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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know why today is a good day?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (00:01):
Guess who's got a real id? Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:03):
So everything worked out, you know what the best is?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
So I get to the DMV yesterday, right, and I
go in and they said, have you filled out your paperwork?
And I said, oh, absolutely I have. And they said,
do you have like all the stuff you were supposed
to bring? And I said I think so, And so
they said, okay, here's your number.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Have a seat. So I had a seat.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I got to watch two incidents take place at the
DMV and then I got called up by that. Oh
so here's the So when I'm sitting there waiting, two
things are going on. First of all, wouldn't you think
the waiting room at the DMV is not a good
place to hook up your phone to your Bluetooth speaker
and play music with a speaker?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
No, Si, And it was it wasn't low like, it
wasn't like like he was holding it up to his
ear so that he could hear it. So he has
and like it's just all chairs that you're sitting in
right with the stupid screen in front of you.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well the screen, it's not stupid, it's fine. It tells
you where to go.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So anyway, he's sitting there and on the chair next
to him, he's got it's probably about this big.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What is that? How many hairs is that?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah? Probably give or take the So he's got a
speaker about that big, and all of a sudden, boom,
he hits it and he starts playing music.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
What was he listening to?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Honestly, you know what he was listening to?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The distrack from Kendrick Lamar is playing inside the the DMV.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
He's sending a message of something I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, a great song, but the.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, ok yeah, And so that thing is playing now
to his credit, he did he didn't play the explicit version. Okay,
so that was going.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That is shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So anyway, that thing is playing, and again it is
not at a low volume.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now I don't care. I like the song. So I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Was he performing like? Was he dancing for money?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Who?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
In the DMV there's a lot of captive audiences. No,
he was sitting there, like after he got the bluetooth
working on the speaker, he was just on his phone.
Oh okay, yeah, so he's sitting like this, Kendrick's blaring
and he's just sitting there. And the finally and there's
a cop, like there's cops inside the DMV.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
And they didn't stop him.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Oh yeah, oh okay, I mean eventually they walked over
and at first they were looking around like where's the
music coming from? I was like, the speaker sitting right
on that guy's chair, Like I listen. There are people
that will play speakers in places where you probably shouldn't
play speakers tabletop at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is I've seen that before? Is jen?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh? Say restaurant to me, I have a great restaurant story,
not for me, but somebody that was there. But yeah, no,
I've seen people like take a speaker and put it
on top of the table so that they have like
their own playlist while they're eating. That's ridiculous. The I
don't golf, but I guess a lot of people keep
them in like if they have a golf cart. A
lot of people will put a speaker in their golf cart.
(03:05):
And apparently it pisses people off to no end, But
I've never seen one. Why would you do it at
the DMV of all places?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Why?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And there's kids screaming like it's a mess in there
and they are just the speaker's buddy. So the cop
finally walks over has him turn it off, and the
guy turns it down and he's like, no, off, So
he turned it off, and I'm glad he did because
when it turned off, I was sitting like in the
second row, but you could still hear a little bit
of what's going on at the counter. And that's when
(03:35):
the guy said, no, I will read to you from
your website. And he started breathing from his phone and
the woman.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
So he's saying, this is what I was told to bring,
and you're telling me that's not right.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
He wasn't told anything, but he was going to read
from her from the website. And the woman is sitting
behind the plexiglass thing, which I don't know why that's up.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
COVID's over, but the so the plexiglass thing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is for aggressive customers.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No, but it's not. It's not bulletproof like it was.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's still a barrier, yeah, just to stop people.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, you can move that, you could move.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Somebody can't come out. You think somebody could come through that.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You could have pushed it right out of the way,
because when I had to hand a form to the woman.
My like, I went to go under it. They don't
give you a lot of the room. Yeah, a bank,
the no, no, no, no, it's it's just hanging there.
It's not it's not a permanent thing. So it's not
like a bank where you've got like that little thing.
It's just plexiglass that comes down to about what's that
fifty hairs where you slide stuff. But my hand kept
(04:36):
hitting it and the thing would fly back and the forth.
So it's just flimsy. It's just kind of hanging there.
But sturdier than the pharmacy shower curtain.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yes, yeah, but not much, not much.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So anyway, the guy, the guy is telling her, I
will read to you from the website. And this woman
just sat there with her arms crossed and listened, and
the guy read probably three paragraphs off the website.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Did you miss when your number was called?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
No, no, no, and so and And I give the
woman so much credit because and this guy, he was
so condescending and such a prick. And he's wearing like
he's wearing khakis with like a sport coat like he
dressed up to maybe he was on lunch break. I
don't know, but he dressed up to go to the DMV.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Much more likely he was at work.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
He was so condescending, and the woman said, okay, thank you.
You'll need to make another appointment and come back because
you don't have your stuff. And he took a pen,
threw it on the ground, not on the counter, threw
it on the ground and walked out, and the cop
walked out right behind him. I couldn't hear what happened,
but the cop talked to him outside the door. Should okay,
(05:48):
But I was like, dude, why why is everybody?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Why is everybody throwing a fit.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Because you go It's a it's a preconceived attitude you
have him when you go. You expect a problem when
you go into that location facility.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Pasy lemon.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But I told you, but up.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Until all of this online scheduling, it was never like that.
You knew you were going to have a day going
to the DMV. But now with the online scheduling, and
I mean, despite what that guy read on the website,
I thought it kind of laid out everything pretty clearly.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So my appointment was at three pm, right, and they
said you can you can like you're supposed to sign
in with your phone. Yeah, at fifteen minutes beforehand, right,
So two forty five. So I parked the car and
then I which was great because the gate was broken.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I didn't have to pay for parking.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So I parked the car and I got in there
and then I thought I would just have to sit
down and then sign in. And I got there at
like two forty so I was five minutes early. But
you have to get in line.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
They want you to pay to use the DMV.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's pay parking.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
There's a parking garage around the block. There's no parking
on like there was no cark.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You didn't it wasn't there a lot?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
No, no, there was no street parking on Wilson Washington Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah no. So I just paid in the lot. But
the gate was broken and.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You drive through it. That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So anyway, so I got there and the guy was like,
you're early, and I was like okay, I said, I
just I parked, I came in. I didn't want to
be late. I didn't know it was okay, here's your ticket.
I left. My appointment was at three. Asked me what
time I left?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The DMV.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
If it was anything like my experience, I was out
of there in like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
To fifty nine. Yeah, I didn't even make it to
my appointment. And can I tell you what the best
part was. I get up to the I get up
to the window. So I've watched the I've listened to Kendrick.
I saw the guy throw the pen on the ground
and march outside. I get up to the window. I
push all my stuff through that that. I said, what
are you here for? And I said real ID? And
(07:49):
she said I said, my license expires on my birthday Monday,
and I need a real ID. She said, great, do
you have your application? I said yes, I slide it
through and she said, oh, there's you already filled it
out online. And I was like, oh no, I think
that was going to be a problem. Here we go
and I thought, so she went through it and I said, oh,
I couldn't sign it, so I just printed it out.
(08:11):
Whatever She's liken, no problem. She said, uh, oh, Elliott,
good to see you. And I was like, this is
gonna go great. And in my head I'm like, do
I have tickets in the car, Like this will be awesome.
Turns out the woman. So she says, do you still
live at the at my address? And I said yeah.
She goes, you know, I live fource houses down from you.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh so she knew you from the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, oh yeah, yeah, no, it was great, asked me.
After that, she stamped a couple of dings.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I had to answer a question.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
On the on the on the on the pad, I
had to stand. I did have to get another picture taken.
So I got my picture taken.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Oh no, the yeah, did you uh?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
From that eyebrow?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
The no, because I didn't think I was gonna have.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
To yea longer eyebrow yesterday. I should have told you.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's on me.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's on me.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I don't think it'll show up in the license.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It probably won't. They're not the highest quality cameras.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
She asked me if I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
She asked me if I wanted to smile in the picture,
and I said I'm good, And.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So I thought you weren't allowed to smile.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I took the picture and she said, why don't you smile?
And so then I did it again. So I gave
it like a half smile, like yeah, and then she
took it again. She bundled everything up. She said, your
license is voided. Keep this piece of paper. This is
your new license. I threw it all in my backpack
and I went home.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It was great. It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
See Diane, easy peasy, lemon squeezing made it right through.
And then I panicked that I left my birth certificate
there but I didn't. That's back at home. I also
didn't put my temporary license in my wallet, so I
was convinced i'd get pulled over on the way in today.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, your license is still good till Monday.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, no, my ID that I have now she said
it's void.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh, because she wants me to keep the piece of
paper with me until seven to ten business days when
I'll get mailed my real ID. So she said, use,
this is your driver's license, the piece of paper. Yeah,
and she said don't you're I already avoided your other license.
I was like, yeah, no big deal. And I was
like and she said, do you have any questions? And
in my head I was like, well, if I do,
(10:21):
I'll just walk down the street and come ask you.
But I'm good to go. It was awesome. It was great.
The place was packed, but it was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm happy to hear after weeks of worry. Yeah, it
ended up being nice and easy.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And now I have a real ID for the next
What what is that good for?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Fifteen years?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I think it's ten less than that.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Oh whatever, I'm good to go. I won't need I'll
never need to get it reviewed or renewed. Yeah, well
I'll probably dive.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But you you're to die before you need a new license.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Maybe I can see that happening.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I was so excited though, I was so excited for
everything to work out so smoothly, and now I feel
all legal.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Well you are, you're in compliance?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And when do you need real ID?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
By May the day?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well i'll fly before that, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Definitely going to get pushed back.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh if I wasted my time yesterday? Well is expiring anyway,
so yeah expire.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Good to go.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's the restaurant. Say again, you said you had.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
A restaurant, Yes, yes, yes, thank you. So Menino is
working up in Brooklyn, right, he opened up a restaurant
for an old family thread of theirs, right, and so
the restaurant is in this area of Brooklyn called Red Hook, right,
which is not the most convenient place to get to.
It is very moborn, but the area is, the area is,
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and so it's it's it's not honestly, it is not
a convenient place to get to, especially if you're coming
from Manhattan. So if you're coming from Manhattan, you would
have to like take a train. It's probably honestly, from
from like Midtown Manhattan, it's probably an hour to to
the restaurant. The restaurant's awesome though, and the restaurant is packed.
So one of the guys who grew up out in
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that area of Brooklyn is in Billy Joel's band, and
so he's in there all the time, like the guy,
the guy, I don't know what he does in the
in the band, but he is in Billy Joel's band.
And so this restaurant that Menino's at that he opened
for this old family friend. It had been opened like
twenty years ago and then it closed and now it
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has been they reopened it and Steve was helping them
reopen it. It's gone great, and so they were like Steve,
please stay, please stay. So he's just been staying up there.
So they were like years and years ago originally when
the restaurant was open. This guy who's in Billy Joel's band,
and I have no idea who it is.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, I don't you.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I mean, if it was Mark Rivera, I'm sure you
would know that name. I would know, But yeah, I
have no idea who it is. But anyway, he's been
going to this restaurant forever, so once it reopened, he
goes in there. So anyway he is is and I
guess he gave Steve tickets to go to like some
one of the Billy Joel shows or something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh no, it's great, it's great.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So anyway, last night, Steve's working and three guys walk in.
Who where They were like, hey, hey, well actually they
were probably British, but they were like, and I so
would say told us to come to this restaurant.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So we just came in for a meal.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And so the person who was working, Steve's not working
in the front of the house, he's in the kitchen.
And so they swear to God, if this is going,
I's where is it going. McCartney McCartney's band still awesome. Yeah, no, Paul,
but McCartney's band.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
But so Ringo and George, I mean, they're superstars. In
their own right.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So it was McCartney's band Wow, that walked in and
they were like, hey, we know so and so and
so and so knows the guy and Billy Joel's band,
and Billy Joel's guy told us to come here. So
they took a car service out to the restaurant in
Brooklyn and they went and as a tip, and so
Steve went out and was talking to them and like
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sent out a bunch of crap and stuff like that.
He said, they paid, they tipped, but like Steve sent
out like a like some desserts and appetisers and stuff
like that, and so they he said, the guys could
not have been nicer. They tipped the staff great. And
on the way out, one of them said, hey, can
you can you get chef again? So Steve came out
and they said, hey, mate, how do you spell your
(14:30):
last name? And so he spelled the last name and
he said, well, bring somebody with you see at the
Bowery tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
So wait a minute, that's meaning tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's going to see McCartney at the Bowery.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Wow, he's playing a third show.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, oh wow, Yeah, he's playing another one tonight at
the Bowery and Steve's going, Wow, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
How awesome is that?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He's like, uh, Anne Hathaway, all the celebrities came out
for night too.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, no, so I guess they were off last night,
which is how they ended up there.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And then he's playing. Yes, yeah, he's playing again tonight
at the Bowery.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So that's going.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
That that concert that they're having tonight though, that's the
one at Madison Square Garden, right.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Which one the SNL concert?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Steve's going to the Bowery see McCartney. I was like,
holy crap.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So out of all this, you got tickets to see
Billy Joel and McCartney's for you.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So yeah, he's pretty stoked.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So Radio City is where the concert?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh, radio City Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, so Radio City is the SNL thing.
But yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So are they going to because that show tonight is
on Peacock, are they going to go to the Bowery
at some point during the broadcast?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I have no idea. Here's all I know is that
you'll see Steve's big head in there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's kind of tall.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
At a crowd of five seventy five, he's going to
stand out.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I was like great, So a couple of appetizers and
a dessert and you're going to see McCartney
You know why today is a good day?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (00:01):
Guess who's got a real id? Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:03):
So everything worked out, you know what the best is?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
So I get to the DMV yesterday, right, and I
go in and they said, have you filled out your paperwork?
And I said, oh, absolutely I have. And they said,
do you have like all the stuff you were supposed
to bring? And I said I think so, And so
they said, okay, here's your number.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Have a seat. So I had a seat.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I got to watch two incidents take place at the
DMV and then I got called up by that. Oh
so here's the So when I'm sitting there waiting, two
things are going on. First of all, wouldn't you think
the waiting room at the DMV is not a good
place to hook up your phone to your Bluetooth speaker
and play music with a speaker?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
No, Si, And it was it wasn't low like, it
wasn't like like he was holding it up to his
ear so that he could hear it. So he has
and like it's just all chairs that you're sitting in
right with the stupid screen in front of you.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well the screen, it's not stupid, it's fine. It tells
you where to go.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So anyway, he's sitting there and on the chair next
to him, he's got it's probably about this big.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What is that? How many hairs is that?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah? Probably give or take the So he's got a
speaker about that big, and all of a sudden, boom,
he hits it and he starts playing music.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
What was he listening to?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Honestly, you know what he was listening to?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The distrack from Kendrick Lamar is playing inside the the DMV.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
He's sending a message of something I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, a great song, but the.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, ok yeah, And so that thing is playing now
to his credit, he did he didn't play the explicit version. Okay,
so that was going.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That is shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So anyway, that thing is playing, and again it is
not at a low volume.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now I don't care. I like the song. So I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Was he performing like? Was he dancing for money?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Who?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
In the DMV there's a lot of captive audiences. No,
he was sitting there, like after he got the bluetooth
working on the speaker, he was just on his phone.
Oh okay, yeah, so he's sitting like this, Kendrick's blaring
and he's just sitting there. And the finally and there's
a cop, like there's cops inside the DMV.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
And they didn't stop him.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Oh yeah, oh okay, I mean eventually they walked over
and at first they were looking around like where's the
music coming from? I was like, the speaker sitting right
on that guy's chair, Like I listen. There are people
that will play speakers in places where you probably shouldn't
play speakers tabletop at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is I've seen that before? Is jen?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh? Say restaurant to me, I have a great restaurant story,
not for me, but somebody that was there. But yeah, no,
I've seen people like take a speaker and put it
on top of the table so that they have like
their own playlist while they're eating. That's ridiculous. The I
don't golf, but I guess a lot of people keep
them in like if they have a golf cart. A
lot of people will put a speaker in their golf cart.
(03:05):
And apparently it pisses people off to no end, But
I've never seen one. Why would you do it at
the DMV of all places?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Why?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And there's kids screaming like it's a mess in there
and they are just the speaker's buddy. So the cop
finally walks over has him turn it off, and the
guy turns it down and he's like, no, off, So
he turned it off, and I'm glad he did because
when it turned off, I was sitting like in the
second row, but you could still hear a little bit
of what's going on at the counter. And that's when
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the guy said, no, I will read to you from
your website. And he started breathing from his phone and
the woman.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
So he's saying, this is what I was told to bring,
and you're telling me that's not right.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
He wasn't told anything, but he was going to read
from her from the website. And the woman is sitting
behind the plexiglass thing, which I don't know why that's up.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
COVID's over, but the so the plexiglass thing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is for aggressive customers.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No, but it's not. It's not bulletproof like it was.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's still a barrier, yeah, just to stop people.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, you can move that, you could move.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Somebody can't come out. You think somebody could come through that.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You could have pushed it right out of the way,
because when I had to hand a form to the woman.
My like, I went to go under it. They don't
give you a lot of the room. Yeah, a bank,
the no, no, no, no, it's it's just hanging there.
It's not it's not a permanent thing. So it's not
like a bank where you've got like that little thing.
It's just plexiglass that comes down to about what's that
fifty hairs where you slide stuff. But my hand kept
(04:36):
hitting it and the thing would fly back and the forth.
So it's just flimsy. It's just kind of hanging there.
But sturdier than the pharmacy shower curtain.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yes, yeah, but not much, not much.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So anyway, the guy, the guy is telling her, I
will read to you from the website. And this woman
just sat there with her arms crossed and listened, and
the guy read probably three paragraphs off the website.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Did you miss when your number was called?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
No, no, no, and so and And I give the
woman so much credit because and this guy, he was
so condescending and such a prick. And he's wearing like
he's wearing khakis with like a sport coat like he
dressed up to maybe he was on lunch break. I
don't know, but he dressed up to go to the DMV.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Much more likely he was at work.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
He was so condescending, and the woman said, okay, thank you.
You'll need to make another appointment and come back because
you don't have your stuff. And he took a pen,
threw it on the ground, not on the counter, threw
it on the ground and walked out, and the cop
walked out right behind him. I couldn't hear what happened,
but the cop talked to him outside the door. Should okay,
(05:48):
But I was like, dude, why why is everybody?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Why is everybody throwing a fit.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Because you go It's a it's a preconceived attitude you
have him when you go. You expect a problem when
you go into that location facility.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Pasy lemon.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But I told you, but up.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Until all of this online scheduling, it was never like that.
You knew you were going to have a day going
to the DMV. But now with the online scheduling, and
I mean, despite what that guy read on the website,
I thought it kind of laid out everything pretty clearly.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So my appointment was at three pm, right, and they
said you can you can like you're supposed to sign
in with your phone. Yeah, at fifteen minutes beforehand, right,
So two forty five. So I parked the car and
then I which was great because the gate was broken.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I didn't have to pay for parking.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So I parked the car and I got in there
and then I thought I would just have to sit
down and then sign in. And I got there at
like two forty so I was five minutes early. But
you have to get in line.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
They want you to pay to use the DMV.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's pay parking.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
There's a parking garage around the block. There's no parking
on like there was no cark.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You didn't it wasn't there a lot?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
No, no, there was no street parking on Wilson Washington Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah no. So I just paid in the lot. But
the gate was broken and.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You drive through it. That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So anyway, so I got there and the guy was like,
you're early, and I was like okay, I said, I
just I parked, I came in. I didn't want to
be late. I didn't know it was okay, here's your ticket.
I left. My appointment was at three. Asked me what
time I left?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The DMV.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
If it was anything like my experience, I was out
of there in like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
To fifty nine. Yeah, I didn't even make it to
my appointment. And can I tell you what the best
part was. I get up to the I get up
to the window. So I've watched the I've listened to Kendrick.
I saw the guy throw the pen on the ground
and march outside. I get up to the window. I
push all my stuff through that that. I said, what
are you here for? And I said real ID? And
(07:49):
she said I said, my license expires on my birthday Monday,
and I need a real ID. She said, great, do
you have your application? I said yes, I slide it
through and she said, oh, there's you already filled it
out online. And I was like, oh no, I think
that was going to be a problem. Here we go
and I thought, so she went through it and I said, oh,
I couldn't sign it, so I just printed it out.
(08:11):
Whatever She's liken, no problem. She said, uh, oh, Elliott,
good to see you. And I was like, this is
gonna go great. And in my head I'm like, do
I have tickets in the car, Like this will be awesome.
Turns out the woman. So she says, do you still
live at the at my address? And I said yeah.
She goes, you know, I live fource houses down from you.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh so she knew you from the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, oh yeah, yeah, no, it was great, asked me.
After that, she stamped a couple of dings.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I had to answer a question.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
On the on the on the on the pad, I
had to stand. I did have to get another picture taken.
So I got my picture taken.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Oh no, the yeah, did you uh?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
From that eyebrow?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
The no, because I didn't think I was gonna have.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
To yea longer eyebrow yesterday. I should have told you.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's on me.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's on me.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I don't think it'll show up in the license.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It probably won't. They're not the highest quality cameras.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
She asked me if I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
She asked me if I wanted to smile in the picture,
and I said I'm good, And.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So I thought you weren't allowed to smile.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I took the picture and she said, why don't you smile?
And so then I did it again. So I gave
it like a half smile, like yeah, and then she
took it again. She bundled everything up. She said, your
license is voided. Keep this piece of paper. This is
your new license. I threw it all in my backpack
and I went home.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It was great. It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
See Diane, easy peasy, lemon squeezing made it right through.
And then I panicked that I left my birth certificate
there but I didn't. That's back at home. I also
didn't put my temporary license in my wallet, so I
was convinced i'd get pulled over on the way in today.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, your license is still good till Monday.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, no, my ID that I have now she said
it's void.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh, because she wants me to keep the piece of
paper with me until seven to ten business days when
I'll get mailed my real ID. So she said, use,
this is your driver's license, the piece of paper. Yeah,
and she said don't you're I already avoided your other license.
I was like, yeah, no big deal. And I was
like and she said, do you have any questions? And
in my head I was like, well, if I do,
(10:21):
I'll just walk down the street and come ask you.
But I'm good to go. It was awesome. It was great.
The place was packed, but it was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm happy to hear after weeks of worry. Yeah, it
ended up being nice and easy.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And now I have a real ID for the next
What what is that good for?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Fifteen years?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I think it's ten less than that.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Oh whatever, I'm good to go. I won't need I'll
never need to get it reviewed or renewed. Yeah, well
I'll probably dive.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But you you're to die before you need a new license.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Maybe I can see that happening.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I was so excited though, I was so excited for
everything to work out so smoothly, and now I feel
all legal.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Well you are, you're in compliance?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And when do you need real ID?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
By May the day?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well i'll fly before that, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Definitely going to get pushed back.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh if I wasted my time yesterday? Well is expiring anyway,
so yeah expire.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Good to go.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's the restaurant. Say again, you said you had.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
A restaurant, Yes, yes, yes, thank you. So Menino is
working up in Brooklyn, right, he opened up a restaurant
for an old family thread of theirs, right, and so
the restaurant is in this area of Brooklyn called Red Hook, right,
which is not the most convenient place to get to.
It is very moborn, but the area is, the area is,
(11:44):
and so it's it's it's not honestly, it is not
a convenient place to get to, especially if you're coming
from Manhattan. So if you're coming from Manhattan, you would
have to like take a train. It's probably honestly, from
from like Midtown Manhattan, it's probably an hour to to
the restaurant. The restaurant's awesome though, and the restaurant is packed.
So one of the guys who grew up out in
(12:06):
that area of Brooklyn is in Billy Joel's band, and
so he's in there all the time, like the guy,
the guy, I don't know what he does in the
in the band, but he is in Billy Joel's band.
And so this restaurant that Menino's at that he opened
for this old family friend. It had been opened like
twenty years ago and then it closed and now it
(12:30):
has been they reopened it and Steve was helping them
reopen it. It's gone great, and so they were like Steve,
please stay, please stay. So he's just been staying up there.
So they were like years and years ago originally when
the restaurant was open. This guy who's in Billy Joel's band,
and I have no idea who it is.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, I don't you.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I mean, if it was Mark Rivera, I'm sure you
would know that name. I would know, But yeah, I
have no idea who it is. But anyway, he's been
going to this restaurant forever, so once it reopened, he
goes in there. So anyway he is is and I
guess he gave Steve tickets to go to like some
one of the Billy Joel shows or something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh no, it's great, it's great.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So anyway, last night, Steve's working and three guys walk in.
Who where They were like, hey, hey, well actually they
were probably British, but they were like, and I so
would say told us to come to this restaurant.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So we just came in for a meal.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And so the person who was working, Steve's not working
in the front of the house, he's in the kitchen.
And so they swear to God, if this is going,
I's where is it going. McCartney McCartney's band still awesome. Yeah, no, Paul,
but McCartney's band.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
But so Ringo and George, I mean, they're superstars. In
their own right.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So it was McCartney's band Wow, that walked in and
they were like, hey, we know so and so and
so and so knows the guy and Billy Joel's band,
and Billy Joel's guy told us to come here. So
they took a car service out to the restaurant in
Brooklyn and they went and as a tip, and so
Steve went out and was talking to them and like
(14:09):
sent out a bunch of crap and stuff like that.
He said, they paid, they tipped, but like Steve sent
out like a like some desserts and appetisers and stuff
like that, and so they he said, the guys could
not have been nicer. They tipped the staff great. And
on the way out, one of them said, hey, can
you can you get chef again? So Steve came out
and they said, hey, mate, how do you spell your
(14:30):
last name? And so he spelled the last name and
he said, well, bring somebody with you see at the
Bowery tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
So wait a minute, that's meaning tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's going to see McCartney at the Bowery.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Wow, he's playing a third show.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, oh wow, Yeah, he's playing another one tonight at
the Bowery and Steve's going, Wow, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
How awesome is that?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He's like, uh, Anne Hathaway, all the celebrities came out
for night too.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, no, so I guess they were off last night,
which is how they ended up there.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And then he's playing. Yes, yeah, he's playing again tonight
at the Bowery.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So that's going.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
That that concert that they're having tonight though, that's the
one at Madison Square Garden, right.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Which one the SNL concert?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Steve's going to the Bowery see McCartney. I was like,
holy crap.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So out of all this, you got tickets to see
Billy Joel and McCartney's for you.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So yeah, he's pretty stoked.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So Radio City is where the concert?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh, radio City Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, so Radio City is the SNL thing.
But yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So are they going to because that show tonight is
on Peacock, are they going to go to the Bowery
at some point during the broadcast?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I have no idea. Here's all I know is that
you'll see Steve's big head in there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's kind of tall.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
At a crowd of five seventy five, he's going to
stand out.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I was like great, So a couple of appetizers and
a dessert and you're going to see McCartney
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