#389: Try This XXXXXL On For Size

#389: Brody got into a fight with an old man at Costco; Dirty Fantasy Football team names; more morons in the comment section; Brody keeps receiving AI scamboni voicemails and they are getting more clever by being less polished to mimic human behavior; Skeery recaps his trip to Greece; Brody was disrespected by a lifeguard and she gave him "The Gen Z Stare," the boys discuss clothing brands who purposefully "size up" to alienate certain people from wearing them and the psychology of not wanting to wear clothing labels marked larger than your size

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Guess who just got back today?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
They're Brooklyn boys that have been away They both have
so much to say You know their names are Brody
and Skiri The boys are back in town The boys
are back in town Brooklyn The boys are back in
town Episode 89. 389. 389. Come on, man. Is it 89?

(00:36):
I'm thinking of 1989. I was just watching some videos
on YouTube from 1989, so I'm getting confused. It's the
Brooklyn Boys podcast. We're back in town. Well, I'm back
in town. Brody never left town. The boy is still
in town. The boy never left town. The boy never
left town. God, I got a lot of jet lag,

(00:58):
David Brody. I can't help it. I was in the way.
Where's my violin? The world's smallest violin? Is it about
to play for me? Hey, everyone. Scary had some jet
lag from flying back from Greece or Italy, whichever the
airport was. You poor son of a bitch. I flew
to Athens. I flew out of Venice back home. Get

(01:18):
it straight. Didn't I just say that? I said Greece
or Italy, wherever the airport was. I covered that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I could tell you right now. I just, I've
been waking up at the middle of the night, like
one o'clock in the morning, and then I can't. Okay,
Billy Joel. Go back. In the middle of the night.
That's called River of Dreams.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I didn't say River of Dreams, though. But you said
in the middle of the night, one o'clock in the
morning and not coming, not actually going back to bed.
So I've been, then I have to get dressed, showered
for the show, all that. So now it's like really
like time to go to bed. Cause if you think
about it, it's seven hours ahead in Greece right now.
We're recording this at four o'clock in the afternoon. I mean,

(02:03):
it's gotta be 11 o'clock at night. You're not thinking
about it.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, I am just, although you want to talk about
jet lag tomorrow night, The San Francisco 49ers are playing
the Los Angeles Rams. In Australia. In Australia. That's a
day ahead. We're doing the future. No, they're not. But yeah,
they're a day ahead. So it's better than when they

(02:27):
play in London. You got to get up at 8
o'clock in the morning, 9 o'clock in the morning to
watch the game. I'm so sick of all of these...
All right, Neo. Of all these football games on all
these different stations, now you need Netflix, you need Amazon,
you need NBC, Peacock, right? And then you get the

(02:49):
free ones in the old school places. CBS, Fox, but
they're fanning it out. Baseball's worse. It's on Apple. It's
on Apple TV. Netflix has baseball games now. I don't
like it. I feel like they're taking it away from
the people. And then you need all these apps to
catch every game. And I don't think that you get,

(03:11):
like on an NFL Sunday ticket, you only get the
Sunday games. You don't even get the Wednesday. You don't
get the Wednesday. Not if they're on another network. Which
sucks because you really need all of them and they're all,
I feel like they're holding it hostage. It's extortion. Yeah.
To watch every base, to watch it. Like, let's say

(03:33):
you have an out of town baseball fan. You're not,
you want to watch. It's, it's a lot of money.
It's thousands of dollars to watch every game of your team.
Even if you buy the MLB package, it's a lot
of money. And you know, my problem is, and again,
if you're, you don't have to be a sports fan
to at least relate to this. Some of the apps,
let's say, so like, um, I think it's Peacock, maybe.

(03:57):
If you get to watch, let's say you want to
watch Sunday Night Football, but you get home an hour late,
it gives you the option of starting from the beginning,
watching it at the point it's at then and there,
or doing rapid recap, which is my favorite. So what
it does is it shows you all of the scoring

(04:19):
plays and interceptions that And like the sacks, anything important,
it shows you like a highlight reel. And then the
game starts from that point. Some of them can go
fuck themselves.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Why?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Because they don't let you back up. They don't let
you start from the beginning. And if you want to
start from the beginning on some of them, when you,
when you sign into the, to the app, it shows
you the current score and says, would you like to
start from the beginning? Why would I want to see
the current score? And then ask me if I want
to start from the beginning or the fucking score. I
don't need the splash page to have the current score

(04:55):
and ruin it for me. Imbeciles. Wow. I'm going to
click on the game. I don't need to know the score.
I'll click on the game and I'll know the score.
All right. Wow. You're taking this very personally. Do you
have a fantasy team this year? Have you not met me?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
What?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
You have a fantasy team? How many leagues are you in?
Three fantasy football. I may join a fourth one tonight.
How creative have you gotten with the names? The league
names or the team names? the team names. Cause I'm
the commissioner of all my leagues. So I named the leagues. Yeah.
The league is one thing, but the name, your team,
that's an individual preference. So, well, but a league name

(05:33):
is everyone's preference because I make the league name. So
I'm going to pick them league and I need a
name for my, my team or my picks, whatever the case.
So I went, it's scary. Doesn't know shit stuff. I want,
I want, well, it was going to be Sunday scaries
or something like that, but scaries or skieries, whatever. But
I figured, why don't I ask chat? And I said,
you know, chat, come on, you know, me and my friends,

(05:55):
you know, you know, the way we are, you know,
you know, I said, Give me some names. Give me
some fun, like, you know, but something risque. Give me
something filthy. Give me something dirty. So it came out
with this. It just spewed out this list. And a
lot of them are plays on players' names, so you
might or might not understand some of these. I would
go Bougie Bastards, but that's just, I would call yourself

(06:16):
the Bougie Bastards. So see, these are some of the
names that they wanted me to use.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
DAC me down for like Dak Prescott. Do you have
Dak Prescott? No. Just pick them. Show me your TDs.
That's been going on for years. Oh, my God. Let
me tell you something right now. If you have a
fantasy football team, show me your TDs, delete your account,
don't play fantasy football anymore. How about this one? You're
15 years late on the joke. Two girlies, one cup.

(06:43):
So you got girlies and cup, K-U-P-P for Cooper Cup. Um,
how about, well, who's the girl? He's Todd Gurley. Cause
he retired years ago. I don't know. My ball, Zach Ertz. No,
like Zach Ertz. Like my, my, my ball sack Ertz.
He's he's old. And the joke is old. Yeah. So
then I said, nah, nah, nah, nah. This isn't, this
isn't cool. I was like, give me some filthier ones.

(07:07):
So they said, okay, how about two inches is enough. T-U-A,
like Tua, the quarterback, right? How about suck my cocks, C-O-X?

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Or Nakua Matata, motherfuckers. Nakua Matata. Puka Nakua, yeah. Brock
Hard Purdy. Puka my balls. May I finish, M-A-Y-E. Bend
it like Burrow. Dak that ass up. That's funny. Goth
balls deep. Hurts when I T-D. My Kittle Pony for

(07:40):
George Kittle, CDs Nuts. And I said, come on, you're
going to embarrass me in front of my friends. I
need better ones. And then it got really raunchy on me.
I said, okay, Baby Got Dak, Brock Hard, Puka on
my Nakua. You already just said all of those. Kareem
and My Hunt. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. He's not
playing anymore. I know, but Tua Girls One Cup, Tua

(08:05):
Girls One Cup. It's a 20-year-old video. And then, Dack Off.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hurt.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
No.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Hurt's Donut Hole. What? And, I don't know. That's about it.
That being said... None of those are good. None of
those are good. I would go with Bougie Bastards. I
like Nakua Matata. That's all right. Nakua Matata. That's it.
It's cute. That's all right. I'm going to choose that one.
30-year-old movie.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
All right.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
But still, you know... It's the best of the bunch. Hey, I'm...
Drop us a talk back, Slices. Let us know if
you have a funny, clever, punny name for your fantasy team.
You didn't ask me, though. Well, what are yours, David Brody? Well,
I didn't go with any creative or funny or punny
because that's not my thing with team names. But I

(08:53):
did rename one of our leagues in honor of some
current events going on. I changed the name of the
league to League Ontario. League Ontario. Cute.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Because it sounds like Lake Ontario. Lake Ontario, right. Yeah.
Specifically for one person in the league to annoy them. Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Great. But no, I.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh, and I was in a league where everybody named
their teams after classic rock bands. So I'm the Def
Leppards in one league.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I like the on-brand sports teams. I'm sorry. I did use...
a photo editing software to change my New York jets helmet,
the J E W S. And I'm the Brooklyn Jews.
That's funny. Yeah. And it looks, it looks like the
jets logo. It looks like the jets logo, but it's
the Jews, the Jews. Yeah. The Brooklyn Jews. All right.

(09:48):
That's fair. I predict like 10 wins, but for you seven. Okay.
I'm not in any leagues. I'm in these pick-em ones
where I have to... Yeah, you're not good at fantasy football.
All right, so Titans or Jets? What do you got
this week? Oh, I'm going to go with the Jets
only because the Titans are even worse. I picked the Titans.
They have a very young... The Titans are at home.

(10:09):
Their quarterback is very inconsistent. Their running game is not great,
and their receivers are below average. Giants, Cowboys. Cowboys. Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Tremendous offense. I picked them too. All right. I picked
a few of these.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
No point spread. And if you're a fan of any
of those teams, I'm sorry. Don't leave talkbacks about it.
You know, Titans. By the time you hear this, the
Titans will have won. Game will be, oh, well, they
may have won.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
As a Jets fan, I mean, not to get too sportsy,
but I'm rooting for them to lose every game. Because
there's five or six top quarterbacks coming out in the draft.
And if ever the Jets were going to draft a quarterback,
next year's the year. So them winning games is just
not helpful. Not since Joe Namath. Chad Pennington. Chad Pennington
is their only real, like, yeah, that, that, that was

(10:57):
like a franchise level multi-year, not like a guy that
got for like, like Vinny Testaverde was like two, three years,
but that was it.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
All right.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
We'll be right back. They're due. Thanks for listening to
the fan. Thanks for listening to the hammer, to the,
to the pennant.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
We'll be right back. It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast. You
can't go to a commercial after that. We took off
on a tangent. What do you mean? Yeah, but we
should have done something non-sportsy to get into the commercial break. Oh, okay. Well,
it's too late now. It's too late, baby. Yeah, baby,
it's too late. It's too late for love, Def Leppard.

(11:33):
I went on the cruise and a lot of you
had asked about, tell us about your vacation. No, well,
it's more about, you know, we needed a conclusion to,
you know, did, did my cousin, my cousin, my nephew,
Lucas have a good time? Was he a douchebag about
it or was he a good kid? So did you
give him the talk? Okay. So, okay. Um, I did
not give him the talk. I, in fact, I pre

(11:55):
had a pre-talk with my sister and my brother-in-law about it.
And I said, look, I said, I know he wasn't
looking forward to this. And, Not much excites him these days.
I said, so talk to me about what's going on.
And they pretty much said, look, we gave you a
lot of latitude all summer to do whatever you want,
hang out with your girlfriend and this and that. Were

(12:16):
they talking about you or your nephew? Talking about my nephew.
This is a one-week thing. It's a trip of a lifetime.
Enjoy it. So he kind of had moments of fading
in and out, having these times of, Interest versus disinterest. Basically,
because we were seven hours ahead, his girlfriend was pretty

(12:38):
much asleep when we did a lot of the stuff
during the day, right? And you figure out the time difference.
We were seven hours ahead. Right. In the waking hours
in Greece, in Italy, wherever, Croatia... You know, we're six,
seven hours ahead. Six, seven. And we're out doing our
thing all day. But as soon as the dinner time

(12:58):
came and it's like now it's evening here and it's
like morning in New York, he just like kind of
did the old eat and run, disappeared with the room,
didn't want to explore the ship. He took interest in
the daily activities, which is all you could possibly ask
of a teenager. He loved the Acropolis. He spent a
lot of time in the bathroom. The Parthenon. I'll just

(13:20):
keep ignoring you. I'm going to just keep talking over
you because I'm not even going to address that. And,
you know, he loved going through the caves of Postonia
in Slovenia. We did a wonderful boat. Slovenia. Slovenia, Slovenia,
the former Yugoslavia. And Danielle and I and her family
and our family, we had a nice boat day in Corfu, Greece,

(13:42):
where we went swimming. So he loved all that. He
did enjoy being out in Montenegro and doing all these
fun things and walking and taking a lot of pictures.
I don't think we have to mention every city. We're
taking pictures and this and that.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Right.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
So during that. But he was not. When it came
to ship activities, he was a zero. He would just
run to his room and whatever. Oh, he was in
a ship, all right. A relationship. A relationship. He was
shipping the older woman. But my God, NCL. They've got

(14:15):
so many things on board to do. You never have
to leave the ship. I did a whole spa day.
Did you see the Scary Jones spa day that I did?
I did not. I did not. But I've been on.
You were on Jade? No, I was on Pearl. And
I did like five treatments in a row because I
didn't want to get off the ship in Zadar, Croatia.
So I said, you know what? I saw this last time.
Fuck it. I'm staying on board. And I did one

(14:37):
treatment after the next. And I got to say. You
had to do it while the ship was at sea?
You had to do it while you were in port? Yeah. Well,
the ship was in port all day, all night until
the evening came. I mean, yeah, you don't want to
do it. Treatment after dinner, whatever. That being said, it
was all in all was a great time. Yeah. So
for those who care, Lucas had a pretty good time,

(14:58):
loved seeing other countries. And, you know, but when it
came time to like, you know, hanging out with his
girlfriend on whatever, on WhatsApp, that's what he did at night,
which was, you know, OK, whatever. He split his time. Um,
so that was my, that was my, my, my, the
big time, big fun time. You know, Tony enjoyed it.

(15:19):
My dad, you know, it was a lot, a lot of, uh,
shared memories, you know? All right. Well, I'll, let me
tell you a story about my, uh, my, my staycation. So,
you know, we have a pool here where I live
and it closes at seven o'clock every night. Yeah. So
I set my, I go, I like to swim later
in the day when it's, there's nobody there. Everyone's eating dinner. Uh, I'll,

(15:42):
I'll go. And I'll set my alarm. If I happen
to go from 6 to 7, then I'll set my alarm.
I didn't say that. So I'll set my alarm for
like 6.55. So this way I know the pool's closing
in a few minutes. I'll get out. I'll dry off,
put my shoes on. And this way, by 7, I'm
walking out and the lifeguard can lock up, pull the

(16:03):
umbrellas down, whatever they got to do. Okay? Never had
a problem. I lived here for years now. Every time
I go in the pool before closing, on nights when
I know I have time to go from like 6.30
to 7, 6 to 7, I have my alarm set,
and it plays a song, and I go, oh, I
got to get out of the pool. Okay? That's why
I don't keep anybody waiting. I don't want to be disrespectful.

(16:24):
So last year, we had the same lifeguard almost every day,
like four or five days a week, and then someone
else said it two days. This year, every day is
a new 20-something high school kid, whatever. Every day, it's
somebody different. And then like a week or two later,
you might see somebody again. Oh yeah, I saw you
a couple of weeks ago. Well, on Saturday, it's, I

(16:49):
believe it's around 6.52. I had recently looked at my
phone and I went, I swam across the other side
of the pool and my phone is out on the
deck leaning against one of the railings. So I can
hear it when it goes off. And the lifeguard girl
says to me, I'm closing the pool soon. You have
to get out. So I said, I have an alarm

(17:10):
set on my phone. It's all good. I'll get out
before I need to get out. You don't have to worry.
I have like eight minutes. She says to me, you
have seven. So I said, you know, it's irrelevant to
point out whether it's seven or eight. I told you
I have an alarm set. The alarm's going to go
off at 6.55. So did you really need to point

(17:35):
out that it's seven minutes instead of eight? Well, I
got to close up and take all the umbrella. I go,
you can take the umbrellas down now. Did she? I
think that's kind of like a snooty. That's catty, bitchy, pissy.
Did she give you the Gen Z stare? Yes. Okay.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
She gave me the, dude, I got things to do.
It's Saturday and I want to go. Well, Gen Z
stare is more of a blank stare, a disinterested. Yeah.
I'm too cool to respond. it's, it's actually a thing
and it's becoming a problem. This is all over the place.
If you Google slices, Google Gen Z stare, this is
what fucking kids are doing now. Like, um, so basically

(18:15):
there's a psychology behind it and it's basically based off of,
you say basically one more time, I'm going to jump
through this phone and slap you. Did I say basic?
Is that really, am I using that word over using
that word today? You just said basically, basically in the
same sentence. So basically go ahead. Well, fuck me running.
You know, so it's it's a it's a deliberate signal

(18:40):
way of of saying I don't want in on this.
It's like a social armor that they have. It could
also I don't give a fuck.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Genuine talk to the hand like genuine talk to the hand.
It's genuine disengagement. So that or cognitive overload. They come from,
you know, there's this, I guess they see a lot
of the videos online and they find it funny to
be expressionless. They just sit there. Like they say, there
was actually sort of a meme of, or actually a video,

(19:11):
a viral video of a waitress or actually a hostess.
And it says hostesses in 2026. And there's a woman
that you can hear asking her questions. And the woman
is staring at the camera at her. point of view,
first person. And she's just giving her a blank stare.
She's saying, excuse me, what, uh, do you have availability

(19:34):
for two? And she's like, uh, like looks around, looks up,
looks down, looks everywhere. I mean, obviously this is more
of a visual and we are an audio podcast, but
you can imagine that it just person just freeze frames
and just sits there like you're stupid for asking that question. If,
if we could just do a walk in and instead

(19:55):
of having a reservation, you do have a reservation. No,
we just decided we swing by and she's, uh, uh, um, um,
The Gen Z stare. So they're doing it at their jobs,
but it makes it look like they're mocking you or
they're making you look foolish.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
They are.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, so that's what I got. I got the Gen
Z stare because I said eight minutes and she's like,
it's seven minutes. And then she expected me to just
take that. So I was like, you don't need to,
you don't need to, you know, to nitpick the minute.
Either way, I'm getting out of the pool so you
can go. Like I already said in the law, I'm
out of respect for you. You're like, it's eight minutes.
It's seven minutes, not eight minutes. Okay, so this is,

(20:38):
this would not be the Gen Z stare because that's more,
the Gen Z stare is more of an unbothered. After
I made my comment, I got the Gen Z stare. Okay, right.
She just looked at me like, And what do you
want me to do? Yeah. I'm too cool to care or,
you know, I'm unbothered by this. You're talking to me. Why? Yeah.
Speaking of POV, POV, the term POV means point of view.

(21:01):
It means from my view. Yes.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
In the first person. Social media has ruined that. Because
now it's like, POV, you're getting up for school. But
it's me watching you get up for school or whatever.
I'm using it as an example. Like, oh, POV, me
getting up for work.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
POV would mean you have a helmet on your forehead
and I'm watching what you see. I'm watching the world
through your eyes.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's your... So if you said... POV, you're watching me
get ready for work. Yes, it's my point of view watch,
but it's not your point of view. So they've bastardized
the term POV. That being said, the New York Mets
posted a video. You can go on New York Mets
on Facebook and Instagram. They posted a video. It said
POV singing the national anthem. I'm sorry, signing the national anthem.

(21:51):
In other words, for deaf people, right? Signing, right. Signing,
like sign language. So the video is a view of
the field and a woman on the big scoreboard singing
the national anthem. And what you see is occasional hands
fly by the camera because the woman, it was a woman,
is sign languaging the national anthem. So it's POV legitimately

(22:14):
from her perspective, what it looks like. Right. Okay. So
these are the comments. That's not POV. I can't see
the person. This person wrote, not pictured, sign language.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
This person, cameraman, must be drunk because the camera was
on her head or her neck. Well, she was probably
wearing the Ray-Ban. Headgear. The Ray-Ban specs. You know, the
ones that.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
So, of course, the camera's moving. She's waving her arms around.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
All these people are complaining they can't see the sign
language person. And why is the camera moving? And why
can't the person holding the camera hold it still? It's
because that's a true POV. Right. Right. So one person
wrote an actual POV video that's properly marked. Fantastic. And
then someone wrote, no, it's not. I can't see the person.
What a fucking idiot. What a bunch of idiots. Nobody knows.

(23:07):
I mean, most people on social media do not know
what POV means.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
It means from your eyes. It's like when you watch porn,
from what I've heard. And you're like, oh, POV, a
sex act.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Oh, you mean like that might or might not be
a whole category in porn? I don't know. You don't know?
I heard that somewhere. You heard that from a friend?
Someone told you? I heard it from a friend who
heard it from a friend. Okay. Well, you know, more
morons in the comments section.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
So....

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Mike D from the Beastie Boys. Love him. He's got
an album out now on his own, a solo album.
He's touring. He's doing his own thing. He was on
Jimmy Fallon last night, being Tuesday night, September 8th. And
Fallon posted a couple of clips of him. Somebody in

(24:02):
the comments writes, who is this? Never heard of this guy.
And then someone under that person wrote, there's no... Nothing
like bragging about your ignorance. Right. It's you like you're
a fucking tool. Anybody. And this isn't just for that
clip or because it's Mike D, the Beastie Boys, the

(24:23):
goat and fucking royal rap royalty. This goes for any
comment like that in any comment section about any fucking topic.
When somebody writes willingly and offers anything, never heard of
this or did it, who is this person or what
is this? All you're doing is showcasing and being proud

(24:47):
of your fucking ignorance and your stupidity. Like, why would
anyone write that? Like, because there's no purpose because, well, for,
for somebody, you're going to clip. What I'm saying is,
You can Google it. My instinct, if I see something
I don't know, my first instinct isn't to run to

(25:08):
the fucking keyboard and say it out loud, the quiet part.
I'm like, maybe I should fucking know what this is.
I don't know. Let me Google this. Let me have
a conversation with chat. I don't know. We have computers
in our pockets, as we always say. You're on a computer.
You're on your fucking phone. Why don't you open up
a fucking tab and Google... who is Mike D or

(25:30):
who is this person on Jimmy Fallon last night? Or who,
what is, what am I looking at right now? And
just get your answer and move along. There's no need
to share that with people. Why is that comment in
any comment section at any point ever? Like, it's just
a stupid thing to say. Is that, or do you remember,
I don't remember what, how many episodes ago it was,

(25:51):
but there was a, it was a post that came
up and it was about, um, a priest in Chicago that,
was famous for something. I forget what the story was.
It doesn't really matter. And so the person wrote, nevermind.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
What?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
I was going to say Metallica. No, that's nothing else.
That's exactly.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
So it was like, Oh, let's say Reverend James, uh, Hercules.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
From Chicago did this thing. Very specific name. Oh my God.
I wonder whatever happened to him. How much could you wonder?
Go fucking Google it. Yeah. You care that much? Google it.
It isn't that difficult. Oh, I wonder if only it
was some way to find out what he's doing these days. Yeah,

(26:38):
it certainly is. Put his name in Google, hit enter. Yeah.
I just, it's, it's beyond me why people don't, you know,
and they constantly post it. But to showcase your ignorance
is a whole thing. It's like, that's a whole, it
takes a whole fucking, you know, where it happens a
lot in the chicken palm group. I'm in on Facebook.
People are right. Oh, had this amazing chicken parm at Elizabeth's, right?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Down the shore. And they go, what town is it in?
Just go to Google Maps. I mean, and I'm using
Elizabeth's as an example, but usually it's a more specific
restaurant name. Like, it's probably this one.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's not that hot. No, yes. The person who posted
it should have put the town. But you can just
look it up. It's not that difficult. It's not that difficult. Yeah.
One person... Now, one of the places that gets recommended
constantly for best chicken parm in New Jersey, and I
think I mentioned this on the podcast. Oh, yes, you have.
Le Bebe Prime. L-E-B-E-B-E. Le Bebe Prime. And the way

(27:41):
they serve their chicken parm is on a wood plank,
like a cutting board. And on the cutting board, it's
carved Le Bebe Prime restaurant on the cutting board. Okay.
Somebody posted a picture of the cutting board and the chicken.
And they said, this is the best chicken parm I've
ever had. And at the top, it said Labibi and

(28:02):
on the cutting board, it says Labibi prime restaurant or
whatever it says on the cutting board. Somebody wrote, it'd
be nice if you told us where this is. I mean,
it says it in the picture and at the top
of the post.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
They go, well, I don't know what town it's in.
There's only one Labibi prime.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
So you don't know what restaurant and you don't know
where it's located and you can't, you can't figure it.
Like you can't do the math on it is beyond me. So.
All right. F that.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
More on to the comments. We're going to take a
break and then we're going to come back. I have
some audio to play. Ooh, cannot wait. Let's do it. Scary.
You get a lot of shit for a lot of
things in life. Always. Always, always. Bon Jovi.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
So.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Oh, always? Yeah. Okay, hold on. Okay, so what's the word?
It's a woodland creature, climbs trees, gathers nuts, that we
always made fun of you for the way you say it.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Squirrel.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Squirrel. Squirrel. It's a two-syllable word. It's squirrel. It's squirrel.
It's not squirrel. But it's still a two-syllable word. Yeah,
it's squirrel. It's not squirrel. It's not squirrel. Right, it's squirrel.
But you say... Squirrel. Squirrel. Squirrel. I have never heard
anyone say that before the way you say it. Really? Until, until,

(29:33):
you know, when you're on TikTok and you scroll and
you're like, there's live lives going by.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
So i follow a lot of gamers right now i'm
addicted to a game called shield wall not playing it
i just love watching it shield wall it's a bunch
of little little fighters and you go and you say
capture the flag but the the lead guy sounds like
cartman everyone to me. It's, it's terrific. So sometimes when
the live is over, you scroll. So I came across

(30:02):
this woman. Oh, you watched it. Did your wife know
about that? No, I did not. No, I did not.
So I, the next, the next, one of the next
videos and scrolling was a woman talking and she said
the word you just said. So I, I started screen
recording and I typed in, can you say that again?
And I want you to hear the way this woman

(30:24):
who says the word you just said. Please say squirrel.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Why did I say it weird? Say squirrel again.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
It's awesome. Why say squirrel? Please say squirrel. I don't
sound like her. Yeah, you say squirrel. Squirrel. Okay. All right.
Why did I say it weird? Squirrel.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Say squirrel again.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
It's awesome. Why say squirrel? Squirrel. She's British. She's British.
She says squirrel like you do. Squirrel. It may be scary.
You're not saying it wrong. You're just saying it like
the British do. Exactly. I got more audio. Oh, you do?

(31:06):
Keep going. No, no. If you got a thing, you
got a thing.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I want to hear all the audio first. Okay. I've
gotten a bunch of a new wave of of creative
calls about me getting a loan approval. So I wanted
to play a couple of the new ones now cause they're,
they're trying new tactics. Okay. Um, listen to this one. Okay. Yeah.

(31:31):
Now listen, there's a guy talking on cause cause you know,
when they call, they start talking to me and you
pick up, but my voicemail picked up after like 20 seconds.
So his part of the call is, had finished and
then her part of the call because it's a loop. Okay.
But listen to what she says.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Okay. Yeah, there it is. I'm looking right at your file.
It's Sandra on the lending underwriting side.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Hope you're having a great day today. So I don't
usually call people personally, but this one was worth it.
Your approval came through and it's a good one. $ 42, 000
ready and approved personal loans. Use it for whatever you need.
I just didn't want it sitting here closing out without
you even knowing.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
She wouldn't want it just sitting there.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
So do me a favor. Write my number down.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay, so did you catch the beginning? Listen again.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, yeah, there it is. I'm looking right at your file.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, she found it. She found it just as she
was calling me. Yes, just as, right, just as you answered,
she somehow got your file. She pulled all your information out.
Where is that David Brody? There it is.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
It's so good. Here's another one.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
To close out the... Hello, this is Laura. Listen, I've
been trying to post this file out, but I didn't
want to before reaching you because it came out better
than I expected.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's better than she expected.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Not only were you approved for a personal loan up
to $ 55, 000 at just 6%, but we were actually able
to get you an exception for an extended payoff term.
which means a lower monthly payments than usual. That's not
something we can always do. So I didn't want that
to flip past you, whatever you've got going on cards
to pay down something big coming up. This can cover it.

(33:09):
So do me a favor and just give me a
call back.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
I'm going to give her a call. Yeah, this is Laura. Yeah.
It gets worse though. Here's two more. This one came
in on Monday.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
There's still happy labor day. I'm at my desk, which
tells you something about my life choices.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh, she's working on Labor Day, huh? Did you hear her? Listen, listen.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
There's still.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Happy Labor Day. I'm at my desk, which tells you
something about my life choices. Marla, approval side. Everyone else
is off. I came in for about 11 files that
expire whether the country's on holiday or not. Yours is
one of them. A personal loan.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
$ 54, 000.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
6% sick.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Did you notice what she read? She read, she read
the thing that said Marla approval side. She, she read the,
like the notes on the side.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
The sidebar. I'll say this. She's got party girl voice.
She sounds hot.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
But she's AI and she's still reading the, they must've
typed in, like they must've uploaded a script.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
And it said Marla approval side. And she just read it.
She just read it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm here on
labor day at my desk, which tells you something about
my life choices and, Now she's being passive-aggressive. She's AI.
So here's my new favorite one. This one came in yesterday.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
New rule on my desk this week. If you call back,
I owe the whole office donuts.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Technically, you're calling these seats about 12 people beneath the
lending side.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
And the thing they've all been calling you about is
actually decent.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
A personal loan, bigger amount.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Did you catch that? Yeah. New rule on my desk
this week. If you call back, I owe the whole,
and she's laughing.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
She's like, I owe the whole office donuts. So technically
you calling me feeds about 12 people beneath the lending side.
So if everyone gets a callback, everyone buys donuts for
everyone else. That's how that works. You know, it's just
funny how they're becoming more playful and more, they're less
polished about their script and they're laughing. They're talking a

(35:15):
little staccato in the middle of their script. I think
it's hysterical.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I got that. I noticed it. I know you. You slammed.
My life sucks.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I got nothing. I'm a loser. I got nothing to
do but come in on Labor Day and deal with
these 11 files. And I'm hoping my coworker buys me
donuts if she gets a call back. Fuck you. Hey, question.
What would happen if you fell into that trap? Is
that a scamboni? Or are they trying to get money
out of your bank account? I asked ChatGPT what the

(35:49):
purpose of this is. Yeah, what is the end game
for these people? Because what I did was I called
back from my Google number and I star six sevened
it so that they couldn't see the number. And when
you call, it says there's nobody here to answer your
call right now, right? Leave a message if you want.
But it's a company, right? So somebody would answer the phone.

(36:10):
You just called me. What they want to know is,
is your phone active? And a lot of times they're
just getting you to call back so they can sell
your phone number to companies that are trying to like
scam you or sell you stuff. They're just trying to
prove that your line is legitimate, which is why if
somebody calls you and I've said this before, don't hit
the hang up button because then they know you're monitoring

(36:31):
your calls. Don't do anything. Anyway, my point was AI.
One last AI story. I called, I had a problem
with fanatics, which is a, um, Sports memorabilia. Not sports memorabilia.
Sports stuff. Yeah, Michael Rubin's company. I don't know who
that is. He owns Fanatics. Oh, all right. Well, I

(36:51):
don't know who Michael Rubin is. You're saying it like
I should know who Michael Rubin is. Anyway, I'll tell
you the problem I had with Fanatics the next break
if you want. Okay. When I called, I needed to
speak to a real person because my issue was something
a little unusual. So I get it. She goes, hi, hey,
thanks for calling Fanatics. how can I help you? My

(37:12):
name's Kim. I said, Hey Kim, my name's David. Um,
I would love to talk to, uh, uh, I said, I, I,
I need to talk to a representative about a problem. Well,
I can help you tell me what your problem is.
And I could hear it. She was good. And I said, uh, Kim, um,
I really need to speak to someone about my return. Well,
I can help you tell me what the problem is.

(37:34):
And I was like, you know what? Um, Kim, are
you AI? Well, as a matter of fact, I am,
I'm a, I'm Canada, uh, uh, Canada fanatics, Canada, uh, AI, uh, your, your, uh,
electronic assistant, whatever she called herself. He didn't say AI
electronic assistant, but I'm sure I can help you. And
I said, Nope, I'm pretty sure you can't help me.
If I could speak to a live representative, I know

(37:54):
you want to speak to the library representative. I get
that all the time. Oh my God. She did the, the, the,
the half, half choke off.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Off. Yeah. Mike. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Laugh.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Like, but trust me, I can probably help you. I
know you're doubting that right now, but go ahead. Give
it a shot. Run your problem by me. I said,
are you pretending to be AI? Like, is that the joke?
Like when I go, when people like say they answer
their answering machine, they go, hello, hello. I can't hear you.
You can be like, ah, just kidding. Leave a message.

(38:26):
I go, are you pretending to be AI, Kim? And
you're not AI? No, I'm an automated electronic system here,
but I'm trained to help on any problem. So whatever
it is, you go right ahead. And she's talking to
me like a normal person. And I said, listen, I
trust you. I get it. But I have a problem
with an exchange. Oh, I wish change. I'm an expert exchanges.
How can I help you?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
No, really?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I want to speak to a person because I have
a unique exchange. Yeah. Everyone thinks it's unique, but I'm
telling you, I can help you. I said, I'm telling you,
you can't. You know what? Give it a shot. What
do you got to? And she's having a real conversation
with me. It was the honest thing. Everything I said,
she's like, yeah, I know. It takes getting used to.

(39:08):
She's rolling with it. Yeah, well, they're smarter now. And
they're only going to get smarter than this. So how
did you get off the phone with this AI creature?
I cursed like I did the last time I told you.
I go, you know what? I don't fucking trust you.
Please fucking transfer me. Hold on. Oh, really? Because once
it starts, you're getting upset. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Once.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah. Yeah. So I was like, you know what? I
appreciate you. I do get, I get me the fuck off.
I got to speak to a human. I'm sorry. I apologize.
I'm going to offend you. I got, when I, when
I got to the person, it was, um, It was
a difficult process. Do I have time to tell you
this story real quick? After this break. Okay. Well, when

(39:54):
we come back, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what
happened with fanatics and how I had to pull teeth
to get the thing fixed. You're such a busy man
while I'm on vacation, Brody. Well, so a friend of
mine had a birthday party, a milestone birthday party, and
I ordered him a shirt and, He's a Yankees fan.

(40:17):
He's one of my few friends that's a Yankees fan.
I ordered him a Spencer Jones jersey, which is the
t-shirt with the number and the name on the back. Okay.
And he wears an extra large. So I placed the
order and I realized that I made a mistake with
the coupon code. First time customers get 20% off, something

(40:37):
like that. So I voided the transaction. I had to
create a new account with a different email address, reorder
the shirt and then send it. To me, I had
it mailed to me and I brought it to the party,
put it in the bag and I gave it to him. Well,
three days later he says, Hey man, I never chance
to look at the bag, but the shirt doesn't fit.
It's not even close. It's like a child's extra large.

(40:59):
Oh shit. I go, I don't, they must've sent you
the wrong shirt. So I, I look up their return
policy and it says free returns and exchanges will cover shipping.
I go, that's, that's really nice. I said, okay. So
I'm like, you know what? Let me call. and confirm
how I handle this because he has the shirt. Can
I forward something to him? What do I have to do?

(41:21):
So I call. And this is when I get the
AI woman. And I realize I looked at my order.
I had ordered him a women's extra large instead of
a man's extra large. In my reordering, I clicked the
first Spencer Jones shirt. I was like, oh, extra large, boom.
And it was a woman's shirt. So I couldn't, that's
why I couldn't talk to the AI because it's a

(41:42):
free exchange for size. Yeah. But I also got the
wrong gender. Okay. So I was like. They have to
plan for that, that that happens, you know?

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
So there has to be a fix.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Right.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
So I get the guy on the phone, very nice guy.
And he says, here's what you need to do. I'll
send you a label and you can ship back the
other one. And when we get it, we'll give you
your money back. Okay. And you'll, you'll, but you need
to order the shirt again. And I said, I don't
want to order the shirt again. I don't want to,
first of all, I don't want to pay the money again,

(42:15):
but also I got a first time customer code, but 20% off.
So can I, will you get me that? No, no,
you're not a first time customer anymore. And he goes,
and yeah, and I, you have to pay for shipping.
I go, Oh no, I don't. You're supposed to do
free exchanges, right? oh, well, yeah, but the way to
do it is you have to buy a new one
and then we'll credit you the old one when we

(42:37):
get it back. And I said, but it's supposed to
be a free exchange. I'll lose my discount with like
12 bucks, whatever it was. He's like, well, we can't.
I go, either get me someone else on the phone
or go reread your policy. I said, I don't want
to have to. So I had to argue with this
guy for a while. Finally, he sent me a return

(42:58):
label for the first one right? That it's easy to
mail back because originally he's like, you got to bring
it into a store. And I go, no, no, no.
Just it's a, it's a free exchange. You're going to
pay the right. Okay. So he goes, I go in,
order the shirt.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
And I'll, I'll put the credit on your account for 10%.
I said, no, no, it was 20%. Oh, I can't
give you the 20%. Oh yeah, you can because you're
supposed to do an even exchange for me. So he's like, well,
I can't do that. I go, Yes, you effing can.
I said a little nicer than that. I go, go
find out, go ask somebody how you do it. Comes back, goes,

(43:35):
I can do that for you. Okay, great. So I
go in, I go in, he talks me through it.
I go to place the order and it says $ 6. 99
for shipping. I said, sir, I'm not paying $ 6. 99 for shipping. Well,
you have to, you have to ship it to your,
I have to ship it to you. I said, I
already paid for shipping. Your return policy is supposed to
be We exchange it. We pay the shipping. Yeah. Oh, well, well,

(43:56):
we don't pay the shipping. This new one, you know,
you made the mistake. I go, I know.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Oh boy.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
But your policy is, that's why I didn't buy it
on Amazon. Your policy is free exchanges. We cover the shipping. Yes.
So we'll ship it back, but we're not going to
cover the shipping to get the new one to you.
I go, that's not a free exchange. So he says, well,
it's just 699. I said, go ask somebody. So he goes,

(44:22):
he comes back. He goes, all right, we'll cover the shipping.
So if you don't, if you don't ask for things,
you don't get, you don't get things. Yeah. I've learned that.
I've learned that.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
So thank you. Thank you. They did the right thing. Um,
but yeah, I ordered a women's and I told, I first,
I was like, dude, did you gain weight? You don't
fit in the shirt. And it turns out it's a
woman's shirt. So yeah, it happens. It happens. Did you
ever do that? Did you ever buy like a, the wrong, uh,
gender or, or, or age. Yeah, no, no. I bought
the wrong size thinking I was a large when I'm

(44:56):
really an XL and I'm like, Oh fuck, this thing
is too small for me. Do you remember, I don't
know if it's still the case now, but, um, my,
my many, many, many years ago, my wife bought me
this really cool skater shirt from Abercrombie and it was
an extra large. And I put it, I could barely
get it on. Scary. It was like, it was like

(45:17):
putting on a hat. Like I was like, do you
do a little stretch? Do you stretch the shirt a
little bit? I tried. So I was like, listen, I said,
I said, I, I, I don't think I've gained any weight.
And I know Abercrombie runs their clothes very small. She's like, yeah,
that's why I got an extra large. Cause I wear
like a larger and extra large depending on the cut.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I can wear a larger and extra large. So she's like,
maybe it's just cut small. I'll go back and I'll,
I don't know. I should maybe get your double X.
I go, no, no, no, no, not one, not one,
a double X. Even if it's really an X, I'm
not wearing a double X. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Right.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Well, here's the thing, which we didn't know at the time.
Cause it was new. Back in the day, and I
don't know if they still do it, Abercrombie was for kids,
and Abercrombie and Fitch was for adults. She bought the
shirt in Abercrombie. Abercrombie. Oh, okay, okay. It was a
kid's extra large, and that's why I couldn't fucking fit it.
That made you feel a little better. I will say, though,

(46:13):
there's this great company. It's a European company called Reiss, R-E-I-S-S.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I loved it. Wait
a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Not a sponsor? No way. No way. I wish. I
wish they were a sponsor. Slices, you heard it coming. Slices,
you heard it. Reese, if you want to join, please,
I beg. They have some amazing shirts and some clothing

(46:38):
and pants. The thing is, if you Google Reese, R-E-I-S-S, well,
you'll notice. Well, unless you try it on, you won't notice, but...
Their shit runs so fucking small because they're a European
company that it kills me that I'm a double XL

(46:58):
in their shirts. It's such a mind fuck that if
I really want to buy one of their shirts, I'm like,
it says XXL on it. And I'm just like... I've
lost all this weight, Brody. I'm down like close to
30 pounds now. I'm doing well for myself. This is

(47:18):
third quarter scary. We're going into the fourth quarter, and
I'm looking like second quarter scary. I don't know if
you noticed, but I'm keeping the weight off. It's a rolling.
It's a slow, slow burn.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
But I'm continuing to lose weight slowly, step by step,
and I'm not gaining it back. And I feel great.
And I'm just letting you know, I don't want to
buy a fucking XXL shirt because I feel like I've
earned the right to not wear an XXL. But their
clothing is so fucking cool that... I don't care. Well,

(47:51):
can you get the label off? Can you put a
label over the label? I bought three of their shirts, Brody,
and they're all double XL. And I'm like, what am
I doing? But can you imagine just.
It's just because I'm looking at it. Just because there's
another fucking X there, I have a problem with it. Why?
I shouldn't have a problem with it. I know damn

(48:11):
well their fit model is fucking a twig, and that's
the reason why. By the way, I didn't mean to
imply it's not that big. Double XL is not... XL
is what they consider XL. But it's for whatever reason,
it's all in my head, I didn't want to buy
XXL because it said XXL, but knowing that I'm much

(48:35):
smaller than I was. Yeah. You know who does that?
Like when you buy sports jerseys on the bottom of the,
like the, the tail in the front, like the, the flap, the, the, the,
you know, the bottom of the shirt, they'll put like
Rawlings or Nike and then the size of the shirt.
Why do I want to advertise to people what size
the shirt I'm wearing is? Why was that the place?

(48:55):
Nobody tucks in their shirt. Yeah. So when you wear
a sports jersey, you don't tuck it in your pants
unless you're playing the game. Oh, who used to do
that on the jeans label? They used to be branded
in there. Like, was it Levi? Yeah, Levi does that. Levi.
It's a size fucking 40. Yeah, I need people looking
at my ass going, oh, yeah. It's a 40. Now, look,
if you're a double X man shirt, No offense to
the 40s out there. No offense.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
But like, I don't, yeah, you're right. You don't want
that shit on display. No, Levi. ladies and you can
leave us to talk back on this if you want
if i gave you a dress to wear you love
the dress loved it you fit perfectly in the dress
but let's say you're a size six but the dress
says 14 are you buying it Yeah. You buying that dress?
That's the same. That's the same thing with the research

(49:37):
right there. Same exact scenario. Let us know. But I'm like,
you know what? I kind of like their style. I
don't give a fuck. Who's going to see the label?
Nobody but me.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
But okay. Let me, let me, let me take it
to another extreme. Cause this just happened to me. I
was looking at, um, a type of footwear. Now, you know,
I wear a size 12 shoe sneaker and it said, uh,
this company sizes is, is always recommends you go one
size up because they, their shoes are a little, they,
they little narrower. So they want me to buy a 13.

(50:10):
First of all, if this is the company writing it,
if the company knows they size up, they just fucking
size down. Don't make a 13 to 12. I don't
want to buy a 13. Don't tell me buy a 13.
Just make a 13 to 12. Why can't companies... Just say,

(50:32):
let's appeal. Listen, let's appeal to the masses. Let's make
people feel good about themselves. No, no, no. Let's change
that into a medium. Let's change that to a, let's
make that, hey, Scary Jones, who fits into our XXL shirt,
let's resize everything, call it something different like Starbucks does,
and make that a medium. Then I'll buy 12 of
your shirts. Doesn't that double? No. I'll tell you why

(50:54):
they don't do that, because they worked in retail. That
would double the revenue. In many years. No, it won't. Yes,
it will. It will kill the business. I'll tell you why.
If you're Abercrombie and Fitch, what's the image of Abercrombie
and Fitch? At this point, who even knows? They're so outdated.
What are their ads known for? They're known for like hot,
skinny girls and guys. Yes.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
So if you think of the brand Abercrombie and Fitch,
you think of thin, toned, muscular, hot girls wearing skimpy clothing, right?
If they make their clothing for fat people and put
the fat guy who's a double X into a large
and people go, oh, did you buy that shirt, fat guy? Oh,

(51:35):
Abercrombie and Fitch. Now fat people are wearing their clothing.
They don't want fat people wearing their clothing. They deliberately
size their shit small so that small people wear their clothing.
So that when you think of them, you'll think of hot, trendy,
thin people. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. Completely wrong.
And by the way, a big miss because most of
America is on the larger side. No, it's a little miss.

(51:57):
It's a little miss. Little miss can't be wrong, spin doctors.
That's right. Thank you. But I don't understand where the
logic is. It'll kill their business. No, it won't. It's
like clubs, Gary. If the clubs let in all the
freaks and the weirdos instead of the hot people, what's
going to happen? It goes to shit.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
They want the trendy people. So they're like, well, I
don't understand. Why can't they let the untrendy people in?
Because the trendy people won't want to go there. But
my economic logic brain says... Let's see. Most of America
is pretty large. So if we size everything down and
make large people feel good about themselves and we allow

(52:36):
and we size and we have sizes for those bigger people.
I already told you why. I already told you why.
We're going to make more money. We're going to make quadruple. Oh, scary.
You're going to answer your own question because I'm going
to put it in terms you can understand. In 1992, 1993,
What was the biggest genre of music? Grunge.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Now, what radio station in New York played the biggest hits? Z100.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
And what happened when Z100 opened up their playlist to
add grunge to their playlist because it was popular? What
happened to Z100, Scary? It tanked in the ratings. That's right.
It went down to 17th place. But it should have
opened up a larger audience. But what happened? The thin
people didn't want to hear the fat people music. And

(53:26):
I'm not saying grunges. I'm saying and making an analogy.
The pop kids did not want to hear grunge on
the pop station. And, by the way, conversely, the grunge
kids were not coming to Z100 to hear their grunge
because that's the pop kid station. So it was a lose-lose. Well,
I went to a rock concert in 1994 or 95, 94, 93.
And Z100 showed up.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Did Z100 show up? It was a Z100 concert. And
by the way, at that time, this was before you
were working for Z100, and you were just a rock kid. Right. Like,
what the fuck is this station doing here? The Z100
DJ came out. I know him now. Professionally, I know him.

(54:10):
But the Z100, hey, everybody, it's DJ blah, blah, blah
from Z100. Scary, they almost picked up chairs and threw
them at the stage. Homo, poser. every word you could imagine,
get off the fucking stage. You have no credibility. So

(54:30):
the same reason why Z100 doesn't play country music and
doesn't play hard rock and heavy metal, even if it's popular,
because you got to do what your brand is. Z100
plays pop music. But don't you know that Ella Langley,
you know, choosing Texas- Well, I'll tell you what. It
was the number one song of the summer, according to
Danielle this morning on her report. Yep, and it doesn't

(54:52):
play on Z100. We played it. Because that's not your
core audience. We played it this morning. Elvis can do that. No,
it actually got added to Z100' s playlist this week. Did it? Yes. Okay,
two months too late because they're fucking desperate at this point.
Stop it. To play it. No, I don't mean desperate.
I'm saying like they realize now it's an avalanche of
fame and popularity. It's still polarizing. We played it today

(55:15):
on the air. It got positives and negatives. Yes, because
it's a song about Abilene, Texas, and doing the two-step.
And New Yorkers don't want to hear that in general.
The point is, you have to know your market. You
can't have fat people wearing Abercrombie. You can't. Okay. Man,
this is depressing. We've got to take a break. Listen,
I'm not a small person. I feel you. That's why

(55:38):
I don't shop at Abercrombie. Okay, Depeche Mode. They don't
want me to. Ooh, nicely done. That wasn't even– I
pulled that one out of my ass. That was good.
The Depeche Mode reference before the break. That was good, yeah.
So I just wanted to promote something before we move
forward because– You know, sometimes Brody promotes his podcast that

(56:02):
he's on when he makes special appearances. A couple of
weeks ago, I told you about this, but now it's
been released. It's been released. I was on a podcast
called The Brooklyn Stoop. Two sanitation workers, New York City
sanitation workers, Who work early in the morning and then
have all their afternoons off. Decided to put a podcast together.
And these guys are hilarious. Ralph and Chris are fucking hysterical.

(56:27):
And they have the Brooklyn Stoop. It's on YouTube. You
can see it. And basically, if you don't know what
a stoop is, it's basically a porch with a staircase.
And usually in a row attached row house. And, um,
we filmed it at, I guess, one of their mom's
houses in Brooklyn in, in the heart of Bensonhurst. And we,
we sat on the stoop and then one guy was

(56:49):
on the left. One guy was on the right. I
was the guest. I was in the middle. And if
you want to hear a little bit, you know, me
of me shooting the shit about Z100, about, about my career,
about anything like that. Um, watch the 45 minute video.
We also did Brody, you'd be proud. We did a
live phone tap on Ralphie's mom. Now, I explained to Ralph,

(57:12):
I said, bro, I said, these phone taps are prepared
in advance where we get these emails. They give us
a scenario of what's going on in their life. And
we do a shit ton of research before we make
a phone call. And before we ever get on the
phone with the target, because when we get on the

(57:34):
phone with them, we better be fucking prepared for 11
ways till Sunday. So we don't get, so they don't
think it's a joke. And Ralph didn't care. He goes, nah,
don't worry about it. He goes, here's the scenario. My
mom has had the floors ripped up, and she's waiting
on compensation, and the house is a mess. She gave
me some basic sketchy details, and she wanted me to

(57:56):
call as the adjuster or the person who's giving them
the money from the city, whatever it is, the insurance company, whatever,
and that she's expecting a large sum of money, and
I was going to tell her that it's worth like nothing. Brody,
we did on speakerphone, on the stoop, a live fucking
phone tap on his mom. And I just was winging it.

(58:21):
And it turned out to be hysterical. Do you have
airable quality audio or no? I might next week. It's
a little, because, listen, the phone taps took us 10, 15,
20 minutes to wind somebody up and make them fucking
pissed off and curse. And they're just in the magic
of editing and post-production. We condense it to the four
minutes that you hear on the radio. Not what I

(58:41):
call them. Well, sometimes Brody would light them up like
a Christmas tree right away. Well, so this one took
about 10 minutes before she got, and you know, it
went somewhere, I guess. Was it great? No, but for,
for live on the spot, convincing me to do it
in the moment. I thought it was pretty damn good.
And we got her really good. And, you know, I
had to be a little mean to her to get

(59:03):
her to kind of curse. But she was a nice woman, too.
That's the other thing. Did you call her the C word? No,
I was not going to do that on camera. I did.
I did indirectly call her a bitch as I was
handing the phone away. I said, you just talk to
this bitch. Classic Skeeter. I was like, yeah, you talk
to this bitch. Just like that. Yeah, yeah, I got it.
You know how it's done. Anyway, so watch the Brooklyn Stoop.

(59:25):
So now that was just one part of it. That's
on YouTube. That's the video. But then we went into
the city and we actually did the other part of
what they do is they got paid, you got played bit, where...
They review the reviewer. So if someone like Jack's dining
room went to go, uh, review like Ellen B's promoting

(59:46):
gardens pizza and said it was awesome. These guys show
up there and eat it for themselves and decide if
the influencer got paid to say that, or if it
was really good. So we went to Danny and Coop's
cheesesteaks in the city in, in Manhattan on the East
village and, which is Bradley Cooper's spot with the guy,

(01:00:06):
the collab with the guy from Philly. Yeah, you told
us this a couple episodes ago. We did that. We
did G's Cheesesteaks, and then we went to, I told
you about the Shangata Cannoli from Venero's. Yeah, in the refrigerator.
It was cold and soggy. It was pre-piped. Anyway, those
clips are on YouTube. Those clips are on their Instagram page.
Why don't you post them? Post a link on your
Instagram so people can find you. I reposted them, and

(01:00:28):
I did collabs. I actually accepted the collaboration. But go
to the– watch the 45-minute sit-down I did with them
and the unedited versions of these reviews if you can.
And these are good guys. It's Ralph and Chris. I
don't know. I think we should do something with them, Brody.
I could feel something coming. I'm telling you. Will they
acknowledge me this time? Of course. They know you. They

(01:00:49):
remember you. They love you. They grew up listening to you. Oh,
my phone must have been, I must have been getting
a call from a lone person. While you were spinning
Nicki Minaj, you were doing phone taps in between. Yeah. Hey,
by the way, do you know why a stoop is
called a stoop in Brooklyn? Is it short for stupid? No,
you'd think it was. Stupid. It actually comes from the

(01:01:12):
Dutch word S-T-O-E-P, which means step. And when Dutch settlers
came to America, they brought their architecture of the stoop,
the steps leading to your front door, to avoid getting
water damage when the floods would rise. Manhattan is an island.
Brooklyn is off the water. So before they built the

(01:01:34):
proper barricades along the water, water would come up through
the streets. So they elevated all the buildings. We had
to walk up a few steps to get to the
front door. So that when the floodwaters... Who knew? When
the floodwaters would come by, it wouldn't get into your
door because your door was five or six steps up.
And as New Yorkers, we utilize those steps for hanging out,

(01:01:56):
for bouncing a ball off of, or hanging out on
the stoop. But the stoop is a Dutch word for step,
and that's where the name came from. We always used
to sit on my stoop. The stoop was a special place.
There's one to grow on. There's one to grow on. Hey,
did we take our breaks already? I think we're done
taking breaks. I hope so. If I missed one, iHeart's

(01:02:16):
going to catch me. That fucking AI is right in there, man.
They'll go to commercial for me. Well, I'll tell you what.
If you have to add a commercial break, let's pretend
we're going to commercial here. All right? Hold on. We'll
be right back. except we're not back except we never
went away unless right but you need to stick one
in there if you just heard commercials no no no

(01:02:38):
no but no no what happens is the ai if
i don't put enough breaks in there ai will take
over and just find a break what i'm saying is
when you go to post this you'll see how many
breaks you oh okay yeah okay all right very good
um So in the case that we may have to
get out of here, you want to hear about my
medical scamboni or the fight I got into at Costco

(01:03:00):
with an old man? I want to, I mean, there's nothing,
who's the old man in this? You or the, is
there somebody else? You asshole. I said a fight with
an old man. Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Let's talk about the old man fight. You tell me how,
on a scale of one to 10, how wrong am
I in this one? All right. So I'm in Costco.
And I'm pushing my cart. Now, Costco has a self-checkout line, right?
There's like six registers where you can go and you
check out your own stuff. And if they're very busy,

(01:03:32):
there'll be an employee there with a gun, with a
scanning gun, and they'll scan everything for you. Right. Okay?
Or you can get online at the registers. But the
register lines are usually very, very long. Yeah. And because
there's six self-checkout registers, it moves faster. But the line
usually goes up an aisle. Like it goes like all
the way up an aisle because there's people waiting to

(01:03:53):
use the six registers. So I'm going up the main
aisle behind all the people online for the registers. My
target has a, has the same layout with the youth.
You go up the aisle because they can't fit people.
They can't snake. There's not enough room. That's correct. So
I have to now make a right turn. and because
the aisles are two carts wide, I have to now

(01:04:15):
make a right and go against the line all the
way to the back of the line and then turn
around and get on the end of the line. Okay?
So I make the right turn, and as I'm making
the right turn, one of the wheels of my cart
hits the corner of the display at the end of
the aisle. So it catches the corner. Whoops.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Whoops. And so my cart jerks forward, and it bangs... Scary.
I wasn't running. I was walking. The cart bangs into
the guy's cart. Who's the first in line in the aisle. Right.
He's a, he's an older guy and he, he sort
of like takes a step back. Like, Whoa, like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Like, yeah, like he got bumped. So I go, Whoa, Whoa.
So I'm so very sorry, sir. Very sorry. Immediately. And
I put my hands up and go, sorry about that.
I could have fallen. I go, are you okay? What,
are you kind of crazy person are you? Sir, are
you all right? Oh, man. Yeah, but I could have

(01:05:17):
been hurt. Okay, but were you hurt? No, but I
could have been hurt. I'm 82 years old. Okay, but
it was an accident, sir. I said I was sorry
and you're okay. I could have fallen backwards, hit my head.
I could have been killed. Okay, but you didn't fall backwards.
I didn't hit you deliberately. I wasn't speeding. None of
the above happened. Crisis averted. He should be thanking himself

(01:05:40):
and thanking his lucky stars that he didn't get hurt.
I'm being apologetic, sir. I'm very polite. I was raised well.
I'm very sorry. I understand you're older. I understand you
could have been hurt, and you might have gotten a scare.
Are you okay? You seem like you're okay. You're back
on the cart. I apologize. It was an accident. I
hope you have a nice day. Again, I'm sorry. Ah,

(01:06:03):
you're an asshole. I said, sir, there's no reason to
curse me. You're fine. You didn't do any of the
things that could have happened. I said, but if you're 82,
maybe don't give yourself a heart attack. Stay calm. Are
you saying I'm going to have a heart attack? Nope.
All right, Billy Joel. Yeah. You also said have a

(01:06:25):
nice day earlier. That's Bon Jovi. But continue. Yeah, that's correct.
I missed that one. Oh, the Bon Jovi have a
nice day story. We got to talk about that. Not yet,
but continue with this one first.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
Oh, no.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
It was It's My Life. Was it It's My Life?
It was It's My Life.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Next episode. All right, Dr. Dre and Snoop. Oh, next episode.
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Continue.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
So I, I, I turned my cart to go up
the aisle and I start walking away and I hear
him go, eh, crazy fucking asshole. I go, sir, drop it,
drop it. You're fine. You're fine. Let it go. Let
it go. All right, Elsa. So the guy behind him
who has witnessed all of this says to him, sir,

(01:07:07):
just go to the next register. Calm, calm the hell down.
Tells the guy to calm the hell down. I heard. Wow.
And he gave me the wink. The guy was like,
give me, give me like the nod and the wink.
I go, thank you, sir. Was he looking for trouble? He, listen,
he's an older guy. He was, I get it. He
was scared for a second. I get it. And, and listen,
between you and me, like after the fact, I get

(01:07:27):
you're old and you're upset. I get it. But I
get what point you're like, he's going running down the list.
I could have had my leg amputated. I could have,
I could have, I could have, could have, could have,
could have, could have any fill in the blank med libs.
I don't know. It could have, but you know, I
guess again, it wasn't like I was speeding. I don't
want to get, I don't want to be like that
when I'm older, please don't let me get like that

(01:07:49):
when I'm older, please.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
So that was my, that was my cost. Thank God
for the guy behind him who took, who took my
side and told the guy to be quiet. Cause I
was like, dude, why do you want me? What do
you want me to do? I have apologized. I asked
if you're okay. Do you need anything? I could have.
I could have. I might have. I should have. I
could have. So I'm sorry you're old. I'm sorry you
got scared. It was an act. Legitimate. And it wasn't

(01:08:13):
like hot rodding it. I wasn't like riding on the
back of the car and I flew in there. Right, right. Hey,
as we get out of here, and again, it was
so long ago, I don't even remember. Did we do
the podcast after the Harry Styles concert that I went to?
Because I have this on my list. Tell me what
happened in the Harry Styles concert. The firehouse, the firehouses,
the firemen after the show? Yes. We talked about that

(01:08:36):
on the podcast. Yes. Yep. Another one tonight, by the way. Man,
they got 30. God bless that firehouse. They are right
down the block from Madison Square Garden, and there's 30
Harry Styles shows, including one tonight and a couple more
this weekend. So I'm sure they'll be out there after
the show, hanging out, blasting the music. Lauren, speaking of

(01:08:57):
which Lauren and the fans, I don't know who this
guy is. Let me go to, let me go to
my tick tock, my tick tock activity here. Hold on.
Tick tock, tick tock activity, tick tock activity, talk tip.
What's been going on in your talktivity? This guy, have
you ever heard of a performer named Nori N O
R Y? No, I just know a guy named Noriega,

(01:09:21):
old school rapper from New York. No? No.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
Norie?

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
No, this is a young guy with a mustache. He
looks like Benson Boone with long curly hair. Okay. Anyway,
he says it's actually crazy. By the way, actually and
literally in the same sentence is a bit much for me.
Actually crazy, literally played MSG yesterday, and I'm doing it
again tonight. This was August 8th. So whoever he is,

(01:09:45):
he played. And then he says, I played the garden
and here I am literally 10 minutes later. I'm on
the New York city subway. So yeah, I'm going to
ask you what you think the comments were. First of all,
I never heard of this guy. I don't know how
he played. Well, is he an opener for someone? What
was the night bro? As we say, we have a
computer in our pocket. I want to know. I want

(01:10:05):
to know who we opened for. So look it up.
August 8th. Some guy named Nori N O R Y.
He's a singer. Okay. And he's wearing his own concert shirt,
it looks like. He's wearing himself on his shirt. And
he says, New York City is crazy because how am
I on the subway 10 minutes after playing MSG? Okay.
It looks like Nori opened for... Here comes Gemini, the

(01:10:31):
Google search engine, the Google AI. Hurry it up. He
opened for... Oh, he's, he was a featured artist alongside
the jazz duo Zohar and Adam to open the main
stage of the inaugural Brooklyn jazz festival. Now that, that
doesn't make any sense. Okay. Thank you. It doesn't matter.
He played the stage of MSG.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
But anyway, so, so the point was, he's like all
excited that now I'm riding the subway that I was
on the stage at MSG. Okay. So the comments, if
you know, New York city, you know, New York city, um,
One person wrote, Jay-Z did the same thing. He just
didn't post about it. New York City don't care. This
city humbles you no matter what. Let's see. And no

(01:11:17):
one's bothering you. New York City's great. New York City
has been that way for centuries. That's why it makes
New York City the best. No one cares who the
hell you are.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Great.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Let's see. You walk off stage, and the subway's right there. Perfect.
New York City's awesome. And some person wrote, who are you?
And Nori wrote, Nori. His response was, he's Nori. Once again,
who are you in the comments? Or who is this person?
Never heard of you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
I don't know, but you're following the account? I'm not.
He just popped up in my... No, I'm saying, did
he write that on his own account?

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
Okay, then how the fuck did somebody get in his
comments if they... They had to have been following him.
So they had to have known who he was. Well, scary.
It comes up in your for you section. I guess. Anyway,
all the people are like, dude, it's not a big deal. Rich,
famous people ride the subway all the time. That's true.
He was like, but his thing was like, I can't
believe I'm on a New York City subway. I just
played Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Dude, everybody does that. Everybody does it. The fucking New
York Knicks ride the subway to the game. Like, it's not.
Of course. It's not everybody. It's New York. It's New York, baby.
It's New York. Yeah. The greatest city in the world.
By the way, By the way, did you see who's
hosting the first episode of Saturday Night Live this season? No, who?
Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Nice!

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
He's hosting? Hosting. Wild. Well, he's not the musical guest. Yeah,
he's hosting. That's great. All right. Thank you so much.
Let's get on the subway, Brody. And go where? To Brooklyn!
The Voice! From Brooklyn!

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
Brooklyn!

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
The Voice!

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Brooklyn!