#157: She Slept With Who???

We've been on vacation. You want to play the Boys back into Yes, you got to play that play that I like, coiled me. I didn't fail you. I just I didn't think that we really needed to have a rule about it. Well, we played every time. We're back from the people expect it right now. People are going, yes, Scary, pay attention. Do they have to hear the Boys are back in town? Is that like like the slices, it's they're expecting it. All right, I'll give it to you.

What about Whop? I like the whop one? But then we're not We're not whopping right now. We're back right now. The Boys are back in town, though, aren't they? They are? But I got news for you. I'm looking through this. We don't have it? What is wrong with you? We never had it. We never had it for a year, we have, we haven't. We haven't played it in a year and close to a year. All right, tomorrow you'll get it at work, I guess. Oh, is it too difficult.

There's a lot of heavy lifting of audio. Send it to me, send it to you, send it to me. Speaking of sending it to you, somehow you lost one of my all time favorite phone taps. Wasn't Okay Shaggy? We played that today, didn't we? We did, Yeah, on the other straight morning show You We're gonna play you Killed My Skunk, which is one of my all time favorite phone taps that I've done. That was the one

I wanted. In fact, we reached for that a few months ago it to play it, and we we just added recently and it was it went over like, oh my god, I haven't heard that before because we haven't played it in a long timetastic it's at the guy. The guy that I phone tapped is it should have his own TV show. He's that funny. The problem with it is it's missing. I went to go reach for it today and it's always where it normally is in

the computer. Yeah, at the computer at work, and it was to make it's how you were reaching for it, like you keep it on a shelf somewhere. Well, virtual reach when you virtually reach for something. It's like you're I don't think that's a thing, a virtual reach. I think you can look for something. I don't think you reach for it. Well, you know you didn't put into the monitor. Okay. When people say you reach for the stars, do you do you really? Are you really trying to

reach for the stars. That's a metaphor. That's like, oh, you know, he's like trying really hard. She's trying. There's no limit to his talent. He's reaching. He's not gonna set a height for himself. He's not gonna put a limit on a ceiling. You reach your star. You don't reach into the computer for something. About some of those mornings where you reach for a joke and Elvis denies it. But that's a but that's a rual reach. That's like, that's like, um that that's not reaching into a computer.

When you say somebody's reaching, that means they're stretching. Well, are we stretching right now? Are we stretching for time, because we are a jam packed with things. We don't have a stretch of time. Speaking of which, you called me up what's today just to put a lid on the Yeah, so this phone tap is missing, and now we have to redub it and find it again and play the original one right with with no laughter in the background because it's not the air version. No comedy left.

Tuck is great. Well, listen Danielle laughing. Everybody's laugh It was freaking hilarious. Honestly, that was one of my It's still one of my favorites. Alright, Well, I've done my hundreds and hundreds of it. We will figure that out. We will find that out. That is another That is another task for another day. Because okay, so we're doing this now. Today's Thursday. A lot of stuff going on in the news yesterday in Washington, so we didn't do a podcast. We were like, that's let's not do that.

We're that's right. We're not really a day late. We're a day on time, which is not early this week. We're on time on a Thursday, Thursday night. Yeah, so Monday night, Scary calls me and says, you gotta get on the stereo app. It's the new thing. Now you have to understand something about Scary. And I think I've mentioned this before. Anytime there's a new social media platform, Scary calls me or tells me at work. Back in the day we used to work together. Hey there's a

new app. You gotta get on it. It's gonna be the biggest thing. And it wasn't wrong about Facebook. I wasn't wrong about TikTok, but you were wrong about Feed and Line. You're definitely wrong about those two. So Feed was pH E E D. It was the next big thing. Bro, you gonna get your name, gotta register yourself. It's gonna be a big thing. It's gonna replace everything. It's it does everything, But what makes it different? It's just it's no. It's gonna be great. Right in the toilet, the line

app you into that. Our company was excited about it. Line Line Line. What was the jingle used to play? Line me right now and I'll line you right back. Yeah. And then they had a commercial where would list all the things that the line app does, and then the outque was line app, does your app do that? Right? But then they did another commercial where it didn't list any benefits and features. It just had like people talking about liking the app, and then they used the tagline

it says did your apter that? But it didn't didn't do anything. They didn't say it did anything, So it made no sense. It wasn't clear. And what it really amounted to was what's app with Animo g video, you know, with anime and Hello Kiddy stuff. It was big in Asia and so the company that owned it in Asia wanted to make it huge in America. So they paid our company a lot of money and we all started using it and it was like, oh, this is interesting, and then it just kind of let me give you

one better prod. And this we didn't finish talking about on the long line of in the long line of failed apps. Yeah, this, this is this is the perfect one. Um friends, no the Z zone, so back to back. But when my Space to remember my my Space, Well everyone here listens remembers my Space, right, So I hope the top eight you know, well you I don't think I was in your top eight, and you don't think I don't think you were in my top eight. I think we weren't as type back then, but I thought

we were. I thought we were well anyway. So, so my Space was a thing, and at the local radio station Z one hundred, they were like even nationally, all of our company wanted all the stations to have started York they say Zone. They're like, let's let's compete with my Space. Let's take let's let's take our listeners on the radio and say hey, everybody, come meet up, check out the Zone page, and let's make that a thing because we don't want to drive people to my Space.

The thing that they don't understand in big corporate and you know, help me out here, Brodie, is that if there's just something that is tremendous, something man, it's something that like is like changing the world, revolutionary in the app work right, things like Facebook, Instagram, huge monsters like Twitter. You're not going to compete with it and hope to pull people away from that media. We've got the new the new uh, the new app. It's it's it's winter Twitter.

Plus we have two or three employees and a couple of interns working on the z Zone page. Like graphically and how and the functionality wise, how great can it really get? How how awesome can it really be? It it was so basic, it was so I don't even know how to how it was our job back then, use it, promote it, they will design the page. Don't talk graphics, don't talk about my space on the air zone. Yeah, so that was you know, we had a couple of hundred people that signed up and it was a thing

for a moment. So given all the failures, Scary calls me, says, you gotta get the stereolap the what the stereoapp? Is it a music player? What is it? No? No, no, it's it's it's emoji's. Uh, it's avatars of of your of you, and you can create your own avatar. It's custom made. It is built for the podcast. Bit Mooji's what it's called, right, and yeah bitmoji, Yeah, bit mooji. It's bit moji esque. It's very cartoonish, right, yeah, you build your bit moji ahead of time, saying what was

what I want? I call it an avatar? What do you want it to look like? You wanted to have hair? Do you want a fat sheet? So you start asking scary questions. He's so excited about it. He doesn't even know what it is yet. He's like, I just we can do the show and it's got it's it's got cartoon versions of us, and we should do it. All I knew is it had the functionality of two faces on a screen with their lips moving in unison with you talking, and it sounds like the Call Her Daddy podcast. Yeah,

pretty much that was me I got I said it. Okay, yeah, okay, you get on me for that for promoting a million dollar podcast and add to their audience. So yeah, so what I do. They have the same home sound system as you. By the way, that's how rich they are. Well, I will say that the stereo app getting back to that, yeah, way, no, it's not no, it's not not yet. We're hoping it becomes something. So so I signed on it. I'm looking and I'm flipping through all the different channels, per se

and every and people are doing podcasts live. It's a live podcast. But the wrinkle in this stereo app is you the slice listening right now, can while you're hearing us in real time do our podcast live? Hold down the button and send us up to a thirty second audio voice note, a voicemail question, a comment comment to add to the conversation, and then we get notified. While we're talking live and we see it popping up with

these badges. You have two, three, four, or five of them, and every time you hit that play button, the next one in you will just play out, and then the entire list the listener has the experience of hearing the the two of us and almost what is almost a real time retort and from back to you and we'll go back in conversation. Yeah, it actually really completes the feedback loop with that. That is the one thing missing from podcasting that's recorded the way we know it right now.

The point my point was you can go check it out, go look at the stereo app. My point was scary. We'll just do it for a few minutes. Works seventy five minutes later, we wrapped it. We got out. We had so much fun and so it wasn't a dud. We'll talk more about it. But here's why another reason I'm bringing it up. I don't think I'm ready for well we said on this thing because a bunch of you were listening and heard us and send questions. You know who you are. You can go listen to the

conversation on the stereo app right now. Just look for David Brody and Scary Jones, uh and the Brooklyn Boys or not you know, just uh, just Thatt David Brody and then that's Scary John whatever. Yeah, anyway, so follow us, follow yeah, follow us, get on the app, follow us anyway.

So um, people left questions whatever we said. This will be great if we say what time we're gonna do it again because we sent out tweets and it lets you do instant stories right from the app, and so we haven't figured out a time yet that we want to do another conversation right because what we want to do is we want to invite you listening to this podcast right now, but we don't want people to listen to this podcast first so they can hear the message.

And then when we when we get on there, we set an appointment we say like oh, Friday at three or something, and then you see you'll get an alert if you're signed up, you'll get an alert that we're on, that we're on, and then we're live, which is great because it gives you that that's listening to this right now, the opportunity to legit hit us right back, like while

we're on, like we're talking. If you want to say something. Right, it's gonna be our normal rambling, but it won't be a Brooklyn Boys podcast per se as much as it will be the Brooklyn Boys and then you guys asking his questions and talking and interacting and a lot of the comments we got the audio comments were just either inside jokes on the Brooklyn Boys or not enough, but a few you know, slams at scary, which is always great.

So that works. But I like it as a Brooklyn Boys companion, which is live in real time, so you get to actually participate in this. It's almost like having a Q and a session of sorts. Right. So, so Jeff Ross is a popular comedian and he's jumped on this right away. He's like, roasts the King, right, he

roasts people on Comedy Central. So every night he does, uh, he does a podcast live with another comedian and the other the night that we were on, he did roast the host, which was fantastic because as the host of that moment of that podcast, because of the technology involved, people were like like literally trying to slam him and roast him, and then he was playing them back for everybody to hear in real time, and he's like, oh, that sucked. That one sucked. I like him well, I

think he's brilliant. He's one of my favorite comics. I just have I told you the story how I've met him twice. No, I think I think you and I met him briefly at the Friars Club, Yes, right, and he was sort of like then I met him, And I'm gonna tell the story again. You probably have heard it slices, you've heard it. I'm sure if I told it. Um, we were on a party plane. I want to say it was in Vegas. I think we've gone to Vegas for something. Maybe I read a music festival. Maybe there

was some reason we were. I was walking out to the pool and I'm on Twitter and Jeff Ross had tweeted something out that was funny and I and I don't again, That's all I'm telling you was how it's happening. I tweet him, Hey, something a joke, big fan, really loved your recent something whatever it was. As I look up from the phone from just tweeting him, there he is walking by the pool right at me. I didn't know he was at the hotel. He wasn't performing in town.

There was no reason for him to be there. I just tweeted him. So I said, hey, Jeff, hey man, what's going on? So I said, hey, listen, my name is David Brodie. I'm I'm a comic. I work in radio or here for a big thing. Oh cool, cool? I said, listen, you're not gonna believe this. Look at my Twitter. I just tweeted you and there you are. How about that. He's like, oh, that's great. He's like, yeah, hey man, I take care. I mean the r well, it's not my idol. I know. I try you and

I try to be different. If somebody just tweeted me as I walked by them, I'd be like, oh my god, that's fantastic. Let me see the tweet, you know. And he talked about he failed to see what are the odds of that? And it feels like he was right. He wasn't getting into a limo. He was shirtless with a I was, you know, beer gut and he's just walking by the pool with a hat on, and he's like, hey man, what's going on. That's great, it's great. Look,

I know you're on another level. I get it. You know, you're up, You're up there, You're the You're the top five mixed stand up comics, you know your generation. I just would have liked a little like that's great. Yeah, where do you work? Are you in radio? So you want to pretend to be interested and want to fake it? Faken? You're a comic, you fake and act every night. Like part of being a comic is reenacting jokes like they're the first time you said them. Right, he's a performer.

He could have like, that's man, it's fantastic. Hey, thanks for following me. I really appreciate it. But he was like, yeah, I look, I still like the guy you know, and listen, if we can get him on this podcast, that'd be great. I would tell him that story too. I'm not afraid i'd write up to him. I'm gonna have to through the microphone so that the app on Monday. So that was an hour and so we will we will be uh doing some live Brooklyn Boys companion. So watch Twitter.

We're gonna be announcing it there. If we do something, you know, we'll probably announce it here too. I think here's the best place. Well should we should we mention it here on this episode? Are we gonna set an appointment right now? Or we're gonna. I don't know. I don't know because you know, scheduled well, because because by the way we once we do this, we have to commit to it, and it's a thing, and we're telling you all now. I don't want to under promise, you know.

I don't want us to be like, you know, to ghost the audience like that. It's terrible. You want to make up you want to make a Monday appointment, Monday the eleventh, Let me check my schedule real quick. I could do something. Maybe six o'clock. Do you wanna do it? Six six thirty somewhere in there, six pm East. That's East Coast time. You got it. That's what I'm saying. Can we do that? We're just like a half hour. We'll tweet it out and we don't even have to

wait for us. You just go to stereo app. We we we should be there, all right, meet us. All right, I'm putting it on my calendar now, you know it's serious. We're not on serious, we're on the app. But anyway, meet us. Meet us at six pm on Monday, January eleven. That'll give us enough people to hear this podcast. If you've if you heard this after the fact, We're sorry.

But the good thing is we're gonna audio stays up there for a little while and when you have a chance, if you sign up for the Stereo and follow us the next time that we're on, whether you knew it or not, you'll get a notification to your phone saying scary Brodie alive and scary a life. So also, just so you know, I can't promise anything. Spruce our buddy, he is now on the app. He created an avatar himself that looks nothing like him, which is typical Spruce,

but he's he I say. I texted him like, hey, people want you to get on this thing, and so he actually signed up and created an account, which is amazing to me because it's so not him. So or hopefully we can get him to at least he can't be on the phone, but he can record a greeting or record something I can't do. Three people, that's the problem. Alright, So six pm the Stereo app. In the meantime, download it and uh follow us and then this way you'll

get the notification to remind yourselves. Yeah, all right, I have I have I have a Venmo problem. Can I share with you? Okay? You got a Vimo problem. I got an easy pass problem. I started barking about it on the radio yesterday. No one came to my rescue. What's your Venomo problem? Okay, well, it's not so much a problem with Venmo. But when somebody wants that you haven't interacted with prior and they want to um tell you who what their Venmo account is? How do you

tell them what your Venmo account is? I give it out as my email address. Okay, all right, Well, somebody this week sent me a screenshot of their QR code, Right, you could do that too, and you could scan it in uh huh. Let me ask you a question. Scary if you text me your QR code, how exactly am I scanning it with the phone that the picture of the QR code is in? You saved the picture as a photo mhm uh, then you open up the app, Yeah, and then you can you can't you bring in a

picture from your photo library? Nope, But then then you're fucked. Then they did it wrong. But you can do it on some apps. Well, if you sent it to me and I opened it up on my desktop and I used my but I if there's a way open it up in another opening up on another computer, or open it up on your phone, but then open veno right now, open the venmo up on your email on your computer, and then shoot your phone, hold the camera. Just tell me your screen name. Just just tell me a screen name.

Isn't that easier? If I'm wrong about Venmo. I tried tried to figure it out. I'm like, oh, there must be a way to people like people like QR codes these day, but you can't send me a QR code. There's a button it says scan, right. I'm pretty sure though, you can. That functionality exists on Snapchat, which is why you'll they allow it on. That's why they think that they can do. I'm looking on it's a scan code.

It's opens up a window venmo me. Right, well you have to you can print it, you can so you can look venmo me. There's a share option, right, you can share the venmo. Yeah, but you can't scan the venmo and it's scant okay whatever, that's all. I just want to make sure I'm not crazy. I mean, I'm crazy, but I'm not crazy. Well what happened when you an

easy pass? I am so upset, Brodie, because this is something that could be prevented, and I might have to bring in the heavy artillery because want to explain to the nation what easy because he pass. Easy pass is a fast pass. It's when you're in your car. It's a digital it's like a QR code or some kind of digital reader that when you go through the toll of send Bridge, your tunnel, it gets charged automatically to

your credit card. It's a super convenient way. It's everywhere, but it's different things whatever, but it's the thing that you go to the tolls. Everyone has that near them. I think. Anyway, so easy past. This is a New York, New Jersey go every morning. I go to the Holland Tunnel for the last twenty years, right, and that connects New Jersey, Jersey to northern New Jersey to the bottom of Manhattan. Right. I go to work that way every morning,

five in the morning. Not a problem. They recently started doing construction on the Holland Tunnel, and I guess because of the construction, they felt like they wanted to reduce the speed limit, so they put up one it's normally it's a fifteen. They put one fucking rinky dink sign across one of the nine lanes. There's nine lanes going

into the tunnel. Of course, between booths seven and eight they put this five mile an hour sign, okay, and nowhere else to be found, So you drive through and and and I didn't realize it, but I'm going through my regular Scary Jones speed for twenty years. And by the way, I'm not trying to race to work in the morning. I'm not trying to rush to get there. I'm just going to my pace. What do you mean you're going through a twenty You just established the speed

limits fifteen. Yeah, but they give you a ten mile wiggle room. You go, no, no no, they give you. My point is, if it's if it's a fifteen mile and hour speed limit and I'm going through a fifteen to twenty miles an hour every morning, I'm good. It doesn't you just go through the fifteen to twenty And by the way, for twenty years, I never had a problem with that. Well, the second that they put the sign up that says five miles an hour at fifteen miles hour,

now I am more than ten miles over. So your dukes hasn't here's the problem. They don't fucking email me and say hey, this morning, you went through a two miles an hour. They didn't do that. You know what they did Alreadie, they waited because they're such an archaic company that lives in the past that all they do is send out a regular snail mail by the time

and white photos. By the time that I found out that I had gone through at ten fifteen miles an hour over the limit, because one at one afternoon, a giant red envelope was in my mailbox that said easy past violation in a week and a half had passed since that initial in fraction a week and a half had easy past had. Yeah, so I'm like, Okay, tomorrow morning,

I'm going to adjust my speed. But I'm like, I wonder, though, am I going to keep getting violations every day from the past six seven work days that I was there? Because when I sent it out, you weren't done speed. I was going through, but I was still on the twenty year plan of going you know that same I don't even think when I'm i'm driving, I'm like, well, I'm just driving and I'm listening to the radio. So I made the next morning, I made the adjustment in

my driving. But sure enough For the next seven day straight, they fucking hit my mailbox with the red easy Past violation Elope and it's like this is a warning. They said, this is a warning, and the next time you may be suspended. And six of those later. By the seventh one, they just hit me for a sixty days suspension of my entire easy Oh no, and did they find you? They didn't find me. They just said sixty days. And so that's that's two months of going to the the

the unprepared lanes where left to take. Yes, that's the punishment you must you're in time out. There's only one lane sometimes for that. Oh you're screwed right. Well, here's a little sidebar to the story. The Holland Tunnel went cash less. So if you are not an easy pass holder, you know they got rid of the one lane. If you're not, no, no, no no, But if you're not an

easy pants holder, they just mail you a bill. So now I'm waiting for every day then to hit me with a bill, hit me with a bill in my in my mail, and I have to pay off these fucking tolls one at a time. I don't know if they probably set a flaw. You're a scoff law. You're lucky, don't take your license away. What's the scoff law? Someone who breaks the law and skips it? Well, anyway, So, so is it really gonna change my behavior? I'm sorry? Is it gonna change the course of my day? No?

Because I still get to roll through because of But anytime I go on the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, I gotta stop at that fucking basket and put fucking money in there, or I gotta stop at a toll taker and get the ticket, and then for the turnpike. There are other there are other roads that are not most of them are not cash less fully, and if you see it, um a crossing with a cash lane, you're forced to go into it otherwise you get So I'm gonna read the definition. Let me see

if I'll push the button here. Hold on, Well, that's how you pronounce it, uh. Scoff law is a person who flouts the law you did, especially by failing to comply with the law you did that is difficult to enforce and effectively. Scoff Laws are people who have accumulated large debts in unpaid parking tickets. For example, you are a scoff law, right well? And I can't believe you didn't know what a scoff law was one I've seen the word. Okay, great, I'm a scoff law. Why what

they call it in Brooklyn? What your criminals? Would you want? So my question to you is what would Brody do? Or w w b D which also sounds like porn category on porn w w b D. So what would Brody do? I mean, I obviously you're gonna start your letter writing campaign and that that's because oh you can. I call it customer service and they're like, sorry, the only way to get in touch with us is to is to send an email, and not an email a snail mail. You gotta write to us and send it

to the post office and maybe fax him. And I don't think I can fax him. I don't. I told you about a hundred episodes ago about my fight with easy Pass. Did you were the only option to return an old tag is lost or stolen and they charge you for it. You can't just send back a tag and say, oh, I don't need this tag anymore. Oh no, no, We're gonna charge you. And then you have to trust them that Eventually they're gonna refund your money when they

realize you didn't lose it. They're terrible, but you they have an office. Scary, there there is a Port Authority easy pass office. You can just go there. I think it's by the I don't want to bore people from out of the country, out of the country, out of the state, but I think it's by the throgs Neck or the White Stone. There's an office. Can't wait, Well, there's one in Jersey somewhere else, So don't tweet me scary. I'll google it. But you just go there and just

you know, hey, fuck and tell what the deal. I just think it sucks, man, because we're put in these positions every day where a friend at the Port Authority they trade tower posters. Doesn't that guy's wife work for No? No, they they believe me. We've spoken. They can't do. Oh. You tried to call the guys, of course called. Everybody's got a guy just sun just alright, Well, you shouldn't speed,

You shouldn't be speeding. Wasn't it wasn't. The thing is I was doing my normal even if I even if I was going the speed limit of fifteen, it still would have been over the limit of five. Why the hell do they put one tiny sign across nine lanes? Is beyond me? I'll take a picture. No, but I should do that tomorrow morning, pure and arrested for using my phone in the car while driving. All right, so you can't wait. You can't wait the picture at the

light before the tall boots. It's a light there. There is just hope you get a red light, or you gotta sit there at the green light and have people beat at you. So when I mentioned it on the air yesterday, just briefly for ten seconds, people started texting in that they had similar issues and just a really really really shitty bureaucracy of you know, of a company. How do companies exist in this day and age without

having things electronic and quick and to the moment. That's the the irony of it is easy is an electronic, easy and quick way to pay, so everything else is antiquated. The website for easy Pass is like something from It's like cop you serve ship it is it is the is a clunky block form. Uh. If you if you want to find something, you can't. If you want to if you want to go, oh, I want to look at my tags. You gotta go through a twelve step process and then uh, it's just awful. It's the purple

and gray and white. It's just it's the worst. It looks like it looks like a stuff above crepate craig list because it has a header that's about it, and to have a purple motif. Somebody figured out how to get the color purple on the screen. Purple. It's disgusting. So so F you f f you easy. But they made that site when the Internet was created, Yes, when the Internet was invented, that's when they That's when that

ship came. The fact that you have to mail them like actual mail tells you all you need to know. You know why they want you to go slowly scary because it's too fast for them. It's too fast, slow down, all right, there's nothing easy about easy Pass. The name itself is a Misnow, Hey, how was your How was your holiday? By the way, way, this is the first episode back. We should a little bit about just just

a brief overview. I think, well, we did a podcast after Hanukah, So if you're talking about my my how is your break? How was? I'll tell you about I'll tell about my Christmas. Let me tell about my Christmas. You know that the Jewish Christmas is Chinese food in the movie Always. So I went in for the first time since more Arch. I drove into Manhattan. So that you're looking at nine months, nine and a half months, did you go to pass? I did at like thirty boom,

about a week and a half. Finally my car is a blur. They came track made so fast, so we I went into I went into Wahap, which is the legend of Chinatown. Waited on so you you what you do as you order on the app and then they call you and confirm it and they say one hour okay, one hour great. So I get there at about the forty eight minute mark. No traffic right now in New York is great, and I saw in my head scary. I'm thinking, well, you know Manhattan is you know, it's

COVID shut down here and there. You can't eat in restaurants, it's all take out. And because it's Christmas, all the parking meters and alternate side street parking rules not in effect. You can park anywhere usually in China, and you can't find a spot. So I'm like, this is great. I'm gonna go to Chinatown. I'm gonna pull right up, get the food, get out of there. Oh no, do you know what's blocking all of the parking spaces. I know, Brodie, because I go into the city every day. It's outdoor,

outdoor dining. Yeah. They built their tables in three sided tents up and down all the streets of Chinatown. In the street where normally cars will be parallel park right so the sidewalks are clear. Imagine like there was a car there, you'd be eating dinner in the car. That's what it's like. You step off the curb and you're right there on the table. I meant friendly, I get it. Some of them had heaters set up for you. It was wonderful. But they've taken up each street parking. So

it took me twenty minutes to get a spot. Because I'm good at it. I would have taken me much longer if I wasn't a pro. I parked about two blocks away and then I so everyone outside. The guy comes upstairs and he goes phone number, So you gotta give me a phone number, and then he runs back down the staircase. As for phone number for mama, what I said, phone number? No, I did not, I said phone number. Don't all right, he was barking at everybody. He was very right because he was, you know, it

was overwhelmed for Christmas. It was all my people, tribe hashtag tribe. So he's coming up. So he's yelling at like, you know, three two or seven nine. So so of course what happens, Oh that's me. Everybody goes, well, the house mine waiting for an hour and a half. It's calming, it's coming. So every time he yelled the number by like just from the time I was there. After a while he was yelling, but like you could see he was flinching because every time he yelled the number, one

out of thirty people was happy. So I waited another hour for my food. That's how bad it was, Right, did you get your fix when you got the food? Hold on? Hold on? So I ordered, you know, I want to jump to the part, so I bring home you know you know what I ordered? Yeah? What I ordered? Uh, look close porkolo maino vet stables roast. So they have a thing called four D four D lomaine. It is not just it's like how special. It's shrimp, chicken, roast,

pork and beef. There's a brown gravy on top. It's to die for. And I got one ton egg drop soup and all kinds of food for the rest of the family. Four D four D. Yeah, I tried to No, that's four D is what they what they do to it. They throw four ds in it when you complain about it not getting your order. Wow, that's a stretch. Okay, go back to stretching. Yeah, so I don't. I don't check the food because it says giant bag. I gotta walk two and a half blocks to the car. I

go home, I unpack everything. My four D Lomaine has a thick layer of vegetables on top in this sauce, and my wanton egg drops soup mixed no greens is now just want soup. I didn't get the mixed. I gotta have the egg drop soup come on. So there's a couple of mistakes. But you can't call them, no phone, only ordering online, So you're screwed. There's nothing you can do. So I took the vegetables out right and I picked them all out. I didn't get upset because it was

Christmas and we had. We had a great meal. The food is fantastic. But that's not the problem. The problem is the movie that we watched. Now, it was I don't want to spoil the movie, so I'm not going to tell you the name of the movie. I'm just gonna tell you that it came out on Christmas Day, Okay, And even what I'm gonna tell you isn't going to spoil the film. But trust me, there's a major problem with the film. And first of all, the movie was terrible.

All right, Well, you're gonna tell everybody in the Brooklyn Boys companion of this episode that we did. I mention it on stereo. God, yeah, you did. Was talk about it, but I didn't say what the what what I was gonna ask? You know, so you might as well just reveal. Well, I'll tell you what. We gotta we gotta bring up. We gotta bring our first commercial break in here, and then we're gonna I'm gonna say the movie in five seconds. So if you want, you can skip ahead five seconds

and then the commercials will listen to the commercials. You can skip ahead. I'm gonna go I'm gonna give you a five three to one and I'm gonna say the name of the movie and then we'll go to commercial. When I come back, I won't say the name of the movie at it, all right, So five four three two one one, we'll be right back. Okay. So this movie I saw, which most of you now know the movie. What I'm gonna say, what did that accomplish? People know what it is. I don't know if they know what

it is. I hope they if they didn't want to know, But listen, I don't need to tune out. I'm not going to ruin the movie, I promise, But there's something in the movie that I'm gonna point out that when you go see it, you'll be cognizant of it, and I want your opinion. And if you've seen it, I want your opinion. Scary you haven't seen it, so I want your opinion. Okay, in the movie, the everybody in the movie, for whatever reason, gets a wish. Okay, the

movie is horrifically bad. I'm saving you the trouble. Oh dude, I wasn't saying what movie it was. You said it earlier. People know all the people that skipped was really really hot. Okay, stop stop, Okay, So now that you've ruined it. So everyone in the movie gets a wish. It's moronic. But wonder Woman's wish is for horror. See I feel like I'm saying it now. I made people skip. You just said, you just said, you said the woman's name who stars in the movie. Okay, So what's wish? Okay? So she

wishes this. She wishes to get her boyfriend back, who died in World War One seventy years earlier. Right, she knew him for a couple of weeks, a month, whatever it was, and it's a long lost love. She's hot as a pistol wonder Woman in real life, but in the movie, and she hasn't fell for anybody in seventy years. What a waste exactly. So now every wish in the movie comes true. Every wish, no matter how insane it is,

comes true exactly the way they wished for it. Some reason, hard wish doesn't come true exactly the way she wishes for it. She wants her her boyfriend, Steve Trevor, to come back to life, but she waiting seventy years for can't you just make a disappointment and moving? Right, So this is what her wishes so rather than Chris Pine, who plays Steve Trevor, he doesn't come back as Chris Pine. He comes back in the body of some other dude named Mike, right, So Mike again, I'm really sorry people,

it's it's a great point. Though no, it's not. Though it's not, it's a small part of the movie. It really is. Mike comes up to her at a party and says something to her that she would remember Steve saying seventy years earlier. Okay, She's like, what He's like, I'm Steve, and she immediately believes him because of how what he said and how he said it, even though she sees Mike. Right then there's like a camera trick and a mirror and you you then see Chris Pine.

We see crisp Pine for the rest of the movie, even though we are now told it's Mike. It's Mike's body. Chris Pine is in Mike's body, Okay, but it's chris Pine's brain. They have some COVID production problems where they had to like retrofit the script because there's no reason. There was no reason that they just didn't bring Chris Pine backs. Chris Pine, no reason. It's the most moronic thing.

That's not my problem. So once she accepts him, I guess they went through his wallet because they go back to his apartment. Oh, I'm sorry. No, Mike. Chris Pine as Mike woke up in Mike's apartment, so he knows where he lives. They go back to Mike's apartment. You, you are once again reminded, it's Mike. It's Mike's body, right, nobody cares. Throughout the home movie Wonder Woman doesn't care where Mike is. Mike is now in in suspended animation.

His body is there, but his mind isn't. It's somewhere right, you've basically temporarily killed Mike. Um and if if for some reason in the movie. I'm not telling you what happens in the movie. But let's say Steve Trevor wants to stay as Mike. Then Mike's dead. Mike's gone. So they make no reference to Mike having a girlfriend, a family, a job, nothing. So what's the takeaway here? Here's where I need your help. So it's her long lost love after seventy years, right, yeah, what do they do? They

immediately jump into bed and have sex. Okay, it's supposed to be very romantic. The love of her life is back. They have sex times, right, Okay, she's having sex with Mike's body and Mike is unconscious. He's not there. That's wrong, right, right, She's she's she's she's having sex mentally with Chris, with Trevor, with Steve Trevor. But it's Mike's body, and everyone in the movie everyone's like, you know, on Twitter is like, oh, how romantic she got to get back? No, no, no no,

she basically had non consensual sex with Mike. Think about it. I'm thinking about it now. I had a debate someone. I had a debate. What said, it's it's it's not your body, it's your soul, And she had sex with the soul of Steve Trevor. And I said, but what if Mike got a venereal disease, got her piece from Wonder Woman, or got wonder Woman pregnant. He wakes up, he's got a kid coming up, he doesn't remember having

sex with her. How does wonder Woman, who pretends to be the holiest, most truthful human being on the planet, have non consensual sex with Mike. There was no point in the movie that the writer and directors of the movie, there was no point to having him come back in Mike's body. Well, obviously, this is why it's the box. You justify it, and nobody can you justify having Okay,

let me ask so. So, okay, So I had a debate with somebody, right, and I said, and that they're they're arguing with me that you're not having sex with Mike, you're having sex with with Steve. And even though it's Mike's body, it's steve soul you're having sex with. And I go, well, what if Steve was what if Mike was gay and didn't ever want to be with a woman. What if Mike was saving himself a marriage? Right? His

body is not a virgin. So then I said, okay, let me ask you this because a lot of people now, look, nobody got upset when Tom Hanks was in Big right and he became an adult. Right, he had sex with a woman spoiler, and he was a little boy. So technically she had sex with a little boy in a man's body. But it wasn't someone else's body, it was

his body. Part of part of the play on on the well, part of anything in watching a movie which is fiction is the suspension of disbelief, the suspension of the going that you know you want me to suspend this belief, then I'll tell you. Okay, the woman can fly for no reason. Yeah. But but but she date raped a guy. I don't think it's I don't think it was apparent because I think what ends up happening is people like you who over analyze ship and there are a lot of you out there. Go on Twitter.

Go on Twitter and and see how many people are upset that she had sex with Mike. A lot of people noticed it. If you think, okay, think about it this way. Scary. What if it was a guy, right, and his dead girlfriend came back in the body of some woman on the street and he took her home and had sex with the body. Okay, that's yeah, because that's real life. And he's really dragging a body into it. And I'm saying, say, drag a body. I'm saying he meets her on the street. He right, and it's his

ex girlfriend in the body. Right, So it's it's the body of some woman, but his ex girlfriend is now in that body. He's like, hey, oh my god, Maria, I've missed you so much. Right now, Season Heather's body. You take Heather back to the apartment, but it's Maria. Maria's like, hey, let's have sex. You have sex with Heather's body. You don't think Heather is gonna be piste and sue you. Yeah, yeah, this is this is way too deep man, It's not well, that's what he said.

You're talking about a woman who puts your two fucking index fingers together and then magic ship happens. I mean, I understand this isn't exactly right from the start. There's nothing right about this. And and to me, you know, you get what you pay for, and you this is what you're listen. They're they're all this a box office written screenplay that they turn, you know, someone spent money on, and they're hoping that it doesn't know they're not They're

not being all cerebral. This isn't a film for deep thought. The movie is so bad that you notice this, that's how bad it is. And then I'm not going to tell you anything about I look, I know you're gonna get mad at me. I'm not gonna tell what happens in the movie, I promise, But something happens at the end of the movie that makes this whole thing I just told you even worse, even worse, alright, so I

think I would. I would go so far as to say that not many people listening to this even gave gave it much thought at all, if they even saw it to begin with. I mean, I'm gonna give you one more analogy because I used it on my family and they got mad at me. Okay, if if some so I'm gonna say, my family, let's say, scary, you're your your your Who did your brother or sister have have Did your brother have a daughter? My brother has a son? Okay, you have a friend who was a daughter?

You no, not me, not me? So let's say let's say, let's say, uh, Fred, we have a guy named Fred. Right, Fred's got a teenage daughter. Okay, Scotty Be is a teenage daughter. Teenage daughter. Let's say Scotty Be his wife passes away, and then I don't know, eight years later, when his daughter is nineteen years old, his wife comes back, her spirit comes back into the daughter's body who's nineteen.

Under the theory that it's just the soul, could he then have sex with his daughter's body but it's his wife? I think that's disgusting. Okay, that's my point. The body matters, right fight. So look, I'm not saying Mike's not gonna wake up and go, holy crap, I had sex with Wonder Woman. But don't you think he would like to have been asked first? He lost like three or four days of his life, maybe more. I'm not telling you how it ends. We lost his life. What if he

got fired from one? All right, I'm just that's all. I know. It works both ways with non con sexual sex. But if you know, a lot of guys will just be like, this is cool. A lot of guys would not be. Some guys might not be. But I'm just saying, yeah, I know that was How would how would your girlfriend Robin feel if she found out that your body had sex with wonder Woman and you were unconscious and then you woke up and you're like, oh, and there were

pictures of it. She's like, you had sex with wonder Like I I didn't have sex with wonder Woman. Some guy wasn't having my body. You think she looked at the pictures of you, your body having sex with another woman and be like, oh, your my wasn't. Dad's fine? Yeah, I think you have to excuse it. Really okay, okay, let me turn it around. Let's say you saw pictures of some ugly, out of shape, sweaty pig of a man having sex with Robin. But then Robin was like, oh,

I was inhabited by the soul of his wife. Uh so what do you do? Yeah, you'll be fine with it. You'd be like, oh, I don't, I don't know. You know, this is this is why See to me, I don't live in a world where things are impossible like this is. These are physical impossibilities. So the things that you're talking about don't make sense to me because I live here on Earth and I live a really I live a reality every day and I'm not but I can't around.

I'm not wrapping my head around it, Brody, because because it's it's not true, it's not gonna be it won't. It physically can't happen, So you don't you have you ever seen a superhero film? Have you seen Superman? But that's why I hate them, Okay, because you can't fathom because to me, a superhero flick is is act in is craziness, is actually just escaping. It's an escapism mechanism. If I really we want to get on this level, then yeah, then it's escape. But it's not reality to me.

It's just I'm watching something. I'm watching for entertainment purposes. Stand I'm not gonna tell what happens in the movie. Okay, but let's say there's a guy who lived in the nineteen tens. Right, he's around. He's around when let's say radio was first invented, whatever year that was, right, Right,

He worked at a radio station in whenever radio was invented. Right, he dies, he comes back to life in Okay, he walks into our radio station, sees all the equipment, and goes, oh, I'm a radio guy, and just uses all the equipment. Would you believe that? No? Right, multiply that times a thousand, and that's what happened in the movie something like that. Okay, But at the same time, head around that get you sign up for that's exactly. So then why are you complaining? Brodie?

I wasted because the movie is like seven hours long. It's just the worst A stop button. As soon as it gets gets me. I'm watching it with four other people. We're all sitting there going gets weird. You get up and you go into your basement. What do you want me to tell you? I don't want to go into my basement. What do I want to? Just get out of there? Just get out of the say I don't want to watch this bullshit. This is stupid. And by the way, that's the end of that. Let's move on.

It's been twenty minutes. You asked a lot of questions. Fault. I did not ask you one. I All I said was how was your fucking New Year's And you talked about your Chinese food? And now twenty minutes about this film, which I don't give a funk about because to me, it's a suspension of disbelief. I go in and I get what I expect. I expect entertainment and visuals, and I know that things are gonna happen there that are physically impossible. Okay. So if you're watching an Avengers film, right,

we're watching Avengers, Yes, you're watching Avengers, just spend disbelief. Yeah, okay, And the thing that happens could is fine. Okay. And you know Thor right right, the movie is laden with things that can't happen in real life. If Thor Chris Hemsworth out of nowhere, picks up a dog and eats it. A live dog starts eating it. Are you gonna say, well, he's a god of thunder, so he's powerful enough to eat the dogs on fine? Yes, because I know him.

Been watching an Avenger's film. If it happened in real life, down but it makes sense, it makes no sense. It would make no sense in the context of the movie that the authority eat a dog. You have to go why would eat a dog? Doesn't make any sense? Question it not my world, man. I like that. I like biopics. I like documentaries. I like comedies. Movie you saw. I watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix because it's set in

reality and it's giving me information. I listen. But but when when I go for a comedy, if I'm watching comedy, I expect I don't. I don't question anything in the film because it ruins it for me. I'm like, I'm here to be entertained at this point, I don't care what happens. Suspension of disbelief. Guys, look it up, everyone,

look it up. It's it's a thing, and it's a it's a it's a method which works in Hollywood for it's the golden age of of of your suspension and disbelief means, if you're watching Star Wars, then you believe that there's a thing called the force, right, yeah, use it right, that people can levitate. That's how you suspend disbelief. Okay, but if but if Luke Skywalker suddenly pulls out a rules cube, hold on, he pulls out a Rubik's cube, but he solves it in two seconds, You're like, what

the helly does not a Rubic's cube is? What does that mean? That's not right. It has to be within the in the scope of what you're believing. What in the world they create. It has to make sense. There's no dogs in Star Wars, So if all of a sudden there's a dog, there's a poodle, You're like, what does a poodal doing there? That doesn't make any sense. You would say, it doesn't make you go, I'm going to suspend this beliefs anything's possible, know, anything is not

possible in Star Wars. The writers and directors got Wonder Woman wrong. It's a ship film, terrible, it's awful, and I feel for my but you know what, there are clunkers in life and then their box office, smashes and sent So, so what do you see smashed with Mike? That's great, she smashed with my great have a party. I don't. I'm not continue to move We can move on. Now we go, Now, we can move on. I wanted to move on twenty minutes ago. Oh come on, come on, look,

I got I got a Scamboni. Would like hear Scamboni. I would love something other than this type of fine, all right, give me a Scamboni music. Good God, what you find out? Okay? So I have fire sticks Amazon fire sticks on all of the television sets in my house. Okay, So if you don't know where firestick is, it's a little um it's like a flash drive and you plug it into your hd m I input on your TV and you can watch a lot like all the streaming channels.

If your TV doesn't have built in streaming. Some of my TVs have built in you know, smart apps whatever smart TVs, and some don't. So when Amazon does the big sales, right, what do they call the Amazon Amazon Prime Day? Right? And for the holidays, the firestick is sometimes it's forty nine dollars. It goes on sale with thirty nine goes to the sale. So it was on sale, the good one with the volume control and without divine control.

So I needed one more. My daughter's room didn't have a firestick, and I told her i'd get her one for for the holidays. So I got her one. Okay, So I know thereend on whether or you wanted to divine control on the firestick. The one in um in our one of our guest bedrooms that I sometimes sit in and watch TV when I want to get away from the movie on in the other room. It's a

little older. It's not a four K firestick. So I'm in there watching I don't know, YouTube, Netflix, whatever I'm on, and I get a pop up that says, congratulations, you're eligible for an upgrade. Oh, I'm eligible. So I'm eligible for an upgrades. So I have this old fire stick. It's like second generation, I think up the fourth generation, and the one the one in that room is like doesn't have a lot of memory. It's almost filled with apps. Like,

I'm eligible for an upgrade. That's fantastic. Now, if someone tells you're eligible, what do you think? Scary? That means I can get it if I act. Now I'm eligible, So I click on it, and it takes me to a Firestick sale page through Amazon dot Com, because Amazon owns fire the Firestick, and it says, congratulations, you can now upgrade your Firestick normally you can get it for I'm eligible for that. I'm eligible, thank you. I'm eligible to spend thirty on something that a week ago, for

everyone was eligible. Means you get it for free. I'm so basically I'm allowed to buy it at a higher reduced price than it was on sale last week. Completely misleading, Completely, that's a scamboni. Hey, you're eligible to upgrade your seats on the plane, you know I get better seats, uh sir? For additional eight hundred dollars. We can put you in a seat that's not eligible. Okay, in certain in certain instances,

you're granted the thing for free. But to play Devil's advocate for a second, of course, when they say you're eligible for a seat upgrade, I don't take that as I get the seat for free, the upgrade for free. I get it because to me, it's like you've been awarded the free upgrade, and there it is. That's that means it's free. But the second I say it's I'm eligible.

I'm like, Okay. That means I have now been put in a different pool of people that have this advantage over the other pool of people, and now I can pay an extra hundred twenty nine dollars to get my first class seat. Okay, here's what I was thinking it was gonna be. Okay, it was last week. By saying I'm eligible, I'm figuring if I mailed back the old fire stick I have, they'll give it to me for

fifteen nineteen dollars, the good one. So instead of maybe I'll get it for so I'm eligible for something special, I'll send back my old one. They can refurbish it and sell it for ten bucks, and they'll give me one at a really good price. When I think, when I think eligible, also let me clarify, if it's a big nut, if it's something that's all. If it's like something that with a lot of money, then the eligibility is, Oh my god, I get into this next category with

the possibility I can buy this. But when it's an item like that, like something it's a scamboni, because it's it's like, oh my god, because because you're you're dealing with something that's nineteen dollars through how much. How much does it really cost them to give you it's plastic, it's probably a seven five bucks. When I hear eligible for an upgrade, I think, oh, I'm getting that ship for free because it's a five dollar item, right, or

I'm paying a slight difference. I'm paying an upgrade. Like if you if you have if you have uh seats on a plane, if the seats in the back of two hundred and the upgrade is eight hundred, that's six hundred bucks. Maybe they give it to you four fifty, right because you use the two hundred, But they're not giving me the value. Might and row it's going, Oh you want the better seat, it's eight hundred. Tell about

ticket nothing? Yeah, so I got nothing. Then I gotta sell it on eBay if I want my money back. That's not what eligible means. Don't get me excited. You gotta pull a fucking fairway on them. That way fair way fair I call it a fairway. That's a grocery store. Yeah, it's not even in business anymore, right, No, it's not. They're gone. The fair way still supermarket. That was in all the Impractical Jokers episodes. They always went the fairway. I said it that it worked well, it's still it

still exists in name, but they've sold the company and company. Hey, I want to promote something real quick. Um. I used to be in a sketch comedy group. I think I mentioned it briefly on the stereo thing that we did. I was in a five person sketching improv group. And one of the funniest people I know, uh, is my friend Craig Mitchell. Craig moved out to California many years

ago to be an actor and for pilot season. He's been in a bunch of TV shows, you know, smaller parts and uh, you know, he does what he's gotta do to make a living, and he's just he's hilarious. He's does stand up anyway. He started a YouTube recurring cooking show. He's been trying to eat healthier, so he's doing a cooking healthy Uh. I guess it's a a video show TV show, but on YouTube. Every week he

does a video. And so I want to say a couple of weeks ago, I told you guys a story about how he asked me to film something and then didn't tell me it shouldn't be dirty, and I had to do it again. Okay, I told the story on the stair, a podcast thing that we did, but nobody heard it. It's like, you know, so here's what happened. Um, we used to do scare you saw this. You came to see me perform. If you've ever seen the David

let him in. Top ten list right well, he goes, Oh, the top ten reasons to break up with a girl before Christmas, number ten, number nine, it's all written out. He reads that the writers put it together. Whatever, well, we would do improv in the comedy club. We would say to the audience, give us a topic. We're gonna do a on the on the on the on the cuff, on the spot, top five list because we're five of us. So you got to the orange, you get top top

five worst Ben and Jerry flavors. And then the minute you get the topic, the number five guys steps following goes number five and then gives an example of the worst Ben and Jerry's flavor. Okay, and then number four, number three, and two. So if you're number one, you have all the way down to you have a long time to wait. You have like ten fifteen seconds total to think about your answer, but someone else to make up and say answer, then you're screwed, right. Anyway, we

did this live. We broke up as a comedy group uh way too many years ago to benon a long time ago, when I was only working at the radio station for a few years and my schedule got too hectic, and we broke up the group after a while. Anyway, he got us back together to film a top five list. He gave us a topic and we ought to record

ourselves giving uh an answer. And so he said, record like four or five answers for the top five list, and I'll pick the best one from each person and put it together on my show as a bonus feature. And the topic will be related to the item that we're making in the show. Okay, great. So I recorded it, and after I recorded it, he says, oh, you know, um, they're a little bit off color and a little harsh.

Can you do something? I don't say ass and you say bought instead, And I'm fine, It's just he didn't tell me that. So I spent a lot of time writing material and then filming myself stuff that didn't get used. And I love the guy, it's fine. So the topic he gave us was I think it was top five reasons to make low carbs cinnamon buns. And I think that's what he does in this episode. So the five of us gave our answers. And so the one he used,

you can you. I'm gonna tell you how to how to watch it in a minute, you'll see the one he used it was relatively safe. It was fine. I think I was number two in the out of the top five countdown um universe or of five two one, because the guy got number one. I thought his answer was good because I got I got censored. Basically, So the top five reasons to eat it um a low carb cinnamon bunn. One of them, I said, was um,

because the doctor already took your other foot. That's a diabetic joke, right, well, okay yeah, and he's like, no, no, my audience is very well. I was like, okay, all right, fine, So with stuff like that, so I think he's gonna do eventually release all the ones he didn't use, which were a little harder. But if you're interested in seeing my friend cook cinnamon buns, low carb cinnamon buns, he's very funny. And uh so his name is Craig Mitchell spelled Craig with the C and Mitchell like the name

Mitchell and his his page. His TV show is called Off the Cuff Cuff and the latest episode I think is the one, and I'm gonna tweet out the link, but please go look for it. Just look for off to It's very funny, but I think at the end or in the middle, I don't where you put it is this montage of us doing at top five lists. So you can kind of see the people I used to perform with and how much better I looked in all of them now and scary now Brody, Yeah, what

was that? Yup? Because I already see it coming. No, No, this is this is something that I think we both can agree on. People and businesses who are using the pandemic as an excuse. A couple of weeks ago, Okay, my girlfriend and I wanted to go out to brunch. Of course they get that, right, Me and my girlfriend? Nope, my girlfriend and me that nope, the girlfriend, I want to go out the brunch and we wanted to sit outside.

So I was trying to clarify reservation, a reservation that I made online and wanted to make sure that you know, you know, they had the space heaters. I had questions for the restaurant, but this restaurant, let's call them. I think, you know what, I think I should call them live here. Now we're not gonna we're gonna get there, We're gonna get their voicemails. Well, forget it. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna. It's it's not it's very quickly says thank

you for calling blah blah blah restaurant. Due to the pandemic and the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot answer the phone. And they did go on to like throw you into an email address and just be like, fuck you go take care of your problems online. They are not answering their phone because of the pandemic. Now, nothing has nothing

has changed. The restaurant still operates. It's still as cooks, a general manager, a maitre d waiters, waitresses, it has it has personnel right and in fact, they even arguments can be made that they even have less customers because they can only do outdoor dining because it's you know, it's Manhattan, and there's no indoor dining currently allowed. So to me, you're shirking your responsibilities in customer service because you you know, but you're using that as a front.

I don't like the fact that a lot of people and they're not. It's not just them. That's just one small example of people that are doing that in real life to other in other facets. In other they're just using the pandemic as an excuse to not provide proper customer service. Now that is. That is one of several customer service lines that I've called in the past seven or eight months where the very first thing you hear is due to the convot the coronavirus pandemic. We you know,

things are slower. I understand ups slow. Oh, and you know they had that on their website. I had the restaurant and I wouldn't answer the phone. They wouldn't answer the phone because I wanted to find out if they had proper space heaters. And by the way, the answer

there was no they didn't. Because I got there and it was cold as fuck, and we rushed through our meal and by the time they threw the eggs down on the table ten seconds later, they were cold, and like this is this is and I'm sitting there with like layers of coats on, shivering next to my girlfhone, like all right, this is great, And then I order an extra coffee because because you get be coffee because I need something hot right now. It was it was terrible.

Had I known got through them, Well, I don't want a solution necessary. This isn't about trying to get desert from that. I just think it just sucks that that people in general are using the pandemic as an excuse to not provide their proper normal customers. So they should have given you a more detailed voicemail when you called, Hey, we're not doing this. We're doing that, and we'll have outdoor seating and we we provide space heaters for every

six people or whatever. It should tell you that. It should tell you on the website anything you want to know. People have to at It's like putting tables outside. You have to adapt. It's like New York right now. They read an article yesterday. But don't pull and tell me you can't answer your fucking phone, because what does the pandemic have to do with you answering a phone? Well, okay, do you want to play devil's advocate back at your ass.

Let's say some restaurants have such a busy takeout service. They don't they this is not one of them, Okay, that they have like somebody who answers the phone, who like a pizza place. Sometimes there's people who just answer all the phones during dinner time to take all the orders, right. They may have had to trim down the staff scary so much that they don't have someone that could run

to the phone during brunch hours, during any hour. I called, I called regular time, I called before broad I called on a weekday before the Peter Luger, before the pandemic. You guys know what I'm talking about. They don't answer the phone, and nothing's going on. Two years ago, a year and a half ago before pre pandemic PP. They don't answer the phone at all. Anyway, you can't make a reservation. Can we get back to that though, of answering the phone and providing an actual live body on

the other end. I'm sure there's some people listen you want to You could route your phone. That's the pandemic is not an excuse, because you could route the phones through somebody's apartment and then they could just pick up their or their or their cell phones somewhere someone who's not even you know, the general manager of the owner, and he could just like, you know, just pop in the air but an air pot in his ear and yeah, what's up? Hey, how are you so and so restaurant?

Like you don't I don't have to answer the physically. I'm assuming they had a reason for not answering the phone. Maybe people keep answering the same dumb question, my question. My problem is a larger problem that at some point everybody using that because of due to COVID you can't. You gotta people have to stop using that as an excuse in certain fields, I mean certain things you can't know. So let's talk about restaurants. So on our favorite top New Year's Eve, I think it's New Year's Eve. It

was Christmas Eve. Christmas was Chinese with Christmas Eve, so I understand the holiday. We ordered, um my wife an eye for the whole family. We ordered I want to stay close to three. It was. It was a very expensive steakhouse that you've been to in the in the area where we live. I'm gonna say it's about No, I'm not in the area we live. It's about forty minutes north of where we live, okay, but we like it. It's located near a mall. It's a great steakhouse, not

one you've taken me to, because you haven't. Our bill was about I don't know, to seventy eight whatever, and we ordered. I'm gonna I'm gonna read the list of things, so keep in mind, there's no they don't have indoor dining right on the holiday. Normally they have maybe a couple of tables outside in the parking lot, but most of their business is to go, right, most of their order is to go. So let me see if I can pull up the list of things that we're wrong here.

It is okay. So we ordered steak, we ordered lobster tails. Again it's a holiday meal. We splurged, you know. Uh. We ordered uh to caesar salads and lobster mac and cheese. Okay, and we ordered peppercorn sauce on the side of the steaks because the kids like peppercorn sauce on the side, and a bunch of the things. So we go and pick up the food. It's forty minutes bring it back

and when so some of the things aren't cooked. Now we've ordered from them before and they give you a sheet with cooking instructions like how to prepare the food and put it together. Right. We also ordered three cremebrol As desserts, which are you know what is right? Right? So they have a cremebrol cheesecake. They have a crembro a cheesecake torch. They torched the top of it. Very crusty, sweet, crusty thing, fantastic, the creme underneath. So we unpack everything.

There's no cooking instructions the cremeber A cheesecake. One of them is crembro aid, two of them aren't. There's no grilled lemons for the lobster. There's no steak butter that was supposed to be there to melt for the steak. Noe um. We were supposed to put breadcrumbs, bread crumbs on the lobster back and cheese. No bread crumbs. Urban Dictionary, Google truffle butter. Everybody the Yeah Nicki Minaj song correct a whole bunch of people. The pop the peppercorn on

the side is on the steak. Okay, yeah, so I call I speak to the manager because the girls like you can talk to the manager. I said, hey, we have no cooking instructions. He said, well, did you order meal price? Fixed? Meal? One or two? I don't know. I got some lobster, and I think, he goes, oh, I'll tell you what. I'll give me your phone. Your your wife's phone number, because I said, she's in she's upstairs in the kitchen right now and she's about to

prepare the stuff. I said, text hard because her number was on the order she placed the order. Text her the instructions for the two different meals. One of them is going to be for us, okay, And I said about the the crimber, Uh, it's not blayed. Oh well, you know, we find it doesn't travel well when you browley the top. And so I said, I didn't so what because well, some people may not like it? If I said, did you ask me? I said, well, when it's to go, we don't brow lay it. Why did

they get to make that decision for you? Right? I said, what do you mean you don't play it when it's to go? I said, how is that possible? One of the three is brolaid, one of them is done. Oh well, that shouldn't happen, I said, Okay, okay. So at this point I've only noticed that the brolet and the dinner instructions, haven't noticed anything else. So he says, I'll send it

right over. Fifteen minutes go by. We get one of the meal packages instructions on what the cook and had to cook it, but not the one we actually not the other one. It's I called back. I go, hey, man, I think his name is. I'm gonna say Ryan something like that, something like Ryan. They say Ryan. You never said the second one. Oh man, thanks for reminding me. Reminding you. You said you'd send both of them at

the same time. How do you forget one of them when you're when you're sending the first one, your mind should easily go to forget altogether. I forgot one of the two. So we're standing there. We don't have to cook the A couple of things that have to be prepared, like what temperature that the lobson tails going I don't know. So he sends the second one, and I start noticing

all these things are are missing, that are wrong. So when I had him on the phone the first time, I said, you know, well you didn't send a thing and it's not cooked. I know it's it's it's Christmas Eve. I'm not the bad guy here, people, I'm not. I said, I know you guys are busy, you know, Yeah, I said, look, I just um, you know, we love your place. But uh, I'm and it looks like the caesar salad. Forgive me. There's a container of caesar salad. It's like three quarters full.

We ordered sees a salad for two. He said, you order for two. Yeah, he said, we ordered two season salads. He goes, oh, you're missing a container, said missing a container. Yeah, We're supposed to put two and we only put one. Sorry. So he says, I'm gonna. I'm gonna send you a gift card for your troubles. Of course, okay, great, alright, no problem. So then later in the meal, we noticed there's no steak butter, no lemons, no bread crumbs, the sauce is not on the side. Every single step of

the meal, there's something wrong. So I said, you know what, Uh, I'm gonna. My wife says, just leave it, just leave it alone. He's gonna send us a gift card. It's Christmas Eve, no problem spent. I left it alone, so that the right. So the gift card comes right, the gift card is fifty dollars. That's fifty dollars on a meal where the whole meal was wrong and things were missing and things were cooked wrong, whateverty. So my wife says, well, that's that doesn't seem like a fair thing. Did he

forget to put the other fifty dollar gift card in? Yeah, I said so. She says, well, I don't know how I want to handle this, because you usually handle this. But I ordered the food and I'm the one disappointed. I really thought he was gonna sound like a hundred dollars. You have a three hundred dollar meal, you know, give me something, give me a hundred. But I didn't ask for it. He volunteered. I'm I'm gonna send you a gift car to make up for your problems. But he

said it like yeah, all right. So my wife says, let me, um, let me see what I gotta do, goes on the website, shoots an email to Corporate Corporate, fowards it onto the manager Ryan Corporate. Well, she went to the website. Well it's there's more than one restaurant. Again, I don't want to say what it is, but it's a big name steak chain. It's not a chain. Well, it's like there's more than one scale. It's a very upscale. It's not like it's not out back, and I love

out back, but it's not. It's way beyond that. No, no, no, no, dude, this is this is you know. Okay, yeah, okay, it's I don't even say where it is. But anyway, so, um, my wife uh comes home from work. Days later, she says, oh, I got an emails response back. Yeah, She goes, They're sending us another hundred dollars, another hundred on top of the fifty. Now you got Now you got half off your meal. Now I'm feeling like now I feel good.

Now I feel good. So my so my wife says, you think you do what I want to can do that. I was so proud, good because my because my wife does that's not normally who she is. She's always like, don't just leave it, you know. But I'm more like your wife in that regard, like ie, the same birthday we do. Maybe that's the thing. Maybe that's uh. I think this. I think that if I'm really really done dirty, I will go after what I think is best. I will try and make myself whole. I I do fight

for the free dessert. I'm not afraid to write letters, make phone calls and getting people's faces. But the difference between you and I is you and me, You and me. Big fuck you, Lady Gaga for putting you and I that song in my head, because now I always say you and I because of the title of your damn song. You and I'm pals. Yeah that was me. You could say you and I, you and I are going to the ball game tomorrow. You could say that, Okay, well

we're not, though I wish we were. Well, that's another story. The Mets got hold on. I want to talk about that in a second. Okay, give me all right, so you will get there. So and I didn't complain. Difference between you and me, brod is you will fight for every fight, tooth and nail, for every little nitpicky thing, and I didn't. Normally normally you do normally you do in this case, I don't think it's I think the slices. No, I'm hardcore when it's time to be hardcore, and I have.

By the way, we're not gonna have time this episode. I have a lot of free dessert stories. If I want to get to. Um, there's a couple of things I do want to slip in, so to speak. Um. But yeah, so like one woman slipped it in her ex boyfriend's body. This is why, this is why when Robin didn't didn't get anything for the fact that her eggs broke all over shoes missed me off. Yeah. So so you're your your girlfriends on the lower ended spectrum of of this kind of thing, and you're sort of like, uh,

you're slightly below the middle and I'm way above. To me, it's like, my time and effort to get that gift card is it worth that? And then a lot of times the answer is no. So I'm like, I'm just gonna drop it. Yeah, alright, so we gotta go quick because we were out of time and I have a launch of list of things I wanted to get to,

which we know. So I got a coup I got a couple of short things I got tweeted, uh yesterday, So okay, so yesterday was the uh, just to summarize the the big problem in Washington, d C. Okay, the big problem at the capital, but the protests, we don't have to reiterate, call it what you want you probably how I feel about it, the whole thing. So I get it. I get a So I tweeted out, that was Wednesday on Monday, you and I did. The stereo thing? Was Monday? Tuesday? It was I tweeted out, Hey, check

out our show on stereo. Here's the link thing. It was two night. Maybe it was Tuesday. Okay, yeah, that would make more sense. On Wednesday. Someone with an American flag in their logo, it's important to the story, tweets me, your show sucks today. There's a reason Patriots is so angry. Uh fuck you? Basically right, really pissed? What what my show sucks? There? I'm thinking, did the Elvis Durancho say something that they that they shouldn't have because because the

what's today today? Thursday? So the problem with the Capitol was on the Wednesday. This is Wednesday afternoon. Then I get another one at David Brody. Dude, don't you be fucking lecturing where you're going with this? Get off my screen, you piece of ship. If you listen to order, you know exactly what happened. You don't know what you're talking about. So it was But the fact was the guy said, your show sucks today. So I'm like, well, what showed

the stereo podcast sucks? And and and why am I? Why? Why are patriots angry at me? What I do to patriots? Well, again, David Brody, the Christian News Network guy, must have gone on Fox News and he said some things that were anti the protesters and the protesters and sympathizes of the However, if you want to call him, he said, so I went into the capital. He said it was wrong, right, So those people decided I'm gonna tweet that motherfucker and

I when was that motherfucker again? Because you're the other David Brodie? Can you put do you put that in your Twitter? Could you put that right up front? Saying not the other guy, not the Christian News network guy line in the profile. No, the point was it only happens once every you know, month, But yesterday was a particularly polarizing political day, and I got it, but good

such hatred. But when I saw a show, I'm like, I didn't think it was meant to be the other David Brody because it shut and they were applying to my tweet about the stereo. I'm so happy that my name is Scary Jones there's there's no mistake that I'm the only one. I don't think there's anyone named Scary, let alone Jones. Jones, Yes, but Jones is at nobody named Jones but Scary. What kind of name is that? Oh?

By the way, I something cool on Netflix that I know the slices would love and you would love, Brodie, you know me. It's rare that I watched TV. But again, I love docuseries and and biopics and things that are set in reality. There's a five or six part documentary on it called It's called High Score. It's about video games.

It's about the one episode deals with the birth of video games from Pong and the early days of Atari and what was going on in those offices to like the Too pac Man and the Arcade, and then the creators and the original sketches of how they how it came to be. Then there's another episode about Nintendo and Nintendo came over and took over the revived the console home Console World to watch, I'll watch it the Sega

Jet just for our listeners. There's a Sega Genesis one episode about how they had to program against Mario and Nintendo with their Souper the Genesis, which was the sixteen bit system, and then into the world of three D and Mortal Kombat, and I'm all right, I'm excited. I'll watch it. Street Fighter two my favorite. I can't believe that you actually play street Fighter two. Did in the arcade played video you played video games. I was such a video game headlight street Fighter two. Dude. I worked

at Chucky Cheese with an arcade. I stayed in there all all hours of the night, video game ry you. They talked about the Yeah, how they got the settings for those those uh those scenes. Yeah, So I'll watch it. And something you said something on the air today about the computer system or some system. Um. And then somebody texted in. They don't even they've never texted their name. So I looked at the text history. It said, scary is three point nine eight million dollar home system? Can't

do that? What a rip off? Slice for life? So whoever, that was very funny. Then somebody texted in. You know when sometimes people confuse or combine two famous expressions and it doesn't make sense right. Um. Anyway, so this person wrote, sitting in a room the big pink elephant. You need to talk about it and get through it. So it's not a pink elephantsund gorilla, or it's an elephant in

the corner ephant. It's either one. But a pink elephant is what you see when you're drunk, right, But it's not the elephant in the room, and it's like the girl in the room. Then there was I got into a back and forth today with someone who was trying to you know, the History of curse Words. It's a show on Netflix with Nicholas Cage. I gotta watch it, History of Curse Words. So you know how we talked about how golf doesn't mean gentlemen only gentleman only ladies forbidden.

It doesn't mean that. That's not that's not where golf the word golf came from. So they texted in and said, oh, the word fuck means um something about on fornication under something of the king under that. I saw that text go by two, which is again, it's not true, it's not real. And then they said, yeah, yeah, no, that's

it stands for. And then ship stands for a store high in transit, and that it had to do with when you're on a ship, you want to put things high up otherwise that things would explode when the boat moved like dynamite. It's that they were writ somebody created false narratives at some point. Instead, we're gonna make We're gonna put an acronym to this or whatever. So I went on Wikipedia and I pulled up the list of

common false etymologies of English words and acronyms. Did they come around, No, they said, no, really look it up, I said, I did. I just sent you the website. I did look it up. You're wrong, people. You know fake news. People can fall into the fake news so easily with everything everything is fake news. Speaking of fake news, want to wrap it up real quick. Um, I was up till three in the morning maybe um Tuesday night watching the elections in in Georgia. I couldn't go to bed.

I had to see the winners. I had to see everything. I couldn't have fall asleep. And then yesterday it was all news obviously coming out of Washington. I was up till three or four in the morning. So you've got because it was still doing. Uh, you know, after the after the they got everybody out of the Capitol, all the congressmen and senator, congress women, everybody went back in Senators. They went back in and did what they were gonna do. It was all I was of the night. They didn't

finish until some three something in the morning. I got no sleep, So I'm like, news up, politics out of my mind today. Whether you're a sports fan or not, Mets fans and I apologized to Cleveland fans, you deal. Mets fans got a gift today. And I'm not gonna get too specific. The point is, if you're into sports or anything in life that's a distraction for you. The Mets and Indians made a trade today. The Mets got one of the best players in baseball. Whether you're into

sports or not. I got to watch sports news today. I watched the press conference, I watched um uh, the the recap show. I listened to sports radio. The point was, we're in the wintertime and there is no baseball. Normally, there's a little bit here and there. This was such a great day for me and for Skiri that we could just tune on everything else. We had an excuse

to everything else. So I hope there's something in your life, slices that takes your mind off the ship going on in the world right now, like like a baseball trade or a playoff, your football team is in the player. We need positive diversions. So if you're an Indians fan, not a great day. But if you're not an Indians fan and your Mets fan, great day. Awesome day, awesome day.

So that's it. That's all I had to say. We'll talk to you guys later six Monday at six on the Stereopple Meet you there, broadcasting live from Brooklyn, not brock