Around the Room: Bring Back Bartering

Skeery loves watching package thieves get caught, Gandhi has some words of wisdom, Froggy is finding himself doing 'old man stuff,' Sam says to bring bartering back, and Elvis wants to try new restaurants!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time to go around the room with Elvis Duran
in the morning showroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I will start with you, scary, what's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Well, nothing gives me more joy and satisfaction than seeing
those porch pirates get screwed over when they grabbed the
package off the porch and then they and all of
a sudden it blows up with like a paint bomb
in their face and they get it in the car.
But even better, I saw one yesterday. This is genius.
This guy packaged up his old broken television and made
it look like, uh, you know, just a brand new

(00:29):
package on the porch. A porch pirates just grabbed it
for him, took his trash away.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
So if you want to get rid of something old
and trashy, just put it on your porch for a
couple of days. A pirate haul out of there.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Nate, you're on my porch today. Garrett actually said he
put dog poop in I'm like why, But they're gonna
take it in there. They're never gonna connect your house anyway.
They might throw it at your door. That is true. Hey, Gandhi,

(01:01):
what's on your mind today?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:02):
I just wanted to remind everybody that if you're doing
something and you're catching some criticism for it, don't sweat
it because the only people who never get criticized are
people who never do anything. So just keep going forward
with whatever that is and don't worry about it. If
you're getting married and you have a ridiculous dress set,
do your thing, it doesn't matter because the other people
aren't getting married, right amen.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, what is the is the FDR? What is the
old Roosevelt conversation that was used about who's who's on
the field and who is Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
I don't know it off the top of my head.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
What you don't do? You guys knows?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I don't know that.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's that the people who are criticizing you are throwing
basically throwing tomatoes from the nosebleed section, and you're in
the arena.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
You're in there. They're up in the stands throwing throwing
tomatoes at you.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
They're not in the game, but you're actually doing the
thing in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So there you go. It's oh, Teddy Roosevelt. It was
one of those guys roosevelts. What's up with you? Froggy? Froggy,
what's on your mind? In beautiful Jacksonville.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
We often accuse Nate of being an old man, but
I realized that I'm starting to do some old man
things myself, Like, for example, I'm somebody that will talk
to anybody anywhere I go.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's kind of funny you mentioned that, because there was
a time when your dad would do that and you
would get very embarrassed.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Well, he does it in a really inappropriate way. I don't,
I know, I know where to draw the line. But
on Saturday, a brand new grocery store opened in my neighborhood,
a brand new publics. I went Saturday, I went Sunday,
I went yesterday, and I'm going to go again today. Dude,
I am so mesmerized by this new grocery store. And

(02:33):
I realized it's just a grocery store, and I can
get the same crap anywhere else. But man, even the
way the cooler doors open is nice. I just I
am blown away by this new grocery store. And I
know it's an old man thing, but I don't care.
And pup subs, Yes, no publics.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know, when you say you're going to the grocery
store in Florida, you don't ask which grocery store. You're
ask which publics are you going?

Speaker 6 (02:54):
And the thing I like about the most when you
walk in, there's a big sign and says welcome to
your public, my public.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
They have figured it out. Hey, produce your sandwich up.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I think that we need to go back to an
older time because we need to have bartering in our lives.
Yesterday I went to get my hair done by Dina,
our girl, Dina, and my husband came and she was hurt,
like her neck hurt, so she was touching it and
he goes, hey, Dina, I'm a pewtee. I'll work on
your neck if there's a hair wash in it for me.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
And that's what they did. I feel it's so great.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So one of you guys head scratched, which is very
embarrassing for me because he makes sounds because he loves
it so much. And Dina got her neck worked on
and they made a little handshake.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
A cree always have a spare chicken, a live chicken.
The case, I'm gonna write that I took a live
chicken to Short Hills Mall the other day.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Did you leave with it?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
No? No, I left it there, but I got a
new watch kind of great. Hey, what's up, Danielle.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
So always be careful when you're going in the bathroom
to make sure it's the right one for you. So
I walked in the bathroom and I was like, there's
a guy cleaning it. And I'm like, what Mine in
the wrong bathroom. So I'm looking around. I'm got to
come in wrong bathroom. I was like, panicky. He's like, no,
I'm just cleaning it. There's never been a guy in
the bathrooms here cleaning the bathroom, and I was convinced

(04:07):
I've walked into the wrong one. So just double check before.
You don't want to see any PEPs or who Who's?
If you don't want.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
To, maybe you do. I love PEPs and Who's It
sounds like everything that a snack cake company makes.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Who they opened for Pearlgram. I think they did it
sounds very little. Debbie. Hey, what's up there? Straight eight?

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Well, I told you earlier I'm dying. I only have
four to five decades left. Yes, some medical tests done yesterday.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Everything's fine.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
But he just gave me the reminder, you only have
so much time on this planet, so make the most
of it. Don't want to know the exact time I die.
I just want to know that the time is running out.
So make the most of the day you have today. See,
you make most of every moment. The opposite is doing
nothing correct ever during any moment. So I mean in Ghanda,
you're a huge advocate of this. Yeah, we're TikTok fucking away.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, just waste my life away.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
No, you're not. No, you're a great example of someone
who is always doing something. And Danielle's always doing something.
Scary Scary's on the couch, rotting.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
He needs it, though, he says, he goes home and rots.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, but there isn't there an argument for rotting on
the couch is doing something?

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yeah, for sure. And if that's the way you like
to spend your time and you're happy, then do it.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
You compose them.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
Alost always says doing nothing is doing something. I know,
but I don't want to do too much of nothing
because I want to do something. And you know, look,
you know, as compared to you guys in the room.
And everyone gets so mad at me when I say this,
but it's the truth. So let's face the truth, shall we.
I have you know, I have this much left on
my life and I'm done. I may have what fifteen
twenty years if I'm lucky. If I'm lucky, I will.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
That they come out with and that makes you live forever?
Would you take it?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Of course I thought that was the point. But let's
assume that you set up. Okay, I got this much
time left, So how am I going to spend it
with people I love? Yeah, I'm gonna get rid of
the people I don't love and you know, have some
fun along the way. My around the room submission is
sort of self serving. Odd sister, we found a new
restaurant in our neighborhood. Do you find yourself even if
you live in New York City, we have tens of

(06:12):
thousands of restaurants to choose from. You simply go back
to the same four. So we've been looking for something,
you know that's you know, casual, it's American food, you know,
no lean anyway, so odd Sister, on Mercer Street and
so we walked over there, had the best dinner ever
set at the bar, met some friends. They've been opened
two years. This is it's new to me. So I I,

(06:33):
you know, with the cute bartender and the woman at
the front, desk. I announced that last night was the
grand opening of and so we were there. So I
say to you, seek out those restaurants you haven't tried,
seek out those parks you've never walked in. Drive a
different drive to work every day. Yeah, mix it up, bitch.
Let's go.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
Thank you girlfriend, And don't run on the couch because
you're going to be decomposing eventually.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Anyway, scary exactly. We'll stick to the couch. Have you
seen those stories people who just kind of sit on
the couch so long that they have to surgically remove
them from the cushions.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
How do I die of a blood clot first.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Because the cushions become part of your circulatory system. Pumps
through the armrest