#186: Cleaning Up The Balloon Knot

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Start aft dot up, start up, Brooklyn Boy, start up,
Brooklyn Boys, start dat up. They're making noise. Dat up
dot up. Episode one eighties six. It's the Brooklyn Boys podcast. Yeah,

(00:22):
so my Walkers and Talkers podcast, which we started a
year before the Brooklyn Boys podcast, my co host Jamie
and I started it. Um, we're up to episode one
ninety three. I think so, because, uh, we take some
time off occasionally because sometimes the Walking we do a
Walking Dead review show. Then we review all three Walking

(00:44):
Dead shows and then a couple of the shows. But
sometimes we take a few weeks off here and there.
So in our taking weeks off, the Brooklyn Boys is
only seven episodes behind, right, So now you mention that
six because when it was one eighty six of Walkers
and Talkers, I went on a little speech about how
it reminds me of six, which is the last time
the Mets won the World Series. And guess what the

(01:05):
way they're playing today? Oh my god, I don't think
we're gonna see a World Series from them for several
years to come. I'm really sports fan discussed and your
team's discussed place for May, June and July, and you're like,
oh my God, we're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna win
the division finally, and then a couple of players get
injured and they just they loose. It's terrible. I bit

(01:26):
my tongue early in the year because when the Mets
were on a roll in first place and the Yankees
were shooting the bed, a lot of my Met friends,
fans friends were mouthing off at the Yankee fans like ha, ha, look,
and I'm like, guys, don't do it. It happens every year,
wait till past the All Star break. Every year they
happened first place, but the Mets usually hold on. The

(01:47):
Mets usually have a great run early and shipped the
bed towards the end. Let's go back to two thousand
seven two when they when they choked, like at the
end of the season in September. What I'm trying to
say is turning into a sports podcast. What I'm saying
is this, you aren't surprised. I was so not surprised.

(02:07):
I mean, my eyes couldn't roll harder out of my
head than they have been the last couple of weeks
to see the Mets drop. We're up to five in
a row. Now that we lost. Yeah, by the way,
you know, they got rained out a lot last week,
which is the best thing that could happen. But because
of the pandemic rules, and they don't want you to
have to like be around the other players anymore than
you have to be used to be in baseball. If

(02:28):
the game was rained, like the rain was so bad
prior to the middle of the fifth inning, they would
cancel the game and you play a whole new game.
Now because of the pandemic rules, you just continue with
the next day. So like, I don't earlier last week,
maybe I think it was last week. The Mets were
getting hammered early and then the rain came, so I
was like, yes, the old expression is when your team

(02:50):
is bad, you pray for rain in baseball, so I
was praying for rain forgetting about the rule. So the
game gets rained rained postponed, and instead of the Mets
having a fresh clean and slate, they had to continue
to get him pick it up from being slaughtered after
three innings being beaten, and had to continue to get beaten.
I think they lost like fourteen of four Gusta or

(03:10):
something like that. I will never ever be I always
bite my tongue I never once this season said yeah,
let's come because here here we go and Yankees are
on the rise and the Mets are on the fall.
Speaking of you not being the biggest sports guy, you
played golf this week. You see that. I was gonna apologize.
I was gonna have said, yeah, I shouldn't have said
you played golf. You were there in a golfing environment,

(03:33):
on a golf course while people were playing golf. Yes,
you were doing you what you were you were Um,
you were reorganizing the dirt, that's what you were doing. Yeah,
I was. I was actually creating new jobs for the
people who take care of the grass, like, oh look,
we gotta we do the grass again because there's all
these divots in it, because he's some dirt. If you

(03:55):
were rost some friends, you would have been saying, da
great reference. So you got a couple of points on
that one. You know. I was part of a charity
event and I was so excited. It was a charity
case and a charity event. And I went with Gandhi
from our show the picture on to what looked like
you went to saw I'm not saying an in bed

(04:18):
so a Gandhi put up video of you driving down
a road which was lined with trees, beautifully kept, perfect trees.
It looked like something out of a movie. Right. So
you're on a one lane road or you know, one
one lane each way, and off in the distance is
a castle looking castle was a castle in the sky.
It didn't look real. You like, driving down this road.
It looks like it's a quarter mile long at least,

(04:38):
and there's nothing at the end of the road except
the castle. Castle on the hill, just like she said.
That's it's called Okeka Castle and it's in and it
is on the National Suffolk border of Long Island, in
Huntington's Long Island. You can call it Woodberry. It's off
of Jericho Turnpike. You know, you know I love Jericho,
my favorite turnpike. Yeah, your favorite turn pike to these

(05:01):
days or maybe not so much. I don't know. Jericho's
really that's a stretch, bro, I'll tell you what a stretches. Yeah.
You try to have your own day. Yeah. So we
went to so we went to Oh he Could Castle
for a charity event. It was a two day to
night thing. We did party in the night and then
we did a golf thing in the daytime. Now, originally

(05:22):
we were not supposed to play. But Johnny Damon, who
used to play for the Yankees and some other teams
and the Red Sox, he uh he was a big
fan uh and was going to go golfing that day.
And unfortunately he had some personal issues. There was um,
I guess the death in the family. Whatever. He didn't
make it to he could castle, so they scratched him.

(05:44):
And now you have to understand, Brodie, people paid ten
thousand dollars to have a foursome on the golf course
with a with a celebrity. I know that sounds filthy
if you're a non golfer. Four people go out on
the golf course together and then the fifth person is
a celebrity. Someone paid ten thous dollars for the rights

(06:07):
to have a golfing outing. Again, old money goes to
charity with with Johnny Damon as a celebrity. How do
you think that conversation went when they in the back
office had a rearrange kind of refund or something and
they said, hey, Johnny couldn't make it today. So you
get Scary Jones and Gandhi from the Elves to Rand

(06:27):
Warring Show and see wow, that's equal right. Uh, you
know what, she's the great great granddaughter of Gandhi something.
I'll say this, that's a couple of hundred bucks. As
luck would have it, one of the guys in the
foursome was a huge fan of our morning show and said,

(06:48):
we'll definitely take them. Yeah, okay, Johnny, can't make it
call scary and Gandhi. Well, Gandhi actually happens to have
a little gusto when it comes to golf. She knows
what she's doing and she's Gandhi has been there before.
Gandhi's like like golfed. She had her boyfriend golves a
lot and she obviously that was a good student. And

(07:09):
the point, the point is you you cannot golf, right.
So you got these four guys thinking they're in the Masters,
you know, earning their green jackets, Gandhi holding her own
and here I am you should have been holding your holding.
I would have been better off, should been playing with
your own putter. I was brodie. How do you take
a whack at the golf? At the how do you

(07:29):
take a swing? How do you how do you take
a whack and and miss the fucking ball three times
in a row. That's what I here's how you don't
do that. You miss it twice and then you stop swinging.
That's how you don't miss it three times. I was
so embarrassed. I was. They were like, you have to
stand up next to the ball. You have to line
up ball. Thank you, Honeymooners Norton. Great joke. Uh. Yes, So,

(07:56):
So I don't know what I did wrong, but I'll
tell you what I did right. Um, I left the
golf course early and let these guys play their game
and finish off because honestly, five six hours with us
on the field, we were just slowing it down. Did
you say field? Of course that's also a problem right there. Yeah.
So I lost the two balls that I did hit

(08:17):
ended up in the water. Lost them. So I'm not
good for golfing. Golfing is not good for me. I'll
drive the court the car all day, I'll eat the
food at the halfway point, I'll drink the drinks, and
I'll be there for a great conversation. But do not
came on the clubhouse guy. You're more of a guy.
I'm a clubhouse and the shower and lockers guy. After
some guys are on the back nine. You're just on

(08:38):
your back exactly, chilling on a chase lost. So yeah,
but it was great. We raised money for d up
on cancer. So it was a great chair all right,
no jokes. Everything that you ask your own d up
on cancer, d up on cancer, right, so it was
d up on cancer. Is that's a good cause. I'm
not making fun of the cause, just you yeah, just
because that. Yeah. So anyway, that was it. That was fine.

(09:01):
That one day was that. That was on on Monday,
on Monday. So let me see what I did. What
I did Sunday Monday. My daughter, my middle daughter is
away at college. Now. We drove her up to uh
to college up State New York. And college is beautiful
and it's oh god, it was. It was a number
of hours, many many hour drive from where we live. Okay, yep.

(09:25):
And as you know, again, what I'm gonna say is nothing.
It's not an insult on rural areas. I'm just pointing
out the differences in rural areas to the city ish
area I live in that we grew up in. So
some of the turns, once you get off the main roads,
we're going by barns and farms and and trailer homes
and it's fine. But it's like open space, right, it's

(09:47):
like corn fields and his cows and and so like.
From one house to the next is like a quarter mile.
This tremendous space. But there's a lot of um like
houses attached to silo and you know, like their bonds,
which is very cool. I always wondered what happened in there,
Like what do they store in there? Still a grain

(10:07):
or corn and silos because you don't want to store wide,
so you store high. Takes up less room, right, But
when you have all that space, who gives a funk?
If it's wide? Well, I guess again, because you don't
want to waste space. You can be growing stuff on
true true well anyway, so there's no bales of hay
in the silos. There were bales, no I was there.
Would bal say, I don't know what. Listen, people who

(10:28):
have their own silos, they can put a missile in
the silo. I don't know what's in there. I'm telling
you some of the things they have grain and corn
with different things. Someone will tweet you, I'm sure and
tell you. But here's the thing I get. While you'd
have a banner for a sports team. Right, you're a
sports fan like Pittsburg Steelers, right, huge fan, Jet fan.

(10:51):
I'm a jet fan. You put a banner. I wouldn't
put a banner of a sports team on my house,
though I might fly a little flag in the front,
like on game day. But I don't know if I
would put a banner, let's say, like a ten ft
by six ft banner over the side of my house.
If you have that kind of space, why not on
my house? If you lived where these people lived in

(11:12):
these rural areas. Okay, so here's where I'm going. And again,
if you do this, God bless you. I just it's
not I don't I can't relate to it. There were
a lot of banners for politicians. I think you were
talking about sports teams. No, no, no, nope, nope nope.
And I get you like a politician. But these homes,

(11:34):
let's say they were like twenty ft why they weren't
big houses. Half of the front of the house or
two thirds of the side of the house, sometimes covering windows,
were giant political banners. Some of them said they were
rooting for a particular candidate, and some of them said
fuck the other guy. By name, and these are local

(11:54):
candidates for po No, no, no, these are these are
big ones, are big ones. But to have a banner
on your house, I'm gonna I'm just gonna say Jones
because you're scared Jones. Let me say Jones. If you
have a banner that says Jones or Jones twenty four
right on half of your house, and then you you
may have two of these banners because I saw this

(12:15):
one a lot. Fuck Jones right, funck Jones giant back,
Like I can't imagine the place where I live, where
my family lives, where my kids are growing up. Like
even if you want your kids not to like this
particular politician, well because you got you got everyone looking
at that, you got families, right, So, so is it
just that there's nothing else to do in that kind

(12:36):
of area, Like it's there's nothing to do, Like there's
there's no like I mean, they do make shopping store fronts.
Do you make the best corn mazes there? They got
plenty of time to carve it out. It's just like
you see one, you go, oh, that's interesting, right, Like
sometimes you're driving around like rural areas of our of
our area, Like if you're in New Jersey, you might
go to half hour west right where it's a little

(12:57):
more rural, and you might see one house with a
with a flag, a flag or or a little like
some things in the lawn. These scary. I'm telling you
that we maybe fifteen ten twelve fifteen ft wide six
eight ft hot giant flag banners. I love this guy.
So I remember my car went with one with one

(13:18):
of my other kids because we had to go up
in two cars. And and she says to me, she's
like interesting, I'm like yeah, So I was like, who
do you think they bought it for? So again, I
don't care who you vote for. It's it's not the
point of this. It was just like so different, Like
can you imagine in Brooklyn, Like we're growing up so
close to each other, the in apartment buildings and to

(13:38):
family houses with like at banner over the front of
the whole house. It's like a billboard on your house.
So alright, alright, well okay, you know so, but the
thing is by putting those banners out there, they're not
going to influence other people. Well, there's no change to
change their right to change their minds. Like it was,
it was, it was it was, It's go away from

(13:59):
a It's almost say, nobody around this is who I
I want to world to know. It's like giving the
world the middle finger. Maybe not the world, maybe just
the half people are driving that road occasionally exactly and
pretty much half the people that that traveled down that road, right.
I just was, I was like, fuck Jones fu right
like I like, I would I put a fun the
Yankees sign on my house. I would think about it,

(14:22):
but not that big. I'm a mad fan, but I'm
not a Yankee hater, right right, yeah, especially since you
know the Yankees usually end up dominating by the end
of the season. I don't want to be the guy
that they're coming after, right right. Yeah, I get you.
I get you. Um um um. I was gonna say this,
I got more stories podcast. What's that in your dude,

(14:49):
I'll tell you what it is? Uh? What was that? See?
He went away? The hamas gone. See it's all it's
not my equipment, folks, it's Brody. See okay, he disconnected.
He's resetting his line. You're you're clean it is, and
now Brodie signs on you get the echo again. The
Ham is now gone. Tell you what the hamba is

(15:10):
it's gone. Oh it's there. It sounds better. Now that
was good. What are you doing? I'm not doing anything.
You hear me. The way it was just a second
ago was even better. You keep going away and coming back.
I'm here. Now it's bad. Yeah, I moved the microphone.
The problem with this microphone is I know the problem

(15:32):
with the microphone is the USB connector in the bottom
is loose. And so a couple of uh six, eight
weeks ago, couple of months, I opened the whole microphone
up and I crimped it with pliers like you're supposed
to do on YouTube video, and I tightened it. But
now it's loose again, so you bump into it all
you jiggle it, it disconnects for the YouTube how video.
How to videos with electronic equipment never end well for me.

(15:56):
Now this ended I did. I did worked well, it
worked well. Well, that's fine. Speaking of it sounds actually
it sounds like I was like before. It's like it's
like the buzzer they use it on when you when
you're getting a haircut. No, you know what it's the
it's the fan from my laptop. I didn't turn it
off this afternoon so it's been running since yesterday and

(16:18):
I have a lot it needs a break. But now
regarding haircuts, I just gonna want to tell you what
happened to me on my last cut. You know, I
got a fresh cut over the weekend. Yeah? Is that
because you had so many appearances this week? Yes? Okay,
because I want to talk about one specific appearance you had.
I meant to grab the audio, but I didn't, but
I'll describe it. And you're going, Erica, well really quickly.

(16:39):
This happened to me, and my my hairstyles tried to
cover it up. I had. I'd like to have my sideburns.
I like to have my side burns down to, like,
you know, lower than my ear where my cheek is
whatever the case, like when my cheeks starts the cheek
boat is a little bit of a sideburn. Well, she
knows I like that. She cleans me up, and then

(17:00):
she puts out the buzzers. By the way, you caught
your car is an ugly piece of ship. Oh sideburn? Sorry, okay,
sorry anyway, So then she puts the buzzer on the
sounds like this, I mean Brodie's audio, and she goes
across the sideburn, and I'm looking in the mirror like,
oh my god, she cut off too much. It's like
way above with the top of my ears. So now

(17:23):
I'm sitting in well, we're nearly were the top of
my ears. So she was, oh, she goes, She was,
I only wanted to swim a right. Yeah. So so
then she goes to the other side and she's, I
gotta even it out. Now she goes. But guess what
she did when she even did out. She went too
high on that one. So now she's gotta go. Now
she's gotta two ears are competing with each other, the

(17:45):
two sideburns left to right to left to right to try,
and they were uneven every time before Before long, I
had no sideburns, less left because she couldn't get them
even what do you mean you can't put hair back
even as not even even as not even especially in
sideburn world. So now she's anyway. So yeah, So so
I have like no sideburns, so I'm trying to grow

(18:07):
it in and not shave up there for a while. Wow, yeah,
you got screwed over. So you you did an appearance.
I'm not gonna say where it was, because you couldn't
decide if you want to say where it was. But
you you have an ability to do something I can't do.
You can pump up a crowd even when there's no
crowd there yet. You can get excited when it's not
nothing to get excited about yet. And so for your Instagram,

(18:30):
you were trying to get people to come on down.
And so you've you from the great video of this
beautiful place you're at. And in your video you said, come,
I'm at the party's going on, join us for the party, right,
and the camera was like, you know, moving around like
an MTV video, but it went too far left and
right and it showed there was nobody there yet, there
was no party. But your energy level is always at

(18:52):
party level, and I respect that. I wanted to give
you props for that because I know later on people
showed up, but at the time you were filming, they
had just set everything up. It looked great, but the
party really hadn't started yet. But you are your own
party and I respect that. Yes, well, thank you. Well,
this was just an observation whereas I feel like there's
gonna be some no, that's it. I know there was
I yes, I'm gonna say where it was because I

(19:15):
have a little a little story that goes with it,
and well I want just want to say I want
to go there, because the way you described it would
it looked like I'm starving for it. It's a it's
a place called German Donna cabab Yes, they're a sponsor. Yeah,
you don't have to hit the jingle because I left you.
German Donna Cabob is actually in the UK. And there
are three stories the trip. There's a lot of them.

(19:37):
It's like stories actually over there. All right. Well, now
this is their first American location and they wanted to
make a big splash, so they put a step and
repeat out there with professional photography and they may come
golf with Scary Jones banner. What do you call it? Yes, yeah, right,
the balloon? What do you call the balloon? The balloon knot?

(20:00):
If you don't know what leather cheerio, google leather cherio,
Google balloon knot. It's my favorite expression for an urban dictionary.
Let me see if it's if that's the that's what
comes off? Oh god, does is to be the first
thing that comes up for balloon knight because it looks
like a fucking balloon, knot anyway, so the balloon. So

(20:23):
I was at this place, right, and and then people like,
what's a donner kepop all right? The very simple thing
is is it's it's a gyro the Greeks. The Greeks
took a meat on a stick and then and and
grilled them horizontally. The Turkish came along, and they Turkish
came along, put it right side up onto a spit.

(20:46):
You've seen those before, the gyro vertical or the hero right,
so the so the the again, the Greeks did it
horizontally across fire. The Turkish people came, stood it up
and called it donner kebab. And then somewhere in the
middle there the Middle Eastern people called it schwarma. But
they're they're three and the same. It's it's the stuff

(21:08):
that you cut off of the vertical spit spins around
and anyway, they put them in a pea bread. But
this pizza is special because it tastes like Brodie's consistency
of pizza crushed. So it's pizza crushed in one of
the donna. Oh but anyway, that was the place. So
that reminds me of a so we went to eat

(21:29):
on Sunday up near the college. And so there's a
little town near the college, very nice town. But from
what I understand that I learned after the fact, they're
having a hard time getting people to work on Sunday nights,
and because school wasn't back in session yet, they didn't
have the students working for them, so that everyone was
short staffed. So some of the restaurants didn't open. Some

(21:51):
of them had two hour weights, right, so we were starving.
So there were two pizza places. One was closed and
I don't remember the name of the other one, but
it was open. It said Mediterranean food and pizza. So
there were photographs of like uh, gyros, you know, and

(22:14):
pizza and cal zones and hummus and uh so it
was it was Mediterranean food, I guess, uh and pizza
and pizza right now. Look, Greek people don't live that
far from Italy, right as far as uh you know.
So anyway, anyway, so crazy busy. The pizza was definitely pizza. Now, look,

(22:36):
I'm I'm four or five hours away from from New York,
so I'm already not expecting great pete beggars can't be choosers.
Right by the way. I never go into restaurants where
they post pictures of the food. Well, here's the title
they had. They had a cardboard professionally printed cardboard poster
leaning against the ledge where the pizzas behind the glass,

(22:57):
like like they up in the up against so standing up,
and it had pictures of the food like you go
to a Chinese restaurant, the pictures are up on the
menu take out place. And so there was a picture
of a gyro, it's a picture of some kind of
Greek salad or whatever it was whatever, And there's a
picture of a cow zone. The problem is it was
a strumboli. So I'm like, okay, I can't order the

(23:20):
peat in the cow zone or the strumboli because they
don't even know what it's called. It's difference. Well a
lot of the signmaker doesn't know the difference one or
the other. Don't order the garlic knots, you might get
a balloon knot right a place like this, A lot
of plus plus everybody there at this place. First of all,
none of them, none the more Italian, which is fine, um,

(23:43):
but they all called it even the people like from
the area, other people wherever they were from They called
it cheese slices. So I said, hey, can I get
a couple of slices too, chee slices? I did. I
wanted to say to the guy, what are the slices there?
They all have cheese, right, they all have cheese, They're
all cheese. It's pizza. It's like the right, it's the

(24:03):
white milk. So so see, he's where I got frustrated.
So I go back to the table and I said
to my wife and kids, I go, you know, you
know the piece is not gonna be good. They call
it cheese pizza, cheese pizza. So my college daughter says, yeah,
that's what all my friends call it. What, Yeah, cheese pizza,
slice of cheese pizza. I said, it's just called it's
called cheese pizzas called pizza, right, I said, I've never

(24:26):
been more ashamed of you as my child. Pizza comes
with cheese, right. But it's like calling it a beef burger.
It's just a burger. Anything else is when they want
to see those people are trying to clarify versus chicken
versus not just burger. Burger means beef. That's what burger means.
You want to call it a veggie burger. Beyond burger,
chicken burger, that's fine. Turkey burger. Default is beef burger.

(24:50):
Fault is pizza with cheese. That's that's even redundant. It's cheese,
sauce and bread. That's pizza. Yes, but I know a
place that serves it without sauce without that's not the same.
That's cheese the speed. And they call it that. They're
called no no cheese. But I'm looking up. I looked
a balloon not on Urban Dictionary. Yep, it's good, right,

(25:11):
everybody a slang term meaning yep. There you go. And
they give an example. I'm going to get my balloon
not licked. Wax used in a sentence usually waxed. I'm
gonna wax my balloon. Not today, Well, given the choice,
I don't know. Have you ever had you ever watch?
No me neither. No, I mean i've you know, I

(25:34):
don't want to know. The razor's gone up there. I've
had up up and there up and yeah, because I
you know, I shave everything there, right, I have to
show and I go around around, und I go down
and down under, I go under and back into the back. Okay, alright, okay,
So I need to feel like we're doing a dance.

(25:54):
This is one of those wedding dances. Into the back, ybody,
clap your cheeks. Okay, now underneath and to the back,
do you do the hokey pokey as well? Back there,
I poke me in the hokey yeah. So um so

(26:19):
see what you Okay? So I was sent out on
a mission. Yeah. So we packed up two cars worth
of stuff for my daughter's dorm room. Right. And of
course once you set up you realize as things you need. Okay,
So I get I've given a list batteries and a

(26:39):
step stool and some other things, and I'm told to
go to Target, which is, I don't know, twenty minutes away.
So I leave. I'm on my way and I get
a text message from my one of my kids. It says,
Mom says, we will need more plastic drawers. Send pictures
when you get to the store. See if there's a
Walmart instead of Target. Go to Walmart. And then a

(27:02):
text message comes in two minutes later says never mind,
never mind the whole thing. So I went to Target.
When I got to Target, I said, hey, I'm a Target.
What else do we need? And my wife says, I
told you go to Walmart. She said I had. I
had our kid text you to a Walmart. I told
her to text you yeah, but then she said never mind.

(27:24):
So she says, oh, no, never mind was for the
plastic drawers. But I wanted you to Walmart. Okay. That's
why Apple in their latest iPhone, the last couple of versions,
they have the reply to text on the screen there
so you can click on the text you're referring to,
and then the problem would have been solved. No, because

(27:46):
it was one text. Scary, The whole thing was one text.
Mom says, we'll need more plastic drawers. See if there's
a Walmart instead of a Target, go there. The next
text was never mind. Well, then I would have come
home to completely mean about fuck you guys. I'm out. Well, no,
I had a list of other things, but I went
to Target, and I was told I was wrong because
the list said never mind, never mind, but it only

(28:08):
referred to the plastic drawers. So I blame my daughter. Well,
you're not in mind. We are at that point, right,
That's what I said. I go, how do I know it? Never?
You could have asked if they were separate word bubbles.
She could, Yeah, all right, never mind, right never. You're
trying to apple phone me a dick. Yeah, iPhone, it's
not about that. It's it wasn't it wasn't get plastic drawers.

(28:29):
Next text message go to Walmart was all one, so
your Apple wouldn't have meant anything. Yeah in this case, yes,
all right, all right, never mind, we'll be right back.
Oh wow, look you'll get you taking the break. You're
gonna have to edit that. No, not, we don't edit here.

(28:53):
You cut me off against twice. I stopped cleanly twice
figuring you hit the button, you hit the button, I'm
gonna hit the button again. I don't hit the button again.
Don't hit the button again, hit the button again. Can
we can we can we do some audio? Yeah? Yeah,
you want to wait to wait for the audio? No,
I have the audio? Do you want the audio? Yeah?
You were feeling the audio. I'm feeling the audio right now,

(29:15):
feeling it. I'm feeling seven up. Okay. So there was
a gu seventies commercial. Yes, I don't remember it, and
I'm like it has That was the slogan for a
long time, scary into the eighties. Anyway, don't remember. All right,
you've never seen an old TV commercial? I have, but
I haven't seen that one. All right? You reference to

(29:37):
fucking honeymooners a little while ago from the forties and fifties.
Hello Ball, Hello Ball. That's gotta be like ninety. Do
you know that Daniel used that exact joke on the
radio yesterday? Hello Ball? Yeah, but that's a classic. It's
a classic show. Right, So feeling seven up? There was

(29:58):
a Jingo feeling seven up. I'm feeling seven up. I
don't know. I don't know that one. What's something I'm jingle?
Do I remember? It's the uncola? The Uncola seven is
the seventies. Also, that was Jonathan what's his name? He
was a Bond villain. It was early eighties. That's the
earliest memories I have of any seven up commercial. Then

(30:21):
the guy with the hat, Yeah, oh here it is.
Here's Sugar Ray Leonard. Es here we go, the boxer,
Sugar Leonard. I'm gonna files and less files and seven Nope,

(30:48):
oh yeah, just my dick. What do you say that
that's my dick? No, No, he says, that's just my dad.
It's Sugar Ray Leonard. His Son, his boxing son, So
Magic Johnson commercial would feeling seven up? It was. It
was a huge If I'm being completely honest, I don't

(31:08):
I've never heard of that. I never know that compaion campaign.
But you were old enough to know the eighties feeling
seven up commercials. Maybe I was. It was all athletes,
it was Magic Johnson, Larry Bird anyway, feeling seven up?
Who is seven? Whose daughter is that? That's what? That
was my own joke, and I used to say that
I'm feeling seven up. I was like, hey seven I'm

(31:33):
such a fucking child that I never heard that before
And I just made that up on you made the
same joke I made many many many years ago, of course,
of course. Okay. So it's like when people go fuck
you all and you go, who the hell's all? So okay? So, uh,
there was a speech being given by a government official
talking about I guess it was uh positive cases, COVID

(31:56):
cases and states. And it was a boring speech. But
the guy, I doesn't that he couldn't pronounce words like
he kept like he was talking like a child. So
I got a couple of them. He play ambulance first,
we sent ambulances and paramedics to Missouri, ambulance Louisiana. He said,

(32:16):
ambulances first, we sent ambulances and paramedics to I feel
that the dialect of where that guy grew up. Sure,
there are people listening to this right now and say
saying themselves and ambulance. It's an ambulance, but right, Okay,
listen to the way he says, Mrs Sippi, including hundreds

(32:41):
of healthcare personnel in Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi. He's missing assists
in there. He's missing assistance. You miss assist, don't miss
a sis, don't miss including hundreds of healthcare personnel in Louisiana, Mississippi.
That's lazy tongue. He's got lazy tongue. Yeah, So that
househole speech was like slarn words like that, and I

(33:02):
think your public speaker. Okay, So here's my latest in
terrible commercials. I have one I want to discuss after
this that I don't have audio from because it's not
an audio commercial. It's visual. But this is my new
oh my god. Commercial. This was a commercial that was
big about a year ago and they're bringing it back.
So it's a commercial for Blinkest, which is a company

(33:28):
that takes important books summarizes them into fifteen minutes, and
you can listen to him on audio, and and you
don't have to read books anymore, which I guess is
the downfall of our country. But it's helpful if you
don't want to read books. But I want you to
listen to this girl in the commercial and how unbelievably
impressed she is by something that most people would probably know.

(33:50):
And then I edited the commercials so you can hear
at the end she now sounds smarter. They listen how
cocky he is and his laugh at the end. Okay,
so which this is? You're so smart? It's such a
beautiful night. Look at the stars, they're amazing. Did you
know of stars have planets orbiting them capable of sustaining life?

(34:10):
How did you know that? You must spend a ton
of time reading that? It's not that So, first of all,
he's out with this girl's I guess supposed to be hot. Right,
She's like, look at the stars, and rather than going
like they're beautiful like your eyes, he goes, did you
know that? Like twent of whatever he said, planets have
sustainable life around the stars? Did you know that and

(34:33):
she's like, you're so smart. Oh god, and then he
goes on to talk about how he doesn't really read books,
so she thinks he's smart. Right, So the whole point
of this, this this thing, this Blinkett thing, not a sponsor,
is to appear smart right now that never will be
but now, but right right but now, instead of what
it's not, the product is fine. Rather than appearing smart,
he tells her, no, I don't actually read. I listen

(34:55):
to clips of books, right, and so listen to listen
to the clip again. He he pulls the roll with
the rug out from his own feet and then wraps
it up and gets like you gotta hear his laugh
at the end, ahead played again, such a beautiful night.
Look at the stars. They're amazing. Did you know of
stars have planets orbiting them, capable of sustaining life? You
know that you must spend a ton of time reading?

(35:17):
Not at all, he's bin, Yeah, it's enough that takes
key insights from over four thousand nonfiction bestsellers and gathers
them into fifteen made blinks for you to read or
listen to, like the stars, even the stars. Wow, Dister
didn't even give her the compliment. At the end, she
gave him two opportunities. Right, you know that guy ain't

(35:37):
getting laid tonight, Right, that guy, what the fund is
he thinking? And she's like, oh my god, you must
you must read a lunch that if there was ever
you know what that is. That's stat he just said. Scary.
It's like the kind of thing you read on a
fortune cookie. Yeah, like at a Snapple cap. That's what
he should have said. I read Snapple caps. They effects
in them of stars planted thrown them. We could stay life. Wow,

(36:01):
you must read a lot. How much do you need
to read to know one fact? Right? And she's like,
like the stars. He's like, yeah, yeah, that wow. He
takes no interest in her whatsoever. Probably that's he's he's
got cliff notes versions of books, right, doesn't give a fuck.

(36:21):
She's like, I want to fuck you. And he's like,
let me tell you about these fake books I read.
I mean you expect that ten years into a marriage,
but not on your first date. How do you know stuff? Well,
I don't actually read. I buy these these fifteen minute
things and I use it to impress women and then
I don't fuck them. Someone's not seeing any balloon, not tonight,

(36:44):
is what I'm saying. Okay, speaking of bloo speak, this
was not a segway I plan, but it's the perfect segue.
So this is a clip I want. I want to
preface this last clip, and you're gonna want to play
it more than once. This is the third third of
what I had to listen to. So the first third

(37:05):
I was like, Oh my god, I wish I was
taping this. There's no way it's going to continue. The
second third was me going, holy shit, it's continuing. I
gotta get my phone out. And the third third is
what you're gonna hear. So just no, you don't even
have a clip of this commercial. You don't even have
the whole thing. It's not a commercial. I'm gonna tell
you what it is in a minute. Just know that

(37:25):
I listened to two thirds before what you're gonna hear
that was louder and more disgusting. This is the dorm
bathroom at my daughter's college when another father came in
to use the stall next to me. I don't know
what's going on here, Go ahead, play it. Oh dude,

(38:10):
he was jerking off. No, yes he was no because
he he went oh fuck what what? Okay? We was
so could you describe the two thirds before? Okay? So,
so here's my point though in the third, the third third,
he's still struggling. Oh god, oh fuck. It happened too quickly.

(38:34):
And by the way, he didn't wipe his ass. No,
he flushed and he got up and left before I
could get up, Like that's what they think. He was
cranking it. No, No, because he had to know I
was there, and I looked scary. I mean, unless he
was giving him something and he was sitting. I could
see his foot you where it should be. He wasn't
standing over the bowl. Dude, if he was cranking one,

(38:57):
play it again. Let's let's let's hear and think to
see if it's because I didn't hear aready fapping? M
You don't, grunty, what's the have you ever made those sounds?

(39:28):
If you were doing that? Do you go? Oh? Fuck?
It sounded like he got out like a really hard No.
But to me, you would do that and then they
would just be like a lull and then you flushed
the toilet. You don't and there's something something didn't happen there.
It sounded I didn't hear white. I didn't edit it.
That's the thund He did that for three times that length,

(39:49):
at least the latest. Oh oh, and this isn't He
was the father of another student. I have to I
it sounded like a father because we were in the well.
I was in the the I was on the floor
above my daughter, because the floor above is half boys

(40:13):
and one end and half girls on the other and
it's like a staircase in the middle. So I was
in the men's bathroom. But it didn't sound like a kid.
It's like an eighteen year old freshman. Fuck. So look,
I know I no only wouldn't record it, it's it's
sling blade too. Yeah, got a pope. Two thirds of

(40:38):
that I missed. If I can recapture that somehow. The
whole time going it's so good, get it, get it,
get it, get it. He was saying the same thing
in his stall. He took one Mississippi to Mississippi, Mississippi. Yeah,
so that guy what was coming out of Yeah, that's

(40:58):
what I saw. That was my segway. That was my
second Wow, what did you what did you record this week?
You know, you never you never think about it, but
we have a recording device on us at all times.
I probably should take out my phone and record more,
I think. But the thing is, and you know what,
it's not as creepy as trying to sneak pictures and video. No,

(41:23):
it's it's much more inconspicuous. Right. Well, I, like I said,
I normally wouldn't have done it, like let the guy
have like a poop, But after it went on for
so long, I'm like, it's it's God's way of saying,
record this. That's the way I took it, because you
know you were there. I mean, I guess there were
three stalls. I was in the stall on one end.

(41:44):
He went in the middle stall. First of all, you
know that's not the move. You go to the other
other end. You don't go to the middle stall. That's
I don't know why he would do that. I wasn't
making noise, but the door was locked. Did he not
know I was there? Maybe didn't know If he knew
I was there, it was in those noises. God bless him,
because you know, no and and uh I heard, I heard.

(42:07):
I heard the pool at the beginning. There was some
pool at the beginning, but I didn't hear any pool
like I didn't hear any water. I didn't didn't hear
anything hitting the water, So your theory may not be
that far off. But even even let's say, hypothetically, let's
say he was uh pulling the old pud there. Right,
Let's say he's in a college freshman dorm. Right, he's

(42:28):
helping his son move into the dorm or his daughter,
and he came upstairs to use the bathroom, right, did
he did he just see like some eighteen year old
you know what, prody. I was gonna say it, but
I didn't want to say it. I don't Maybe he
got aroused because he saw a bunch of college girls.
Here's the thing, I don't want to get gross. Guys
will know what we're talking about. Women. You are some
I dam I'm sure if he was doing that right,

(42:51):
let's say he did the oh God right at the
oh ship right, he flushed immediately, there was still no
wipe either either way, There was no wipe the spooping. Yeah,
but but but it's not always a clean escape. You
gotta have something reminder, something's wrong, something I got one

(43:13):
more commercial? Can I fit it in? Or now? Yeah?
Let's go. Okay, So you guys are gonna see this
commercial and you're gonna you're gonna hate it. But so
it's a commercial with a couple sitting in a kitchen
island like a little countertop right, and they're watching television
and it's a lottery drawing and they see they just
won the lottery and they're holding the winning ticket, but
it's it's it's sitting on the counter right, like, oh

(43:34):
my god, we won, and it's sitting on the counter
that the the the countertop is maybe like five by
five square countertop. They get so excited one of them
knocks over a glass of something that looks like wine
or soda and it's spilled on the counter and it's
moving towards the ticket. Okay, they scream. Now they're in
slow motion. Then the voiceover comes on and says, Bounty

(43:58):
is the quicker picker Upper. One of them, in slow
motion grabs a roll of Bounty, unwraps the bounty, and
then wipes the counter before the dark liquid can ruin
the ticket. Am I making sense so far? Okay, So
you have a winning lottery ticket that first of all,
would still be acceptable if forgot wet. You're trying to

(44:20):
protect it. You have the time to grab a roll
of bounty, unwrap the roll of bounty, and then wipe
the liquid as it's rolling on a flat surface. Why not, No,
why don't you just take the ticket and swipe it,
pull away from the fucking yes, pull the ticket off
the table. Thank you, Paul, the ticket off the table.

(44:45):
You saw it coming. You go and get a roll
of bounty, and you unwrapped the Why wasn't the bounty unwrapped.
I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why they did
that way because they would not have the bounty commercial sho.
That's right if they did it the other way, right.
Somebody was so clever. They're going, I got a great idea.
We'll have the liquid going towards the ticket. That it

(45:09):
wasn't acid. It wasn't gonna burn up the ticket. It
would have made the ticket brown. It was like soda.
It was not a big deal. They went and got there.
They could have just picked the ticket up. The guy
was looking like like they said, I'm gonna get the bound.
But I think the UPC symbol would still work if
you scanned it. You know. No, No, I mean, like,
why don't just pick the ticket up off the county earlier, yes, right, right, right, okay.

(45:33):
And there's another commercial. I just saw it. It's another
one they brought back. It's it was an old one.
There's a guy on a on an island, right, I
guess he stranded on an island. And he spells out
help in all caps with twigs with like with branches. Okay,
h G LP Now it's capital letters, right. So the
L has the lip the leg on the bottom. Okay,

(45:56):
a helicopter is you hear a helicopter in the distance,
and the homeless, homeless guy, this stranded guy right with
scraggly clothes. He looks like you know, Tom hankson Castaway
goes oh, like he gets excited. He's running to the helicopter.
He then sees his dog pick up the leg of
the P and run off with it. So now it

(46:16):
says h E l oh hello, oh commercial, yes okay,
and he's like no, no, no, he's screaming right right,
and they cut to the people and the things saying,
oh if they're waiting hello to us, right right, the
guy's life is on the line, right, Why wouldn't you
just take the leg off the L and use it
for the P? You know, what he didn't because he

(46:39):
wouldn't have a commercial. He was going for the bounty.
That's what he was doing, right again, just stupid. The
guy deserves to be stuck on the island. He should
have laid down his own body and formed the p
like there's so many things you could have done. The
dog took the one letter that it's clever they made
help hello, sort of get it. I just I have
no tolerant for the bad commercials. That's all, okay, five

(47:02):
talents for good commercials like these. Yeah. I gotta say
that our our listeners are the best, the slices. They
really are tuned into everything that we do. I A
day doesn't go by where I don't open up the
Brooklyn Boys Twitter account and take a look at, uh,

(47:23):
you know, at what what goes on? Um in in it?
So we this week, for instance, as I'm pulling it up, installing, um,
what are you pulling up? I'm pulling up our the
Brooklyn Boys Twitter account? Oh right, right right, yeah, because
we had some fun things that we're thrown in there. Um,
oh my god, somebody is okay, I don't need to
see this. Somebody tweeted at us and it's it's literally

(47:45):
a picture of a guy jerking off, and it's a
real picture. That's a video, that's a video. Was he
in a dorm room bathroom? Yeah? First of all, shout
out to Shady jew Mobster, who big big mad fan
and then took a picture with Mr Met and while
he was wearing his old school original logoed first printing

(48:08):
Brooklyn Boys T shirt. So thank you Shady Jum Mopster,
We love you for that. Um. Then we had someone
who said that we were discussing about taking your shoes
off on the plane. Thank you to Randy Michelle Sabo
um big Mets fan. You have just yes, she is
or he is, you've discussed taking your shoes off on

(48:28):
a plane before. How do you feel about it? At
city field and a baseball game. There's a video or
a picture that she took of someone who just took
their sneakers off in front of her foot. They're going
barefoot at the fucking game. If you're barefoot at a
baseball game, chances are you've got a funk John's batter

(48:49):
on house guaranteed. Gut Um. Someone made a meme which
was great, Lord Lord of Enjoyment, thank you so much.
The bad customer service. There's a guy and then and
then the due to COVID excuse. So there's guy's playing
cards at a card table and there's one guy that's

(49:13):
about he's in motion of slapping a card down. That
means like he's gonna win the hand. So the table
says bead with the cards on, it's a bad customer service.
And then in his hand is the single card that
says due to COVID nineteen. And it's almost like boom,
I'm gonna throw this card down. I'm gonna play the
COVID nineteen due to COVID nineteen card. As we've discussed

(49:35):
so often on this podcast with people getting away with
shoddy service and they're still here, we are, close to
two years later using the due to COVID nineteen excuse.
It's on the staff, the bed, the bed card. I know,
but so many times we've pointed out that we're do

(49:55):
using it as an excuse. Just me last week and
so shout out to you you also um this one.
We think Brodie and I both feel the same way.
We think it's a joke. Um again, coming into at
the Brooklyn Boys on Twitter, Heather Gonzalez and don't forget
to take scary. He's still guy, he's still doing it.
It's it's at David Brody at the Brooken Boys. That's

(50:16):
Scary Jones. Then I don't forget scary. He's on the show.
So this is a big This is a big oops,
says Heather Gonzalez. And this isn't a picture that she wrote,
because we know that this has gotta be a photoshop thing.
It says across it is the lettering across this building,
and it says College of Architecture and Planning. All right, right,

(50:40):
but the C in college was there was no room
for it because on the building it says knowledge of
Architecture and Planning. And they made they put the sea
on the sidewall as if to say it's it's irony,
it's real, It's cannot be real. There's no way, yeah,
because you can't be real, right, and what does you have?
Had the last letter that didn't fit, not the first.

(51:03):
So they put the sea on the walls to make
knowledge of the architecture and planning, and obviously they didn't plan, right,
ha ha ha. There in lies the joke. But I
found that funny, very funny, but not clever, but but
definitely not real, not real. And then we had people
talking about Target and the places to park. Half the
parking is shipping containers and curbside there's no one, no

(51:24):
one is doing curbside. Here you are with a bunch
of empty fucking parking spaces. And then where's everybody else left?
The park back by the dump? Sta that problem last
night of shop? Right? This the four rows of parking,
the first five six spots in every row with miscellaneous
things other than handicapped, other than a handicapped spots. But
mom with baby pick up order ahead, Uh, we don't

(51:49):
like you like this again. It's just you can't park anymore.
You cannot park anymore. By the way, Snoop petty pog
does not like me using words like sus and lit
on this part. It's quite apparent he sent the meme
in there. He did the He put the meme of
the Pete Davidson character from SNL and Pete Davidson or

(52:11):
just oh no, this isn't Pete Davidson. You're so saucy
you don't even know who it is. It looks like
John Cryer. Okay, how do you do, fellow kids? Whatever?
That was sketch. Uh. And then finally on a Grammar
Police which I won't even play the jingle please leave
card inserted until prompted to remove found on an a

(52:32):
t M. I guess, oh, terrible, that's not good. Yeah,
I got a couple here from Nelson Abrams at Nelson
Underscore a B R A M s at Abrams watching
a quiet place too, and I see this place and
it's John Krasinski walking by a place called Brody's Pizzeria.
To what she says, I know, because it's Brodie's pete seria,

(52:52):
it would be great pizza, to which I said, uh,
well it would be if it was me, David Brody,
but I don't trust the Brodie name when it comes
to pizza places. Then Scary Time did not see my
reply yet, said well, if you go by Brodie's, theory,
it would be spizza because Brodie's is not an Italian name,
therefore it would probably not be good pizza. So I
think we agree on um. Mike South made Mike. I

(53:17):
read Mike's tweet last week where he said, you guys
are great on Walkers and Talkers. I figured out, Hey,
why not I become a fan of the Brooklyn Boys,
and so it begins, I'm listening to your podcast now. Now,
if you remember I said, if he's listening to the
podcast now, he's just starting our podcast. He's gonna be
like two years away from hearing this mentioning his name
got a tweet today. I'm enjoying it already. I'm flying

(53:41):
through them as fast as I can. I'm up to
episode sixty, but my iPad likes to download the recent
episode automatically until I changed the setting. So I heard
episode one five where you mentioned me first time ever. Um,
I wish there were more hours in a day, big fan.
So set Mike south Made is running through our episodes,

(54:02):
and I thought he would be years away from here
in his mention, but he listened out of a water
by accident and he heard it. So but he's enjoying it.
Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Um, highway Explore sent this.
This is disturbing. This is a picture again, So Highway
Explore kind of say some highway Explorer. I I very
much enjoy Highway Explore on Twitter, but you don't need

(54:22):
to copy us to every single customer service fight you have.
Oh this one is good though, but I know, but
picked the good ones. Well sometimes he's like, my eggs
were called. Well, this one it looks like a I
guess it is a truck stop, Pilot Flying ja. Oh,
Pilot Flying Jay is a is a It's like a
convenience store, like a quick mart for truckers, all like

(54:43):
on the big highways of the big roads. Well, I
passed a few tres. I'm gonna say something right here,
Pilot Flying Jay. This is scary Jones talking. How little
do you think of your fucking of your customers? I
mean no, yeah, really, this is absolutely disgusting that this
passes for food. Highway explorer tweeted us a picture of
what he or she found at the truck stop that

(55:07):
they were at. Right, do you really expect truckers to
eat this? It is a picture of I guess, a
cast iron skillet of burnt fucking chicken and and shapizza
and pans of shapizza that looked like they were made
three days ago. That is gross. That is disgusting. Pilot

(55:29):
at point. No, this is me now talking, and this
is me paraphrasing and getting it out. Um, how do
you claim to have the French? I'll read the quote,
how do you came to have fresh awesome food? More
like awesome, This is awesomely food, more like awesomely burnt disgusting,
And I agree with you, I don't understand. I mean,
now you're talking about putting people's health in risk here.

(55:51):
I mean, that's that's disgusting. That is absolutely atrocious. Do
better remember the Joe They to drive through because they
know you're gonna be like ten miles away before you
realize it. This vood is for truckers. They're gonna be
a hundred miles away, but they're not gonna come back.
And by the way, I've been Flying J. I wouldn't

(56:13):
order the food there. But that's the Flying j is
like sheets, some of them have like showers and places
you can nap episode they are like really like hardcore
for truckers. Uh. And it's a great place to buy
like like DVDs if you want to watch a DVD
in your truck. You know, like they have everything. But
maybe I wouldn't go there for the chicken. Maybe not.

(56:33):
I don't know, maybe not unless they want to be
a sponsor. And I'll focus on this stuff I said
before that. Yeah, um, and I have one more from
the Kickler Kickler friend Justine. I'm sorry, no Ce, Mick Yo, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris,
Chris right love Chris Um. His friend gave up, Troy

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gave us the he's got a track dress, the Mutiny medals, right,
his buddy did gave us the silver yep. Anyway, Ah,
he corrects us or me, he's talking about a simp
because I used the words simp at one time. A
simp might have been a simpleton, but a simp is
definitely a thirsty man who falls for thirst traps. Yeah,

(57:17):
so there you go. So that so a simp in today?
I I really, I mean, I guess I've heard kids
say it. I guess a simp as somebody who's going
after the thirst trap. I suppose a fine, alright, not down.
I'm not down with the lexicon. Yeah, I know you're not. Okay,
So that's all I got for you on Twitter to
I used to I read the Twitter today because we've

(57:39):
been backed up on that and I have been ignoring
the comments from there, and just yeah, well you don't
this week? Oh yeah, you know me. I don't give
a funk, right, I'm the worst. So so we're almost
we're almost wrapping up here. I did want to tell
you about um a pandemic related customer service issue where
I won so and what it was it was It
was not mean UM A couple of I want to say,

(58:01):
a year and a half ago. Shure we do that.
After our final break, we still have to take one more.
You know, in the industry they call it a tease.
So so you know, can I can I tell you
what happened to dollar Tree real quick, and then we'll
go to commercial because I feel like we gotta give
something now because I start something so dollar Tree, everything
there should be like a dollar right pretty much? Okay,
we know where this is going already. No, no, no,

(58:22):
not exactly. So you ever go to a supermarket and
you go to buy like a Target, and they do
you want cash back? That's the best way to get
cash Like if you if you if you don't have
a bank around, you know, I gotta If you don't,
you go to a different bank than your own bank,
they charge your fee. But if you take the money
out of the supermarket or a Target, you want cash back,
you get to be twenty. They don't charge you that.
They tucks he you go, here's some twenty bucks. So

(58:45):
I'm at dollar Tree, and you know, when you use
the credit card machine, some of them have questions for you, right,
pets Smart, one of them, pets Smart. I think I
want to talk about that next week. But Dollar Tree says,
would you like cash back? And I thought, you know what,
I don't normally need cash back, but I could use
some cash back. So I said, yeah, I'll take some

(59:07):
cash back, and they go, there will be a dollar fee.
Oh so dollar Tree is now dollar dollar fee. Wow,
that's what it charged me. A dollar so that they're
not making profit on the straws and the cups and
the plates, so they want to make a profit off
of off of the dollar twenty bucks I want. So
I was like, no, I'm not giving you are charging

(59:28):
me a dollar. Your customer at dollar Tree, Yeah, I
just bought something, obviously because I'm paying for it because
obviously I presented my card and you asked me if
I want cash back? Right, and you expect me to
pay Actually you've now paid double right. Well, listen, I
know everything there's a dollar, but now the cash back
is a dollar too, and scary. All right, So let

(59:53):
me tell what happened with with AMC. I love AMC,
loved the movie theaters. I happen to be going to
an AMC at an appear it's in about a half
hour from now. I know. That's why we're wrapping up.
What what movie you're gonna be seeing the night? Oh,
it's a um, it's that that horror it's that horror one.
It's not really a horror film. It's a it's in
the genre of that. It's called not the Nighthouse. Yeah.

(01:00:17):
So anyway, I'm a big fan of AMC, not a sponsor,
but consistently the best movie theaters in my area, in
our area, New York, New Jersey. Anyway, So I was
want to say, I want to say middle of something
happened I may have talked about on the podcast. I
don't remember where they sent me six passes to free

(01:00:41):
movie passes. Something happened either at a location or what
my stubs card. There was some reason why they mailed
me six good for any movie, which means you can
use it like an IMAX on a twenty dollar movie.
You can still use it. Right. The only problem is
most of the time when it's a big movie like
Star Wars or a Marvel movie you want to order
through the app, right, So I have these passes and

(01:01:06):
they were good until July of twenty let's see hold
on comes. Oh yeah, they were good until um July
of I want to get these dates right July. Okay,
my God, do not tell me. Don't hold on hold on,

(01:01:29):
So I get these passes. I'm gonna get so angry
for you for me. Okay. So I get the passes
and then COVID hits and all the movie theaters closed
and the keyword key phrase and all the movie theaters closed,
so you didn't have an opportunity to use them, right,
So my passes expired? Um, well, I want to get

(01:01:49):
to the first email here. Uh oh okay, So I
I tweeked them and I say, hey, um, I just
want to let you know I have these passes that fired.
They're right, they expired in um in in June of
of this year. So they say to me, oh, all um,

(01:02:12):
glad to hear you're happy to have to I saw
you were back up, happy if theater is open again.
But my past expired. They said, oh, your passes have
been extended through the end of July. I hope that
helps so they extended him from from the end of
May two months to July. So I said, will every
movie theater be aware of this? Also, I'm not going
to be able to use six passes between now and July.

(01:02:33):
Can you please reissue me new ones that are at
least good until December, at least on the amount of
time that your theaters were closed, which is like six months,
well a year, almost a year a year. So I said,
the ones I have are only good until December twenty,
That's what it was, right, So they I said, will
all theaters be aware of this? So they wrote back, yes,
all this is on on d M S. All theaters

(01:02:55):
will honor these passes through July. Unfortunately, we will not
be able to exchange these passes since our theaters did
not temporarily close until late late March of so you
had January, February and a half of March to use
your passes. Also, we would not be able to extend
the passes you currently have, as those have already been

(01:03:17):
extended by an additional six months, so I said, They wrote,
I apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you Amber. So I
wrote back, thank you for getting back to me. Yes,
I had two months last year to use six passes,
meaning the beginning of twenty right, But that's not enough time.

(01:03:38):
Now I've got a month to use five that I
have left. I'm being punished now because you guys were
closed because of the pandemic. Extending them an additional six
months is not helpful when you've been closed for a
year in the New York, New Jersey area. I would
like to make this right, and as a one time exceptions,

(01:04:00):
I love the one exception. We will replace your passes
that expire or have expired. Please provide your mailing address.
We will send you six passes. Mike Drop. My six
passes arrived and they are good until December one. So
again I tell you slices. You thought you were about
to take it in the balloon, knot. That's right. Don't

(01:04:22):
let companies shoot on you when it's when you're justified.
You can't. You can't extend my passes six months when
those six months you're closed, closed, right, and then when
the movie theater opens, extended two more months. So I've
got two months to use passes you gave me originally
that were good for a year from the date issued,
and and the dates of Fuzzy when I got him,

(01:04:43):
So don't like, don't do. The next week, I'm gonna
talk about the disaster that was the disaster that was
my stay at a place that I love to stay at.
I'm not going to give the name out, but the
breakfast and the brunch and everything was fucked up beyond recognition.
But I was eventually made whole, and Brody would be

(01:05:03):
so proud of me, and they may be whole. And
when I say whole, I mean blue knot, blue knot.
You know, do you know where I first heard the
term balloon knot? Where Brody it was growing up? And
you're off again, boys, boys,