#316: Party For Paesons ONLY

#316: Skeery went to a party that celebrated the Italian heritage and didn't invite Brody- but he had his reasons; "Here We Go" Howie is getting on Brody's last nerve; a Slice who refuses to tip if he orders standing up; the boys debate the daylight saving time change

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Start up, dot Up, start Up, Brooklyn Boy, start Up,
Brooklyn Boys.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Start up, dot dot Up.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
They making noise dot up, start up, dot dot Up.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Episode three sixteen. It's the Brooklyn Boys Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes it is. Yeah, David Brody, how are you today? Good?
Scary Jones?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Even though you went to an event that I was
related to last night but not official, so you bared me.
It sued me. It's crazy. It's crazy because no it was.
I didn't get to go, but I understand you. You're
very uh uh xenophobic. I want to spend time with you,
David Brody. I do want to spend and we're going

(00:54):
to talk about how we are going to spend time
together last night. Okay, yes, but first let me let
me have it. Okay. Yes, you went to an event
that was like everything I would like, but you barred
me because I'm not. I didn't I didn't check one
box of the ten boxes on the check out absolutely, yeah,

(01:15):
because I was afraid. I was afraid.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I was afraid of what was going to happen. So
so yesterday I went to Paison Palooza. It was an
event on Staten Island at a restaurant and an Italian
restaurant and it was a big event.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Is now now.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I went last year, so I understand the culture, and
I understand what what they had in store. But basically,
to paint they broad stroke of what this was. It's
basically a bunch of Italian vendors, Italian mom and pop vendors,
whether it be foods and drinks and like specialties and
knickknacks that all get together to hang out at a

(01:52):
party at an Italian restaurant, any Italian food and drink,
wine and lemon cello and things like that, and it's
it's it's a basically an event that is attended mainly
by once again Italians, so mainly you know people that
are let's put it this way, I'm not even gonna dance.

(02:16):
I'm not gonna dance around it. I'm gonna go right
in in a second. I want to pay the picture.
A lot of Gucci belts and black leather pants, you know,
A lot of it, Yeah, track suits, all of it.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
A lot. Are you done?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I even got a sticker. I even walked out with
a key chain. It says his assist, his ass which
is one of the one of.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
The catchphrases of one of the of Cuje and now
you're the place that you love one of the Italian
delis called Talercio's. They the guy had a shirt on
it to your assister's ass on the back. So I
love that. So you know you already know the type.
Now now you said he remembered me, the guy from.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
The guy from the US years the Italian deli, You're like, yeah,
David Brodie said in My Love Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
he likes us.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, he's a good Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Because because you they're very in there on Instagram. It's
very one of those TikTok viral sandwiches.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Have a terrific I've talked about them, terrific social media
pace y amazing and they're the best. Love them.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
So so you got people like that in there, and
then you got some local influencers like the people from
Brooklyn Bites, which is a very local Uh they do
reviews on local Brooklyn bakery from Brooklyn.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, and then uh, finding Francesca was there. She she
goes all over the place in the Jersey on Instagram.
Italian girl goes all over the place in Jersey.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh. And Danielle Cabral from the Real Housewives in New
Jersey she was there. Yeah, people like that, but basically Italians,
you know, people that are just kind of like like
the ones I grew up with. Yeah, yeah, like those
people like from the old old neighborhood where I lived
my whole life. Pretty much.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
There was definitely there were a couple of tables there
from Brooklyn for sure. Yeah, yeah, and and then and
everybody that was Italian most people, but you didn't have
to be most people. You don't know how to You didn't
have Paison Fest what was it, Paison Palooza, Guinea gang
Bang or was it okay.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Called Guinea Guinea bang Bang?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
That was Wasn't that a train in the Guinea git car?
The Guinea Guinea bang Bang was a car? Was a
car from car from Paison.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
The definition of paison scary Among people of Italian or
Spanish descent, it means a fellow countryman or a friend,
often as a term of address.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
So it really a friend or friend, right, So you
could and there were definitely people in the room that
were not Italian for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Huh huh. You know. The funny thing about Scary Joan
Slices is that he sent me this Information's like, look
where I'm going, And I was like, Oh, that seems
like a place I would go. And then he sends
me video and links to like all the food he's eating,
and I'm like, why is he saying to me? Because
he knows I would like that food. Huh.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
They have a company called Stretch the Mutz where they
they made this mutz at a homemade MutS it out.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh that's funny because that's my Doug's name.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
And then they and then they stretched the mozzadel across
the big the world.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Dog's name is Muzzadella. We call him Muzzie. I couldn't
be more Italian unless I was.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
They stretched them across the table with of of of
Italian meetpo palm heroes, a bunch of meatballs on a sandwich,
and they they.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Stretched then of meatballs. In the crowd. There was a
bunch of yeah, meat polls everywhere. Yeah, you know, I
sang a song about mutsie sticks. You did put my
pisson once you did. We did a song. There was
some concher peppe there and some pasta.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
There was some fried raviolis that Canol's fogatto for dessert.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Italian things. You forgot what that for dessert figatto? No,
you forgot what right, but you don't remember. It wasn't
good enough, No, of course it was. It was a forgotto,
but for dessert al fogatto. Well try to remember. I'm curious. Now, hello,
who's on first?

Speaker 3 (05:56):
A figatto which is ice cream and and espresso mixed together.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
So you remember what it was? Yeah? Al figato? All right,
it's called a figato. It's called shut up. Yeah, so
there was that. There was a guy with a with
a gelato truck.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
It was it was it was fun now and the
canoli guys where they piped the canoli live right in
front of you.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Will you go? Yeah? It was the last time you
piped a canoli, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
well anyway, so by the way, the sponsor, because I've
forgiven the.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Old no no, no no, and then they didn't really yeah,
this was more done out of love.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was, oh so you don't love me? Well, I
got you.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I thought about, man, how do I get How do
I really explain what I want to say? How do
I say what I want to say?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I would have pretended my name was Vinnie for the
night it's not about it's not about you not being Italian.
It's more about Ah, it's a feeling blending with everybody. Yeah,
not these people. Okay Island, Stetton Island is is uh
is vertical, Staten Island is very uh very you know.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
We all everyone has like everyone in the crowd has
a certain way of thinking, a certain mindset. And I
feel like your mindset is not what their mindset is.
And I feel like you would have, especially this especially
this week, I feel that you personally, you would have
had some problems. You would have you would have gotten
into a fistfight er too. No, I never, I would

(07:28):
never my Staten Island.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't talk. I just there was even okay, even
even the T shirt cannon guy.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
They they they start throwing shirts out, these red shirts
that from his Italian deli that said make appetizers great again.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
That hilarious. Hilarious if you love that anyway. So yeah,
so so Brody, I'm like, I'm like, you know what,
let me spare Brody from this one.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I didn't want to appreciate that. I don't want to
be a douchebag. Not I was thinking about you though, I'm.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Like, you know what Italian dinner too, all right, no problem,
I don't know you should. Oh my god, bro I
love it. You know I love you, buddy. I'm gonna
go to uh Jewfest and I'm gonna send you pictures
of pastrami and corn beef and all the stuff you like. Like, Oh,
why I couldn't I ask you? You know it's not

(08:19):
right for you. It's not right. No. But anyway, by
the way, uh, while you were out partying uh late,
it reminded me that I was, uh well, reminds me
that you and I do have plans this Sunday. We do.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
And now this is how I feel like a moment
of redemption as I'm inviting you to come with me
to the Jets game.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, with a big asterisk next to it. What's the asterisk? Okay?
So Scary invited me to go to a Jets game
because he got he got two tickets, right, h And
it's somewhat work related, so he has to go. Yeah,
and he called me up. He goes Brodie, the first
person I thought of, So I said, we listen. I
don't know if I'm available as well. If you don't go,
I got to go alone. I would love you to go.

(08:59):
I said, really, have no one else to goes? Well,
you know all my friends and Giants fans. If I
had Giants tickets, I have one hundred people lined up.
You're really not a Jets fan, I know. So I
got invited by default because he has no one else
would want to go to a Jets game. I'm a
Jets fan. I don't really want to go to a
Jets game. That's so bad they are.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
He's like, brod, you gotta go. You're a Jets fan.
I thought of you first, you thought of me. Only
don't you want to see your boy Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
He's not my boy and he's over the hill. They're terrible.
The team is terrible. I sit home on my on
my couch and the comfort of my warm home, and
I watch the Red Zone channel. I watch all the games.
I gotta I gotta go to a stadium, Nata. So
he's like, where you go to go? You go to go,
We'll get food, free food, we'll get food. I said,
all right, I'm in all right, So really food is

(09:42):
the highlight? Well you are the highlights. Scare of course,
because there's nothing like spending time with my pies on.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's a free ticket to the Jet game, your ticket
the team you love so much.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I can't believe you find so much fault with so slices.
You know, scared, you know the way he travels. Right,
So I'm like, oh, we got a sweet. Uh No,
but he'sa liked. Yeah, we're sitting outside outside in the cold.
It's gonna be the Scary Tunes. I know it's gonna
be sixty two degrees on Sunday. The Scary Jones I
know has a sweet with like waiter service and chafing dishes.

(10:18):
If I'm going to the game, I want to go
boogie style. He's like, no, we're gonna be sitting now.
We'll get hot dogs like hot dogs. Must sit outside
for hot dogs. If I had access to a sweet,
I would have invited Diamond from The Big Show. Yeah
that's nice, that's nice. She is a Jets fan. She
is a big one.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, I figured you would, Brody, That's not true. You
were my first choice.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
From the get I know Danielle's a Jets Fanly from
the Jump is sort of but you're from the Jump
all right. But speaking of Sunday mornings, I want to
tell you what happened to me two Sunday mornings ago
that I forgot to tell you about last week. When
we come back, all right, can't wait for this one
the Boys podcast, We will be right back. So it
was two sundays ago. You guys will figure out what

(11:02):
Sunday it was when I tell you the end of
the story, but don't interrupt me. Scary. So I got
pickleball on Sunday morning. So I have an alarm clock
next to my side of the bed and I set
it for So pickleball was at eleven. It takes me
about fifteen twenty minutes to drive there, so I set
my alarm for ten o'clock. This way, I get up,

(11:26):
have a little breakfast, walk the dogs they haven't already
been walked, and I leave. Okay, I'm on my own
Sunday morning. My wife goes to food markets and shit
early at whatever, so I'm waking up along the now.
Walk the dog's a euphemism for something else. No, I
wish it was. I got, you know, walk the dogs.

(11:49):
In the bedroom. There's the alarm clock next to me,
to my right, and on the dresser in front of us,
where the television is with the televisions above. I have
a an Echo show like an Amazon Wait, but with
a screen which has a clock on it. Now, during
the week, when I wake up late i'm alone, I

(12:13):
usually set the Uh well, I set both. I set
the Amazon. I say, hey, hey, Alexa setting alarm. Sorry, guys,
I say, he's setting alarm for such and such time, right,
So that's what I do. And then I have the
clock next to me. That's just the clock. It's an
alarm clock. But it also has a charging platform on
top where i'd leave my phone. But I don't use

(12:34):
that for the alarm. I use the Alexa for the alarm.
So I say, Alexa, set an alarm for uh Sorry, guys,
I'm fucking you up. But I tell it to set
an alarm for ten am. That'll give me plenty of
time to make it to pick a ball by eleven. Sure.
So I hear the dogs are rustling around, and I
wake up eos and the alarm hasn't gone off. So

(12:58):
I look to my right to the alarm o'clock. Because
when I go to bed, I tell I tell the
Amazon unit, turn your screen off for the night, so
that the light doesn't keep me awake. I go so
that the echo show screen is off right because it's black.
It's black, it's off. There's no clock, so I look
to the right and my alarm clocks. Scary says ten.
I got to be a pick a ball at eleven.

(13:20):
So I'm like, holy shit, I got three minutes to
get dressed and out of the house. So I quickly
I throw on pants. I run downstairs with the dogs.
I let them out on the deck. I'm like, guys,
go peel on the deck. I run back up. I
jump in the shower. No, no, no, really fast right, I
build a haddriver. I got my clothes on, I'd laid
them out the night before. I'm out, and now I'm
gonna be like like ten minutes late to pick a ball.

(13:42):
Oh my god, you were in a panic. I'm in
a panic. So I I run out of the house
and as I'm running out of the garage, I knock
over stuff on one of the racks and it all
falls down like like a waterfall TLC. So I'm getting
in my car out of here and the garage does close,
So you fuck. So I run back open the garage door.

(14:03):
I fix everything in the I'm like, damn it, of
all days to knock something down. I'm like, oh my god,
I'm gonna be so late to pick a boy. I
better call them. So I jump in the car and
I start calling the pickle ball place. And now it's like,
I gotta be it's already like five minutes. I gotta
be that I'm fifteen minutes away. I'm in the car
and I'm flying down the street and I look at
the clock in my car, scary, and I think it's

(14:26):
gonna say ten to fifty five, but it says nine
to fifty five. Do you know why? This is daylight
saving the end of daylight saving time, and every clock
in my house automatically reset, mostly except if your long
clock next to my bed, of course, because I forgot
on Saturday night because I was busy and I didn't
think of it. I'm usually I'm the guy I've always

(14:47):
been in charge of the family, guy in charge of clocks.
I set the stove, I set the oven, I mean
the microwave oven. That's it. The stove, the microwave oven,
and the wall clock are the only ones that aren't automatic,
and the one next to my bed. So this whole
panic now I'm an hour early. Scary, So I went
home and the dogs were like, what the fuck are
you doing home. That's the first time I don't know

(15:09):
how long where I messed up the clock system and
I got that, but I was in such a panic.
I have never gotten dressed that quickly in my life.
I am so think I leaped up in the air
and landed in my pants. I'm done. I'm done with
these time changes. If you google why we do it,
there's never a good answer. No, there really isn't. It's
supposed to be about the farmer, farmer the next hour,

(15:30):
or to prevent accidents with the cars, because more accidents
happen after dark.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Listen, we're now to any sense. Now it's super dark
at five o'clock. We're now on standard time. Okay, right, okay.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
The idea to go to daylight savings was a good idea.
O S. Daylight daylight saving, great, but leave it there.
We need to go to daylight.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
We need to spring ahead to daylight saving in the
spring and never come back because I think that that
provides the maximum amount.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Of daylight. Well, it won't be getting dark at four
thirty at night.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
More people are active, more people are active, well then,
but then the people will have problems at the opposite
end of the day, like in the morning.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
But my argument is always going to be fuck that.
Who kids are going to go to school in the dark? Okay?
You know something.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Listen, There's more activity and more people out and more
shit going on at the latter part of the day
than the early part of the day. So that's you know,
I don't ever want it to get dark before a
quarter to six, because that would be the earliest it
would get dark, like five point thirty. I can live

(16:43):
with that for a month or so as as it
finally shakes itself.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Out and as as the months roll by. But it's
getting dark at four thirty.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Fucking it's in January, when is the dead of winter,
the dead of winter, it will be four to thirty,
will be That's awful.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
So in twenty twenty two, the Senate passed a bill
YEP called the Sunshine Protection Act, and that has to
go to the House of Representatives to vote on yes.
The House of Representatives changed over as it does every
two years in twenty twenty two, and since the other

(17:25):
party is in charge of the House of Representatives, nobody
has voted on the bill. It has not come to
the floor yet. Oh so what hasn't even been on
the floor.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
No, no, let's get that bill on the damn floor
and let's pass it. Did I think this is the
bipartisan issue here. Aren't we all in favor of this?
There are some naysayers. There are some people that are
gonna be.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Like, well, the problem is is my kids have to
catch them by. I said, I don't want them going
to school in the dark.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's that's the argument against against not changing against Marco.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Rubio, current senator in Florida, who was just nominated to
be Secretary of State, which he's probably gonna get, was
the guy who proposed it. He put the he sponsored
the bill. I mean, he's at the sun time, he's
going to be leaving the House of Representatives. He's gonna
be leaving the Senate rather but nobody on the House
wants to pick the bill up. So call your local representatives,

(18:23):
the governor. No he's not the Santis is the governor Florida.
Marco Rubio's I'm sorry, I know my politics. I know
I don't but okay. So Rubio sponsored it the Senate
through unanimous consent was like, nobody disagrees. Sounds good to us,
and they passed it onto the House and the House
just killed it. It's been sitting there, hasn't come up
for a vote. So call your local congressman and women

(18:44):
and tell him, hey, I would like the Sunshine Protection
Act to be passed.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Let's get that on your life. Get that on the floor, folks,
right right to your congressman.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay. So, speaking of daylight saving time, no s Someone
I know who works in radio said, if the NFL
was smart, Now, the NFL, every weekend, or almost every
weekend and a lot of weekends, they have a game
played in Europe. And because of the time difference, which
is I think six hours yep, they play the game
at nine o'clock three pm here and that makes it

(19:18):
three point thirty there. Okay, So this person posts the
same weekend I had the drama with the clocks, daylight
saving weekend. He says, if the NFL was smart, they
would schedule a game that morning so we would get
an extra hour of sleep. Okay, I wonder why they

(19:38):
don't do that. So if someone guy wrote because the
NFL stupid, oh you're brilliant. That's a brilliant idea. Why
don't they do that so we get an extra hour sleep? No,
you don't. First of all, you know you do. If
nothing changed, you'd have to get up at eight thirty
in the morning for the game, not nine thirty. But
it's the same time in reality. No, right, Yeah, but

(19:59):
you've slept an extra hour in the night, Yes you have. Yeah, scary,
hold on, well, well, okay, scary you still if you
wake up at nine thirty, Okay, if the game is
at three point thirty in England or in Germany where
where the game was right and it's nine thirty here,
if our clocks change, the game is going on at

(20:20):
the same time regardless. Yes, they don't move the game
in Europe they don't. But right, so if you wake
up at eight thirty our time, which used to be
nine thirty, it's the same.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Because they don't have they don't have daylight savings over there.
They don't live in their clocks, and they're not moving
the game. They don't move the clocks.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
They don't move the game. The physical game happens in
reality at the same time at three point thirty their time,
which is still nine thirty our time, or eight thirty
if you move your clock back, but it doesn't change
if you go to bed at midnight scary. Okay, and
the game is at nine thirty. Okay, okay, you're gonna
sleep how many hours? Say it again. If you would

(21:03):
have been at midnight, yeah, and the games at nine thirty,
you'd normally sleep. You wake up nine and a half
hours later nine thirty, yes, but nine half hours. But
I'm getting ten and a half hours of sleep. You
aren't getting ten and a half hours. Yes, because because
they're moving the clocks. They're moving the clock at two
in the morning. But scary. When you wake up at
nine thirty, right, the gab will have already been on
for an hour. The game's not for an hour. It

(21:23):
doesn't change what happens in Europe. This guy's like, oh,
you get an extra hour of sleep, The NFL should
do that. It doesn't change anything. It's still happening at
the same time in the world. Even though your clock's moved.
Germany doesn't care what time your clock's moved. Your body
doesn't care. If you didn't have a clock, you'd still
be waking up at the same time nine and a
half hours after you woke up, after you went to bed.

(21:45):
What the clock says is irrelevant. The game is going
on in Germany at the same.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Exact time, at the same damn time. It would be tenth,
it would be tenth thirty. No, no, your.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Clock says eight thirty, but it's still nine thirty to
your change the clock is the game is still happening
at that time in the world. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
But if they if they moved the clocks with us,
but they don't.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
But if they did, see, now that's I know. You
think America controls the world, but they don't. As America
the only country in the world that does time changes,
to my knowledge, it's only maybe one of a couple
because if.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
They did, had they just hypothetically speaking though, if they
also did the time change, then we would be getting
the hour at the extra hour, then we.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Would feel I'm looking at the countries that have daylight
saving time. Hold on, let me see Bahamas, Cuba, Bermuda, Greenland, Haiti, Mexico, Australia, Canada,
Saint Pierre and Miguelian Michellan never heard of that. Turks
and Caicos, Faroe Islands, Nicaragua, Paraguay, United States, Bosnia and Herzegovia, Egypt,

(22:58):
European Union, Israel and New Zealand. So not Germany, not England.
What's the European Union. They're what you said, European Union. Yeah,
that's all that's Oh wait a minute, maybe that does
include Germany. Ah well, let me see when they change it.
Hold on, so there you go. You said European said it,

(23:19):
but they still aren't changing the time of the game
is my point? Doesn't the game play? No, but you
will feel no.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
But now you'll feel refreshed, and now the extra hour
will matter.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Slices. No, I'm looking out.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Why don't you clog up our talkbacks with this wonderful
topic which is going to go on for which I
can already feel for five more episodes. Hook us up
with a talkback. I'm telling you you're wrong. If you
are wrong, If the European Union is part of the
time change, then you will feel refreshed and you.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Will have happy union. European Union changes their clocks on
October first, so it doesn't effect. Doesn't effect okay, doesn't
affect Slices. You don't need to do anything. All right,
I'm tired. Can we go home? You should get lost
an hour asleep because the daylight saving, I mean, that
wore me out. I can't stand that that last, that thinking,

(24:16):
critical thinking did I yeah, all right, all right, well
I'm sorry that occasionally have to do some critical things
made my brain hurt. You live in Hudson County, Okay.
So I was in Hudson County, oh a few days ago,

(24:37):
and there was a police car stopped at the intersection
going left and right, and I'm going up north south.
So let's say it was going east west, and uh,
somebody went what was going through the red light? And
they stopped short and they waved to the car like
I'm sorry, officer, I you know. They they had to backup.

(24:58):
They almost went through the red light. Oof. And I
looked at the police car and it said Hudson County
Waits and Measures. No. What is that? They're a government
agency that goes around to make sure that any official
scales are accurate. H that they check scales. It doesn't matter.

(25:20):
They they check scales like a truck stops at places
that that sell things by the pound, like official places.
But they're not going into the Delian Way making sure
the cull cut machine is calibrated. It's a white it's
a white car with a blue stripe and it said
Hudson County Waits and Measures. But it looks like a
police card. It lights on it. Oh, that's awesome, that's

(25:40):
but the postal the postal police scares the ship out
of you.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
The postal police. Also, they're not cops. They're not and
nothing to do. They don't have badges, they don't have guns.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Right, but people like pull over, they slow down on
the highway and like that.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh, for the for the postal for the postal police,
someone are gonna pull you over and write your letter. Hey,
put a stamp on your license. I still want to know,
now what these what the weights and measures people? What
do they investigate? What do they you know? What's to
tell you? I looked it up previously. I'll look it
up again. Hold on a second.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's like one of those old timey things. No, no, no, no, no, no,
Hudson County Weights and Measures. Mh. They can't be more
of one of those in the county. Uh. The office
is responsible for enforcing pricing rules. Responding to price gouge
and complaints. Oh all right, hold on, let me see

(26:36):
what else Alon Weights and Measures on Office of Weights
and Measures. Here it is, here we go. I'll tell
you right now what it says, hold on Hudson County
to protect consumers, front on scrupulous business practices and maintain
equity in the marketplace. Consumers can rest assured. Blah bah
blah uh yeah they check here we go. Inspects all

(27:00):
commercially used devices from prescription pharmacy, bounces the large capacity
truck sales that a petition. The office is responsible for
testing fuel meters at gas stations, airplane fueled trucks located
in their laser guns. Radar tuning forks were used for
speed enforcement. So yeah, anything to do with weights, anything

(27:21):
that measures, they could check it. Like so like all
the speed guys with the speed guns, all the cops
they got to check their guns. So weights and they
can't give you a ticket though, So don't don't worry
about when you see them. You have to slow down. Yeah. Yeah,
people were like freaking out and my and my ways,
my ways said there was a police car there. There

(27:43):
was it. Weights and Measures was parked on the corner
like it was double pot. I've gotten sighted down before.
I definitely yes, you did by me. Yeah, yeah, I
thought that you because you you you drive a car
that looked like it's a Chevy. No, you think I
drive a Chevy. You drive a Chevrolet? What? No? What
I mean?

Speaker 3 (28:03):
You know you've been in my car. We've talked about
my car endless times, right out of the slices. You know,
you drive a charger. But it's like, has that look
that Dodge has that look.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
But police cars are Dodge chargers, American made cars. And
I'm like, ah, I'm like, well my god, I'm like
what is this and it's black car. Yeah, but police
cars are actually the same car. It's not like an
American thing. It's not like it looks like other car
chargers or police cars. So one day we're pulling out

(28:34):
of the garage when we work downtown together and Scary
made the turn, made the light, and I was behind
him and I didn't make the light. And then he
turned right on the side street. I made the I
made the turn, and then I made another turn. I
came on the turn pretty quickly. He saw my car
fly around the turn. He thought he did something wrong.
He pulled over, like, what are you doing? He goes, oh,

(28:56):
I thought you were a cop. I was behind him
at the stops two blocks ago. Scary Jones ladies and
gentlemen got pulled over by his friend in a car
that's all black with no lights on. I see that.
I get a little suss. But once you saw the
car three minutes ago when we were talking and I
got into it, I have listen, We've all been fooled before.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Also, when you see a police van, are they gonna
pull you over? A lot of people say no, because
it's for different purposes. I've seen official police vans.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
And I'm like, hey, that's more transport. I think so too.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
But there are cars that will, you know, refuse to
go ahead of it, or try it outrun it, or
do something weird.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
In front of it, because they can still call your
plate into the car that the police car up ahead.
I'm sure they can pull you over. But they're not
catching me in my charger though, So if they don't
see the license plate, I'm gone dune. Yeah, van, I
know there's vans with big engines. I know slcenes.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
I know, yeah, but they don't. You don't really see
that you don't see or the police on the scooter.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
They're not chasing. No.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
My father was like, scooter scooter cop parking enforcement. That
doesn't bother you. Right, you're not you're not, You're not
like deterred by Well, if I'm moving, how they're gonna
catch me. They're parking. I'm not parking. If I'm doing
ninety and a thirty, that's not parking. Yeah, there's the
single person police vehicles with.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
The big box behind it, the big storage box y
the storage. And then I catch them and they call again.
They can call in for backup, they can call ahead.
I guess. Uh, we got a guy in a car
that looks like a Chevy card and scary, but it's
really a dodge charge. Yeah, pretty much. You laugh, You
do it? Hey, Speaking of driving and and and and
people getting pulled over, I came to Uh. I was

(30:46):
second in line behind a h a small SUV, and
I had a lot of bumper stickers on the back.
There was a lot of bumper stickers. You don't, I
don't read them. You read them. I do it all
the bumper stick I sure do. If you stopped at
a red light, you might read a bumper sticker correct,
But if you're at a if you're at a a
stop sign or a red light in New Jersey, I

(31:08):
was today. I was stopped today. But there's no right
turn on red in Staaten Island, so when it's a
red light, you're stuck right. Yeah, what anything good on
the bumper stickers? Anything funny?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
It was just yeah, it was stopped at a red light,
and the bumper sticker in front of me said Trump.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
I was just Allen. That makes sense. He's very popular there.
But look funny about it? No, I mean, it was
just no. The bumper stickers that I that I see.
You're talking about the smart ass ones that have well,
is it funny, it's clever, it's rude. Nothing. If you
could read this, you're too clu Anyway, My point is
I got behind this car and I don't know it

(31:44):
had a bunch of bumper stickers on the trunk. But
in New Jersey it's right turn on red. So if
you're second in the car in front of you stops
at the red light and it's and there's no cause coming,
you expect them to turn. I've talked about this, yes
you have. So the car is sitting there so I
beeped the horn. They don't move. I'm in a hurry.
I beat the horn again. The driver gets out and
he says, hey, read the bumper sticker. He is, look

(32:07):
at a bumper sticker. It's a student driver in the car.
The guy got out the passenger side. So I said,
I was best friend's ride. Yeah, trying to holler at
you holler at me? He did so, I said, so
ill I rolled on me win and I go, I'm
not reading bumper stickers. You got ten bumper stickers on there. Well,
am I gonna go looking for the one that is
a student driver? How about you teach the kid how

(32:30):
to make it right on red? He wasn't very happy
with me, got in the car and they sat there
at the red light till it changed. Wow, if you're
a student driver, have one big bumper sticker with like
red lines on it that says student driver. Have something
on the window student driver that I can't listen. If
you're a student driver, I get it. We've all been there.
I was a student driver. Scared of student my kids

(32:52):
with student drivers. Yeah, nothing but respect for student drivers.
But don't expect me to read all your bumper stickers
I bring for deer. I love camping, you know, coexist.
I can't read all your bumper stickers. Just give me
one that says student driver, and I'll be like, oh,
student driver, no problem, I'll wait. Am I wrong? No,

(33:15):
you're not wrong. You're not wrong, Thank you, thank you.
And it wasn't even like it was the top left
corner the way it was in the middle, mixed in
the things that noy the fun out of you. Man.
I gotta say, you want to know. I saw a
bumper stick on my way to pick up ball the
other day and it said, well, don't blow your horn

(33:37):
at me. I left on time, did it really? And yeah?
And that's when it dawned on me. That's why I
get aggravated because I leave because I leave at the
exact moment, so if anything happens, that's smart.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I love that. That's amazing. See that's a bumper sticker
that I'd put on my cohen.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
I wouldn't. I I don't trust the bumper stick Let
me tell you something. Would I always leave? I'm not
good at leaving.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
And that was that was the next thing I was
gonna say, is really right?

Speaker 2 (34:05):
No?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
But do people even put bumper stickers on their cars.
I mean I see them here and there, but I
don't see them as much as they used to. I mean,
a lot of cars are leases. You don't want to
have to scrape that fucking thing off.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
I've never put a bumper sticker on on any of
my car. I put things in the window because you
can't get them off. It takes a certain kind of
person to even put a bumper sticker on a car.
I think it depends on the kind of car you
have and how old it is, and if you're covering
up a dem if it's an old GALOPPI I'm sure,
but not a jaloppy. But look, if you have a

(34:38):
mini van, I'm just trying to think. I don't magnets.
My wife always put magnets on the cart. My daughter
is a gymnast, magnet stuff like that. The school they
went to, which I was, I was like, no, and
so I never did that. But you know what, my
Dodg's charger saved me because the trunk is a giant
tail light that goes across the whole trunk. Okay, and

(35:00):
the magnets never fit because they were taller than the
space left on the truck. Ah, so your daughters could
never put a magnet on the car. They go right
to day. Want you put a magnet on the car?
I'd love to. It would be great because fit doesn't fit.
Also doesn't fit with the motif of my Dodge charger.
But no, so you know, so I would put something
in the window. Not a problem. But as far as
like magnets and bump there was never any right and

(35:21):
people yelling.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
At me because I had the audacity to put a
front license plate on my car. I have a BMW
and it's all grill and it's.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Right, and then there's that hole, and they're like, wow,
that's blasphemy, that's how could you do that? And I'm like,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
I don't want to get a fucking ticket, because in
the state of New Jersey or New York, you need
a front you need a front license plate. And I
know there's some people listening in other states right now
where it's not mandatory and most people just have a
backplate and that's it.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Not in New York. In New Jersey, so too many
cars here, too many accidents, and you need to have
to make sure the cameras pick up the front in
the back of the car. Plus he passed holes. Read
the front license plate, don't they Yes, the back, it's
the back, man, it's the back. Always stayed the picture
of the back. But I had to take a rivet
gun and I had to poke holes in the FIA
my charger because it because it's a rubber bumper, not

(36:14):
not a baby a baby bumperk No, So I had
to listen. It was the first two days I had
the car, or the first month. When you have the
temporary license, it's in the window, you're fine. But once
those plates arrived, I was like, oh, I got to
put a yellow. The New Jersey has the worst plates,
we really do. They're yellow at black lettering awful and

(36:34):
and like it's terrible. Like even the Garden State Parkway
logo is green. You couldn't make the plates green. Yellow
is just awful. What an awful color? Yellow sucks? I mean,
New York has red, white and blue. They've had Statue
of Liberties, Empire state buildings, they've had orange and blue,
because you know, New York is orange and blue. Those
are the colors in New York. But New Jersey is

(36:55):
the Garden State. And I'm like, why yellow? Then make
it green. When I was a kid, the license plates
in New Jersey were blue and yellow. They were blue
and yellow. Yeah, they were like royal blue or but
even that was cooler than this. Yeah, terrible yellow. Awful.
Who do I have to vote for to get you
to get non yellow plates? I have to call. I'll

(37:16):
call anybody. These are the things that bother you in
a daily day. Bother you. You brought it up. I had
holes of my dodge charge. I won't know. I had
not about the color of the goddamn plate though, I
don't care. I hate it. The only thing is the
yellow and black plates. This motif is not doesn't go
with my beamur It's motif yellow blacks and go with
your your blue car. I have a black car, so

(37:38):
it goes with it. You know what I'm talking about.
Florida has an orange on it. It's colorful. It's like
Florida looking colors. You know, it's a teal or green whatever.
It's a pretty looking there's like, yeah, some states have
great looking plates New Jersey, but Philly has the keystone.
Philly's orange and blue also, isn't it? Yeah? It was

(37:59):
for while I don't know color it is now, but
it was orange and blue right all right? So what
else is? What else is going on? Oh? I didn't
talk about Veterans Day? Can I mention that real quick?
I just want to It was a big deal. It
was a huge deal. Did I mention it on the podcast?
And my dad was going that I got my dad
and I do not remember that my dad and his

(38:19):
friends because of the Wounded Warriors Project, Uh, they got
to and they got invited onto what was going to
be the Wounded Warriors Project float in the parade through me,
and I thought it was awesome, but they were like,
we want to upgrade your dad, and we want to
actually put your dad and his friends VIP style in

(38:44):
a military vehicle that was actually in combat in the
Korean War, the back of a truck which had like
a machine gun in it. Like obviously no, AMMO, but
my fu so my father and is you know who
served in Vietnam in the Navy along with his friend
Harold and Mike Dippolato and these guys. Nick given shout

(39:08):
outs to his friend's names like their sponsors, well the
Nikki you know, more Italians, you know, Pysons. They were
all the Python Fest lessons. They all basically, you know,
they all worked. You know, they've all, i'm sorry, served
our country veterans. Right. So my dad, you know, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I was marching in the parade and I was three
minutes ahead of him, and I'm like the whole time,
I'm like, I wonder how he fared. There were twenty
thousand people out there that day.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
There were signs, there were signs of people thank you,
thank you for your services.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
They were I saw people crying in the crowd. Yeah,
it was. It was really touching. I had never really
been there to the veterans dy parade. When I got
to the end of the parade, I'm like, let me
double back here and stand in the street and wait
for my father's vehicle to come by. And I'm thinking
they would just go to be four bumps on the
log just enjoying the ride.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Oh no, my father and his three friends were standing up,
waving like the queen, waving back and forth. Yeah, at
the top, right behind the camp of the truck.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah, they were in the back of All four of
them were standing up and they were greeting the crowd.
The crowds was screaming at them, and then afterwards I
took them for a steak dinner at Del Frisco.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
And we're all while sitting down and we're all eating
and they, you know, they couldn't believe it. They were like, Wow,
why didn't you bring Brody for the steak dinner. I
knew you were gonna I knew you were gonna say that,
but no, they've never experienced that love before, they feel.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
My father thought first of all, that there wasn't He says,
I thought people forgot about the Veterans Day parade. I
thought I didn't think I thought there was gonna be like,
you know, twenty people out here.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I said, no way, he goes he couldn't believe. He
was beside himself.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
He says it was the most one of the most
exhilarating things he's done on his life. And to be
honored like that all these years later, I must have
felt so good for these guys to be like, Wow,
that's pretty damn cool that people remember us. So yeah,
it was a it was a moment I was in
my fields.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
The video was awesome watching your dad and his friends waving.
It looked like like you during the Puerto Rican Day
parade or any of the many parades we've been on
floats like that's how that's how we got treated for
being in radio. They did something real, like they served
our country and went to war, and they deserved a parade.
And we've been in so many parades over the years.
It was nice in the parade in the in the

(41:39):
UH playing Puerto Rico a Puerto Rico. Frankie Cutler, what
are you talking about that? The perto Rican Day parade.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Every yeah, every forty five seconds we were that's all
I did, and yell into a microphone over and over again.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
I mean, we didn't, you know. But it's a just
it's a it's a.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
It's what it's the difference between us and them, right,
I mean I don't I don't feel like I need
to be honored for for doing that seeing.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
The radio people, radio people, right right, right, right, yeah, right,
that's all that's alsost kind of cool. No, they deserved
the parade and and and to be thanked for for
for you know, willingly doing that. Yeah, yeah, they did.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
So they deserve their steak dinner, Brodie, They certainly did.
They deserve dinner.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah. My dad was was in the army. But he uh,
he served between the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
He was stationed in Germany. Uh, and he jumped out
of a plane like, oh my god, like now I'm
the last person even going like certain roller coasters that
are frightening. But uh yeah, yeah, yeah, he served and

(42:50):
uh he never did the parade though he went to
the parades. Yeah, but he never never got to ride
in a truck like that. That's very cool. He did
it for your dad. There was one there was one
guy in his his crew did not show he has
and he has two purple hearts, and he just has
a negative view of military and everything. And I don't

(43:10):
know for whatever reason, they're some people are not anyone
who knows knows that when the veterans came back from
the Vietnam War, they would not treated well by the
American public. Okay, So he was one of those. And
I just wish he would have showed up because and
by the way, that's what Born in the USA is about.
Oh the song American song. Yeah, people always play that song.

(43:31):
They're like, yeah, they played at rallies and whatever, like
oh yeah America. Listen to the lyrics. Yeah, Well, it's
really it's really about how badly retreated the troops. A
lot of it is about that. It's not a pro
necessarily American song. Wow, but yeah, they were not treated well.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
I wanted that guy to come and see what I think.
He would have had a different take today. He would
have gotten his flowers, as they.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Say, but he did not show. So yep and listen.
I don't want to make this too serious of a podcast,
but it's nice that people listen. If you whoever disagreed
with that war, don't disagree with the people that went right,
like disagree to people. But at the time, they took
their anger about the war out on the soldiers and

(44:13):
the people in the military.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
See that happening, I can't see, I mean, because I don't.
We didn't live that. I mean, it was a different generation,
but it was a generation it was anti guys. You
got to read, you can do the research.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
And I don't want to be wrong. You know, if
I'm a little off, you don't have to correct me.
I'm doing my best. But there was a ground swell
of people that did not want us to be in
that war. They didn't think we should be involved, and
they didn't think it was just and they heard stories
about awful things that were being done. And so when listen,
when World War Two ended, those people came home as heroes,
they liberated the world or whatever. But the Korean War

(44:46):
and the Vietnam War, they were not treated as well.
And it's nice that they're being treated as the troops.
They don't make policy, they're doing what they can to
defend the country. They follow waters and blah blah blah.
That being said back to the fund in the podcast,
But nothing but respect for the military, those who have
served in those who let their family members serve and
stayed home so they could serve. Thank you for tying

(45:08):
that up into a nice bow. David Brodie. Yeah, I'm
the son of a man who served as a in
the military and as a police officer. I understand service,
son of a bitch, from the time my dad was eighteen.
For most of his life he served the country and
the public public servant, and I used to do prank
phone calls and write song parties. So we salute you.

(45:35):
I feel like it would not be a complete episode
if I didn't have a pickleball story. And I have
to say, I am getting so much feedback on social media.
We have so many pickleball players who listen to us
all the time. Really yeah, they're like, oh my god.
They send me videos. Now did you see this?

Speaker 3 (45:55):
If I don't know, I feel like I documented it.
I chronicled it on this podcast two or three years ago.
When I played pickleball and you all made fun of me.
I think you made fun of me. The Big Show
made fun of me, and they're like, pickleball, what's that meaning?
Like it was, it hadn't really broken out as a

(46:15):
national thing. It was still being played primarily in Florida,
and I had gone to Delray Beach and I talked
about my experiences playing pickleball, and I believe Slices backed
me up here.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
I believe Bertie Men. I remember the conversation.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Saying it wasn't a real saying it wasn't a real sport.
They're like, wait a second, so it's like tennis but
not you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
You don't have to move very much. And I'm like, yeah,
it's basically so.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
And somebody called me out and I'm like, yeah, what
was the show?

Speaker 2 (46:47):
I don't remember, Like I may have, I don't know.
I pick on you. So I don't remember, I will
tell you. I busted my ass. What's today? Recording this?
On Friday Wednesday, I played and I busted my ass.
I had a so I'm in a certain level. And
then so when when you play this is usually a
range like oh, two seven five to three, right, and

(47:08):
so when you when you play two seven, five to
three this, I played with the person who had just
become two seven to five, but I'm at three. So
the other people I was playing with were three. So
she was like, I don't know if I can play
with you guys, I don't know what is the reason.
It's a rating system. It means you were a certain
sah two and up to three. You start basically at two. Okay. Anyway,

(47:35):
so balls were getting past her and I'm on the
left side. I ran all the way to the left
in the corner and hit a ball over the net,
and then was running back to the middle to get
my spot back, and then a ball got past her.
I kept running and went all the way to the
right side and lunged and got the ball back. At
that point, she's supposed to switch and cover the left side,

(47:55):
but she didn't know to do that. So she stayed
on the right side. So then a ball got hit
to where I used to be on the left side,
and I had to fly back to the other side and
and and lunge and just get the bulb. So I
ran all over the place to cover for her, because
there's certain rules, not strategy. If your partner comes goes
all the way to one side, you have to move
to the middle to Okay, sure she didn't do that.
So I was running back and forth like a maniac.

(48:17):
So if you think that pickle ball doesn't evolve a
lot of running, oh it does. It can. It can
involve a lot of running. I did a lot of run.
If the other part, if your partner doesn't do their share,
it can well if they don't know that to move
the way you're supposed to move when your two people
on a court. In otherwords, if I go behind her
to hit a ball that was over her head, then
you got she's got to move to the left side

(48:38):
and switch. And I yelled switch. But she didn't know
what that meant. But she should have known what that meant,
because by that point in two seven five, you should
know to switch. My point is there's a lot of running.
So anyway, a Sunday or Monday of last week, I
played with my my At the time, I was you
know what, I just got bumped to three On Sunday,

(49:02):
I got reevaluated. So I played last Friday and I
was still a two seven five. So I finished up
with my two seven five team. Two hours I played,
and as I'm leaving this this this guy comes over
to me and he says, hey, excuse me, are you
just coming in? Are you leaving? So I said, well,

(49:23):
I just played, I'm leaving. My two hours is done.
He says, well, we only got three players here. Somebody canceled.
He goes, you want to fill in? So I said yeah, sure,
So I said what ranking are you guys? He says
three two five. Oh, so I know I can hang
with them. So I go, oh, well I'm two seven five.

(49:46):
That's great, So as long as you know you're fine
with that. He goes three seven five, Ah, we'll try
to keep up with you, my friend. So I said no, no, no,
I said two seven five, not three seven five, And
he goes the on his face scary. He just his
face dropped because he thought I was three seven five.
I'm two seven five at that time, and he goes, oh,

(50:08):
all right, are you Then he goes, are you Are
you a bash guy? You look like a bash guy.
What a bash guy is the kind of guy who
he slams everything. Every ball you could possibly slam into
the ground, you slam. But the strategy and pick a ball.
Sometimes you want to just nick the ball over the net.
So because of your opponents all the way back, you
just dip over the net and they can't get it

(50:28):
because they got to run up for it. But guys
who are bashed guys, if the balls in the air,
they'll go oh boom, like they'll kill it, like you know,
I'm gonna kill them, like you know, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, he says, you look like a
bash guy. So I said, what does a bash guy
look like? This? I said exactly and more importantly, I
only bashed when necessary, Like there are times you have

(50:49):
to hit the ball hard. He says, Yo, Well, don't bash,
because we have to. We have to dink and dunk.
It's strategy here. Dinking dunk, Yeahkdinking is is when you
just you're you're close to the net and you softly
hit it over the net, so it drops near the
net yep, and you so both sides are like them,
you're drinking and dunking. Okay, he goes, we play with
strategy at three point twenty five. Also, if a ball

(51:13):
is going out, I'm gonna yell at you, don't hit it.
So I said, hey man, because if the ball's flying
like really hard and fast, if you sound like a party,
sounds like I really want to play with them. No, right,
So I go, hey man, I'm two seven five. I'm
not a fool. Okay, I'm not two. I know the rules.
He goes, all right, man, try to keep up. Okay,

(51:34):
first of all, I fucking kept up. But this guy
I want to refer to as here we go, howie.
So every time he served, he goes, all, here we go.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
He's getting ready, he's gearing up, right, That's that's how
he starts it up.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
That's how he right. There's nothing wrong with that. So
then we alternate serves right, So he loses the point.
Here we go, here we go. He looks at me,
he goes, he gives me like you know what, like
you wave somebody on in trap, like you go first, right,
He looks at me. He goes, here we go, Here
we go. I go, what do you like? I don't
need you to say, here we go. I know it's
supposed to serve. And he said when he serves, he's
a Now he goes, here we go, he announces he's

(52:13):
doing it. He's like, we know you're serving. We see
your arm moving, so fuck you. Here we go, howie?
Oh come on? And I kept up with them. I
played just as well as the three point two fives
fucking guy. Here. We're going to tell you what. So
we played. He's like, don't hit it. It's going out
scared with a ball is ten feet over my head
and I can't reach it. You don't need to tell
me not to hit it. I can't hit it. Fuck you.

(52:36):
Here we go, howie, here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. It's all characters, man, it's all. It's all.
There's a lot of nice people. I really like it. Yeah,
but within every every ten, there's one where you go,
you know. Okay, So one last thing about pickleball. When
do you tell me what you would do? Scary? Uh huh?
So remember I tell you about the woman who just

(52:56):
got to two seven five? Yes, So I'm playing with
all threes. So when you lose, the two people at
lost move on to the to another court. Whoever ended
next you go and you split. So, uh, let's say
her name was was Susan, the girl, the girl who
is new neewer Susan? And I lose why because she's new?
And we go to another court where they're supposed to split.

(53:18):
It's a woman and a guy, and we come over
and we we just go to whatever random side we
choose to go to. Now there's a there's a big
guy on one side and a woman on the other side. Okay, okay,
we'll call We'll call her Amy. And so when I
come on the court with Susan, who's clearly not as

(53:39):
good as the rest of us, she goes to stand
next to the woman Amy, and I'm like, all right,
I'll play with the big guy. So then Amy says,
now that's not fair. Nope, this isn't gonna work. Well, who, like,
what are you talking? Who's to say? Well, apparently she is,
So she says, yeah, Susan's and you two guys are

(54:01):
both you both good? So, uh, yeah, you guys can't
play together. I'm sorry. Ohthough, she's just judging. Did just
just calling it out arbitrarily. She's not on our level,
so it's not fair. I'm not playing with her her face.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Wow, they don't mind insulting each other that way? Huh sorry,
I mean because honestly, that's I mean, you you say
that in someone's face, it's just so insulting.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
So I say, Amy, we're not here to win every game.
When I'm playing in a tournament for a trophy. I said,
Susan's good, she's good, she's fighting. No, I don't like
her serve. I saw it's not a good serve. What
caddy bitches man. So Susan's like, all right, I'll go
play with the other. Oh that's not cool. So I

(54:49):
got stuck playing with am so I was like, no, fuck,
I said, you know what. So the only option me
to play Susan again. And now you're being Braddy, So
who cares? No, I wasn't being braddy. I played with
Susan because I volunteered to play with her. She's like, no,
you and I played already David, so I have to

(55:10):
play with I'm not gonna say the guy's name. I'm
gonna play with the big guy. So I was like, yeah,
but I just played with Susan. No, I'm not. It's
not fair, scary. You played till eleven Susan and I
won eleven seven. Wow over over. Amy has to play
with the big guy, so you never know who you're

(55:32):
playing with or who's gonna win. But fuck you Amy
if you see amye right, yeah, so if you see Amy,
because how fucking fucked up is that. That's like if
you're choosing sides for like a baseball game, and remember
in the playground you always choose upsides, and like, you know, scared,

(55:53):
you always pick lass, right, so you know what heay what?
Not all the time? Not all the time. I wasn't
picked first, but uh, you know when I played at camp,
like day camp, uh huh, they would do stuff like,
all right, well we'll take we'll take Jimmy, but you
have to give us an extra two runs to start
the game in front of Jimmy, Like Jimmy was so bad.

(56:15):
They were like, you have to give us runs. It
will take Jimmy, but you have to give us an
extra well start the game winning to nothing. Nah, how
fucking cruel is that? That's that's basically what Amy did
to Susan. Yeah, I can't play with hers, not on
our level. You have to play with her. You have
to eat it out. You guys feel like we're a
bitch of children here. Really, I feel like I feel
like we're a bunch.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Of twelve year olds. You guys have not graduated from
being twelve. No consideration, no decency. You guys are awful.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Yeah, it's terrible. It's supposed to be a fun sport.
I'm not playing with her. I don't like her. Serve
with Sari and Brodie. We're flying by today. What's going
on here? Well, you hit the commercials so fast. I
forgot to ask the slices to do a little homework. Oh,
we were talking about when I say, you know, getting

(57:06):
picked last, or or calling out another pick a ball
player that they saw to their face. When you played,
when you were younger, even as an adult, were you
ever like on teams choosing up sides or in a
team sport where you got picked last, or you were
the guy picking and you had to pick someone last,
and uh, they sucked. You don't want them on your
team because they were really really bad. Or were you

(57:27):
that person that was really really bad and got picked last,
and then what did you do? Leave us talk back?
Did you? Were you great? And they didn't realize it
because you were overweight? But you were great and they
just assumed that you weren't any good. So let me
let me know, leave us talk back. Okay. So I
got a I got a meme sent to me from
from one of the slices, and I thought it was

(57:47):
it was pretty good. Let me see if I can
pull that up here. It made me laugh. It was
from Oh the kick Loough from justin Oh. Yeah. It
says a new rule. If I order my food standing
up at a counter, I am not tipping.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Okay, so let me think of when that would be. Oh,
pretty much pretty much anywhere? Uh right, anywhere except for
sitting at a restaurant. Right, you're not tipping Chipotle?

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Yeah? I don't know, man, I think, uh, if you're
carrying your food to your own table, what.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
If I'm what if I'm ordering it standing up and
they give me one of those stands with the number
on it and I go sit at my table and
then they delivered to the table.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Well, how do you tip? Then you have to hand
them a dollar bill or whatever or whatever. Two dollars.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
I think that counts because it's too late to add
it to the jack. What if you carry the food
to the table, but they bust your table.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
That's after the fact, you after you leave. Oh you
mean they clean your table off before you sit down. Yeah,
well that happened to me. Yeah, I'm on tipping certain places.
I went to Yardhouse, which I love, and the hostess said,
I said, how long for a booth? She said, oh,
like twenty minutes. I get your table right away. Ah,
I kind of want a booth. She's, well, I have

(59:07):
a booth right there, but it just has to be
cleaned off. I'm like, oh, wait, you clean the booth off.
That's fine. So she took a rag and a spray bottle.
She cleaned it off and then threw the menus down. Well,
there's no way to tip harsh. She's not the waitress, right,
and I didn't have any cash on me, so that's
like a thank you. But that that that's that's off topic.

(59:27):
Though I didn't oweer a tip, did I? She cleaned
the table, She's supposed to clean it. I mean, buses
clean tables, that's what they do.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
I think it's it's not a black and white situation
where it's like, if I'm standing up to order, no tip.
I mean I like that as a general rule, but
that's not necessarily that.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
There's an example of a place where you'd stand up
at a counter or drive through or whatever and you
feel off, I gave you one. Where where would the
cashier get it?

Speaker 3 (59:54):
No, like if they give you your umbreen around, if
there's if there's preparation involved in making your.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Food, they're just every restaurant, which is.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
It's not like it's coming off a conveyor belt, right, Like,
let's face it, the fast food spots.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Somebody put the burger in the microwave. Yeah, you don't
take it and pay the salary right when I'm going
to listen if I'm going to the bathroom, and then
the guy turns the water on for me and I
and I washed my hands and he squirted a soap

(01:00:35):
in my hands, and then he hands me a towel
and then opens the door for me, so I don't
have to touch the door with all the germs on it.
That guy's getting a tip. What if you go in though,
and as you walk into the sink, you go, I'm good.
Then he's you don't need his.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Help, and then then he's got that array of candy
and mint and things, and then you know you're expected
to tip on that, and that's kind.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
If he helps me, I I give him a dollar,
A dollar, I don't. I don't walk all with money.
Two dollars, three dollars. Maybe he takes if he takes
Google pay, I can tap.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
My phone list. Now they have all the they have
the QR codes sitting right there. There's there's you can't
get out of not you can't get out of tipping
by not having cash anymore because everyone's got the QR
code on display.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
They were panhandlers out out by Javit Center. When I
went to Comic Con, they were like venmo medium right,
Like you got a bank account? What are you? Yeah? Okay,
I am not a fan. Okay, scary. How about this
this there's a convenience store. Who's by the way, who's
the the Kicklow real Kicklow? Yeah? Justin? I love him,
good guy, Yeah Justin? Okay, I love you, brother.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
But there, seriously, I think that it's a case by
case situation.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
You go to McDonald's. Are you tipping at McDonalds? Are
you tipping at Chipotle? No, okay, So how about this
at the convenience store where I sometimes go for late
night milk, like we need milk, like, go get milk.
Or it's where they sell lottery tickets. So the guy
stands behind the counter with the bulletproof glass and it's

(01:02:10):
a little opening and that's where the cigarettes are behind
the counter and the lottery tickets. Whatever. If I go up,
let's say I want to buy milk, maybe some ring dings,
you know, late night snack whatever. Yep, he's got an
iPad screen on a pedestal and he takes your card,
He taps the card and he turns the screen around

(01:02:30):
for a tip.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
What the fuck? Well, yeah, we've talked about this. It's
the swivel, the eyepill, the iPad swivel l tip. No,
because I'm not a convenience so a lot of these places,
it's it's it's a it's a guilt thing. It's that's
why people are tipping more in situations that they make
you picked out my own name, make you feel awkward.

(01:02:51):
We've had this conversation that makes you feel awkward. The
iPad swivel makes them makes you feel awkward. Because you're
actually paying digitally and then and then all of a sudden,
the tip screen comes up. So it's not like it's
not like they're soliciting you for the tip. It's the
screen which is doesn't it doesn't have a human quality

(01:03:12):
to it is asking you to tip.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
And then you're looking up and you're looking down. You're
looking up, and you're like, oh fuck, all right, fifteen percent,
all right, ten percent. I'm not I'm not tipping the
convenience store guy, I'm not, do you. It's gonna get
so bad when you go to strip clubs and the
strippers are gonna have QR codes all right and tip screens?
What about? What about? Uh? Tip? Tip screens?

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
Do you do the round up round up for charity
where they round up to the nearest dollar.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
It depends. If I'm at pet smart, I might because
the money goes to dogs. See I do the round
up all the time. It depends what the charity is,
and it depends what the round up is. If it's
nineteen oh one, I don't know if I want to
round up to twenty nineteen seventy three, I round up
if I wasn't gonna give a dollar, why am I
suddenly giving ninety nine sense? I just want to get

(01:04:01):
the dog food get out. I might ring it up
for him. It was nineteen oh one. You know you're
not gonna given look for a dollar. I'm not in it.
I listen, I donate the charities, but I'm not on
the spur of the moment, I'm like, what, I gotta
read the fine print? Who's the money? If it's over
fifty cents, I definitely round up. But if it's under

(01:04:22):
fifty cents, you don't. I don't know. That doesn't make
any sense. Stept both ways. Okay, slices. First of all, slices.
Should I be tipping the guy at the convenience store, who,
by the way, looks like he probably owns the place? Yeah?
Am I tipped him for my ring dings? He rang
that he tapped my card on the screen. He never

(01:04:44):
even took He took possession of the ring dings for
a second, scanned the ball code, tap my credit card,
and then wants a tip for that. You know, a
fuck out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
I heard that when you get a haircut and they
own the place, if it's the person who owns it,
you're not supposed to tip them because they own the place.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Is that right? Yeah? They get the full amount of money.
They get the full of mount When somebody cuts your
hair works there, they're probably getting like fifteen dollars an
hour and they get like five dollars air come.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Is the reason that we're tipping because you feel bad
for them they not making enough money, or because they.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Did it, or because they did a good job. Staff.
The reason you tip wait staff is in most states
they get paid like three twenty five an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
But you're tipping because they get a good they did
a good job. What's the motivating twenty dollars an hour?
I don't have the necessarily, what's the motivation for a tip?
Because they did a great job for you. So so
if if someone cut my hair and it was a
worker versus the owner of the shop, I should still
tip the owner of the shop because they did a
good job, right, I mean, it's it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
You're a return customer. That's the greatest tip for the owner.
Imaginable they get the full amount. Yeah, do you do
you tip when the guy pumps your gas?

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
If I had a dollar for every time we got
into tipping debates on this prop podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
And by the way, why don't women pump gas? And
I'm not saying it's not one in Oklahoma somewhere, I'm saying, pumpkin.
I don't remember the last time I went into a
gas station and a woman came up and said, not
not the one of the old lady. I told you,
told me that you have to use the app to
fill it up all the time. I'm talking about a
twenty five year old, relatively attractive young girl working away
through college or master's degree whatever, pumping gas. Why is that?

(01:06:18):
Is that because the men harass them? It's dangerous?

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Is that what it is? It's a danger thing. Yes,
especially at night in ceedy neighborhoods. You don't want to
get out of your car. I don't want to get
to my car. I don't want to get out of
my car.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Neighborhoods if I'm a nice neighborhoods, I see lots of
the young women women.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
I guess guys, they they're exposed, they they're they're volatile,
they're you know, there's you don't know what could happen.
You don't know if there's sketchy people hanging around the
gas station at any time of day in any neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
So I don't know, you think it's a safety issue.
You don't think I didn't go up liking cars kind
of thing or no. I give them credit for knowing
more than me. Women. Some women knew how to fix
a flat. I never liked Maddie. I feel like Maddie
from the Bronxton, Brooklyn. She would pump gas.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Yeah I would, I would say so, I would say
Reggie would pump gass. I think most of the women
listening to this podcast pump their own gas.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
I don't think Jamie from Queen's pumps your own gas,
but they do it in the daytime in the area
from Queens, they don't. You don't pump me, you know,
Oh you have to pump your own gas.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
You gotta Jersey. If you're Jersey, then you're not allowed to,
so you don't have to. To moot point, I never
put my own gas when they're not looking. I don't bother,
but if they take too long, I get out of
the car. I pumped the gas.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
I'm definitely gonna if you had a so, if you
had a daughter, you'd say, don't pump gas.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
Yeah, I would. I would suggest that now, Oka. But
as far as when it comes to cars, and some
women know more than me, like as you know, like
I don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Leave the car running when you get gassed. What do
you know? I've never fixed a flat never. I've never
changed a flat. You don't fix You've never changed a
flat tire never? Wow, I get the hand, Jack culturple A,
culturple a. It depends if there's too much stuff in
my trunk and I can't get to the tire ill
cultriple a. I have service, but I can change my

(01:08:12):
on tire. There was a couple of days I was
late for work. I was changing my tire on root seven. Yeah,
that's also with the potholes. That's dangerous. I had to
get to work. I can change a flat tire in
fifteen minutes. I'm not gonna wait an hour and a
half for roadside assistance. Sometimes. Oh my god, Brodie at
that time of day. How did you grow up not
knowing how to change a tire?

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I don't know, But you know it's weird because my
dad was basically a mechanic and knew how to do well.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
He had all the know how. He was everything for you.
Every Saturday afternoon he was under the car. See, my
father made it a point. My father knew how to
work on cars, but he taught me. He goes you
got to learn how to change a tire, showed me
how to work the jack, pump up the car all
you volume. Nona asked your question, scary do you loosen
the lug nuts before or after the car goes up?

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
It's always before, right, because you don't want to. Right,
you don't want to you don't want to have to
turn that and and God.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Forbidden the call. The call the car falls down. Well,
it's because you don't want to pull the car the
car and push weight on the car, right, yes, yeah,
all right? And how many lugnuts are on a typical
wheel American car four five? See I didn't know that.
The hell Yeah, car talk, Car talk, Car talk on
the bar Brooking Boys podcast. If you got a call,

(01:09:33):
I want to talk about some parts and some rebuilt engines.
Call us up and we're SPONSI sponsored by pet Boys.
Many mow and jack. Yeah nah, there's I passed the
place today. It's a there's a pet Boys and it
says we will beat any price. Yeah sure, Now if

(01:09:53):
I'm if I'm a place up the street. I'll start
selling tires for five bucks, so I have to go
over there again if it's full bucks. That, by the way,
that is not a sign that you want to show.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
David Brody, if you own a business, I will find
a way, my friend, because he will find a way.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Well, there's loopholes. They get you on loopholes now like
best Buy. There'll beat any price if it's an advertised
price from a place that they consider legitimate, that they
consider legitimate, which is subject subject to change. Right, It's
like people, I don't you know. I won't get into
where I was going, but sometimes you will go like
will I will trust it if it's fair, but then

(01:10:28):
say it's not fair whatever it is. Oh, I absolutely
will trust what happens if it's fair, absolutely, But then
if it doesn't happen to you, it's not fair. So
that's what they do. They go, won't match any price
unless we don't like that price. So I don't know.
I don't know about pep boys. They'll match any price.
I'm like, what we really match it? What if I
know a guy who give me you all change for

(01:10:49):
eleven dollars, we would give it all change for eleven
dollars a week. You know, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Whenever I think of a whenever I think of a
car park place, all I think is right. But yet
I've never been doing O'Reilly's, nor have I.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Ever seen O'Reilly Riley's parts.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Now for the I could sing that in my sleep.
I've never I've never seen an auto I've never seen
an O'Reilly's in it's an online O'Reillys.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
And now there are some places just not have you
seen a brick and mortar O'Reilly's auto park? What they exist?
Not in New York, we've but.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Growing up in New York, we've heard those commercials forever,
like they're advertising to us and we're not even like,
why are you advertising the product or a place or
service that we don't have access to.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
It's say the Internet, why do you why do you
advertise Amazon? Well, now it makes sense you go online.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
But but then it made no sense growing up all
those years before the internet's, hearing those O'Reilly's commercials made
no sense. What about you know, it's almost like them
was never back in the day, there was never an
it was never a sign they buy national commercials. That's
why When you watch football games, sometimes there's national commercials

(01:12:07):
and you're like, I've never been to that that place. Yeah,
Raising Canes just came to New York, but the commercial
has been running for years nationally. Danbury, Connecticut, New Milford, Connecticut,
and Norwalk, Connecticut, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Keepsie, New York. O'Reilly is
is within like an hour of us in direction.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
O'Reilly is a guy Irish? It is O'Reilly O'Reilly. So
does an irishman own it? I don't know? Is Ray
croc Irish? Is McDonald's, who knows? Who knows? You know
how many places change, Like we've talked about this pizza
places and the guy is an Italian, but it's like
Vinie's Yeah, yeah, we don't have to go down that road.

(01:12:47):
O'Reilly may not be Irish, he might be. It's a
good name, good jingle. We paid for the jingles, fantastic O'Reilly.
All right, there you go, slices, here's your homework and
then we'll get out of here. Slices. If there's a
jingle for a place you've never been to, but you
know the jingle, sing it or sing it to us
on the talkbacks, or if it's a jingle like from

(01:13:07):
like a furniture store in your area, like Johnson's Furniture,
something like that. Sing it to us on this on
Slice time. Go to the especially microphone, give us a message,
especially if we've never heard it. I would love Yeah,
I want to hear. We've never had them sing for us.
This is the first time the Slices will be singing.
I'm looking forward to the next episode. What uh what
about the Empire Carpets jingle eight hundred apart today today? Yeah? Yeah,

(01:13:39):
that's a local carpeting the cars for kids jingle? That one.
We've heard a million, We'll get it, you'll get next. Yep. Yeah.
What have you heard the rock version? Yes? I have,
I have heard that. It still sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
Have you heard the one where they tried to make
the guy sound like Ringo Star. Yes, there's a version
where the guy it sounds like Ringo Star, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
They all suck. They keep trying to read. They do
the one with no intro. He used to go like
right and I'm like, oh, it's like that just goes
but it comes right in. Yeah. Yeah, I still get
that button before they get to it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Damn, you got him, well, maybe you want to sing
this jingle I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
See the Brooklyn Boys. Yeah, buddy boys, boys,