The Basement Yard - #297 - I Hate The Internet

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

Joe goes on a rant about what is wrong about social media and the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the basement yard, giraffe, my dad, ow my dad, my dad hurts, yeah I can do it. Are you done? I'm very good at this, you know I am, it's a skill of mine. I want to let everyone know this right now, like obviously we're heading into the summer with these episodes as they release whatever, already hot, already hot, pretty hot in here, it's these fucking lights that, one of them is off by the way, you need that on, I need to look good, look I look a little light, not bright, turn that bitch on baby, show

em was really good, you know what I got to start doing, I got to start making sure the fucking AC is blowing before you get here, yeah, yeah and keep the door closed because if not, it's going to blow out there, I know how air conditioning works, I just want to make sure, okay, do you though, yeah, okay, I just want to make sure, do you know how doors work, because you haven't fucking closed that one, every time we do this, I stare at that whiskey glass, it's still on top of that toilet, that's just a cup baby, yeah it's just a cup, it's not necessarily a whiskey glass, do you use that toilet, no, I shave my balls over it, that's right, you do have a ball shaving toilet and sink, yeah, you

don't, I remember from your last place, yep, you had just one, a master bath, which was a lot smaller than your actual bath, and it wasn't really nice, it wasn't not, no, compared to the main one, it was really nice, very nice, yeah, there was just, any time I'd go in there to use the bathroom, which was frequent because Danny, hair, well Danny was the king of the bathroom at your old place, was he, bro, he goes in there, that door shut for a couple hours, yeah, yeah, I went into there, hair everywhere, yeah, and like sometimes I wanted to take pictures to see if it was the same hair that you hadn't cleaned up, it was, it was, oh yeah, how frequently would you go in there, shave your balls, how frequently

do you do that, I don't know, I do it like once a month maybe, oh, I think you say once a week and I was gonna like get really fucking mad, why, because that's just ridiculous, yeah, that is a bit ridiculous, I don't know, once every like 20 days, okay, I could have just said three weeks, you could have also just said once a month, that would have worked as well, I think it would have been more accurate, yeah, but you know, what are you gonna do, you upgraded, huh, you upgraded, what does that mean, not only do you upgrade places, I'm talking to the, I've never met someone that drives a Range Rover before, so I feel like I'm in like the company of royalty, oh hey, what's up bitch, I really, is it, is

it kind of, is it one of those things I really don't think it is, it's not like a Ferrari, I mean, that would be like yo, I mean, if you're driving, I don't think you should have a Ferrari if you live in New York City, oh yeah, I think you're a fucking asshole, that's very dumb, where are you driving it, to the fucking corner, also like you're going to the deli to get KitKats and you pull up in a fucking Ferrari, realistically, if you didn't need to use your car, because you'll go to like your mom's, if you didn't need to use your car, how much do you think you'd use it a week, what the fuck are you talking about, I wouldn't use it, then you idiot, if you didn't have to use your car, how would you use it,

a trick question at third grade, if you decided to be like us poor people and walk the eight blocks to your mom's, it's not eight, if you would walk to your mom's instead of taking the car, I wouldn't, how much do you realistically think you would drive, because I think a car, like a car in New York City is understandable, but it's not a necessity, no, it's not, I mean, I think it's, I think it's definitely not a necessity if you live in Manhattan, like at all, like I would never even dream of having a car if I lived there, I mean, if you did live there, you should just have a car because you'd be a multi bajillionaire, right, you know, but, but no, I hear you get to, you can drive places, you know, I like to be on the move, I like to go for drives, you have family

out in the island, you have family out in Jersey, you have someone you never go to see in South Jersey, you know, yeah, been there twice, you guys never come here, I don't know, I don't know, I never come here, no, the two times a week that I come here is not enough for you, when have you come here, that wasn't, we're doing this, that's a good question, yeah, I have a baby, you just got one, that's okay, you just got one eight seconds ago, and then guess what was before that, a pandemic, pandemic, a pandemic, a pandemic, that's like, that's an Irish panda, that's, that's racist, yeah, you could call it what it is, babe, yeah, an Irish panda, that was an Irish, what was that, I don't know, you just fucking had a voice crack or something, do an Irish brogue

for me, Frankie, I can't, yeah, I can't do this, not at all, no, okay, my name is Sersha, not as good, god damn it, that was terrible, but like, don't, I don't see the point of having a like really nice car here, unless you want to remind people like, I'm better than you, which is, which is like, I would say that's probably like, a 48% of it, 42, I hope it's something else, honestly, you can't even realize, getting A to B, obviously, it's like 8%, yeah, but you could get a Nissan, yeah, you could, you could, I'm not saying like the general you, I'm saying you, no, I know, yeah, you just chose not to, no, you just wanted a Range Rover, well, yeah, I've always wanted one, not like always, like, it's not like, oh my god, it's my dream car, but like, I like them a lot,

and I fucking love the car too, not because of like, it's a whatever, but more so, I like the fact, like, I prefer having a car like that, an SUV, yeah, and like, being a little high up and feeling like you're sort of like, in a truck, sort of like, super safe, yeah, you know what I mean, that makes sense, I prefer that than the car that I had, it was much lower to the floor, where you were basically sitting on the ground, yeah, moving 90 miles an hour, and well, no, 80, now I'm getting warmer, but I would, but now it's like, I see a fucking a bump in the road, whatever, he's going to fuck, it's at least babid at your car, my shit, what are you gonna do to it? Yeah, I got the tire protection, because finally after the last fucking disaster you had with those tires, well, I also

made out like a bandit with that, because BMW was like, listen, this tire package costs $2,500, but the wheels cost like 200 each, I was like, I would have to pop fucking 80 tires for this to be worth it, you're crazy, yeah, so, but here you are, just a Range Rover boy, do you feel like it's a lateral movement for you, because you went from a BMW, I am gonna be by the way, keeping a log of the evolution of your vehicles, oh, I'm gonna, yeah, well clearly, yeah, my vehicles, like there's a fleet of them, I had a Mazda, a BMW in this, that was it, those are some big upgrades, the only reason why I got the BMW is because I went to go get into my car, and my Mazda 3, and it was completely totaled, I remember that, unbeknownst to me, someone stole a taxi and drove

it into my car and smashed it on both sides, that's pretty cool, it was cool, even cooler, when they went to go pick up the car, because they have to tow it away, the guy looks at the car, he's on the corner, his truck's on the corner, and he's like, can you just drive it to the corner, and I'm like, are you seeing what I'm seeing? This car was mangled, I was afraid to turn it on, because I thought it would be like the godfather, like explosions, and then this is how I go, yeah, because this guy can't back up, leave the gun, take the cannoli, yeah, so that's what I thought was gonna happen, I had to like fucking, like I had to grab the door and be like, yeah, also you did drive it, did it move like the fucking Flintstones vehicle?

No, it moved, it was definitely dragging some stuff though, because I was like, there's definitely sparks behind me, that's a guy that's, that's, he's just a lazy bitch, he doesn't give a shit, yeah, well, I mean, why would he, he's just towing cars, I'd hate my life too, wouldn't you, yeah, I mean, I don't know, that's probably a miserable job, just because people are like, what, can you not, like when you repo shit, oh my god, well that's dangerous, they carry guns, I think, they have to, I mean, you're going to people's places and you're taking cars from, like from their hands, and you're basically like sneakily taking it from their driveway and shit, yeah, and it's like once you get the hook on, it's good, yeah, it's like,

yo, I got the hook, or like it's on the bed, it stays there, yeah, which I don't think is true, but do you know they've made a repo car porn before, like tow truck porn, what the fuck is that, what is tow truck porn, I don't know, but I'm not even gonna lie to you, there was two of them, that I was like, these are fucking dope, there was, are they fucking the car, the truck, or each other on both, no, no, no, so that's actually not a bad question, but like they'll tow a car, and they're like, it's on the bed, I can't, you know, and then obviously it's like, what do you want to do, I would say, you know, you could you suck my dick, they're always so mean, were they wearing overalls, uh, no, jean, blue, very, very, I was gonna say at least blue jeans, yeah, yeah,

yeah, uh, but big missed opportunity, the man is blurred, but the woman's just out here, any, if you always, it was weird to me, yeah, if you want to know what any, like, just like absolute generality of what peep and caricature of what people look like or act like are, I would assume just watch porn, that's why I'm thinking, anyone working with their hands overalls, a little like a smudge of dirt on their face, right, you know, yeah, the nurses have big fat tits, yeah, and their, and their name is like nurse busty or something, yeah, yeah, uh, like Pamela, I feel like the name Pamela, like, when I hear Pamela, I just think of big boobs, you know what I mean, you've been, you've been fucking predispos, Pamela Anderson, predisposition, don't, don't,

don't, don't, don't, don't even try it, when I hear the name Pamela, I'm like, big tits, for some reason, I, I feel bad because Pamela, do you know another big tit name? Um, uh, big tit name, mine's, I have another one, Cheyenne, uh, I knew one Cheyenne, she was Asian, what, flat as a board, yeah, an Asian Cheyenne, yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't see that every day, you didn't, when I think of Cheyenne, I think of like, uh, like a southern blonde girl with huge tits and one of those like crop top shirts that looks like a picnic table cover, yes, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean, the plaid that's, you know, cut here and like, they got pigtails and they got Daisy Dukes, and they're, they're working on your car, but my big old fat meat bags are hanging out, yeah, oh

my god, I can't wash the hood of this to be your vehicle, you mind if I get up on it, yeah, um, I don't know any big tit names, except for like, I've never heard of someone that's not massive named Bertha, Bertha is just, yeah, that's not Tisto, that's just like pure stature, it's like a curse, you know, but I mean, coming with it sometimes is just big old things, yeah, sometimes you got things, uh, but I'll have to keep an eye out for that, but you never answered my question, which one is this a move upward for you, do you just have a pair of dirty boxers under underneath a hanging mirror on the floor right there, dirty, I don't know, would you wear it right now, it like on my face, yeah, it's probably not, well then they're dirty, okay,

is this a lateral movement for you going from a BMW or is this a move upward, I just want to know, but like, is everything okay, what does this mean for me and my job, okay, what, first of all, up, I didn't know it's BMW, they're imported from Germany, are you like, I will stop you, I will stop you there, yes, you know nothing, nothing, let me explain how little Frankie knows about cars because I'm not a car person, I don't really know, I gotta be honest for you, I don't think they need any help right now, no, but listen, I'm just gonna say this, I don't know anything about cars like that, literally when I was talking to this guy, he was like talking about all this stuff and I was like, dude, I don't even know what the

fuck you're talking about, it made him explain to me, Frankie though, zero, after I got the car, we're sitting on my couch and Frank is like, oh dude, that's awesome, he's like, like, what do you pay a month, and I was joking around and I was just making noises, but the noises sounded like, no, you knew what you were saying, you went, I didn't, but I was just making noises, and then it sounded like I said 54, and he's like, oh, 5400, that's not bad, and I was like, what, well, hold on, I was like, do you think I'm paying 5400 for a car, first, well, yes, I do, what do you mean, do I think, I mean, that's just not, but like, that's just insane, well, because, the math, the math, all right, I need to, the math, here's the

fourth wall, peeling it back a little bit, well, you knock down the wall, you don't, you peel back the fourth wall, no, you peel back layers, you knock down the wall, show the, move the curtain, no, move the curtain, that's a vagina, fourth wall, and I'm breaking down, now you're breaking down the wall, the layer, the drywall, you know, there's studs in there, you don't peel back anything, go ahead, so the wallpaper, maybe, peel the wallpaper, but no one does that, no one does that, move the curtains out of the way first, Frankie, so I, wait, so there's wallpaper and curtains, and curtains, there's curtains just opening to a wall, just a wall, okay, so move the curtains, we need to get past this, pull the wallpaper, I, since you, you know, asked me to come on the show,

I have been, I've always been a part of Santagato Studios, but I've seen more of the inner workings, like, in terms of like, okay, and I know now that you're a humble billionaire, okay, okay, so when you jokingly say, yo, I'm gonna pay 5,400 for a car, and I know, I didn't, shut the fuck up, I know, like, oh, that's a fucking drop in the bucket, that's nothing for this fucking, you know, tighten of the industry, it's not nothing for this, so when you say, people are gonna think, and then we'll have a vault with just cash, well, not here, you wouldn't keep that in your apartment, no, it's at a bank, yeah, so when you say, you know, like, when you say 5,400, I'm like, oh, okay, that's something

that, but then when you told me, the reason why it's a psychotic thing is not because of what you're talking about, which by the way, adding an expense of 5,400 is not a drop in the bucket, that would be like, that's still a significant, like, whatever, but the reason why it's a psychotic thing is because clearly, you just have no idea about what people are, because you're also not off on that one, about what people are paying for cars, also, yes, I am very bad with estimations, so when people be like, yo, from here to the wall, what is it, I'll be like, yo, it's either like four feet or 38 feet, you know, oh my god, like, how much money's in this, you know, like, those things, it's like, how many cheese balls are in this bucket, yo, it could be a thousand, I don't

know, I'm not good with space, so in terms of like, when it's like, when you make 20 inches with your hands, yeah, he's bad, I think that's pretty accurate, you think that's almost two feet, I don't know about that cut, well, now it's getting a little, getting a little warmer, I don't know what I, this is big, that's pretty big, that might be, that's more than two feet, do you have a, I used to have a tape measure in here, but it's gone, I was gonna say, if you have a ruler in here, very strange, a ruler, what am I a fucking third grade teacher in the 90s, I don't know, so when you say you're gonna pay this much, I'm like, oh wow, financially, things are going great, I'm not getting fired soon, why do you keep saying, but you just want to,

you know, how could you have two of those thoughts at once, where you're like, oh my god, oh my god, you're scared, you got scared, I forgot that Charlie's underneath the table, I touched something, and I was like, it moved, I was scared the fuck out of me, how could I have, I'll tell you exactly how, my brain works very differently from yours, okay, I am always worried about life, you, you're happy, I'm worried about different things, like oh, am I, I'm driving, am I going too fast, am I gonna get pulled over, like that happens in a split second, that's what everyone does when they drive, so no, I also, you think I'm just driving like, well whatever happens happens, well you're in a fucking Range Rover, so I would, I mean, this is why you gotta get a bigger car, but my brain

works a little differently, so like, I'm always making sure, like, if I see you dropping, you know, like 400,000 on a car, I want to make sure that that, that means that it's not because you just fired me, or Josh, oh okay, you know, I worry about my friends too, gotcha, so, all right, so move in the right direction, you're doing well, are you asking me, yeah, yeah, everything's fine, all right, good, yeah, everything's okay, I've just been driving around, I enjoy the car very much, and just blasting that new, that new, so I feel, uh oh, why is he laughing, because, by the way, Nick's hat, fuck you, what, never cared about the Nick's, okay, they won yesterday, you know, I know, by the time this comes out, they'll be out of the playoff,

so it'll be funny, no, destroy me, everyone, I think that they're actually gonna beat the Hawks, but not Philly, that's gonna be a tough one, but, yeah, so I've been driving around and listening to this new album, it's titled Sour, and it's written by an 18 year old, so it kind of makes me feel a little weird, and it's a breakup album, but it's just a good album, who, what's, Olivia Rodrigo, I was going off about her on Twitter, oh yes, I saw that, she was a musical guest on SNL recently, was she, yeah, not last week, last week was Lil Nas X, by the way, his dick popped out, wait, who, Lil Nas X, oh yeah, oh yeah, he had a cock thing, his cock thing happened, yeah, dude, by the way, that performance, very gay, fucking, mad gay, I was like, yo,

good for him, good for like, the earth to like, have that, you know what I'm saying, that would never happen in like, fucking, 15, 10 years ago, well, I feel like David Bowie would do some stuff, David Bowie would not do it, I mean, except for dancing in the street, you ever see that music video, him and Mick Jagger are basically jerking each other off, Mick Jagger's definitely touched his, he's definitely touched his penis with his mouth, yeah, yeah, that's what he does, he said, look like this, he's going through it, he's Mick Jagger, yeah, this is Mick Jagger, and David Bowie's like, yeah, he's not, that was terrible, or right now he's dead, but yeah, oh, yeah, that's right, I keep going like this, like, Steph Curry after hitting a three, January

11, 2016, first day at Target, what do you think hurt me more? Target, a little bit, no, but I've been listening to this album and it's really good, but the one thing that fucking pissed me off, wait, so what's it's a breakup album, just like, yeah, like every song is just like, yo, I forgot how it was introduced to this, to this girl, not personally, but like, I like found a video of her, and oh, it was on TikTok, she posted a thing on TikTok, and it was she had wrote some song, and she was already popular by then, she was on some TV show that I don't even, I still don't, I've never seen it, I don't know if it exists, but it was a high school musical TV show or something. No, it was on Disney Plus, high school musical, the musical,

the movie, the show, or something like that. Well, that's probably not it. No, it's actually oddly enough, that's almost exactly what it's called. Oh, okay, but no, so whatever, so I went to her Instagram and she has these clips of, because she's a songwriter, and she was writing these songs that were like 35 seconds or some shit or like a minute, and it was just like a little verse or whatever with like discourse, and I'm like, this girl's fucking insanely talented, and I was like sending them to people like, yo, this girl's like 17, and she's like filthy at writing like songs. Joe was in love with a 17 year old. Okay, no, that's no. So anyway, fast forward, now she puts out this fucking album, obviously she has these two enormous songs, the fuck was that

song called, Driver's License, that came out, it was like number one, whatever. But then she has this song that comes out, the whole point of me saying all this is that this girl's a legitimate songwriter, and like I knew it from the beginning that like, you know, whatever, and then if you look at the credits of this album, she had written the entire thing. The reason why I get so fucking upset about this shit is because I saw a video on TikTok of someone comparing her, one of her like newer singles, that's also fucking number one right now, it's called Good For You, which is like similar. Do I need to go after this and just bump this album? The song is fire. Well, I feel like you won't like the album. Okay. But that song is like fire. Okay. But so it's song called Good For

You, and it's very similar to Misery Business by Paramount, which is also a banger. Let's not rewrite history here. Yeah, crazy. In the business of Misery, let's take it from the top. Yes, let's take it. Body like an hourglass taking like a clock. Yeah, it's a great song. But then so there was like these all like this video that came out like that and it went viral and then everyone in the comments is just saying the same things like, oh my god, so similar. And everyone's just like repeating the comment that they see above them, which is mad weird. And then more videos start coming out comparing them and then there was like all this stuff. Then I went on YouTube and I look at the YouTube video, the fucking the music video for this song has like had like two million likes

on it, but there was 44,000 dislikes on it, right? So in my mind, I'm like, this is happening because of the video that went viral on TikTok. And the reason why that fucking bothers me so much is because one like, yeah, if you want to get into like the nitty gritty of like, of course, people are inspired by other shit and like people sample shit and like whatever, like, I don't even care about that. The thing that bothers me the most and the reason why I'm literally starting to hate the fucking internet is because people are just like trying their hardest to hate shit. It's fucking insane. Oh, everyone the top comment and I put this tweet out and I was basically saying like the reason why that video has 44,000 dislikes is because a video went viral

on TikTok comparing the two and then someone who's fucking 13 and doesn't understand how the music industry works and how this girl is a legitimate songwriter who like your favorite artist doesn't write their shit. You go look at their albums, there's 40 people who write a song that has 18 words in it. Put it like this, look up, look up how many songs Neo wrote and how many he actually performed. Why do you know about that? Neo? Neo, I know a lot. He wrote like fucking shit for like Beyonce, Rihanna. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like yeah, like Rihanna, bro, she just like she just, you know, and like Bieber, same shit. Well, he'll just like get songs and like he'll just redo them. Like that's how that works. This girl is like a legitimate songwriter

who's been doing this like, this was like a couple years ago that I found this video. That's why I brought that up. And I was like, damn, this girl is like super talented. And then she wrote this whole thing, this whole album. And now this is the person that you decide to be like, oh, we're going to just dislike her video. Like the song is good. Like the song is just good. Like, you know it's good. So for you to dislike it, it's just like, you just desperately want to fit in because the top comment says these things are similar and we should hate it because they stole like this and that. It's like, that's not how music works. This girl is one of the actual ones who write songs. And like this is how you go about like your opinion. Like you don't even have an opinion.

You don't even know who you are. Yeah. And that's the thing is, first of all, period, everyone on the internet, everyone in life to an extent is just looking to fit in. It's just a matter of where they find fitting in, whether it's fucking listening to our podcast, whether it's watching a Twitch streamer, whether it's fucking, you know, the KKK people are just trying to fit in somewhere. It doesn't matter where it happens. But seriously, like, and what the internet is doing is it's providing people with the dumbest fucking ideas, the opportunity to be like, oh my god, this is also a stupid idea or no, they won't, they won't realize it's stupid. And then they just fucking latch onto that person and they try everything in their power to ruin other people's happiness.

And it's, and that's some of the people that really, really fucking get to me is the ones that just sit out there and they don't have the ability to look at somebody or look at something. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you and just go like, yo, good for them. You know, like how many times do we say Lil Nas X grinding up balls out on SNL? I'm fucking so happy for him. Good for him. Other people are like, yo, I don't like it. So I need everyone else to hate it too. But not only that, but like the thing, even if it's like good, like someone hasn't like your opinion is just, I just want to have the same opinion as everyone else. Like, and that's it. Like, then it's like, then who are you as a person if that's how you like go about it? Like,

even if, you know, like I've seen today, I saw some Tik Tok where by the way, all this is coming from Tik Tok. I don't have Tik Tok. I'm pretty proud of it. Well, that's where like, that's where the kids are. So like, that's why, like, that's why Joey has it. All right, stop making jokes. It's fucking weird when you do that. It's weird when you do that, because then when you know what happens, some fucking freak in five years says something. It's like, Oh, but Frankie knew then you're going down. Yeah, I'm going down. Now you're going down because I'm Frankie knew. Listen, I will go down with you. No fucking problem. Disgusting. No, but like the,

like people would just write the same comment over and over again. If someone says something witty, someone will just write it. And then like people just say the same things. Like, it's just weird. It's just strange to me that people like react this way. And that's the thing that bothers me so much about it. And like just to bring it like even more out, like this Olivia Rodrigo shit is like a very specific example. But like with anything, any sort of like problem or, you know, with the Israel Palestine, like there's some, like it's a complicated geopolitical issue. And people are just like firing tweets back and forth, acting like they understand what the fuck is going on.

Like you can actually, you know, say what you need to say or have some sort of understanding through eight tweets that you read. Like it's just not going to happen that way. And what, what in particular Twitter, and I assume TikTok and to an extent Instagram, and I know there have probably been times in my life where people have accused me of this as well as like, Hey, just because you have an opinion doesn't necessarily mean you need to be able to, you need to voice it. Like I understand that there are certain people to believe that because of, you know, people's following, they have a responsibility to do or say, you know, certain things, but you don't need to, you know what I mean? Like for instance, using like the

Israel Palestine conflict, I know nothing about it. I'm, I hear stuff about it. I, you know, on the, whether it be, you know, news outlets or whatever, but I don't comment on it because I know in my head, I know, I don't know. And that's the difference is that people on the internet feel like they have a responsibility to talk about something, regardless of how much they know and or don't know, they need to be in on the conversation. And people don't understand that sometimes you can just fucking sit back and shut up and listen. Yeah. And like, and also just like educate yourself on this shit because like that was another thing. A lot of like, you know, obviously this is still going on. I mean, it's a ceasefire right now, but like people were hitting me up

in my DMs, like, yo, you need to speak up for Israel. And I'm like, what, what? And then it's like, oh, you know, you need to speak up for Palestine. And it's like, well, listen, I need to like educate myself on this before I do any sort of thing, you know, like anything that happens in America, like I'm pretty much like aware of because it's happening here in the ground. Yeah. When these things kind of happen and like we have our friend, Ahmed, who's Palestinian. So he's in the past like, and he's especially like recently, you know, we've been talking about it. But and I've also talked to people who are living in Israel and like get like feedback from them, not feedback, but like information from them. And it's like, this is a very like touchy thing. And it's

not like, you know, whatever, like, and the thing that bothers me the most is like, people just need you to pick a side, like they just like make a hard stance right now, like now, like you don't even have time to like, oh, I'm not really sure about whatever. And it's like, I don't care, like pick my side or don't pick my side. Like, and I don't need like, it's just, it's just a weird way to function. And like, this was happening with the election. This is happening. That's what I was just gonna say. It's been happening for, I would say, honestly, like 15 years. It's well, it's just like, I'm sure even before that, but I wasn't able to recognize it because we were so young. I just feel like it's happening so much more recently where something will pop up. And then people need

to have this like hard ass stance on it. And they force everyone else to make a decision on it. Like right now, I want to know if you're a good person or a bad person, and those kind of like things like do exist. And like, yeah, I fully understand that, you know, there are, and I mean, even for me, there are certain political issues that if someone's on that side of the fence, I'm like, well, that doesn't really align with not me politically, but like morally, I feel totally different about this subject to like, we probably wouldn't end up being friends, because we just see the world differently. That's just not like, you know what I'm saying? Like, but there's a difference between acknowledging that you might not be friends and be able to get

along with that person. And then what the actual conversation is, you know, at least the loud, whether it be the majority or minority, saying like, oh, we can't, you see differently than me, you're a fucking idiot, you're a piece of shit, you're wrong. And listen, there are certain things that in my opinion are, as you said, clear cut, black and white, you know, for lack of better terms, you know, right and wrong. But it's also about understanding that just because people have those opinions, yes, you might not be able to be friends with them, but it doesn't make them an awful person. Are there instances where they are fucking pieces of shit? I said the KKK earlier. Yeah, piece of shit, you're a KKK member, I'll kill you, me personally. But what I'm saying is like,

you need to be able to then remove some of these political opinions from the conversation in terms of judging that person as an individual, because that's not necessarily their entire identity. Yeah, I think that like, I just think like all of this is very like a very bad precedent, because for me to be on TikTok, right, I'm going to be fucking 30 soon, like I'm up there, you know what I'm saying? And like we started the first half of our lives, our formidable years without the internet at all. And then we didn't, we didn't get like the internet, but social media we didn't have until we were young adults. Bro, I didn't have social media until like 2012, or 2011, or something like that. Like right around the same time I started doing YouTube was when I started like doing social

media stuff. We had like MySpace and Facebook, but they were very different from what they are now. Yeah, it wasn't anything like that. People don't realize it. But my biggest concern, and this is why before I was mentioning like, you know, the kids and this and that is because this girl is 18 years old and actually like talented and like writing music and this and that, while mega stars are just taking songs from people, and people are trying to like basically discredit this girl, like at 18 years old, I think the internet and social media as a whole is just a horrible place for people to be. I honestly feel that way now. And it's like, it's, it's, it's, I think it's like insane. Like it's, it's starting to feel like, like, I don't know, like it's just like a

bad thing. And that's why I put up on my story the other day. And I was like, do you think social media is good or bad? And 80% of people said bad, but we're all on it all hours of the day. And another thing is like, yeah, you don't look forward to social media, like everything that you look forward to is like spending time with people or doing this or a trip you have planned. But none of it revolves around social media. It's not like I look forward to getting on Instagram. It's, it's a thing that we just do now, brainlessly. And like, it's just part of our day. And like, what other things in your life do you just do brainlessly like that? Like nothing, at least I don't. Like there's a lot of purpose and reason behind the things that we do fucking like eat,

drink, like sneeze, basically. So it's, it's just like, you know, for, I think it's about the way you use and utilize social media. Yes, but no, but it's an addictive thing. Absolutely. Absolutely is an addiction. But think about that. If you're, and listen, and there's no correlation because fucking girls who are from the ages of like 10 to 14, like the suicide rate is up like 70% like it's ridiculous. And it's at the same time of the social media boom. And it's because so many people are being on these things. And everything is fucking negative, especially in the last few months with the election with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter and, and all of these things. And now Israel, Palestine, like, and then fucking all these random fucking people are pedophiles.

Like, and then the random news that you get, oh, some woman got shot in the Bronx and a kid got hit by a stray bullet. It's like, this is all you're consuming because all everyone likes to post about is either drama or like horrible things. Like good news doesn't really get a lot of good. So if you're constantly, especially at a younger age, being fed bad shit, and then you get on Instagram and you see all these women who have unrealistic expectations of their bodies and you have to look at them and compare yourself to them and you feel bad about yourself. Clearly that is happening. We're talking about the suicide rate being up 70%, which is insane. Like if all that is happening and it's happening in this one place and it's very easy to just

stop it, but we don't. Like no one thinks about that. I think, you know, definitely toward, you know, our mid, our midlife crisis, you know, around that time when we're like 50, 60 years old, we're definitely going to see a lot more studies coming out about how psychologically, how the onset of the internet, not necessarily the internet, because the internet existed when we were younger, but social media, how it has evolved and how it has changed the human psyche and what it has done to people. And is there becoming more of a reliance on technology? Yes, but people always say like, well, it's, you know, everything is controlled through your phone. Yes, there are a lot of things controlled through your phone, but it doesn't necessarily mean that

you need to have and use social media. You can have a smartphone without utilizing either or both of, you know, Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, but it's where people confuse, you know, the idea of being able to like, yo, oh my God, I'm able to connect with people from my past and stuff like that with getting your information from there. And that's the thing that social media has become that in my opinion is why I don't utilize it nearly as much as I did when I was a kid. And by kid, you know, 15, 16, 17, you know, even to like 18 and 19 is because when, when, when it first came out, it was like, yo, just find people, find people that you didn't know that you forgot about or you, you know, never knew where they went. Talk to them. Talk about

old stuff. Now it's like, find people, find out what they fucking believe in, find out, judge them for it, judge them for it. And then as you're doing that, look at these fucking news articles from, you know, just a myriad of different, yeah, you know, but like that's the difference is that social media now is being used to fucking try to make these people into more knowledgeable citizens instead of just being people and connecting. Yeah, I just, yeah. And that's, and that's what I worry about because I feel like at a certain point, like all this information is just like, dude, when I was a kid, and not to like compare and be like, oh, this is the way that whatever, but at the same time, like it makes a lot of sense. Like my parents, like there's a reason why

there's an R rating in certain movies. Like you're not supposed to expose certain, like people of a certain age to death and sex and murder and like, you know, all these things because it could have a psychological effect. Like somehow, like it could be traumatic for some people, especially if they're younger, they have to wait until they're a little older to have a better understanding of that. But now like that just doesn't exist. Like there's a rating for movies. It doesn't fucking matter, dude. Like, oh, I can't go in. Like you could get, you could see anything. I go on the internet. I think there's a video going viral of someone getting their head cut off. Like, and people who are fucking 11 can find that. Like it's, it's, and it's so much

easy to find these things. And it's like, it's, it's just wild men. And like the, all that stuff is like, whatever, the internet is not really what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that like social media is like, do you remember back in the day when cyber bullying like became a thing? Because like it didn't exist. Like you had regular bullies that would like, you know, put shit in your locker or whatever. I've never experienced any of that. I've never even seen it. But the nineties apparently that happened. And what's up twerp? Yeah, like lunch money. Oh, then give it social media happened. And then this whole idea of cyber bullying came out. And the joke was like, yo, how do you get cyberbullied? Like just shut your computer. And that's literally the

same thing. Like, yo, how do you, how do you have anxiety? How do you have depression? How do you like have body dysmorphia? Like just stay off social media. It's like, it seems so easy. But we're all like so deep in and we're not thinking about why we do these things that like, we just continue to indulge in the things that are like, yeah, the only, the only issue with that though is that you're not attacking the root of the issue. If the issue is that there's a gang of kids that are calling, you know, this young boy fat and stupid or whatever, you don't say, all right, don't expose yourself to them doing that. The real conversation should be like, all right, let's get those fucking people to stop. Well, those conversations go hand in hand,

because a lot of the reason why those kids are doing that is because it's cool or it's, it, it, you make you part of the group. These people are doing outlandish things. They're saying crazy things and they're getting attention. They're garnering, garnering attention. Fuck it. I'm going to be on this side that does this. And that was what I was talking about before, where everyone writing the same comment, because this, this comment was funny and it got a bunch of likes. Like, I'm going to say it the same thing. Maybe I'll change one word because I want that attention too. So it's like a mob mentality in that way. And then whoever's on the other end of that is the ones that are dealing with the body dysmorphia and the anxiety and the depression

and all these things. And it's just, it's just bad. And I feel like everyone knows it. When I put up that, I was shocked that it was 80, 20. I was shocked that it was 80, 20. The 80% of people said social media is bad, 20% said it was good. And a lot of people had messaged me with like this thing of like, it started out good, and now it's bad or like, it's good if you don't use it the way that most people use it. A lot of people said that. And, but most people, meaning 95%. 95% of people use it in a way where it's like, this is everything. And it's like, oh, I don't know. Like if you spend all of your time looking at the top comment and making that your opinion, and then also comparing yourselves and trying to look like the people that you're

following on Instagram, you don't even know who you are. Like that is the scariest thing in the world. And then when you, but you expose children to that, they may never know who they are. Because if they're fucking, if I started doing this at 10 years old, where I was like looking and doing and being a part of that world, I would have no, I'd like, I would be like, what the fuck? Like, you know how many times like, I was at a certain age where it's like, we got the internet like, what, when we were like, 13, 14, 15, I mean, internet was around when we were kids. Social media, it wasn't until we were like, social media, my space, which was what 2005, 2006. Yeah, but we didn't really use it like that. I think I started my addiction to social media in

like 2013. Straight through yourself. We definitely used to use it. Well, yeah, I did. I'm saying I didn't use it in the way that you use like Instagram and like all these things now. Well, because they're different now is like, it's not as, you know, like a lot of that stuff is not as accessible. If you wanted to find someone on my space, you had to look up fucking X double O cutie tolly and Bella X three bitch. Not only that, but like now it's like, it's, it's, it's so much easier to indulge in the addiction that is social media, because there's 500 apps that you could have. So it's like, if I'm not getting the attention that I want on Instagram, I still have Twitter. I still have Facebook. I still have fucking Snapchat. I have TikTok. I have this.

So it's like, you just run through them. And then when you're done, you go back to the front and you just keep finding this attention. When we were younger, we had to get home from school. And then we would go on my space. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna remind me after the ads. I got to remind you. Well, I'm only going to do half of them. And then we'll get into some other shit. I didn't mean for that to spiral into something. It's all right. Because I got, I got something else I want to say about Olivia Rodrigo. Okay, cool. Yeah, let's get to the, I mean, this is kind of, you know, whatever, I know a lot of people are dealing with stuff and this kind of like fits right into the conversation we were talking about. But our first sponsor for today is BetterHelp. BetterHelp

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that is G E T Q U I P dot com slash basement five. So go check it out. What were you gonna say? All right, back to the Olivia Rodriguez, Rodrigo. Do you notice, do you notice something about her though that might fucking show a bit of a, you know, like we've seen this before. She's a young fucking talented woman in Hollywood or in the music industry. How many times have we already seen that? Remember when people were fucking roasting Taylor Swift when people fucking picked apart Britney Spears? Like we've seen this before. But like, I don't think that it's like actually happening. I think that like we've come a long way from like the Britney Spears and like the Taylor Swift, I honestly don't really remember. I remember country fans like just being like,

she's not country, but they still do that about like Florida, Georgia. They did it about everyone. Yeah. So I, you know, you can be fucking. Yeah. Fuck you. I don't think that like it's, it's a matter of that. I do. I really do think it's just people like they don't really care either. That's the thing too. Like a lot of people will take this hard stance on something like I'm sure there's people out there that obviously there are people who actually care about the Israel Palestinian conflict. But like, there are people out there that are like, I just need to show that I picked aside and they don't give a fuck. They don't give a fuck to do enough research to have have any sort of understanding or compassion. Compassion is non-existent on the internet.

It just doesn't fucking exist at all. Digitally, it just doesn't. And that's where everyone's spending most of their time in a compassionate-less wasteland. Think about what that will do to you over the course of years. It's scary to think about. Because when I talk to my therapist about all the time, I swear to God, this is what we talk about all the time, right? I could be a fly on the wall for that just to hear you just fuck. Yo, like honestly, you know what, it makes sense. I haven't seen you go off on like fucking angry tangents in a while. So this therapist is doing their job pretty well. No, I think about it all the time because I worry about that. And not like for the betterment of people, but just for myself because like I'm on it all the time. I'm like,

yo, this is just not good. Do you think? Do you think because of like how we have seen trends? Yes, sure, we've come a long way since the Britney Spear stuff. But do you think you could be like a young like female pop star in like the United States? No, the idea was forget about female, forget about anything. I have zero desire to be famous. I will stop myself from getting to a certain point. I'll never be like Logan Paul. I have zero. I would stop doing this before I did that. Like I just have no desire to do that because I feel like people just view you in a weird ass way. I feel like I have a very healthy balance. Well, I think Logan Paul is also a bad example. He's he's done things that are like stupid and maybe they're

not stupid by the, you know, the subjective, you know, definition, but like he's trying to be a character. Well, that regardless, like any example, you could pick the goody two shoots of the world that's the same level of like the rock. Yeah, what? And never you would never want to be there. I want to be his like muscles. I don't want that much attention. I don't want to go out and feel like everyone's like looking at me and like make me the way I went out to dinner the other night and how'd it go? David Beckham was there. Yeah, guy was there. Let me get there. That guy is is like who I'm talking about where it's like, okay, David Beckham, when he walks around, paparazzi knows where you are. They take pictures of you. People are looking at you. They're like,

oh, wait, and people who don't even know you want to take a picture with you because you're like, I don't want to be a part of any of that. The anxiety like that. I think about it makes me sweat. I'll be the rock just like a little more muscles less. I want to keep my hair that I want to keep. I don't think I got it too. I can't pull off the ball. Okay. Not as many tattoos. I don't think I want any tattoos, as a matter of fact, and I'll take the money. Oh, okay. I'll take those things. Nice. But yeah, I'm kind of with you on that fucking paparazzi. Listen, like there are certain people, you know, like people, you know, talk about like, you know, like, oh, well, you know, you're a boxer, you're gonna get your nose broken, kid. It's like,

you're a paparazzi. You're gonna get the fucking breaks beat off you by a celebrity at least once. I don't know how that's legal. Like I remember watching the Britney Spears documentary and like they're showing like clips of paparazzi and this and that. And I'm like, how is this allowed? Especially with kids in the car, in any car, like, bro, I'm trying to operate this fucking vehicle. I could kill people with this and you're flashing lights in my face. Like that's mad dangerous. I like forget about the lights. I'm just saying like, if I'm in a parking spot and you're in front of me, I don't care who you are. Goodbye. I'm hitting you. Yeah. I've hit people for less. I've hit people in the target parking lot. Have you? No. Oh, I was gonna say Jesus Christ.

First of all, target. That's not less. All right, baby. For some, for some of us, target's the Epocholon. No, I've never done that in a Costco's though. Well, you got a Costco's is a very big Costco's I'm bumping everyone. Yeah, I don't blame you. But I'm just saying like, you know, like people always talk about like Alec Baldwin, like how dare he hit these paparazzi. Yo, if there was someone in my face, Frankie, Frankie, Frankie sir, Frankie sir, where are you going? What are you up to tonight? Oh, you had a good day? I'd be like, yo, I'm here to kill you now. Like now my fucking day has changed. I'm going to commit murder. Not only that, but think about the questions that they ask people. Like if you're going, if someone's like, if like someone like will go

through a divorce and a paparazzi be like, all y'all how's it going? Is she get who's getting the kids? And it's like, who the fuck are you? They've been doing that with fucking Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, which by the way, this is kind of funny because it'll be like Jennifer Lopez sticks out steps out to do yoga while Ben Affleck sucks down a nicotine stick. That's funny. Yeah, he's sucked out of stairs. And then they go up to fucking Alex Rodriguez are like, Alex, Alex, what do you think about your ex with another man? What how do you feel? Are you upset? And it's like, what are you fucking doing? Like you're making me relive this traumatic event. Listen, for someone that's gone through a gross, ugly fucking really sad breakup. If someone was in my face like,

Frankie, how do you feel that this person is fucking someone else? Yeah, I would be like, yo, it's time to like, it's time for you to die now. I have to kill you. And it's just it's brutal. And not only that, it's not one person. It's a it's a flock of people and they're taking photos of you and you're just trying to sit and go to a restaurant and people are just asking about it's like, dude, how is this legal? I will say if I was a paparazzi, I would try to like, like, listen, it's a dirty game and they've said it too. I would try to be that prick. You know what I mean? Like, it was like, you know, like, oh, Ben Affleck is in the fucking news again, because he got kicked out of his house and be like, Ben, Ben, what corner are you living on, Ben?

You know, just like absolutely just tear him apart. I wouldn't do that a little bit. Oh, I could never I feel like it's like just it's not human. It's it's like a complete this is what I'm talking about is like, so what I was talking about before was like compassion. That's a word that I use a lot because I think that it's just it does not exist on the internet. And then when you act like that, there's also zero compassion of like, dude, I understand that you have a job and you need to take these pictures and you need to but bro, you don't like it shouldn't be like you completely only think about yourself. It's like, you know, this is a person, dude, and he's like going through this and you're just like, you know what I'm saying? Like,

it's like trying to rile like that's like you find out that one of your friends parents died and you just spend the whole day being like talking about like his parent like, you know, they were good. Your parents used to be great. Remember? Now they're dead. Yeah, they are, aren't they? Did they? Yeah, they did, right? Yeah, they died. Well, no, no, I'm saying, like, it's good to say it was constantly just being like, yeah, right? They did. And you're like, yeah, man, yeah, yes, yes, yes. And it's like, are you sad? Are you sad? What the fuck do you think I'm experiencing? Explain to us how it was? What did she look like? Did she look like herself? Was she? How did she look? And you're like, who? Why do you think I would tell you this?

I am going to I know exactly what I'm going to do is a last get for you. If and when I die before you, I am going to hire like a paparazzi to follow you around be like, Joe, Joe, what was he your best friend? Please just say it, you know, just to see if you'll fucking memorialize me like that. It's I just think that it's like psychotic all these things. And the other day I tweeted and it's kind of whatever I as my pin tweet now, I tweeted something like, what was it? I'll pull it up. I got you right here. Bing, bang, boom, watch this Joe Sanagato. It's the easy for me to find you. You can't find me because you don't follow me. I don't follow anybody. I just want to make sure everyone remembers that your pin tweet says, um, the internet is killing us all and

we're pretending to have fun. Smile. Yep. Oh boy. It's true. You're really into it. I am. I am so deep into this. It's not even funny. Like it's legitimately like a thing that affects me deeply. Should we do an episode where I just give you things to make you happy because it feels like you're going through it a little bit. I'm not. I'm not. No, you're not happy. Okay. First of all, no, that's not what I was talking about. I was saying I'm not like going through it. It's not whatever. It's just something that I've become aware of and I'm looking at it now and it's becoming very obvious, especially with all of the really important things that have been happening in the last few months and seeing how people are reacting to it on social media. It's

just kind of like, that's a picture of Ruby. Is that making you happy? First of all, it looks exactly like you. It doesn't? Oh, what a cute babe. I'm not going to show it and there will be creeps out there. You ever think about that? Explain that. I don't want like, what if there are people? I obviously did that just for now. When people hide their baby, I'm like, well, I get it, but why? I get it. To each their own. The people that post pictures of their kid with the faces covered, it's like, just don't post the picture. Yeah. It's like, you have 400 followers. No, there are people like the undertaker's wife. Well, this is different. That I understand. But like, a random person that you know from high school who like, is an accountant and like,

nothing crazy would like, blur their baby's face and it's like, just don't post the picture. Or like, what's one of the things about the internet? It's like, you need to swallow the pill that like, people are going to maybe touch themselves to something that you post. Like, I'm sorry. And maybe don't post pictures of your kids if you don't want to. But like, Joe, you had to swallow the pill. Like, have you ever really thought about people are seeing pictures of you and being like, yo, this guy Joe, like tingle tangle. I don't think about that at all. Well, that's something you probably should think about. Why? I will literally never know. Exactly. Exactly. So like, the idea of not knowing is just as good as the idea of knowing. No, it's not. It's complete. No, ignorance

is bliss. Ignorance is bliss, but it could also be as scary as, as, as knowing, because you could be like, think about it. What's the quote? We're either alone in the universe or we're not both are terrifying. And it's like, Oh, shit, that's right. Either someone's jerking off to my face or they're not both are terrifying. What's terrifying about someone not jerking off to my face? I think I'm a good looking guy. I want someone to get a little, you know, Oh, I don't. That's not a care. Not a want. Nothing. You don't care if anyone sees like, wow, he's in a Nick's hat pretending to like basketball. Let's just fucking crank one out. Oh my God. No, I, no, I think that like ignorance is bliss. I think I need more ignorance in my

life. I can give you some hang with me for a couple of days. No, but think about it because it's like, look, when these things happen in the world, like if there's some fucking Hollywood, like fucking, what's his name? Harvey Weinstein. Bang. Harvey Weinstein. Is that exactly who you were thinking? Cause I was, I was like, did I say Hollywood? Yes, but I was thinking of like the worst person possible. I didn't know that's where you were going. No, no, no. So Harvey Weinstein, right? Best friends. Like the shit that he did was horrible. Yeah. And you know, then there was like Kevin Spacey did some stuff and then there was some other whatever, all these things were coming out and it's like everyone needed to make a comment about it.

And we're all like very aware of it, whatever. But it's like, and I understand that these people need to be like put in fucking jail or firing squad, whatever, which I heard they're bringing back in some states. Yeah. What year was it that we're doing firing? I don't know. I like it though. I don't know. I like it though. But that kind of stuff. It's like that. And then you have, you know, Israel, Palestine, you have people just at their necks for everything politically, then you have this person is contradicting and like all these things. Sometimes you just need some fucking ignorance. Like I understand that the world needs to be corrected and like there needs to be things like, but like, I don't need to know all of it. Like I don't need to sit and

watch the news and hear about every single person who gets hit by a car and every tragic six year old. And I'm joking with the fact. No, I know. But this is what I'm saying. I'm saying like that kind of shit is like when you're on social media constantly and people are forcing you to make a decision and make a hard stance on all these things, that means that you have to take in all this information. Whether you stand on the right side or wrong side is irrelevant to my point. My point is that you are getting the information and all of it is negative. And eventually I think your mental health just deteriorates. Oh, it's gone. It's not existing anymore. I do think though, I do think that we, in order to solve all these problems, we just

need to like rewrite the punitive system in our country. So like instead of like Harvey Weinstein just sitting in a jail cell for the rest of his life, his punishment should be like he has to like talk one on one with his victims and then read tweets about himself and then get beaten by like the significant others of his victims and stuff like that. I don't know. I mean, all I'm saying is that some of these people that tweet, you know, the Twitter fingers and Twitter keyboard warriors that tweet away and say whatever they want without thinking anything is going to happen to them or dislike or whatever and dislike can't be a crime. But I think if they knew at the end of the day, they were going to have to sit in front of this person and fucking like have them

like a conversation with them, it might might deter them. I don't know. I just listen no matter what for as long as humans have been around, there's people who murder. There's people who are off and they have like a thing and they like don't compute emotion correctly or whatever the fucking they just like kill people or whatever. I think it'd be like out of it to be a murderer. But you do need to be out of it to be a murderer. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're going to be like he was really on top of his stuff. Way to go. You really fucking thanks for uncovering that hidden gem. Boom. Got it. Nailed it. But yeah, I think that like I have no idea what I was talking about. It's all right. We can, you know, we can just talk. I have more ads. Oh, you're breaking

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fuck you, your dealership. Don't then you then you should have no job. No, that's not what I'm talking about. I recently like a couple of days ago posted a picture of the car because a lot of people are like, Oh, so I posted a picture of the car and I got so many messages that were like, you can get this but you can't pay Frankie. I'm like, you fucking kidding me this. Fuck, guys, just to make sure everyone is abundantly clear. Joey pays me quite well. Handsomely. This is all for jokes. Handsomely. He's definitely not making me say this and he's not kicking me under the table. But I did go to Verizon and I got in I walked out of there infuriated.

Why'd you go to Verizon? Because well, by the time this comes out, she'll know it's back his birthday. Yeah. So she wanted it. I was like, what do you want? She's got a new phone. She gets a new phone. Boom. Boom. I'll swallow the long dick of the law. Maybe not that one. The fucking the medium sized girthy dick of Verizon. Yeah. Of big telecom. Yeah. In order to get her maker happy. So I go in there and first I'm greeted by this guy who not a day over 24. And I have both kids with me and he's like, damn, you're a double kidding by yourself. I was double kitted up. Wow. I wanted to give her some time off. You have you strapped the baby to you. No, I was just carrying her like this. Damn, that's heavy on the arms. Well, you know,

fit bod died here. Yeah. And the guys like kids keeping the hands full on. I was like, yeah, he goes, I get it. I'm like, oh, okay, you know, you're in it. You know, being an apparent Joey, you haven't been there yet. It's like a club. Like you don't understand the hardships until you're in that club. Like everyone says like, yo, it's tough, but you don't get the level of difficulty until you're there. Right. For one reason or another. Some people have kids that sleep well. Other kids have, you know, don't get it like it varies, but everyone has their difficulties. So I'm like, pump now. I'm like, oh, this guy, this guy gets it. He's fucking, I guess he has kids, you know, maybe he had a oopsie, or maybe he just wanted to have kids young. Maybe he's a Jehovah.

I don't think Jehovah's can work at Verizon. A Christian. Wait, what? Listen, if they don't like birthdays, they're not going to like people coming in and asking about Christmas all the time. So they don't like birthdays. Jehovah's? Yeah, they're like no birthdays, no holidays. Wait, what? Wait, what? Jehovah's don't have birthdays? They have them, but they don't celebrate them. They just, just a day, just another day. But did they know in the back of their mind like, oh, damn, what could it be? Wait, so, so if I asked a Jehovah's witness, like, how old are you? They're like, no. Well, they'll say, they'll say, they'll be like, yo, my corporeal form has been on this planet. They might not say that. But we asked recently,

like through for Miles's birthday, we met a kid at like, he'd be friend of the kid at school, and they're fucking like, cool. And like, we asked the mom, like, oh, do you and your son want to come over for his birthday? And her response was, no, I'm a Jehovah. So no, we'll do another time. You didn't ask a follow up to that? Or like, what are you talking about? It's not our place. That's the woman's practicing religion. Curiosity here. I know. Listen, I'd be like, what? We didn't know her that well yet. Did you go home and Google? Are you just like, now you have it? No, when I was in high school, I dated a girl who was a Jehovah's witness. And she had no birthdays. No, she was cool with birthdays. I was kind of pumped that she didn't,

at first, I was like, Oh, great. No, perfect. No holidays. No fucking anniversary. I thought you didn't care about that. But no, she was going to get you a gift. But gosh, you know, good. You were there for Jehovah. Who they got Yahweh? Oh, you're speaking in tongues right now. I don't know what it is. I don't know what I'm talking about. Who is Yahweh? Is that like another way of saying God that might be that Pokemon or someone? I don't know, man. All right, I'm offending people right now. Yeah. But yeah, the Jehovah's like, yo, I won't come to a birthday party because I don't believe in it. It's fire. I guess. But the guys like, I'm like, Oh, all right. So I'm like, Oh, cool. How many kids you got? Oh, none. Damn, he told you that your kids were a handful,

but he didn't have this motherfucker. He just grabbed a membership to this club, this parents club. He walked his, he skipped the line. Yeah, he did. You can't, you can't be in on the fucking hardships if you're not ready to have kids yourselves. Don't give me a, you know, I get it. If you don't get it, you son of a bitch. And then he's insulting my kids. Yeah, that's kind of fucked up. I was a little upset for all you people out there. This dork is listening. No, fuck you. So you got the phone. Did you get it? I did. Yes, I did. Did you get it from him? Yeah. Oh, okay. At the end of the day, you're giving to your vices, you know, technology, you know, and then so I'm like, Oh, great. I tell miles. First of all, this one I feel bad for. I tell

miles. I'm like, yo, bro, listen, I didn't speak to him like yo, bro. I didn't listen to him like speak to him like your son. Listen, but this is a gift for mommy. Okay. Don't tell her. And he is like, yo, no problem. I'm not going to say anything. The second we walk in the house, he goes, Oh, we weren't out getting your birthday presents. And listen now, Becca is a smart woman. She knows we were out getting birthday presents for her. So like that wasn't a surprise. But then he goes, Oh, Kiki got himself a new phone. Oh, by the way, I'm Kiki. That's Kiki. Yeah. I'm like, I literally just dead pan. I just go, Miles, what are you doing, man? This kid just threw me under the fucking bus. And like Becca has a smirk on her face. She's like, Oh yeah, Kiki got a new phone.

And he's like, yup. I go, Miles, let's go in the room for a second. Now, he like a fucking champ. He goes, I threw her off. It's gonna make a great detective. That's what I'm saying. I'm like, what? Why? He goes, I mixed it up. She thinks you got a phone. I was like, but I didn't. And he goes, I'm like, just don't mention phones. Don't mention anything. And he's like, all right, I feel bad though, because like, I'm not going to tell the kid he ruined it. You know, maybe if he like really pisses me off. Like, by the way, you ruined your mom's birthday. Remember that four months ago? You ruined it. Remember that? Go to bed. But this was the cherry on top of the cake. Did they put cherry on cake? That's what they said. The cherry on top of the

cake. Did they put cherries? Well, put cherries, start putting cherries on cake. Isn't it ice cream? You just put the cherry on top. The frosting on the ice cream, the cherry on the cake, whatever one. No, frosting on the ice cream. Oh, you just, okay, I see what you did. You did the old miles. You reversed. I did. I tricked him up. I'm not going to upset because I feel bad because I know in his heart, his little heart, he was trying to do the right thing. He'll never be a spy. This is the part that made me want to throw my fucking phone at these people. I go in. I'm very clear. I'm like, yo, this is a gift. Oh, to Verizon. Verizon, which listen, I'm been a loyal Verizon customer of Verizon people. If you're listening, get ready. I'm fucking taking your whole company

down. Go sign up for Wing. Boom. Gotcha, man. Boom and again. I need to get a new thing. We need less boom. Bang. Okay. All right. Same family. I like it. I go in and I'm like, yo, this is a gift. And they're like, yo, no words. I'm like, she's not like everything's good. She won't know. They're like, no, no, no. She can set everything up in a couple of days. I'm like, oh, fucking great. This is awesome. Way to go. Yo, I get home and Becca's like, oh, see you bought yourself a phone. I'm like, I started laughing because she now knows that I got her a phone. And then she goes, it's all right. I already knew. I'm like, what the fuck? How do you already know? Verizon sent her a text saying, if you need help backing up your old phone, hit us up. What fucking idiots?

Like, I like, there gotta be like a button that says like, this is a gift. Don't text the person this is for instead. They're just like, yo, like, we're just going to give it all away. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I would just be like, just give me the phone and I'm giving you no information. I'll pay you on the months. Like, that's it. If you come back and well, no, they, they, they need a sign. Like they basically, they have to put in that this is the number, the line that's going to get the new phone and who's counters and under and blah, blah, blah, which I get. But like, there's got to be a button that says like, this is a gift. Don't fucking ruin it. Yeah. Like, what the fuck? Yeah. You know, I was very upset. That's funny though. No, it's not funny. I'm just

trying to do right and surprise my wife with a nice gift that she asked for all that. She didn't ask for it. She's always, she's been saying for a while that she wants a new phone with a better camera. With a gift that she asked for surprise. Well, that surprises Are you one of those people that's like, when someone says, like, what do you want for your birthday? You tell them exactly what it is and you get that and you still need to accept No, man, I don't, I rarely want stuff to be honest with you. I really do. And usually when I do, like, I'm impulsive. So I'm like, Oh man, I really want that and I'll just get it. I know. So like, I, my, my sister and my mom, specifically them too, but mostly my mom because my sister's always

the one that does like the rounds, but she's always like, when November hits, don't buy anything. Yeah. You know, unless it's like something insane, if it's going to be an expensive thing, like fine, because I'm not fucking getting that range Rover, don't buy it. But don't buy shit. So I don't, I try not to purchase anything that like, you'd like dumb shit that I would even need like, Oh, I need a pizza cutter. And like, now I'm like, I can't have fucking pizza because I got to wait for fucking Christmas. That's literally my life. Yeah, no, I get that. I've gotten to a point in my life where I just like, if I wanted, I, and if I have the ability to buy it, I just try to just buy it. Yeah. And like, that's why the Christmas comes around. I'm like,

I grew up in a household where anything I wanted, it was ask for your birthday or ask for Christmas. And I get that. Like that's like a good teachable moment. But like, there was never a time where it would be like February, be like, Ma, I really want a new video game. She'd be like, put it on your birthday list. No matter what fucking time of the year, if it was before my birthday and after Christmas, it was for my birthday. If it was after my birthday before Christmas, it was for Christmas. I can't win. Yeah. I lived a very rough life. Yeah, I don't know. We never really got stuff. That's sad. No, I mean, on Christmas, we would get stuff. But like, I'm saying like,

between those times, like birthdays and Christmas, there was like, Well, yours is tough. Yours is two months exactly after Christmas. Yeah. That's rough. Yeah, I like where mine is. It's right in the middle. Yeah, yours is great. Yours is perfect. Just say it's perfect. July. Bang. I went from the boom to the bang. I'm proud of you. Evolving. Yeah. What are we talking about? Are you getting nothing your whole life? I'm looking at you now. You got nothing. You were given nothing. That's another part of it. Only people that can be successful are the people that had nothing.

If you come from any sort of like even like middle class, it's like you're you don't have the opportunity to be any fucking like modicum of success. I don't know what word you just said. Modicum. But I saw one of those posts. Oh, by the way. I sent that to everyone after the next one. I saw one of those like business posts. It was the worst one ever. I have ever seen. Did you screenshot it? I want, I feel like I did. I posted it on my story actually. Oh, you can check that. Yep. Here it is. Big letters. Your outfits are killing you. Right? Your outfits are killing you.

And it's a picture of Zuckerberg and then a closet of gray shirts. Same shirts. And then under it says, ever wonder why people like Bezos and Zuckerberg wear the same clothes every day? No. No, I haven't. No, I haven't. I don't wonder that. It's called decision fatigue. The more decisions you make, the worse your decision gets. Your brain only has so much energy each day. Spend it wisely. Where did that come from? What the fuck are you talking about? You fucking idiot. Who made this up? Online business fucking. I don't know. I don't know, bro. It's like. That's really dumb. Have you ever won? No, I haven't and I'm still not. And now, if anything, I'm gonna not worry about that ever. I literally went to the page and clicked on the

first one I saw and it says, nobody wants to be in your journey. Not your friends, not your family, not your coworkers. The moment you realize that it's a solo trip is the moment you start making progress. What the fuck are these people? What is this content? I hate people like this so much that think that their movie is written like a fucking book. Dude. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people like, oh, no one's around for the fucking grind, but they're there for the shine. It's like, no one wants to be around you because you're fucking obnoxious. Yeah, or you post stuff like this. You suck. Yeah. Like, no, unless you're fucking Tony Stark building the first Iron Man suit literally in a cave alone, even he had a sidekick, that fucking Russian guy

Jensen, whatever. Aren't you happy I knew that? Or was he Jewish? He might have been something. I might have been, oh, it might have been from Palestine. Well, I don't know. Now you're canceled. Yeah. Why would they do that? Why did I pick out of all the movies? I did that. Dude, you know how often I do stuff like that? Like on other people's lives, we talked to someone who had trichotillomania. Trichotillomania. They eat their hair. I know that one. Well, they pull it out. Yeah. And she was talking to us the whole time and like the act of doing that, they call it like pulling. Yeah. So it's just like the word that they use. Like it's like a, you know, like whatever. I know where this is going. Literally at the end,

she just gave this whole speech about like, it was very nice and like inspirational. And at the end of it, I was like, listen, thank you so much for coming on and talking to us. Like, you know, keep us in, keep in touch, keep us updated. You know, we're pulling for you. I didn't do it on purpose though. But I did it and Greg was like, I was like, oh my God, like it immediately started apologizing. Yeah. And then we had another episode. We had another episode where it was a woman in a wheelchair who this is the newest episode that's coming out. Actually, oh, fuck. Yeah, you fucked yourself, didn't you? There was a woman in a wheelchair. She had some stuff about her that I'm not going to explain because that'll

ruin the episode. I don't know when the fuck that's coming out. But one of us, I don't remember who, but I'm pretty sure one of us said something like, you know, it's honestly cool just to hear how you're like kind of like rolling with the punches. And we're like, oh my God, dude. Dude, I once, when I was my first year as an RA, I went on, it was called a round. I went on a round of the building just to like make sure like doors were locked and whatever. And I come back and there's this fucking, I don't, there's this girl crying to one of the other RAs. And my first impulse, don't fucking ask me why. Was I go, a bomb go off or something? That's precisely what happened. Also, Frankie's only 20, not eight now. You were what, 21? When does that, what do you think you're

a 50 year old dad? 18. 18? Not even. Oh, bomb go off. Who's going on? Who's bringing a rocket roll? The fucking, can he make? It's 100% me. Do you remember when we would be at bars, would Dominic and Danny would make fun of me for her because of the one time, I did it multiple times, but they only saw it once where we were like done at the bar. It was time to leave. And I went, let's roll out. Oh my God. But apparently I said this, I was like, oh, a bomb go off or something. Apparently that's exactly what happened. Apparently her friends were like killed in like a car bombing. And she was crying about it. I apologized. I honestly like, I felt, I was more, I said this afterward, like, yeah, I felt bad, but I was more impressed that I was just able to

just, that's a coincidence. You're like, yo, what else can I say? What else can I say? What happened? You came into a billion dollars? What happens? Is this money in my room? Yeah, I was more impressed. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I think that, you know, obviously I, I don't ever want to deal with tragedy, but I feel like if stuff like that happened to me, it would make it, it would be funny. I'd be like, you know what, it did. Yeah. Yeah. And thanks for fucking pulling that out of nowhere. Danny did it to me one time. It was so fucking funny, but it was like way after. We were talking about my grandma or something. Did you say grandma? I just said grandma. Who the fuck are you? Are you watching that show, Mary of Easttown? I am. That shows fire, dude. My grandma. Yeah,

she's like, you want to get a beer? I'm going to have a beer. Every five seconds, she's having a beer in that show. Morning, nights, doesn't matter. I would. I love Kate Winslet, by the way. I love beer. Pointy nipples in Titanic, by the way. Beer, he makes my nipples pointy too. That's for fuck's sure. What was I talking about? Your grandma. No, but I was like talking about my grandma, and I forgot what happened, but I was just like saying something, and then Danny at the end of it just went, and now she's dead. And I fucking lost it, dude. I was dying. It was hilarious. Like, and now she's dead. It was so fucking funny. Do you remember years ago, we were at Porta Valle, the pizza place, and it was like in the summer, and I hadn't been back. I went to

school on 36th Avenue, and our friend, Chelsea, was like, hey, when was the last time you drove? I drove by there recently. When was the last time you were there? I was like, oh, when we were in the funeral procession for my dead grandma. What time? I was with Davino in the car, and we were driving, and he goes, oh my god. I didn't tell you the story though. Dude, I don't know. This was not even that long ago, but I was in the car with Davino, and we were driving on some block, and he goes, oh, my grandma used to live over here. I was like, right here? And he's like, yeah. I was like, oh, where should I live now? And he just turns to me and goes, in heaven. He looked at me with a mad pissed off face. It's like, in heaven. That's good. I was like,

oh, okay. All right. It would have been funnier if I went like St. Michael's Cemetery or something. Oh, yeah. That would have been better. Heaven. I mean, he got me. But anyway, I think we could wrap up. I'm just starting to sweat. Frank, where can they find you? FAlvors8085 on Twitter only, because I can't get the Frank Alvors on Twitter for some reason, because some dork that hasn't tweeted since 2012 hasn't. The Frank Alvors on Twitch and on Instagram if you want to come hang out with me, play some video games. It's always a fun time. Yep. And you guys can follow me at Joe Sandiato. Go follow the show at the Basement Yard on TikTok and Instagram and go check out the patreon.patreon.com slash The Basement Yard. We hit 8,500 followers. So we're going to be doing

a power hour, which is you take a shot of beer for every minute, every single minute for an hour. Yep. So we're going to do that episode on Patreon. It's going to hurt. Just want everyone to know. It's going to be a big, big, big mess. We'll put it like this. We're not even 30 years old and we need a plan because we know what it's going to do to our bodies. Yeah. So yeah, that is all. See you guys next time.