#122: Don't Be a Maskhole!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Starduf doat up. Start Up, Brooklyn Boys, Start Up, Brooklyn
Boys start Data, They making noise Data start Up. Episode one.
It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast. Yeah, buddy with us, uh

(00:26):
David Brody in his basement and I am coming to
you live from my apartment in Jersey City where I
got a brand new system finally up and running. Okay,
can we just address the word finally real quick? Oh?
It finally means at last. It's a synonym. Yeah, and

(00:47):
I know what the word means. Here's the problem with
the words. What do you mean? Okay? Today is Saturday.
We are recording the Thursday Brooklyn Boys podcast on Saturday.
Truth cause of your new fangled equipment. Wait a second,
because Thursday you were pre setting it up, and then Friday,

(01:09):
and then Friday you didn't return any of my phone
calls or text messages when I was saying, hey, let's
podcast today. Uh, why was that scary? Well, it's funny
that you ask, because what happens is when you put
a new system in and everything is electronic, and everything
is on a computer, and I don't want to bore

(01:30):
the audience with the minutia of it, but when you
put a system in then your computer says, m hmmm,
I don't like that system. I'm not going to communicate
with it unless you upgrade me. And so there's a
domino effect of bullshit that ensues when you introduce new
equipment to a current ecosystem. And that's the best way

(01:54):
I can put it without getting too technical and boring
you with the details. So what as a result of
me trying to get my equipment to talk to my computer,
and then my computer to talk to the new operating system.
It was a cluster. Now listen, you know, I'm a
fan of Apple. I love Apple to death. But but

(02:17):
because the system that I got with my with my equipment,
which by the way, you gotta admit I sound pretty
fucking good. Right, we'll get to that part in a second. Alright,
some would say the microphone sounds great, this is okay.
So so when when I when I decided to upgrade
and put that system in my the operating system on

(02:39):
Apple said, uh no, we can't work with that. You've
got to now upgrade to the current Apple operating system.
And then I, while you haven't already done that, well
I'll tell you why we hadn't. I hadn't already done
it because my editing sero software pro Tools, which is
an industry thing that we talked about all the time.

(03:01):
Artists use it to record their music and everything, and
it's a great, it's a great. It is a the
workhorse of the production studio for broadcasters and for artists
and musicians. It's all you need to know. Anyway, pro
Tools said, fuck you, I don't want to be on
the new Apple upgrading system upgrading system. So I had
to have a guy remote into my computer screen share

(03:24):
for six hours to get the pro tools system my
new equipment with the microphones and mixer and stuff and
Apple io os to talk to each other. That in
a nutshell, because you just can't change one, you have
to change everything. And that is something that I learned

(03:46):
the hard way. And I'm sure that some people have
gone through similar things in there, you know, in their
upgrading lives. But it's like a new piece of equipment
doesn't want to talk to this other piece of equipment
because it's old, Like fuck you. You get an upgrade
to the latest. Who used to do iTunes? Who's the
one who used to send it out? If Firefox iTunes
every fucking three days. You do you want to install

(04:10):
the new iTunes? Do you want to? It's something like that.
It's like because if you don't, then you are up
for a security breach. Because there's patches and fixes, bug fixes.
That's my favorite. When the download store the Apple it's like, oh,
an update for seven of my apps, and I'm looking
at what they've introduced, like what new features? Bugs and fixes?

(04:32):
Fuck you bugs and fixes. Yeah. Bugs and fixes, by
the way, is a nice way of saying we installed
ads in the software, or we took out the feature
you liked and left you with not what you wanted, right,
because they never improve the app, they only make it shittier.
Bugs and fixes means, you know what, we're gonna fix
the glitch, but because we can't use the take the

(04:54):
glitch out and make it work right with the cool stuff,
We're gonna take the cool stuff out so that it
works right. It's like it's like my car has a problem.
I'll take it to the mechanic. He says, I gave
it back to you. You no longer have air conditioning
or radio, but it runs great. Now. That's not what
I wanted. I wanted to try to fix the car
as it was. Yeah, bugs and fixes. So there were

(05:16):
bugs that worked with the air conditioners, so just roll
your windows down. Yeah, So in a nutshell, bugs and fixes.
I was chasing it was like chasing my tail for
like six hours to try and upgrade everything. So all
the bugs and all the fixes came out of it.
So now that's a lie. That's that's a blatant lie.
Why because today on Saturday, we were supposed to start

(05:39):
recording at two o'clock and then when we when I
called you bugs and fixes again once again, bugs and fixes. Yes,
so we've spent by the way, bugs and fixes, my
favorite morning show from the eighties. We have now spent
uh an hour and a half, Yeah, with your bugs
and fixes. And to which I said, I sent you

(06:01):
a text message last night and I said, huh, I
spent on the microphone. I have neither bugs nor fixes
to worry about. So thank you. You spent more than
ten times my my microphone and you have bugs and
fixes so well, yeah, because it got the equipment got
too sophisticated for my current environment. Windows. Sorry, okay, there

(06:26):
you've got a case of the COVID there, Brodie, No,
I was I was choking on my suparior operating system Windows, okay,
because I thought, maybe you should see a doctor. You
want to you want to face time your your medic
real quick. By the way, that that's become like the
catchphrase now, and I'm not because if you, if you
have any any you sneeze or blink, people forget it.

(06:47):
People like he's got it, he's got it. Yeah. Well,
I wanted to say one thing. Um I saw on
Twitter somebody took their um. Somebody actually commented, They're like,
why why does scaries mic quality sound better than yours? Brodie?

(07:09):
And you were very honest with her. Yeah I was,
And you were honest with her, and and and and listen,
we're trying the best for everybody. I'm not trying to
criticize Brodie. I'm a little bit of a tech geek.
So I love to have that sound. I don't want
to have that. And and and as much as I
would like Brodie to have that as well, he doesn't.
He doesn't have that because that that that's what his

(07:32):
He went with this other microphone. We're lucky were he
even has this microphone, so we can even do this, right,
I have kids and scary has a super broadcasting unit,
so which I call my baby anyway, But he doesn't
cry or take ships that I have to change. Neither
do my kids any longer because they're old enough. But

(07:53):
my equipment just ships the bed. That's right, that's right. Yeah.
That that being said, you'll never have to pay for
college for your equipment. Um, however, is that what you're
going through now? One now and then one and a
year and a half. Yeah, oh, and then one and
one in three or four years. Where do you find
all this money? I don't spend my money on super equipment.

(08:16):
That's where I find my money. And you have to
take out loans man. That's the way the world works anyway. Anyway. Um,
as far as the microphone, I think we should dig
deeper into your financials. Let's do that now. As far
as the microphone goes, last week I recorded the podcast
on my laptops internal microphone. As opposed to the microphone.

(08:38):
I bought my blue snowball, which I love. So this
week should sound much better than last week, I'm assuming,
by the way, I didn't realize that until halfway through
my Walkers and Talkers podcast this week. So if you
listen to that. You'll hear it sound like crap for
the first to our fifteen minutes and then it switches over.
So does that mike have a mute on it? I

(08:59):
want want to perform a test right here live on
the podcast. Does not have a mute button on? You
don't get because I was gonna What I've wanted to
do was I wanted you to stop talking, don't stop recording,
but I want you to and and don't stop believing you.
Ye um, But I want you What I want you
to do is I want you to get the microphone
away from you, and I'm gonna pot you up on

(09:20):
my board here. So when it comes to this part
of the podcast, we could go back and listen to
see because we you might give that forty four dollars
back and return it to the store and we can
come right up here through this this audio console. I
just want to perform this test. But if I unplug
or mute the microphone, how are you going to hear me? No,
I'm gonna pot you up. I have I have you're

(09:42):
on a fader on my computer right here. You know
that fancy equipment that I got. Yes, okay, So so
I see you here on my I have you off though,
because you're talking into your microphone over there, but turn
do whatever you need to do. Don't stop recording. Turn
the microphone off for a second, and I'm gonna pod

(10:03):
you up in here. Why don't you just pod me? What?
What do you mean pod? Why? Yeah? Why don't you? Okay?
So here we all right, So you're on okay, So
now you are coming through my fancy equipment. Okay, but
I don't have to unplug my microphone for that. People
are hearing you now through my through my my mixing console. Now,
if we could put up with this sound, and I

(10:25):
bet you used an upgrade. So you're saying, you're saying
that the microphone on my tablet is a better sound
than the really nice recording microphoney, money well spent. Well,
that's what I'm getting at, And that's what I'm saying.
You may go get a refund. You may get some
free dessert out of this. Why would I want to refund?
I know, because when I want to record my Walking

(10:46):
Dead podcast, I have to call you up and room.
You can just want to scream into your tablet. No,
I'm not gonna do that. Don't scream. All right, I'm
turning you off of my mixing console, alright, and then
we're gonna go back to your microphone. Alright, let me
get now you're back to go back doing the podcast.
Now that'd be great. Thanks. Now, well, you know, well, listen,
our listeners are with us through thick and thin. Yes,

(11:08):
but but it's getting really thick. We could have done
this in the hour and a half that we kept
people waiting. I told all I told the slices that
have the podcast around four o'clock East Coast time, because
we were going to record it too for an hour.
All right, let's move on to bigger and better things.
I kind of wanted to ambush my father because, oh man,
it was like capturing lightning in a bottle. The other

(11:29):
day when I got him on the phone, he he
was entering the car and he was coming he says,
they were entering the car. He was getting coming in,
he was coming back. He was getting in the car.
I was on the phone making he was making his
entrance into the car. It was a yes, he uh well.

(11:51):
He used to Oh my god. For years, we had
a Caddy. We had the quintessential Cadillac that. Wait minute,
Wait a minute, wait a minute. If I don't answer
that question, otherwise you gotta hit the jingle. I already
know your father got a new car. I forgot he's
got the same car company as you. And and uh,
I don't want you to hit the jingle. So I

(12:13):
know what kind of car you has. No, you don't
want to know what kind of car my father has. No,
I don't think it's important. I thought it was important.
I thought he had the Caddy. I thought it was
very well. He had a Caddy back in the day. Listen,
he had the he had the one from that looked
like like Tony Soprano style, where you can put bodies
in the trunk. That's how big it is back there.
Every Cadillac has that trunk. The newer ones, the newer

(12:33):
ones sucked. In fact, he he cried the day that
they took two feet off the Cadillac in Wait a minute,
waite they were they were they two feet off some
guy who rat it out the mob. No. Back in
the middle of the eighties, Cadillac finally came around. They
were like one of the last car car brands to say,
these things are like boats. We gotta take some feet

(12:55):
off of this. And my father was like, why, oh why,
my Cadillac eight to Coope Deville was the perfect car.
Showing my car Anthony six rolls around. They've taken two
feet off they took could you believe me? It could
have been tree feet Anthony. That's what sucks. And he

(13:15):
and the Cadillac was never the same sense. I mean,
listen to they have a great they have great cars now,
but they're just different. They're not what they were. So anyway,
now he drives that Lexus and he's very proud. All right,
hit the jingle that was scary and before anyone says
I asked you to tell me, I stopped you like

(13:36):
three minutes ago and said it wasn't important. But it
was an accident. It was an accident, an accident anyway.
So anyway, so my father was on the phone my mother,
and my father gets in the car. He goes whose
freaking woman in front of me? To breaking issues all
over the place, And I got my mask on and
she's like right up, leaning up on me. She's leaning

(13:56):
up on me, and and my mother's like, what's the matter,
what happened? Why you're just places to freaking crowded. You
canna fit anybody, you know, you can fit people in there.
You can just so. So my father's like social distance,
social distance, and she's like, uh, yeah, I work in
an e er. I'm good. I'm not afraid of anything.

(14:17):
And that made my father even more angry, because you're
a fucking hospital worker and first of all, you're you're
practicing band social just saying. Secondly, you've been in contact
with hundreds of patients who have it and now potentially
giving it to me. It's fit to be tied. He
was so angry. I kind of wanted to get him
on the phone, but maybe not. Yeah, by the way,

(14:40):
I got a tweet today that someone asked for my
mom to be on the podcast. Yeah, we can call
her too. It's it's a little it's a little trickier,
especially with scary super equipment, because you'd have to wait
another hour and a half to make that happen. So
that's not true. I can do it live right now.
We're connected. I'd like to give my mom a heads
up in case she's taking a nap um. I thought

(15:00):
you're about to say taking a ship. Wow, you are classless.
Why would I say that about my mom. I wouldn't
say it about your unless she's Because of the way
we talk on this podcast, I thought maybe you're going
there when you said taken uh, and I'm like, oh
my god, is he gonna say ship? Oh nap? Okay,
got it. So so just in case you thought I was,
you said it before I could right truth truth. Yeah, No,

(15:23):
I'm not gonna talk about my mom that way. No,
she's taking a nap in the afternoon. Maybe. By the way,
she's fine. I haven't seen her in a month because um,
she does not want to get sick um. And so
I am going to see her, uh next week I
think next Wednesday, A week from Wednesday, I don't know.
One Wednesday coming up. I have to drive it to

(15:43):
her doctor for a regular appointment. So I'm gonna be
full masking gloves, um, just to you know, make make
her feel comfortable. She'll be in masking gloves as well. Also,
I don't want your theories on masking gloves, so don't
tweet me. Um, you live, you be you. That's the
last thing anybody want. Who wha what you think people
are gonna impart their opinion because you say the word

(16:04):
mask it said, everybody's a doctor all of a sudden,
everyone has an opinion, and that's fine, but I don't
want it, so I'm gonna do what I Well, that's that.
That's exactly the problem I was facing. We talked about
this on The Big Show. If you give me good advice,
if you if you say to me legitimately. I heard
Dr Fauci on the news, who's America's top expert on

(16:26):
these kind of things? And by the way from Brooklyn. Yeah,
by the way, Faucci Pharmacy was in our neighborhood. His
parents owned a pharmacy. I posted that, Yeah, there's a
place that's now a bakery and now and and it
was owned by the Fauci's back in the day. He
legit grew up just blocks from me and Brody. Brody
and me, No, you had it right, and Brodi in

(16:48):
that sense because he grew up a few blocks from me.
Is what you said? So and which is correct? Yeah
you were good? So yeah, so I so that's kind
of cool. I'm like, this guy is like leading the way.
This is a mean, it's kind of like a Brooklyn
boy done well. I Mean, we're very Brooklyn proud on
this podcast. You know, we always celebrate Brooklyn people, especially,

(17:09):
do we really because we named the Brooklyn podcast Brooklyn Boys.
So yeah, well, well Faucci, we just wanted to highlight
that a fellow Brooklyn nights. So continue. Well, you know
what I have to say, though it has no effect
on us. We don't get any credit. Like people go, oh,
he went to my high school. That means nothing unless
you're Dr Fauci. Only Dr Fauci gets people are like, oh, yeah, oh,

(17:31):
this guy is from my town. All that means is
his parents had sex in the same town. Your parents
had sex. It doesn't make you a better basketball player.
It doesn't make your town any cooler. So I'm not
one of those people that's like, hey, we went to
the same high school forty years apart, and this is
what Now. Look, if if we're making conversation, I'll mention

(17:52):
Colin Quinn and Spike Lee went to my high school
when I was a kid, you know, growing up. But
that doesn't make my high school better and it doesn't
make me cooler. Just means coincidentally we grew up on
the same neighbor Well those are some would say that's ironic,
but that's wrong because it's a coincidence, right, it's a coincidence.
So I'm happy that Dr Fauci, you know, came from
our neighborhood. Um, and it only just it only disproves

(18:13):
the myth that everyone in our neighborhood was add So
we had one that wasn't. But it doesn't make he
went to medical school, right, It doesn't make our old
neighborhood any We had one. We had one that got out,
one that got out. Yeah, I would like to think
that I got out. But my point is it doesn't. Well,
every town has their hero and heroes. It just so happens.

(18:35):
One of the most prominent talked about and important heroes
of the day right now is Dr Anthony Faucci. And
so I am proud that he's from Brooklyn. Am I
trying to lay claim or get credit? Non associated? Right?
I mean, don't you think, Well, I'm more proud of
him for getting out and doing this. Well, Um, but

(18:59):
it doesn't It doesn't change my You know, people are
gonna go, oh, you grew up in Bens and you
grew up in a better area now because Dr Faucci
lived there, I didn't know Dr Fauci. I didn't help
him with if I helped him with his tests, he's
much older than we are. But if I helped him graduate,
or you know, I did better than you can if
we went to school together and I had better grades

(19:20):
than him, well, first of all, it made me look
smarter than him at the time, or at least better
at taking tests. But then it makes me look like
a bigger failure if for not doing as well as
Dr Fauci. So anyway, let's move on from Fauci. But yes,
he's from our neighborhood. Yes, so, so there was a
reason why you brought his name up. Uh yeah, just
the whole thing about the you know, people giving advice
and telling you what to do and how to be safe. Look,

(19:42):
if you wanna um, if you want to tell people, hey,
you should wear a mask because it has these benefits
to it, that's fine. But don't you know I see
people posting on everybody's pictures. If you put up a
picture of you wearing a mask, people, I see it
on social media. Oh, you shouldn't be doing that. You
shouldn't be doing that. Look, you should not be wearing
an N nine mask because those could be donated to

(20:03):
the hospitals where the first responders and medical staff have
a shortage now, even though millions are being made and shipped,
and we just got planeloads from Russia and and the
government is shipping to the States, and I know that
they're being supplied. But the average person doesn't need an
N nine mask. So if you if you have one,

(20:24):
hold on, I know where you're going. If you have
an N ninety five mask, you're only supposed to in
theory have one if you are medical professionals or if
you are a primary care primary caregiver. So if you're
taking care of your mom or dad would cancer and
you have to doubly protect yourself and them, you're supposed
to have them. But if you have a regular mask.

(20:46):
By the way, my my, my youngest learned how to sew.
We have a song machine that we have. Nobody's touched
it in at least at least a decade. Uh down downstairs, right,
my daughter decided she was going to watch a YouTube
video on how so she did and now she's sewing
masks for all of us. So shout out to my God.

(21:06):
So I have a cool. So what we did was
we took clothing that we weren't wearing anymore. Um, that
was the right thickness. And she's just cutting up shirts
and leggings, um and making really nice patterned masks for
us so that we can wear them and rotate them
and wash them and and that's awesome. So thank you YouTube,
Thank you my kid. Yesterday's clothing is tomorrow's mask, that's right.

(21:29):
And this is not clothing that we would have donated
to uh clothing shelters that need clothing. This is ripped up, old,
bleached stained stuff that we had that there were good
spots of that to cut around and make masks. Because
you know, UM, a lot of these trades and things
that were forgotten about back in the twenties and thirties

(21:50):
are now coming back to light. And a lot of
things that kids kids are picking up on things that
are we're considered antiquated even as recent as a month
and a half ago, like like like sewing, like like
kids aren't, but now they have the time to do it,
and they're incentivized to do it. I mean, look at

(22:11):
sidewalk chalk. That's made a huge comeback. People are remember
when we were kids, we used to buy those big
bricks of the big thick chalking and and write all
those paths. I mean, chalk wasn't you know, hasn't been
like in but now it's back because kids are looking
for stuff to do, you know, outside, I mean aside

(22:32):
when you get sick of playing Fortnite or Call of
Duty or whatever you're playing in the video game world
and you want to get some fresh air. You've got
stuff you can actually, like ride a bike, learn to
get on a skateboard, which I already agreed I'm not
gonna do. But like you know what I'm saying, Like
you're you're discovering other things because in ASP until about

(22:55):
a month ago, people were complaining they can't up. What
are you laughing at? Fing it your so far it
sounds like about three minutes of you explaining kids and
what the kids are in though these days. So although
why listen After you're done making TikTok dances and doing
coordinated ship in choreography and you're on house party or

(23:16):
playing video games, at some point your eyeballs need to
take come away from the digital screen. And kids are
rediscovering the outside. It was always up until about a month,
even as recent as again about a month or two
months ago, discovering the outside. No, they're discovering playing and
and doing creative things and making arts and crafts. Those
are things that just are required by school sometimes but

(23:39):
not every kid is into it. But now they're. It's
kind of making this crazy comeback during this pandemic. Don't
you agree there's been a resurgence. I wondering what you're
basing the auds and crafts thing on. Are you going
to kids houses? What do you do? You see, you
see pictures online, you see you see videos, you see
people making things again. You said your daughter is It

(24:01):
got me thinking that your daughter is now sewing. Man,
I'm just giving you when would she have ever taken
up sewing under any other circumstance? Probably not, probably not
so they I'm just making a point tomorrow. We've always complained,
why don't these kids get outside? Why don't they do
what we did back growing up in the eighties and
the you know, seventies and the eighties and the nineties.

(24:21):
She's gonna make you know what you think about that there? Now,
these things are. She's gonna make me a leather belt tomorrow.
I'm very excited. Is she really no? Is she gonna
is she gonna get uh straight from the cow. Yeah,
we're growing our own we're growing our own food now
out back. So it's good. So you made a mention
of people wearing masks. You're gonna Are you gonna tell

(24:45):
this story for the fourth time because you've already done
it in around the room on the Big Show three times? No,
I want to skip it. I hate to shoot on you,
but you have told the you got yelled at for
wearing a mask story a couple of times on air.
But if you want to give the short version, but
I haven maybe people don't listen, Okay, no, no, no,
you know what, No, no no, no, I'm not gonna even
I'm not gonna go there, just no, no go there,

(25:05):
go no skip it, skip it. They may have. They
may have missed it on the Big Show. It's fine, No, no, no, no,
people listen to the Big Show first. And if I've
talked about stuff, and you know, we had a huge
conversation about it. Scary Scary was in a store and
he was wearing a mask from Scotty B from our
Morning show that Scotty had from when construction workers were
in his house years ago. They left them so he

(25:28):
put them aside, like, oh, who knows, I may do construction,
as if Scotty would ever do construction. So they're like
eight year old masks or something, And so he brought
them into work for people who are coming to work
to wear the masks at work and to have they
are not it's the medical professional level, and nor are
they usable after eight years of dust in them. Really

(25:48):
scary's wearing them as a last resort. But what happens
and in mask, which it looks like, I mean it is,
it is they qualified mask that they say that only
the professionals in the medical field should be used. And
it is also the only mask that I have. I'm
not making a bend, you know, I'm not like, you know,
wearing a bandana or a scarf around my neck. This

(26:09):
is the only mask that I physically have. So I'm
now embarrassed to wear it because people have already approached
me and said, you know, you know, you're not supposed
to be wearing that unless you're a medical professional. You know,
that does really go to the hospital, which is technically
absolutely correct, which is technically under normal circumstances. But the

(26:30):
thing is, if I have to should I choose nothing
to protect my face, or should you know, Like, why
should I be shamed? You know, it's like my health
is important too. You know that that's the thing. And
they don't know the history of this mask. They also know,
just just for the sake of conversation, if they see
you at Whole Foods or wherever you are shopping for food,

(26:50):
that's where it was. They don't know you're not a
doctor or a nurse. They don't know that I could
be on my lunch hour. So I'm not saying lie.
I'm just saying, for the sake of conversation, you could
have said, excuse me, I'm a doctor or nurse. Now,
I would never lie about such a thing. No, I wouldn't.
I'm saying you could have. I wouldn't, especially nowadays. God forbid,
someone hears you say you're a doctor and then there's

(27:11):
a medical emergency and you can't help because you're you lied.
I'm just saying you you could have just said, or
I'm a primary caregiver for someone who's sick, and that's
why I have it for medical reasons. So look, people
are protective of our of our doctors and nurses. I
get that. Um, so I I don't blame them for
making mention of it. I'm just saying, you never know

(27:33):
who you're talking to. They may be a medical professional.
You know. It's like, in my opinion, mind your business.
That's a little well no, but really, but who are
these people to come up to me and say these things? Well,
it's like yeah, like like you don't know, you don't
know anything about me, so they don't. They don't make
me feel like because now again I said this on

(27:54):
the Big Show, I'll say it again. I feel mask
shamed because it's the only thing that I own and
and now I don't want. Now I'd rather now go
out without it than to have to be given the
third degree of everybody had come up to and you
know should I You know Gandhi from our show is saying,
I want to just write a big marker this is
a used mask. Well, it's clearly a used mask because

(28:16):
you're wearing it. I don't think that would help. But
this is an old mask from a construction project long ago.
That's all. Yeah, you could say it's a mask or whatever,
how old it is. I will say I want to
give a shout out to the guy in my aisle
at CVS. I want to give a special a special
shout out to the guy in my aisle at CVS.

(28:39):
I sent some sarcasm. Oh there's sarcasm, which, by the way,
when you wear a mask, people can't always tell you
being sarcastic, so you have to use hand gestures because
people don't know. They can't see the smile on your
face or the smirk. So that's the only downside of
wearing a mask. So I go to CVS. No, look,
I know, I've been going to Walgreens for prescriptions, but
I was at CVS to buy a couple of how
to get allergy medicine, and it's closer to my house,

(29:01):
and so there's probably six or seven people shopping in
the store. The cashier has a plexiglass coming down from
the ceiling, so now you can only slide things under
the plexiglass. There are fold up tables in front of
the counter to keep you away from the cashier by
an additional three or four ft for the width of
the table. There's lines on the floor with red tape

(29:26):
so that when you're online you social distance from people.
So the CVS is doing their part. God bless you. CVS.
So I'm on the left side of the store and
I have to get to the center of the store
to get online. So I go to go down an
aisle and I see there's a woman in the aisle.
So I back out of the aisle because she's not
wearing a mask, and I am regardless of whether that's

(29:47):
gonna protect me not protect me. Things can get in
your eyes. Masks aren't perfect. I decided to go down
the next stile. There's no one in that aisle. Excellent,
it's the toilet paper empty shelf aisle. So who's gonna
go down that aisle? The shelves are empty. I walked
down the aisle. I'm now about through the aisle. A

(30:08):
guy with no mask and no gloves turns the corner,
looks in the aisle, sees me and decides to enter
the aisle anyway and walk past me about a foot away. Now, look,
I'm not paranoid, but there are social distance rules. Well,

(30:29):
let me ask you this. The guy could have taken
a step back, Like when you get off an elevator,
you step to the side, you let the person come
out of the aisle. Understood. If you don't believe in
this crap. It's not. So you're saying the social distancing
of the six feet, you can't even have a one
and a half second brush within a foot of somebody

(30:50):
as people are walking past each other, because that's happened
on a number of occasions in the last couple of
weeks to me, and I just let it go because
to me, the six ft rule is six ft if
you're gonna hover and hang out and have a conversation.
But if I have to walk past you and I'm
two feet away, is that not permissible now? Because I

(31:13):
might have it. It's permissible if it's like a quick
walk by, right, Not that they have the exact science
on every single thing that can happen, but they're saying
now that, um, you can uh if there's any spittle
or if he sniffles out or a cough. Spittle was
my favorite board game growing up. Absolutely My point is,

(31:36):
and I don't want to make this a coronavirus podcast,
but my point is not knowing if I'm gonna cough,
he's gonna cough, just wait three seconds till I come
out of the aisle. That's all I'm asking. And then
I so like, so fuck you I'll guy, and then
I get online on my red tape, and a guy
and his a girl get online behind me, not wearing
any equipment, probably in their twenties, acting like they didn't

(31:57):
give a ship what was going on in the world,
and they didn't notice the tape on the floor. And
now they're like two and a half feet behind me
having a conversation. So I'm second in line. The woman
in front of me is an older woman, probably in
her seventies at least, with a mask on and gloves
at the register, so I move up a little bit,
knowing that she's mostly protected, so I will be away

(32:18):
from Mr and Mrs fuck Face who don't care about
me on the CVS aile. So then the woman turns
around and looks at me like, hey, I want my
six feet. So I turned around, I look at I
give it an old head nod like, hey, look at them.
I don't have my six ft so I'm just trying
to take away one of your feet, So give me
five ft as opposed to them being two and a
half feet. So people are being inconsiderate, and I don't

(32:42):
think the message is getting out to everyone, which is
why I want to rant about people who think the
world revolves around them. So someone from a fan group
that I'm in, so it's people I don't know, right,
posted a video of a nurse. The nurse was I
think for Michigan, and she was talking about how horrible

(33:02):
the situation is in the in the in the er
and how they don't have enough equipment. Whatever it was.
It was a gut wrenching video and it was clearly
labeled what it was, and it was really to get
the message across. This was posted I don't know about
a week ago that nurses need we that that nurses

(33:23):
and doctors need more medical equipment, more ppe um. And
so she was imploring people to understand it's worse than
we think, right right. So most of the comments were
thank you for posting this, Please thank that woman? How
can I thank that woman? What a great woman? Whatever

(33:43):
One person wrote, please don't post videos like this. I
am already nervous enough. I have old people in my
family and I don't need to be scared more than
I already am. Everyone knows to take this seriously. We
don't need to be reminded to take it serious, Like, so,
what are your thoughts on that? Before I tell you

(34:04):
what I wrote to this woman. Well, they shouldn't follow you,
or shouldn't follow the feed, or just turned it off
or just switch off of it. You don't. They don't
have a right to tell you what to post it.
I didn't. I didn't. If you were doing, I didn't
post it. It It was in there. But I'm just saying,
for you or anyone else, I don't feel that people
have a right to have jurisdiction over content. You don't

(34:25):
like it, move on, I mean you don't. Don't watch
the video. The video is clearly late, but it's there.
Don't hit play or if you if if you accidentally
hit play on something you don't like, you stop it.
Just stop it. But here's here's the other problem. We
already know if you watch the news, if you pay
any attention to what's going on in the entire country,

(34:45):
at least a third, if not more, of the people
in our country are not taking it seriously. There are
still eight states that have not shut down their states
yet there are still there are still did you see
the article about the kids that went to spring break
in Mexico? Uh said, Indie kids charted a private jet
or whatever, a plane to Mexico for spring break forty
four and and they posted ha ha coronavirus ha ha

(35:08):
blah blah blah. Forty four of them are sick and
some of them are in intensive care. So not everyone
is getting it. People are still breaking the law, having weddings,
you know, getting together. So if we can post a
video that reminds people to be safe, to be careful,
maybe a save one life, but to this woman to
be like, I don't need this kind of negative everybody.

(35:30):
Everybody knows, not everybody knows, and don't watch the video,
but if you want to watch, if you want to
watch an uplifting video, go on Twitter and search f
d n Y and the words salute because yesterday in
New York and it brought tears to my eyes. I
love my city so much. And I'm sure this goes
around all over the country, but this was in particular
New York yesterday because we are, unfortunately the epicenter of

(35:54):
tragedy right now. Fire trucks lined up outside hospitals and
all of the firefighters, all of the firefighters got out
of their trucks yea to applaud the nurses getting off
their shifts and the doctors. Yeah, I clicked that link

(36:14):
and I and it was very it was really it
was very, very, very touching. Um. It reminds me of
when people were clapping for the firefighters after night. Yeah,
I said the same thing. And I don't know, um,
if anyone not from the New York area can fully understand,
because if you weren't here for nine eleven, are alive

(36:35):
or old enough. Um, the feeling that people had, Like
people still take pictures in front of firefighters, in front
of the firehouses and stuff. But people were applauding them
walking down the street, cheering for the fire trucks as
they drove around around town, cheering for police officers, people
that you know. And so those people are now cheering

(36:56):
the next wave of New York heroes and the heroes
all over the country. Of course, why do you did
have to take a global pandemic for that to happen,
because you know, you had this, you know whether the
thing is gonna wait. When it was we were in
going through nine eleven, we always said, in the days
that passed, God, we want to capture these moments because

(37:16):
everyone's treating each other so well. And then and then
slowly we fell off again, and then we had you know,
Hurricane Sandy. We came together for that in two thousand
and twelve, I think it was. And you know, and uh,
why why do we have to have these It's like
bringing back bring you know, coming back to reality. That's

(37:38):
just it's human nature. On my point, my point was
there some really good stories coming out of this tragedy. Um,
you know, uh, the fact that China just sent a
thousand ventilators to New York. The fact that yesterday Russia
sent sixty tons of medical supplies to New York. The
fact that the governor of Oregon just sent the hundred
and forty ventilators to New York because he's the fact

(38:00):
that the New England Patriots, oh my god, huge trailer
and you know that the New York Boston rival that
goes on if if you're not from this part of
the country, it's insane. They have attracted trailer with the masks.
So Robert Craft, famous the owner of the Patriots, famous

(38:21):
for getting a handy in Florida, Uh last year he
was arrested. Yeah. And you know, as a New Yorker,
you know, you you hate the Patriots. You hate because
you're probably a Jets fan, you hate them. If you're
a Giants fan, you don't necessarily hate them because you
beat him twice in the Super Bowl. But as a
Jets fan, you hate the Patriots. That's just the way
it goes. And as a Yankee fan you hate the
Red Sox so Boston. You know there's a sports rivalry. However,

(38:45):
Robert Kraft, the owner UH, flew the Patriots team plane,
which is not a private jet, it's a full size airplane.
UM paid two million dollars out of his own pocket
and flew the plane to Russia, to China rather to
pick up supplies UH and fly them back here, and
then sent a large percentage of it, I think three

(39:06):
hundred thousand surgical masks to New York. UM. So I
get to hate the Patriots a little bit less. It
was crazy to be the cover of the New York
Post about this giant tractor trailer with the New York
New England Patriots logo and blazoned on it. Yeah with
three it's like and almost like everyone was like, Wow,

(39:29):
this is awesome. These are the times, you know. I
do think though, that we have to remember these now
and then just maybe a year from now look back
and you know, I don't want to get all uh,
this isn't the kind of again when it's not the
kind of podcast we wanted to do to No, No,
it's but but you know, you know what I'm saying,
But like, let's not forget these moments. Yeah. But also

(39:52):
while we're talking about these moments, we talked about this
last week about every occupation wants to be shouted out
for the heroism. Yeah. I still say it's great that
some people are going to work, um, but nothing in
my mind compares to the medical staff that's risking their
lives because if you watch the news, a lot of
them are getting sick. A lot of them are now

(40:13):
victims of the illness they're trying to fight. And so
we got more of them at work this week, more
text messages of people doing their jobs and then coming
up with exotic explanations as to why they should be
shouted out for being heroes in this time of of
of tragedy. Um. And we shouted a bunch of them
out last week, but there were too in particular. And again,

(40:35):
if you do this for a living, I respect you,
we need you, but I don't think you rise to
the level of doctors and nurses right now, and and
and all people in the medical field, and people serving
food and so so if I can, I just want
to tell you that um exterminator, an exterminator shouted. I
wanted to shout out to thank all the exterminators because

(40:58):
bugs carry germs and they are fighting back the germs
at bug spread. Yeah, okay, all right. The other one
was swimming pool professionals wanted a shout out because because
because now I don't know if this was serious or not,
but they're putting that they're the ones who put in

(41:19):
the chemicals in the pool that kill the viruses in
your pool. They want shoutouts. They're doing they're doing the
right thing. They're gonna keep us protected all summer long.
I feel like you, you guys killed bacteria in the
pool all year round. But I don't know if that
rises to the level of the COVID nineteen epido. Oh
they think it does, so, so I'm just again thank

(41:43):
you for doing your job. But I don't feel like
it's shout out level. If that's okay, okay, all right,
we have to take a break. In fact, this this podcast,
we're only going to have one break just gonna be
a little longer, and that's what we're gonna do. Really,
We're gonna jam all the commercials in right here, and

(42:05):
then we don't take another break for the rest of
the podcast. I don't think you can do that. We can.
I physically can do that. I can do whatever the
hell I want to do. All right, let's do it.
We'll be right back after this, okay, alright, alright, So
I got a couple of little things I wanted to hit.
You have those sound clips for me I should do

(42:25):
so you know, I'm a big fan of Stephen Colbert
loved the man to death. All of the late night
talk shows have returned in except James Cordon I don't
think has come back. He hasn't. But Colbert and Fallon
and Seth Myers and Jimmy Kimmel are doing shows from home.
Bill Maher did a show last night from home, and
they're doing their best. But some of them are doing

(42:47):
the uh the show from home and then either playing
uh partial old shows at the end, like when they
run out of new material, or sometimes they've got footage
that never air and they want to air it now
because they're struggling for footage. Sometimes they recorded stuff with
the web. So this first clip, I like, I do

(43:09):
love Jimmy Fallon from his house with his kids. Absolutely,
So I'm watching all of it because you know, you're
in the house, so there's plenty to watch. So Jimmy
at Home edition. Stephen Colbert is calling his show A
Late Night with Stephen Colbert a late night show because
it's not really the late night show. Um. Anyway, so
he uh, he played a clip of a song he
sang with a singer I believe named John Prine p

(43:31):
R I n E. Who right now at the time
of the recording. I hope he's okay, but he's an
older gentleman, probably around eighty, and he was fighting coronavirus.
I don't know the update. You don't have to tweet me.
I'll look it up. But he had a clip that
that he sang a song with him that was a fun,
upbeat song. Look it up on YouTube. Um. But he
prefaced it by telling the man, Hey, we're gonna record

(43:53):
this now. It's a bonus song. It'll be just for
the web. But I want you to hear what he said.
This was from two thousand sixteen. I believe. Listen to
the song introduction of what he said in this clip.
I would be so honored if I could do a
song with you tonight. Would that be all right? I
think be great? Okay, good, We'll probably do this for
the internet, unless you know, something terrible happens and we

(44:17):
have to cheer up the world on the TV show
A right, So how about that? How about that? That
was four years ago? Um, And you know, when you
do things, you never know what the world's gonna be,
You never know what's going to happen. And so four
years ago he said, oh, you know, we'll play it
if something terrible happens, and unfortunately, something terrible happened, not
only to the world but to John Prine. So that

(44:39):
was one clip. Now a minute ago, I said, don't
tweet me. I'm not saying he stole this from me,
but um, Daniel Radcliffe was on Colbert Harry Potter in
case you didn't know, and he was showing him that
one of the things he's doing while he's in confinement
at home quarantine is he's learning to put uh, he's

(44:59):
learn he's doing massive lego projects and so one of
the projects he did was a Jurassic Park Lego project.
You can go watch it on on YouTube. And he
built the big doors, the big gates that open to
Jurassic Park in the movies out of lego pieces, which
I'm sure was a kid he put together, not like
he just took miscellaneous pieces and figured it out. And

(45:22):
so Colbert says to him, do you have a t Rex?
Did you build a t rex out of lego? Right?
And so he says yes, and he opens the doors
of the lego and there's a t rex back there,
and so Colbert says, clever girl. Now that is a
famous quote from the first Jurassic Park movie, and the

(45:44):
hunter is referring to a velociraptor, not a t rex. So,
because he was just going for the joke, you're gonna
hear Colbert correct himself. And although he's spoken over a
little bit by um Daniel Radcliffe, I want you to
hear what he says at the end of himself correcting
what he had said or explaining what he said. So
play the clip scary you Rex? Yeah, Oh damn, clever girl.

(46:16):
So that's the raptor. Don't know letters, please, that's fantastic. Yeah,
there you go. So so he said, he goes, I
know it's a raptor. No emails please, So I thought
that was I mean, I'm surprised he didn't say, don't
tweet me, but I guess they get emails or whatever.
He was going for the joke, and everybody uses, don't

(46:36):
at me, don't tweet, don't at me, don't I gotta
kick out of my boy Stephen saying that, because you know,
people would have immediately jumped on him, and probably I
would have as well that it was it was a
raptor in the movie, not a t rex that they
were making a reference to. So so there you go,
thanks for playing those two clips for me. Um. What else? Oh,

(46:57):
I've got Bluetooth drama that I teased last week. Um,
I want to get to in a couple of minutes
if we can. Uh. And I also want to talk
about the eye doctor experience I had yesterday if I can.
And then these the soda sham at the supermarket where
people just don't care. So let me tell you about
the I went to an eye doctor yesterday because I

(47:17):
had to go for our checkup. But I've been getting
I don't have I don't have the virus let me
just preface that. Um, all right, every time you every
time you hit me up and you're like, hey, scary,
what do you do? What are you doing? I'm like, oh,
I'm doing this. What are you doing? Oh I'm at
the doctor. I'm doing so I want a couple of
doctor appointments this week. Um, everyone had masks on, and
I did a couple of tele teleconferences on the phone, uh,

(47:41):
you know, video conferences. I'm fine, but I was getting
headaches for a couple of weeks and they weren't going away,
and nothing was working. So, you know, I googled, what, dude,
headaches is one of the symptoms of COVID. It is not.
It is not. It's not not that what I have not,
it's not. I already saw my primary care for and
it's not. I went to an ear nose and throat guy.

(48:02):
It's not. I don't have it, all right. What I
have is I said I thought I had a sinus infection,
and that wasn't it. Because I took sinus medicine. The
e n T said I don't have a sinus infection.
So they said, you have one of two things that
could be the issue. You might have an allergies, which
I don't normally have. So I had taken allergy medicine
last week, Claret, and it didn't work. I took afron

(48:23):
nasal spray that didn't work. And then, um, so I said, well,
it could be because I'm wearing cheap eyeglasses to read
the magnification. I just picked one I thought was comfortable,
and I and and because we're working from home, I'm
using them on the computer for four hours every morning,
and on my phone, I'm using them a lot. So
I thought maybe the wrong prescription could be giving me

(48:44):
a headache. Right, So I made an appointment, I got
I got in. It took me about a week, and
I went there yesterday and they said, oh, can you
just fill out these forms? So they give me a
clipboard with five pages they have to fill out, and
I kid you not, the front size was about eight
that's small. Why would you give people at an eye

(49:05):
doctor forms to fill out with a small font unless
you're trying to increase your business and make everybody feel
like they're blind. Well that's exactly what they're trying to do,
trying to make the problem worse. If you better get
your glass coming in here, if you're gonna get these
glasses or you know what, now this is gonna be.
This is what gets them to sail. Absolutely, that's my point.

(49:28):
I bet you they blurted on purpose too well that
but that todzy, that's what I was saying. I said,
I bet you they did a small font. So I
feel like I better see a doctor or get prescription glasses.
I said something to the to the optometrist optimologist rather,
I said, hey, why are your form so small? She's
I haven't noticed it that they're small? I said, because
you have good eyes. That's why your eyes are fine.

(49:50):
I said, why would you make them a font eight
size or ten whatever? What was small? Trust me was
small and so so I told her there's a there's
an old joke about uh. I think it was a
comedian told the story. I forget. It was about his
doctor who would deliberately put the photos of his family
on his desk, so when you would go into his
office for consult all the pictures will blurry so that

(50:13):
you'd think your eyes were going bad when you look
at his family photos. So I think they deliberately make
the form small so you feel like you have an
eye problem. That's what I think. Like if you went
to your doctor, fat laws guy, and you got on
the scale and they had they had set the scale
and be ten pounds heavier than it already is, so
you feel like you're more overweight. That's what I think

(50:34):
the eye doctor did to me. How about that? How
about that? What do you think? How about that? I
think so I think he did that to you. I
do think that that was on purpose. It has to
be all right, so I would, But you can't call
him out on it. You got no proof. I mean, no,
I can't prove it, but I will tell you. Um,
I was trying to make a doctor's appointment with another

(50:55):
type of doctor and um, you know it's difficult now
because you know everyone's going to the doctor and you know,
but this is a specialist, right, So I look up
online for the reviews of the best doctor in the
area who takes my plan and uh so, so I
call up the office and the woman says, hey, um,

(51:17):
I'm the After I talked to her and explain how
what's wrong with my head and everything, she says, oh,
I have to transfer you to the woman who does
the the scheduling. Okay, not a problem. So she transfers
me and the transfer takes like thirty seconds and then
the woman picks up. She's can please hold all right?

(51:41):
Not a problem I would have held while I was
being transferred. Okay, so she says, um, here's what I'll do.
Uh can you can you call back and leave a voicemail? Said,
night called back and leave a voicemail. So she doesn't
call me back. So oh, okay. So I called back

(52:01):
a few hours later and I speak to one of
the women in the office and she says, all right,
let me transfer to the scheduler. I finally get the
schedule on the phone. So uh. The woman says to me, great,
you're a new So I said, I'm a new patient
and I want to make an appointment. It's okay, just
give me your give me your your last name and

(52:24):
your first name. So I say, do you want it
in that order? She's what do you mean? I said, well,
you asked me my last name in my first name
in reverse order, So is that the way you want
me to give them to you? So she says why what? Why?
I don't understand. So, like her head's exploding, I said, well,
I don't want to confuse you, I said, but you
said give me your last name and then your first name,

(52:46):
So I'll give you my last name. So I give
her my give her my name. We get that out
of the way, and she's all right, let me put
up pull up your chart and she puts me on hold.
She comes back. I watched it on my phone. Uh
it was seven minutes later. She says, I'm having trouble
finding your chart. I said, that's because I told you
I'm a new patient. Remember I don't have a chart.

(53:07):
All right. Then there's like dead silence, she says I.
She says, um, what what's your what's your diagnosis? What's
the problem? Why why are you calling us? So I said, well,
I have these severe headaches and my doctors told me
I should call uh your type of doctor to see

(53:28):
what's going on. And she says, all right, well, what
kind of medical insurance do you have? Give the medical insurance? Okay, great,
give me your phone number, contact information. I give her everything.
She's okay. Um, So just so you know, Um, because
of COVID nineteen and how busy we are that doctors
aren't making appointments uh until sixty days from now. So

(53:51):
I said, well, I need a doctor now, I can't
wait sixty days. Well, I'm sorry, sir, that's the best
we can do. So I said, why did you put
me on hold once, then put me on hold a
second time, took all of my information and never mentioned
you even asked my birth date? Why wouldn't you mention
at the beginning of the call that I couldn't get

(54:12):
an a pointment for sixty days? And do I still
want to continue? I don't understand. Why didn't the woman
this morning when I spoke to her and I asked
the schedule appointment, why didn't she mention I had to
wait sixty days? She says, Well, I was trying to
provide good customer service and get all your information. I said,
if you're trying to provide good customer service, you might

(54:32):
have told me up front that you couldn't see me
for sixty days. Who is in pain and says, oh,
give me an appointment two months from now. That does
that make any sense to you? Why wouldn't you tell
me at the beginning? So, I mean this is because
I mean you just kind of chalked us up to
another bad customer service experience. I mean, people don't use

(54:55):
common sense, and they're certainly not trained properly. Somebody, I mean,
she had to have had a manager at some point.
They needed to have gone over what to do, like
how to how to do this job. And there has
to be a protocol and asking certain questions and and
cutting people off at the very beginning. You know, if

(55:15):
they if they're not going to be able to get
the appointment they need right away, well it gets worse,
and it doesn't it It just again, who who are
these doctors you're going to? It gets no, it's not
the doctors. So here it gets but who are these
people you're going to? So the next day, which was Friday,
But but this person is representative of the doctor work

(55:36):
in that office. I understand that I could. I completely understand.
But so the next day the health system so you know,
some doctors belong to like a group, so like there's
like a group company that overseas. Like okay, So now
the next day, the group company woman calls me and
she says, Hi, I'm calling my bottle of water. Very nice.
Just hey, Mr Brodie, I'm calling from such and such

(55:57):
health care system for the area. Uh and um, I'm
calling to schedule appointment with the doctors. And I said, oh, okay,
because yesterday I spoke to someone who said they couldn't
make an appointment for me. Oh no, no, Well that's
why I'm calling to make you an appointment with you. Great,
she said, UM, give me your last name and first name.

(56:19):
I do. She takes all my information again. She's I
can't find your chart. I said, again, as I mentioned
to you at the beginning of the call, I'm a
new patient for this particular practice. No problem, she's, oh,
I have you in the system, because the health group
has you in the system. She says, I found I
She's a I found it, so she found everything. Great.
So I'm on the phone with her and we're talking
and I tell what's wrong with me, and she says, oh,

(56:40):
I have an old phone number for you. Oh, so
I update my phone number. So now I'm on the
phone with her a good seven eight nine minutes talking
about what's bothering me. She's okay, great, Uh, let's make
an appointment. Great. What day of the week would you
like your appointment? I said, well, I'm in a lot
of pain, so you know, uh, Monday would on Monday
would be Monday would be great, right, like as soon
as possible? Just okay, great? So just you know, due

(57:02):
to the COVID nineteen spread, we are sixty days out
on all appointments, I said, I said, are you evan
kidding me? In so many words? I said, I don't understand.
The woman who works for the doctor's office told me
this yesterday, right, we made a note of it yesterday.
Now you're calling me because you got my voicemail to

(57:22):
tell me the exact same thing I was told yesterday.
Why didn't you tell me at the beginning he needs
better assistance? Well, no, Now, the health care said the
whole the the health group person didn't didn't tell me
up front. After again, we went through the whole thing again.
She as well, Sir, we're very busy, I said. I know.
I understand you're busy. I said, but you can't expect

(57:43):
me to have a hair cut, a haircut, a headache.
I I gotta get a haircut too. You can't expect
me to have a painful headache for sixty days and
not mention it like that. You gotta tell you that
the length of this story is giving me a painful headache.
I apologize. To you in the slices. I just I
want you to know what I'm going through. I'm not
a lot. I'm like sitting here. It's like it's more

(58:03):
of the same. It's the same beat. We get it.
These people are incompetent. They suck. They suck at their job,
and they probably should be. I mean, I mean, I mean,
who do you complain to it? I talked about the
health care. You're not gonna get free dessert from the doctor,
that's for sure. No. I look, I'm not like. I
know they're overworked. Don't don't get upset. If you're listening.
I know they're overworked, and it's trusted. I get that.

(58:25):
All I'm asking is mentioned the important part up front.
Or you're a smart guy. You you this happened to
you once, the very next thing you should have done
the second time you spoke to somebody the next day.
You should have thought to yourself, I'm not going to
be burned by this situation. I'm gonna ask up front.
I would have hey, by the way, hi, how are
you listen? Um? What's your waiting time? And if and

(58:47):
she would have told you right up front. Sixty days absolutely,
the conversations going forward. I'm absolutely gonna do that. But
the way you trust me, the way the phone call
was phrased, she made it sound like she had an
appointment for me. She said right away, I'm calling to
make an appointment for you. So I assumed that meant
we have appointments. I said to her, I was told
you had no appointments. Oh no, no, we have appointments.

(59:08):
I assumed that was good enough. I won't assume again.
And please don't give me the nineteen seventies. You know
what happens when you assume. Thank you for the nineteen seventies. Uh,
I get it. Anyway. Did I mention that Walgreen's no
longer uses the blue been of Death? Did I mentioned

(59:28):
that last week? Well you finally won. Yeah, you got
your Well I got my way twice. I got my
way with that, and I got my way with Android. Um,
Android phones have a it's a it does something I
think a lot of phones and tablets do, which which
makes no sense to me. And so, about oh, eight

(59:49):
months ago, maybe about eight nine months ago, almost a year,
I got a new Android phone, Galaxy Note nine and
uh SAMs sends a representative to the radio station usually
a tech guy, not usually an employee of Samsung. Sometimes yes,
sometimes no. Who will train you on the phone right,

(01:00:10):
show you the features and benefits of the new phone,
so that when you do commercials for the phone, like
Elvis does, um, we can coherently explain the good parts
about the phone. So Elvis got a phone, and I
got a phone as his producer, so I can help
him with the phone and teach him the phone so
that he could talk about it on the air and
also learn the really cool parts of his new phone.

(01:00:32):
We both got phones. So I told the guy, you know,
I love Android, but there's a couple of things I
think are that they should fix. He said, well, like what.
I said, Well, what's the I don't want to bother you.
He said, well, actually no, I'm part of a group
that meets with the Samsung developers. In fact, in about
a month, I'm flying to South Korea to meet with

(01:00:53):
them to give feedback about what things they can improve on.
I said, seriously. He said, yeah, So what do you
think is a problem. I said, well, there's two things
I think are stupid about Androids. He said, well tell
me so. Now keep in mind Android phones have been around.
I think I got my first Android phone in two
thousand seven or two eight, maybe the droid the original phone. Right,

(01:01:17):
So it's not like this is like a been a
problem for a year. It's been a problem for it
for for more than ten years, and it's always bothered me.
When you turn the data off. Let's say you want
to switch to WiFi and turn the data off. It
used to give you a message that said, you know
you're turning your data off and you may not be
able to access the internet unless you have WiFi. So
I said to the guy, you know, when I first

(01:01:38):
get a phone, if you want to give me that
message the first couple of times, maybe I'm I'm someone
who's never had a phone before and they don't know that. Right.
That's helpful, But once you own the phone for a month,
do you really need to be reminded every time you
turn the data off that you're not gonna have data?
That seems kind of stupid. And then when you turn
the data on, doesn't really need to tell me that
I'm gonna be charged for my data? That's stupid? He said,

(01:02:00):
that makes sense. What else? I said, Well, have you
ever noticed when a phone is dying and it has
like one percent left. Right, you run and you plug
it in. Right, So what did you do? You turn
the screen off to save battery and you plug the
charger in. What's the first thing your phone does when
you plug the charger in the charge it scary? What
does your phone do? The first thing that happens? The

(01:02:22):
first thing I do it it goes. I have an iPhone,
so I just it just you check to make sure
the cable is both appears like, okay, I'm not asking
what happens when the phone is off when you turn
the screen off, but the phone is on when you
put the Okay, So I'll tell you what does on

(01:02:43):
an Android? The screen The screen lights up, right. What
is the point of having the screen go back on?
If my phone is dying and I plugged it in
to save it, the last thing it should do is
turn back on. Right. So okay, now you're no, No,
you're wrong because when you because when you plug your

(01:03:07):
phone in, you want the phone to at least acknowledge
no I that it's being charged. The screen has to
turn on, and it doesn't because when it does, it
doesn't because when you plug. That's how it works. When
you plug in an iPad or an iPhone that's off.
What happens The lightning bolt comes on and the battery
logo comes on, right, but the screen and and the

(01:03:29):
screen lights up not not if hold on, man, hold on,
I'm talking about your your phone and iPad when it's off, right,
the screen turns on in black only to show you
that it's charging, But it doesn't show you the desktop
of your phone, the whole phone doesn't come back on.
What I'm saying is when Android used to be. When

(01:03:49):
you plug in the phone that was dying, so you
turned the screen off immediately, the screen would turn on
at full brightness and come back on. Who cares? It's
connected at that point. It's connected to it's charging thing.
It's not gonna die. Tell you why I care? First
of all, sometimes you have more apps running to do

(01:04:10):
with your day. Man, hold on, man, I need you,
I need you to not miss the point of my conversation.
You're being a nip pick and prick. I'm not I'm
I'm being I'm just I'm I'm listening to what you're
saying and taking everything and face value. But the thing
that you're arguing about, now, did you tell these people
to do this thing to the developers. Is that what
you're gonna tell me? Telling the guy I'm telling you,
the guy from that Samsung sent I'm telling him, and

(01:04:32):
he said, you're right, that makes no sense. I'll tell
you why it's a big deal. Let's say your phone
has one or two percent, right. I don't know if
you know this, but if you have enough apps running, right,
if you're making a phone call, if you've got WiFi
on or Bluetooth, or if you're watching a video, you
can use more power then the phone can charge. You're
you're using the power faster than the phone charges. Okay.

(01:04:56):
I don't know if you're aware of that, but sometimes right, Okay.
So let's say got one or two on my phone,
and in the background, it's getting data, it's downloading emails,
it's downloading weather, it's updated Twitter, right, okay, Okay, So
if my ultimate goal is to get the phone back
up to six so I can take it off the
charger and make a phone call or run to my car,

(01:05:18):
or get off the charger, not be stuck to the charger,
the last thing I wanted to do is for the
screen to come back on and for all the apps
to start kicking in again and everything to start going again.
The screen uses most of the battery power, so if
I'm charging Apple doesn't. Okay, yes, says the guy who
can't use compatibility. What is new multi hundred dollar system

(01:05:41):
because you're comparing apples and oranges? No, what I'm saying.
The point of my story scary is not whether you
think it's a good idea or not. It's the fact that,
guess what, in the last Android update, it no longer
gives you the message about data turning off, and it
no longer turns the phone back on you plug it in.
That's my point. The point is my two suggestions somehow

(01:06:04):
got to Samsung, I believe, and now after ten years,
the phones don't do that anymore. I won and you
are not gonna crush my dreams, bitch, I'm gonna. I
do not think that it would have made a damn
bit of difference if they left it that way, because
you know you're gonnare There is no because the phone

(01:06:27):
has been in existence and all of its models have
been for how many years now, and they never had
a problem with it. If it was a big problem
to consumers, they would have corrected it years ago. Half
half percent. If you're in a half a percent and
you plug the phone in, there is no fucking way
you're gonna tell me that the phone was in risk

(01:06:49):
of dying completely after it was connected, just because the
screen lit up. People are gonna tweet you and tell
you you're wrong. And I'm not saying I'm not. You're you.
You're gonna be you're wrong, may be wrong for your
sad song. I don't think so, though, I don't think so.
I don't think anyone would make a device that okay,
that way, I am not would've even released it to market. Scary.
I'm not saying that the phone's gonna die automatically. I'm

(01:07:11):
saying it's counterproductive. I just I'm only saying it's counterproductive.
Listen to me. It's counterproductive if you're trying to charge
a dying phone for the screen to come back on.
If I want the screen to come back on, I'll
turn it on. But yeah, but it only comes on temporarily.
It comes back on for whatever the setting on your phone. Right,
So then you pressed the side button and shut the
phone off. Now I don't have to that's my point. Now,

(01:07:34):
I don't know. That's your point. You've got something done
that was insignificant. You had this guy's time, you could
have absolutely made better, better suggestions for the for the phone.
You you, you, you shot your you, you shoot your shot,
you shot your load, whatever you want to call it
on that. I mean, if I had this guy's ear
and he was an Apple guy, I would have a

(01:07:56):
list of ten things that I would want to be doing. Well.
Your Apple phone is perfect. You just said drop a
phone is perfect. Other things. I'm trying to tell you,
I'm pointing out the fact and calling you out that
what you tried to do for this upgrade was an
insignificant request when you had a very powerful person in
front of you that was a decision maker in the process.
First of all, that's what you wasted on. First of all,

(01:08:18):
your shipping over the fact that I got the message
turned off the annoying message. That's a big deal. Second
of all, I gave him like ten suggestions, scary. It
wasn't just those two. I gave him a list of them.
I rattled off a whole bunch of stuff I thought
would be would be, would be more helpful inconsequential. I
just I just think this is completely taking it and
your your your, your, your your analogy that well, if

(01:08:40):
it was a problem, they would have fixed it sooner.
That doesn't make any sense. Problems don't get fixed till
someone points it out. Cars didn't have seat belts before.
What does that mean we didn't need seat belts because
no one noticed. That's another terrible analogy. This is you're
talking about you're talking about a phone. You're talking about
a phone which has been in existence and has had
so many iterations. Uh, that's not a word, iterations, so

(01:09:04):
many iterations of this phone that if it was phone
one point oh, and it was a problem where you
plugged it in and the fucking screen get you know,
shut the fucking phone off and disconnected and it went off,
they would have fixed it in version one point one.
You know what I'm saying, it's it sounds like sometimes
it takes a pioneer like me to be the first

(01:09:25):
one to step up and say, you know what, it's nitpicky,
but it's kind of annoying, which it is. Every time
I put my phone on the charger, like I want
to walk away and leave the phone on the charger.
Why does the screen come back on. It makes no sense.
So now it doesn't look if the screen is already
on and I put the charge, how long does it
take for the screen to come back on. It's immediate, Okay,

(01:09:45):
So then it's still in your hands. At that point
you can just shut it off. It's not if I
put it down on the counter and plug it in, right,
I have to then, shot, why do I want to
shut it off? I wanted it off. It's not like
the thing that that was phone was trying to trick you,
brodie where you plugged it in, you walked away, and
then and seconds later it wakes up. It's like I'm
still alive. It was. It's right there, the screen comes

(01:10:06):
on and there it is. Just shut it off. Done.
But we don't have that problem with Apple. No, you
just have no inputs. It lights up, it lights up.
You have no helphones. Nope, the phone lights up for
a second. It lights up for a second, and then
it goes back to bed. Oh so having it go
back to bed is a good thing. Well, guess my

(01:10:29):
phone got that right on the first try. Because they
stole everything else from Android, every other damn thing that
iPhone does in the past fifteen uh, fifteen editions of
iPhone has been stuff they stole from Android. Let's not
get into that. Let's not get into that. I would
take a commercial here, but you already took out the
commercial break. No more. We we did a double commercial break,
double commercial break. We're already almost out of time. We

(01:10:50):
should do some email. Well, I didn't get to the
Bluetooth ran from last week. Damn it. You want to
I don't know what you want to do. We're way over,
are we? Yeah? Yeah, I mean we don't have to.
We could do whatever you want to do. You know what,
I don't think there's anything here in my emails that's
really important. Can I just uh, I want to talk

(01:11:12):
about go ahead for I want to just talk about
Mark Hamill for a minute, if I can. Mark Hamill,
who is a brilliant Luke Skywalker and Skywalker himself, is
a not only a great uh a huge part of
the Star Wars saga as Luke Skywalker, but he's made
a fortune in a career of being a voiceover artist.

(01:11:33):
He plays the Joker in the Batman cartoons, among other things.
Very talented guy. I've liked a bunch of his movies
other than Star Wars like Corvette Summer before you like
what else you know? Mark Hamill from all right? So
Mark Hamill is very active on Twitter, and a lot
of times he tweets things I agree with. So I
sent out a tweet or I replied to his tweet, uh,

(01:11:54):
and I said something nice about him, and he liked
my tweet. So I took a picture of the tweet
and I posted it and I said Mark Hamill, and
I tweeted at him, um at Hamil, mark Hamill himself
or right, and I said, liked my tweet. Right. So
then he liked my tweet of the picture of him
liking my tweet. So I took a picture of that

(01:12:14):
and I put it up on you on Twitter, and
I said, Mark Hamill liked a tweet of me liking
a tweet of him liking a tweet, and so he
liked that. So I wrote him a nice note and
I said, Mark Hamill liked my tweet of a picture
of me liking his tweet of a picture me liking
his tweet of a pictures liking my tweet. And this

(01:12:35):
one on for over over a week, and each time
I did it, I had a funny hashtag like return
of the tweet guy, um luke tweet walker. I was hious, right,
And this one on for over a week, so it's
like a it's like a bit that you guys are
a little funny. You guys have going back. So people
were his followers, My followers were commenting, Oh my god,

(01:12:58):
I love this. How do I get Mark Camil to
like my tweet? I like this tweet. I liked the
tweet that Mark Hama liked, of the tweet that this
guy liked, of Mark Hama liking the tweet. So they
were adding onto it. It became like a snowball effect, right,
this one on for I don't know. It was about
six tweets, and finally Mark Hamill tweeted, and now I
have liked your tweet about me liking your tweet about

(01:13:19):
liking your tweet about me, liking your tweet about me
liking your tweet about liking your tweet about me again
hashtag return of the tweet liking guy. Sure hope my
job here is done. So he tweeted a recap of
all of my tweets as they got longer and so
so of course I liked that tweet and he liked
me liking to tweet. That's that is awesome. That's the

(01:13:44):
story I needed to hear today that had nothing to
do with coronavirus. Thank you, so thank you, Mark Hamill. Uh.
Luke Skywalker a man from my childhood who gave me
a really good week of back and forth tweeting uh
and some laughs uh and a lot of fun. So
you could have seized the moment, you know, and talked
about something less inconsequential. Yeah, I like my phone and

(01:14:05):
by the way, my android phone named after droids and
androids from the SAG. It all goes full circle, doesn't it. Yeah,
George Lucas had that you should have tweeted. Maybe you
should have asked him about why is it when you
plug the phone into the wall, you know what the
screen lights I bet you Mark Hammell, I bet you
Luke Skywalker when he plugs his lightsaber into recharge, if

(01:14:26):
it came back on and cut the counter top and half,
he would be upset with that as well. So I
bet he's on my side that challenge. Like it's mail time, Welcome,
you've got mail? You know, you could always email us
now that we're really bored at the Brooklyn Boys Podcast

(01:14:47):
at gmail dot com. Now, I wanted to say one thing.
If you want to get on this podcast, you must
you must email us to that email address. I can't
we can't go screen capture Instagram quotes and things and
things that you might have asked for back then. You know,
you know, you know what I'm saying. You know, like

(01:15:07):
like you you you go to another source and then
I can't. We can't do that. This is where we
go for our emails. Brooklyn Boys Podcast at gmail dot com.
I've got some or say hey, didn't you get my
my my tweet on like I side tweeted you? Or yeah,
I know so um, do you want to hear a

(01:15:30):
story of free dessert from Dylan? Of course? Dylan hit
us up. Let's go hit me so, Hey, Brooken Boy's
name is Dylan. I started from episode zero and I'm
almost caught up. You guys are the first and only
podcast I've listened to and I love it. Wow, that's
an honor. My wife got a keyboard case for her
iPad on Amazon. The issue with case was that it

(01:15:51):
was extremely tight and actually scratched the corners of the iPad.
We realized this right away. I immediately got in touch
with Amazon and told them I was not happy. Amazon
scheduled a UPS pick up so they would come to
my house and get it. I also got them to
give a fifteen dollar credit because we were not happy
with the quality. Anyway. We thought it had scratched her iPad,

(01:16:15):
but she was able to Oh, she was able to
wipe it away. Oh, so it wasn't scratched. Originally, they
wanted to give us only five dollars, so Amazon discovered
that anyway, got a supervisor on the phone named Boris,
who got in touch. I told them that they were
gonna have to do was give me the fifteen dollars
like originally promised. This is where the fake dessert came in.

(01:16:36):
What they call it fake dessert. We went went to
use the Amazon credit a couple of days later and
found out that this credit was only good on items
sold and shipped by Amazon, which rolled out a large
number of items on their website. So I found this out,
got in touch with Amazon. The lady said, uh, can
I Can I make this a regular universal credit card?

(01:16:57):
The crappy fifteen Amazon credit? Wow? So she gave me
a fifteen dollar Amazon credit card balance on the full account,
not just for Amazon products. Fuck you Boris, Now, I don't.
I gotta be honest. By the way they continue to
say that I hope everything is safe and you guys
are looking forward to hearing more of us. I would
have asked more than fifteen dollars because if you're gonna

(01:17:18):
put me through the rigam role of the back and forth,
and you promised me fifteen and now you're only gonna
give me five, Now I want what say you, Brodie? Okay?
So yes, I would want a little more dessert for
the for the inconvenience. However, did you say that they
wanted the free dessert because the case scratched her phone
and then she realized it wasn't a scratch. It was dirt,
were right, Yeah, they realized it wasn't it wasn't a scratch. Okay,

(01:17:41):
So I have to say she got more than she deserved.
Some well, somebody realized it. No, it sounds like the
oh no, because and Amazon went to go pick up.
It sounds like they came. It sounds like Dylan got
free dessert for nothing, which is doubly free dessert he
called his fake dessert when they only wanted to give
him five dollars, but he fake fake dessert. He faked
the fake dessert. He faked out the fake dessert he

(01:18:04):
faked he got so he got free dessert, so he
should keep his fifteen and run right. He got free
desserve for something that wasn't even scratched. Now, the case
was tight. I get that. Who don't like a tight case,
if you know what I'm saying. But the point is,
the point is his phone wasn't scratched, so he probably
should have gotten just a refund for not like in
the case there's no damage to the phone. All right,

(01:18:26):
So this person doesn't want to be named. So this
funny sign in Jacksonville, Florida, outside of Chucky Cheese during
the COVID outbreak. I thought you guys would enjoy this
um and it's a picture of it, says Pizza Wings.
The set five dollars d e s s et on

(01:18:47):
a handmade sign offering to Zette yea yeah, free Dezette
to anyone. Love the rants and free dessert stories started
from zero long time listening to the Big Show too?
All right, thank you so much, Mr Unknown. Regarding Podcast
one fifteen, Hey Brooklyn boys, how you guys, doing love

(01:19:09):
you listening to you listening to the rant Brodie did
about being upside down. The reason the ground the whole
is on top is that why don't you reset that?
The the outlets for right? Okay? Can I yeah? Yeah, okay. Look,
we talked about this about four episodes ago, and that

(01:19:30):
was over a month, and everyone who was an electrician
or has ever walked in the home depot has already
informed and explained what the deal was. The reason why
Alex are upside down is so so so that if
something falls straight down the wall and knocks the plug out,
it'll hit the ground plug first, so you won't electroc

(01:19:51):
to burn down the house. We all know that the
active pieces are the two the left and the right.
When was that? When was that email? Sent? Just about
a less than a week ago, So there, they're not
up to that episode yet. Also, just as a reminder,
you got a three day window after that. Probably are
other listeners who are very helpful, probably already told us,

(01:20:12):
but we appreciate you letting us know. Thank you. Someone
said that they were listening to the Big Show and
they heard a phone caller talking about delivering milk. The caller,
Gary on the Big Show said white milk and then
changed it and then said plain milk. So this person
is wondering. Adam who wrote to us, is wondering if
Gary listens to the podcast and he's self corrected live

(01:20:33):
on the Big Show. Well, if he's self corrected, he
wouldn't have said plain milk. He would have just said milk, milk.
But you never know. Melissa Jacobs wrote to our Facebook page, Uh,
and you can. That's at the Brooklyn Boys, by the way,
only a small glimpse at me. But I think the
strawberries must be raw. Wait aren't they supposed to be?

(01:20:54):
I love listening to you. What is what is she
referring to? Here is up? There's a jpeg along with this.
Oh it's okay. She was inside. It looks like Walmart
and they were having a rollback dollars seventy eight a
pound for rawberry. Someone either crushed out the st So

(01:21:15):
that's the picture she sent to us that accompanied this email.
Uh yeah, the strawberries must be raw. Wait aren't they
supposed to be? To keep doing what you're doing, slowly
catching up. Been listening since the summer. I'm on episode
number sixty two. This COVID nineteen should give me plenty
of time to catch up at work calling all of
my clients as I work in medical daycare and I

(01:21:36):
need to call them daily to make sure they are okay.
Thank you for doing what you do, Melissa, can I
can I jump in so we can alternate a little bit. Yeah.
I just want to give a shout out to uh
Nick x Edge Nicholas Kassoff, who sent a picture of
an ad. He said, maybe, uh maybe, uh my MAT's
not good. Maybe I use common Core. So there was

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an ad for a trial for something. It said monthly seven,
try it fourteen days for free. After that it's fifty
off is not half of seven? That's true? All right,
pretty funny. And then, um, this is Devin June. Um,

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it's Steven Gannon on Instagram. D m to me with
a picture of a pizza place called Stacy's Pizza. Now,
if you remember back from one of the first ten episodes,
we talked about how I would not go to a
Stacy's Pizza because Stacy doesn't sound like she's Italian, she
doesn't know pizza. I'm not buying her pizza. And then lastly, oh,

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I'm so sorry. I can't get you know what you
go on. I want to make sure I get proper credit.
All right, A couple more from Lima David uh Dave,
David Lima here or Lima Sorry, Hey, guys, I find
you both equally entertainment taining. First time reaching out, but
I finally caught up on all the podcast when when
um starting a few months ago. I was talking with

(01:23:01):
a friend the other day trying to remember the name
of a movie, and mid sentence, I said, I'll look
it up later and don't tweet me. My friend looked
at me like I was crazy, looking like I was crazy.
I blame you guys for that. My mother was born
in New York and his an Italian and his Italian
and Jewish hashtag trib and is definitely a free dessert

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kind of woman, if you know what I mean. Quick
story about that one time she bought a seed this
watermelon from the supermarket, got home, cut it open, and
there were seeds. She went back to the store, got
a refund and new watermelon and made them cut it
open to show her it was seedless. Hashtag free dessert.
But that's not free dessert. Even that's even that's even

(01:23:43):
that's not free dessert. You gotta get something. She had
to get to and now if they gave her a
second watermelon, that's all the way back to get to
exchange the watermelon. And all they gave her was what
she paid for originally. That's a free dessert, not free dessert. Well,
the universe balances out now because that other email you
read got free deserve for no reason. So okay, I

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found out. Okay, So he is the tweet I got
from Daniel Dane Shrod He's a Dane s trod d.
He said, I want to install these lights, but no
matter how many times I follow the instructions, they never work.
So scary. See if you can figure out why they
don't work. Installation guide. Step one, turn off the power switch.
Step two, install the light in E fourteen or g

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U ten socket or plug into the socket. Step three,
turn off the power switch. Oh that's a mistake. Well
that's why they don't work, because they don't work because
it keeps turning. Turn on. That's right. So step what's

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the first line again? So the first line is turned
on the power switch. Step two is install the light
into the turn use it turn on to turn off
the first step is turned off the power switch. That's
the problem right there. It's a mistake. No, the problem
is the third one, the turn You have to turn
it on and see if the lights work. You turn

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off the power so you don't let you cute yourself.
Do you screw it in and then you turn it on?
You turn it on off, turn off the power switches
right right, right right? That's what I meant. Don't mind me?
Did you write this? What it sounds like you wrote
these instructions? The fuck you turn off? Right? Alright? Okay,

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that's kind of an obvious. I have one usual. I
got one one more email for you, and that's from
because this next joke is one of my favorite unused
jokes in Kristen Lokes thinks. Uh we were talking about
we're talking about the fact that you get a cat,
and you said I shouldn't. Um. I wanted to say,
I'm a hun percent team scary, get a cat scary.

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The people who know you best all seem to think
that you don't like being home and you couldn't give
the cat the time and affection it would need. Just
maybe you would love the cats so much you don't
want to go out that much anymore, and this quarantine
would be the perfect time to start cat fatherhood and
adjust before everything goes back to normal. I just had
to write in because I am annoyed at the discouragement

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you have received on oh not only the Brooklyn Boys
podcast with Brody and the Big Show, but speaking volumes
with Share because that's my other podcast that we've talked
about it there. Again, it's definitely a commitment, and you
have to be fair to the cat, but I think
you'd be so happy and love the cat so much.
You'd be happy to spend a little more time at home,
and your home would be a more fun place to be.

(01:26:39):
I love you both, even though this email is most
is mostly about scary Thank you, Kristen. Well, obviously, Kristen,
you don't know me very well, because even with the cat,
I would I would definitely want opts for going out,
hanging out with my girlfriend, family friends and going to
bars and eating and drinking. So I would say, I

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don't know she's trying to say that you I would
fall in love during this quarantine quarantine period. What do
you think? I think you would find a way not
to spend time with the cat, even if you were quarantined,
you wouldn't be home with the cat. That would be
your reason to go out with your mask. And you're like, oh,
I'm sorry I'm wearing this mask. I got a cat
at home. No, you are not a cat. You are

(01:27:22):
not a uh be in charge of anything else's uh life. Yeah,
now you had it right. You shouldn't get a goldfish,
you shouldn't get an amiba. You should just worry about
keeping yourself along. In high school, we carried around raw eggs,
you know, the eggs, pretending like we're trying to raise
a kid. Yeah, I dropped the egg broke. Let me

(01:27:45):
do my one on his youth joke, and let's get
out of here. Please, it's cold here in my basement. Okay.
So Gandhi on the Elverstrand Morning Show does the news, right.
She does a segment called three Things, three things you
need to know. So she did three stories. I to
say it was Thursday. Now we are all in a
chat room. So if I write a joke, everybody sees

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the joke and it's up to whoever wants to use
it to use the joke. So Gandhi did a story
about the app Zoom that everybody's using and how it's there.
It's a there's a class action lawsuit because it was
selling your information to Facebook. You heard that story scary, Yes,

(01:28:27):
I did, okay, and that you know this new app
it's not new, but people are using it like crazy.
Is being sued already and it's only been popular for
like two weeks. And then she did two stories about
COVID nineteen and people dying and uh, just just negative
stories which you have to do as part of the news.
I get it. So I wrote this joke, damn Gandhi,

(01:28:48):
all the news is zoom and gloom. Now I will
never get to do that joke again. It's a spoof
on the term doom and gloom. Obviously I will never
have a use for that joke. That never be an
opportunity to use that again. And so I feel like
a great joke was completely wasted. Sometimes my jokes are like, Okay,
I'll use it another time, but all the news is

(01:29:09):
zoom and gloom. Thank you. I didn't get to use
it for the guy for the podcast You Know It?
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