#223: Canada Makes The Best Bagels Eh!

all you've been around. You've been been around a lot of pizza. I see. Yeah. I I did the brook An Italian Triple, the the the the almost impossible, rare like Bigfoot, right, I did the Brooklyn Italian Triple. Now, if you're not from the area, you can be like what. But I I went to arguably the two best pizza places in our area of Brooklyn, in in that section of Brooklyn, the Italian half and well actually one of

them in a in a religious Jewish half quarter. And I had the best rice ball by far in New York. I did the triple. So the first thing I did was I went to De Fara Pizza, the legendary to Fara Pizza where Dominic mcou who made every pizza by you know himself cut the basil with his own rusty scissors or old scissors, and his family is now taken over and making the pizza there. They've franchised for the locations.

I went there. I'll get to that in a minute. Uh. And then I went to while I was in Brooklyn to visit somebody was a thing, you know, not not a joke, and then um, noticing where I was, I then to get on the parkway went to Joseph Avenue you which is like it's a it's a restaurant with like a countertop you can go over to food local Local. Very I don't know if if many slices even know

what they served and what they're known for. A couple of things they're known for the you'll talk about the sandwich, but because I always get the name wrong in Pinell sandwich, Pelli Pinelli sandwich, the famous for peas or whatever. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that sandwich, but only because since I'm a kid. That's how long his place has been there making the same thing, same recipe. So yeah, you visited now to those places and then the Holy Grail. Yeah,

well I'll get today. Let me just tell you what the rice ball special is. It's a fantastic rice ball, which is not just a rice of ball. It's a rice ball with chopped meat in the middle and a couple of peas which I'm an expert at getting out. But they put in a small place to container like a wanton soup. The half container they covered, and a

delicious tomato sauce. But under the tomato sauce is a scoop of Regott the cheese, and on top of the sauce is shredded loc telly romano, which is like cheese from the heavens. And they cover the lid and it melts on top and it's and what happens is the sauce seeps into the rice ball and into the crust of the rice ball and it becomes almost mushy, and it's just perfection. It's almost like you're you're eating hot mush But it's the taste that it has is very unique. Yeah,

and you must try it. And if it sounds disgusting, you don't, you have no idea? Yeah, you have to podcast assume that you have a good to be there anyway. Yeah, and n Pinelli is is these the crushed chickpeas with it which is fried with on with with regotta, and and it's on a bun like a Hamburger bun. And it tastes just as magnificent, but again very unique taste.

It's and it's a very Sicilian Italian thing. And then I continued up Avenue you made a right on stillwell end up all pon heard us talk about that one on this podcast. Now I do have a question for you about the first thing you mentioned. I got to talk about that and we have to address this. We

have to address this. Let me explain. Defara Pizza rated almost every year as not only the best one or two pizzas in New York, which is saying something unless you're from Connecticut and Iowa and you want to get into that dispute, but it's also considered one of the best pizzas in America. And Dave Portnoy, the bar Stool Sports president a gave it a nine point four when he was one. Bye you know how this works, he

did it. Go watch the video of him reviewing Space f A. But that's how you just to give it some levity a nine point four from that man. And by levity, I means humor. By the way, you mean weight, I meant weight, right, yeah, um to give some gravity, some gravity, right, Defara pizza traditionally, and by the way, I'm talking about the Sicilian. The round is fine, but

the Sicilian is where it's at. The Sicilian is normally the perfect sauce, and the crust is blacken and chewy, and you bite it and you go, oh my god, I've never eaten anything like this. Oh it's twice big. The crust is twice big, and it's like takes like ninety minutes to do one pie. It's a long process, however. So so I'm I'm about fifteen twenty minutes away from my first from getting to the farah, and I order in the slice app come on, and I ordered the pizza.

They go, we'll be ready in twenty minutes. We have a pie in the oven. I'm all right at the oven. So I get there. The places they don't they don't let you come inside anymore. They just have the window open, so the gates down over the door and you just go to the window. Now it's a typical pizza place. In New York where it's like that metal countertop and they have like a window that slides up right like it's about six ft wide, and uh, you you order under the window. So I tell give him my name.

It'll be read in a little while. And it's five or six people waiting outside. They get the pizza and and none of them were ordering, like um, I ordered four slices for myself. It's like six dollars a slice, but usually worth every penny. I get the pizza about fifteen minutes later, right out of the oven. They take it out of the oven, they pull a little olive olive oil. They pour on top olive oil right and then and then the sister or the daughter or whatever.

She Maggie, Yeah, I think it was Maggie. I can't swear to it. I couldn't swear it was Magi. Yeah. She she cuts up the basil with the scissors and she goes over and she sprinkles it on the pie. The guy cuts it up, puts my four slices in the box. I'm dying. God. I go to my car. I take a bite. I want want m brody terrible. The crust isn't blackened. It tastes like us five or six in terms of like it's like crust. We hate to do this because we know them. We're almost like

friends of these people. Yeah, I gotta say I was gonna I was gonna call back if we're being honest. Yeah, it just it just fell short of how we know it to be. And I've heard from other people that a similar story. Bro I posted on my Facebook page because I wouldn't do it in Facebook. Is just my friends and family, right, it's not really like public like the slices and everybody. I didn't want to embarrass them in public. And I just said, hey, I went to

these three places. I pulled off the triple. Great, you should see how many scare you did. But a bunch of people, Hey, was how was Defaris? Was it as goods it used to be? Hey, I heard it's not as good as it used to be. Hey, I went there, it's not as good. So I'm not saying that they're not as good. I'm saying because you know they had our president, they went there since Dominic, you know, passed away.

I'm saying when I went, there was no consistency. It did not taste like, oh my god, defara pizza and I didn't complain, I didn't call off. I'm not gonna maybe they had a bad day. I'm not gonna not go again. I'm just saying, boy, it's like meeting your hero and they're not nice. That's how it was. And again, no disrespect. We love them. I'll still give them the benefit of the doubt. But I'm just hoping this was a bump because they never had those speed bumps ever,

you know under Dominic when he was consistency. Think maybe the guy who made the pie was having a bed maybe pulled it out of the oven too soon. Maybe because I was waiting they gave me before they twice baked it and they put it back in the other I don't know now. Well, okay, so so we're gonna leave that there for now inconclusive. Is the Fairies as great as it ever was? Um? Alright, so so so so. Yeah, you did a little you did little pizza tour action.

You spent some time around the neighborhood, which you were eating good in the neighborhood. Um. I decided to not spend any time in my bed at all. I spent like two nights out of the I guess the seventeen consecutive eighteen consecutive days we had off. When you wrapped three weekends around it, it was two weeks and three weekends days usually, right. I spent two nights in my bed.

I went from Montauk out on the east end of Long Island, past the Hampton's which used to be a sleepy old fishing town, which in the last ten years have become like you know, places where you know, it's hard to get in and they have velvet ropes and ship Yeah. The people spoiled it with being popular. Yeah. So that from there, I went all the way down to the Jersey Shore for a weekend. I did you know, I did some appearances at some of our the bars you've heard me talk about. Uh. And then and then

I went up. I did a I pulled something that I've never done out of my ass, and that is a trip to light Bulb. Yeah. I went up to Montreal, Connecticut, Connecticut kick Canada. Canada they call, you know, the the frozen hostile wasteland that Jim Carrey said, how did you say the country's name Canada? Is that how they say? Because I say Canada, Canada, you say Canada, Canada. Jim Carrey did a stand up once They called it a frozen,

hostile wasteland. Anyway, the only town I've ever been to in Canada Toronto, Toronto, yes once, or as they say, Toronto, Brodie. I gotta tell you, I had so much fun in the three nights I went there. But I did a very unscary thing. No I didn't, because that's like the second strip club capital after Tampa. From what I hear, this was one of those things where I had three nights off that were free in the calendar, and it would burning a hole in my pocket. You know, It's

like I must have been killing you. I was like, I can't sit home for three nights in a row during a vacation in the summer. Am I crazy? So my boy Danny what Danny Bottles what we call Danny connections, Danny Connections, I forget his name. The Danny Connections is like, yo, I got the same time off. Let's let's flip a coin, let's do it. We were gonna it was between we we did a couple of coin tosses, okay, and we were gonna go to Key West. We're gonna go to

Nantucket of all places. But we ruled out in Nantucket because we figured, yeah, you know what, that's a place that we've heard that could be for families and couples. And we maybe was a girl from there, Yeah, we know what? Was it a guy? How you want the joke to go exactly? But anyway, and I would was gonna go just so I could come back and do the joke. But anyway, we decided to skip that and then Key West was the other option. Florida and Danny.

Danny has never been there. I've been there once, and it's a it's a nice, cool town where you just put on a T shirt and and shorts and flip flops and then you could waste away again in Margaritaville. It's very casual, you know, the opposite of the Miami clubs and stuff. Flip the coin between Key West and Montreal and said, we're gonna go to one of these two places. How did Montreal get on your your possibility list?

It's so nice. We we took the top five places where between those dates have the has the cheapest flights, and Montreal came Yeah, Montreal came in at one fifty five a hundred fifty five dollars to go there, and then I got another hundred something dollars to come home. It literally was under four hundred bucks, like three fifty or something like that, three seventy five to fly, so it made it very attractive. Key West was in that category too, because we wanted to fly during the week.

Keep in mind, Brodie, I'm going this is a situation where where Montreal is one hour away from New York. I didn't know it was a one hour flight from the New York the three New York airports, and with with uh literally ten daily NonStop flights a day from all three major New York airports, it was a very attractive thing. So we flipped a coin heads was Montreal, tails was key West, and flipped it. It landed on heads Montreal's. It was. This was nine o'clock at night.

I then went online to book the flight. I didn't booked my hotel till midnight, and then eight in the morning I was I was already packing my bag at midnight. All right, here we go on on my way to the airport at eight eight o'clock. Flight was six o'clock in the morning. On my way to the airport. I'm starting, said, oh, we need dinner tonight. I don't know, we started booking dinners. So we literally started booking dinners the day of and the hotel was booked with like seven eight hours to go.

It was the most insane turnover I think I've ever done. And you know me, I like to like plan things out a little bit more, but to just just stop on the dime. You know, you know somebody at at a at a resort chain, you know, somebody at the at the in the club in town. This was did Danny know anyone in Montreal? Ready? This was ready? Fire aim or fire aim ready? This was literally yeah, So we didn't. So we pieced it together with I threw out on on on social media, Hey this is my

first time here. What should I do? Where should I go? So I thank you slices. A few of you, uh and I a few of you slices came up with some great things for me to do, and and so thank you. I appreciate you immensely for for like giving

me guiding me in the right direction. Because between that and some professional, you know, critical lists, I pieced my way through and Danny, of course knows a guy who knows a guy connected him to someone who literally became our savior, like the guy who knew every club owner in in Montreal. So we ended up on every list in town that we needed to Yeah, um and and and those surprise, and I we gotta take a quick break here, and it leads me to where I wanted.

I wanted to stop off for a minute, because Brody, if I talk about nothing else, I want to explain to you why the Montreal bagel is better than New York City bagel. Okay, alright, go to commercial now, because I'm gonna get very upset. We are moving a little bit fast today because uh, we have some stuff we gotta take care of you after the podcast. Anyway, So, unbeknownst to me, Brodie, there is a huge bagel war going on in Montreal. They have some amazing they have

some amazing deli food. They first of all, this place a large amount of Jewish place. There's a place called Schwartzes, which I swear to God mimics cats is deli home of the corn beef on rye with mustard. The line at Schwartzes wraps around the block and you wait for ever it again and it's a jew. They call it a heat rue delicatestine over there. So so places like that were like, look, we have three nights here, we got bucket lit list items and Danny Danny Connections was

on board. He all our days were filled with food and literally going from places that Anthony Bourdine went when he was alive and he did that show like like it was like that. So we were going fast, fast, fast, eating more than we probably should have. So the first thing that happens is we you know, obviously we go to Schwartz Is then we go to a place called Lynette's Lenetsky Light Lunch. Lenetsky Light Lunch was formed in like the nineteen early nineteen hundreds. You walk in, you

feel like you're in the early nineteen hundreds. They would have these they torturing people. Dude, the way that it was painted, and the whole place looked like like like it looked like a general like a like a candy store. This when you ordered a coke or cherry coke, it

came from the fountain they do. They do homemade. They have that little thing that you pull the the lever and then you put it in an nice glass and they add the cherry syrup to it and they make the whole thing like an old fashioned are you're trying to describe a tap tap like a beer tap, yeah, but yeah, but yeah, a soda tap and a soda jerk like literally and but but the only thing you can get was and this is the weird part party and this is where you you'll fight with me on that. Okay, okay,

I'm getting there. So it's a an all beef hot salami oh with with yellow they yellow mustard. Hold on there, they're a fan of yellow mustard up there. They don't have like that deli mud yellow mustard and your choice of three cheeses on a very flat bun. Okay, and then that isnte. This is what Lenetsky's has done. It's like four dollars. It's like it's it's really cheap and it's very light and it's only put like two or

three pieces in it of the salami. And then so the people behind the counter are very our family owned and operated. And there's a sign up and it says, wait a minut, the family is owned and operated. The places owned, but family owned and operated. It's it's this is hot salami, hot beef salami. If you know what I'm saying. My favorite movie. Here's here's the weird part. The sign is up and it says, look, obviously we

only accept cash here. We have some rules. We do not cut sandwiches in half because they're first of all, they're small enough as it is. They refuse to cut it in half. And it says, we refuse to not put yellow mustard on it. Don't don't ask. They said, don't ask. That's just how it is. Don't mess with tradition. Nope. Now hold on a second. This is and I can't understand this. Okay, I get it. If you went to Louise lunch, we're gonna go back to New Haven, Connecticut

from hamburger on the white bread. It was a handburger on white bread, and they will put extra condiments on it because they won't add things to a sandwich. Okay, right, it's a conveyor belt and they're like, look, we're not gonna add things. I understand places that have tradition and they don't want to. They don't have these actually, but you're gonna you not put something off. That's right, it's right.

You could stop yourself. You could put the salami on the bum cheese on the bottom, and no, no, they're doing it. No, no, they're doing it in fucking front of you. That's a problem. They're taking the salami off the grill, they're put the cheese. It's another thing to two. Then stop not being able to stop yourself from picking up the mustard bottle and squirting mustard on it. See, that's that's where That's where I whip out the I'm allergic to mustard seed. I could die. That's where I

whip that out. That's why I tell them that I have a rare disorder and if I don't have catchup on my salami, I could die. Well, me and my but we obviously we had Danny and I Danny connections, and I we both had to get our own sandwiches because they wouldn't cut it in half. So we got our own and I could have ripped it with my fingers, Sampe. They don't give you condiments like that. They don't give you like forks. They've knives, They don't give you anything.

This place of it opens this. I get that. I get that. But the thing is they are so hell bent on I get it cash only, no extras. This is tradition. We want you to experience it just the way they did in the nineteen hundred, say Philadelphia, it's like you go for a cheese, take it's went without like give me cheese, no cheese. They got an option and they give you. They do give you the three options to cheese. You what, Mutchell, you want American or you want it's Swiss. But I swear to you Brodie

cheese options. But not a mustard, Danny, Danny said. Danny said, well I don't. First of all, I like mustard, so I didn't care. Danny's like, oh no, no no, no mustard on mine. And like all three people behind the counter like it looks like they look like they see they go yes, signed yes. And then the guy with the spatula points up at the sign with the spatula and he goes and there it is is a picture of a mustard bottle with a face on it, and it said that was That was where it said, don't mess

with tradition. We will every single sandwhich comes with mustard, whether you like it or not. So so there it was the guy mustard you mustard you all everyone gets mustard. You get mustard, you get mustard. But it's the most asinine. It's the most asinine rule I've heard in my life, because we saw them pull the salami off the grill and with this bachelor put it in the bun, he put the cheese on it, and then he has to

walk over to the mustard bottle. Now, why can't the guy be a nice guy and just hand fucking Danny his sandwich? What the hell does he have to go bloop and then close it up and handed him like that ice cream place. I told you that wouldn't put two scoops, two different flavors in a cup. But this is different, all right, just right, right, right? Yes, and no, actually it's similar because it's like, what what difference does it make if I dipped my hand in the chocolate

versus the strawberry. Well, they didn't want pete, They didn't want the kids to have to go from like one end of the long counter. Okay, so maybe that's a little more time consuming. I'll tell you what, we're saving them time by not applying mustard. They would they refuse to hand the sandwich over without squirt mustard on the damn thing. Shocking anyway, that's that. And then and then, and then then the bagel war began. I'm not like, can I just interrupt for a second because you're talking

about mustard, which I hate. Yesterday, I think it was yesterday. It could have been a day before, it doesn't really matter. Hines was trending on Twitter. So I thought number one, did Hinz die? Because when you see famous thing like did they die? But I thought like, oh, maybe Heinz has a new product out, you know, like this is exciting. It turns I got a very scared scary. I was very scared. You know, my hens catch up and we're

very you know, they were. They were just they announced that they're no longer gonna have the naming rights to the Pittsburgh Steelers stadium. Hines fee. But I got scared for a second that I'm okay with that because I don't like the Steelers, and so for me, I was always torn, like, but I like Hines and they they have the stadium. Not enough to worry about it. Now it's like they're gonna be some you know, whatever stadium they're gonna be. When I saw Heines, I got little worried.

Uh the mustard thing. Now, I'll tell you what. Let me say the bagel thing for a minute. Let's tease you with the bagel thing. Um, just you guys who google in the meantime, uh Fairmount bagel and sat Viatore bagel. That's a v I A t e u r. The one sounds like a New York bagel place did not named after the French streets that they're on in Mile End, Montreal, Okay, And there are there are two blocks from each other, and they are the biggest they they fight like cats

and dogs. They are the biggest bagel rivalry. They hate each other. It's like Pats and Geno's in Philly cheese steaks. It's like you name, you name, the classic war. But so so bagels first of all, are a thing in Montreal. They are a thing. They're legitimately. I didn't know there they could make bagels good outside of New York. Now.

You know, we make fun of you know, we make fun of a lot of things, and when when it comes to bagels, we usually leave this area and go to other cities and America and other areas of the world. Were like bagels, It's all about a New York bagel funk that you can't reproduce a New York bagel. Well in Montreal. I want to just say, for people in Philadelphia listening, it's what you called a bagel a bagel. Yeah, so that's what we're talking about for the Philadelphians. Love

you guys. So I was my jaw hit the floor when I even found out there were this many Jewish people living there, and there was not only the schwartz Is Deli O and Arthur's Nash which is another place, but all these Jewish places were from the nineties, twenties and thirties and forties, and this Lenet Sky like lunch place I just went to that I was My mind was blown because I always thought Montreal was just a French influenced, you know city, and they have like an old,

old area that looks like an European city and you're not in like North America anymore. I didn't know it how to Jewish, not knowing anything about Montreal. Correct, I had to learned as I as I went, and I quickly found out their bagel situation is serious. They love their bagels, and so of course here I come in Mr Hyen, mighty New Yorker and I went to the Fairmount Bagel place and I ordered a bagel with cream cheese. Okay, okay, first of all, you're gonna love this with two Brodie.

They they you go, you go, you order the bagel and it's coming hot off the conveyor belt. Why would you say I'm gonna love it? Do I already know I'm not gonna love yes, because I know because you're gonna scream right here, right let me scream. You're gonna scream because they're both places did this to me. Hold on, I'm getting my I got a pillow here. Let me let me get my pillow. They do bagels the same way. Onion, sesame, poppy, everything,

you know whatever. They're coming off the conveyor belt. They hot one comes off. They hand it to me and I'm like, I wanted this. Can you cut this? And can I have uh cream cheese? And they look at me and they're like, we don't cut the bagels. Here's a plastic knife, and we don't put cream cheese and butter. If you want single, if you want single serves, hold on any time. They're fifteen cents each. They give you the little ones that you would get, like you a

little side of cream cheese individually. So I opened the refrigerator door and I get to cups of Philadelphia cream cheese. Oh, by the way, they sell they even, sir, they even sell the jelly, the plastic jellies, you know it that way you rip the foil off, you get like on the side of your You know that they serve the butter and the jelly like you do in a toast and a dinner. When they give you extra, you peel.

You peel the top off. Dude, you're fifteen cents each, So like how many okay, that's three jellies and two cream cheeses and they're like fifteen fifteen fifteen okay. So just imagine wherever you live in America, whatever the food is where you're from, that you know how it's made. Imagine going like that's how you make barbecue, Like that's what That's how I feel right now that you would give cream cheese and a thing and unwrapping like you

gotta get it yourself. Say say no, here's a plastic knife and go to the refrigerator there, take three cream cheeses out and they had all this. So they're selling this selling butter and cream, cheeses and jellies. Oh my, it was very funny. So like, all right, you know what, and then we'll go make our own bagel outside. We'll like stand over a mailbox and cut it into himself checkout at a grocery store. You do it all the work, but I will, I'll say so. So that I went outside,

we dressed the bagel up, me and Danny. We split half half. I've been into it. This is the Fairmount bagel to open the nineteen nineteen I believe it was. It was okay, it was right on par with a very good New York bagel, like are very doughey, it has that baked taste and whatever the case, and like, okay, fine, very good, excellent, excellent, right alright, Brodie, it was it was really good. Okay. Then we walked over to St. Viator Bagel. Now the St. Viator bagel is a less

Brady bagel. The bagels there has given me Stacy's Pizza vibes, Like it doesn't sound like a bagel place to me, it sounds like a cross salt place. Well, apparently, according to Montreal people, this bagel place kicks fair amounts ass. So I had to see what this is all about. Is this the the fara pizza of bagel? Place? Yes, walked in, did the same process, plastic knife, individually charged, where you go out. We dressed the bagel. Take one fucking bite. By the way you dressed the bagel. That

sounds so non new. Will you dress it? You spread it? I put the ship on the bagel. I put a schmir cream cheese on. I put a schmir right. Okay, I've been into it. It was fucking fire. It was brody, it was It was the best. I'm going on record here the best bagel I've ever eaten, hands down. And that includes any place in Brooklyn, the five any of the rest of the five Barros, Manhattan, North Jersey. Killing

me brody, I'm gonna say. And when the guy left, first of all, as good as the bagels at Saddel's. You bragged about fund for days. Better than a Siddel's bagel. Here's and and here's well. First of all, the guy behind the counter, cocky son of a bitch. So he goes, oh bagel without mustard, he said to me, No, he said to me, goes, listen, he goes. He's all, you're doing the bagel thing. He goes, you're from New York. Okay,

he did you do fair amount? I said, yeah. So first of all, he knocks his competite down the block. That's if he goes because dude, you can't have those, because you gotta you have those. Now you have these, and you're gonna be ruined for life. Our bagels are better than their's. Oh and you're from New York. You don't eat bagels, he fucking insulted me. He goes, you eat bread, you guys, he pointed at me, because you guys are eating bread in New York. He goes, taste

my bagel. So I'm like, I'm like, all right, so and I'm gonna tell you. They boil their bagels in a sweet onion bath first, and you know which, and I could caramelize his situation. It makes the bagel have an overall sweet taste to it. Then they do the baking process and do what they due to it. But man, oh man, it was and it was a little less bready, and I kind of liked it, and it was crispy and brody, and listen, here come to here come the

fucking complaints. You haven't tried Union Utopia bagel on Union Turnpike and Queens arguably the best bagel in New York because critics say, so, I haven't you You haven't tried this bagel, You haven't tried that, And here come to the bagel people now and everyone's doing. That's what you're doing.

Imagine slices. You live somewhere where like you live in South Carolina with a barbecue is the best barbecue, right you believe like where you're from, and Scary tells you know you haven't had barbecue till you go to Seattle. Like that's what you're doing right now. I know I'm doing it. I'm putting it all out there too. Philadelphia. You don't know cheese steaks until you go to Alaska and have cheese steaks. That's what you are doing right now.

These right here are perfect analogies. And I'm gonna stand by. I am willing to put my head in the Gilly gillotine and say, taste it, Taste all the bagels. And if you think you don't can Anecticutte Scary saying right now, you don't know pizza until you go to Montana. That's what's scary saying right now, this is blasphemy. It is and Brody I wanted, I'm like you, I want New York. I wanted so badly to walk in there and hate it. I was a fucking hater and I'm like, let me

see what this is all about. This is a bunch of bullshit. You know were you were you drinking? No, this was twelve o'clock in the afternoon. I hadn't had one little piece of alcohol, not one drop of alcohol, serve alcohol and chunks all of that. What are you

talking about? But one? And so with that said, I'm gonna tell you the St. Viatore bagel, bagel, whatever you wanna call it, bagel, bagel, okay, is outstanding and it's probably this at this point the better let's put this way better than it is the best bagel that I've that I've are tasted. I'm gonna go out there. It's my number one and it's higher than any New York bagel I've ever had. And Fairmount Bagels are right there on par with some of the best New York bagels

they've got. Fair in the name I I wish I would have been able to bring some home. Did you ask if they shipped them for you. You know what, I bet you if you're going gold Belly, it's there, but it's probably it's probably not the same. Let me say something at gold Belly not a sponsor. Gold Belly is a company that gives you access to the finest of every state's food that you can have shipped to your house. If you're a fucking millionaire. They it's like

ten times depressed. I want to get Geo Dano's pizza shipped to my house, my favorite Chicago deep dish pizza. Here it is ty dollars for two three pies. They're like, oh, the pizzas like twenty five dollars and the shipping is a hundred and fifty dollars. Here it is Bertie on on gold Belly the st Viator bagel shop, the home of Montreal's iconic bagels. Okay, first time, how many bagels you get? I'll try to guess the price. How many bagels? Oh? No, this can't be right. I thought it was a type

at first. No. God, you know why they called gold Belly because your belly actually has to be made a goal to afford it. Go ahead and tell me how many bagels you get, and I'll tell you what the price is. I'm not looking them on online. Go ahead to two dozen bagels. Now, I'm assuming this dozen bakers, dozen twenty four bagels of your choice, assorting whatever. By the way, five dollars come on, man, um, No, no, no, no, sixty four dollars plus bagels, two dozen, twenty four bagels.

That's okay, that's not too less than three dollars a bagel plus Wait wait, ship ship shipping right, No, no, this is just on the shipping Amazon that ship. Let me add two cart Actually, you know what, Bertie check out. Let me see how much it's gonna cost me. Yep, for dollars at least. Uh oh, it wants me to go through this first. Nothing's under a hundred dollars scary, Come on, let's not. Let's not here. We're not gonna

be allright, Um, alright, sixty four dollars alright? So shipping, alright, So even if it's eighty four bagels, obviously, if you walked in, that's a rip off. But for them to ship internationally, that's that's the problem. They're not gonna come hot out of the oven. They're gonna send it. Frozen pizza is different. They're gonna eat a pizza. You can't eat a bagel. Frozen bagel, No, that's gonna have the

same quality. Alright, so listen if you but if you want to treat you want to ship it to your house, I'll pick up half. I would do that. I'll go half for you. Yeah. Well anyway, right, okay, okay, we'll move on. Um, just know that here I am declaring this, it could be all out war between the mustard and the bagel story. I'm I'm never going to montre all right, so let's take a quick break. Let's get recent. But have a bone to pick with you? Say I got a bone to pick with you? Okay, let me end

up my pants slices. Do you have that friend who says things like I'm never going to a three D movie and wearing those stupid glasses. You guys are eightiots, and then you find out they went to a three D movie? Right? You have that friend who says, oh, I'll never eat frozen bagels from a bag, and then you find out he's eating frozen bagels from a bag. You have that guy who stands on a high horse. You know that that girl that that who's like, I'll

never use makeup that's tested on animals. But then you find out she really likes that lipstick that was tested on animals, even though for years she's been ranting against it. You all have those those pist off about those super uh those friends that are like high and mighty about something. Oh, I would never do that. Then you catch them doing it, and you disapine. You look at them and you want to just vomit. You look at me, go, I don't even know who you are. You're dead to me. Who

are you? Well, my friends, Scary Joe Bones has become that person. Do you have any dramatic music? Imagine scary hitting dun duntone, dun dundone. If you've listened to this podcast, you know that's Scary Jones and I. It's together. We agree on this. We are purists when it comes to music. We feel you should appreciate music. I know where you're going with this now, whether it's new or old. You should be a fan of music. You should be a student of the game. You should not wear a Yankees hat.

If you don't know baseball, you should you should know. You should be a Yankees fan don't wear the Yankee had is a fashion statement. Well, Scary Jones many times on this podcast we've talked about this gets annoyed when he sees mostly younger people in their twenties or teenage kids, uh wearing a Nirvana shirt or a Beetle shirt or a Maiden shirt, and then if you asked him about it, they go, I don't even know who this is. I don't know guns and Roses. I just wear the shirt. Scary,

would you admit that drives you crazy? Bat slices. You've all heard Scary. I've done it. He's done. No, I'm not gonna die it. It's all there. You can go back to the episodes and hear me talk about this. For me, it's always the eighties metal. If I see someone in a Deaf Leppard shirt or a kids shirt and then don't know the music, I go, you know what, that's my music. Shut the funk, get that shirt off. For Scary, it's always Nirvana or Pearl Jam because that's

for beastie boys. He gets so mad when he sees a Guns and Roses shirt because he knows they don't know Guns and Roses. They can't name three songs? Am I right? Scary? Yeah? Sure he shouldn't sign off early Monday, Monday July twelve, Monday July eleventh, my friends strap in baby because it's like it's the equivalent of Scary Sandies are the best bagels in the world. In Canada, Scary Jones came in wearing his shirt that said Jimmie Hendricks on it. I rest my case Scary Jones does not

like Jimmie Hendricks. Scary Jones, I said, Scary, you don't like Jimmy Hendricks. Huh what scary name three Jimmy Hendricks songs? Guess what he could not I said, I said Purple Haze, and then I started grappling. Yea, but here's the first just say, you know, grappling not a Jimmy Hendricks you. So when I bought the shirt a Target, I bought it at l of the theory was it theory? No? No, it was Lucky did as as the label Hippo crypt

you know Lucky brand jeans. In the mall, they were running a T shirt sale and it was like three for blank. So I've had two shirts in my hand and then the third shirt and I'm looking at the pile, and I was attracted to this light purple lavender. I do like shades of lavender, purple and pink. I really do. I wear that a lot. So like, oh my god, I'm sure fifteen year old emo kids like black T shirts with guns and Roses logoes on. I said, look

at this lavender shirt. It looks it doesn't look like any of the rest in the in the he went to Target in Jersey City together and a kid walked out in a guns and Roses shirt and you said, oh, I want to just rip that shirt off that kid. Do you remember that? How angry you got? Yeah? Yeah, to go on? So you wanted you needed the third shirt to get the discount. We love a good discount. It was also the best color shirt of the lot.

I'm like, oh my god, it's unique. It sticks out, and it's just happened, to say Jimmie hendricks on it. It just happened. So I grabbed it and then I wore it that day, and now it should be told. I know, I know Jimmy Hendricks I know a few of his songs. But when you when you gu when you do gun, when you do gun to your head, he used to light his guitar and fire used to like pour gasoline on it. What was unique about give me one thing that was unique about the way he

played guitar versus most guitar players. He was a left handed guitarist. I give you that, Okay, I'm a left I'm a lefty, so I can respect that. And I knew that he's the left handed guitarist, and he used to. He played that guitar arguably better than any one else that's ever existed. But when you do gun to the head and you say scary name three Jimmy Hendrick songs, I was like Hamma, Hamma, Hama hama because I couldn't my mind couldn't think of all along the watch Tower.

It couldn't have it didn't think of hey, Joe, you know what I'm saying it. But I should have known those, and I should have been able to put a Foxy Lady another great one. I can't name any beyond that, but I should have actually had those, because those were his hits, Foxy Lady, All along the watch Tower and

Purple Hayes, Red House, a Little Wing. What you should have done was you should have said, you know what I'm gonna buy this shirt, but to do a justice, to be a man of a man of character, I'm gonna go on on on I Heart Radio and I'm gonna listen to Jimmie Hendrick songs and I'm gonna want it and understand it. So if somebody comes up to me like Brody, I'm gonna know the songs. I wasn't

prepared when you I didn't expect you. You You just said scary the first day back from a two week vacation, where I might point out you could have been listening to Jimmy Hendricks where I made where I made point out that my brain is still on vacation because we came back from two weeks of my brain being mush. I'm just some of the words. You were a big Jimmy Hendricks fan before vacation. No, I'm just saying what was for me back when I was with my friends

back in the day. We used to listen to that old school classic rock, and we used to listen to Jimmy Day must of all my boy Jason Smaller, Jimmy Hendrix is one of his favorite artists of all time. I could saying you're old scary, but went back in the day Jimmy Hendricks wasn't classic rock. It was just rock at that point. No, I'm talking about the night in the nineties. Jimmy Hendricks music from the early seventies,

late sixties was classic. Alright, you're saying back in the day, nineties, right, So I yes, I know I could sing his songs Foxy Lady, his songs or sing a chorus one and I know all along the watch Tower, I know that. Um what Joe, Hey, Joe, that's it, sing Joe for me, give me, give me purple Hayes, give me purple Haze. Did you know did you know Andrews played he played left handed, but he actually played a right handed guitar upside down? Did you know that, dad? I didn't know. Yeah,

so he played upside down. They didn't. They didn't do what Paul McCartney does and and play an actual guitar, a left handed guitar. He obviously played a right handed guy. Look at any picture him the guitarist upside down. Because I am at from what I remember, I don't enough to tweet me about it. I believe he didn't have the money to buy back in the day. You know, he had to learn he had to learn everything in

reverse order, or wow, that's talent. Yeah, and you know what, to show that man respect for being one of the greatest guitar players of all time, for being a rock guitarist at a time when when that when black musicians were not doing rock me using, even though some would say they invented it. Uh, you do not pay the man any respect by wearing a lavender shirt, not even

purple like purple haze, a lavender shady. Okay, alright, alright, alright, you got any system you Okay, Now, I just the only thing that made me manner this week was the woman at Whole Foods. Can I tell you about the woman Whole Foods? What happened? Because okay, you know those people, let's say they exaggerate a word or they say it in such a way like they'll go, they'll like, they'll always go, I'm going to tar Jes right like after the fourth time, it's like you're going to target. Cut

it out. Or they're like, oh, I was in Paris. You were in Paris, cut it out. So I'm in Whole Foods. Young couple, thirties, you know, good looking couple, he says, uh, you want to push the colt. She says, no, bab no bad, bad you push the clot. She goes, you know what, she says, do we need bubble, which I assume she meant champagne, right. So he says, no, I don't think so, I think we're good. Oh we

always need some bubble. She was, let's baby, let's she was baby, let's pick up some bubble for the weekend. And he goes, no, I think we're good, like not like not baby talking back to our like just going like normal like, no, no, we're good. Just you know, you know, you know, we're gonna have some bubbla this weekend. We always need some bubble. Baby, let's pick up some bubble. And I'm like, oh my god, I gotta away from this woman. I gotta get I gotta walk away. We

gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of this place. Okay. So what were you singing? Yeah? So I'm it's the fruit and vegetable section. So I'm looking at the tomatoes. I have to go. I'm in the tomato area and they're like in the area, So I where am I gonna go? I want to get tomatoes and so This went on for a few minutes, and she's like, well, we need cucumbers and blah blah. You know, don't let me forget what we needs some bubble because

we should get like a couple of different bottles. He's like, no, I really think we have enough in the house. She she must have said it like nine times, but like after like the fourth time, just go just call it champagne or just say bottles. But she kept saying bubble. What I wanted to say, like, hey, honey, can you stop, Like it's fucking champagne. Like even if she called it bubbly, if she called it bubbly would be annoying, don't you agree.

He's like, let's get a bottle of bubbly. Terrible, terrible, but like bubble, we should get a bottle of bubble. Oh my god. Now he's married to that. And you know that's not the only word she says. You know that there's other words, of course, you know, do you want to get some parfet part was some frozen yoga. You know there's other like every other words she's got to say, like what a fucking thing. At the end,

so bubble, fuck you, bubbling lady, bubbling later. Bubb later was lyric there must be some out of the thief along the watch tower. That's right, there must be someone see I know, I know, my Jimmy, come on myself. Do you know what he's singing about? No, I couldn't

tell you. I don't think anybody on this listening to this. Okay. So, so as far as the way people say things, you were there this morning, I almost got into a not an argument, but Elvis and I were going back and forth a little bit this morning because he took it very seriously. My friend put up a high coup, which, if you know a thing about high coups, is like a poem that's five syllables seven and it's of the

Japanese descent. Yes, So he put up a high coup and it was something like, um, four was theater well? Was theater worth? Thor? Was theater worthy? Was the first line? Thor? Was theater worthy? How many syllables is that four? Or was yeah? Theater? Oh that's a tricky one. Theater where the case either it's gonna be either six or seven.

So right, So so because because the theater is arguably three syllables, or is it too well, that's the thing, and it may have been there, it may have been four theater where it may have ben four theater worthy or theater or whatever it was was something, but I thought it was full syllable. But don't some people say theater, well the I don't say theater, but the British people, British British people say theater okay, and Canadians spell it

like r E theatre right. So I I made a joke and I said, I wrote a high coup about how he owes us a syllable and I'm disappointed. So he wrote back, what are you talking about? I go with theater two syllables. Now look admittedly scary. You know, I'm a grammar nutt. I'm like theater. So I google how do you pronounce theater? And I get videos and and English professors and they're all like theater th h E E d E R the theater. You go to the movie theater. So I said, Elvis, it's theater. It's

two syllables. He says, so did he and Nako it's theater so that because it's theater. So I go, yeah, theater, here's no no, there's an a in their theater. He's saying three syllables. But no, you're not. You're saying theater. He goes, no, I'm saying theater. I go, you're saying theater. He goes, no, I'm saying theater. Theater. He goes, it's fast. I go, I don't cow fast. You're saying it. It's not there. So he was insisting, scary. I I know

in the in the dictionary it's three syllables. I get that, But do you know anyone that says it is three syllables because theater? No, we slour our words. I'm looky, I opened my mouth to speak half this country. When they when they put music together, it's like they're more. They got marvels in their mouth and they're going they're lazy. They're lazy, even from a part of the country where did you eat three sella is jet right? It's one syllable.

So so yeah, I can't I can't protest it because I yeah, this is what we this is what we were accustomed to. We're accustomed to people's shortening things. We're lazy. We got lazy tongue. Lazy tongue. We've got a commercial break, another one. We're just trying to keep on pace. Here. We got a couple more left, and we've got some more things to talk about. Get the Scambony jingle ready, scary, I get ready? Yes, okay, but first I want to tell you about a grand reopening. It's the podcast. It's

just like you're about to do a commercial. But I was not aware of it. Oh wait a minute, scary. We well, we'll get to that in a second. Let's leave that to the end, all right, And it's just a teaser anyway, but we'll get to I still want to forget. We have some housekeeping things. We want to tell you about, some exciting new things happening. And have that jingle ready to I will yes, yes, yes, all right, but really quickly, just a big shout out to the

New York Aquarium. And I'm saying this with goose bumps. And I talked about a quickly on the Big Show. Okay, half the other jingle ready by And I grew up in Brooklyn, you know, Brooklyn. I don't know if you guys know that, listening to the Brooken Boys podcast, and for years, as kids the brook we would go to the New York Aquarium as children, you know, we it was it was not only the local aquarium, but it was the only aquarium in New York, New York, the

New York City, New York City. It's the New York Aquarium. And this is where we got to see marine wildlife and and all kinds of beautiful things. Now it's seen its day and it's suffered over the years. But when Hurricane Sandy came around in two thousand twelve or yes, it was decimated. It was like, forget it, because it

was it's it's in Coney Island on the water. Two or three two of the exhibits, one of them would just two of them hadn't even opened yet, and the and the thing got just crushed like totaled, and then the other couple were drowned out, and it was just it was a fucking mess. So over the years they've hobbled back. I would say that they were crippled, and

then we would say they they paddled back. Yes they did, and little by little they opened the you know some you know, you know, they opened some exhibits here and there. Here we have they have they have they finished hi. So here we are, ten years removed from Hurricane Sandy. And I just want to say congratulations because I they gave me a walking tour of the brand new, reopened, refurbished, bigger,

better than ever New York Aquarium. After ten years. The entire aquarium is over and I'm sorry it's the quiet. Entire aquarium is opened and they're at full capacity. Because COVID also set them back where you had to buy to specific tickets and certain exhibits were closed. It was pretty much like mask half open amusement park and it's like, oh, those four rides are closed, but you know, enjoy these

three until COVID had to wear Scooba mask. Yeah okay, yeah, So anyway, congratulations to you guys at the aquarium, and everyone should go to the New York Aquarium. You know, when I think of the aquarium, you know what I think of what hit the jingle? Bitch? What are you

talking about? Hit the jingle? Scary? I don't get I did not hear a disclaimer at the beginning, Oh the one where it says, oh, by the way, Jones about to say, I've also I also endorsed them for the radio station they are they are a part of they are a client of mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they but they're part of the Wildlife Conservation Society. We're very you're very concerned about the Bronx zoo. Is is one

leg of that. Okay, you know what, people can go on the website here, I'm just saying, I'm not I'm not getting half the money for this commercial. Doesn't mean anything. It means Brodie, a Brooklyn and iconic Brooklyn treasure. That I was educational for our children and the future of the avenue. You not a sponsor, doesn't pimony. God, not as fine. I just talked about for the peace. I'm just here for the isis out of the goodness of

my heart. I'm shining a light on something that's educational. No, but yeah, no, but well the only real Okay, guess what. Had I not been the ambassador for them, I might not have known all these in this information. So I thank I thank them for making me the ambassador of

the New York Aquarium. Scary Scary gets special Ambassador parking and he gets a say, I'm just I thank you, guys, because now you've opened my eyes to what's going on there, and that now I could spread the good word that it's open and full and and and yeah, this is not a commercial, this is a public service. Well, okay, come on, it's aim. Why don't we to the zoo we talked about. Why don't we tell since we're talking about aquariums now great they are, why don't we talk

about the incredible Camden and Aquarium. We could, but I don't know anything about it. Right if they talked me about it, if someone say, hey, scary, shout us out the Candid Aquarium because because they wrecked us and we were closed during COVID in Narrow open you listen. There's a lot of businesses that need our help. I'd like to hear you mention all of the people that were damaged during Okay, don't be a snowflake now, because because this is what snowflakes do, they go down this road,

not with us. You know, you hit the jingle. That's fine, We're good, all right. I'm as fact. I happened to love I listen. My father was a police officer in Coney Island. I went to the aquarium for free my whole life because he would walk me in and they would let me in as a courtesy, and so, and we went on school trips there and so I'm a big fan of the big fan of the David. What were you you know, what were you about to say? Uh about what you teased? Something you said? Oh, scamboni

scam SI, Yeah, I get that scam. I got a three scambonies for you, all right? Actually got sam. Oh my god, cools trying to pull the wool over our So, my cousin and I are at the the Bridgewater Mall in Lovely Bridgewater, New Jersey, home of what used to be ten years ago, the best food court in the area, but not any longer now it's average. Now half the food court they turned into retail stores, so not not as good as it used to be. So we're walking around and I have to say, scary. Look, we had

a global pandemic. Malls were not the most popular place. They still learned, right, but it's been declined for the past twenty years. Yes, they have not recovered though from people not going shopping. Plus now on top of that, because of the pandemic, people got even more used to shopping online. Right. So the mall, Although I love walking the mall, there a lot of empty stores and a lot of the stores that were there all had signs sales.

Sales signs uh in chalk, you know, like those those sandwich boards that like the that you put them out, the A shape boards. Uh, Eddie Bauer fifty up to fifty sent off. By the way, we talked about this, up to fifty pc off means one thing in the store that you don't want is off, and everything else is tempert sent off or twenty which is still you know, we know the it's kind of the the um what the bate and switch or the or the they wiel

you in. They pull you in with one razzle dazzle moment and then oh, by the way, look over here instead. But not only did they do the up to Scamboni, every sign advertising a sale had a different version of these expressions. Big sale exclusions apply, big sale, some exclusions apply, big sale. Some exclusions may apply. Big sale exclusions apply, ask for details, so big sale ever, So so we were in I was, I went into Eddie Bauer and uh, and the sign of Eddie Bauer said everything on sale.

Some exclusions may apply. So do I say everything's on sale or no? No, the sign said everything on sale except where marked. So I'm looking at shirts that are on sale and next to them were some other item, another type of a zip next something, and it said it's specifically said not on sale. So the guy comes over and he says, uh, hey, those shirts are to let you know, and uh, those shirts that you're looking at right next to them, uh, those are not included

in the sale. I said, yeah, the sign says not not included. Yep, I'm good. He says, yo, Well people think that. I go no, I saw the sign. So he goes, yeah. Well, you know, people get upset when they think everything's on sale. So my point is two points. Number one, if you don't read the sign, don't get mad at people, but get mad in general because they

can't just v a sale. They gotta they gotta slip in the like you get all excited because you look in the window and you're like, oh, that sure looks great, right, and they go, now, that's not included, not included. So what's on sale? Scary the ship? The ship? You know that shirt? You want that that that really beautiful blue shirt that goes with your eyes. You can have the orange and yellow one. What about the Jimi Hendricks lavender T shirt? That's not sale? You buy two, you get one,

freak this scale. Okay, so that's my first scam the exclusions of fly scale. Um, my second scamboni is okay, we are. I'm not going to say the pandemic is over because it's not. In fact, sadly a coworker of ours lost a close relative. It's still going on. I get that. But people have taken advantage. And so when you go to concerts or celebrity events, now there's really no meet and greets, right, there's no backstage meeting greets. They're all not doing them. But now what they're doing

is virtual meet and greets. So slices. I want to know your opinion on this. I'm watching I'm watching the Mets game and they're like, oh, you can enter this sweepstakes to win a virtual meet and greet with first base brim Peterlanzo. Now I know that it might be a little bit okay, like it's probably fun to be on a face time with Pete Alanzo. Again, I love it's pretty much face timing or zooming with Pete Alonzo. That's what that's a virtual meet and greet. It's like

watching porn. You're not actually having sex. That's virtual sex. So a virtual meet and greed is like it's you virtually meet. No you're not. You're like he's on a screen. You're on a screen. He might as well be on television. Yes, you're talking to him, but it's personalized and it's real time feedback. It's like he sees you, you see him, and you get to talk to him and ask you questions. How easy is it for Pete? I love Pete. I look,

Pete does a lot of charity work. I'm not nothing against Pete or the Mets, but that's the culture we live in right now, is the virtual meet and greet. But you're the celebrity. You're sitting home going, uh, dial into this guy or they or like you just sit there and they let let people dial into a main number. Like so, I like, I think that's a scamboni. It is a scamp Well, I don't know if that's a scamboni.

I just think that that's that pandemic culture has now bled into post pandemic culture, and they're gonna use those tag dicks and carry them over now and going forward, and that's going to be the new norm. And I don't I think we need to go back to pre pandemic where this wasn't an option or even a thought, But now it's like, you know, everyone's doing it. Look, baseball pretty much working from home, right, Baseball players go up to people in stands. They still they go updates

sign autographs there. You know they're not afraid to interact with the people, right, Yeah, I just and I look again, it's nothing about Pete. I love Pete and he does a lot of great has a foundation. It's not about Pete. Just reminded me. I think the virtual meeting great. Look if if my favorite rock star would be on my laptop and I had a conversation, that's it will be okay. But it's not. It's not the same. It's just that. So I think that's it's not it's not the same.

It's not the same. So maybe they should show me the virtual Jimmy Hendricks fan. So I think you're having the problem with the term meet and greet because you're not really because you're not really meeting them, right because in your mind meet and greek is happening live in person. I think you should go face time. But I'll say that it's not a bones that the name, it's not sexy it's not sexy to say as sexy to say

FaceTime with Pete as virtual meet and greet Pete. You're getting the great he's gonna go hey, man, he's gonna say hi to you. But are you really meeting someone? If you VI, if we had a Brooklyn Boys event and it was on zoom that I mean, you guys wouldn't be like, oh we met the Brooklyn Boys. You didn't really meet us. You wouldn't tell your friends, hey, I had virtually met the Brooklyn Boys. All right, So what do you have? Another scamboni? And then we gotta

take another break, and then we got two more scambonies. So, uh, you you've gone to call washers? Right? Yes, every call washer I've ever been to does the call wash scamboni. If you live in a place that doesn't do this, god bless you. But at least in New York and New Jersey, they all do to scamboni. Know what the

scamboni is scary? You know? You know the menu of prices, you know, like, oh, sixteen dollars for the exterior, only eighteen for the will will vacuum the floor undercarriage wash for like ten marriage simonized simonizing, and you're undercarriage washing. You got out the wheel bright bright back, and then your wheels at the end, and then they do that, they paint that black shit all over your tire at

the very en armor all. Now imagine imagine going into a restaurant and you order the food, and then after you order it, you get to see the prices on the menu. That's what the car wash does. They make you get in the line, they make you wrap around, and then when you're third in line and can't get out of the line, you see the sign with the prices. Right, Okay, we saw the prices at the beginning before you got into the line that has the polls on both sides,

so you're trapped. You'd go nineteen dollars for a car wash, the funk out of here, and you'd leave and go to the next one. You don't know, well I didn't well, well, first of all, you know, you know, shout out to that at price. It's because it's too Yeah, high five to that car wash. Who really fucked you? Good? The car washers I go to all give you the menu before you get your car and your wheel is stuck on that track and you're already in line. When you

get out of that line. You can't get out of the line once you see that menu for you know, for the car wash you're talking about. But not all car washers are built the same the ones I go to. They tell you that you can drive off before your wheels are locked into that track and you're just in neutral. Okay. Well, the places, the places in Brooklyn I remember, and the places out here in Jersey, they have those the plastic polls up, yes, that show you where you can't get

out of there, you can't get out, get trapped. I don't know. Well, you know they you should have looked them up online first. I don't know what can I tell you? All Right, So that's my that's my dad. But to me, that's a scamboni. If you get trapped, trapped, that's what I'm saying. That's that's a trap for me. The last one is I went to a Starbucks. I'm gonna tell you the second half of this some other time, but the first half is I went to a Starbucks.

They closed at ten o'clock. I went at ninth fifty, and uh, the guy says to me, we're closing in a few minutes, so we don't have most of the drinks. I said, well you don't. You don't know what I'm gonna have. So because I'm just let you know, we're out of almost everything. We're closing up in ten minutes. So I said, well, but you're not closed, right, No, So then shouldn't you have all the drinks I gotta?

So I'm like, look, if you have like a pre made berry drink or something that you're out of, I get that. But he's like, we're out of most drinks. So I said, well all I all I want is um I think I wanted, uh ice coffee's something simple. Here's all we have that? Like okay. So he's like his his apron is like half down, it's not around his neck. Uh. You see, like he's got his earphones in. He's listening to music. He's checked out at ten minutes to ten. So he uh, he tells me what the

price is. He must have it memorized, and he says yeah. He goes, I go, I pick out my credit card. He goes, you don't have cash. I said, no credit card? Okay, So I pay with the credit card and I go to wait and the girl behind me, goes to order and he goes, he tells it the price, and he goes, do you have cash? Goes, oh, yeah, you have cash, takes the cash and doesn't open the register. Uh, he's pocketing,

he's got. What he did was he had changed lined up on the counter so he could give her change, a couple of singles and some coinage, but never open the register, didn't ring it up. So he's doing the last fifteen minutes everywhere it's all just one big cash chip for me, as it's a one item thing. Is it safe to say, you know, because you used to work in retail like this or wherever corporate places that if if they shut down the registers, they shut down

the system. As soon as that's done, anything any transaction that happens after that that's in cash only is going in the pockets of the employees. Is that right? Yeah? And that's what he was doing. And I was like all right. So then the third girl, the girl behind the girl, she comes in and she says who's working tonight? And the guy goes, oh, Brad. She was, oh, Brad's here right. I think it was Brad or Bradley something like that. So he goes yeah. So she goes, oh,

I used to work here. He was, oh, working here? He was all, I only been working here a couple of months. She was, oh, yeah, I worked here until September and then I went off to college. He's oh, yeah, yeah, a couple of months. So first of all, he's only been there a couple of months already stealing. Okay, So the other the guy comes out that he she knows, Bradley, Brentley, something like that. He comes out, Hey, chess, what's going on? Hey,

what's going on? I haven't seen you? What we're going? Hees, what are you having? She goes, oh, I'm having as soy skim lot or whatever the fun She was having some kind of lotteme. So he goes, uh, oh yeah, yeah, it's going here. She goes. Um. He goes, yeah, we're closing up. I'm just cleaning up in the back. She goes, Oh, if you busy, you want, you want, I'll just come back to making myself. Yes, yeah, alright, sure, no problem.

Did that'd be great. So the girl who was online who isn't sanitary, goes back behind the counter and start steaming her own milk. Her hair is down she's got and she's making her own drink, and I'm like, what the fun? Of course you are such a like a germophobe. I love it. It's something of a germophobe. It's just like, would you eat in a place where somebody off the street went in the back and started making your food? But they know what they're doing. They they're familiar with

the setup. Mean, why doesn't you need the optics of the of the apron or the you need the optics of them being in a uniform and official. When when I'd like to pretend that she's washed her hands, that she's not sick, I don't know. So I just that's but the Scamponi is the money and the you know, when I worked in retail and restaurants, people did that. That was the thing. I'm just I'm looking out for your own get your own clock, the things. You know.

I have scambody too. I'll save it for next week. I know we're running the short on time because Rody's up against the clock. What are you gonna do tonight? I'm going to a concert uh in the town uh in uh in the town where you know, in the in the in the county over, So it's like a half hour away, not too far. So, uh, I'm going to a concert tonight. So it's a small venue concert.

I'm going to uh and I and I. The show starts at six thirty, so I gotta so you gotta leave very soon, which is really while just for the sake of conversation. It's six o'clock now, so I got like two or three more minutes. Okay, well, okay, let me point out a very cool thing that happened. And then all the slices who are always looking for a good bargain. Uh, this is a lesson in waiting it

out and just getting in at the right time. UM. A couple of weeks ago, there was a story in the news and we were on vacation where a delta flight from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Minneapolis was overbooked. And what do they do in that morning of the you know, everyone's sitting in front of them at the gate. What do they do? They get on the loudspeaker and then they if we have any volunteers, this flight is overbooked.

I'd like to switch your flight. We could offer you a travel voucher of three hundred dollars right there to fifty. That's normal around that price point. All right, well they'll give you a free upgrade next time you fly, you can go first class. They they just choose you a little bit. For whatever reason. The flight was overbooked. They needed the seat, and the people on this particular flight wasn't having it. They all needed to go. They had a plane full of people that needed to be in

Minneapolis and couldn't take a later flight. Unlucky, then, didn't you? Did you know? They kept coming back and back and back on the loudspeaker, over and over again, and the price continued to ascend until and you guys could google this, it made it to ten thousand dollars. They paid a single person ten thousand dollars to take an alternate flight. What does that mean? Maybe leaving later, maybe next swing

into another airport, whatever it is. The point you're not you're not right because they need that seat so badly. So I then called my friend who is a flight attendant for Delta, and she told me, was she ready? When you she lives? I think she's in the Hawaii, this one. I haven't seen her freaking years, she tells. I said, dude, this is true. Is is true? And

she said, scary. It is absolutely true. Delta and all these other airlines have much more money than three hundred dollars, and they go slowly incrementally because somebody, always, some slub, always takes debait at three, four or five dollars at the most. And in fact, I don't think I ever heard it get past five hundred dollars personally, I've never ten. What's your price point for me? What's the price where you go? I don't care what's going on in my life.

I'm off the plane. I think ted thousand, I take ted thousand. I'm like, I'll fucking hi an uber and drive there for like thousand, off the plane for five thousand. Nah nah, I don't know. Well anyway, everyone held out. So the truth is that they have banks of money. All these airlines have banks of money money of course no in reserve, and are willing to pay that each time though this was well, the problem is most people most people will just take the three and say, oh

my god, I'll take it. But you know, here's the thing. Who is the person or people that had to get on the flight, So like, was it a hart transplant. Why did they need to get on the plane that badly? Did they? Okay, so here's the thing. Did delta fu somebody over did delta? Like tell Lebron James, hey man, you're off the flight, and he's like, I gotta get on this plane because if it's just some other Jamaica

and you, then they go, sorry, flight guy one. There had to be some lawsuit pending or some was that a handicap or something whatever we're dying was some reason whatever it was anyway, just so you know, and next time at the whole point, everyone should have this mentality and just sit there and go nope, nope, nope and run up the score and then yeah, but you gotta hope nobody else jumps in it, like if you're playing

a game, you're like, I'll wait till five thousands. Right, All right, let's let's talk about the one thing before we go. This is we're excited. Next week at this time, when we are on our we're gonna explain to you an actual Brooklyn Boys live event. The Brooklyn Boys will be in Manhattan with you, and we're inviting you guys to come with us and make a reservation with us. We're gonna say you're gonna make a reservation and you're gonna join us. Yeah, do we do? We do? We

go further than this. I mean, I'm just excited the deal. By the way, the deal is done. We just can't tell you right now because we can't the logistics are not really in play. Well, we don't know how we can tell you where I guess we can. Okay, let me let me tell you what I can tell you. Scary and I went out for a steak dinner a couple of weeks ago, three weeks ago at a fantastic and I mean fantastic steakhouse. Now we both posted pictures and a lot of you guys were like, is this

the steak dinner diner? I love that all of you guys are First of all, are in on the joke. You remember, he owes me a steak dinner, right, you wanted a steak dinner. Update. But as I pointed out to a lot of you, had he brought me dinner, I first of all, I would have put that in the post. Second, would event okay, so no, no, But also also if it was, if it was, we would have talked about on the podcast and if we were going on vacation, I wouldn't have posted until we got back.

So what we did do was we went to dinner at Benjamin's Steakhouse. They have They have a couple of locations in New York, a couple of locations around the car. We sat with Benjamin, the Benjamin Ben Let me tell you something. There's not enough stars to give this restaurant if you're if you're giving restaurant stars. The food is so good every post. The sizzling steak my mouth is the lot was the lobster mac and cheese they had was just and you know me, I'm an apps guy.

How do you not order the entire left side of the menu. Okay, you have to because the food is so thick cut, bacon fresh, just seafood. Okay, So, without going into too much details, partars and tattas. And in the next few months, we're gonna have a date. We're gonna I think it's given me on a Saturday so people can travel. I think I'm pretty sure. And we're gonna have dinner with a couple of hundred slices. We

all right, okay, let's put it that way. We're scary and I are currently banging out the final details on getting a discounted price yes for the dinner for you guys, and we are insisting that everyone gets free dessert. It's gonna be yes. Part of the deal is free dessert. And this is not a virtual meet and greet. It is a meet. This is a this is an in person m E A T. And we are gonna have a Brooklyn Boys step and repeat like fancy, like real deal.

We'll take pictures what everyone fancy. So this is not scary buying me dinner, but we are gonna have a real time. We're not doing a podcast lot. And by the way, we're not part of We're not just taking a section in the dining room. We're taking over the entire We're taking over the whole room. Like there's a room I think, taking over the whole room. So here's what I'd like you to do. What's our what's our email address? Scary the Brooklyn Boys podcast at gmail dot com.

Right Also, uh, what's our h you have the phone number that we have on the phone. Let's not give let's not confuse it right now. Okay, I'm just saying, anyway you want to contact us, you can do the talk back on the radio app. Give us your feedback, your thoughts. Do you would you would you want to come before we finalize this thing. Would you want to come and get a great price on a full dinner at amazing New York steakhouse and have dinner with us

for smooze? Well whatever, Uh, if you guys want to do that, we'll probably have some people, probably have some giveaways that day in the rooms that night that evening, so merch there, we'll we'll get do some stuff. But let us know, like, shall we do this? Will you come from Philly when you drive? Who's coming on a Saturday? We're gonna do it on a Saturday, for sure, even the evening probably most like definitely weekend. Let's not let's not commit to seth again, we haven't earned out all

the details. Know it'll be a week it'll be it'll be at three o'clock. It's not gonna be it's not gonna be a Tuesday one. It's gonna be a weekend when most people can travel at a time that's in the evening time when the freak assert thing is guaranteed.

We told him up front, we're not doing this unless it's from Deserve and we're working out the package to try and you know, keep it affordable, you know, to do a nice but give you more than what it would normally cost, like more more like a good price. So that's all working on, right, We want to we're gauging the level of interest. Are we gonna have, you know, two hundred people? Are we gonna have two people? Who's gonna come? All right? So so but look, shit, don't

be like I think we want them. You know, I'm gonna be so Okay, that's it, And it's gonna be like a two or three hour time span that we're gonna be there. We're gonna hang out and we'll tell you more as it unfolds. By the way, this is definitely happening, but we just don't have the intimate details of exactly when and prices and things like that. Okay, but that's a little teaser. Okay. We look at the menu and Benjamin staate like we tickled your ma, your

venus with a feather. There you go, all right, we gotta go, Oh my god, is that yeah? I think that's it. I'm out of breath. Brook Boys, bron Boys, Bro