#181: Stick These Fireworks Up Your Ash Can!

you know. Their names are Scarycast Episode one. It's the Brooklyn Boys podcast, back from about a two or three week vacation or maybe an hour or a day vacation, depending on when the last episode was that you experienced of this fine podcast. You know what I love about that? That parody we just played, never mind the fact that I wrote it, But it means two things. It means we just had some great time off, and it means

we're back. We could to the podcast again. Yeah. So for all those people who are like, I need your episode come back, Uh, we're back. Yeah, here we are, you know, and we're no less refreshed than we were before vacation, where we promised ourselves. We were gonna get some rest and relaxation. But for some reason, my vacations are always on the go. And uh, you always seem to get into customer service fights on your vacations, which I'm sure there's quite a few, racking, I gotta got

some issues. If I'm a betting man, I'm gonna bet that you had no less than three customers service squabbles during your breast than three would be safe. If you said no more than three, you'd be incorrect. So I had. So I had a couple of bumps in a row. You know what's funny. I was relaxed. You know, I was like a chilling and I was in a good mood. And you know, for instance, in one particular case, I just wanted to celebrate our fabulous nation. Right it it

bit me in the ass. How so well, yeah, i'd start off now talking about the only just go right in what I want to hear? What's going on? All right? Yeah? Alright, okay, what happen to you? And America? America and freedom? Freedom? Yeah, nothing screams freedom. So how to be the four something around the fourth of July four the July right so early a Monday in early second week of June. Maybe I think we were still working. I were. I drove my daughter somewhere about forty minutes from the house at

a friend's house, and there's a Walmart nearby. I don't live near Walmart. I'm I'm thirty five to forty minutes away from a Walmart. Yeah, but I like I like Walmart, don't get me wrong. So I and I I popped into Walmart to get some pool floats. My kid was having a pool party, so I got, you know, a whole bunch of cheap floats for the kids coming over, right, because first of all, I don't him on my floats, and second of all, I didn't have enough for like,

you know, ten twelve kids. So I got some noodles, I got some like two dollar floats, some tubes for them to you know whatever. And while I was in the pool section, I was near the fireworks section. So I looked over and I'm like, oh, you know what, my wife normally gets a prepackaged box of assorted fireworks at Costco, but she hasn't mentioned it, so I'm gonna

they're not there. It was like thirty bucks for like a three and a half foot box when you had like a display window you could see what was in it, like giant um round things, some boxes. And it was thirty dollars. I don't remember what my wife paid for the big set we blew off for New Year's Eve. Um, but I'm like, you know what, I'm already here. It's probably a good price dirty Bucks. So I got the thirty bucks and I'm like, I would have a show

off for the kids. Would be great there. I already like, I'm familiar with the boxes and the and they're very safe. You like the fuse and they're just like you know, like the lights go off and like sparklers and explosion m eighties no load on the ground and things that light up, but nothing that don't tweet me if your uncle's best friend lost an eyelash. Please, I'm telling you. These are relatively safe. Okay, They're rather safe. So I buy him at thirty bucks and I go home with

the pool floats and the and I'm all excited. And I get home and my wife says, you bought fireworks because they were at in the living room. Yeah, just so did I at Costco? What? Yeah, it was a Costco today but fireworks. We didn't mention it. Well, I didn't think you're gonna pick up fireworks at Walmarts. Now you have double the fund, double the double, not double the fund, one and a half times the fund. Because for for fifty bucks, I think she got a massive

box of fireworks, the bigger box. Now, I didn't remember the size of the box from January. You know, they look it looked like a big box. So her big box was bigger than my box. That makes your own jokes, Yeah, So I thought, wow, hers is a better deal for fifty whatever, forty five whatever she'd pay. So I'm like, I'll just go back to Walmart the next time. You know,

it's not the fourth of July. We're on vacation coming up this week, and I'll go in one of my vacation days or if my kid has to go see your friend again. So, as fate would have it, that exactly a week later, on a Monday, on a Monday, I have to go out to that area with as a Walmart. So I drive the forty minutes, drop her off, and I go into the Walmart and there's a line. It's about a twenty minute line at the customer service desk. But I'm like, I'm on vacation, what whatever. So I

get on a line with my fireworks. I have the receipt because I'm a good customer, get the this is where you would meet, by the way, before you get what you eat, and I would be like, know what I'm gonna celebrate in another night? I will have I will literally like blow off fireworks a couple of nights a week. You know, I don't. I don't, But okay, you were at the register, you're returning. Let me let me fill you in on a couple of things. So this was I want to say, like the twenty second

of of of June. Maybe I'm gonna look, it's important I tell you the date. So let me let me go on my counter to the June. Yeah, it was the twenty one of June. Now, you know, we get paid on the fifteenth and roughly right, so on the one, I brought them on the fourteenth, right right before we got paid on the and I wanted to return them on the twenty one, I believe, and why we was six days out of being paid. And I gotta be honest with you, we're out of money. So the thirty bucks.

I kind of needed it, okay, right, like we we we were like on fumes in the checking account. So you figured, whatever the case, whatever we spent the money on. We had a lot of bills over the summer, come, you know whatever, getting ready for the summer, and so I needed the thirty bucks back. And I didn't need the fireworks because my wife bought a massive So when you get to the register with the receipt, yeah, the girl says, uh. So I was returning at one pool

float that my daughter didn't like. It was like two nine seven and the fireworks. So she says, I get it's just you have your seat, yep. And she returns the pool float and says, yeah, we can't take back the fireworks. What she says, Yeah, we don't take back fireworks. You don't take back fireworks, not like you set them off.

I mean, clearly you would know if a boxing fireworks, right, I said, at this point, we're eight twelve days away from the fourth of July, plenty of time to resell them, right, Yeah, we don't take him back. It's just our policy. So I said, where's the where's the policy. There's no policy here at the register. This policy is signs all over the wall. What you return policy is? It doesn't say you can't return fireworks. Oh no. So then then the manager walks over. Uh. She says she was the manager.

My guests is she was the frontend supervisor, which is I'm the manager. What can I help you? I said, yeah, I just want to turn these fireworks out of your seat. I bought him a week ago. So she says, yeah, we have signs up, but they're not returnable. I said, well, here's something you should know about me. Um, if there's a sign that says I can't return something, I won't buy it because I don't like to be trapped into

a sale. So there was no signs. Well they're up now at the when you bought the fireworks, right, So I said, you know what, I'm gonna give me the benefit of the doubt. I'm gonna walk to the back of the store and I'm gonna check out the fireworks display and I'll see if there's a sign. I'll know if that sign was up last time was here. He goes, okay, sir, go ahead. Sorry. Walk in the back and there's a giant wall like one whole aisle of fireworks at the

ends you can take pictures of it. Then it's like a floor display and another floor. There were four displays of fireworks and end cap a whole wall. I took picton. There's no sign So I go back to the register, I said, And I'm being very nice. I'm not you know, I'm not causing the scene. Well I never, I said, Hey, you know, listen, you know, I understand you think there were signs, but there's no signs. Well, I don't know there was signs up. Oh, so there were no signs

when I was here. There's no signs now, But there were signs in between last Monday and this Monday that somehow showed there was. But then someone took all the signs down. I don't know. Aren't you the manager? Yeah? Don't you know your signage in your store? I don't know, sir, But that's our policy. How can you policy you don't advertise it. Show me where, Show me where it's the policy.

It's our policy, sir. So I go on the website and it says I pulled fireworks on the website and it says it says you have ninety days to return the fireworks. I said, look, here's your policy. Ninety days. She's, well, I'll go talk to the store manager then if there's a problem, would be great. I don't understand why these local these are they work for a corporation, right, yeah, so they see the rules. Why don't they just acknowledge it. It's none of these people there today helping you are

gonna lose money personally. It's not like Walmart is owned by an individual that it's my story. I'm gonna lose money. So clearly the big boss of the store, the g M, must have said, here's the policy. My guess is, if I had to guess, is they don't want him back because then they get stuck with them in the fifth of July and they have they have infant. But that was and that was my next point is that okay, July, it's what what's what's the date? July? Twelve days? But

they had scared they had like a thousand packages of fireworks. Anyway, so she she knocks on the door. I could see the door, it's like ten feet to my left. She knocks on the door. She whispers to the manager who I can see in the chair, and he goes and he waves like yeah, going from me, and she comes back, says, I spoke to him. He says, that's our policy. They said, he spoke to you. He said, go away. I saw him. She's, well,

I'm sorry, we can't take it back. I said, So now I have to go on social media and I have to tweet, and I have to call your corporate office, because you know this is your this isn't when you return. Okay, she's I'm sorry, sir. So I got in the parking lot. I called Walmart and I guy who says, oh, no, that's that's not a policy. I'll call the store and and and and give them permission to take your stuff back.

I said, all right, Well, can you do that while I'm on the phone, because if I hang up with you, I have no idea if you called or not. Yeah, yeah, no problem. Let me put you on hold. I'll call the store. Comes back and he says, I can't get the manager on the phone. What they're not answering the phone. Well, okay, but what do I do? Well, you know you could try go into a different Walmart. I'm me, or another Walmart. I'm forty minutes of this Walmart. No, there's nothing I

can do, but that's not a policy. They should take it back. Oh my god, right, he says, hold on, hold on, let me transfer you to my supervisor. Let's see, because I said, listen, can you get me a store credit or something? And I'll just keep the fireworks or I'll leave him at the door, like just get credit my credit card or send me a gift card and I'll walk back in and hand them the fireworks like I don't need them. I'm not gonna, you know, say oh yeah, hold on, let me transfer to my supervisor.

So I hear ring, ring, ring, and all of a sudden, the phone line goes dead. So I called back and again. It takes like like ten minutes to get through the voicemail system and on hold, and you know, your call is important to us, whatever it's. I called back. I get a woman from you know where in the world, I don't know, and she says, oh no, that's not our policy. Yeah no, I know that, yep, she's so I'll call the store for you. Okay, great. Calls the

store and they don't answer the phone. Just I'm sorry, they're not answering the phone. Okay, So I give I give it a store number, the phone number like whatever. It's on the receine. It's like store number whatever, like to seven, fot whatever the number is. They all have store numbers, right, So she said, you know, let me transfer her. So she gives me the supervisor, and the supervisor says, well, it's not our policy, but it is.

What does that mean? She says, it's Walmart's policy to allow the local store manager to make their own policy. I said, that's you run a company where everything has to be the same caller, the same prices, right, the same you wear the same aprons. You're not a free an chise. So you're letting some twenty one year old manager decide I don't feel like taking fireworks back. Yeah, are you for real? That's your policy? Yeah? The real fireworks are going off right now. I can hear them

camping your corporate policy. We've all worked for corporations. I've worked for Starbucks, I've worked for Express, the gappled. Maybe like you don't get to make your own policy. I thought you were calm on vacation. You just opened up by saying you had a great vacation and you were calm and relaxed. This does not sound like a calm and relaxing moment. Well it got worse. I haven't talked about I talked, we we touched on it on the podcast briefly, but I'm gonna go ahead and talk about

the follow up to this. So, so I tweet at Walmart and I say, hey, man, your customer service stinks uh and and your your return policy stinks. So right, so they so they immediately write me back on social media, We're terribly sorry. Let us know the problem. We're gonna help you very accommodating. The end of the story is they didn't help me. I stubbed the fireworks. Think you

could shove the bottle of rockets up your ass. But what they said was that because it's a policy, is to let the manager, you know, decide I can go to a different Well that's what I was about to say. Just keep him in your trunk and then when you go from you know, when you're near a Walmart problem jumping in when I'm in another Walmart where I don't live near Walmarts. But he's the problem. Now it's after

the fourth of July. Who's taken back my fireworks? Unless I wait till right before five fourth of July next year, my year old receipt. They're not gonna take them back now, they're not gonna want fireworks in the middle of July, saving for next fourth of July. You're gonna be in the same situation, right, and then when don't. When they don't, they don't explode and they go because they're a year old broad. You can't have it all the way, broth ways,

every way until Sunday. Every time. You're not gonna get the free dessert. Here's where the kicker is. He's where the kicker is. So about forty minutes after I tweeted Walmart, my phone rings, right, it's a guy with an with an accent. That's not important what kind of accent, but he's he's he's clearly someone with an accent from another part of the world. And he says, hey this, I'm gonna I'm gonna, for the sake of this phone call, I'm gonna say his name is Mike. He says, Hey,

this is Mike from Walmart Advanced Customer Service. We are we understand you have a problem on social media. Our social media team asked me to give you a call. We want we want to try to make this right now. I didn't give my phone number to the social media people, right. Uh. So I'm I'm like, how's this guy? This? This? Something's not right, some's not right here. So I said, uh huh okay, Mike, um yeah, who are you again? He tells me, I said, do you need the store number? No,

we have everything. And I'm like, they don't have everything because I didn't give the social media people the store number. Sounds us, Yeah, it sounds us, you know you like I liked way by the way, Today's fifteen in the Morning show, all you guys were like, sus it's the new word, Dwards, suss is like a year old now because because of um uh oh, I'm drying to blank the game, um among us right among us? Whatever? Whatever the game was? We which which Yeah, he had to

decide which is which is the bad guy? Who was sus suspect? Anyway, I know you you like that word now? So so something is suss. So he says, tell me what happened. So I'm like, all right, maybe someone's phone tapping me. I'm gonna play along, and I'm gonna I'm gonna tell the story. So I tell the story, and I and I said, yeah, there, you know the return policy. I spoke to the supervisor. They're not willing to take

the fireworks back. So the guy, the guy, This went on for I don't know about two minutes of me explaining because I'm hoping that something funny is gonna happen. We could play on the radio or on the podcast. So he says, hold on a second, let me let me close my door in my office so I can hear you better. I'm having a hard time hearing you. Now he wasn't a hard time hearing me, so right away, I'm thinking, Okay, this is a friend of a friend who's at work who does a foreign accent, who they've

asked to prank phone call me. Someone has sent me and they saw your tweets on Twitter complaining too knows me. Gave this guy my phone number and said, oh, prank called my friend Brody and uh it's someone He said, oh, you have an accent, or maybe it's someone He thought I would recognize the voice, so put on a foreign accent.

So I said, hey, man, hey, before we go any further, can you, um, can you tell me what my case number is because I want to make sure we're on the same page because they give you a case number when you call back, like a five digit case number. I'll get the case number for you in a second, but in the meantime, just to do me a favorite,

go over me one more time with the storm. Oh yeah, already I'm feeling this is right, so I said, Next, So, I said, Mike, I said I before, Yeah, no, no, I really want you to give me the case number because, uh, if if you don't have my account pulled up, you know, I want to make sure that if you're gonna help me, that you have my my case dumb He says, yeah, yeah, I have your case number. It's not a problem. But I'm just taking notes. Tell me again, what happened with

the store manager? I said, Mike, listen, I'm having I'm having a long day here. Uh, you're not good at this, I said, You're not good at prank phone calls, whoever you are, So let's just let's just end this. I don't know, we're not You're not good at this trying get busted doing phone taps? Right? You go? They go, oh, is this scariest, Brody? I recognize your voice to go, oh man, Okay, sorry, man, you know your wife put me or you try to go outn't what you're talking about?

You try to keep going, but you know, so he and so, Instead of being funny, the guy starts cursing me, you motherfucker, you fucking piece of shit. Who the funk returns fireworks? I would have shove those fireworks. And your fucking he's getting like nasty with me. That's that's really convincing as a customer service A good phone prank phone calls, So I soil, So I go, dude, you're obviously a prank phone call. It's a prank phone call. You're not

good at it. Can we just end this? You motherfucker, you piece of shit? You fucking I'll kill you? Oh my god, So so I said, look, man, if this is a praying phone call, you're not good at phone prying phone calls. And if if, if you're this is not a praying phone call, you're getting really rude and and and violent. And I don't have time for this. I'm already having a day. I have a good day. Goodbye. So he starts calling me back with from my phone number,

like he's using spoof call right there. Why don't you just ignore it. I did. Here's the problem. He kept going to voicemail. Well, if you keep going a voicemail, he kept pushing buttons and so my voicemail thought I was trying to log in with the wrong log in, and he locked me out on my voicemail. Oh boy. So I started to think listeners don't have my number. My number is not listening anywhere. So it has to be someone I know, Right, was anyone who someone who

follows me on Twitter? I don't know. So here's the thing. This is unsolved mystery of the podcast through I called Spruce because he knows a lot of voice over people. Spruce, He's like no, I'm like dude, He's like no. So everyone's like, did you ask Garrett? Because Garrett likes to prank people record them. So I was like, I haven't called Gary yet. So I called Gary's like, dude, I'm on vacation, I'm not thinking about you. And we did.

We did talk about this on the fifteen minute morning showcast briefly, right, and so I called the usual suspects. Now here's the problem. I accused four people of attempting to prank phone call me. Okay, now just I'm not gonna get into details. I know who it was who made the call. You found out Well, I'll get to that in a minute. He's someone that actually does a prank phone called podcast. Okay. I reached out to him um and he's like, hey, man, i'll destroy the audio.

I didn't know you were in the business. And I didn't come out good anyway because I called him on it. He's like, don't worry, I'll get rid of if you want, you let me know. I'm like, it's it's just not funny, like it's just you know. So, I said, where'd you get my phone number from? That? This is all through social media. I'm not talking to the guy on the phone. He said, oh, I got it off of a website complaining of people who complained. I don't know you didn't

because you called me right after my Walmart tweet. It was somebody saw my Walmart tweet and put you up to it. It's quite obvious. We just don't know who the person was who put him up to it. And he didn't fess up either. No, no, well, I'm working on that with him. So here's the deal. If anyone other than the four people I accused set me up. They would have they would have called me a text or got in touch with me and said, hey, man,

that was me try to get you. So it is one of the four people, well, the four people I accused. I told him point blank, wasn't funny. You know, I was in a bad mood that that week. You know, I wasn't in the right frame of mind, Like it wasn't the right time, right, it wasn't. And all four people like, dude, we know, we know what you know, you have you having a bad week, and we would never that's we would never. We're all on vacation like never. But but here's the thing. Nobody has come forward to

admit they put the guy up to it. And the only person that wouldn't come forward is someone that I already told I didn't find it funny, you know what I mean? This is this is really getting in the weeds man, so to prank the master, and it didn't work. And also Remond didn't give me my money back, so it was all a loser day, double fucked, double fucked. So fuck you Mike, fuck you Walmart, and fuck you secret person who won't come forward who tried to prying

funk call me. Eventually the truth will reveal itself, and any any slice listening right now, it's speculating that it's me. I can promise you it was not a murder mystery. Everybody looks guilty who done it? But I will tell you the reason. The reason why I didn't do it is because I was too busy having fun on live vacation. I wasn't trying to return fireworks. I went. First of all, you know what a huge Met fan that we both

are here on this podcast. I got to see the Mets on the road in Atlanta from great seats, beating Atlanta, coming back rallying. That was the one game. Let's not talk about the other game, but the one game or something, the game that I went to. It was awesome because I as a Met fan, as a visiting team on the road, it was so awesome to walk out of that stadium in peace and not have people going yeah, yeah, okay, but did you did you cheer loudly? Were you wearing

a Met shirt? I did, Atlanta. I wasn't one. I don't want to get my ass, I don't want to get my ass beat. But you played, you played it. Down, So what did you do when they scored? Like, oh no, no, no no. When they scored, we were in a section with a bunch of met fans with with shirts and everything going crazy with jumping, high fiving in the stands. But once you leave the game, once the loss is complete, where it is a loss for the brains, those fans

turned sour. They aren't a ship mood. So you just walk out and keep your mouth shout shut and look at the ground. Anyway, But that was only just a piece of my vacation. See, Brodie, I was relaxing on a beach I went to and I have I think I've talked about this before this podcast. It's crazy how your history repeats itself. One of the one of the characteristics of my vacations and one of the just an accidental thing that happens. And Brodie, you'll remember this right

away as soon as I bring it up. What happens to Scary Jones when he checks into a hotel in the summertime in late June while we're on vacation. I always tend to visit a city where they're celebrating Pride Week. So when I went to St. Petersburg, wasn't it you and Ronnie both together, two guys. Yes, it was the bald freak Rannie and me and you know, you know, and we will. We check into a hotel in St. Petersburg and then we went through right, we went into

the site. Wait, yes, and we went to we went to the we were in town, went to downtown St. Pete and there there it was in full bloom pride. Pride parades, every bar, every place we went, no matter what, it was all full of pride. Now, no offense to that, but it's just funny, how you know. My friends, so my buddies who lived down there locally, were like, you know, you know, you gotta come to this place after dinner. We're gonna go to this club. It's awesome, my friends

spinning and it's just gonna be just a wonderful time. Well, sure enough, they were playing like all eighties and nineties gay eight um icons and it was really crowded and it was mostly gay, and my friends all got hit on. I did not get hit on, but it was it was it was just it's just hilarious. My friends. Did ball Fred Granting get hit on? Yes, he did, so everyone, but you got hit on, Yeah, you're straight, but you feel left out. I kind of feel yeah, I kind

of feel a little left out from that. But but but my my larger point is it's just it's great that I'm always in town for Pride. You know. It's because we go on vacation, go on vacation that last week of June, right, so as we get June first get so of course you're gonna be on vacation during Pride. That's that's now, now, Brodie. We did have breakfast this morning one morning at a really great place that was recommended.

We were sitting out. It was near the beach. Whatever. Now, I said, I ordered my breakfast and I said can I have a side of avocado? And they're like, oh, yeah, we don't have that. And I'm like, where is this? This is? This is in St. Petersburg, Hold. So one of the menu items that you could order it was guacamole a chip. So I'm like, wait a second. I'm like, it says here you have guak and chips it so obviously you guys make it in house, right And the

waitress was like, yeah, we do. So I said, all right, so you guys have some guawk on deck that you're about to make that you didn't make yet, and she says, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. I said, well that means you guys have avocados, and she goes, yeah, but but it's not on the menu. I'm like, oh, so you don't have that gets to make the avocado policy apparently, so apparently yeah.

So so it was just very very interesting. Then I was ordering, I was like, all right, so then give me a side of guawk, I guess, and I'll just pretend it's not mashed. That he's ask him for a side of guawk, but tell him not to mix it with other stuff. Give me a side of guawk, no tomato, no lemon juice, no onion, and don't slice it right or don't mash it. Just it's just I mean, if you have you ever seen the movie with Jack Nicholson, I think it's a twelve six easy piece. Twelve easy pieces.

It's something. It's a certain amount of easy pieces. And he wants he wants um. I think he wants uh something, he wants something plain. I think he wants a scoop a chicken salad, and then like we only have chicken salad sandwiches so I know I'm getting this wrong, but the gist of it is he does something to effective or give me a chicken salad, sandwich. Um, hold the bread, hold the lettuce, hold he just hold everything and bring me something. Just bring me the chicken salad or something

like that. She's well, what do you know, She's like, it's a very funny scene. And uh. He basically just orders the thing he wants and then he says, I'll pay for it. Just hold the stuff I don't want because they won't give it to him. They won't give m what he wants. It's that kind of thing, you know, without that other stuff. I just it doesn't make any sense to me because it's it's logical. But no question I would ask. But I know I did it. I confronted her though on it. I said like, yeah, no,

we we don't have we don't have sliced avocado. Sorry, And I'm like, but you have hold ones in the fridge. Just said you don't what. I'll tell you what give me. Just hand me a fucking guawk. I'm sorry, hand me it avocado out of the box and give me a knife and I'll fucking peel it myself. I don't change. These people are very shortsighted. I don't you know. Um so, so there was that, but you know, you know, Brady might have a question about your trip because you don't

mind me interrupting, No, I don't. So you told a story and I have to confess something which I didn't tell you because I didn't want to tell you at the time. But Monday, first day back. So what's today Wednesday? Monday? You told a story on the air, right. I had gone upstairs to the kitchen and talk to my wife for a minute, and apparently you started telling a story and I took my I took my my, uh my earpiece out where I'm on out of the show to talk to my wife for a minute. You know, there

was no conversation going on. When I walked upstairs from from the den where I where I do the show, and I come back, I popped the thing back in my ear and I sit down by my laptop and I'm listening to the show and I'm hearing, Oh, scary, that's a great idea. He totally took advantage of the hotel. Oh scary, that's terrible, that's wrong. What are you doing? And it was a big debate, people calling and going scary, and I'm looking at text messages, great move scary, it's

such a brody thing to do. And then people like your dick scary. But I was like, I didn't want to tell you. I didn't hear it, so I could have listened to the Elvis Trant on demand channel, but I thought I would just ask you what you did, because I don't know what you did that people were debating, So I'd love to give my opinion live on you know, on this podcast. This is what happened. Okay, and it's a very short story, but here's here's how it went.

Am I gonna like it? You're gonna, you're gonna You're gonna give me a standing ovation? But this is really more about it. This is a tip for all the slices. This is you guys have to do this when you're visiting somewhere, or even if you're not and you're hometown.

Let's say you wanted to go to a fancy restaurant and I know a lot of people they're like, ah, funk that I go to Chili's and you know, Applebee's whatever, or but but you want to go to an occasion place, a place that has a restaurant that may be hard to get into. Okay, here's what you do. Okay, Google, Well what did you do? Well, here's what I do. Here's what I did, all right, So I I showed up. It was the Atlanta. The day that we had the

Mets got routed by the Braves. But the day after we wanted to go to a great dinner and uh that night. And so we heard about this restaurant by a bunch of people that were in the pool that you know, we were, you know, in the pool at Yes Brody. I found a couple of pools while along the way, I know people were concerned that I wasn't gonna get my pool time in. I wanted to ask you about your pool in a little bit, like we'll get to that. Um yeah, check my instagram at David

Brody you'll know what I did in my pool. But I'm gone. So so I said, look, I want to go to the steakhouse called the Steakhouse. And of course, sorry, we don't have any reservations available. In fact, you have to book this about a week in advance, maybe even more. And it was a Tuesday, Wednesday night, like, the hell, how do you guys have And in my mind, I'm like, I know they're holding they're holding spots for V I

P s. They always do. We talked about that. Don't they know you're a social influence and we learned that we learned in a few episodes ago, right, So I said, I said, I said, I hung up. I'm like, great, I don't know anyone. First of all, it's like Atlanta is my kryptonite. No one knows who Scary Jones is. In Atlanta. We're not on the air, and we were only on the air there for like four months. And if I usually don't have that the next best thing,

that's right. We got kicked off the air there, although although the bastards who replaced us kept playing our phone taps. They did. Yes, our phone taps were on Atlanta radio for like a year, even though our show wasn't even though our show wasn't. Uh and then and then not bastards, by the way happen. I remember who they are, but

just the nerve nerve. So so they said to me, so uh and doin the way, so I don't have I don't have any Scary Jones influences I can't say why you can't drop I can't can't drop Elvis name, and I certainly don't have any I don't have any radio friends there, because something that's the next best thing is you get a radio friend who is familiar with the city and then maybe they can make the call and be you know, no none, no such luck. So I thought a light bulb just went on in my head, like,

and I'm like, I got your light bulb. Your light bulbs make that noise when you turn them on. You must have a loud house go on. Every high end restaurant or a difficult restaurant has attached to it a V I P list, right, and they also deal seats. They have the seats available, but they also have they also have affiliations with the high end hotels in the area. So what did I do, Brodie? I did some research

on whatever the hotel was. It could be the rich Carlton Royal Palace for seasons or so you name it. I'm not going to name hotel fancy hotel five stars, okay. And I googled it, and I googled the general manager's name. Let's call her Larissa. I don't know, Okay, right, So I said, huh, so Larissa is the GM here. I'm gonna call the concierge because I know they got to connect with the with the restaurants. So I called the concierge.

It could be concierge, concierge, whatever you wanted, concierge. I don't even know. So I was not staying at this hotel, but I was. This wasn't your hotel, I know. No. I picked a random five star Google mapped it. I'm like, okay, this hotel is close to this five star hotel is close to the steakhouse. They got people they gotta send, right, So I called up the concierge at this five star

hotel and said, hi, um, is Larissa there? You know, just already to ingratiate myself, like and by the way, it was after six o'clock, so I know where's the general manager. Oh no, she's gone for the day. Okay, great, I just missed her. Hey listen, um, I'm actually yeah, she told me to Uh, I could give you guys a call. I'm actually checking in tomorrow, so that would explain why my name is not on room number. They're not going to ask me from my room number. You're

not there yet. Yeah, I'm not there yet, I said, but I got in town a day early and I'm entertaining some clients. So if you could, I'm trying to get into this this high steakhouse, bougie steakhouse, and maybe you can help me out with the steak dinner. I don't cat by the way, go on yeah, And they're like, oh, okay, yeah, well we could do what's your what's your phone number? And I said, okay, here's my number. They're like okay, uh,

and what would you like to name under? And they're taking all the information down and they're they're like okay, no, no guarantees. But now they didn't look up your reservation number. No, no, no, because the fact that I mentioned Larissa automatically confirmed me that I had business roller regular custom I had business at this hotel, and so they were gonna do me the favorite. They were gonna do the solid as we

say in Brooklyn, right solid right. So they're like all right, I said, they'll I said, would you guys be able to call over there? Do you know people? And they're like, yeah, we deal with them all the time. Of course you do. Course they do so I I hang up the phone. I'm getting ready to stand up here, because twenty minutes later they call me back and they're like Mr. Skeary, like yes, like all right, you're all set for your reservation tonight. Made the reservation for you eight o'clock. Yes,

they made the call and drop a name. They did. They made the call. They called on my behalf and say it's the Saint Regency rich Calton, fourth Seasons whatever your hotel. I'm not gonna tell you which one. It was Holiday and Express, yeah, exactly, And that's where I was. I was at the Holiday and Express when I was making the phone call and they and they said, yeah, your reservation is taken care of us. They just show up at eight o'clock. You know, bam, steak, dinner, what

the fudge? And by the way, everybody, it was phenomenal. It was so good, you know, the steak was worth it, the atmosphere all that. Brody you should have been there, Brody, you should have been there. But to the slices, just know, where there's a will, there's a way. You've got to think and put yourself in the situation. Because first of all, we know these places have seats available that they're not telling you about. There was nothing on open Table, there

was nowhere on the website. You couldn't It was just one of those things like you can't come in. Well guess concerts they always the arena keeps a couple. It's a brilliant idea I thought I had and people were That's why Brodie, they were applauding me. So hopefully you feel the same way. Well, I'm sorry I missed a set up on the air when you told the story, but that's impressive. I feel like you learned a lot

listening to this podcast. Well, I mean it just it just dawned upon me that they had to have connections. That is a that is a Brooklyn Boys move. If nothing else in this podcast, people, I'm glad you'll I'm

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that the big apps do. So Slice, we love you for that that you're actually helping out the local small business. And Brody, I know that you've had some great experience with discovering pizzerias in your neighborhood and your your your city that you know you didn't even know about the exist. Well, you know what. I saw a pizza fight breakout on a Facebook page from a town that I'm in the Facebook group, from a town nearby that has a lot of good pizza places. So they said, uh, yeah, well

I think this pizza place is uh the best. It's in this other town, and so I had never heard of it. So last night I said to my I said, my wife, I go, you know what, I want to try some new pizza. Yeah, let's try some new, new, new new Italian food. So we order from this place in our area and I'm like, I use the Slice app. Use the app. Yeah, ordered the food customized my pizza I had. I would tell you what the pizza was called,

because I want to get it's not. It was the Sorrento pizza, No, the Sarantina pizza, which I I ordered it with no basil, and then I added riccotte the cheese on top or rocotta for those of you. For wife ordered a spicy shrimp appetizer. It's not just pizza, by the way, whatever you want, and and she ordered long hot peppers. Long hots became long hots with with sausage marinara sauce, and so shout out to Fiamello Wood Fired Pizza and Italian restaurant in Montclair, New Jersey. Uh,

excellent food. And because of the app they called me and said, Mr Brodie, your order is ready. They called me when I was ready, which I loved, right, So you you chose to go pick it up, although you can have it delivered. Yeah, And in the special instructions, I said, bringing out to my four door black Dogs charger. So when I pulled up, they alreadyknew a kind of car I was in and it came right out. So thank you slice. And by the way, I'm one pizza

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gotta use the code Brooklyn. And we want to show them that we're using the code Brooklyn folks, because we we we need that to show proof that we've actually talked about them today and they got something. Speaking of proof, one more thing we should mention because I saw this and I thought like we should mention on the podcast.

So if you're anywhere near the Jersey Shore this weekend, and by this weekend, I mean the we somewhere whatever the yeah uh this weekend Slice is flying a plane with a banner over the Jersey Shore, and if you take a picture of it and posted on your social media and you tag at Slice, you can win free pizza and swag and other pizza and other prizes just for posting the picture. Very important. Do that this weekend. Look for the Slice plane, snap a pick, put it

on your social boom tag at Slice. You could be in the running for some free pie. I have. There's something I wanted to tell you after this about United Airlines. Brody, I'm gonna need your help with something. All right? I got tagged because you complained about something and somebody wrote, better get brody b g B better get brody? All right? Talking about and scary? Can I before we talk about your your situation with the airline? Um? Can I just can I tell you what really pissed me off while

we're on vacation. I thought you did at the beginning of the podcast. Our company, it's some of our company didn't do what someone in our company did, so so let me We we had this competition where the big bosses sent out an email to everyone and said, hey, we're having an innovation competition now if you work for corporate company, a big a big corporation. Rather sometimes they

have these motivational competitions or uh brainstorming thing. Right. They said, hey, we're going to award money and prizes if you've got a great idea. Oh right, So this this was I don't know, beginning of June, and they said you have until this date right there. It didn't say like hurry and what your what your submissions? It said you have two weeks or whatever it was getting your submissions by

whatever date it was. And our team of experts are panel will go through all the submissions and will pick the best ones. Sure, I sent in like six, okay, um, three of them. When they released the list of the top I don't know seven or eight innovation innovations ideas. Three of them were ideas I submitted of the eight, but when it attached the name to who suggested it,

not my name's not my name anywhere near there. Now two of them I would say could have been coincidence, although one of the guys knows I had that idea, so I was a little bit like, like he stole your idea, wrote it down and got the credit. But I want to address a guy that I'm going to refer to as as Pete. Okay, about ten years Sneaky Pete. About ten years ago, in a meeting with a big marketing muck, I had an idea for our company. It had to do with creating a database of radio people talent.

And this way, if somebody in California wanted to hire somebody, they would look in the database for my talent from California, right right, who might have enough talent to be in that size city and in their profile they might work in Atlanta. But their goal is to get back to California. Anyway, there was a lot more to it, right, and the idea I was told it was a great idea, but

it was it wasn't gonna get pulled off. Then about seven years ago I brought it up again with did you when you originally created it was Pete who created it with you, but you didn't tell Pete didn't told a lot a couple of big muckety MUCKs. Now we work. We work in New York, so all the muckety MUCKs are always in the building. So at a meeting I brought it up, this idea, and now it was a lot more to it. It was a big global thing. It was about promoting our own talent and training our

own people. This way, if we rather than hiring outside the company, it would be like a database of audio and air checks and like whatever. It's all. I don't want to get into all the details, but it was a great Everyone's like, I's a brilliant idea. My god

never got done. So then I want to say five years ago I was in a meeting with with UH, with one of the muckety MUCKs who many times had heard my idea, and he said Oh, I just want to let you know I pitched your idea to some of the biggest muckety MUCKs and uh, about a month and a half ago we started it. What, Yeah, we started it. When we started it, it was my d You didn't even tell me about it. Oh yeah, Well they liked it, so they I said, well, what do

you mean they started it? Yeah, they they got it. They're starting a database, a website. Yeah. I said, well, who's in charge? Pete Pete was a was a at that point. Pete was a regional type guy, not my guy, but I knew who he was in the company, Like, what does Pete have to do with this? Like, oh, Pete and Pete and Pete and Steve. But I said, Bob, Bob's head of our company, wasn't him. They like Pete and Steve. They're gonna be in charge of the database

and it's my idea. Yeah, but these guys are in positions of authority. They wanted Pete and Steve to oversee this thing, and they're launching it for your idea. I was pitching it for like six seven years at that point. Whatever. I've told it to everybody, it's my idea, yeah, well, it's not. It's not and this is a big corporate speak, you know what. It's not important where the ideas come from.

It's important that the company benefits from the idea, and it's gonna be good for the company, and that benefits everybody. I go, but yeah, when I want to raise I'm gonna like we we what. No, Pete and Steve. Pete and Steve, they're the ones that get the stripes, they get the credit, they get the glory. Yeah, so this one. So they said, we'd like you get the glory hole. We'd like you to We'd like you to continue what you do, find talent in the company and submit them

to the database so you can help. I I can help. Oh, oh you can help. But your idea. But Pete Steve are overseeing it right now. Now. Al, now you know Al, I's worked for our show. Al was the guy that I would tell Al, you gotta help me out here. Let's get this idea going. Because Al is on the talent end and Al is the one who told me that Pete and Steve were now doing this. So he's like, I put in a good word. You can help Pete and Steve. I go, I don't want out beating Steve.

It's my idea. Okay. So Steve leaves, Steve leaves the company, and now Pete's running the company, running the This my idea. So I email Pete, Pete, I I know you spoke to Al. I know you know. This whole concept was my idea. Now that Steve has left the company, can I be the other guy, the co pilot in this heading up on the project that, by the way, that I created my idea. So so Pete says, nah, I'm good. Of course he is, because Pete wants all the credit

and the money. So Pete wants all the credit he wants to raise. So this lasts about eight months and all of a sudden, Pete seems to lose interest and uh, all of a sudden, the database things not continuing. Okay, Okay, that was I want to say, four or five years ago. All right, now, first far past forward to this innovation competition, which was just this past month, and it basically says Brody's idea in so many words, for a talent database and a farm system of talent, and it says congratulations

to Pete on a fantastic idea. Wait what but it has your name that you've been acknowledged, though I'm saying it. He The description is create a talent database and promote from within. Create a fart like it's a whole thing. It's my idea, and it says congratulations to Pete. So I go back to Al. I go, oh, what the funk? He goes, yeah, I saw it, man, I'd be piste too. That was your idea. I go, ol, baby, you gotta

tell somebody come out walking me out. You know, I told you years ago, and I was like, Brody, you know the people that need to know. No, it was your idea, but yeah, but you're not getting the free ship for it prizes STI I go, Pete Scott, like a top eight idea here, that's my idea. I email the people. I am all the people, right, I email the people running the contest. I go, heydating, please, you're screaming as I go, hey hey, board and Board of

decision makers. At least three of those ideas were mine. I submitted them all, but two of them are blatantly ripping me off. They wrote back, well we had we can't verify that, so we had to go by the order. It was submitted, and he submitted first. I said, where in the rules does it say you have to rush the idea? And you said, we had two weeks. I go, it's my idea. I have an email trail. I can

prove it. Yeah, he could have had the ideas. So fuck you board of decision makers at my company because you gave so Pete got the glory and the other guy got the glory. I'm not even get into that guy. But Pete's the big offender because Pete ran the thing knowing it was my idea. This is so typical that David Brodie gets fucked in the ass. You always do most of my music because I need to get my music. That's how screwed I am, because we've already climaxed the music. Now. No, yeah,

I feel like I should get something. And you know what they word like. I was like, you're right right. I was like, Pete shouldn't have done that. I go out your middle management. Can you go to somebody? I can't. That's that's high up to go. You know how it goes. It goes? Yeah, man, alright, people in my in this company that when I told him the idea ten years ago, they were like regular level management. They are presidents of

the company now, and they didn't give me credit. And you know, and you can people can relate that are listening to this. Everybody works in you, but you're a queen. You always a great idea. The manager takes crow for it. Here's the best part though, and this is this is very important advice, okay, because we've seen in the company

do this. Whenever they manage. You're supposed to manage up. Managed, manage up to the people that you want to suck up to and too, because then they will recognize you and then you will be brought up with them into the next level, don't you know. I know as a manager, here's I went up to the sevens and eights, and the sevens and eights went to the nine tenths. I couldn't get to the nins. But in your everyday roll, Brody, what do you do? You manage down because you managed

the intern program. Those people aren't going to help you get a promotion later in life. Here I went, I went, I went to I went to a guy who was a seven in the company and a guy who was at eight in the company. By the way, the eight is now and nine. The seven is now a nine and a half. No, no, I'm saying that's you al got promoted three times. And the other guy that used to work in our building, you know who he is, he's now one of the he's he's nine point eight

in the company. He's a mega shot, right right. Yes, he didn't say Wait a minute, that's I know that idea. That was Brodie's idea. Well, that's what makes this all hilarious. Okay, that's why this is But on the inside, this is why it's funny. But but in real can I call to get me? But in real life, Brodie, in real life, people are going you know, I'm just saying you should try and do what Brodie's trying to do is manage it up. But you know, you know, whatever, whatever the case.

There's been a lot of yelling on this podcast so far. But yeah, well you gotta stop. Yeah, it's all my fault. Um, something that I didn't tell anybody, which I'm about to tell you right now and slices and I don't know how to handle it or how to follow up with it. Is um. You know, I I I took a flight out on United and you know, They always tell you that it's not their fault when it's weather related. Okay, well keep that in mind. It's not their fault. Fair,

that's fair. Fair, right, so and and and I agree with that statement. But in this particular case, there was a plane that I was supposed to get on to go to that was the last leg of my trip. Where was I going? Oh, I was going to San Juan. It was San Juan. It was a seventh thirty in the morning flight out of Newark Airport, and and we I get there and and then it was a seven supposed to leave at seven thirty, and then we find

out that at six thirty. As we're boarding. We get on the plane, and then I see the pilot come running up to the flight attendant and they're like, what, no, what is you were talking about? What it was like like kind of a little bit of a uh back and forth dialogue, like that's weird. Come sitting in my seat and I see the pilot coming running up. This can't be good. But she's and then he's like, you

tell him, now, you tell him, you tell him. So they're like, all right, they make an announcement on board. All right, ladies, and gentlemen, for those of you who already bore, please deplane right now. We need to deplane the board like deep plane. What's wrong with this fucking thing. By the way, I hate that term. You don't dcar, right, you don't you don't do you d train? No, you get off the train and get out of the car. Get out. Shouldn't just be like everybody off the plane.

Everybody get off the planet, one plane. We all show plane. It's math math the plane. Go google Fantasy Island opening scene. Some snow flick is gonna complain about your accent. So you know, I nailed it, nailed. It's problematic. It's problematic. I did an impression. Problematic, you're not woke. So we come off the plane and then the pilot of all people gets on the on the freaking CB radio. The thing they at the gate A system, A system. I said, Hi and gentlemen, good morning. So as you can see

this flight here, we're going to San Juan. Um we had to take. As it turns out, this plane was originally slated to go to India, and last night they switched planes and they put this. They gave us this plane to go to San Juan well, this plane has three pounds of fuel on it, so it will be too heavy to land in San Juan because not enough fuel will have burned off. Obviously it's supposed to land, and it was slated to land in India, so all the fuel would have burned off. So, as you can see,

we have a problem. So there's this one truck that comes to offload fuel from the plane. I'm like, oh, that's nice, okay, that that um that is scheduled to arrive here at your departure time of seven thirty. And it takes forty five minutes to unload the hundred fifty thousand gallons of fuel that we need to make the plane light enough so we can fly it. And I'm like, okay, and this is my fault. Why why my being inconvenience for this? Still know? Okay? So now it's now it's

eight thirty. Now it's eight thirty, and they say they come back and they're like, as it turns out that that that truck that was supposed to arrive at your schedule departure time, the gas sucking, the gas sucker was supposed to come at at seven seven thirty. It just got there at eight thirty. It ran out of gas. So it got there at thirty and okay, now it's nine irony, by the way, that would be Now it's nine thirty. As it turns out, that was already half full.

They have to send another second truck now to suck the rest of the gas off. Oh wait, now it's ten thirty. Oh we need a third truck because that one was half full. Brody, They put us on the plane at around nine thirty. We fucking took off like a quarter after twelve. Wait, man, this this this this a M and P M. Now am a bill PM seven. So what I'm saying is it was seven thirty in the morning flight believe at twelve fifteen, because almost is beach time. Why in the fuck did they not schedule

a truck to do the job in the overnight? I mean they switched the plane in the overnight, did somebody? You know? So the pilot was trying to make what it was. It was Newark Liberty International Airport and it was Airlines, by the way, on a routine. On a routine, this is a daily flight that leaves at seven thirty with the same flight number three that leaves every morning at seven thirty to go. They don't have another plane.

It sounds does not in the truck right. But my point is someone somewhere decided the night before to change the plane and said, you know what, this plane what, We're gonna give you another plane, and this is the fuel from for the India plane. The India plane must have been the India plane. I don't know they got it from somewhere else. I don't know what they did. Maybe they canceled the flight. That has thing to do

with us. What I'm saying. A night a day before, a night before, they took the plane and said, all right, this plane is not gonna go to India. We're just gonna leave it at the gate because first thing in the morning it's going to go to San Juan. Why did sometime in the overnight the fuel truck, this gas sucker not come to suck the gas off? Why did say did they? Did the truck try to suck its own off? You know, scary, you probably could have gotten to the side of the plane and suck the gas.

You know what I'm saying. And I've been known to try crazier things, So you know what the funk man. So now what am I owned because it's not a weather related issue. In my opinion, it's on United. You fucked up. You had one job. This is their fault. Now they've delayed me for five hours. What are you gonna do for me? All they said was on they made an announcement on the loudspeaker. Oh yeah, so everybody gets to you know, every we thank you for your patient.

It is a free time at the airpoint. Did they pay for your food? Nothing happened, nothing, some bullshit, we gotta buy you lunch. I tweeted the funk out of them, and United, who responds to everyone on Twitter, did not respond to me. You know why, because they were in the wrong. Did you call the airport concierge? Didn't call anyone? So W know, I'm not I'm not a believer in karma. W b D. Sounds like it sounds like you got concierge back. It sounds like you got to take you

took advantage in Atlanta and you got going to San Juan. Well, that's the universe is equal. I'm not a believer in that. Well what would you do, man, Well, I would call corporate and I would and if they tell me each pilot makes their own return policies. I'd be pissed. You know that's conceptible all rights, a plane malfunction, then they're doing it to save different different right, if there's if there's a snowstorm, different, different story different. You've never gone

too much gas thing. Look, they could had taken a screwdriver and punched a hole in it and let's let it drip with two three hours. It would have been faster, I think than than three trucks. By the way, the gas sucking truck shows up, shows up well into an hour after our departure time, and then was already half full. They sent They didn't send an empty truck. They sent the truck half full. So they have a gas truck

sucked the gas out of the gas dude. It's like to me, I compared it to it's like you trying to take the water out of your pool with a fucking with with with a water bucket, like just like trying to shovel water out of your That's how they were trying to offload this gas that they had to have three trucks come over the course of five hours. United Airlines hasn't been in business very long. They probably

didn't know how to do it. Please, So so what I mean, honestly, in all seriousness, Well, I mean what I would say, Yeah, but what in the in the form of what, Well, in the form of you was supposed to have lunch with a client in San Juan, You lost your reservation, you lost half a day for their incompetency. I would want a free ticket it. I would want a free seat upgrade. I would want my twenty three dollars back that I spent on lunch at

Newark Airport. You could ask for well I wanted, they go, and they're gonna say, say, we can't possibly do that for all two people on the plane, right, because you know, I don't care about two people. I care about Scary Jones and no one else called you. I want what I want. That's that's that's bad customer service, that's and I gotta be honest with you. I have nothing but love for the airlines in general and all the people

who worked there. But the airline companies are doing their best right to get business back, to get people comfortable flying again. Tourism had took a huge hit this year. I would be going out of my way to win people over, so I would say that, you know, I'm a regular flyer and this is I am a frequently my credit card with them. I mean, do you have a choice. We know you have a choice in sitting at the airport, but we're glad that you chose our company to make you sit at the airport. That should

be what they say to you. Yeah, I would to be piste alright, absolutely pissed. So I'm not out of line for like, because I'm about to have a follow up phone call. I'm gonna go off on them because they didn't even respond to me on Twitter And what kind of customer service is that? That's terribly even Walmart got back to me right away. Yeah, anyway, and so I'm not nearly as angry as you, but it's just it was I'm getting angry for you. I'm gett a little upset. I can't tell you what can you call

there and pretend to be me for a price? Oh, I see how it is you're negotiating. Uhh, I want I want percent of whatever I get you and it's a deal. Look at you. That's such a such a brody move, Nickel and dim in your own buddy. Uh So, But what about I might call back. I'll need your credit card and um, you know what, I need a phone tappic. I need to get all your information information and I'll do it on here like you know you

and I'll connect. You can hear the whole thing. Yeah, and you'll give my credit card number right here over the No no, no, not like on the podcast. I just meant like, we'll set up audio like this and we'll call so you can listen in and we'll do a three way call on the phone is fine, but have it headphones and we can record it. That's great. Yeah, But I see over the holiday, you know, some people alerted me to the fact that you, David Brody, did

some upgrades around your pool and your hot tub. Yeah, the hot tub in the pool that I have yet to be invited to. Yeah, So what I did was, well, the lights are out by my hot tub. We put those up for December holiday season. So those are those of it up for a while. I have a tree, a big tree right off my deck, um where the hot tub is, so when you're in the hot tub, it lights up. And I put lights around the deck railing so I could light the deck up as well.

But around the pool, I have a fence around the pool. Um, and again I'm not trying to be bougie. The house came with the pool and the fence was already there. But we have a a light, a light in the backyard so you could swim at night. But it's not as cool and as bright as you'd like. It's bright enough, but my daughter has been having friends over for a little you know, some pool parties, and later at night it's like, my friends over jump in the pool. So um,

I lit the pool up. I put L E D lights around the top of the fence that changed color and and and blink and whatever else. So I took a picture of the lights when they were blue, and I posted it and I said, look how good the pool looks. This is what I'm doing on vacation. And scary still can't come in the pool, so which sucks because I really feel like I've earned that that right to come to your pool because we are boys right now.

You are boys, Yet you keep going on baseball trips without me, So there's no way, there's no way you are going to spring for a baseball trip with my Brooklyn Boys, My ultimate original Brooklyn boy friends. I would have gone with Atlanta. I would have done that going to a met game Intlant I could afford that. Want't you fly to Miami right now? We we gotta, we gotta Jersey. The trip coming up, and we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. Depends how

much money I make off United aial. We'll see about that. Yeah, but before we before we take another break, because I know we have we're up against we have to can break at some point. We're up against it, like we have a clock. They always say that on the sports stations. We're up against the update. It's an update and make a point. And okay, um, speaking of St. Petersburg, you posted something. You can mention the name of the place

if you want. I'm not going to. But you you posted a picture you were at a place claiming to have Brooklyn Pizza. Yeah about that, And and and I didn't know. I didn't claim it. I didn't claim it. I posted on my story, like this place is this place claims they have Brooklyn Pizza. It was like Brooklyn Vinny's or something, ye, Joey's Brooklyn's Pizza, Joey's Brooklyn Joey Brooklyn. Joey Brooklyn a postups Joey Brooklyn's pizza, So I was one. First of all, First of all, if you're from Brooklyn,

it would be joe Brooklyn. You would be Joey Brooklyn. You be Joe Brooklyn. Right, that's first of all, already you're fake. Second of all, you posted this picture and I can tell from looking at it that it's pizza. It was spizza. Now, I never claimed it was any good. I was just curious because I'm walking by and I'm like, look at this place, trying to be proved me wrong. So so I walked in to grab a sl I

wasn't even hungry. I look, I walked in, I'm like kind of a So I was talking to the guy, and the guy behind the counter struck me as somebody who might have been from Brooklyn. He goes, yeah, so he might have been originally from Brooklyn. Media thirty grandparents were from Brooklyn thirty years ago. Came from Brooklyn to come to St. Petersburg. It was it wasn't that good, Brodie, just as a condo sorc. I'm looking at this pizza and you know, it looks like it looks like conveyor

belt pizza. It looks like you got it from Domino's or like one of the conveyor belt places. You can tell by the crust the color of the cheese is wrong. There's there's no cheese near the crust, so it read it's just terrible. Now, I will say this, So for for a place, like for a place that's you know St. Petersburg, Florida, where you know you're not getting great, amazing pizza anywhere, it was it was passable for like just decent, like a guess, but but it would not stand up to

anything that we have here. You know, it was just like it was. It's the best of it's the best of what was available at the time. Now I can tell that even if I even if I didn't know. The pizza in the background on the table in your picture is little. They look like sugar packages, but they're little packages of crushed red pepper. That is a sign

you're at a pizza place. You're at a ship pizza place, because if they're putting little packages across red pepper instead of the little shakers of red pepper, there are ship pizza place. A real pizza place as shakers, a fresh gray, the cheese reagano crushed red pepper. You don't put packages of red pepper out like your fast food joint. That's bullshit. You have to pass the glass thing with the sprinkler with the metal. That's what that's real or somewhe is offensive.

Now I will I can't, yeah, but listen, but I had to try because I was curious. I never said it was great. Now, Damon John's wrote to us, uh and this is when we don't really have time for email this week, but I want a couple I wanted to talk about like this guy here because it relates to it at the Brooklyn Boys podcast at gmail dot com. Send us your email. UM, my name is Damon. I'm a slice from I'll get this from Iowa. Guess what Casey's pizza, that gas station pizza we keep talking about

it sucks. I took a screenshot of my lock screen of the I Heart app and it has Oh, by the way, this is all of his complaints in one so cases Pete, He's pizza sucks. And then he took the lock screen of the Iron app. It's and Brody's face is covered up. So that's another problem. That that, but you say it's not a problem because you know you're okay with it for some reason. And then and I'm up to episode number one. Uh. And then he also says, Michael Rappaport said he would come back to

you guys in an earlier podcast. I'm up to and still no sign of Michael Rappaport's research reappearance. Well, you know what, Ever, since Michael Rapport screwed me over on the cameo app by uh by putting Bethany Frankel as the person who told him about the app, She's getting like five of all his money instead of me. I got beefoot Rappaport do. I still love the guy and we would have him back on, but he cost me some money. He he you know he did, He repeated me,

he fuck you, Pete. You know, Rappaport screwed me unintentionally. I'm sure it wasn't deliberate, but he threw a bone to Bethany Frankel, who does not need the money, does not also somebody. And then on the opposite side of the case, he's pizza a guest station pizza thinking about that one. Um, so I don't know, I'm trying to find it on my phone right now. I can't find him. Somebody, somebody said pictures pizza and the best, It's fantastic. Here's

the problem. We don't know what to believe. Here's what I no. No, let me tell you about. Forgive me for I don't remember who sent it. I usually screenshot all of the pictures you guys send so I can talk about it. I'll talk about the fake catchup next week that everyone's been sending me. But this picture of Casey's pizza that I can't find on my phone, I'm looking for it. It looked like it was in the trunk of somebody's car with the lid of the pizza

box opened, and they said this is the best. That the tag said, And I don't know if it was someone who was who posted a picture of someone else's post and it wasn't theirs, but it said move over, forget about New York and New Jersey. Yeah, this is the best pizza, and hold on. It was and it was a taco pizza. It had lettuce and taco meat on it and tomato. It was pacing like like a taco vomited on bread. Dude, you can't you want to call it a taco pizza, but don't call it pizza.

And don't say don't you dare claim it's anywhere near our ship. You've never been to New York and New Jersey, right, Well, that's in truck stop gas station taco pizza that you know you were shipping out fifteen minutes later, please, And you know the Pepper packages right next to it, that Pepper packages, the pizza Pepper packages from Pepper Paget. The episode titled Pizza Pepper Pepper Packages. I kind of like

sucked the gas out Pizza Pepper packages. You know, you know funk that you know anyway, we've that we've tweet us pizza Pepper packages and that's pepper. I know, I said pepper people. People, We've talked about this in a previous episode. Unless you're such a worldly person that you've been around to taste all the pizza or taste several cities, you cannot just make this judgment from your armchair, sitting back and your lay easy boy and just say, yeah,

this is better than anything in New York. You've never been here, you've never tried the ship. Two thousand pizza places in New York City in the five Borrows two thousand. You're not getting gas station pizza. That's and I've used this same argument for pizza for you Brody about the New Haven it's a New Haven argument because if you haven't tasted had it. I had New Haven pizza. It's good. It's awesome. Right by the way, if if you go somewhere you guys know you like the signs, you're in

a bad restaurant. So for me, like I mentioned the red pepper packages, the pizza pepper packages, that's a sign for me, not a good pizza place. Um, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know what. You're in a great pizza spot. When they write the specials in black sharpie on a on a plate, on a paper plate. Yeah, and they tap it to the wall and they tape it to the wall. Those are the best pizza spots. And it's usually like all the choke uh and uh and cantloni bean pizza. You're like, oh,

they want to get rid of those two ingredients. So then they're promoting that. We got to a bunch of people have been d m ng me pictures of a ketchup bottle that looks like Heinz Ketchup, right, except when you look closely, it's America's classic ketchup. So it's like it's like it's like trying to be hind SketchUp by saying like, oh, we're America's classic ketchup, which you think

of hinds right, because that's America's classic ketchup. Knock go off ketchup bottle that looks like you know what it's. It's it's it's SketchUp, is what it is. It's sketch up, not real. It's very sketchitty ketchup. It's it's sketch SketchUp, but it's sketchy, it's not real Heinz Ketchup. That to me is a sign like you're cutting back, you're using fake ketchup bottles, and even worse, like you listen, if you use hunts ketchup, at least you're like you're admitting, listen,

we don't have hind SketchUp. It is what it is when you're trying people, right, when you're using the old knockoffs. So Michael sent me that, A bunch of the people have sent me that. Also, I got Marcus sent me on that rely on that note. On that note, it's we had a company did this to us back in the day with this looks like Sony, like the Sony logo written the way Sony called kob Kobe right c O b Y in the same front letters with an

oh in an end Toby Sony. And you look at it real quick and go, oh, those are good headphones. Well that's what they did with this ketchup. How is how are they not being suited for copyright infringement? Is what I want to know. But this catchup, Bottle America, catchup, it's waking the same way. Yeah, speaking of infringement, there's um a gas station that has like a quick Mart not that far from my house, not far from the Walmart, I should says, about a half hour from my house.

And um, it's something I don't know the name of it, but we're gonna just say it's Danny's, like Danny's Quickmart or something. And the D is the authentic copyrighted Disney defunct. Oh my god, So it looks like it looks like it's Disney. H It's bad. That is bad, Like, so you know, no one from Disney Corporation is in that part of New Jersey. But that's some fucking balls. Use the Disney d half. By the way, have you ever tried to suck your own Disney? DA was trying to

my own day. Yeah, yeah, Disney sr Disney. We gotta take a dude, What are we doing? World was at the end of the podcast, let's take a break. I'm gonna piss some people off. I gotta tell you. We are way late. I don't know where. We were literally near the end already and we're just taking our second break. What then are we doing here? I can't. I can't piss people off then all right, because I need a little more time. You need time for that UM the you know one thing I don't get mad. Don't get

one of the Can I I could? I could talk about stamps? We talk about got stamps? Talk about Can I talk about stamps? Yet? You're doing we need to stace. No, you do it right now. Oh, but you had something, you know, it's very very brief on on the topic of um going to another country where they speak a

different language on an airline. They first of all, they interrupt, they interrupt you on your headphones and they cut into the feed but they do it double the time because for every announcement they have to do a second announcement in another language. That's what I experienced. It was English and Spanish. But here's what they are you flying to

scary and not a country. I'm so sorry. No, the no Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, part of America, but they speak a different language, so they have to do the courtesy of making the second bilingual flights. So but the best part of it is, and you'll notice this, I feel like the bilingual, the people in the second language get robbed. And here's why, because I measured the time in my head of every announcement. The English announcement how to be about two and a

half minutes long. Then the bilingual the Spanish announcement comes on and it's literally thirty seconds because and it was like it was pretty much supposed to say exactly what they just said. But I'm like, there's no fun, stable way this motherfucker could sum up what this dude said in English in three minutes in thirty seconds, so I feel like they're missing information. And by the way, that wasn't just that one announcement. It was every fucking announcement.

So so now you've got a situation where I feel like you're not fully informed and you're at a loss because you speak the second language. Because they weren't making the full announcement. It can't possibly be thirty seconds when the original announcement in English was two and a half minutes impossib to span What if the Spanish was like, hey, um, sorry to bother you. How funny was that stupid ship? We just told the English speaking people, if they're just making fun of you, it had to be like how

ugly is that guy in seven seven C? And everybody's looking at you because you're in seventh C. Listen. Uh, My wife and I went on our honeymoon in to Switzerland. We get married obviously. And I don't know if you know this, but Switzerland. Everyone always says I'm neutral, like Switzerland. Why Why is that? Because Switzerland during World War Two didn't choose a side, right, And so Switzerland is in

the middle of other countries. And so to the north, if I'm correct, is Germany, and to the east or west is France. Right, I think to the west is France and to the south as Italy. Okay, So in Switzerland, they speak four languages. Everyone almost everyone in school learns four languages. You learn German, French, Italian and English. So when you're on the trains, and by the way, Switzerland

has the most incredible train system. You can take these amazing trains to glaciers and snow covered mountains and that's how you get around. Um. Switzerland is like um, like Amtrak trains, but really much nicer trains with glass ceilings so you can see the snow capped mountains. It's awesome, right,

But all the announcements are in four languages. So when you get on the train, and if you take like an hour long train ride, it's it's like it's German German, it's talk talk like you know German, that's a terrible German um. But and then it's Italian and French and and so when you hear the English, you then start listening for the other words in the other languages to try to like pick out the words that you recognize, and then by the end of the hour, you sort

of you've learned a couple of words. Right, But imagine your two languages was four. If you're flying to Switzerland or from Switzerland, and the announcements had to be in that many languages. You never watched the movie shot, So, Um, I got a scamboni. I want to play the audio off my phone, UM, if I could find it, because uh oh, now it's not here. That's weird. No, I had the audio from a scam and I don't see

it because it's three it's it's a long scam. I hope I didn't delete it all right, Um, I would Can I teach something next week? Yeah, I've got a I've got a bad I got bad DJ audio for next episode, and I have some I have some more audio from Katie Ba Katy. I'm play, but I want to talk about stamps for a second. This is not a commercial. I know Elvis does stamps dot com. It's not that kind of commercial. I was in a post office on vacation and I was second in line behind

an older woman. And I say older. I want to say she was at least eighty something, and God bless her, Like you know, I'm not. I'm not hating on the lady, like she's still using the US Postal Service. Had I had I had packages. I had to I had to, I had to have something shipped, and I couldn't do it at home, and trust me, and I had to get I had to get a change of address form.

Was there for someone spans? Yeah? Yeah. So anyway, I had to be in the post office for some reason, and I'm behind this woman and she says, can I get some stamps? Woman says, yeah, how many? Would you like? I need to booklets of stamps. What do you have? So the woman yeah, well, here's the thing. You can buy stamps, or you could pick out the stamps of the month. So she says, what do you have? Cute? So the woman says, I have hearts? Nah have those?

I have espresso? No, how about science horses? I have horses stamps with horses. And she says no. Now I'm I'm I already waited on line a bunch of minutes to get to be second in line. So now my leg is shaking a little bit because I kinda I want to go. I want to be in the post office. Well what else do you have? We have flowers? Oh? No, I have them already. So I'm like, if you have them,

why do you buying more stamps? Because this is obviously a woman that doesn't like set up an electronic payment system, pays anything. It sounds like she's a collector. Does that sound like she's really using them at all? No? No, no, no no no no she's no, she's whatever she's doing. So then woman goes, I have Star Wars stamps. Oh. She goes, oh, oh no, I don't like Star Wars.

And that's when I got really made. So finally she settled, she goes, you know what, just give me some Forever stamps whatever, whatever the regular is, I'll get the regular the regular. So here's my question to non eight year old women, who the fuck cares about what's on your stamp? The whole purpose of a stamp is to put it on a envelope and mail it the funk away from never see it again. You're never gonna see it again.

Nobody has ever called me, and you're lying if you say it happened to you and go, oh my god, that thing you sent me You used Yoda stamps, Oh my god, you made my day. Nobody cares. This woman was picking out how to be the perfect set. Oh what kind of flowers there on the stamps? I don't give us, get the stamps that the stamps. Who will kind of stamps. I listen, I used to see this

a lot, like ten years ago. People would do the stamp thing, but like, have you ever gotten a letter from like and it's got like a rose on it. I don't even know, I'm just looking at I never ever judge somebody by the pattern of the stamp on your envelope. Who looks I never. I don't even know

if I have stamps. That that's I'm just happy. I'm excited, Brodie, if I if I have to mail something and I could find the fucking stamps that I used last time, because I don't know where the hell they went, and I always lose them, so I always have to wind up going to the store and buying another book of stamps. Well I used to buy. I used to lose the stamps all the time. You used to lose them all the time, and everybody needed a stamp. I didn't have

a stamp. I go buy more stamps. So you have to go to go to the vending machine to buy the stamps. Is back in the day, right, So a number of years ago, I set up all of my mother's payment plans for for digital like auto pay. Everything is digital now. She used to mail everything, like this woman in the post office. So she's, well, I don't need stamps anymore. Here you take them in case you have to mail anything. So she gave me like a

big bag of full of stamps. But so she's got thirty two cents stamps when they were thirty two cents. I've got forty something cents forty two cents stamp. And then so then because when they increased the prices, this is before the forever stamps. But when they increased the prices stamps, you might have a forty eight cents stamp, but now it's fifty five cents. So you want to buy that, you have to buy the ones that make

up the price. So I got I got sleeves, you know, like whatever they call them, like pads of one cent, two cent, three cent, four cent, five cent stamps. So I mailed something some legal documents that had to be mailed over the over the weekend, and I had to put like, uh, I don't know, they told me at the post office. She goes, I said, how much do you have to put on this thing? It's a little heavier. Shes oh, just put two stamps which is fifty which is a dollar ten. So I said, well, no, like

I have, I have stamps in different denominations. How much is it? She's, oh, let me check, and it was like seventy seventy eight cents or something something like that, seventy seven cents. So first of all, I say, I already thank you. Trying to try to scambony me, she tried to get me to put a dollar tent on the thing because she's like, oh, we just put two stamps. Well, why would I do that if it's only seventy eight cents? Right? So I whip out the envelope of stamps and I'm

putting a thirty two and some five. I'm doing the math now out of the room. On the front of the envelope, I almost covered up the return address. So it's like, well, no, I did. I did, like the fives, so I did, like I did a thirty two, like you diminations of dollar bills dollar right, So I so I pieced together the seventy eight cents. But I still have like sleeves and sleeves of a little little stamps

like ones and fives and three. But the lady at the post office was like, God, just put two stamps on there. Hey, honey, it's my money, like it's it's my it's my value. It's I didn't spend the money, but like, why would I just overpay? So it's good to have those little step amps. I've got a lot of them, that's my point. I have a lot of them. So I just want to say f you Sandy, because I'm assuming her name was Sandy who wanted to pick

out the perfect stamp. Truly, it was like seven minutes of they don't like Star Wars, what else do you have? She might have been a Maryland. I could see her being a Maryland and Maryland so fuck you Maryland, but not in an old lady like funck you way, but more like come on, Malan, like come on, it's like and then she says she bought, and she bought um like one book called a book. She brought a book of stamps of the regular. Just give me the regular.

So don't get behind Maryland at the post office. Now, please don't tell me, you guys slices that you give a fan pick your stamps. This one's got balloons on it, and balloons give me anxiety. Oh, this one's got an astronaut on it and a famous person who I like. You're not listen. If you collect stamps, that's fine. You can be a stamp collector. But if you're picking out stamps just to put on an envelope to pay your gas bill, you have too much. I'm on your hands,

and so do you. David Brody for trying to return fireworks after the you have you let me I brought a full circle. Okay, yeah, did you guys try to have prank? Called me? Wasn't you? It was not me, you dick, it was not. I swear, I swear, all right, I promised. I'd like to know who did put you up to it? One of the old guys from the neighborhood. And you know what, and don't get chitty pizza that calls itself. Boys, boys,