almost as much for a new bike. She says, here's what I'll do. I'll give you the thing for half price. So I'll give it to you for like one ten she said, and uh, it might if it's not that, it might be this secondary cable. This other cable could be the problem. The other cable is another for dollar cable. I said, I fine, send me the hundred dollar head unit. Whatever

it was have price and the fort dollar cable. Sent it to my house and I'll install it. She's it's easy to watch a YouTube video. So it's four screws and you snap in the plugs. It couldn't be more simple. The cable is easy. You feed it through the pipe. It's easy to replace the cable. And uh, if it's the cable, return the unit to us and we'll refund the money. Okay, right, she says. And if it's the unit, you'll have the unit, keep the cable use for four dollars.

You never know, you might need it as a backup. Okay. They send me the head unit and the cable, and the head unit is not the head unit from my unit. Again, they sent me the wrong one. So I put it on, figuring it's close enough, maybe that maybe it's the newer version. I put it on and I hook it up. It doesn't work. I changed the cable and with my old unit and it works fine. I fixed it. I fixed it myself for the four dollar cable, which I should have just put on myself. But I paid some made

at a hundred thirty dollars to misdiagnose my bike. So now I've got the wrong head unit and I don't need it. I don't. I gotta be honest. I'm not following you, okay, I'm just like this is okay. They're talking about cables and plugs. It is a point to this. I'll make it simple. Okay. Everyone else is following along. Have you have a set on a piece of workout equipment, the digital part that you push the buttons and set the workout? Dude you're talking to the guy never works out.

I've never set on a piece of digital. That's that's okay. Imagine there was a TV set on a bike. The TV sets broken, scary, so I put a different TV set on. They sent me the wrong TV set. Yeah, the computer. The computer was the wrong computer. Okay. So I called them back and I say, hey, listen, he sent me this this unit. It's not the unit. I don't need the unit and it's the wrong unit. So she says, all right, well, we'll refund your money, but uh, you know, we we have to pay the ship it back.

I said, paid the ship it back? Why would I pay the ship it back? Well, we only you know, we we gave it to have price and we don't cover return shipping. How much. I feel like you've been down this road twelve times already with different companies. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. They don't want to cover your shipping. You don't right. So I said, well, wait a minute, you sent me the wrong unit. Yeah, but you still don't need it, right, But you guys

messed up, So you guys should take it back. And I'm not paying the shipping. So she she puts me on hold. She comes back. She says, all right, UM, we're gonna refund the money. And um, here's the thing about the shipping. If we pay for the shipping, when we get the unit back, we just throw it in the garbage. What. Yeah, we just throw it in the garbage. So it's not worth it us to pay the twenty dollars to ship it if we're gonna throw it out. I said, why would you throw it out? It's a unit.

She says, well, if we get it back, it's been shipped to you and shipped back. It probably got jostled a couple of times. We can't verify it's in perfect shape. I said, well, what can't you use it for parts? Yeah, it's just our policy. We're gonna throw it out, So I said, well, can I just keep it? Then? Yeah, it's fine, keep it. So now I have a two dollar unit that I'm now gonna sell, of course, because yes, it sounds like you're gonna make a couple of grand

this summer. I'm making money left and right because companies don't want to bother again. My point is, slices push a little bit. I could have been in a position where I paid them twenty dollars to ship theme from episode zero zero baby don't take any ship. So now just to cap, I've got recap. I got a lot of money up. The money ended up. How much final tally between these two transactions, how much is David Brody going to make free? Seven forty five approximate? God bless you?

There you go. Now you can buy your own steak dinner and buy me when while you're at it, if you you're getting an appearance favor going to Colladris twice. Now listen to me. Um, we want to thank everybody. I promised everyone we would. We would say hello to you, give you guys a shout out. And now, by the way, that ends right here where we're done with gratuitous shoutouts. But I said for the one week period, I think we can do next week. Okay, maybe we can do

some more shout outs next week. Can I give Can I give it on shout out? I want to give it on shout out to Froggy's wife Lisa. Okay, that's a whole other story, and that's a that's a whole other ten minutes. Let's let's not do that right here. But now it sounds like I'm ad at her. I'm not. I want to give. It's a tease. It's a teaset.

We just write that down. Okay, so really quickly. Uh, if you go by the way, we're starting right now with the sound of our voice, or a couple of minutes or a couple of hours after he voices, I'll tell him about the special first. Let's read the names. No, we're telling you about the special first before they tune out. Okay, if you go to our merch store, no, Brooklyn, because people are listening for their names, but they're not listening.

It's the same as the birthday. Things stop, but you want stop to listen for the for the bonus, for the big, the big, the big discount we're telling you, guys right now, we're not playing games. You are not going to Brooklyn Boys dot Big cartel dot com. Between now boys, I don't get it. That's that's ahead, that's Brooklyn Boys Dot, Big cartel dot com. We got hoodies, we got t shirts, we got tanks, and we got masks.

But here's the deal. Here's the sweet thing. We have different Literally, here's the deal starting now through Black Friday and then the month of November at the very least, here's what we're doing for the holidays. By any two items, could be a teeth, could be t shirts, hoodies, or tanks, or any combination thereof. And we can't retroactive, and I we're sorry. Yes, this is from now, this is new. By any two items, you get a free Brooklyn Boys mask.

The mask can't be one of the items, right right, it's gonna be so pick any so from the top, any two tops, Okay, So feel free to go there and shop. This is a good time to buy a gift for somebody, you know, because I know that you know you may not want to wear two pieces of the same thing, or someone in your family, whatever it is. Well, we have different patterns. You get the gray, get the blue. So let me do a couple of shout outs in Brody.

You're gonna introduce erst with your shoutouts as well. Um. First of all, thank you for buying in the Brooklyn Boys store. Kathy Shints from York, Pennsylvania. Also Andrew um Our Peo Special, shout out to you in Queensberry. Where's Queensberry, Brodie, It's next to Kingsbury, Hio. Uh, Melanie Hill. Also, I don't know where Melani Hills location, Kaysville, Kaysville, Utah. Is there there's a Merrill get this someone with just the name Streamer in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Thank you first, thank

you so much. Heather. I hope they got the hoodie. It's gonna be cold. Heather get Part from North Richland, Texas, shouting out to you. Also, Mary O'Brien in Marlton, New Jersey. That's down in our Q one O two area. Um bad Boy Music were shouting you out. I'm sorry buddy boy Buddy Boy Music Music, and he tweeted at us he ordered a hoodie Moundsville, West Virginia. We actually put him up there on our site. Also, Jessica Patty from Auburn, New York. Look at all these people, Brody from all

over the country. Um, Jason Jones in Asheville, North Carolina. Gina Cook in West Jordan, Utah, Brody, that's two Utah people. All right, how many more do you have? Because I have a few people that actually posted pictures Themselve hold On, I want to give them props. Pansuda Cam Siri in Flemington, New Jersey made a purchase. And Mark Charnoff in Green Acres, Florida. Um, you want to do a couple and I have a

few more. Caitlyn Zacaro, she put together an outfit. Um. She she bought the gray Brooklyn Boys hoodie and layered it beautifully with a dark blue vest over it, which is wonderful. She's got I guess she's got a company. She's I don't know. Check my instant story. It's Caitlin Kay Creations. So shout out to her company. Andres Soto made a nice purchase. Thank you. Andres Uh the Real kick Low, Real Kick Real kick Low bought a blue hoodie. Uh. And he bought a a gray T shirt I believe.

So he bought two items and posted pictures of himself wearing both of them looks pretty good, I gotta say. Also shout out to Mark Marky Mark b B got himself a great T shirt and Ms Trish, big fan of the show. Huge Chase tweets us Ms Trish although her um her avatars here with her man so and her face is partially cut off, but Miss Trish eight three she got herself a blue hoodie, So thank you. Jordan Jordan's Jordan's Surrenza from oak Brook Terrace, Illinois, shouting

out to you, Ethan Meaning in Berlin, Maryland. And Bradley Krawski from North Little Rock, Arkansas. Look at that broady coming in from Arkansas. Kwanta Wofford in Oakwood Village, Ohio. UM shout out to you, Shannon mass A or Massey in Reenville, South Carolina. So we got the Carolinas covered and we got we can say for next week. We gotta keep a couple more. Angela Hodgi or hog h o g g e Uh in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. And John Guitardi from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and maybe Frank Montalvo from

ron concam On, New York that's in Long Island. And Caitlyn Kaiser from West Babylon Wow. And John Lounga Bardi from Orange, Connecticut. A lot of people ordered this this on this day. We had a lot because that was when we first announced it. Stacy bart Or Bartet Stacy Bartet in Ponte Pontevidra, Florida. That's when where Froggy is and Justin Campney in Lake George, New York. And Paul sakal or Sockle in Um York, Pennsylvania as well. What do you have a couple of more, Brodie or no?

I have? Ah? You know what? I want to send a thank you to Mason. I mentioned Mason last week who saved up worked extra hours. Uh. He and his daughter are big fans of the podcast, and he made a purchase of our merchandise last week and he sent me a video of him with his daughter. And I wanted to play the audio off my phone. If you don't mind for here we go play the video. Here we go. Hmm hey, uh so my daughter Madelyn going to say something start up star Brooklyn with Prodi. All right,

have a good night man. There you go. Yeah, I heard the whisper se Brody first heard yeah, which that means she wanted to say Scary, so Madeleen wanted to say your name. So thank you guys, thank you very much. She's adorable. The video's price absolutely priceless, so thank you. UM. All right, so we're coming back next Week's a short week. We'll give you a podcast. We think we're gonna try. We will. We will give you a podcast. I'm gonna tell you about the Stumpies, the Stumpies, and we gotta

get to Froggy's wife, Lisa. You know what, I think it's important to have her on for this. I think that will be great. I think you need to put her on the spot. I think no, because I have an idea how it happened. We'll figure out. We will figure it out, because I'm not so sure how it happened. I don't know, big mystery. Yeah, and you know where. Scary will not be for Thanksgiving because his family barred him Brooklyn. But I will by