#249: With This USED Ring I Thee Wed

I feel like we're a married couple right, well sort of. Yeah, but we seem to have an open relationship because you go out with other Brooklyn boys. Yeah, I cheat on you with other Brooklyn boys and girls like. So, yeah, as a married couple. First of all, if you think about it, we have, we've we've really settled down, the two of us. We're liking our rocking chairs on a porch. I could see that you don't you don't vision you don't envision this well and in the sense that you're

not romantic and don't take mistake dinners. Yeah, but did we settle for each other or was this a lust? Did we actually lust for each other to become this couple that we are the Brooklyn Don't forget you're remarried you. You were in a relationship with Greg t and Ronnie for a while, right, so this is my second marriage. But did we settle? A lot of people settle. I don't like the words settle when it comes to me, like I settled, but I feel like you. I think

you aimed up. You think I ate up, you think I married up? Yeah, definitely, But you shouldn't settle. You shouldn't settle. Jewish boy, you shouldn't settle for anything. Now. No, Why why do people say they, well, it's time to settle down when they're done with their hoe fays. Settled down is not settling. It's a different use of the word. Yeah, but no, you hear it from everyone's grandma, mother and aunt there. I was like, when are you gonna find

a nice girl and settled down? Right, But they didn't say when are you gonna find a girl that you'll settle for? That's not what they said. Settled down though, But when you settle, you don't want to settle. Settling is like meetings, meaning that's the best of what's left, that's the best of what settle. Yes, but you're not settling when you When I got married, if the expression settled down. I get that, but I didn't settle down.

I don't think anyone should settle down. I think we should erase that from the lexicon when talking about marriage, the lexicon. Look at you, the vocabulary. You haven't trouble over there. No, no, no, I'd adjusted the microphone. Sorry about that. I want to settle I don't. Well, listen, you haven't settled down. You haven't settled, you've done either. No, but I'm I'm also dating up golf, dude, you need a ladder. Robin is is uh beyond and like your

parents must be like why did he end up with her? Right? And what's the question? When are you going to settle down? Number? No? No, stop it. Well, but okay, let's say hypothetically, if you settled down with Robin, I'd be settling up. Yeah, you you would. No one would say like, oh, he settled for rob, I'm not settling. I'm reaching at that point, right, Robin is not settling for you, because she could go anywhere she would be settling. Well, if she'd be settling

is the thing. She'dn't even be settling if she had tried for better and failed and was like, ah, scary like smell settle for him. She has chosen you, scary. Robin's had plenty of opportunities to hit the road. Robin's Robin's bright and attractive as a great job. She's funny, she's a glutton for punishment. She stays with me, she

stays with you. So that's not settling. That's whatever it is, right, But for anyone who has ever called it settling, I don't think the person you're gonna marry should be ever refer two as settling down with Well, let's not listen. There are people, I'm sure listening to the slices, there are some of you out there, and I'm not mentioning any names because they don't know the names. But sometimes

in life you settle. Sometimes you're like, you know what, he's not the best looking guy, or he's not the richest guy, but you know what, he's gonna make a good father. He's good to me, makes me laugh occasionally. We're not going to be rich, but I like him. You know, if you keep waiting for the perfect thing, the guy who's an eight and a half may slip by, But don't spend the rest of your life going like

I'm married an eight and a half ten. Sometimes an eight and a half is fantastic because a ten wouldn't have been good for you. You know, there was an old Abbot and Costello bit who's on first? No, not that one, Aben and Costello, the greatest or one of the greatest comedy duos of all time. And I believe it was Costello, the short fat one who said that his goal in life was oh he He's said, you know, you marry an attractive woman, a beautiful woman, she's likely

to leave you in cheat. So I'm going to marry an ugly woman. And so Abbott says, well, wouldn't an ugly woman also have a chance of leaving you? He goes, yeah, but then who cares? Wow, they said that they got to wait at that back then on TV. Well, that was the forties when you could talk about people being ugly. I don't know you can make that joke now, I just told the joke. I guess all right. M oh

oh oh. By the way, very very important. This just in um, we have steak dinner reservations, No, but I can provide some top notch catering in signature cocktails with an open barn at DJ tomorrow at Interior Motif in a Short Hills, New Jersey. If you'd like to join me, we can have like an impromptu Brooklyn Boys meet up. Scary you, yeah, scary? Yes? Yeah, I'm torn. Now you understand why I'm torn? Right? Why are you torn? All right?

Natalie and Brulia, thank you because part of me wants the free food and drink and part of me wants to tell you hit the jingle. There is no jingle because there's no money involved. Oh okay, this is yeah. So you remember back in the day, uh Juan Ruan Vazquez who probably still listened to this podcast of us on social media. Yeah, he still He installed my blinds

in my house. Remember I said I had a guy standing in my bedroom and on a ladder and then he reveals to me that he's a fan of the show in the podcast, and that was a little weird. I'm like, why is this guy in my bedroom and he's a slice remember thattte Yes, I remember it. Okay, I'm rehab. I'm also using this as a as a as a vehicle to re establish the story for those who don't remember, so just go along with it. Yeah, okay, yeah, well, he works for the company that installed my blinds, Interior

Motif Hoboken. They're not paying me. Okay, there's not a sponsor, no reason to hit the jingle. But they invited me to the grand opening of their Short Hills location tomorrow to do a little couple of things on the mic and just hang out, see what's up. And I said, I'm gonna go. So I'm going. That's on that's on Milburne Avenue in Short Hill in Short Hills, New Jersey. Right, Yeah, not the Short Hills Mall, Short Hills, New Jersey. Right.

So I said, if I go, why don't I ask my pal, oh' pally Wally David Brody to come with me, because just saying you don't live too far away, so you know, it's not like you've to drive forty five minutes. You're driving about ten fifteen minutes. That is not correct. You meet you longer than that. Okay, even if it is you meet, we'll go, we'll hang out. You like free things. I like free things. Yeah, well, I just bought blinds for my bathroom. My phone would have I

would have gotten them there. You know what, so sad because we're giving away a twelve thousand dollars blind package. It's entered a win and or or six get written in brail. What about the six thousand dollar automation package? Could win that too. You don't have automation on your blinds, do you? I do not, Yes. I What I do is I pulled the cord on the right down and then I pull it to the left to lock it. Ah, Okay, I'm the engine, the little engine that could. I don't

have bougie blinds. Okay, Well, if you want bougie blinds, this place is stunning, stunning. I'm looking at the pictures. I googled it. It's very very nice. You. Actually, when the last time you were at my apartment a couple of weeks ago, you complimented me. You complimented me on my on my veins. You have Flora's ceiling, bougie blinds that are double layered with like a light screening curtain over in front of it. That. Yeah, you have a curtains for your curtains. So I just realized that your

curtains have curtains. They do. They're sheer. The shins have curtains. Yeah. So what I'm saying is, let's have it. Let's have it a little bit of a late afternoon after work tomorrow, five o'clock. We're inviting the slices to come down. If you want to come down and hang I'm gonna be there. You know, one half of the Brooklyn Boys. You don't be good Chinese restaurant nearby called Hunan's Spring. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what some of the best

egg rolls I ever had. I'll tell you what. We'll hang out and then we'll go for a steak dinner after that. On me, I'm sorry, what, Yeah, you heard it. I'm gonna make good on the steak dinner tomorrow. Tomorrow's Thursday, right, I can get a little crazy tomorrow, stay out a little late, even though it's a school night. The next day is Friday. What do you think? All right? Well, I have the steak dinner. I have the steak location picked out. Then I do too. I know the one

you're thinking of, So let's do that. Not the not that one, Okay, the other one, not the not the one everybody's heard of. It's a different one, all right? So should so you want to come five o'clock? I consider it, But all you know, I feel like we're taking up the whole podcast. No, no no, no, no, we're gonna, We're gonna, we will. There's a purpose to this. It's

so the slices can join us again. It's not an official Brooklyn Boys meet up, but people said that they want unofficial ones too, where we're gonna be in the same place at the same time. So come on, let's go. All right, I'll commit to you at some point then I'll I'll post about it one of but with the Broking Boys podcast, I'm definitely going. So maybe there tomorrow

five o'clock. Very good, Very good, All right. Uh, I did want to talk about um, we were talking about Robin and um, you know, going out to dinner tomorrow night. It reminded me of something. It was. It was a story that came out last week about a story that happened a few weeks earlier, but it's surfaced and became, uh you know one of those slow newsdays. Yeah, it becomes a story. Yes, And I started thinking about it and I thought, oh my god, I also think this

is a story. And I bet you Scary would agree with me. Okay, Now, I know older people have different eating habits. I totally get that. When I told the story to my wife, she's like, oh, hell no, so I want your opinion. Um, President Biden and First Lady, Doctor Jill Biden were out for dinner. They had gone into town in Washington, d C. And they went for whatever, and they both ordered the same salad and the same entree.

Hold on, so people, so that so people the restaurant was like reported it, like to the news outlet, like they you know, like it was a thing. And some people I spoke to don't understand why that's a story. No. Look, they're a cute couple. They've been married whatever. Whether you like him or not is irrelevant to the story. They're they're a cute married couple for you know, forty years whatever it's been. And I guess they do things like that. I know my wife, not not as long as they

know each other. But I would never order the same my wife. No. Yeah, then you can't taste anything off for play, right right? If I if I if so, like, like we go to a restaurant and I want something, I'll She'll go, what are you thinking about? So usually I'll say these two things, yeah, knowing one is my first choice, right, and one is the thing I know she would eat exactly. So sometimes she'll say, why don't we go to both of them? Will split it? Fantastic

this way you get both. Or she'll say, or to both and we'll do a little taste Robert and I do simp something similar. Will order not one, not two, but three appetizers, one for the table, and how many does she order? No, I'll order something, She'll make sure to order something else, and then we'll put a third thing in the middle, and we will share off of all three appetizers, so I'll get a taste of three

things on the menu right there. And then she'll feel bad if she's thinking the same thing that I am for an entree, because she'll be no, no, no, no no, no no, I don't want it the same thing you are. I'll want something different. And then we'll go halzies and I'll put half of my entree in her dish, or at least at least a taste if we are equally not as interested in the other's entree. See, well, we went out for my wife's birthday. We were going to split both things. So what we did was we ordered

a pasta dish. Yeah, and a chicken dish. I think I remember correctly, And so the waiter says, would you like me to bring the pasta dish out first as like a second course. We're like, oh, great idea. So they split the pasta dish into two bowls. Then they split our entree into two plates. So a good restaurant will do that for you. But what is the point If if I want chicken palm and my wife wants chicken palm, if we both ort a chicken palm, then all I'm getting for dinner is chicken palm. I can't

say like, yeah, that's terrible. Yeah, yeah, I say no to that every time. What Stephen Colbert said on Late Show last week, He said, what you do is you order different things, You taste your partner's food. You then decide you like, there's better. You make a face for the rest of the meal about your food until your partner says, you know, what the hell would it? Just give me your food. I'll eat it, and you get the food off their plate that you want it in

the first place. It makes all the sense of the world. My father used to do that when my parents would got to dinner. Yeah, he'd say so how's your how's your food? And my wife was my mother would say, oh, good, good, how's yours? Yeah, I kind of wish I'd ordered something else. So my mother realized, he's gonna sit here and mope the rest of the meal, or I'm gonna say, would you like what I'm eating? Because and she would say like that, I don't have a preference if you want

to go all right. Some people originally do it for years, for twenty years. People are particular, whatever, very very particular about it. Some people they don't want to they don't want another fork in their plate, they don't want to touch or they won't they don't want to share food at all. They hoard it like a squirrel would hoard some nuts, like you can't even look at the person's plate, like no, no, you know there are people out there,

there are couples like that. There are people I don't know if he's fighting, like too, if you're on your second day, I don't know. I've been so communal with every wife like I. You know, I've been so communal me and my friends with all our food. We've all no well, we we share everything. We throw when I go out with my my my Hoboken friends or my fake Brooklyn. Would you share a straw with you boys? All right? Now you're getting what what? No, I'm talking

about plates. We want to everything for the table and then we do a family style. Yeah, to eat that way too. That's why I love calm mindes. We go to commines, you get like six dishes and you all eat off them. You can't go to commines by yourself. You get one thing, yea one thing? Yeah? All right? If you wouldn't share a straw at your boys, what about your female friend? No, you wouldn't share strow at anybody? Not really. I mean, but I've seen you share a

sandwich with people. I'm okay with that. You cut it? No? No, oh, like way the spittle is on the sandwich I've seen. I've seen people take a bite of a sandwich and then hand it to you, and you take a bite out of that bite. Mark yep, I have you have on the morning show? You have desperate times, call for desperate measures because at some point there's only so many sides to it, like you twist it and you see you bite the side. But if you're like seventh, I'm out,

Like I'm not doing that. I don't I do not share a bite. I don't really share straws. Nah, straws are different than bites. What if it was alcohol. What if someone's like, dude, you gonna dry my long online? That's fine. Drinks are okay, Like alcohol doesn't get on the old I don't know, but straws a little bit more intimate than the rim of a glass. Let me ask you a question. If you we're out on a date, but I'm going back for a minute. If you're at a date with a new girl, right, not Zoe Deschanel.

But let's say you're out on a date and it's second date, and you're like, god, you can order first. And because that's your gentleman, I assume you you'd let the woman or the first always and you went to a restaurant, Well, you knew the best thing on the menu as a chicken palm, the best thing. You only go there for the chicken palm, and she says, um, waiter, I'll have the chicken palm. Now. At that point, well, have a relationship with her. You don't know if she's

going to share what you are not. Do you order the chicken palm. Well, I would actually make the deal ahead of time. I'd be like, look, if you order the chicken palm, if you go chicken parma the groundwork? Do you yes? Do you want? Do you want to? I'll get something else and you want to do split? And you want to? And if she says no, I

want my own? Do you have a data? Again? I don't think that's a deal breaker at all, but I would get But if I'd have to have the chicken palm then too, then we're ordering the same What if she's like earmarking you for a lifetime of the bidens of eating the same food every night? No way, no way. I don't want to deal with that. I can't either. No, that's one of my favorite things on my checklist of all My wife like would that wey She's cool at a restaurant And I'm glad we solved this for seventeen

minutes where I did not talk about the a seventeen No. No, we talked about your appearance at the Blind Store. Not an appearance, it's not official, but we're partying there and we are coming, right, but you will be appearing there? Yeah? Why not? Yes? Yeah, I will be I will be publicly on a microphone and chilling out and hanging out and partying. All right, and you should. It's a good place. I'm, I'm it's a good location for sure. Okay, right there,

we'll back. It's the boys. So I have a friend, No, yeah, you believe it. I have a friend, Brodie, I got one after all these years. You won't share a stroll with them. But all right, Ah, this is something that you would do. But I don't know if you get a good price. I can't. I can't mention names. So she called off her wedding. A few A couple of years ago, she called off her wedding, and she had she was in possession of a fourteen thousand dollars ring.

Oh that that's what the fiance had paid for it. Now we're not going down the road of is it a gift? Is it not that you have to give it back. I'll just lay it out right here. He owed her a lot of money. So she kept it and said, fuck you, I'm keeping the ring, and he goes, fine, keep it. So she kept the ring. Now what is she doing with a fourteen thousand dollars ring? Princess cut by the way, beautiful whatever. I guess it's a thing, princess guy. Ah, And she said, I'm selling this. So

what does she do? She goes to David Brodie's House of Bargains, wherever you sell, wherever you would sell said ring, Craigslist, epay, you go to like a we buy and sell jewelry place. No, she did it online. Oh no, well please tell me she got more than twelve No, she got less. So she didn't give a fuck. It was it was free. It was free money to her. No, no, no, no, But that's not the whole free it's not about the point. It's not This is not about that. It's always about

the money. It's about her. A guy, a guy decides that he's going to buy the ring off her. So the two of them meet up and then they have it praised together. You know. She starts talking to the guy and they're they're you know, they go to you know, this guy's not just going to hand over cash. She has guys. She has some guy who's a guy that she that she met on craigslist. Oh no, or wherever it was. It might have been eBay, who knows. That's not the point. Meet people on eBay not the point.

So she meets, so they do a deal. He decides he's going to give her nine grand for it. Oh, but she's okay with it. It's free money to her, still lost money. The ring was given her for free, doesn't matter. I'm getting but that is not where this is going, all right, we get to where it's going, because right now I'm I'm off to stem for Clemton. He then says, in their final part, hey, a bitch runs off with the ring. Hey no, hey, um, we never met. This is my name. We will never come up.

I know we'll never see each other again, but this is never ever to come back to me because I am pretending that this is a brand new ring I just bought my girlfriend. I'm going to propose to her with it. So he proposes to his girlfriend with my friends ring that she kicked the guy like, like literally a used wedding ring. So she forget about the money, forget about she didn't get her in fourteen grand. Let's

leave it. I'm sorry, I know, I know, I know I'm dealing with you here, but let's go the larger points here are Ay, is he a scumbag for doing what he did? And b Is there anything wrong with that to begin with? To give someone a used ring or is it not used? Or is it what what she won't know won't hurt her? Does the ring at that us on it? Like there's so many things? WHOA,

don't bring my people into it us you Okay? So first of all, I want to I want to remind everyone because right now there's people yell and they already remember I told you I got upset when a woman

at the jewelry store tried on my wedding that's right. Okay, this is different because that was my ring for many years, that's right, that someone then put on their finger, yes, dip it on my hand for thirty years or twenty some twenty some years, yeah, um, and I felt it was inappropriate for the woman at the store to put

it on her hand. So so before I say, because it comes with symbolism to it, and it comes with a lot of years and there's a lot of years of showering with it like it's my it's my ring. It's been part of my personal right now, if you buy a ring at a jewelry store, notice I said jewelry. M people have tried it on it's possibility other people have tried it. Of course, I'm gonna say they that

it's been tried on many times. You buy a pair of sneakers, like if you buy go to a sneaker store and the laces already tied, like I know someone tried them on already. Of course, right, So if the woman is like me, the bride, the fiance, then she just got herself a fourteen thousand dollars ring from the guy she's getting proposed to. Now, if she wants to get it resized, he can't take it back to the place he bought it to get it resized for free, so he's got to compet some reason why he can't

bring it back. She's going to ask if there's any kind of warranty or insurance on it, Like there are certain questions that may come up if she's a bright woman. Doesn't sound that way because she's marrying a guy who buys stuff off Craigslist. But but there's nothing wrong with It's what I'm saying, Yeah, the guy got a deal. Now if he lies to her, that's really not a way to start off a relationship to like, oh, I

bought this for you whatever this would be going. This would fall under the category of white lye right, because it's like which, this isn't affecting anyone, This isn't harming anyone who cares. I will see the outcome is still the same. She's marrying me. It looks beautiful. It's sparkling of people who wear wedding rings listening to this podcast, who have different, different opinions, different levels. Right, I would say to you that that part of the buying and

the giving is not only the spending. It's the fact that I, like, I met with a jeweler, a jeweler to come over the house. I looked at gems through a loop, which is the little glass eye thing you look through. It's a loop. Oh is that the thing that mister Peanut wears, the monocle. It's a monocle, the monocle. Monocle loop is like a little telescope. It's a little magnified clarity an inch and a half high. And the jewelers, the diamond experts will bring so you can see the

cut and the clarity. And I don't see if there's any like a lot of flaws in this ring, like flaws like snowflakes, like little cracks. You use the loop. So I did all that. Look you can walk in to zales and a nothing wrong in sales. I'm using it, you know, and just go, oh, that's a pretty ring. She likes that shape. How much is it? But it looks clear to me that'd be great, and that's fine. What I'm saying is I bought a ring because it

was available. Is a little less romantic. I met a girl in a Chick fil a parking lot and a bought your ring from somebody who was, you know, looking to dump it off. Not as romantic. So then you have to come up with a story and then you're lying. So if you could live with yourself and she doesn't ever find out, she did, okay by her for herself. It's got a nice ring. What do you think? Well, I'm of I'm of the school of thought that it's the thought. Okay, it can't be it's the thought that counts.

That's a little shallow. I mean that that's for a Christmas or a birthday press. No, what was the thought? The thought? The thought is well, no, wait, maybe maybe she liked she wanted a princess cut. It was her size, it fit all the parameters. He got a good deal on a ring that is still fourteen thousand, or wouldn't she would he would have paid retail for it. Maybe he wanted to get her the best thing possible, so

he he didn't have the money to do that. So he figured, I'm gonna buy this, and this is gonna look gorgeous on her finger, and I can't wait to give it to her. And then you hit the reset button on the ring because you know maybe right, yes, exactly announced brand new? Well it was brand new, and the whole thing, and now what she and then then you could add in the white lie what she won't No, I won't hurt her? Right, So I think, no harm, no foul. Well, let me ask you. But that's my

opinion on it. And and and is it worse that he bought it from the bride? In other words, let's say he bought her from a guy who was gonna give the ring to a girl, but then he changed his mind. I don't think it makes a difference. I think it does because it was on some woman's hand. What okay? Now comes your personal feeling about having a ring us to be more upset the bride fiance part would be more upset than another bride. Beyonce email. Another woman may have worn the ring as opposed to a guy.

Get Now, if a guy gave it to a girl and she said no to it, now it's bad luck. Well, some people were thinking, that's that's the only part that I feel a little weird about. Why did she would she say yes? It's an engagement ring, by the way, not a wedding ring ring. Yes, So did she say yes and the engagement then she changed her mind? No, No, he know they were together engaged for a little bit and then he cheated on her, and then she said yes. She got yes, she said yes, she said yes to

the dress. She posted pictures of this on social media. Of course by the time that she got him. Yeah. But right, but once it's in this guy's possession, you've now hit the reset button. It is an object now. It has symbolism, but it's the symbolism that you give to it. You give it life. It's like Frosty the snowman putting his hat on. I know the life that the life comes from the Bond Birthday. I say that all the time on the radio, and people wonder why

I say it. Like that. Yeah, I put the other woman is, Look, there are people who believe in superstitions, astrology, bad juju, as you call it, karma. If this woman finds out that he bought a ring from a woman who got cheated on, it might not sit with her. She might wonder, like, right, if he's gonna cheat on her? But you can't tell that story. She doesn't find out, then does it? You know, if a bear shits in the woods, did it didn't really happen? Or you know,

I still feel you can't tell that story. You can't tell it in forty years later. You can't. No, no, no, no. This goes to the grave with the guy for sure. And I'm sure, I mean, he'd be stupid, he'd be foolish to tell it to anyone. You would you? Look, I know that the odds of you buying a wedding ring or slim, but would you think it was okay to do that? Would you go and buy the ring

that way from a parking lot? Now? I would never find myself in that situation, but the fact that other people have I'm okay with it, especially because I'm not part of that. Yeah. But what I'm getting at is the is the energy. Do you've believed you subscribe to the part about the energy behind a ring, because that's stuff. That's stuff, I right, I write off. Yeah, you know what I'm saying to me. But let's yuh, let's uh. I want to get talkbacks on this, you know, Okay,

let me ask you a question. What if what if somebody you know, was like, hey, man, I got this really expensive pair of sneakers. I know you love these sneakers. Yeah, I warm around the house a couple of times. They're not comfortable. I want to sell them to you for what I like a little lest someone I paid for them that already you wants someone else to sneak. I took him. I have already happened to me. It's already happened to me. You have my buddy, yep, my buddy Joe.

He knows I'm a big fan of the uh John Varvados whatever they are, the boll are know, the John Varvados uh verse, the leather converse. They don't really make him anymore. And I had a pair and I wore him into the ground. He had an exact same pair in the exact same color. And he's like dude, he goes, I'll give you mine. I'm like, wait a second, you just gonna give them to me? He goes, yeah, I should. How much you want for him? He goes, dude, I've had them for two years. I've never worn them. I

won't wear them. You obviously love them. You wore this first pair into the ground. He didn't wear them. No, he wore them, but he didn't wear them often. No, he wore them. They had there was definitely but you know, but hold on his saying. He goes, I don't wear them as much. Whatever the case. Anyway he gave him to me. Oh I did was switching out the insuls. Yeah, he took He pulled the insules out before he gave him to me. He goes, here, I'm gonna rip the

insuls out. You just find some some insults. What's the difference with the insults because they're shaped to his Because you stand, you're standing on that's what your feet and you're you know, hit all right, another guy's dirty shoes, I got it. Yeah, okay, but I have no problem with it, and I don't. But you can't compare shoes to a ray. I guess let's all put it up to the slice of slices. You know what to do. Go to the iHeart radio app, hit the torch, let

us know what you think. And when we come back. I've got a sneaker eyeglass story. I think you'll find interesting. Rod a sneaker eyeglass story. Yeah, so we're at My wife and I were at a very expensive department store at the mall. You know what Marcus, No, no, I can't. I Ford Markus Bloomingdales. Maybe maybe it was Bloomingdales. Okay, so we're even. You know, by the way, if you work in retail, try not to work in a mall

with a Neeman Marcus. Hey what I love the Short Hills mall and there isn't even Marcus there there there is one at there you have there is right down the block from tomorrow night at five o'clock. Will you join us at an interior motif in Short Hills. The problem with working in a mall with a Nieman Marcus

is the Nieman demons. What's that? Those are the nasty, obnoxious, incredibly rich older women that will walk into your store and shit on it, drop clothing on the floor, let their kids run rampant make a mess of the dressing room, not pick up clothing. I'm not saying all women that shop at Neiman Marcus are like that. I'm saying a percentage of them are horrible people. So there's a specific

profile to a Nieman shopper. A typical Nieman shopper tie their sweater around their neck when they you know the Nieman demons. That's a thing in the mall. When you work in a mall, people know the Neeman demons. That's all I'm saying. So they'll come into your store because it's adjacent to Nieman. No, like when I worked it,

when I was a manager at Express. Yeah, they would come in with their five thousand dollars strollers and the kids would throw cheerios all over the place, and they would try in clothing and leave it on the floor in the fitting room they had so used the servants cleaning up after them, I guess is what it is. And they're obnoxious and nasty and rude. And when you work in the wall that doesn't have Anmon Marcus, you don't see that type of treatment. That's what I'm saying.

The store, I'm blaming the client, didn't the nman demons. Yeah again, not everyone who shops there, just a percentage percentage. So we my wife and I are at Bloomingdale's and we walk into the men's department, the men shoot apartment, and I see a sneaker. I go, wow, that's a nice look in the sneaker. Now for sneakers, I will pay anywhere from sixty five dollars for a decent pair of Reebok or Nike whatever. If I'm looking for like knock around sneakers, and if I love a pair of sneakers,

God help me. I don't want to make anyone feel bad, but I might go to like one twenty if I you know, that's me. But that's like for a span. I have bad feet, so I have to get better sneakers. I pick up this really nice looking pair of sneakers. Now, look, it looked like any other pair sneakers. I just thought it was a nice looking pair of sneakers. Eight hundred and fifty dollars Gucci sneakers. Yeah shoes, than these are

shoes you used to walk in the street. You're gonna put eight hundred dollars on your feet to walk in dirt and grass and dog shit in subways. You know, I'll take it a step further. If you look, some of them are have all these intricate designs on the fucking bottom, on the souls. I'm like, why why by the first of all, no one's gonna see it. Second of all, it's gonna get worn away by the the when the rubber hits the cement and it's it's gonna get filthy and you're gonna step in dog shit with

it exactly. Then Now now I'm like, oh, what's this one? And it was it was proud of shoes, dude. They were more money than that. What section are you in, man, the men's shoe department. It was where it was like the table by the door because they wanted to get your attention. Yeah, but look it was a moll. You know, Bloomingdale is a place where rich people shop and then against rich people, God help God love you. I'm just

not one of them. So to me it was like gawk and at these shoes, but trying to act cool. You know, I didn't want the sales guy to be like, oh, look at the peasant, look at the Gucci in the production these are Alexander McQueen only twelve so we quickly walked out of the shoe department and we went to the eyeglass department. Now my wife likes nicer eyeglasses, Warby Parker. That's the place for her. No, I went to Warby Parker and bought a pair of glasses, my first ever

pair of like readers. No, my wife wanted has had gotten a as a gift, A designer pair of sunglasses, A very expensive pair of sunglass by high standards, ye and by my standards. I buy them off the rack at seven eleven the spindle. I buy the sunglasses for driving that wrap around your face. I don't care about style or appearance. I just want to block the sun, so the eyeglass. So, so here's the thing. There was a sale on like four or five different design are

designers of eyeglasses that day at Bloomingdale's. So the counter had a like was it looked like like a rock concert. It was all women who work at Bloomingdale's who wanted to use their employee discount on top of the discount and get expensive sunglasses. Okay, so the people at work there, most of the women, most of the I would say, were like twenty three nineteen. They were young girls, but every one of them scary was wearing like normal clothing

and luba. Well, the accessories are a big part of it. I mean, you know, you could be man. People want to spend the most money on the things that they

can flash and people see the most. Yeah, I mean but yet so so those same people who are dropping crazy money a gee off for a for a handbag or a pair of Christian lubatons, those same people are the ones who go into the mattress firm and bitch and moan that they have to pay two thousand dollars or even a thousand dollars for a mattress when that's something that they're gonna be sleeping on eight nine hours a night, every night, because that's called a pain purchase,

because they don't get to show that off. You don't show off the mattress that you're gonna be laying in. So I actually know a guy who worked in the mattress stories that you have no idea scary These people would be pulling up in these ferraris, these lambos, and you know, me and my co worker will be like, oh yeah, here we go. They're gonna go for the

big one. They're gonna go for the expensive mattress. And they come in and they're like, give me the cheapest thing you got because they can show off their Ferrari and their Mercedes. They could show off their Jimmy Choo shoes or their Movado watch. You know the eight he going psycho, Yeah, so's he's the good partner, you know what I'm saying. But they can't do that to their bed, so that is hidden away. So that's what I'm saying. You know, you know what I mean. You know what

I mean. They're like so so yeah, so it's called a pain purchase. It's a known thing. So yes, so they want the cheapest thing possible, exactly exactly. So um so we're waiting a while, uh to get helped because it's it's Mayhem right. They're calling people from other departments and uh, by the way, I've got to say thanks post Balone. I did catch the ape going psycho ape. Yeah. I don't know what the hell he's saying in it song anyway, So the guy there's a guy working behind

the counter in a bright red suit, Santa Claus. No, nah, he's he's clearly very flamboyant in his personality. We'll leave it at that. And so he's helping my wife and so she's trying on some glasses and she's like, oh, I like to try those dull jingle bonna glasses. Whatever. She's got trade value. She has a pair of glass to trade in, so in case you're like, whoa buying booge glasses? Anyway? So the guy sister, oh, those look nice on you. Those look nice on you. Oh, those

look really nice on you. And then he's like, oh, I have to he's juggling customers, right, So he goes over to the young girls with the Gucci Prada shoes on. One girl scary had Lubaton slip on slippers like flip flops. Flip flops look like rubber crocs. No, they were like, you know, like house house slippers. Ye would like the one fat strap over your feet toes you slide your foot in lubatons. That's come on, okay. It looked like shoes my mother would wear around the house with a

house coat. Like please. Okay. So the girls trying to pair of pants or trying to pair of glasses after he just told my wife, how, oh those look nice on you, and he's like, oh, girl, those are straight fire on you. Ah, oh you burn it up, girl fire. He clearly makes a commission off of his sales. Well, no, the point was he says to my wife, those look really nice on you. Those are good. M wait a second,

so he downplayed your wife. He played my wife like a woman my wife's age, like, those are very nice on you. But then I was like, oh the girl a straight fire. Oh oh yeah, those are fire. But who was he talking to to the girls, right, okay, so younger girl. But he was excited. So he was excited for the younger girl's glasses, but not as excited for your wife's. The point was he was so my wife looked at me, and she's like, stud laughing because she knew I was laughing, like we had to, you know,

we're in the same wavelength. Because she wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna tell my wife like, oh man, glass is a fire, straight fire on you, because you know, most people over thirty might go, huh wow, my wife speaks the she knows where she does, right, But this guy was like night and day. It was like, you know, all those looked really nice on you. I like the way they match your eyes. Well, he's playing to his audience, right, but like two seconds later, oh girl, yeah, for sure

those are strange. I didn't know if for a second because the way my mind worked was that he was insulting your wife but being like, oh yeah, yeah, maybe we didn't say it was a stay. He was legit like they did, but like I would like it. I'd like that my wife when her songlasses to be straight fire. Oh that's what I'm saying, right, But but he totally like you remember when I told you when Usher came up. I don't know. I think what he did IDs for us,

and he was like, let me do IDs now. I was like, yeah, he's like, all right, this is the sheet. I read off the sheet. Yeah. He's like all right, well he kind of tosh your mode right, He's like, yo, check it, it's your boy, Usha, you smell me. And I was like, that's you don't talk like that. That's why this guy was But I think it was reversed because I watched him with every other customer that was

like these young girls worked there. He was like sparks were shooting out of him right right, the whole, the whole, the whole. Yeah. He was like whatever. So but my wife, he's like, oh that those look very nice on you. I like those better than the first ones you had on. But my wife was like, I want to be straight fire. I want to buy for this price, I better get glasses at a straight fire. So so, so when he came back to her, she says, I like these, but I need to know. He's like what, he goes, are

they straight fire on me? He's like he's a He's started to laughing. He's like, yeah, yeah, they're straight fire on you. So it's just interesting. Yeah, yeah, Well he's just tailoring. Yeah, well, you know, he's tailoring his conversation to the people, to his audience. That's all. That's fine, Okay, I have no problem with that. He can't expect, he can't assume. He can't assume that your wife is as hip as she is. I understand that, but he was

like a different person. Look, it's one thing when a politician goes to Alabama and they're like, how y'all doing right? But you don't go like feed away to a guy from New York and go l us up man, right. There's some separation when you tore the country as a politician goes back to the my man conversation when my man Spruce in front of you, I did the same thing. But but no, they but you can't do that. Why I did no? Because the guy in the red suit

was straight fire. He gets to speak that way. If the guy was seventy and he was like, girls, you're straight fire, it doesn't doesn't sound right. Okay, what you did was trying to be blocked to Spruce. It's a harsh speak. Where's he been? Where's Spruce been? Everyone that lit the slices? They we're asking about him. He's enjoying us his life. Okay, good, well we gotta Saint's got a new quarterback, Derek Carr. He's very excited about that.

He's a big stolen from the Jets. Not stolen, they told, They told Derek Carr, Uh, you know what, We're gonna go get you an engagement ring from some woman in the streets. Stay here, we'll be right back. And then the Saints offered him in a fresh new ring, like you know, I don't him. Wait, we'll just get the money. He's like a fine, Hey, oh dude, TikTok taught me ttok talk what. I can't believe this. We've been doing

this wrong all these years. Do you know how when you want egg whites and you want to separate them from the yolk, you you go you kind of pour back and forth into like little you know, it's a little uh two containers until the enough white drips out, So you do it into a column colin whatever it is. Do you know this? This is a thing. And again I haven't tested it myself yet. Pour pour an egg like crack an egg. Pour it into a bowl, right,

the whole egg, the whole egg. And now at night night, Now, take your fingers and stroke a piece of garlic, like a clove of garlic, and you get your fingers all sticky. Then just take your three fingers that they have touched, the fingertips that have touched the garlic, and go over to the yolk of the egg and lift it up. Holy shit, brody, the fucking egg will lift It won't break in your hand. It will lift up, and it will be extracted from the rest of the dish and

you could separate it. And yeah, that was an Instagram thing. TikTok taught me. TikTok taught me and it works better than just taking a spoon and scooping the yolk out. Well, that that's a little tedious, and what about that? Don't you get a garlic egg at that point? I mean, it can't be perfect. But he literally I saw the guy in one fell Swoop take his three fingers and put it on the egg and then literally pull the egg up like the fucking crane machine, you know, the

fucking the stuffed animal cream skill crane. It fucking just pulled it right up with his three fingers and the yolk comes right up and it doesn't break, and he helped it up to into the camera. He goes, look at this. I've been doing it wrong my whole life. I'm looking at it online. Yeah, you can also use bread, bread, bread, or garlic. You can crumble up bread on your fingers. Talk to would be very exciting, TikTok tell you that's amazing, so excited. Oh my god, the guy would the boys?

So you love you love that you're in control of the jingles that we play into commercial. Yeah, because you're like I think I have would boom. Now we know a guy who used to um work in New York radio radio and uh uh he would have a guy run the board for him, so it's one of his

producers would push the buttons. So the story goes that whenever he had a big joke or a punchline, regardless of whether they needed to go to commercial or not, he would say something funny like I've got would point to the guy running the board, and he knew, you go to commercial on my joke. And if he didn't have a funny line, he would wait until he had one, even if it meant going to commercial late. It's a better if you went to commercial and it wasn't on

his punchline, you got yelled. It's a bit of a dictatorship. But then again, he put he definitely put the dick in dictatorship. Most morning shows are dictatorships. So well, Elvis doesn't have to have a dictatorship because he runs his own board. He goes what he wants. He'll go to commercial on anyone's joke. This one guy, it had to be his joke. It had to be him ending the break. By the way you play like the Brooklyn Boys podcast, we play a lot of those where are the IDs

somewhere somewhere, They're not as strong. I would like the Sebastian mena scalcohol waylay the my favorite Michael Rappaport and Joe Gatto and yeah, but their spoken word they don't have music and instrumentation and jingles and sing alongs behind it. So then take some instrumentation and puts it under it and make it fancy and put it in there. Okay, maybe we'll do that. Send it to me and I'll fancy him up. All right, added audio. All right, fine, fine, hey,

I um. I was going to tell you about my very quickly, about my my superintendent and what happened to me yesterday and a little fun fact that he told me. Okay, So, for those who don't live in an apartment building, the superintendent is the guy who's hired to live in the apartment building. He usually gets an apartment on the first floor somewhere, and he's the guy you call when something breaks. Yeah, he's like Schneider on one day at a time, Nice seventies,

the nice seventies reference. He's just super. He's just super. He's the super. So I was doing dishes one night and all of a sudden I felt water at my feet. I'm like, what the fuck? I opened up the cabinet below and there there is all water and there was it was leaking out of the pipe. So so he came up to go repair it yesterday. And as he's sitting there and all my all my house cleaning items that I keep under the sink are now on my floor, you know, lined up, He's like, uh, dude, what's with

the draino? And I said, what DRAINO? I just have it there just in case. He goes, dude, don't use that shit. I'll take it off your hands. He goes, I'll pour it. I'll get rid of it. I'll get rid of it in a you know, safe way. And what are you talking about? So drain know? This is a wive's tale. It's an old wives tale, as they say here, co is it? Because I was about to hit the Scamboni jingle. I don't know, I'm about to hit the Scamboni drain and liquid plumber. Oh yeah, let's see.

You can't say you can't play the jingle. First, Scamboni's the scamboni. The scamboni called draino. Okay, So apparently, then tell me if this is the old wives tale that you've heard or not thinking? I think you'll I think it's a go ahead. Okay, So Draino allegedly allegedly because

now I'm not so sure. If I'm getting the secondhand information from my super who was fixing my pipes, one of these sounds like one of these stupid internet things, or everybody wants the boycott because the CEO makes too much money. He said, no, he said, he said to me, let me finish before you comment. He said that Draino was a scam created by a plumber, and it's the

gift that keeps on giving. Because what happens is you use draino on your pipes, and you know you use it to like get out clogs, you pour it down the drain because it's a corrosive. It corrode your pipes over time, and eventually your plumbers will have to come back and replace and do big jobs to replace these pipes. So it's the gift that keeps on giving. So they created this for a small problem, but it creates a

larger problem over time. It right, we might remove the sludge tonight, but in three years from now, with all the drainer you've been fucking putting down the drain you now need new fucking pipes and now you're fucked and it could cost you twenty thousand dollars in repair to replace those pipes. Okay, your turn. Okay, so I googled it while you we yappen. Ah, here we go. Nope, nope, nope, nope, no, no plumbers. And I'm sure we have plumbers listening. That's

why we need answers. That's why I was bribed through it out into the ether. I wanted to see what the plumbers are going to say, if this is true or false. Okay, So it says plumbers don't uh don't like draino. They use snakes. Well, they use snakes. They're not gonna use draino because then you could do it yourself. Um. They say that it's bad for the pipes, thank you, And it may be it's a corrosive. Yeah, I'll tell

you what's also bad for the pipes. Paying a plumber two hundred dollars to come into your house just to give his opinion on what's wrong, and they're charging you two unifty dollars. Yeah, so they all right, look, plumbers do good work, and I I wish I had their skills. Um, I use draino once a year when there's a hair clog or you know whatever. Um, usually I can I can snake it myself with a snake I bought at

home depot or or you know um. And then if I can't use if the draino doesn't work, I'd call a plumber. But if I had to call a plumber every time I had a little clog that draino could have fixed, I'd be broke and I just sell the house before the pipes go. How about that? How about that? Well, if you're renting, then it don't really matter. But what

was your old wives tale that you thought? So that was no, No, it's just you know, the internet people say it will tell you this all the time, Like I heard, you know, I saw online that you know, and you go, so there was nothing there, There's nothing there, No,

there's no, there's no like scam. I thought you're gonna say, like deliberately a plumber created it deliberately to ruin pipes, you know, well technically yeah, because they basically created it, so you know they could pretty much you could use it on your own and fuck up your own pipes and then come back to them. Speaking of repair, people, what would you do in this situation? So my my dishwasher is leaking water so badly it's leaking into my basement. Okay,

that's been going on for a couple of weeks. Now I finally figured out it. Who's the dishwasher? And I saw where it's leaking from the middle, And it's not a hose that I can see Anyway, the guy that was recommended, I call him up. And so a new dishwasher. This is the big scamboni right here. A new dishwasher ranges anywhere from like four hundred to like what an infinity.

But even if you buy a dishwasher, whatever the price you pay, it's two hundred and fifteen dollars to install it and another thirty five dollars for hosing hoses you need so you get so you basically get hosed. Right, So a couple of things. Number one, Apparently there's a scamboni. Some appliance stores take the kit out of the box that comes with the unit that you can install it, and then sells you the kit separately for forty bucks, when when it left the factory it was included. Because

why would you buy a washer and dryer? I mean a washed dishwasher that you couldn't hook up, so they separate it out so you need it anyway, and they charge you back that money later when you're going to need the kit. Wow, the appropriate kit. I'm not saying all places to do that, but that's what this guy told me. Some places. My guess is if you buy it from the manufactured direct, you get the kid with it. Yeah, so you're looking at for a new for me buying

a new dishwasher. If I looked at one for like four hundred and fifty dollars plus the install is six to fifty and the kid is seven plus taxs, you're looking at like I'm round to get around to eight hundred dollars. I'm rounding. So the guy says to me, well, based on the problem you've described, it's seventy five dollars for me to come there and check to see what the problem is, and if you want to fix it, I'll put the seventy five dollars towards the repair. Like, okay, okay.

If I don't do the repair, I'm out to seventy five dollars. That seems fair, But I don't like that idea. But all right, he says, based on your description, it's either a three hundred dollar part or a six hundred dollars part. So worst case scenario, it's seventy five dollars for him to tell me that it's too expensive to fix. If it's the three hundred dollar problem, which he said, it's probably not likely, but it's possible at the very least. I'm at three seventy five for the part plus labor.

Now I'm at four and change. If it's the six hundred dollars part, now I'm like almost eight hundred. I'm not going to fix it because I could just buy a new one. So the only scenario is that, if it's the part he doesn't think it is, I'm paying four hundred and fifty dollars roughly a new one is eight. So is there any scenario where you would have the guy come for seventy five dollars if the cheaper thing?

He says, there's also a possibility that a mouse may have chewed a hose up in the inside of it. There is a chance it's a fifty dollars repair. There's a chance, but not likely. Right, So I'm saying to you, scary and slices. Would you risk spending seventy five dollars to find out you're not going to fix the machine.

I've spent seventy five dollars, would you would you spend it possibly four hundred and fifty where you might fix it but you might not, or it's it's most likely to six hundred dollars, which is going to cause you the same as a new one. Would you just tell him not to come and go buy a new one every fucking time? But what if scary? What if it was a fifty dollars repair? What if it was a little gasket. There's a chance. So you're saying there's a chance, Well,

so would you gamble on the possibility? M m mmmm, because you could be throwing out all right? So okay, good, all right? I would probably I would. I would chalk it up, suck it up, pay the fifty dollars, have him come over look at it. Five Yeah, that's okay.

I would do it, and then from there, nah, I'm getting a new one after that if it's if it's a bigger issue, because I don't because I know that at that point it's old technology anyway, right, But there's like a five percent chance it's gonna be cheap, only five percent. I'm making up a number. I'm saying it's it's the high from where I told the leak was. He's like, it's probably the assembly something, but it could listen,

it could be the gasket. I would. Yeah. It depends on what seventy five dollars means to you in life. It's me scary, I might ask, Will I mean you know again? Can all things five dollars for you is like a tenth of a pair of sneak? Well, no, it's all things considered. I don't have anything. Listen, I don't have a wife and kids. I'm a single I'm a single person, a single little bit of roll the dice that hands a blackjack. Oh my god, I would,

I would. I would know. It's a lot of money, and I don't want to say it's not a lot of money. But me personally, I'll take the seventy five dollars risk because that's who I am. I tend to overspend one shit, you all go that about me, I'll take that, and then beyond that, if it's anything more, I'm not paying for repairs another couple of hundred dollars. I'm not getting into that game. I'm going right to the new If it can't be fixed for seventy five,

i'll be like, thank you, see you later. Here's your money. Right, I'm going to buy a new one because there's nothing but more problems on the way after that. Now, now you're eight hundred dollars is eight seventy five. You're fine with that. I'll be okay with it. I'll live with it. Okay, it's a gamble I took. It's almost like lan slice back, hit the talk back. Let us know what you would do? Yeah, please down? All right, we go, We're right back? Okay? Yeah?

Or not? Should we be taking a break here? Yeah? Okay, I didn't know if you were ready or not. Oh I thought this was uh break. I'll I'll tell you what. I'll be ready when I say I'm ready, talk us, talk us, interrupt us. Oh you know what what? I'll say something funny and then you hit the button like oh yeah, yeah, like I did last time. Okay, you go, so scary's a douche. That's not funny. So I won't hit the button. See what I did there? Oh yeah, crack yourself up? Why don't you. I do. I'm just

gonna wait for something funny to come out of your mouth. Thinking. Speaking of crack, how about that plumber did he bend over when he come up to the house the super di Just see crack, you little super crack. Not amused? You did so super crack, super crack. Yeah you're supers crack. Okay, I'll give you that one. Scary See. I guess jokes can't be forced, can I can? I can? I uh pull back the curtain of for a second? You may? And then we got talk backs and we're done. So

what's up? Okay, So a few people have over the past couple of months have made comments like, you guys have too many commercials now you used to have not this hole and and and and we've told you we don't. It's not up to us how many commercials we play. But I think I know what part of the problem is. And what's that. Well, a couple of years ago, we moved hosting platforms, which means where we upload the podcast that then gets dispersed all the places that you hear podcasts.

There's a back end page a company that we use to store everything. Well, when we moved to that new company. Anything that we had already recorded got moved over, but without the commercials. That's right. I just I'm pretty sure about that. So I was listening to some old episodes on iHeartRadio, and there's no commercials. So if you listen to like episode four twelve forty, I don't think the

commercials moved over. So if you're a new listener and you're like, oh, I listened to one hundred episodes, now, all of a sudden, I got commercials, right, Well, we used to have commercials in those episodes, and at some point corporate may realize that and put them back in, right, but until then, we don't talk about it. So and you're getting a bonus by not getting commercials. We don't talk about commercials. No, no, well you don't talk about commercials.

I'm friends. That sounds like it's mail time. That sounds welcome eighties. You've gotten nail. Yeah, you know, you could still email us at the Brooklyn Boys podcast at gmail dot com. And just a couple that we have to catch up on, because well these are three weeks old at this point. Roger Cavallo talking about the steakhouse dinner my sister convinced me to listen to your podcast. I've only been listening since September and have a lot of

catching up to do, but you guys are fantastic. My son and I definitely want to go to the steakhouse and dinner that you guys are planning with your slices at Benjamin Steakhouse. Prime. Can't wait to see you guys in person and enjoy the awesome food that was sent on February seventeen, twenty twenty three, Brodie, want to break

it to them, Yeah, you missed it. That was back in September, So this Roger, I'm sorry you're listening to old episodes as we're getting excited about our upcoming appearance. But then again, that is the downside of listening so far late. Yeah, sorry about that. You missed us. M Ralph Howee talking about episode one fifty two. Wow, that's crazy. It's a long time ago, so one hundred episodes ago, Brodie Fail listeners started listening in October of twenty twenty two.

I was a good slice and listen to order. Only after I listened to a more current episode. I started zero found myself finishing one fifty two. You guys were doing shout outs for your merch store for anyone who button merched a week before Thanksgiving of twenty twenty. Okay, and I couldn't help but email you guys when I By the way, these these both these email are two weeks old and they just came in. Anyway, I couldn't

help myself email you guys. When I heard you guys shout someone out who bought merched from my town, Moundsville, West Virginia, I got so excited and went fucking crazy. That sounds like a hot town, Moundsville. Yeah, I'm enjoy's gotten nuts Moundsville, don't. I'm twenty seven and I listened to you guys all day while I'm at work. I'm a FedEx driver and always have you guys playing well. I delivered to make my work days go back faster. He may not have heard the U. Yes, well he

might have. Well, he was at one fifty two at this point. It sounds like he's bouncing around, but all right. He says that we give him a lot of laughs on the job. You guys accept me as a slice, I hope, even though I'm late to the party. But just want to thank you guys for being great making me laugh throughout my work day. Ralph, how or how we so? Ralph? So eventually you'll hear this here in episode two forty nine. Here will it be? We don't know,

but yeah, girl that you're catching up. Yeah, okay. Also, meche Arlequin has a comment about Zanex a few weeks a few episodes. It's not miche Harlequin. Miche Arlequin a r L E. So a few episodes behind. Didn't want to leave a Delaide talk back, just listen to the episode about the effects of ambient and such, and wanted to share my brief scary story. A few years ago, my mom was very ill in the hospital, told us she wasn't going to make it past a few days.

My sister had a prescription for Zanex and gave me two of them. Because I was beside myself with grief. I got home, took both, came a couple of hours later, around two am, standing on my front porch with no pants on and eating of McDonald's cheeseburger. And I don't even eat meat. I don't remember going to get it, and I sure as hell wouldn't have gone sans pants scary story, but able to find the humor in all these years later. Oh and ps, my mom pulled through

just fine. Thank you, Michelle Arlequin. So there you got. Very nice Michelle. We have a very nice email. Which this one is the quick version of the more personal email from Jason Romano. Oh Jason, yeah, oh yeah, I'll read this one. It's on my phone if you don't mind do that. Hello, Hello boys, I haven't heard much plugging for the merch store lately. That's Brooklyn Boys dot bigcartel dot com. Now that you've paid off your Christmas bills, why not go to Brooklyn Boys dot Big Cartel and

get yourself some Brooklyn Boys merchandise. Yes, so he wrote, I haven't heard much plugging for the merch store lately, but I went on and reordered some shirts I've had in my collection. I've warned them so much they became stained, faded, or have other issues. So I said enough is enough and ordered brand new ones. And he sent us the receipt of the stuff he bought. So Jason Romano is a two time super slice at the at the merch Store, Thank you, and he wears these shirts proudly and all

the merch. Thank you so much. That is a that's next level right there. I uh. In addition to Jason, I had to buy I bought myself new shirts as well. I wanted another the Brooklyn Boys Navy blue shirt with the Brooklyn Bridge yep, because I had worn it so much that uh, it's a it's a tad faded a little bit, but believe me, in two and a half years, I've wanted wear it every weekend. Right, I was like crazy. So I had to buy a new one. And now I still have the old ones. I have two of them.

Now there's no law against buying a new one. He's gonna buy new merch from the merch store Brooklyn Boys dot Big Quartel dot com. And nobody wore them first and gave them to their girlfriend and that wants to give them to you. Exactly used. And one more from Nora the Explorer, age fifty two. It's Nora from Richmond, Virginia. You can say my name on the podcast I'm a New Slice for Life started from zero. Toward the end,

listen to this one. Brodie talking scary you just I just want to just before I forget Nora and everyone else listening you need to say the first line of your email whether we can or can't read your name on the thing, because scary just got to the part where it said you can read my name on the podcast after he said her name exactly anyway, Like, Hi, my name is Mike Smith. Whatever you get, Jame, don't say Mike Smith on the podcast. Say it in the

subject line. How about that? Started at zero toward the end of January and just finished episode two forty eight today. She's up to January. Yeah, twenty three, she's up to date into two months. I'm a long time listener of The Big Show, trying every year to make it on the radio for my birthday so I could talk to everybody, and they she misses you on the Big Show, Brodie. Can't wait to hear about your next project and when you finally will tell us about your book, and when

it's ready for purchase. God damn, it's it's a work in progress. So what's the update on the book? No, the work I'm still so I have to now submit the whole first chapter for approval to see if we can move forward with future chapters. Okay, all right, but I had done the proposal and I plotted out some of the chapters and chapter titles, and I had to submit.

I have to submit a full I'm not finished with the first full chapter yet, but they have to approve it, so I have to make sure it's worthy, all right. But there's a lot of steps in this process. So I get it. I know it's not easy. All right, Let's get to some talkbacks. If you listen to the iHeart Radio app, obviously of the added bonus feature of clicking on a microphone and leaving us a message. And

here are some of those messages from episode too forty eight. Well, watching this past Saturday, my husband and I thought of you, Brodie, wondering if you caught this. My most loathed misuse of the English language happened during weekend Update. One of the cast members, a girl can't think of her name, said irregard. Oh my gosh, it's like chalk on a black word. Christ okay, so high saddle Brook, what's up? She's left messages before? So I happen to love Sarah Sherman. She's

from Long Island. Uh huh um. Here's what I'm gonna say about the word irregardless. I hate the word. Oh no, don't tell me it's a real word. Well, here's the problem. Irregardless. Um, it's become regardless, become used regardless. Right, there's no point in saying irregardless if regardless means what you want that being said. Unfortunately, it's a word there, really is it? Really? Yeah? I don't I never used it. I never was brought

up that way. According to Mariam Webster's Dictionary, the irregardless apart is what they call an intensifier, meaning really regardless. I'm not buying that shit. I don't like it. I always thought it was an error. I thought this was people that didn't know grammar. I thought I really chalked it up to that. I listen, I won't say it. Um, all right, we've spent enough a lot of time on this. You're irregardless. We should move on to the next one. Yeah. Good.

And some people were wise to it. Some people would say they're continuing old scoopid from the thing. I want to see it come directly out the paper, and like, oh they know about the bag that was part two of something else. Okay, let's try this one. Okay. I used to work for AMC when I was a teenager. And no, they are popping all of those all of that popcorn in shop. Oh but what happens is during the weekdays when it's slow, they make us pop extra popcorn and bag it in those big bags you're talking

about and put it in the back. So that was the week and some people were wise to it. Some people would say, don't scoop it from the thing. I want to see it come directly out the pop burn Like, Oh, they know about the bag, so they do pop it on site. They don't just buy it from somewhere else. No, but they they'll bag it up on Tuesday and serve it you on Friday. Bag it up. About to bag it up, no diggity, no doubt. So you have to get like Sunday popcorn, which is probably fresh, right because

he's probably from Tuesday. You're right, Wow, but they still do it on site, which we stand corrected. How about this one, they may do it all Brody scary. This is Jacob episode two forty eight. You guys were talking about the movie theater popcorn and such, and Brodie, you you are pretty much right. Uh, I cleaned a theater

for about three years. After hours, and they do cook up batches of popcorn, put them in those big four foot bags, and they hold them for a couple of days, and they'll do it every couple of days the last that long. Hell, all right, so that's two people now. But but you did say, Brodie, that they get the big bags from places and they get shipments of the badge. You didn't say that they pop it on site. Hold On, I said it wasn't fresh. I was right about that,

And I said they put in the big bags. I've seen it in the big bags. Well you're saved. That's being saved by saying those people. Those people may work at a big chain, right, They may work at AMC who's now selling their popcorn at Walmart. They may work for Regal or CINNAMRK. But yeah, you don't know where the popcorn comes from. It like clover Leaf theaters in Oklahoma or whatever. You don't know, all right, the smaller places. Continuing along, this is a hot topic, hot topic. Hey,

Brooklyn boys, heard your episode about the popcorn. I did used to work in a movie theater. It was not mc as a local theater in my town. But we did pop the popcorn fresh. Then we put it in big plastic bags and store them on the stairs to go upstairs, and would bring them out whenever we need more popcorn. But we did pop it fresh every once in a while, just to resupply the stock. Well there you go, so okay, So so he works at the small town place. I just reference ye, so, but it's

not fresh. I want to see it popped and get it right out of there. They're just dumping old bags of popcorn in the machine to make it look like, Yeah, it's fresh, that's what we said. Yeah, because that that case, I don't think that's the popper. I think the poppers in the back. Yeah. All right, here here's another one. Hey guys, So I'm listening to the episode about the

movie theater popcorn amazing. I used to work at a movie theater years ago, and what we used to do is pop bags of popcorn and then store it in the back there for days. And all we will do is just fill up the bins with the popcorn, so you're eating days old popcorn. Brodie is correct, by right. All right, this is the hottest topic we've had in a long time. Yeah, this is this one's popping. This topic is popping, all right, let's continue along. Should we

continue on this path? Let me guess, Let me guess, Popcorn, what are you talking about? Brooklyn Boys, Nice for Life here in Wisconsin, episode two forty talking about on the Border Mexican restaurant. I'm over here dying in my time and way to work because this strip club here Wisconsin called on the border talking about you have a bad service, good service man. I'll tell you what, I've never had bad service from on the border here in Wisconsin. Stay cool, guys,

love you well. Our friend from Wisconsin, and I love the way he says that. I was on the phone with a woman yesterday from Wisconsin. I was calling a company and she's where are you from? She's Wisconsin. I was like, you absolutely are so uh yeah, I think he's on the border with the naked ladies. Yeah. I would not be. I would not be paying as much attention to the same same Yeah. Okay, take your time bringing that chilly up heyby boys, Christie Saddlebrookswice for Life.

I have to give kudos to Brody for walking out of that restaurant. I know it's an old story, but it's worth repeating. Way to go if a restaurant can't offer you substitutions, then they're f and nuts. How hard is it to walk up to a mashed potato pot flapping on your plate and not go anywhere near an asparagus pot? Seriously? And the Taie food place, what if you are allergic to basil? By the way, basil is an herb. Basil is an herb, yes, but not a

What did we say it was? I said it's a vegetable. Yeah, it's a herb, except except, hold on a second, I'm going to just prove a point. Didn't I say it was a herb? I think I was one who said it was a herb. Hold on, wait, but basil comes from a plant. Here's the definition, because I looked it up before I said it. Herbs are a subset of vegetables, and they are generally composed of strong, flavorful leaves. Okay, so that's what that would be. It falls into the category.

It's in the herb, it's in the vegetable family, a subset of vegetables. It's a type of vegetable. Okay, So, uh love you? That was her second Christie's second. Uh. Christy leaves a message every episode except her very passionate woman. Yes, hey, Brody and Scary love the show. But I gotta say, oh, I really do miss Brody being on the Big Show. Even though you know he was you is there, here and there, I still miss him being on it. Anyway,

keep keep keep up the good work. Does a fucking hilarious this is coming from Jersey North Brick City, couldn't tell and uh and that's it and he got cut off. Well, thank you. I love the way he was looking. He's looking forwards to to sort of say, Brody wasn't on the radio a lot, but yeah, he was, like, you know, he was here and there and he was yeah background and sometimes I hear him chuckle and Joe, I very much appreciate you and anyone else who feels the same

way that you miss me on the Big Show. Um, I appreciate that. Who knows what the future holds, right exactly exactly. Maybe they'll they'll decide to pay me millions of dollars and uh, you know, draw me back in. Yeah, right now, I'm sleeping late. Brody and Scary ohs Brodyan scary. Um. Just commenting on the guy on the talk back who is pissed that people are commenting on the size of Tommy Lee's dick, like he's personally offended by it or whatever.

But you know, if people were commenting about the size of boobs, it would be a problem. I just have one thing to say. Oh my god, isn't it awful when they are double standards for different sexes or genders? Yeah, it's awful. Women really don't know what she got cut off too. Yeah, but her point was valid. It was valid. Yep, it shouldn't be. They can't have it both ways. And she was responding to another talkback person. I guess right.

And I have to say, if if I saw a woman with the twelve inch breasts, I would not comment on them disrespectful. Well, yeah, I see what you're saying, Bertie, but what but no, but no, She's right. People of double standards, you can you can. You could talk about you right, you could joke about ejectify one sex and then get offended. So then I'm exonerated. I'm actually uh justified in in the wow factor because they that was

that guy was like ripping me right. The guy, the original guy on the talkback was like, what the hell do we care about this for? Right? Was that the original talkback? That's what I'm remember, remember trying to remember. I think he was mad that you were a sexualizing or objectifying his giant penis. Well, well, listen, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, And if the gander has a twelve inch penis, And yeah, we're gonna we're gonna pass judgment. We're gonna we're gonna oggle.

We're gonna oggle at it. We're gonna move on. Hit the next one. That was the last one. All right, let's get out of here. Scary. I gotta go dishwasher shopping, and hopefully the supply chain won't be a problem, because I heard you have to wait till May at this point or a dishwasher. That's true. But I know a guy. Do you you know where he lives? Yes? I do. Right there on eighteenth Davenue Invention, hearst boys boys pro progly