#250: Some Funny Schtick & A Guy From John Wick

eleven and a half. Don't short me on those six inches. I all right, Well I'm I wear a twelve, so it's not six inches. And I'm wearing I'm not wearing socks or shoes. I'm doing this podcast barefoot. Ooh, I'm wearing socks, no shoes. Oh, socks, no shoes. Okay, gotcha, Yeah, you know, like the barefoot the barefoot Contessa. Yeah. I am wearing a knee brace by the way, which I will talk about. I will talk about later about my

my injury last week. Yeah, and thank you for being responsible for us playing the boys are back in town there because it was all you all Brodie all vacation. Yes, So I prefer to talk about my vacation after the fact, and we didn't talk about my vacation before the fact, so we didn't really give you guys a heads up as to no episode last week. So I apologize. I did tweet, and not everybody saw the tweets. So we're

back to fifty. I went on a cruise with part of my family, the ones that were in town, because two of my daughters were out of town and couldn't make the trip. So my wife and I went with my middle daughter and her friend. Oh nice, lots of stories. Yeah, I can imagine. Everything was podcast podcast podcast. Oh yeah, you were like taking names and you know, kicking ass and taking names. Is that what they say, kicking ass

and taking names? Yeah? So I did injure myself. So I will talk about that I did something stupid, but I'm gonna I like to get into the stupidity right right here and by the way, later on. Just so you know, our friend Scott Atkins, who plays new friend, newfound friend killer in the in the film john Wick four, which is coming out this weekend, He's gonna be joining us. He's gonna be joining us. I already have my tickets. I can't wait. I'm a I'm a John Wick fan.

You're a nut U Yeah, I love Don't don't weird me. Don't turn into you know, and if you don't know the weird Al thing, it's it's the way I get in front of weird Al Yankovic, my all time favorite musician. From when I was a boy, you know, I was like a weird Al. Don't don't turn into that guy with with Scott Atkins, I'm I don't think I will. But here's the thing, Um, I'm excited about the movie. I feel like I can be I can be good with Scott. Scott is a legendary movie uh martial artist.

He's got like fifty sixty films he's been in maybe more, and he's he's always kicking somebody's ass. And he's one of those guys that you you may not the name is a ring a bell, but then when you see him his movies, if you've seen his movies, yeah, but he's definitely a familiar face. But in this case, in this film, he's unrecognizable because he wears he wears a fat suit. Well we'll talk about that later. All right, okay, all right, So I went on a cruise this week

and I did some things I wouldn't normally do. I was very bold. My family likes to make fun of the fact I'm afraid of most things. So this you spend money. Ha ha ha uh. This particular ship, we were on Royal Caribbean International. We were on Anthem of the Seas, which leaves out of New Jersey, which, by the way, if you live in New Jersey, it's a quick trip, no plane. And we left at a Bayonne. We went under the Arizono Bridge, which is awesome. But you left at Bayonne. And you know what they say

about Bayonne is if it's from Bayonne, leave it alone. Yeah, yes, that's what they say. I mean, I didn't make this up, don't but Bayonne. I'm not looking to promote the Bayone tourism. But they have a massive new development on the water of town homes and apartments. It looked really nice with a view of the Arizono Bridge in Brooklyn, Staten Island. If you don't know the area, you're like, what is he talking about. There's a lot of developmental things going.

Shout out to Cafe below on avenue. See okay, all right. So in addition, so first of all, I had never been on a Royal cribbin before. Um mostly we did Norwegian Cruise Line, so this was this was a change. The ship was available and so we took it, and they had a couple of things on it that normally I might not have done. They have a a three sixty globe you get into and it's got a hydraulic arm and it goes up three hundred feet over the

ship and over the water. Oh wow. Which so we did it in the Bahamas, so we had an incredible view of the other ships docked there as well as um Nasa. A hydraulic arm that lifted you up. Well, it lifted the giant globe of ten of us in the ball oh yeah, almost like the skill crane game. And the snow globe ten of you was like a stuffed animal right. Well, thankfully it didn't drop us like the crane game, which is rigged. So I did that.

I am at a middle of the middle, maybe after a couple of drinks, so I did that, which was high for me and I don't love heights, but I did that. And then also on anthem of the seas they have. I fled. You know what I fly is? No, so you you put on like a flight suit. Is that the new Is that the new airplane from Apple? I fly? Nope, nope, nope, no, no, no no, because I would have used the Android version. Uh. This is it's a cylinder that blows air from the ground and you

it's like you're jumping out of a plane. So you have a helmet and goggles and you jump into this tube with an instructor and it floats you up. You have to keep you body in a certain position. And I did that. That's great. Again, my family did not think I would do it. That's not how I got injured. So I have, Um, I have what's becoming a bad knee. Um. And so, uh, my left knee needed to get an

injection of gel in my joint. I'm jelling, so the cartilage is wearing out in my left It's pain it's painful. You're like a broken down caboose. Nah, I'm sure about the caboose apart. My ass is fine, So eventually I will need to get a knee replacement. Everyone it's a lifetime of being a fake athlete and playing sports like I do. So the well I althoptis put the gel in my in my uh knee and he said, at last six months it'll take away most of the pain,

which it has. And he said, you know, uh, you get with a shot every six months until you want the surgery, which I'm trying to put off. So I said, okay, great, I will. He didn't say any limitations. I said, I'm going on a cruise. He's like, have a great time. So the cruise left on Sunday. On Thursday, there's a dodgeball tournament. Now. I love dodgeball. When I was a kid, I played dodgeball in camp. I was fantastic. Nobody could throw a ball. I couldn't. It was the opposite of

that and dodgeball. Nobody would pick me and I would be okay. When I finally was put on a team, I would always be the one that was out first. When I was a kid, I beat the counselors. The counselors would throw at me. In my head, I caught everything. I was a large target and I would always okay. They would wail the So yeah, So I love dodgeball much like I do most sports. I can play, and I'm I'm in my head, I'm still fourteen years old,

twelve years old. And so they have this giant basketball court sports arena thing on the ship that you can play basketball and then as soccer, and then one on two days it turns into bump of cars. They put the cars on the track so it's like a slick basketball court. So in dodgeball, they we sign up and where teams have I I don't know, five or six whatever it was, and they put us on each side of the middle line, you know, like you would and

on the line. Rather than one dodgeball, they put six smaller dodgeballs, bigger than a softball, smaller than a basketball, like palm you could palm the ball. They put six of them on the line. They tell us to stand back on the back line, and then when he says three two one dodgeball, we are supposed to run towards the line and grab the dodgeballs our side, their side. But you can't throw them. You can't throw them, you know, immediately you have to like then back up, yeah, and

then then the game starts. Yeah. No, I've actually played that before. I remember the beginning of dodgeball. So I did I did he did three two one, and everybody ran and he stops us. There was no reason to stop us. He says, whoa, whoa, stop blows the whistle. Now you have to run hard. So I ran and there was no problem, and he says, I didn't say dodgeball. I go, We're seriously dude, okay. So then he goes three two one dodgeball, and I take three steps towards

the line and my knee collapses. I'm still running, by the way, but my knee I have like a lightning bolt through my head of pain. So I start backing up so I don't get hit, and I'm limping back. The pain is unbearable, but I don't leave the court because that's not who I am. So I stayed and played, and I, you know, continued to deteriorate because you had to be how to be the man, right, Yeah, I'm the pain. I'm just gonna play through it. I hit a guy, knocked him out. I caught a ball, got

him out. I'd lasted until two of us left me and the girl had hidden the back, so I was the target for everything because she stood in the back, like, oh, I know my strategy. I'll stand in the back and never throw and never catch. So I got I run up to the line and I threw a ball at a guy and I hit him. And then coming off from the side, there's another ball and I couldn't move fast enough because on my knee, and I got hit.

I couldn't turn fast enough. So I limped off the court ouch, afraid to tell my wife because she was said to me, you know, you probably shouldn't do that, And I'm like, my knee feels fine. I got the knee brace on, I got my personal sneakers. I'm good. This is gonna be great. Now were you were you like biting your tongue, were you riding in pain? Wildest? But so what at what point did you did you say to yourself, I'm playing. The more I play, the

more I'm going to be injured. At when I knew that immediately tomorrow morning, So then what why didn't you stop? Because everyone on the court was twenty to twenty five and I wasn't moving, I wasn't getting off, So I stayed and I played. I beat a cup of them, and then afterwards I limped back to the hotel room. I texted my wife and I said hey, um, I'm

just chilling in the room. Yeah, and then I so for two or three hours, I couldn't what day of the trip was this Thursday Thursday and we started Sunday, so Thursday, so it was towards the end, well towards the middle, a little past the middle. So by by Thursday night I could walk. By Friday, I was and I got in a hot tub, so that helped. I was mostly okay by Friday afternoon. But it was a day of like you idiot, Yeah, okay, I had a great time. I feel good. Now, how was the food?

Food was good? The food was good. Um, we went to all of the restaurants. It's it's uh that particular ship is a little bit older, so they only had four specialty restaurants, whereas like some of the Norwegian ships we were on had six eight. So we did the four and then we repeated a couple what starts. Well, here's the thing. I did get some free dessert, which is nice, so originally the ship a second, the whole thing is free. You you've already paid into the whole experience, right, homie. Well,

let let me let me tell you the story. The ship was supposed to dock in Cape Canaveral, which is forty minutes away from Orlando, which is like North and Central Jersey on the East coast. And at the time we were leaving that port, so we were gonna stay a day in that area, go to the beach. We were thinking about maybe going to Universal Studios. And so around an hour after we were supposed to leave that port, they were launching a rocket, a SpaceX rocket from that

port and we would be able to see it. They sent this notification, You're gonna be able to see the launch of a rocket. I'm like, oh my god, I've never except on television, I've never seen a rocketport. It was your lucky day, Lucky day. And then we were gonna stop at the Nassau in the Bahamas, where we ever know, I've been there six times with the Morning Show and whatever. So and then we were gonna go to that private island. They have an island called Cocoa.

Okay say which I know in the Bahamas they pronounced key, but it was Cocoka is according to everybody on the ship. So the day before the ship left, we get a memo saying one of the engines on the ship is not running at full speed and they have to repair it. So we're gonna go a little slower. And because we're going a little slower, we're not gonna stop in Florida. But you're gonna get a refund back of one seventh

of your trip. So I got we got back each of us one day's credit for not stopping in the dock, which we didn't care if we stopped there at all. Yeah, but we was new found. It was just found money, right, Like you didn't care, but you got you got the money. It was like almost like a bonus check, right, and then we use that on the ship to buy shit, so it was it was great. So we got free shit, basically free ship for us because of it. So but in the course of the cruise there were so many

podcast topics. My entire family got into a fight with a woman in the Bahamas, all of all four of us. It wouldn't be a brody trip without it. Yeah, So I'll tell you about that later, but I want to get your week was without me while I was going on with you. I got hammered on Saint Patrick's Day. And I'll talk about that in a second, Okay, the past. I mean hammered to the extent that Andrew from our Big show had to put me in an uber and

send me home. Um, but I wouldn't go it. Hammered to the extent that the next day, coaster boy Josh, who was equally as drunk, if not worse, had to check in. I mean, dude to you, Okay, I'm telling you, Brody, I've never been this obliterated in my life. And it all started with day drinking on St. Patrick's Day. Let's be clear though, for everyone you are not Irish, not Irish,

and I wasn't driving doesn't matter. It's a holiday. Nonetheless, No, I don't understand that there's a lot of drinking holidays that I'm not ethnically part of. Like, uh, but you drink, you drink on Passover and that isn't even a drinking holiday of course. Yeah, sinco de mayo, I'm in Bring it on Left Flag Day, you got wasted, you name it, Give me a reason to drink. I'm drinking. But it

started with day drinking and doing shots. First, you have to realize there, I guess there's two types of drinkers. Maybe there's more. But when I'm out with my standing and the type on the floor right when I'm with my friends, my regular my Hoboken friends, real friends. Yeah, well, no, the guys that I do a lot of dinners with that I talk about. We I don't know if you call it adult type drinking, but we go slow. We like to do a start with with a cocktail at dinner.

Then we'll move into some wine, and then we'll do the after dinner drink, and then we'll maybe do glass of whiskey, and then we'll do some uh, some cappuccino or some espresso with some sambuca. My friends have these a lot of drinks over the course of a few hours and layer it with different liquors. Okay, that's one type of drinker, and that's the kind of drinker I've

become because I can't handle it fast and furious. And then there's like the people like Joey Gorga and Melissa Gorger from the Housewives of New Jersey, who I coincidentally ran into. Yeah, coincidence, No, it was. It was a coincidence. I was about to do day drinking with some of the sales team and some of my other friends, and they said, meet us at the Pig and the Parrot at five o'clock. That's a bar name the Pig and Parrot, The Pig and the Parrot. Yeah, you're picking the parrot.

There's one at the Jersey Shore. There's one in Hoboken, so I said i'll be there. So it's five o'clock. I'm in the shower. I'm running late. I come out of the shower, I'm already on my way. I'm like, I'm getting dressed. And I get a bunch of texts from one of our friends, Amanda and Sales and she's like, scary, Joe Gorga is here with the housewives and they're all their friends, all the people from the TV show. If you're a fan of Real House of Wives in New Jersey,

you definitely know who these people are. We know who they are. Get here now and I'm like, I'm on my way. Okay, okay. So I jump into taxi, sorry uber, and I show up and afford me thinking you, oh, wait a minute, you had the slices, thinking you got into a regular taxi for a second. I get there all good slices. I'm still scary, yeah, scary. The booge man So and the next thing, you know, Joe Gorgon sees me, he lifts me up. He's already three hours

in and he's like scarage joy and it was. It was hysterical actually, And then Melissa was there, his wife, and it was a good time. And I introduced the two groups. I love to be the person who brings groups of people together. I'm like, hey, meet my friends from sales at the radio station, and then you guys meet some of the housewives people. It was like a one big, happy family. The problem is it started fast

and furious with shots. Let's do around the shots. No sooner do I put the shot glass down on the bar. They're already ordering round two, like you got some catch it up to do. I must have done four shots in about a half hour. That's not how Scary Jones drinks. I just call myself with the third person. But I don't drink that way. So now I'm like, oh fuck, and I'm on an empty stomach. The night just that,

the Nights from the Nikes extends from there. Next thing you know, it's now five six hours later and I'm at the bar the Madison, where I totally gone. I'm with my other friends, my friend Will is with me, but we're like, we're we're We're several shots in and several drinks and rounds in and I see Andrew, a coastal boy, Josh come in. I'm so elated to see them, said, I hugged them. Yeah, and then I bit Andrew on the ear or elbow or something, and he's like, what

the fuck are you doing? I'm like, I'm just so happy to see you now. I gotta say, when you bite someone, you can bite someone as a term of endearment, you can. It's an affectionate bite. There's a different you know, you know, you're just so excited, like, oh my god, I'm so drunk, I'm so happy, and you just bite them. That's what I did. Now. Some people will be like, you're fucking crazy. Other people do crazy shit when they

see their friends after being drunk. If you're like if you're like literally hammered, like shit faced, and then you see someone you didn't expect come into your your vision and you what do you do? Some people have different reactions. Do you do anything, Well, you've never been there, No, Well I just I smile, I get crazy and I bite them. That's what I do. I bit at Andrew,

so I apologize. It got it just went it went south from there, and then they tried to get me home and do the right thing for me, but I refuse to listen, like, no, fuck you, I'm not going home. It's only nine o'clock. It was bad, It was bad. So you know, I spent the next day just nursing a hangover. But you know, I don't know if you've ever been that that shit faced, you know, I haven't,

not at all ever. No, no, okay, Well, anyway, although I did drink for me, I drank a lot on the cruise because we had the drink package and I felt like I already paid for it. Yeah, so anyway, that was my Saint Patrick's day. The day drinking thing is one thing, but the style of drinking, I don't know who drinks to get smashed, where they just keep doing shots, shots, shots, shot lots of people. Yeah, but

that's never been me. I'll do around the shots when I'm like, yeah, let's do it around the shots, but to just go all in. And then I realized I paid for the bill at both the Pig and the Parrot and the Madison. I dropped so much money that I didn't realize it, and I didn't know it until the next day, and I'm like, oh fuck, what did I do? Dude? That's why I don't drink. At one point we lined up because I felt the need to repay Joe at the Pig in the Parrot like they

were giving me shots. So I'm like, I mean, the guy that has a TV show and a successful career, they're rich. They're on a show because they're rich. So wait in a second, I had to get in there. So I'm like, one, two, three, four, give me fourteen shots? Oh my god, Jmo. Yeah, guess what. They're on a Jamo. You got a problem. There were no buybacks of this Jamison. It was yeah, man, I went in. I went in and I bit off more than I can chew. And and that was that was that. I didn't even tell

you about the Friday before. We'll let me ask. I'll make it very brief. Yeah, no, no no, I gotta ask a question about what you just said. So, so, what's the guy's name from the show, Joe? Joe? So Joe brought you bought like multiple rounds of of of of shots, right, yeah, And so you felt obligated at least by one to buy one round. Okay, but the thing you brought fourteen shots because you felt obligated to repay Joe as general. But it's the right thing to do though, Okay, shut up,

you're not drunk, dude. If in this situation, I'm not your wife, don't tell me to shut up. I'll give you the backhand about you. Um, If in this situation and you're in you're trying to repay Joe by buying that round of fourteen drinks and you said there were no buybacks, what if the bartend had decided to do a buyback of fourteen drinks right there and didn't charge you for the fourteen shots, would you still owe Joe

around of drinks? No? No, because I know where you going with this, because this is an analogy for the fucking steak dinner that you seem to think I owe you, and I said no because the same rule applies. No, So you are kid. No, you would have said, Joe, the bartend have paid for that round, I'll get the next round. Oh, speaking of steak dinner, and then I have a drink story for you, Oh skieries, steak dinner,

This is gonna make you any any happier. It may make you more angry, Okay, but remember and we're not going to go into it, but remember the reason why I owed you a steak dinner. Remember Beca. There was a reason because it was a third party involved, and you helped get some shit done with the third party. One on the show asked me to do it, so I did it. Yes, and then I did it and got all you a lot of money and then I

I got yeah, I got so about that. That third party, the reason why, the catalyst, the reason why, Yeah, the steak dinner exists. Um, Robin and I went out on Saturday night with that person and his wife and we uh went to a restaurant and I foot the bill and I bought him a mistake dinner. Wow. And by the way, I liked that person and his but he did me a huge favor recently. And I'm like, I said, dude, you are ironic. It is ironic, yep. Or is that a coincidence? No, it's I It's both. It's and I

said ironic that that you went for steak dinner. And as as as as I'm signing the build, but he gotta do the guy, the guy who didn't who didn't want to give you money, and I I stuck my neck out to make sure everyone on the show got that money, and and I did listen. He and I have a good relationship now, but he said to me once at a holiday party, he said, I'll forgive you, but I'll never forget. That's what he said to me. So I know, even though like we're friendly again and again,

I think the world of him. But little does he know that I owed you a steak dinner to begin with, because he doesn't have to know that. He doesn't know that part. But but the fact of the matter is, yeah, yeah, I bought him. And as I'm signing the car and I'm like, oh my god, this is like a Larry David moment. This is a curb enthusiasm moment. I am buying a steak dinner for the guy who was the reason why I owed by a steak dinner. That's correct,

That's correct, that scary steak dinner. Update a break, I do want to comment on what we just talked about for the break. YEP, I do have an update for next episode. I do. There's a reason I want to talk about right now. Okay, but uh, last episode, Scary said if I met him somewhere at an appearance, he would take me off for a steak dinner. We talked about that. I will talk about next week and I'll explain why I have to wait a week before I can talk about it. But I didn't up. Yes, we

did not. We did not yet. Yeah that update. Brody never met me, so he didn't get his steak dinner. So that was I'm gonna leave it there. I very much wish I did, so that'll real little tease for next episode. There was in terms of drinking. Yeah, I did want to run something by your real quick Okay, go for him. I'm sorry. So on the ship another cruise story. I got a lot of them, but they're all really good. I promise they're never They're never not good, thank you. The four of us were sitting at a

table in the club. There's a club called the Music Room. We were up in the club. We were upstairs and downstairs over the ledge um. There was a cover band playing that was fantastic Billboard something Billboard band. Anyway, So we're at this long rectangular table. Let's seats six and we're we're seating at four of the seats. To my left is that is the seat, and then across from that seat is the other seat that are available, so the two end seats are available. When we first sat down,

people had just gotten up. The table hadn't been cleared yet, so there were a couple of drinks there. There was a martini glass that was half full, and there was a m I want to see like a pint glass that was three quarters filled. I don't know what was in him, it doesn't really matter. It was alcohol. So I moved them to my left that there was nobody sitting to the left. To the left the left, all those drinks are left. So we're sitting there and the

four of us have had a couple of drinks. We're having a good time, and this group of girls comes by. I'm going to assume they were twenty one. They may not have been. Were they feeling twenty two? Maybe they were twenty two. Yeah, they were feeling twenty two thanks

to hell Swift. And so they come over and they say, excuse us, excuse me, and I said, I'm assuming they're asking if the chairs are available, and they said, I'm sorry, these are your drinks, so I said, no, they were here when we sat down again, thinking they were going to move them so they could sit down. They didn't want to throw them out without asking if they were our drinks. The four girls take the drinks and start drinking them and passing them back and forth to each other.

That's so ghetto that, by the way, we've we've had people do that at sporting events. We've had interns who admitted to just picking up drinks off the concrete floor at a baseball game, saying, yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna start chugging beer. And you don't even know whose lips were on that ship, but free beer. In fact, that story, I use that story a lot in discussing. When I would interview new interns, I would ask them, I would say, oh, do you is this something you would do? What would

you do in this situation? And they were all like, oh, we would never, it's terrible, you know, who would ever do that? And these girls, these girls drank to the bottom, every last drop. Scary. They drank these drinks that were sitting there, which it looked if they thought they were my drinks. They were like, well, these people look clean, these people look normal. I don't know. I have no

idea who sat there before me? I have no idea what the people look like if there no no no idea, and they didn't either, and they just d they're like, look look slices. I know that alcohol kills germs is the old cliche, but it's no. So here's what I want you guys to do. Use the talkback feature on your heart radio app and leave us a message. Would you do it? Well, not not in so much would you do it? Have you done it? Have you taken a drink out of some randos leftover alcohol? Because we

that I would. That's not which scary. As drunk as you are the other night, you think you might have done that? Yeah, yeah, I think um accidentally but not on purpose. Okay, you listen. I don't mind wasting beer. Okay, I won't waste food though I know that, you know. I mean I will eat food off of people's plates. I mean, not random strangers, but not my friends. If you're not going to finish that, I'm going in. I'm gonna eat that. So yeah, but you eat if your

friends plates, that's not that's not a problem. I don't you know. I don't. I don't think that's an issue. But what would be worse picking up a beer off the pavement and start drinking it, or walking through a restaurant and seeing that the people we had left the food behind and they're about to clear the table and then you just like grab some French fries off of it. Is that just as bad? Is one worse than the other? I'm walking by, I'm leaving the restaurant, I'm like, oh,

those fries look good. Now. Now that table hasn't been cleared yet, but the people are gone, oh fuck that. I'm gonna take half the sandwich home with from me. I'm gonna rip it off this plate, throw to my bank. Would you do that? No, so, same same thing, same rule applies. I couldn't do it. But the limps didn't touch it, Like wait, here's a full as a half a chicken PARMI touched maybe, but their fingers were on the You don't know if they touched it, they fingered it.

Maybe their hands were on it, or they breathed on it or spin on it while they were taking bite to the other half. I don't know. Something to think about, something to chew on. I want to hear some talkbacks on that, though I bet you there are listeners. It's more common than we know. Well, you know who did something something. What I think worse than that, um is uh uh Ronnie Scalzo, baldhead freak. What did he do? We were at a Mets game. It was a station event,

I think, which is why he was there. He would not normally go to a Mets game unless we brought him there. And we were in a in a section with a lot of people left early, and he found like buckets of chicken, chicken fingers, chicken tenders. Yeah, that were are not eating. He was like, fuck it, they didn't eat it, So he those are individual pieces that haven't been touched. So I would I could almost give that a pass. The beer clearly touched the saliva in there.

At least you got you stand a chance. What if it was a fully wrapped hot dog sitting there, You could just swindle that and walk out with that. No one's touched that, there's nothing to grow. The only thing that's gross is the idea that of possession, that it belonged to someone at one time. That's how I see it, and that's not that gross at that point. Huh the chicken fingers, Yeah, I couldn't do it. You couldn't do it. What if them licked their fingers and the lucky fingers

put one back and it touched another finger chicken finger? Yeah, Oh, They're like, I'm about to eat the last one. They're like, fuck it, I'm full, and they put it back in and they're all slobbery. I couldn't do it. I think there's different levels and different situations that I would I can't. I'm inconclusive about that. Um okay, well, uh, yeah, go ahead. You was gonna say, yeah, no, I was going to change the topic real quick, and I had a question

for you because oh yeah, please go ahead. Um We're gonna be very vague right now because we Brodie. You and I are going to an event tomorrow night. The two of us are attending an event together. So the invitation that I got on this event said cocktail casual. Yeah I saw that. I meant to ask you about that. Yeah, I meant to ask you about that. So well, remember back in the day we did this. Remember I did an event and you said, what do you call that style?

And I said, oh, it's Brooklyn Industrial and describe everybody what Brooklyn Industrial was. I can't. It was like that. It was the smoking jacket, Oh yeah, the smoke that it was John Varvados ARMANI smoking jacket with a T shirt underneath. Yeah, not tucked in. But then a pair of black pants that weren't weren't jeans. That was Brooklyn Industrial? Correct? So who you called it that? You named it that? After that? I said, I showed up to an event

dressed that way, and you said, that's Brooklyn Industrial. I think that the naming came after it. It It wasn't wasn't the invitation didn't say Brooklyn Industrial, but this invitation say cocktail casual. What does that mean? I didn't know what it meant, but I so whenever look slices, you know, whenever we're gonna go to an event, I usually text Scary because I know he's gonna overdress and I always go, hey,

scare what you're wearing? And he'll say, oh, I'm gonna wear a suit and one of my shiny shirts would a pipe And I go okay because he loves his shiny shirts. And normally he'll tell me the brand name as well. Oh I've got I've got you know, a shiny shirt by Almani and I've got the v I got the John Varvados, the Varvedo stand. I can't go wrong with a shiny shirt. I'm not a shiny shirt guy. Would you? Are you the kind of person who puts your T shirt under a sport jacket? No, because yeah,

it's a bit of a I'm not Miami vice. I'm not that's I can't pull that look off. I usually do a dress shirt. That's a paradox to me. I do. I do a dress shirt un talked with jeans and a jacket. Yeah, I could do that. I don't like because I don't like wearing a belt, I don't like talking shit in and I certainly don't like wearing a tie. That's the worst. Your first quarter of skiy, So I feel like you still you could talk second? Yeah, I didn't want to say you could say I'm second. Is

it fair to say you never reached first quarter of status? Um? Because I think it's starting off second quarter? Yeah? Quarter? Yeah, I think, um, I think I was, but all that I was ten. I was ten pounds off quarter. You're a fifth quarter skier to end the year. Lash that's the problem. I'm now I'm ten I'm ten pounds over what I should have been for first quarter. Scary, So we're starting with the second quarter scary. So now I just have to hit the brakes for this quarter, just

so I can slow down a little bit. But we'll see where that goes. Only time will tell. Like you you took a gallon of a couple of gallons of empty calories on St. Patrick's Day or anything? Well, part of the problem. Oh oh oh, that reminds me, were you in the middle of something. No, well, I was gonna I was gonna ask you we we're gonna talk about cocktail casual for a quick second. But I don't know what to wear because the host said he's gonna wear a suit. But he's the host. I don't need

to dress up like him. No, we're not gonna be on a microphone like he is and doing things. But he's an mcc he's an MCC. Right. It's a fancy place though, that's the other problem. It's a yeah, it's a fancy place. Here's where I'm torn. It's the kind of place you could have a wedding or a bar mitz for in. But that we're not having a wedding or bar mitz for there, right, and you're like, why I don't have to dress up for the place. I already got word back from a few of the guys

that they're wearing a sweater and jeans and that's it. Whoa, whoa, I said. So then another someone else I know that is that, like someone who's always casual, like Josh, like Josh is always cash. One of my other friends who's going to this event, he said, he's wearing, Um, he's wearing jeans with a button down shirt and belt and no and that's it, tucked in no suit jacket. Is that how he dresses to work? This person? Yeah? So so he also but this guy also said, well, we

should all band together. So he tried to rally the troops of a few guys and told me to tell you and four other guys that we know that maybe go into this. Yeah, hey, what's all band together? Let's no certainly no tie, no tie of course, no jacket. But then what do you wear? I mean, like, you wear a sweater? But I don't know, though, do you what does cocktail casual even mean? I don't know. I'll

have to google it. Let me google it hold on cocktail casual because my girlfriend was trying to give me advice. She said, my girlfriend's like, hey, let me tell you something. Okay. Here it has cocktail casual attire, she said, it's just short of She goes, it's like going to a wedding, but minus the tie. I'm like, no, that's business casual. Okay. This is what the first search came up. It says cocktail casual attire is a cross between cocktail and business casual.

Dub by the name. Your outfits should look polished, but not as formal as a semi formal outfit. Again, I okay. Men should wear light colored suits if the cocktail celebration is the daytime, and darker suits for an evening event. Can you wear jeans to cocktail casual? Different? As a general rule, cocktail means no jeans and no sneakers. That's bullshit because people wear sneakers with suits. I know three people that they Dude, I'm wearing jeans an evening event,

less formal than black tie, but not quite business casual. Okay, here it is hold on. This is from leaf dot TV. I'm trying to find, like, gun, what's business casual. Business casual means a suit but no tie. To me, that's what business casual means. M hmm. Cocktail attire. I'm telling you, I don't think we should be wearing jeans. I think you gotta go slacks. Yeah, I went, I bought slacks this week. I went and bought slacks, black slacks, I bought, No,

I bought, uh, I bought gray slack. I bought gray slacks. D like wool, like like nice gray pants. But now I'm not sure I'll like him with the Now, I don't know what I'm gonna do. Cocktail casual is a dress code blah blah blah, doesn't require you to wear expensive dresses or heels. This is women. What should I wear? This is a it's an ad firm cocktail casual. All right, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do the search thing. I'm gonna google it. But it sounds like you have

to look pretty good. Yeah, you gotta be more polished than a turd. Yeah, I think the women are gonna wear cocktail dresses. But I will you all you know women, women, the women who are gonna go to this event, they probably I mean, well, they're just no offense. But a woman, a woman is appropriate. A woman, they're not. A woman is a wal trousers. Women always go to the nines. They always the guys will always look like slobs next

to women at events any event. I just feel that women will, you know, because they out they like to outdress each other. And so this article says there is no place for more casual clothing such as jeans, polar shirts, or casual sneakers. But it's cocktail. What casual? Right? So it's it's just a title. So it's ah, I almost don't want to go now, it's too much to think about. It's a lot. It's a lot, right, Okay, So what does contact casual general mean? Cocktail camus described as relaxing,

comfortable style that is still appropriate for a more formal setting. However, it can also be accessorized with more casual items like jeans and sneak Sure cocktail attire from men, No need to worry. Okay, yeah, California casual. We're not in California. Wait a second, there's a that state has its own type of casual that's different from the Yes, a nice pair of slacks or jeans with a button down shirt or blouse is always a good choice. So then what's

New York casual? Wait a minute, now there's creative cocktail attire all about cocktail dresses. I fucking hate this article. Fuck you articles leaving, and that article is going to differ from the four other articles with the same name. Okay, here's an article from mom Tastic that says, what does cocktail casual even mean? I'm not looking at it because they put the word even in for no reason. So

f that article, what does it even mean? Yeah, there's relevant even casual cocktail attire for men and women by fashion Fashion Hants, fashion ants dot Com. Very confusing. Oh yeah, and it's all opinion. There is no definition. I think that's what the conclusion I'm coming when the dresses maxie dresses I'm not wearing. If you think about a pencil skirt, about a pencil skirt? You know? How about an eggshell a line attire for gentlemen? Sweaters Sweaters always are a

safe option when it comes to catch. What if it's a sweater that looks like I'm wearing a tuxedo that can't wear that? Men can go in for a sweater pattern pullover, which they can good sweaters, a college shirt if you prefer. I don't like sweaters. Now you look like the Michelin man. You can't do that. You can wear well fitting shirts and roll up the sleeves ever so slightly. Whatever that means. Wear well fitted trousers or dark jeans. Okay, do you use the word trousers, So

I'm out on that article. You can. You can wear leather boots to add a tinge of class. You're attire. You may even wear a necktie. Boots add class. Because when I think boots, I think country, and I think dirt, and I think line dancing, and I think Texas. Not cowboy boots. You can wear. First of all, if you wear nice cowboy boots, I mean is dressing in certain posts. But if women, a woman wears stew Whitesman boots, then that's you know, that's a different story. But I think

women would wear those. Okay, guys, whatever T shirts, guys, I don't know. I just think boots are a casual thing. Boots going denim. Okay. This says you can wear a T shirt or a round neck T shirt with a well fitted jacket. You may even opt for wearing a formal jacket, as these look nice when combined with casual attire. So you can wear your John Varvados smoking jacket with one of your theory tie dyed shirts. You dare me, I dare you no, But all the all the boys

are gonna be pissed. Yeah, I gotta right, all right, all right, we'll leave that back. Yeah we'll be Oh you're taking the break? No, yeah, I have stories, but take a break. We'll take a break. I'll come back. I guess okay the Boys podcast. I did want to talk to you about the fight my family had. Um and I'm gonna have to save half of my crew, my crew stories for next week because it was non star. You gotta be kidding. I have to save a couple

of things too. I'm writing them down so you don't forget. So we are in the Gucci store because you know you don't pay tax allegedly, right you play. And by the way, value added tax is referred to as VAT, so European non American countries will charge you tax, like when you go to a restaurant, they put the value added tax in. If you're an American, you can get that back. You have to fill out a form and you can get the whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa,

whoa whoa. All those times I've gone to the Bahamas and they charged me a VAT, I can get that back, Yes, get out. Yeah. In fact, my wife bought a pair when we were in Amsterdam on the Morning show cruise. My wife bought a pair of very expensive shoes and the VAT was like ninety dollars. But you don't pay tax to a foreign government when you're an American. They so they reimburse you. There's a machine you have to put This particular department store had a machine and you

put the receipt in and it gets you your money back. Well, how do I get my money back from past trips? I don't know how do you do that? But you should know that anyway. My point is, dude, I was today years old when I found this out. This is news to me. Hold on, can Americans get VAT tax returned? You're dreaming? I don't know how to get to hold

on Vatican him. That's that's part of the problem. That that's the biggest thing people complain about when they're going to like the Bahamas in these places because it says VAT. They're like, oh my god, the VAT fucked me. You know, I I got all his VAT. And then something tells me that you can't. That's a myth. Nope, says you can get a VAT refund even for your online purchases. The same rules apply. You must be a permanent resident in a non EU country and the amount you paid

must be above the minimum prescribed by the country. Whatever. Blah blah blah, you look Google Google it anyway. Um, so, but people call it a VAT tax, but the tea and VAT is tax. Got it? Okay, So you don't. You don't say attacks, you just say that, right, okay. So anyway, So we would go in there and hoping to save some money because you don't pay the tax and tax on like four hundred dollars shoes, it's like

thirty forty bucks whatever. So we're leaving the store and again it's my wife, my middle daughter, her friend who's from Bayridge, Brooklyn by the way, and me and I'm the fourth because I'm a gentleman, I let the ladies go first. As we're leaving the store, there's a woman in her forties maybe the thirties, and her daughter, who's about I want to say, about seven or eight years old. The woman opens the door. Okay, she pulls it out.

She pulls the door open, and she opens the door, and her daughter is in front of her, and they are to the left of the entrance of the door, right of the doorway. Well, when someone opens the door and you're right there, you were going to push the door. Who has the right of way? The people leaving the store as you would leave an elevator, or the people coming into the pushing the door outwards to leave. And this woman pulled the door open before we could push it.

So we were at the doorway. People walking through the door on the push side, they have the right of way. No, in other words, the people on the inn on the people on the inside going out. Okay, so we know that. So my wife walks through the door with my door because you let people. Oh you always let people out before you you walk into anything that that goes for a subway, car or bus, think about anything. It's always

that's right, that's right. So the woman, as the four of us are walking through the doorway, she says to her daughter, very passive aggressively. Sorry, honey, I thought these rude people would let us out first. No, but they were coming in. You were in the store. They you were in the store going out. Correct, they were out going in, they were out. But unless they were in somewhere else coming out, where were they coming from? That's correct?

Where were they? I don't care outside. There were outcomes outdoors, right, it's an outdoor store. Well, it's all perspective. I mean they could be coming from it was another store attached to it, because they could be coming out of that stre It's a sidewalk, it's not a mall. Okay. They were opening the door on the sidewalk them, So my, my, my, So they said this out loud. So my wife says,

excuse me, you're the one that's wrong. My daughter turns to her and she's like, hey, maybe you should teach your daughter respect on who goes through the door first, instead of making it look like we're wrong, and so oh shit. Her friend from Brooklyn is like, maybe he's just shut up. And at this point I've got car blanched to be fourth. So I said, first of all, you mean you thought we were gonna let you in first, not out. You don't even know which way you're going.

Second of all, learn some damn manners before you teach your kid what's wrong. I said, excuse me, Annie to the little girl. Out goes first, right, and then I gave it a face like NI face. All right, So I was very proud of my family. It all sets up door. You're a big man, David Brody. Yeah, you showed that fucking girl like fucking fourth your age. I want, I want, I want to show you whose boss may have. Yeah, well wait a second, I'm gonna I gotta spin on

this plot twist. Yeah, even though you were walking out and they were walking in from the outside, and it was if the door, if the door was a pull door for you, for you, yeah, you're saying you pushed the door out. I think I think the direction of the door is what really really dictates who walks through first, because I feel like if you, let's say it was a pull door to go out and you're in the store, you push, by the way doesn't exist in any doors

because you're always carrying. There are listeners right now saying, ah, yeah, that happens where where I was. Yeah, well, it's if it's if it's an indoor. If you're it doesn't matter how it was constructed. I'm just saying for hypothetically speaking, if you're in a store and the door is a pull door to leave to go out, and you're pulling, then and only then the people the outside going in go first because they could come in because you were pulling the door open. We let them go in and

then you go out. If you pull the door, you have an option. You can stand to the side and hold the door open for them. No, it's just awkward. But yeah, but if there's a long line of people that want to come in, now you're holding the door, you want to leave, You're like the doorman. If you try to go first, Now you have to like hold the door with your left hand right and then like try to shimmy out and then reach back and keep the door open for them. It's awkward. That's why the

door opens. Should never come into the store. But regardless it opened out and they were wrong, I was gonna rule in favor of the orientation of the door. And in most cases, when you're walking and go out, it's a push door going out, so you go first. But if it's a pull door, going out the people something going in gets to go first. Do you understand where I'm coming from? Yes, yes, I understand that this was

very But more importantly, we were writing. You were right, you messed with three with two people from Brooklyn and my wife and my daughter. That's who have my attitude at this point towards idiots. So she's like, I'm sorry, honey, I got day when these rude people would let us go out first. Well, you don't even know which way you're going. Sound like March Simpson's sister. Yeahs Selma, Salma, who smokes too much? I could, I could do. March Simpson says, sister, you look like you had a good

time on the trip overall. I did, but there's so many great stories of douchebags on the trip. Problem is, a cruise is supposed to be relaxing, and you're not relaxing. You're getting yourself agitated place a piece. I was relaxed intermittently. So here was a sign I saw a scary Remember when we did that thing like a little more than under a minute? Yes, right, okay, tell me what this means.

There was an art gallery and this an art gallery shows under five hundred, under five hundred and more, My brain hurts, Wait, under five hundred dollars dollars and more and more? Wow, under five hundred, But it could mean under maybe a piece cost fifteen hundred dollars and it's under it's under five hundred dollars, there's five hundred dollars less, so it's one thousand and more like if so it's if it's eight fifty, it's eight fifty. Now I don't know.

I'm trying to even see where they would have that up. So I thought, I thought it might have meant under five hundred and more under five hundred, like like under two hundred, right under five hundred and more. Yeah, but under five hundred is still under. Any number under five hundred is gonna work, so you don't need the work more. Well. But but then I thought, is it un like other articles that are under five hundred and articles that are more money. I couldn't figure it out, so I asked.

What they said was, we want people to know we have items that are cheaper than five hundred dollars, but we also want people to know there are expensive items, because we don't want them to think all the items are under five hundred. My head hirts, my head hirts. But you're thinking about this, this is this is this is ludicrous under five hundred and more. So okay, why couldn't you just say starting at two hundred or something

you could have but some people don't. Yeah, some people don't identify that way, or they don't want or many items as low, many items under five hundred dollars. It's like, it's obviously not all of them. Excuse under fire. You're gonna make a phone call. Yeah, he loves when I just surprised him with hello girls time. Oh shit, Oh we're all together though. What's up? Oh? Man, God, you're on the Brooken Boys podcast. I needed you to talk to David Brodie. It's Ali gold You have a quick

second or no, yea, I have a quick second. So you went to very upset, A very upset a goldfish, Ali Goldfish is here, and we went to Saddell's, a famous brunch place in Manhattan. I'll make this very quick. What did you when you had the matzo ball soup? You being Jewish? Talk to talk about what was in that and what you thought of it. Well, there's a lot more green when it came to the table. I was not expecting it. Yes, but what it's delicious, Brodie? I thought it was good. Hold on, hold on? Do

you eat? Do you eat pickles? No? I hate pickles? Okay? Do you eat dial? Would you eat like deal? Potato chips? What's that? I don't know what that is? Like potato chips? Would deal flay? You like dial? In other words, you enjoy the tapast of dill? No, no, I don't. I don't like the taste of dill. It did not tease dilly to me. I feel like I would know what soup? Yeah, okay. Can we agree though, that your grandmother and my grandmother would not put tons of dial in their muntz of soup? Right?

You know? They would have spit on me if they knew I liked your grandma. Grandma's sitting by the fire. That's right, That's right, okay. I just wanted to get your opinion on that, because which you know, the Sidel's debate has been a long thing. It's a running theme

on our podcast. I'm so excited that another fellow Jewish person was sitting next to me and joined Saidel's motzahle soup with dill Okay, hold on, would you say that Saidel's, which I call Saidel's because they put dill on everything. Would you say, would you say it's the best Jewish food in all of New York. I thought the food was great, but it's not even kosher, right, so I wouldn't consider that Jewish food kosher style, I mean the style. I think it's a knockoff of Jewish food. But it

was delicious. That liked it, but delicious delicious. Okay, all right, that's all we need. Go back to girls time. I feel terrible we're interrupting this. No, it's okay. I'm just a bottle of wine deep thanks to Elvis. So were you guys? Where are you guys eating right now? No? No big deal. Um. What was the name of the restaurant? Carpaccio still is the name? That's a great place. Oh my god? What kind of shoes? What kind of shoes? Chanella heels? All right, love you, we love you. Enjoy

the joy shoes? Bye bye? Yeah, she's okay. Elvis took the girls shoe shopping today, all the girls on the show. Okay, Well then, yeah, okay, I here's a question. I have a question for you. Uh, many years ago, Elvis took the boy's shoe shopping. I was not there. I was I was away, you were away. Everybody got new shoes, but you, and you didn't get a rain check. Elvis did not off you a rain check. No, you're miss shoes. Never got them. But but no, nor did I expect

them because I missed it. Yeah, those shoes, which are the most expensive shoes I ever owned and will ever own, which he was kind enough to purchase for me. I've worn and it's been about eight years. It's been a while. I want to say it's been maybe nine years. Maybe it's been a while. I've worn them maybe ten times. I wear them two really big events. I wear them on the cruise as I go on because you're not on the sidewalk, you're on carpeting. So I baby them.

But I've never worn them to an event that that that any of you guys have ever seen. I've always warned, like to like a family party or on the cruise. I may have warned them on a cruise, but you guys, you didn't notice. Is it okay to wear them tomorrow night? If I choose to wear them to the event, of course, why wouldn't you? Okay, no, it's fine because they were like a gift, but they were so Mike, still my

favorite shoes. You can't make this shit up. Okay, go ahead, something just popped up, and ahead, I would say, you can what happened? Is this for the podcast? And yes it will be. This is this too? This is too coincidental? Okay, did somebody did Ali fuck something up? No? No, no, no, no no no, this is great. Let's finish this thought. And because on the other side of this break, we're

gonna talk to Scott Atkins from John w FO. Okay, all right, so you're gonna we're gonna introduce the conversation with John, right, I mean we're gonna yeah, like well we yeah, well we yeah, we'll figure it out, right. Yeah. The point is you, why wouldn't you wear those shoes? These are the these are the times to wear those shoes when I know, because you're not gonna get out. I mean, you gotta make the most out of it.

I hear you. Well, no one's gonna recognize them and go, oh those are the shoes that oh no, no, no, no, right, all right, so I'm thinking about it because they go really well with the blazer I want to wear, and if I'm gonna go cocked casual, my only my only downside is with my knee hurting. They're not the most soft shoes. They're a little sturdy. They're like really well made, and they're not gonna be given I don't know. But but you're saying it's okay to wear them. Yeah, I may.

I may wear I may wear the very very very cocktail casual. That's fine. Okay. So here's why I'm laughing. We just got off the phone with Ali Gold talking about Sidel's and Dill. Yeah, all of a sudden, something just got added to my calendar, my work calendar for the Big show. Okay, in studio guest on March twenty eighth, Mario Carbone, the owner of Sidel's. I have to I have to say it's been us. Carbone also owns Carbone Ahead. Yeah, okay, not a sponsor. It's been seven months since I've been

on the show roughly. I have to say, this is the first time I think himset I'm not gonna be there. Yeah, because I would like to tell him to his face not to put so much fucking dial in the Mutsi ball soup. I'm fine with it. You know, a Jew and by the way, there's nothing more Jewish sounding than Mario Carbone. I rest my case. If the Mario wasn't enough, Carbone certainly is. It's a testament to all the old Jewish world of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and

the Jewish settlers of the nineteenth century. I'm not trying to Jews plain. I'm just explaining why he why he's a fan. I'm a fan. You could. He's a chef. He's allowed to do a thing. He doesn't mean he doesn't have to be Jewish to have the Jewish style cooking. Okay, let me ask you a question. Here we go. Would you go to Maria Brahmo, it's his house of parmesan why not? Come on? I'm open minded man, Okay, Schlomo Goldstein's talk away house, going to Mexican food, I trust it.

I trust it. There were Jews in Mexico, right, were there Mexicans in Israel? I don't think there were Mexicans in Israel necessarily, but there's Jews everywhere. Because it's not a it's a it's a religion. Religion. I just i don't see it. Now. That doesn't mean that a Jew can't make good Italian food. I'm just saying Mario Carbone has given me you know, all right, I'd rather I'd rather my family make the Jewish food for him. That's all scary, all right, David Brodie, it's time since since

we went to commercial. We stopped and we recorded an interview, yeah, with Scott Atkins, who is a martial arts master and an actor and a director and a producer and a writer who's in the new john Wick for previously recorded. We recorded it right before we started this podcast, probably minutes before. Oh yeah, And at that time Brody and I got on the phone call and realized Brodie's microphone is not working and he sounds like he's in a

fucking bathroom. Yeah, all right, Brodie, try and calm your nerves. We're connecting with Scott Atkins right now. He plays Killer in john Wick four, which is out this weekend. I am an obsessed fan of the first three, as I know you are so welcome. First off, I did want to give my condolences on the loss of Lance Reddick, your co star in the movie. Yeah, he played Sharon. Did you have any scenes with him in the new movie. Unfortunately, know,

unfortunately I didn't get the opportunity to mates Lance. But from talking to everyone, you know, nothing but praise for the man here. He was just a gentleman, a beautiful soul. And yeah, everybody's just shocked and saddened, and you know, your harm goes out andswer his family. Yeah, now, you didn't do any scenes with him. The movie is filmed all over the world, just to name a few. I know it's New York, Japan, France, Germany. Is that accurate? Yeah,

I was in the Germany section. Okay, so we've seen the scenes on YouTube of you at the card table. Yeah, where there's four assassins. I understand you learned how to do card tricks for this movie. I did. Now, Luckily I haven't got a pack of cards with me today because I think I forgot. But I did learn it for the movie. Yeah, and I flicked the card and catch yet and I did that every take successfully. I was pretty happy with myself. Yeah. Does that count is

doing your own stunts? Well? Yeah, I couldn't have had my eye out with that. Yeah. Hey, So for people who don't know, and you know, I listen, how do you not know about the john Wick franchise? Right? This is the fourth and storm it could just bring everybody up to speed, specifically about who you play in the in the film, which is Killer. And then I want you to talk a little bit about the daily prepping

of how you got into this fat suit. I've been bugging the director since the first movie to give me a part in john Wick real four films in finally gives me the call, Scott, if you want to be in the John Wick movie. Yeah, there's only one catch. You're going to be in this fat suit and needs you to be German. It's not gonna be easy. You're going to be in the rain indoors. You need to

learn card tricks. Are you work for the challenge? And aside from the initial bias of thinking, Wow, I'm going to get to be in john Wick for and maybe nobody's not going to know it's me, after I got over that little bit, I was very excited to to, you know, for the opportunity to create this character from

the ground up. So Killer Harkan is the head of the German table and he is a feared, revered assassin that maybe has let himself go a little bit in his later years, but when it when it all comes down to it, he's still got a bit of gas left in the engine. And it's just a fun, you know, great part to play. Shall we roll lots of dialogue. Had a blast playing the character. I miss him from from what I have an interview. I saw the director

at a chad. He said he had a character in mind, but you decided you have no one to blame but yourself. You added more impairments to the character. Can you explain what you came up with and why? Um? Well, yeah, the so the the coughing and the inhaler and the accents. You know, he pretty much gave me free rein to just I don't know why he trusted me with it. Somehow felt that I'd be able to pull it off. So yeah, I started off with the voice and listen

to a lot of German actors but settled on this. Actually, that reminds me because do you remember the young Frankenstein, Yes, of course, And do you remember to go to Luck a ditch? And it was, yeah, the first accent. I was listening to that guy and I felt like that might be way in but that would have been completely

out there. I'm glad I didn't go with that. And then I satled on Ronald Lacie from Vaders of the Lost Ark, the guy that grabbed the thing and plans his hand, and he had this voice said to us like yes, And even though it was an English actor with his version of a German accent, that just felt right right. I almost went with the young frankastar at some point that would have been really wild. Wow, So

you settled on that accent? You know, you know you're a seasoned martial artists stuntman, You've been in all these films. What was it like doing what you normally do, which comes natural to you in a fat suit? How was that? There was there a transition period? Was there some things that you needed to learn relearn? No, it was it was okay. It wasn't as heavy as it looks. Actually, it was important for us to sell the weight of the suit, you know, for it to be looked like

I was really that big. We felt that if I started doing any extravagant flying kicks that you'd immediately tell the you know, I'm not twenty five stone or whatever I'm supposed to be. We wanted to keep them the Marshal, you know, we wanted to sell the fact that he used to be this guy that could do amazing things, but now times took his toll. He's been eating way too many biscuits. Ate that. Wait, we didn't want to

get rid of gravity. Sure, okay, now, Scott, talking about movies you've done previously, some of your movie titles basically explain them as violent fighting films. So Legacy of Lies, you've done, Avengement, Triple Threat, Abduction, No Surrender, The Dead Collector. A lot of them have these titles that you know what you're getting. Yeah. Have you ever thought about doing a rom com? No? Okay, because your director described you as one of the best looking men on the planet.

My worry would be if I did a rom com that would help to savagely smash someone in the face. And you know that's what my fans want, right. Well, how great would it be if you find your love interest and you know there's always a good looking blind guy that gives you problems in the middle of the film where she's torn between you and him. They wouldn't be the problem. You would just beat him up. Yeah, Yeah, and then you know he could kill her and I

go on a revenge mission. And yes, now what it is is I I've got a fan base, and because I remember having some watching some action guys when I was a teenager and just being really disappointed when they started trying to do other things because I didn't want Van Dam to do Nowhere to Run. I wanted him to do Hard Target, I wanted him to do Time Cup. I wanted him to do blood Sport too, And that has really stuck with me. So I've got really loyal fan base, and I want to keep giving them what

they want. Now, I try and mix some genres within the action movies, like it's action slash sci fi or action slash comedy, but I like to keep the action there because I had it to my fan base. But never say never, is this your first foray into a comedic slightly comedic role. It isn't my first, No. I mean you can see from so when I started producing and writing some of my own projects, you can see

the comedy coming through. So Accident Man was something I started to put more comedy into that Debt Collector we rewrote and had a lot of import There's a lot of comedic moments and that I tried something full on max Cloud, which didn't necessarily work, but I was moving more into the comedy. I'm a big fan. Was talking about being a big fan of Mine's Python earlier. So if I'm left to my own devices, that's something I

would lean into. And this. I don't remember having a conversation with the director about comedy for john Wick, but you know, I was in the suits and it kind of lent itself to that, and I lent into it and did works out a lot of action flicks, it feels like putting villains in It's like putting a square peg in a round hole and there's really no no character development. What is it about the john Wick series where the characters around John Wick and the villains and

everyone is just as interesting. What is it about the writing, the directing, the action? There's got it. There's a secret sauce in the john Wick franchise which has made it so popular all these years. Can you can you talk a little bit about the character development and why they're so likable and you want to see them in their own spin offs? Yeah? Well, I think that the unit of the john Wick world is quite enigmatic. Kids he's not over explained. You have to try and figure some

things out for yourself. Every character is kind of shady, even John Wick, you know. I mean, he's the world's greatest assassin. He's killed hundreds and hundreds of people, but people love him. People love him because he's played by Keanu Reeves. So Chad the director, he just believes that it's it's not the action you've fallen in love with. Yes, the action is amazing, but you're falling in love with

the characters. And if you don't like John Wick, or even if you don't like the bad guys, the characters that you're spending time with, you're not going to enjoy the process as much. So I have to agree with both of you, because when you watch the movies, the bad guys are so good, you're hoping they don't die at the end, but you are, Yeah, you want them to get it, but you enjoy the process of them get in it. Now, the reviews of this movie have

been off the charts. You are not doing press with us today because you've got a stinker film you're trying to promote and help out Rotten Tomatoes. People are calling this by far the best John Wick film, which is an incredible statement. One of the best action movies in years, most violent and action packed john Wick film yet. So you have to feel pretty confident going into the weekend knowing you're already going to be number one. Absolutely, let's hope.

So Thinker's crossed. You were in Doctor Strange, so it's this may not be your biggest film, but it'll be one of the two biggest. Would that be fair to say? Yeah, it's that they're saying it's going to be big, and it should be big. It's I'm a big fan of all the John Wicks, but this one in particular is mind blowing. You're going to see stuff though. He's just gonna you've never seen you before, and the director things outside the box. I mean, think about the dogs doing

jiu jitsu and you come up with that stuff. There's a car sequence in this that will blow your mind. There's a sequence with a shotgun with dragon's breath ammunition that will you've ever seen before. Wow. And you got the nun Chucks, you got the samurai, the yeah my sequence in the German Club. It's amazing. There's all sorts going on, so much action. Fourth times a charm. Congratulations, I'm finally getting into this and I can't wait to see you this weekend. Of course, he plays killer in

John Wick for Scott Atkins. Thank you for being on the Brook and Boys podcast with us today. It was a pleasure, guys. Thanks a lot. And just like that, Brody has his microphone back because the magic of editing. Yeah, here we go. Okay, so I'm sorry about that. I hope you still enjoyed the interview. Um see john Wick four if you're a fan. Now, look, this is not one of those movies where you can go, Do I

have to see the first three john Wick? Yes, yes you do, because it's a continuous story and a world that they've created with Assassin rules and this. You have to see all four of them. But it's worth it. Go see all four of them. Go stream the first three. But the reviews of this movie are off the charts. I can't wait. Now. We didn't get paid to say that. Not Noid would have been great. Yeah, but no, all right,

that's it. Well I got for you, all right, More Cruise stories next week, yes, and How a Guy Fish Out of Water? Boys, Boys,