#306: The Boy Wants Beef Wellington

#306: The boys debate the ultimate "driving song;" The boys jump on the latest social media trend and have Chat GPT roast their instagram profiles- and the results are hilarious; Brody's friend is weird about asking for any changes to the restaurant menu; Skeery thinks it's bad luck to throw out his deceased uncle's artwork; They put green crap in Brody's food; Someone brought a kid to the Junior High School reunion

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Start Up, died Up, start Up, Brooklyn Boys, start Up,
Brooklyn Boys, start up Up. They making noise, dot up,
start Up, dot Up, Episode three oh six, The Brooklyn
Boys Podcast. I got nothing for three?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Six?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Three or five? Was Pitbull? Yeah? Three? Three or four?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Was uh that band?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Three o four? Now we got no three oh three?
All right for three? That's okay.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
We don't have to something. You have something for every number.
I know, you know we're a few days late on this.
I feel like we should have something special to say.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
What we do.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, we do special to say.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
By the way, when you're hearing this, uh, it is
uh a vacation week. So anyone saying, wait a second,
you cheated us out of the Brooklyn Boys podcast last
week you only did slice time. Let me say this,
by the time you're hearing this, I'm I'm somewhere on
vacation and I'm going I'm going to Jamaica, so yeah,

(01:02):
I'll be out of here. So yeah, So at Club
Brody again, Club Brody, is that what you're doing this week?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, I'm gonna club myself.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Wait a second, all that all that laughter and positive
energy has turned negative really fast with you. No, I
may put on Sandals while you're at Sandals to be good. Okay,
while you're while you're at Sandals, you're at beaches resorts.
I may put on the movie Beaches with Middler. It's
not beaches, it's Sandals done Dun's River. Sandals and beaches
are two different resorts. But anyway, what are you gonna

(01:35):
do for the falls? While I'm in in the falls?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'll go, I'll step in my shower that you can fall.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
You can just fall.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, no, the water will cascade in my shower like
a waterfall.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Be great.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'll buy a waterfall had it would be great.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh my god. By the way I just worked out,
I feel like I have to tell you that. And
I raced to do the podcast and I have not
taken a shower. I'm sweaty, sweaty mess mom spaghetti. Yeah, well,
I don't know. I said, you know what, maybe I'll
hold them off a half hour and relax, jump at
the shower, you know, be clean. But instead I'm filthy.

(02:12):
This is the shirt that I worked out in. The
sweat is now dried. I put these headphones on my head.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's where they go.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well that my head was a little moist earlier and
I did wash my face.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So your head was moist. Yeah, so oh nice.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Anyway, so yeah, so yeah, but just let you know
that we wanted to get this done, wanted to just
record this Brooklyn Boys before he went on vacation, right
and Brody, I do hope you find your beach. I
really do. Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
By the way, on Twitter, I got I got tweeted
at and it said one of our listeners. They said, hey,
where is uh let me see if I pulled the
exact quote on a second. H when's the next it's
from Van Shivchenko. When's the next Slice Time getting released?
This is before we released the Slice Time episode? Or

(03:02):
did your bougie partner go on another vacation, to which
I replied, no, that's next week.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right. Well, you know, take them, take them if you
can get them. If you get vacations, take vacation.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know you gotta do it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Speaking speaking of social media, and you know I mentioned Twitter.
My Instagram is blowing up right now because I posted
a picture of Scary Jones filming a commercial at work
with a green screen and he's pretending to be driving
a car, but he's holding his steering wheel backwards. So
the part that faces the engine is facing his face.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
That was right. I did the Combos commercials and I
was doing Tom Sorry Combos hit.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
The hit the jingle?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
What it was?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The jingle?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
It was necessary jingle. No it was not, No, it wasn't.
It was just filming a commercial. Hit it was necessary
to the story. I was about to tell you something.
You just made more money than the jingle hit the jingle. No,
come on, no, no, no, no, you can't fuck me
on this.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm fucking you because I said you were filming a commercial.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
You're the one who had to mention it. That was
actually an old commercial that I filmed. It was for the
jingle ball Madison Square Garden JumboTron and do it so
for whatever said product. This was right. We had a
fun afternoon filming for this said product and people were

(04:17):
throwing the product at me. They were opening up the bags.
It was. It was hysterical throwing.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, you can go see it in my story today,
but they're not going to see it.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
My story is gonna be going.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
One of the one of the junctures. They they threw
me a steering wheel and I had to like pretend
I was driving for the holidays.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I was, and you didn't think to turn it around.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, they threw it to me in that direction. So
I did you know they threw it that way? I don't.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
So yeah, so it was backwards. Who cares?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, you're blaming the director and the producer.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Listen to me.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Listen, Combo spent a lot of money on that commercial.
Hit the fucking jingle again. You need to know that
hit it. Nobody needed to know. Oh that was And
I've spending money on me. I am not here for
you to make money, my friend. I'm here for both
of us to like make a pittance a best shekel.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
But all you do is criticize. You criticize me.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
I criticize you because it's fun and you're holding the
stream wheel backwards. Everyone on my Instagram is putting smiley faces,
like crying, laughing smiling faces as their reaction. I'm bringing
joy to the world by your misery. Yeah, I was
sitting I was sitting in a chair at King's throne. Yeah,
I mean you had to be there. It's a visual.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
But anyway, they put music. I put music with your story.
I put Sammy Hagger. I can't try fifty five. I
wanted to cut it, but you can't shorten it or
want to just go ah, can't drive and then just stop,
but it goes on and go fifty That still look
one of the greatest driving songs of all time. Actually, no,
this's got to be. The song is about driving and

(05:51):
how he can't go slow have a highway to Hell?
Way the hell?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's not really about driving his life If is a
highway to Hell, it's not.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Or how about how about life is a highway? Life
is a highway that it's not about driving. Life is
a highway. But it's a good driving song. You don't
have to have this song about driving highway in it. Yeah,
but just because this song, wait a second, who's to
say that this song has to be about driving in
order for it to be a good driving song.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm not talking about songs you like driving to. You
want it, You want that great song you can drive to,
although it's not your kind of music. Listen to Saxon
Princess of the Night. It's about it's about a steam
engine train. You can't drive slowly to that song. You
can't have read that shut up and shut up and
drive great song. No, it's shut up and drive. It's
not about driving fast. I can't drive fifty five is

(06:42):
about I got one foot on the gas and one
on the break or something like any the cops can't
stop him.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
He's doing one hundred and twenty miles an hour. He
can't drive something.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
And who's gonna drive your home tonight? Well nineteen eighty
two by the Cars, and it has the word cars
in it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's a no, it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I mean they are the band is this car. The
band is the cars and it's sung by the drummer,
not even actual lead singer. That's not about driving. Or
what about the theme song You're Driving Miss Daisy, No scary,
it's not a driving song. How about she Drives Me
Crazy Britney Spears You drive Me Crazy, that's not about
driving a car, or the find you have baby, you

(07:23):
can drive my car, But that's not about driving fast.
But they even have a horn sound effect that they
sing beep beep, beep beep. Yeah, how about that car
bepeep beepeep. My horn went betpepeep. That's from the fifties.
No one remembers that.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's also not driving fast.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
What about you can't Drive fifty five is specifically about
driving fast. She drives me crazy by the fund your Incounibals,
She drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think you did that one already.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's no, that was Britney Spears, all right, it's not
about driving a car. Drive of the Incubus is a
song about driving. Now you're also slow and not about driving.
So what are the parameters to have the perfect driving song?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Then I didn't say it's the perfect driving song. It's
a great song about driving. That's great to drive two.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
You want to check all the boxes, then I'm saying
it's one of the best songs to drive fast to,
although he speeds in the song and you shouldn't do that.
See for me. Any song that's got a big that's
got a good drive, you know, drop bass like a
fast bpm, beats permitted like those will make good driving songs.

(08:35):
And they don't have to The subject matter doesn't have
to be about driving, but they have to be better
than She drives fifty five? What is this drive fifty five?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
I can't drive fifty five means he can't go that slow?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh God, oh God.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I'm gonna put the phone away until the chorus comes
by go hold On, that's a shitty driving song.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
It is.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Are you kidding? So just because it has the lyrics, No,
that's a great song.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
It's about the galloping guitars man. You have to drive
fast to that Princess of the Night by Saxon.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Okay, from the eighties. But it's a great song for driving.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
But I Can't Drive fifty five is the epitome of
it's the greatest driving song that says I mean, it's
the greatest song to drive to. It's a it's a
great driving song that happens to also be about driving
and driving fast. Yes, how about Oh I got one? Okay, No, No,
I got a good driving song? Then that has to

(09:48):
that's on brand the Eagles Life in the fast Lane,
Life in the fast Lane, Little dun fast a Life
in the fast Line is about driving in the fast lane.
No fastly for driving in the fast lane. Come on,
he's a playlist called songs for driving fast.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't agree with any of these things.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Any Metallica song, No Batalit, Oh, Oh, two Minutes to Midnight,
Iron Maiden, No, oh yeah, you got a muscle call?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Absolutely new Kidnets songs great, let's see bad to the ball.
Oh oh, this song, this song is a fast song.
Hold you know this song?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know this song? Hold on? I gotta mute this.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Black Betty by Ram Jam. Dude, What's what's with all
this cock rock? Seriously? This is drives fast, guys, a
muscle call. You've been listening to Ozzie's Boneyard on a
serious ex. Black Betty is great. Listen to Black Betty

(11:03):
by Ram Jam Black Betty, I know that song. Another
one rides the dust enter Sandman's on here. Hop's he
running down a Dream by Tom Petty. That's not bad,
but it's not about a dream. Okay, okay, scary this
song is not about driving. But this this may be
the second best driving song. Okay, I'll give you this. Okay,

(11:26):
Crazy Train. You can't drive slow to crazy. This is
a great song. Yeah, I'm going off the baby. What
about right? Okay? All right? Detroit Rock City is about
driving fast to a concert? What about Tracy Chapman Fast Car?

(11:46):
I got a fans co It's a slow it's a
slow song we're talking about. Is that ironic Luke Comb's remake?
Bluke Comb is a little ironic fast car song. It's
about right. Oh, look what's on the list, Sammy hagof.

(12:09):
Let's pull up a couple of lyrics. Hold on, can
we agree to disagree?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
All right, all right, all right, dry Oh, the boys
are back in town. The boys are back in town.
That's our fung.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Here's another one.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Here's another one, Scary Panama by Van Halen. That's a
good driving song. All right, now you're onto song with
the top down. Put that top down, scary. Yeah, send
us your talk Let us know what your favorite driving
song is, and yeah, maybe play a piece of it
on the zone from top Gun Kickstart my Heart by
Motley Crue. We're looking for the perfect We're looking for

(12:58):
the perfect driving song. If you have some thoughts, drop
us a talk back. Okay, all right, hold on, kicks
off my heart, talk on the drum ski yet, hold on?
All right? You can't drive slow, you can't. And we're
gonna go fast to commercial right now. Yeah, podcast. I

(13:24):
really hope that we didn't cause anybody to speed in
that last segment.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I think when they hit that playlist they're absolutely going
to speed. That's not off.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, don't speed, yeah no, please don't stay stay with
the point is scary.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I had the steering wheel backwards.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
This is really what this is on That's what that
was about in the Commos commercial. So now we're moving
on to Instagram. We're gonna talk to about it. Yeah
about Instagram. Yeah, so I mentioned Twitter.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I said, let's sart on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
We didn't get to it because I Instagram I posted,
that's the steering wheel backwards. This is crazy trend. This
is crazy trend on Instagram, going off the rails on
a crazy trend. Everyone's doing this with Instagram. They're basically
we all know what a roast is. First of all, right, roast,
you saw people, but in a in a comedic way.

(14:08):
That is everyone knows. It's for people that could take jokes.
People have watched roast, they watched them Comedy Central. It's
it's a lighthearted and you know, but sometimes they say
all the truth is said in jest, which is frightening.
But anyway, people slinging jokes at each other on stage.
So so somehow AI got a hold of I guess

(14:29):
I want to call I think it's chat GPT specifically
is where it started.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
I guess somebody had the idea to ask chet GPT
roast my profile on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, roast it, like tell me like analyze it and
roast it. Well, it's started to assault it. It started
a nationwide at least trend on the where people are
now having chat GPT and roast their profile and then
they're posting it, roast and post the record.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yea for the record, scary Who told you about it?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Hm? Well Gandhi did her three things on her on
her newscast.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
But really, because I told you, you told me yesterdays ago, yesterday,
I told you when we did Slice time.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh right, that was last week if you're hearing this,
because well we.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Really, but for us it was two three days ago,
so I was first.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah. Well, anyway, so people are doing this everywhere now,
and by the time you hear this podcast, it may
be not in Omaha, not everywhere. Omaha is not doing
it yet. No, they're they're nice, you know, Oh, they
don't like roasting people.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Idaho is not doing it from what I hear.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah. Then, first of all, the concept of the roast
is great because it's a it's a it's a harkened
back to a time when people hurt each other's feelings.
And then said ah, I'm just kidding, and everyone got
over it. But there were no snowflakes. No snowflakes in
this world you need. If you're a snowflake, you can't
take a joke at That's not what a roast is.

(15:54):
A roast is you go in knowing you're getting roasted.
Right to my point is today in today's.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Woke up to you and say you have one eyebrow,
and I go, ahaha. You might get offended by that,
but no, dude, I'm just roasting you.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, but in today's society you don't see as much
roasting going on because everyone's got to be politically correct.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
There's plenty of roasting, you know what, there's a lot
of roasting. Scarylice slices. You need to know this Scary
sends me the most offensive Instagram videos. But then the
real problem is the comments section, where people are just
in a hilarious way, hurtful and offensive and any anything

(16:35):
like any negative word in a way to describe commentary
is the commentary In the posts he sends me, there
are anti every group, but in a funny way.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
It all goes down in the DM. I'll never post it,
but I'll send it to you on dam Aback. Just
go to the comment section, bro, just go horrific. It's
the kind of stuff where you go, oh, that's just
not very nice, but very funny. I hope no one
ever finds. One of my favorites is like like these,
like we'll say it, four long, really really large, I'll
be correct, very four large men in a band, a

(17:09):
rock band, and they're on stage three three three guys
in a room. It looked like six. Anyway, they're in
a room playing some rock thrashing music like we played
in the last segment, and then all of a sudden,
just go to the comment section. They're all band names
like food fighters, right or my favorite it was, oh god,

(17:31):
it was the heart Attack. I can't even think about it.
I can't even think right now. It'll come to me.
Jone Jet and the Clogged Hearts. It was the one
I remember. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, so I told Scary about this new trend and
I said, oh my god, chat GPT would absolutely roast
your posts and your.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Booginess and your food. You have to do it.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
So we both did it right before we came on
the podcast. Get it.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
I haven't heard haven't heard either one of us. I
haven't heard his, he hasn't heard mine, right, so.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
I asked, I asked it to do this now, if
you want to do your own, feel free to go
to Chat GPT. Insta guru is the the U, I
guess the part of the AI that will do it
for you. Look at it to.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Explore Chat, GBT, find instaguru, or just Google. How do
I roast my profile and click on videos and you'll
see a video. But I think I should go first.
I think is gonna be funnier.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, we don't know about that, but okay, so it'll
roast you, but it's it's kind of like a lighthearted.
It's roasting. It's roasting for snowflakes. But then you tell
chat GPT be mean to me, and then I said,
get even meaner. So we're gonna read you the meaner
and meanest. Okay, because one is the number. One is

(18:42):
like whatever, It's like, Okay, we could take a joke,
so we have thick skin. So Dad Brody read your
level two meaner.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, meaner, but not meanest.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Your Instagram feed looks like it was curated by someone
who lost a bet and had to post the first
thing that popped up on Google Image. I mean, seriously,
it's like you're running a chaotic garar sale where no
one wants to buy anything. That pizza photo looks like
it gave up halfway through cooking, which is what I
said about it, and that plate of food I'd rather
eat the dumbbells in the picture next to it. Your

(19:15):
feet is so painfully random that even the algorithm is
probably confused, wondering if it should show this mess to foodies, patriots,
or people who just need a good laugh. Do us
all a favor and delete your account. Okay, so here's
my level, too meaner.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Your Instagram looks like it was designed by a middle
aged man who just discovered what influencers do but missed
the memo on how to do it. We get it.
You like food bars and gadgets, but newsflash, everyone in
New York does too. Your feet is a snooze fest
of basic burger shots, grainy event photos, and generic contact
content that reeks of hey, look at me, I got

(19:54):
invited somewhere. Your captions, they're about as creative as a
half assed LinkedIn post that's insulting LinkedIn. You're supposed to
be this big radio personality, but your Instagram is getting
off strong dad trying to be hip vibes. I mean,
how do you have an audience that large yet your
engagement rate feels like it's on life support. It's a

(20:16):
miracle people haven't unfollowed you just for wasting their scroll time.
Nailed you. Yeah, that is dead on. Uh Okay, okay,
so now read your even your meanest.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Okay, your Instagram feed. By the way, I haven't read
this yet. I'm reading it for the first time now.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Your Instagram feed is like a museum of bad decisions
and outdated vibes. It's like you're trying to make people
nostalgic for the days where no one knew what the
hell they were doing online. That random Mazagna photo is
as dry as your sense of style, and the Jets
fan pick just confirms you have rooting for things. That
just confirms you love rooting for things that constantly disappoint.

(20:58):
It's taking a jab at my Jets And seriously, how
many more low effort promotional posts do we just see?
Your page is a tragic mix of expired memes, random snapshots,
and cringe worthy attempts at relevance. It's not a feed,
It's a cry for help. Hold on all right? Then

(21:20):
I said all right, I said even meaner. You're like,
oh you want to heat turned them all the way?
Do you ready for this? This is what it wrote
that to me, your Instagram looks like the sad remnants
of a midlife crisis wrapped in an iPhone filter. It's
like you're trying to convince everyone that you're still relevant
in a world that left your content in the dust.
Do they follow you for content or is it just

(21:42):
to make sure they don't accidentally walk into the same
bar as you. Your profile screams, I want to be cool,
but instead you're out here playing catch up with the
influencers half your age while doing TikTok dances that nobody
asks for. We get it. You try new restaurants. So
is everyone else on Instagram, But somehow they're managing to
do it without putting their followers to sleep. Hold on

(22:08):
your Oh look at this. Your captions have the excitement
of a PowerPoint presentation at a corporate retreat, and your
attempt at authenticity comes off as forced as your laugh
when Elvis roasts you on the radio. Your engagement rate
is barely breathing. Who could blame them, though, Watching your
content is like watching someone repeatedly trip over their own
feet and pretending they meant to do it. Here's a

(22:30):
tip to either level up your game or just a minute.
You're coasting on the coattails of your radio gig right now.
Your Instagram is the visual equivalent of static on an
old TV, annoying, irrelevant, and something people tune out instantly.
Oh my god, it's like I wrote that crazy Holy shit.
I'm telling you, if you want to have a good

(22:51):
laugh and you could take a joke about yourself, which
most of us listening, I feel like all the slices
can do it, because that's why you guys are cool,
because that's why you follow this podcast, right, Because you
guys can take jokes. You have thick skin like us.
Find a way to do it. It is a little tricky.
I don't know Android versus Apple phones. I don't know.
I have a chat GPT account. I have the app

(23:12):
log into the account and then on the sidebark in
figure Insta Guru and then put it in Insta Guru
and they will and then make sure you put you
know your Instagram profile and at at whatever, your your screen,
your handle is all right, You're right?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
That was I'm out of breath. I'm listening to that
description of your feed. Holy shit, we got to punch
the screen.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Set with Si and Rody. Oh my god, that was
the best segment we've done in a while.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I told you it'd be great.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Really would told you it really was. Yeah. So anyway,
I want to talk about my friend, my friend Eric, Eric,
which Eric, the one who hosts the podcast.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's Eric Nagel, Eric with a K and a G
e l our friend Eric.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
We've had on He of course co hosted my Walkers
and Talkers podcast.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
He's a good man.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I love He's great. He's great and uh we went
to lunch yesterday. We had a very good lunch and
we had some issues at lunch. Oh yeah, I thought
I would share them with you. Okay, after we were done,
he said, guess what the first fifteen minutes of my
podcast is going to be? I said, what, he goes

(24:26):
talking about you and this lunch. I said, oh yeah,
well guess what I'm going to talk about you then
in my podcast?

Speaker 1 (24:33):
How about that? Oh wow, did you guys end in
a fight like what happened? I mean oh no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
So you said you had we handle we handle food
situations very differently.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
So, uh we went.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
To uh really a really fun place. I've been there before.
I've told you Tommy's Taving and Tap. I love that plouh. Yeah,
it's great, it's great.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
They're not a sponsor, and I may visit the one
in is he right tomorrow because a couple of us
are going to the beach. We're going to Donovan's.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
I don't know what that means, but I have a
great time, very good.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
So anyway, he wants to order something off. There's a
there's a menu, and there's a specials menu. So the
thing he wants is a club sandwich on sour dough bread,
I think on whole wheat bread. So he says to
the waiter, he says, hey, I have a question. Can
I substitute my whole wheat bread for trebato?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's a fair.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Question, right, sure, so the weight excuse me.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Little burp.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
The waiter says to him, you know what that's on
the specials menu.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm not sure. Let me check for you. Not a problem, So.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Eric says, nah, just forget it. Then forget it. I'll
have the uh, the cheeseburger. So the guy says, I,
you know, uh, I don't want that cook blah the
way I goes the cheeseburger. So I said, why didn't
you Why didn't you get this the other thing you wanted.
He goes, They're gonna have to check on the bread.
It's a special. He's gonna come back and say they
can't do it's too much. If he can't just do it,

(26:06):
I don't want it, he said, But why wouldn't you
just wait to see.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Like you're allowed to get the bread you want. He's
just concerned.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Maybe they're pre made and they already like wrapped in
saran wrap in the morning, and they gotta you know,
they don't change the bread out. But you know what,
he's just being careful because he doesn't know. Of course
they changed the bread out.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I don't need a headache. I just so, first of all,
it's scary. How would you handle a waiter saying no problem,
let me check.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, I would let him check. I would let him
do his due diligence, right right, right, Okay? So I
felt like I like, all right, I gotta I was
gonna get up and tell the waiter go check anyway,
but he's like, don't, don't do it. I don't want it,
all right, But so he just jumped to conclusions on
his own. I'm trying to know.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
He just he's like, if the guy's got to check,
I don't want to go through the drama like it's
if it's not easy, I don't want it.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, but he he craved it in the first place,
so why don't he just let the guy follow through
and do his job. I said, I go tell the guy.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
If they can't switch the bread, then you want the cheeseburger,
then you're done.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
But let him go check. Nope, Nah, nope, I don't
want it. You don't know me. That's the way I am.
If I can't get it the why I want, I
washed my hands of it.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm done.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
He doesn't know that. He doesn't know that he can't
get it that way he wants. He doesn't know it's
still inconclusive.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
In anticipation, he said, I don't want it, okay, So
then they bring him his food. They bring him his cheeseburger,
and Eric is a mustard guy like you, I'm a
ketchup guy, love mustard on the table. They've got frenches ketchup,
which I'm not going near. And you know, salt and
pepper and grated cheese. I got my bunch of condiments,
salt and pepper's mustard. So he says to the waiter.

(27:41):
When the waiter comes back, he says, hey, can I
get a mustard for my hamburger?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
No problem.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Waiter comes back very quickly, brings him a mustard, walks away.
Eric tastes the mustard and he goes, oh, this is terrible.
It's like honey mustard. I didn't ask for honey mustard,
asks for mustard.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Mustard on the beat.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
So I said, all right, well they must You have.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
To have regular mustard here. They have to.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
He says, well, if I don't want it, then I'll
just take my burger home.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I said, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Asking for mustard?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Nope, they brought me this.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
I'm not asking for mustard. I go, they have to
have mustard. You're not gonna eat your burger. That's ridiculous.
So a waitress walks by. Not all waitress, excuse me,
I said, how many different types of mustard do you
have here? Do you have like a spicy mustard, a
brown mustard, regular must spicy brown mustard is the way
to go that I don't like. The French is yellow mustard.
Just well, he didn't know. He's not want this mustard.

(28:32):
It's it's homemade mustard. All the sauces are homemade. He
didn't want it.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Why it's probably better he didn't.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
He didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
He said it tasted like honey. He was sweet, and
he's like, tells me to taste it. I go, I
don't eat mustard.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I hate it.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
I'm not going near it. Okay, by the way, he
makes the mistake he's had. He's had lunch with me
like thirty times in the past year and a half,
Like we go every couple of weeks. He said, I said,
you want to share an appetiser? He says, uh, what
a straight face?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Scary?

Speaker 1 (28:57):
He says to me, you want to share this spin
and j Arna choked it. I said, what what are
you on?

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Drugs?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
The fuck out of here? I want eat spanache or
auto joke, certainly not both.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Toga, you have a brody see spinach art joke tip
is one of the exceptions to the rule. I think
that you might love no.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
No, no, I get nauseous thinking about it. Anyway, Oh okay,
so I asked the waitress. The waitress says, yeah, we
have two different kinds of mustard. We have honey mustard,
we have housemade mustard. I said, okay, great. So then
Eric says to me, no, don't. I don't need you
to ask for the mustard. I don't care, I don't want.
I won't eat the burger and I'll forget it. So
a waiter comes back. He goes, hey, guys, you need anything,

(29:34):
And I'm staring at Eric and Eric's not saying a word.
I said, yeah, can you bring my friend here your
other kind of mustard? Because whatever mustard you brought in
he doesn't like. You have mustard that comes with the pretzels,
and you have mustard that comes on something else. Can
you just bring to the mustard. He goes, oh, yeah, sure,
and he goes, Nope, ignore my friend.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
I don't want the mustard. I'm good.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Can I just get a box on my cheeseburger? So
I said, what are you doing? I'm trying to help you.
He says, I don't want your help. He says, that's
how you eat, That's how you restaurant because if I
don't get what I want right away, easy peasy, I'm
just done. I'm like, you just give up.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
He hands up. Yeah. This guy he gets you know,
he wants it all easy. And he's and I'm like,
sometimes you gotta fight for the food. How's asking for
a second? Muster the problem? He's like, map, Now you
know me scary? I am the problem? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah.
I live for the problem. You're the problem. I'm the problem,

(30:28):
right right. If there's something wrong or different or extra
or I gotta make, I'll ask for it. What's the
big deal?

Speaker 2 (30:34):
They don't mind if you're polite about it.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Right, She didn't ask?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Nobody said. So he took the burg of home. He
took the cheeseburger home.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
He didn't need it. A very peculiar fellow. I don't
know why why was he acting this way? Well, let
me ask you a question. Based on how I've described
my role in this. Is that podcast worthy for him?
On the It's Eric Nagel podcast. I think his listeners
are gonna look at him like he's crazy. I don't know.
I have a few well that I have to listen

(31:01):
now to hear how he paints like because he thought
I'm like insane. Well, there's three sides to every story.
There's the there's your side, his side, and then there's
the truth somewhere in the middle.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Right, I go, there's three sides.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
My side that's truthful, my side that's funny and entertaining,
and his side, which is koga for goga buffs.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well, I just want to get into this guy's mind,
like what's the neurosis of why he doesn't if he
can't get it on the spot, a solution to what
he's or an answer why doesn't he just yeah, I
don't understand why he doesn't. Why does he just like fold?

(31:38):
He's like, I'm all right, that's it. I give up.
Like he surrenders too quickly, like he hasn't nobody's done
gone on the back and checked that. You know, this
the mustard thing, it's like, you know, takes a back
thirty seventies to go out and check, Like, what's what's
at the something else to play here that maybe you're

(31:58):
not sharing with me.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
I don't know. I know, Well, here's another thing. I
saved him a lot of money. I'll tell you why
you can't You know that at the bottom of the check.
Sometimes it says it does the math for you. Yes,
it tells you what fifteen, eighteen, twenty five percent is?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Does math?

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Well, I'm looking both of our bills were forty one dollars,
and I'm looking at his bill and he's giving.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
He puts down. I said, how much of a tip
did you give?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Now?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Forty one dollars?

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Twenty percent is eight dollars and twenty cents, right, so
maybe you give a fifty give nine whatever. I see
he's given a seventeen dollar tip. I said, dude, what
are you seventeen dollar tip on forty one?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:41):
He goes twenty percent roughly, oh, eighteen percent. I go, no,
it's not He goes, look at the bottom of the seat, David,
it's right there. I said, Eric, they split our checks.
That's the total. That's the percentage on the total check.
He was giving eighteen percent percent on our total check, like.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
He was after tax. I was like, he was paying
your tip.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Right, I go, dude, if you want to tip them
for me, that's great. But yeah, I said, how can.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
You not do the math?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Ten percent of forty one is four cents. It couldn't
be easier and then you double at eight twenty. How
do you how do you not notice.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
It's seventeen dollars? He goes, I wasn't paying attention. I go, well,
you're very welcome.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
He got screwed. I just say no, no, no, So
then you know what he did. He then took the
murk the customer copy, and then fixed it and handed
in the customer copy and duff the one he fired,
So he at least he knew I stopped him. I
just texted him, Seef, you come on with us to
explain why he didn't want to change the bread. If
that guy has to ask, yeah, Ques, you asked word

(33:42):
to the wise. By the way, we were at an
event a few days ago and one of our friends
didn't realize that parties of six or more have a
They automatically put a twenty tip is included. But uh,
when you get to find bill, they usually, and I've

(34:03):
seen this before, they don't itemize it, or they just
give you the final bill and it doesn't say it
on there. A lot of times you actually have to
know what you're getting into. So this dude tipped twenty
percent on top of the final bill, and the final
bill was inclusive of an auto gratuity of twenty percent.
He tipped forties was the extra tip ten forty percent?

(34:26):
Tip total forty percent? Yeah, he got screwed. He got screwed,
and obviously the water knew what he was doing. The
waiter was a little shifty. Oh the way they did
mention the tip was included. No, you did not mention
it and just gave him the final bill. It wasn't
until after the fact where I'm like, that was a
little high. Let me go see what's going on here.
And I went to the website and I saw a

(34:47):
copy of the menu, and then in the bottom and
the fine print of the menu it said twenty percent
tuity will be added to parties of six or more.
And we had six people at the table, so they
completely made off with with with extra tipping.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
I'm just saying it sounds like it sounds like whoever
this guy is, is not as shrewd with the casheish
as I am.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, I think you would have had something to say.
I mean, but the problem is what was done was done.
We found out hours later. What's he going to do?
Go back to the place and hand it with, you know,
put his hand out and say give me my twenty
percent back. Yeah. That's absolutely yeah, dude, that's they're not
being truthful there at this place.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
But anyway, by the way, I digress, I.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Would have when you said I got something to say
I for those fans of Metallica, I was going to
say thanks Metallica last Caress, but I didn't because I
didn't think you'd get the reference.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, I would not have understood that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
And if I, if I actually sang the line in
the song.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
People would be more confused.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
So so what do we got is is your boy? Uh?
Is he has he feel like he had a good
afternoon with you? Was he making had a great time?
We sat there for like four hours. We had a
great time.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
They weren't busy.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
No, we always have a good lunch. Sometimes we said
there for five six hours talking. Oh good, No, we
had a great time. You just shoot the ship with
your boy? Yeah, right, which I wanted your opinion. I
wanted your opinion on that because and by the way,
I'll announce this now, Eric has asked me to do
another podcast with him. I don't know how I feel

(36:25):
about that. Wow, I feel like he may be cheating
on me with that brody.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, well I listen. I listened.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
I did Walkers and Talkers before you, so that wasn't
that was actually cheating on Jamie when I did a
podcast with you. But Eric said to me, goes, you know,
you and I should do a podcast. We talked about
some ideas and I'm like, oh, really that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah huh.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
But I was like, I gotta tell scary because he's
gonna get all. I mean, you do another podcast, would share, right,
which I've been doing for longer than this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I feel like you have two podcasts.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I feel like you know yeah, but right now it's
I might be.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
The jealous the jealous wife here right right now, we're
bandying it about banding band all right, bounce it around
off the wall, you back off, Eric, He's all mine
right now where we're platforming it, we're you know, this
guy that gives me ada and raises my fucking blood pressure,
He's all mine. You can't have it boys podcast. We

(37:26):
will be right back.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
I did have one more restaurant story if I could
share a quick yeah for this makes any sense to you.
So some friends of mine, I used to go to
my junior high school gang. We all got together and
we went to Grand Lux Cafe in Paramus, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Great spot. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Now, if you've never been to Grand Lux l u
x e y. Yeah, it's owned by the people that
own cheesecake factory. So it's got a huge menu, it's big,
it's it looks like a cheesecake factory. In fact, they
have a cheesecake counter. Hey, guess what it's as your
version of a cheesecape factory. Yes, yes, so it's like,
uh yes, so I have I have two things to

(38:08):
run by you. So the six of us high school
reunion friends and one of our one of our group. Uh,
he gets to see his kid on the weekends. He
and his wife are separated, and he says, I got
to bring my kid. I got no choice. If we're
doing this on Saturday, can bring my kid. Okay, Now
this is you. You told me last week You're like

(38:29):
you got to see a feeling. Another Bronzino story. So
he brings the kid to dinner.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
M hm Okay, I already don't like where this is going,
all right, So I.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
See okay, okay, So step one I ordered this dish.
Uh it was chicken breasts in occasion, sauce with corn,
mashed potatoes, all the things I eat, and I see
in the picture on the on the menu there's green
flakes of something all over the corn. So I say

(39:03):
to the waitress that question, the green flakes on top
of the corn. Is that parsley? Is that diced up
something in the corn? Or is it thrown on top
for garnish. She says, oh, no, no, that's just garnish
for the color. I said, well, I know the plate
is brown and beige and white and yellow, and it
needs color. I understand for presentation, but I would really

(39:26):
like to if you could hold the parsley.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I don't like green food. If you could hold the parsy,
that'd be great.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
But that.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
No, absolutely, she says, yeah, we won't put the parsy on.
Not a problem.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
So the food comes scary. If you were in the
kitchen and it said no parsley, how would you handle that?

Speaker 1 (39:47):
I would not. I would make sure that there's no
parsley in the dish. I mean it's quite obvious. Correct.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
And my dish arrived with no parsley on top. Great,
except some somebody thought, well, it still needs color. So
they threw.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Great fucking scallions all over my pipe, into the mashed potato,
into the corn, into the Cajun sauce. I had to
pick green onions out because everybody else wanted to eat,
and I don't want to have them remake my food
while I waited for my friends to eat, and and wait,
they waiting for me. So they took. They took a
bad situation, and they made it even worse. Yeah, they

(40:24):
scallioned the whole fucking plate Grand Lucks Cafe. Now everything
tastes like onions because scallion have parsy. At least is
just color. It doesn't have a taste really right, But
but onions, right, scallions do scallions? Use my bread my
appetizer plate for mountain mountain oak scallions. Luckily, all my

(40:46):
junior high school friends we get together every year, they're like, oh, yeah,
he hates green stuff.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Oh they all knew when the plate came. They're like,
oh no, oh no, but you know, can I just
deep dive into this?

Speaker 1 (40:59):
This has gotta be somebody said that scallions has a taste,
not scallions. No, No, roll back the time, roll back
the hands of time. I don't know if it was
spionifically Hio specifically talking about Parsley partially.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
The old joke, right, remember the old Parsley joke, right,
which one? What's the difference between Parsley and and and pussy?

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Uh, you can't taste parsley. Nobody eats partly. Nobody eats partially?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Nobody right that that was a big joke when we
were kids.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, that's right, nobody eats part I think you told
that once before in The Brooklyn Boys. I probably did,
and it was probably a few episodes ago too. It
was like recent anyway. Partially forget about scallions and other
green things, okay, Parsley is literally something that really has
no taste. And it's just color. Okay, it's just green.

(41:52):
And can't you put You can't put You can't you
put your big boy pants on when you see it
arrive and just be like, I'm just gonna ignore it.
It's not changing the flavor of anything I'm eating, right,
I don't want leaves in my food. It's not their
little specks. It's a spell.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
They're not no, they were brand they were like little
they were like they looked like a little like like
little broccoli heads they were. They weren't like specks of parsley.
It was sprigs. I don't want sprigs on my food.
I want corn.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
You don't have to eat it? Then how do I
get it off? My corn? Genius? I got to pick
it off, right, So rather just pick it off in
front of my friends, I was like, can you not
throw the parsley on last? You won't put the If
you were blind and you were eating corn, you know
what I would do with parsley on it? Would you?
Would you be? Would you know the difference? It's not

(42:39):
even a texture thing.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
It's not even like, oh my god, telling me you
don't know the difference in your mouth between an ear
of a kernel of corn and a branch. You don't
feel the difference in your tongue between corn and I'm
eating feathers. Come on, you're exaggerating. If you said to me,

(43:02):
what I couldn't tell the difference between uh, white rice
and and and brown and brown rice in my mouth?

Speaker 2 (43:09):
By the technis it's rice?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay? How do you not? You can't tell them just
being corn, corn, and and fucking parsley. I can't know,
but corn with Parsley on it. Why are you turning
this around on me and making me the Parsley bandit?
You are? You are because it's it's focused on the
scallion king in the kitchen. You're you are a man child.

(43:31):
You are a fucking guy. Was like, you know, like
this guy was like the Salt Bay guy where he
salts from up by his night. Yeah, that's what he
was doing with the stallions. He's like, I understand scallions.
I understand that part. But Parsley, think about what Parsley
really is. It's it's it's a non entity. It's you're
acting like a like like an immature brat of a child.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Temporarily I am brat. I am brat.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
You know you're having a brat summer.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I'm having a big time brat summer.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Okay, because I'm having I'm more of a demure guy.
I'm having a demure summer. Oh all right, wasn't she
married to Tom Cruise for a while? Demure to me more?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Alrighte?

Speaker 1 (44:12):
So really, though, you know you think about it, can
we focus on this? Do you ever zoom out and
look at yourself and be like, why am I such
a fucking brick? Like, why why am I so picky
about it? More polite to the woman, I'm just saying,
in your own world and your own just forget about
her in this current situation you can't stand Partially.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
It's just little I hate Parsley scary. There is absolutely
some food you won't eat.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Watermelon? I hate watermelon? What? Who hates watermelon? It's America's fruit.
I hate it. I hate watermelon. But that's a real thing.
It's it's got texture, thing, it's got watery, it's it's
I don't like the taste of the melony. It's I
don't like it. I don't like watermelon. I don't know
what a watermelon? It melts in your mouth. You can't
get fruit, right, Okay, well you're criticizing me now on that,

(45:04):
But I'm called I'm talking about suck it up and
have some watermelon. Why can't you put ketchup on the
hot dog? Two completely different things, because why can't you watermelon?
Watermelon is is a fruit, and it's it's it's a thing.
It's it's actually a real thing with real flavor. Parley,
it's a branch, it's a twig. What am I a

(45:26):
squirrel as you would say a squirrel. You are something else, man, I.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Just I am something.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I feel like something yet. Yeah, but I think there's
something a little bit more going on here with your psychology,
the way you grew up. Something something happened. Now you
blame my parents. Something happened, something maybe happening at school.
Something was going on. Why my uncle was run over
by a scallion truck? Why the problem with parsley and

(45:53):
green things? It's green? See you? Even you even refer
to it as. I don't want anything green in my food.
You know what? Snow peas.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I eat snow peas, and I eat at a mommy,
and I eat cucumbers.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
There are a couple of green things I eat.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
And if if if if jollopeno peppers are chopped up
in my Mexican food, small enough, I don't care. I
don't like branches in my I don't like grass in
my food. I don't like broccoli. That's a tree. I
don't want that bush. I don't want that, although I
did say bush before, but you know I love broccoli.
But no, okay, no, now, let me tell you about

(46:31):
the kid after this, damn.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
It, before you tell us about the kid. Yeah, I
have a bit of a problem. Well it's not a
constipated no, it's it's not a bad problem to have.
But I just feel like you have too much money
in you pot. Karma's karma is a bitch, and and
I don't want a karma, bad karma to come around.

(46:55):
I don't want. I don't want spirits and ghosts and things.
And I don't want. I want to do the.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Problem you gave the homeless, You gave the lying homeless
guy or the lying scammer money.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
You should be good now with karma. According to you,
I should.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Be maybe that that will even out, because what did
you do? My late uncle Gino God rest his soul,
was an artist in his spare time. He did it
as a hobby. He did it for years. He painted,
he drew, he did stuff on canvas, he did he

(47:30):
did all this stuff. He yeah, and he was very
proud of his art. And he would take the best
of his works and he wouldn't want he wouldn't make
profit off of it. He would take care of it.
He would frame it. Sometimes he would give it as

(47:50):
a gift. I had a beautiful picture that he made
for me with tulips that he made. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa?

Speaker 2 (47:57):
You said, had you just that I had?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
I still do have. Oh hold on, wait, so I
had this. I had it on my wall. Okay, it
was a frame picture for years. But I got some
new stuff and I figured I would replace it. So
hold on, and this is the only this is the
only level one of what I'm about to tell you.
So no, no, no, oh no, oh nothing. So I

(48:22):
took it down and I said, I just have a
small apartment, limited space, limited real estate. This thing's been
up here for like since I moved in.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Sure, no disrespect, you're rotating, rotating. I took it down
and I put it into storage.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Okay. A couple of weeks ago, we went to my
cousin Renee's house for a barbecue pool party with my
family and my Unfortunately, my aunt Marie had passed a
week ago. I'm a week I'm sorry, a year ago,
and my Aunt Marie had a lot of stuff in storage.
So well, hold on, she's married to Uncle Joe. Why not,

(48:57):
God rest hussle, God rest her soul. Why the balloon's
flying by on your screen? Why are they balloons flying
by my screen? What the hell was that? I have
no idea. Is it a magic word? Did you just do?
Oh my god, there's a bad balloon karma?

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Is there a ghost loser? A sign of bad karma?
Everybody knows that Google it.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Is there a ghost in the machine? Okay?

Speaker 2 (49:16):
What you don't understanding about?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
First of all, the slices scary and eye are looking
at video of each other podcast. Yeah, we're side by studio,
side by side to half the screen is me having
the screen is scary and on scary screen like Instagram filter?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
What's that? Balloons just floated up from the bottom of
it like birthday balloons from the bottom of the screen
floated up across his face and up passed his head
and gone, dude, what was that? That's not a feature
of this This program is a ghost of the machine.
I have no idea how that happens. By the way,
thank you police. So finally you acknowledge me anyway, So

(49:51):
uh yeah, So why don't.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
You say, God rest her soul? You said God rest
his soul.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
God rest her soul. My aunt Marie, So we didn't
say that she was we were having a celebration. Liked you.
I loved my unt Marie, and it was in her
soul rest. Yes, it was at my cousin Renee's house.
It was. It was. It was a barbecue, it was
a pool party. We had a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
It was a party.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
So we're hanging out. And because my aunt was collected
a lot of stuff borderline horder, the house needed to
be cleaned out. And so my and and thank thankfully
my cousin Renee and Nicole, the both of them, they
went to get some junk luggers and they cleaned out
the house and whatever. So they got it prepped it,

(50:31):
They got it ready. Now, one thing they did not
get rid of was all of my uncle Gino's art.
So she had she started like almost like a Sotherby's thing,
you know. She she put each piece of art, she
took it out, framed art, and she was like, who

(50:52):
would want this? Who wants this one? And look at
this beautiful you know boy by a stream or I'm
looking up at the moon. Well I started feeling guilty
because I'm like, I gotta take something, So I took
two other pieces from her. But she said, anything that

(51:13):
is left over after today is going in the garbage. Now.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Oh, no, scary.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
So some of my family took some of the pieces.
I mean there was a lot of stuff, Brodie, there
was a lot of stuff, and so we took it.
They took it home and whatever. But there was there
was a lot left over and that no one took.
And I don't know what to do. I mean, what
can you just dispose of art like like this is

(51:42):
family stuff? Well is it art? And quotes? It's He
wasn't a famous artist. I mean he wasn't like but
is it like he drew and apple and you're like
called it art because he had a friend. So he'd
spent time on this stuff. This is stuff that he
took like days and days to do, so spend money
on getting the frames. These are beatifully framed.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
His name, his name is Gino, right, yeah, Gino.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
So I put it up on online and advertise it
as famous artwork by the famous artist who recently died.
You know, artwork goes up and the artistized by the
artist name is Geneau making sound French.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
You know, it's an origin. You can make a fortune.
It's one of those, you know, it's a one of one.
It's a one of one's, you know. And the and
the and the artist just passed away, So the value
is going to be through the roof.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Well, listen, how many how many pieces do you have? Scary?

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Well, I got four I have owned I owned four now, but.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
But unfortunately I would put them by the door and
put a note to your housekeeper, don't throw these.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Out, And so she threw out my sneakers that time.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Well, I don't know what to do. I just didn't know.
I mean, do you donate it? Like? What do we
do here? Because my I don't know what became of
this art. My cousin Renee said, it's all going in
the garbage after this if you don't take it. And
I couldn't take everything. There was stuff left over, clearly,
I just I don't even want to know what happened
to that stuff. But if she did throw it away,
what a sin? Right? I mean, you know, what do

(53:08):
you want to do uncle's legacy? I don't know, but
it's like there's a lot of it. We all, we
all have pieces from him.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
I mean a lot of charities will take artwork.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Yeah, like breast Cancer pickups dot org I think is
the website or whatever they pick up like brick or
brac from your house. They'll pick up clothing and they
and they either give it to people who need it
or they sell it and use that money for their
needs and their causes. Lupus Foundation does it. Veterans of America.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
I don't know if it was gonna be bad karma,
bad luck? What you have?

Speaker 3 (53:41):
What you I think if you donate it and it
goes to another person that makes them happy, you're fine.
But what I think if you throw it down the incinerator,
shoot in your hallway, then you're gonna burn in hell.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Great, Well, that's what I'm going with. It's not on me,
it's on my cousins. What do you people call it?
What do you people call it? The foika, the moloikia,
the miloykia. It's the evil You have to worry that
evil eye.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
That's what you're gonna get.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Uncles, you know, is looking down on you. Well, that's it.
You put his two lips in in storage. Poor guy.
I loved him too, He was one of he was
a great uncle to me. But uh yeah, so I'm
looking looking at his artwork, you know, I mean, some day,
scary you're gonna leave audio cassettes and digital audio recordings

(54:27):
and CDs and m P three's of all your phone
taps too.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
I don't know who.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
You don't have any kids but your nieces and nephews,
and at some point they're gonna need hard drive space.
And just delete that ship. What I mean, mister Michael Oppenheim,
almost last time to listen to that ship, I delete it,
my grand commit.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
No, your niece's a nephews, nephews. I don't have great
I don't have kids, your nieces and nephews, nephews. How
are you getting all these jock cards of our uncle Skiy.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Your ship's gonna go all of us ship, all the
stuff I collect, people like, oh, I got all my
mother's stuff and my father's stuff.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
So then I guess question some point like what do
you do with it? So then the question is what
are we doing this for? Why are we collecting things
for what?

Speaker 3 (55:11):
At some point someone in your life is going to
throw your shit. So why don't you talk to Robin
and say, Robin, if you outlive me, what here don't
want you want to be responsible for? So I can
get rid of it now before I die. I mean,
I already inherited all the eight, the real to reels uh,
and and old home movies on on eight?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Yeah, what is it? Super eight? And eight millimeter and
the projectors and from my ami all that. Oh they're
just sitting there.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
I have all the film of me as a kid
on reel to reel and an eight millimeter and slide boxes,
a slide.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
And stuff that I don't even stuff to play it on.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
And before you guys say you should go to Legacy
box and if they're ever a sponsor, they're a great product.
But it's like a thousand dollars to Legacy my shit?

Speaker 1 (55:58):
And then are you going to sit down and watch it? Ever?
I already have VHS tapes of family stuff that we're converted.
Do we need you know? I don't know. It's it's
just we accumulate stuff over our life. We're just junk
that just keeps me how much that? How much point? Stuff?
We're going to have the house.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
When my wife and I sold the house, I started
looking at my things like what what now is the
moment as I'm getting the house ready for sale? What
am I putting in storage? And what's gotta go? And
we just kept loading up the porch with donations for
the local charities that come, you know, the big charities
that come to your house and pick up your stuff.
I had, I had donation pick ups three times a week.

(56:39):
Get the house ready for sale. You gotta you gotta
say gino, I loved you. Your artwork is you know
you do scary scan the pictures so you always have
the images on your computer. You never have a look
at you right mentally you'll know they're there. You're really
throwing out the frame and keep you at work digitally, right.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
But got got to get rid of the clutter. Gotta
do it.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Get the clutter.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Now do I get tell my how you go for
it before? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Okay, So my friend says, I got to bring my kid. Now,
his kid's eleven years old, very well manned, a very nice,
bright kid.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
You know, bring this kid where to the reunion? The reunion? Okay?

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Now again, nothing wrong with the kid, nothing wrong with
my friend. If I if I was a divorced dad,
uh and I only saw my kid on the weekends,
I wouldn't leave him home, right, So he wrote him.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
So I get to early.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Another one of my friends gets there early and he
says to me, you know because now look all five
of us went to Mark Twain your junior high school
out to the same shout out Mark Twain Junior High.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
School for the gifted and talented.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Ever thunk it, Well, my talent was music, so yours
was math, drama, drama, okay, and you didn't go into acting,
I guess so. Anyway, so my friend says to me,
I've been practicing in the car and the whole drive
up here. Not the curse, not the curse, Not the curse,
Not the curse. I keep saying over and over again,
the whole ride up here, because he had like a

(58:05):
forty five minute ride to Paramise.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
So I said to him, I said, you know what,
I practiced in the car. Don't fucking bring your kid.
Don't fucking bring your kid.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Bring your kids. Because the six of us are all
from Brooklyn, We're all from the same area of Brooklyn.
They're either from benson Hurst or right near Bensonhurst over
by our high school. Yep, and we all we all
when we get together, curse. Of course, that's what we do, right,
It's natural to us.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
It's like it's like if you're from the South and
you move to California and you lose your accent when
you go back to your hometown in Alabama.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
You sure shit are talking like you're from Alabama.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
And I'm sorry if that's a terrible Alabama accent, but
you know, my point is your accent comes back out.
So here I am surrounded by all my Brooklyn friends,
where even the girls are like fuck that shit, you know,
like that's the way they talk.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
You know, I love them. They they talk like you
know we did.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Yeah, and the kids sitting there, so it was all
kind of like, you know, were leaning into each other's ear,
going you know, did you shoot that fucking thing?

Speaker 1 (59:04):
You know, because we couldn't curse. So, first of all,
how would you feel if you were like, these are
all my Brooklyn gang, and I would want to redo
because yeah, no, this isn't robber room, this isn't playtime
with the kids, this isn't this is not family time.
This is this is our The whole purpose of us
getting together is so we can just wax nostalgic, right,

(59:27):
and you know, and be ourselves the way we were
growing up on the corner, hanging out like we don't
need to curtail our behavior or yeah, so I would
be fucking infuriated that I'd have to watch my mar issues.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Let's say you're a kid and you're sitting at a
table with six adults. Yeah, if you're at the Grand
Lux Cafe and they have fancy dishes, steak dishes, burgers,
pasta dishes. You know what would you order if you're
the If you're the ten year old, eleven year old?

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Pasta with butter right, chicken fingers right, hot dog, very good,
grilled cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
It's excellent Wellington.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Get out of here, the kid. The kid ordered the beef.
By the way, is the Grand Lux Cafe equivalent of
ordering the fucking Brenzino?

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
What a straight face? He goes, this is the waitress,
I'll have the beef Wellington.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Well, guess what? What castle?

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
What castle did you walk out of?

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
You know what? Then, Brody, he's ordering an adult meal.
He should be treated like an adult, as one of
the adults, like, curse away the girl I was sitting
next to, I go, he's ordering a beef Wellington. I
gotta treat him like he's eleven. The fuck out of you.
So then the check comes, right, So then the father,

(01:00:55):
the fathers, let's all chip and put our credit cards,
will split it six ways, I guess, so I went, no, no,
oh boy, they didn't count the kid. No, no, I
go he remember put it seven ways two and he goes,
all right, right now. He wasn't trying. He didn't realize it.
I I'm not splitting a six to your beef Wellington

(01:01:15):
for the kid, No fucking way. I was polite about it.
Kid is going to be treated like a person. Here.
Let him put a credit card down and put in
seven ways. Where's little Lord faunt the Roy's credit card.
Where's Prince Harry's credit card. I'll have the beef Wellington, sir.
That is hysterical. And for dessert, I will have the

(01:01:36):
baked Alaska and the Cherry's Jubilee. That's great. So the
kid behaved himself. Yes, he's a great caid.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Listen, I have not been around ten or eleven year
old boys that are as well mannered and polite.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
That's nice. Like when I met him for the first time,
I've met him before, but I met.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Him, he shook everybody's hand.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
A great kid, and his father is doing a fantastic
job of raising him. It was just fun because everyone's
like oh, he's gonna order a hand plane hamburger, because
kids at that age like, can I have a burger
with nothing on it?

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
No butter, no toast, the button.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
I had three kids, they would they would never do
that mac and cheese. They would order mac and cheese
fingers right, or they get a they get a plane burger, pizza,
or they get the kid's steak medium.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I'll love the beef Wellington.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
That's amazing. Listen, that is awesome. I do I do
have to tip my cap. I much respect to that
kid ordering beef Wellington and e left. I wish I
had that kind of a palette. Well the girl next
to me, my good friend, hits me in the leg
when he is Wellington. She goes, bam it to my thigh.
We're all we're all looking at each other going did

(01:02:42):
he order the thirty something dollar beef whatever it was?
So he wasn't one of those kids with the that
they had to keep rich. He has to keep busy
with the iPad and the headphones and the kid. He
was very well mannered. His father talked to him, so
he was part of the conversation. No, he was not,
because we were having comations. He could not be part
of Yeah, I just don't want to stifle a good time.

(01:03:05):
I leave your kid at home. He I something else
for the kid to do.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
But here's the kids the kicker, here's the kicker. My
last question. And again if William, if you're listening, I
love you. It's not it just it just was just
a cute thing. We all take pictures. We all take
a group shot. Like you know, it's a reunion for
high school, right, So we all go to the bar.
We all we all line up against the bar, and

(01:03:29):
the waitress is going to take our picture like we
do every year.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Where should the kids stand at the end or not
be in the picture? Or not be in it right
or not be in its part of your friend. So
let's just say he is in the picture. Oh boy,
you're saying he should be on the end? Yeah, and
why should he be in the end? Scared so we
can crop him out? That's correct, scary, that is correct.
Come on, guess who didn't stand in the middle. Who

(01:03:57):
didn't stand on the end? The kid? The kid? The
kid was dead.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
No, the kid was next to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
The girl, next to me and then his father, so
he was like one from the end. So guess what
I was able to do on my android phone. You
were able to crop the kid object. I did object
to race object. I added his father's arm in because
it wasn't there, because his arm is behind the kid.
Then I cut I cut his father out and slid

(01:04:25):
his father over, and now it looks like he's standing
next to the other girl and from the who in
the group. But like it's just like common sense. You
you put the kid on the end, right, Okay, it's
like this. Let's say you go to a wedding and
you bring a date. Right, You're going to your sister's wedding.

(01:04:46):
You're bringing a girl you've been dating a month. You
don't know how it's going to end up. Sure, when
they take it, when they take the table pictures, you
put her ass on the end of the picture always,
or you say what's your name again?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Yeah? Uh, I don't think you should be in this picture.
You don't know how it's gonna turn out, But you
don't put her in the middle. Then like twenty years
later they're going, who's that girl with scary? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Who's that girl in the picture?

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Yeah? I don't know? Right goes on the end. Yeah, Well,
sounds like beef Wellington can be on beef Wellington. All right,
we're we gotta roll out of here. But on this
note here because I guess it applies to us. The
it was a survey done or or they did a study.

(01:05:33):
I guess about one hundred people surveyed who curses the most?
Which city curses the most? And oh, I would say
Philadelphia or Boston. Well, I don't know. But well, let's
talk about New York City for a second. Where do
you think, I know, what do you think we came
out on the list. Oh, we're definitely top top three. Nope,

(01:05:55):
New York City came in seventeenth. That's fucking bullshit. That's
exactly what the top the New York Post. The way
they opened the article is what the actual fuck? That's
the first line of the article in today's if you
look at the NY Post, is this by city of
state New York the city of state. New York City

(01:06:17):
didn't even rank no. Uh, the city the state. The
state ranked number seventeen. The city didn't even come in
top fifty. It was number fifty four. We curse as
we breathe, buffalo of all dumb ass places and I'm
recording the post place. Hold it's cold, it's freaking cold,
up to hold on the curse? That is according to

(01:06:37):
the post. That's a post. I'm reading the post. Have
you ever seen Buffalo Bills fans follow the Buffalo Bills
game of all dumb mass places landed at number twenty three.
That's the most foul mouthed town in the in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Hold on, okay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Have did they have the full list there? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Just tell me what number sixteen was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
I want to tell you what. I want to tell
you what number one?

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Just tell me sixteen first?

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
I got it? Doesn't that? Actually? Oh man, I gotta
looks Let me number one is Baltimore. People want to
know what number one is. Baltimore spews the most profanity
and baton rouge. Louisiana and Atlanta came in second and third, respectively,
followed by Detroit, Michigan, and Houston. I'll give you Detroit.

(01:07:20):
Do you know the most polite?

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
Why people put Michigan in in case I was thinking
of Detroit, Idaho? The most polite of a city is
a big city. No medium, uh, medium city. You're not
going to get it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
No, no, I'll get it. I'll get it. No, no
hold on Saint Louis, Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
No, Lexington, Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Okay, cin Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
I came close.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
He came in the region.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Are you in the region.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
I've been to Lexing, Kentuck. You know, by the way, scary.
Do you know what Lexington, Kentucky is. It's right across
a bridge from Cincinnati. I could not have been any closer. No,
that's Covington. Sorry, Covington. Lexington's close.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
And in the world rankings, which is the number one
country in the world that that curses the most countries?

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
By the way, Lexington is an hour and forty minutes
away from Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I just checked it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
I'm sorry, I was thinking of Collington. What country curses
the most in the world. I'm gonna I want, I
want two guests this here. Yeah, and it's not America.
It certainly is in Canada. I'm gonna say France, the
world's most potty mouth country, goes to hold on Russia.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
The United States? Oh, I thought, I said, is it not?
Of course it's the United States, followed by the UK, Australia,
New Zealand, and Canada rounding at the top five. Canada
are bad habits from US. Yeah, and nobody lives in Canada.
They have like one million people there. How many people
could be cursing. You know why they're cursing scary because
their bagels aren't as good as the New York bagels.

(01:09:04):
That's why they're cursing. Yeah. I still can't believe the
New York is number seventeen. But then I think about
all the upstate people kind of balance out the down
state or New York City. New York City was number
fifty four in the country. Possible, That's what I'm saying.
The number in the state. As far as states go,
New York State was number seventeen in states. I don't

(01:09:27):
care about state because the rest of the states all
like farmland. They don't curse up state.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
They're nice people, right, But look, how was New York
City fifty There's fifty three cities in this country that
cursed more than New York.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
City, and it was get the fuck out of here exactly.
I think we're just we should all just start cursing
to whoever wrote that number.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Whoever wrote this list is is guilty of one of
two things. One they've never heard this podcast, or two
they were at my reunion where we couldn't curse because
the kid was sitting there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
By the way, it was based on expletives on social media.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
That's how they did this, Chris on social media usually
well unless people are assholes, of course.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
All right, I'm going to Sandals Duns River Ocho, Rios, Jamaica.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
I'm going to my community pool b after some

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Boys, boys