The Basement Yard - #517 - Welcome To Flavortown

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

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Welcome back to the basement. Welcome back to the basement yard. What the heck are you doing, buddy? I'm glad to be here. Oh, no. Sempai. Don't bring that. That's the Riddler now?

Oh, that. Bad? No, it was good, technically. It's just. What shirt are you wearing? Oh, we're doing. I thought we were just going to let this one go. He giggled on his way over.

Sorry I missed church today. I was at the Rainforest Cafe Gooning. Oh, that he was. He was jerking off. Hey, man, you're fired. You're not allowed to wear that. I thought it'd be a funny little ha-ha. I also thought we were just going to gloss over it.

But now I'm here. Well, no one wants to glaze over your shirt. Yeah, yeah, I think everyone is. Unless it's you, apparently gooner. Got him. Got him. You did get him because he's gooning, which we've learned recently. I mean beating your wiener.

From the youth means jerking your, cranking your dank. Yeah. Choking your chicken. Weekly. As they would. Oh, it's weekly. It's a weekly. It is a weekly episode.

Oh, stroke in your shaft. Right, right. He goes, shit. Tickling your feather dusting your bookcase. Tugging your boat. That's a better one. That's a good one, you know. Tying up your, your, whoever you have for ransom.

Welcome back to the basement yard. We're having a great time. That was bad. That was bad. But that's also, like you're wearing a shirt confessing to a crime, indecent exposure. You know, I'm just going to get off the shirt. I have a gift for everybody here today. Oh, oh.

We talked about stadium foods, and it turns out the Taramisu Yankee Cup. Shut the fuck up. My cousin at Fortunato's Bakery makes them. Your cousin is Fortunato? My cousin is the Fortunato? Wait, he is Fortunato? He's Fortunato. Wow.

Wait, your cousin is the bakery? Yeah, they work. And you never told us this before. It's their bakery or their bakery? Well, who else is what a Pee? Wait, your cousin is Fortunato? I don't know. I'm saying it like a Jepetto or like Panopio.

Yeah, yeah. This is his way of slowly reintroducing the idea that he's more rich than you. No, no, no. Which is so crazy. Joey's pissed, absolutely. We're from the same, like, town in Italy where my whole family's from. Either way. Taramisu.

I was about to talk shit about Italians. Are you talking about Italy like the country or you're talking about Epcot or something? I'm talking about Italy. Which one have you been to more? I will keep them all. I will keep them all. Wait, no, no, no, no, what's in the bottom of? What's in the bottom of?

Taramisu. Teramisu. Dude. Yeah, I got you. Sue me. Taramasumi. Don't sue me. But Tiramissumi.

Tira my suey. I'll get out too. We're allowed one bad one per day. How do they look? Oh, they're dusty little hoars. They're little dusty broads? And they're actually in the helmets. Oh, they got helmets?

What's this? Oh my god. Dust. Thank you. Give me that dusty cake. cake. Oh my God. Dude, I had a Tiramisu recently, and I

accidentally sucked in while I ate it. Yeah, we were out to dinner together. Oh, yeah, you were there. Oh. Yo, these are dusty horse. And they're, like, heavy, too. This is a big, are the, are the helmets normally this big?

By the way, Yankee helmets, I wouldn't need it if it was a Mets helmet. I would. I would, absolutely. I would tell anyway. I love Tiamersu. Are we just going for it? I think so, right?

What's the dust on top? Is it like espresso powder? Or is it cocaqueca. Do we know what it is? Coquah? Coquah. I think it's cocoa powder. It's the official one from the stadium.

They went to the stadium? No, they make it and then send it to the stadium. Oh, fuck me. That is good. They don't make it at the stadium? No. I don't know if that's a spoiler. That's, that seems...

Is it? Yeah. All right. I'm going to... Oh, my God. Oh, that moss car is pony. Yeah. It's poning right now.

It's poning me. Poned. Get poned, dude. Oh, yeah. Your cousin? Your cousin did this? Your cousin tastes amazing. You got a good taste in cousin.

Damn, this is stupid. Runs in the family. All right. You're disgusting. You're gooting, nerd. We were joking around and now you're making it. We're joking around about tasting your delicious cousin. Yeah, not you.

And now you want to make it about you, a guy that jerks off at Rainforest Cafe. Get him, police. You think any police watch this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I won time Here's a fun story while we're doing this I one time

There was a kid in our neighborhood That was like he became like a teacher Or like worked in a school Oh you tell us a story And he was a weirdo I don't know if I told aunt this story He was a weirdo And would like post pictures with like his students

Like high school students Like ha ha I wonder if she'll take me to prom And I would just tag the NYPD in his post. I don't know. I want to, listen, I'm being a, uh, uh, a, uh, a, a, uh, a, a, uh, a, a, uh, a, a. Fuck, no. It does got you.

Uh, there he goes. That's the oldest man cough I've ever heard you give. Why do you put it like that? Because it's, it's, you know. Is what it is. Wait, empty? No, no, no. There's still a bit more, but the choking.

I think that was God sending me a message. I can't eat in the fucking mic because someone's going to punch me in the mouth. Well, is what it is, but... Look at this sloppy bitch. I know, dude. Eat that little... Yeah, eat it, eat it, you fucking bastard.

Oh, Tirmisu, man. That's something the Italians got right. Mm-hmm. That and pizza. Mm-hmm. I don't even... Probably a couple more things, maybe. Cavitelli?

I'll take that. Isn't that pasta? Yeah. Mm-hmm. They didn't make pasta, did they? I think originally... Well, they kind of stole it from China. I think it was the Chinese.

China! China! China made it all! Big pasta tall Mexican pasta Okay I got it Yes

Yes got them I don't think Unbelievable thank you so much for that present though Do they have Mexican pasta I don't My thanks was interrupted Yeah I just wanted to say thank you to you

Fuck you Fortunato though Not you Not you your cousin Thank you to your cousin Fortunato's bakery I'm sure they need all the help They can get

Did you pay for this No, he's a good guy Okay, good He's a good guy Thank you, Fortunato He's a good guy If it was Ants Bakery Is that his real name?

I mean, Fortunato's got to be The last name Yeah, but there's no way It's like your last name It's like being Frank Fortune It's kind of cool That would be real cool

Hi, I'm Frank Fortunato It'd be like Ritchie Rich Yeah, exactly Was Ritchie Rich's real name? It was a movie Fake movie about a fake boy I mean, but it was also I think a cartoon

It was like a comic strip or something like that? If it was a cartoon, it was also fake that. Yeah, but like, dude, Richie Rich was so sick. Your friends come over, you got a McDonald's in your crib. Yo, that movie, I don't know when the last time you watched it was. It might not be good today standards, but like, that movie is so fucking great. I love it.

Like, his boy's got, like, the sniffer gun. And he can, like, sniff shit. And it looks like a big fucking pig nose or whatever. bro it's just a guy you have your own scientist inventor in the basement or what about yeah they got a whole lab and then they're shooting shit they're shooting their boys out of fucking chairs onto a blob or something you remember that god damn their vault was in mount rushmore dude that place was so sick mount rushmore oh their house i meant the movie yeah yeah he was just like thanks for playing with me here's hundred dollar bills kids

yeah what unbelievable put a couple kids and fucking overalls and then give them $100 bills. I'm ready to watch that movie. Hell yeah, dude. I love that movie. That's such a good movie. And yeah, the McDonald's in the crib. I would have been fucking Donvito-sized by the end of that fucking year.

There's no way. If you could have something in your house where you could press a button and it makes that food, whatever it is, what would you put? Colossil King Crab Legs. What's funny about that? What's funny about it? So you press a button? Can I ask you quite, what's funny about that? I'm not laughing. Giggles was laughing.

Oh, you giggle too, bitch. You're a giggle guy. I was giggling, because his giggle made me giggle. Too many giggles. Pull back to giggles. Draw back to giggles. What the fuck is funny about that, giggles? So you want to press a button? Colossal king crabs show up with the side of butter.

Wait, wait, can it, can I make the... Can it be any dish or can it have to be like a singular food item? I mean, it's... Because if it's a singular food... Alright, so then I can make a dish? No, no. Like, you can't be like, okay, this, potatoes, and... Like, you can't make like a dinner place.

It's just like food's like spaghetti meatballs or like you know what I mean Like things that kind of go together That's a good one I think colossal king crab legs Uh but Oh man See that's such a tough one

I don't even know what I would pick How many do you get per press? You can just press it You can just press it once per day Hmm Maybe How many more do you fucking need? Just so you guys know

Ant loves these like deep hypothetical questions Because I think he gets off I think he goons to the idea of like potentially like stumping someone with a question because he'll be like if you can only be dead for one one hour of one day but then you get all the money in the world for the next two days would you do it and we're like I don't know what he's like yeah what would you what would you what food would you pick wings mm chicken wings that's such a that's such a like it's non luxury you can get good

chicken wings seemingly anywhere I think it's more about just like instantaneous I I just get it. Yeah, I guess I wouldn't want it to be that messy, so that's a bad answer. Joey's going to go with, like, foie gras or something. No, I don't even like... What about a singular slider? One slider? One slider?

So stupid, because I'm, I would be more... I'd be better off hungry than having eaten only one slider. Well, I'll press it twice. No, you only get one press per day. We just said that. We just set the rules. So then it'll be five sliders. Yeah, that's exactly what...

Five sliders is crazy. Oh, so I can give them out. No, you can do five sliders. Six hot dogs. six hot dogs at the press of a button? Five hot dogs. What would I pick? Maybe I would pick like a, like, brisket.

Because, like, I never eat that. Hell, yeah. Because, like, I'm not going to order it. And, like, I usually don't go to, like, barbecue places. So, like, you're in the move for brisket? Bang. Just, like, brisket that just spits at you. Yeah.

You know what it would be? I would, I would. What is the adjective he usually uses? This is like donkey kicking good or something like that. It's donkey sucking sauce or some shit like that. Finger licking donkey fucking sauce. Oh my God, this burger's donkey fucking. Yeah.

It's like finger donkey fucking delicious sauce. First of all, if you're going to do an impression of American cultural and food icon Guy Fieri, make sure you do it with some respect, okay? No, no, I love him. Guy Fierry's here. He's, he's, ah. He's, and he's got like an expensive wife. he's got like emo fucking spiky necklace he's got yeah he's got an expensive watch

he's got a fucking yeah exactly I'm just gonna repeat what you said he's got a bike chain bracelet this fucking hot dog is gangster and you put a little bit of fucking donkey fuck sauce on it it's fucking gangster I love him oh take a look at this lasagna this lasagna is fucking gangster he loves gangster he loves gangster and then he loves just like just like no he'd be like oh my god wow the really like the balance of flavor and heat and acidity and salty it's absolutely perfect this will lick the fucking fingers off your dead grandma you know just like the the whiplash of going between those two just like he's like look at this fucking lasagna if you press on it that is donkey face fucking good oh guys

you ever had a pig fucker well look at this fucking hamburger right here It's like, I wish... Those sliders are shit-kicking, right here. These are shit-kicking gangster sliders. I wish. First of all, I'd love to go to one of Guy Fieri's restaurants because he's just like, you love nachos, they're coming in a garbage can.

Like, the guy's just all over the fucking place. Eating out of a pail, you dig. Exactly. All right, we know what you ask for. You like cream corn? Here it is in a trough. You know, like... Oof, we'd love cream corn.

I love cream corn. But I would love him to get, like, a food show. but it's just like uncensored let's see what Guy Fierry has rolled up his sleeve because every time he describes food he's borderline cursing and it's like almost

sexual yeah he's just like oh you know like he does that he's just like let me get and he has like 30 rings on which I can't make fun of because I like rings too yeah but like his are haunted though his are haunted and there's so many and they're so big he his hands are

this far apart period And he'll be like, oh, hold on. Let me get a taste of that. Yeah. Wow. I mean, really bitching. You have done something with, you have done something colonarily that has not been seen since probably like the French New Wave. That's absolutely gorilla tits.

You know, like this gets a gorilla tits on the Guy Fierry scale. Fucking love it, man. By the way, guys grocery games. Great show. I didn't realize that it was guys. like I thought it was like guys grocery games was like oh you know a couple of guys

this is the grocery games that guys play I didn't realize it was how how did you not realize I didn't know that he hosted it name one other famous guy I didn't think it was a specific guy so you think they were just going with like

it was just dudes on the show the guys grocery so you think that they because they're like 30 seasons and it's been on for like two years you think in the year of our Lord 2025 the food network would have gotten away Scott Free with having a show that segregates men from women.

Wasn't really thinking that deep. Hosted by fucking flaming t-shirt connoisseur Guy Fieri? Yeah, dude. No way, dude. He just pulls up to set in a fucking like hydraulic fucking car. He pulls up you know, with fucking, you know, low

rider playing, you know, low rider. And he's just like, what's out, guys? Yeah. Dude, I love that show. I actually went back and watched, because I watched a lot of food network. I watched season one, episode one. It's a great show. Of his show. And he

looks and dresses the exact same. And he just pulls up to this like shack on the side of the road, on the side of the road. And there's just this fucking woman cooking. No AC, tiny window. Yeah. And he's like, this fucking burger is

donkey teeth. Or whatever the fuck he says. Like, and it's just, I was like, yeah, this show's one. Man. I don't know what you're doing to this brisket and this buffalo sauce, but let me tell you, it's absolutely rooster knuckles. I mean, this is bananas. He loves to do that. Like, it's an animal and a body part, and that's... Apparently, he hates eggs. Hates eggs. Really? That's a strange one. Hates it. Every dish. Is it weird that he hates eggs, or is it weird that you know? How do you know? Because he was gooning over him at the rainforest cafe. Do you hate eggs? No, I love eggs. I like eggs. I got no issue with eggs. I get the people, though, that, like, when they're eating eggs, while they're eating it, they're like, oh, I'm eating eggs. Yeah, I get if you're going to look at it. What does that even mean?

Like, you're eating a, I'm not going to say the A word, but you're eating a. What's the A word? Ass. A, B, B, O. What am I? Aborted? Yeah. Oh.

Yeah. But they're not aborted. Oh, so, so then you're just eating, like... No. I don't know what eggs are. No, what? What? Do you know that, like, I, and I actually learned this later in life.

I was always under the assumption that they were just like... Aborted eggs? Yeah. No. No. So, chickens will lay eggs. Don't fucking... You're wearing a shirt about jerking off at a restaurant.

And don't fucking... Do you know what eggs are? And that person knows more than you about eggs. You know eggs? You know what eggs are? They're... Yes? Okay, well, that didn't really instill any confidence in me.

Chickens will lay eggs. I know. But, like, they're always going to lay eggs. They don't lay eggs when they're pregnant. They just lay them, but the only way that they're just firing off blanks flying. Yeah. But they, but the only way is if they, like, are inseminated, then it will be, like, an animal. That's to my knowledge.

I thought they had to be incubated. See, I don't know what any of this shit means. I'm under the assumption that chickens are just firing off eggs. Honestly, I'm with Guy now. kind of fucking hate these things, too. Either way, I'm eating them. Let's get that out of the way. I was watching an episode of that.

Double yoke? Double yoke. That's amazing. I was watching an episode of that show. You can talk. I was very confused at why you fucking, like, curled. I was watching an episode of that show, and then it was just like, yeah, we're going to do it.

Like, you can only make it from this aisle. And, uh-oh, it's the aisle with dog food. And then the next episode is just like, this is in memory. it was like it got like so serious because like one of the chefs on that show died oh my god yeah he was like a pretty not problematic but like he made some statements that people were like pissed about the chef yeah yeah yeah not guy fietti not american treasure guy fiat oh he was just like because it was just funny again the whiplash of like going from like all right you have to run down you have to find roasted out of mommy you have to find dairy you know like

something that starts with d in this aisle and then the next episode is just like, we are gathered here today. Let me taste his ashes. Finger licking donkey butt. Yeah, well, you know, he went down, but he went down gangster. You're right about the eggs.

The eggs, they just lay them, right? They just lay them, yeah. Yeah. Stupid. No roosters around. Chickens, fix your... Yeah, if there's no roosters around, they're still just, like, laying eggs.

So that's why if you have a chicken, you can just get free eggs, because they're going to lay them. I mean, I know people. I should know this better. I know people with chickens. Yeah, but you don't have one. I don't have any chickens.

I don't like that they peck. I don't like that they peck. I mean, you, I got an attacked by a chicken. You got an attacked by one? I got an attacked by one. And I got attacked by goats. Okay.

Explain. I went to a petting zoo farm and they just have like all these animals together in like a giant thing and you can just walk in. And then the chickens were running up to me and, you know, like trying to eat the hair on my legs, I guess. I don't know. Or they were just trying to hurt me. and then the goats would I don't know if it's like this is how they play but they would run from across the pen

right into my shins and I was just like dude you fucking kidding me like am I going to have to kick one of these goats that's that is kind of crazy I've never like I've been to like pennings using stuff not where like I don't think you can get in with chickens

bro there's chickens there was there was giant there was sheep there was these giant like cow like things but I don't know what the fuck it was it had giant hump like fucking camel and it was made of fat touching that was disgusting dude what are animals dude yeah honestly i was just like what's how it's going on and then it was goats there was uh llamas there was alpacas those are cool but they kind of freak me out because their teeth

look like george washington's and also they'll spit in your fucking face i've never been spit on i i got spit at i got spit at by one and let me tell you disgusting would it taste like not my mouth i was just testing i don't know if that was something that happened i'm gonna keep going, honestly. I can't. No, it's very good. I loved it. Thank you so much, by the way. Thank you. Get your cousin in here. Fortunato? Let him come. You stay home. Frank Fortunato. There he is. I would like to talk about, I saw this in the news recently, that apparently, like, in China, adults are using pacifiers to, like, chill out. And I'm going to be honest with you, I'm kind of on board. Oh, okay. Here, hold on one second. I have a gun under

here. I'm going to pass it to you. What's the big deal? Come on, brother. We're not beating. We're not in the being whiny, cry baby, a millennial allegation. I mean, I don't know. Who's making that? Every person about our generation. Whatever. Dude, that, that's awful. What, just a pacifier?

You're going to tell me, if you, if I walked in here, and I had a pacifier in my mouth, and I was going, yeah, you wouldn't fucking hate me? Yeah, I'd probably slap it out of your mouth. But I'm saying, like, if we lived in a society where everyone, had one and it was cool. I don't think we should live in that society. Do you think, like, you don't think the idea of a pacifier,

like if you were using one right now, like you wouldn't enjoy that experience a bit? You know, I guess I have to step back a little bit. I can't with confidence say I would or wouldn't. I think the idea of putting a pacifier in my mouth as a grown-ass fucking man would deter me from doing that. That's because society has put parameters on what you can and cannot do. this if it if there is any way that like therapists can be like yeah yo if your therapist told you

tomorrow joey i think you should suck on a pacify right are you doing it do you you don't respect me if that's how you're talking to me you think my therapist could talk me into literally anything i mean i don't know i'm just saying like you seem pretty jazzed if your therapist was just like joey listen you deal with a lot of you know like not not a lot you've been open about your dealings with anxiety and stuff like that uh-huh You still, well, no, apparently you don't shave your legs anymore. You're five foot two. I think what might work best for you is if you had this here, Bobo.

Right. Dad, do you want a Bobo? You clearly have not even sniffed a therapist. No, no. Or therapy. I can't, I'll be honest with you. I've never even met one. Like, I don't even know anyone that does.

You've never met a therapy? Not that I know of, at least. I know someone that works in, like, clinical therapy. I actually have never? Have I? seen a therapist in the wild do you see them out and like they're like out and then you see them no can you like spot them i did invite my old therapist to something once uh really yeah and he said no what what was it i think it was like the launch of the hot sauce one of the hot sauces yeah i was

like yo if you want to come just come and he's just like all right i'm good he didn't say that but he's like oh i'll let you know and i was like i think it's like a thing that they're not supposed to be like fraternizing with their clients yeah problem patience i should say excuse me sad what if you guys could have made really good friends and now you can't see you we wouldn't have right well what if he was just like I'll come to this hot sauce event if you take this passie and you suck on it like a waddo widow wine yeah if he said it like that then I'd probably just fire him but yeah that's not how it would go I mean you don't you don't think that this is just like contributing to like the negative

view that people have of millennials being unable to deal with just like the smallest of stressors in the world I think that every generation is going to look down on the next one, no matter what. Yeah, but that happens because it's like, our music was better, or this is when you could go out and you could buy a burger and Coke for $3. I mean, not because you're fucking sitting in the club and you're sucking on a passy.

No one's saying suck to suck the pass in the club. Why not? If you're giving them free reign to suck away, they'll suck about. Maybe. Don't people suck them at raves? The pacifiers? I heard that.

That's like a weird, I think they're sucking a cup. couple things at raves if we're being honest i i think i heard that like it's like a when you trip it's like a feeling of like oh fuck he like calms you down it centers you have you ever uh no wait hold on yeah wait a second wait what are you doing you seem like you might know something about this no it was inquisitive i remember when we were have you ever done ecstasy no i want to you want to dude you're fucking almost 30 and that seems like a pretty easy thing to do if you really wanted to.

I wanted to. Oh, okay. Well, there it is. I'll change it. I heard that, like, do you remember when, like, we were, like, young? It was, like, the generation. I think it was our sister generation.

Some people had pacifiers as, like, accessories back then. No. I do remember our generation having, ew, dude, why are we talking like this? I do remember. You remember the child's backpack phase? On the front? Or that, too, yeah.

Yes, that I remember. That I remember, like, everyone had, like, a child's backpack at one point. I was like, what the fuck is this? And it was, like, when footy pajamas came back in, too. That was a little after that, but, like... I don't really hate it that much. I don't hate the footy pajamas, but, like, there's a thing with, like... And you know me.

I love maintaining a connection between my childhood and my adulthood. Yeah. I think the whole, like... Like, pacifiers are meant for babies. They're not meant... But what are they meant for? like let's let's let's soothing a toddler or a an infant okay don't you think though that because that is a universal way to sue the child that there is something in the human DNA that is

soothed by the sucking of a pass sure I don't think that at the adult age however you choose to define that right you should revert to that to cope with whatever stressors you have and how should you do it I mean there's a plethora of ways from therapy to whatever

I don't it just goes there you yeah alcohol sure well I would say that I don't know I don't you call it got me I got me

I don't know if the response is sucking on a pacifier well and also you're supposed to stop doing it because it can fuck up your teeth. Well, I think that you're, I think once you're, yeah, once you're like a fully formed mouth. Yeah. It's not going to do anything. Right. You know, when do you stop pacifying? Who are you asking? Frankie. For children. Oh, okay. Um, they say by like, I know like Ruby was really difficult to get rid of hers. Uh-huh. But, and we did all the tricks.

We cut it, you know, we tried to plant it, all that stuff. I've told that story. Oh, yeah, planting it. Yeah, I told that story. I was a fucking mess. Yeah, I can't imagine. But I think they say around like two, two and a half, three, you know. I think my brother had it until he was like nine. That's old. Yeah, what? That's old. Does your brother just have a vertical mouth? He's all right. That's old. No, yeah, we all knew. It was a little old. Nine's, I'm letting you know now. If I'm a nine-year-old and I know my buddy has a pacifier, yeah. bring back bullying. Yeah, I think he brought it to school once and we were like, you know, we kind of have to. Excuse me. Like in his backpack, we didn't know. We didn't know. This is the

brother I met. Yeah, we met both. Yeah, we met both of them. Yeah. Yeah. One of those guys had had a pass fire to real late. Yeah. I wonder who it is. Is it him or him? Yeah. Oh my God. Make that face one more time. And we do have ads. Um, let's get to these ads real quick, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, the first one, we have a new ad here. And that is this. Right here. How are you doing? Happy Thursday. Okay, these are happy Thursday, spiked refreshers. And the best part, they're bubble-free. Okay, so they're not carbonated. They are spiked refreshers. This one is pineapple starfruit, which is absolutely the lit. I got raspberry dragon fruit. Raspberry dragon fruit. They're smooth, they're easy. 4.4% alcohol, so you can only have them if you're 21 or above. But they are delicious, honestly. there's strawberry pineapple star fruit black cherry mango passion fruit um but it's great all right so you don't have to wait till friday happy thursday right here ladies and gentlemen that's what

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You know what I'm saying? I have a question for you, boys. Okay. So there's this thing going around online. This guy bought a $3 Coke, and he handed the bartender $10 and said, keep five. How much money do you think the guy should have gotten back? Oh, the bartender?

Yeah. So I could see. I could see. Wait, okay, I'll say it again. I walk into a bar. I buy a $3 Coke. I give him $10. I go keep five.

How much change am I expecting? How much change are you expecting back? That's a great point. $2 is the answer, but I could see why people are just like, oh, keep five is just like, give me back only five. Take the $2 tip. Keep five. Yeah, like it's $3. I give you a $10, and it's like keep five.

some people are probably making the argument that it's just like make it a total of five what would you do if you're the bartender though and someone says keep five I'm taking ten fuck that I'm taking the whole ten what are you talking about you gave me a five dude

wait but when he said that what would you think he means I meant keep five dollars give him two back I know that's what he meant but I could see what people are confusing that for you no no it's not what happened to the guy yeah it's not what he meant he was expecting five back

because he said keep five he got back two so he was like what the fuck oh then he's an idiot yeah that's wrong language that's wrong verbiage you literally gave him the the keys to the kingdom and he decided to go and stay at night no one tells you if something costs three dollars

and you go keep five no one is expecting you to be like like keep whatever I'm about to say is the tip you know what I mean yes yeah if you only want them to charge a certain amount you say just give me back Give me five.

X amount. That's what I... Give me five. I've said that before. If something is, you know, five bucks and I hand a ten, I'll be like, just give me back two or something. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or just keep the change.

Like, if you're saying keep, you're being very specific with your verbiage. Let me ask you a question because this happened to me a ton when I was working, like delivering pizzas. Let's say a pizza is $17. Okay. Right? I deliver a pizza to you. You obviously have a $20 bill. Yeah.

What are you tipping me? I mean, I, that's a hard question to answer. How is this a hard question? I guess I would just say keep the change. Wow, that was so hard to come to me. But like, if I had more cash on me, I would say like, oh, here's an extra couple bucks. So you're, you're, the reason why it's difficult for you,

is not because you're deciding between one and three dollars tip. You're deciding between three or more. Yes. What would you do? If I only had the 20, it'd keep the change. Yeah. I don't want a dollar right. Which dollar amount, are you not saying keep the change?

What if it was $16? I think, I think, if it's 15, I'm fine with them taking it. 14. It's a dicey because I rather them just keep the five, but I also don't want to have a dollar back. Exactly. Well, this is why I'm asking. That's what's tough. When I would deliver pizzas, I would deliver and someone would give me a $20 and they'd say,

just give me a dollar back. And I'm like, dude, give me the dollar. Like, I wouldn't say that obviously, but I'd be like, okay, and I'd give them the dollar back. But I'd be like, bro, it's a dollar. That's back when a dollar went a lot farther than it does today, Joey. I mean. And that's as a result of inflation. And we tricked you guys.

We had an episode about being financials. It's back. Now we're talking the value of the dollar. All right. I'm Frank Alvarez. no I yeah I mean I think so many people were like give me the dollar back and I'm like what the fuck I know because like clearly I'm delivering pizzas here bro like I'm not like fucking making billions of dollars or anything I will say this and I am in full support like I consider myself

and always have been a pretty generous tipper because like I see that these people are working this is their fucking livelihood but like I lost my train of thought good I and I can say I can I am always been a good tipper because I've worked in an industry that where my my paycheck would be like $65 literally and then I would have to make money off of tips and you it just like depends on some people like are very generous like there was one guy a pizza I remember was like 15 and 20 cents he would give us like 23 bucks so we're all fighting to go there because he's going like what you said like you're giving a little extra on top of like what the change is but there were some people that were just like it's it's 15 20 and then it's like oh keep three bucks give me like a dollar back

And it's like, all right. What fuck. Here's the thing that I was going to try to say before because I forgot. We grew up in a time where tipping a delivery person was like, max $5. Like I remember, I remember delivery people and it would just be like, oh, here's three bucks. You know, like that three to five was like the normal. That's what I remember. Now I'm in full support of people earning their livelihood.

I am absolutely, I mean, that's also a weird statement saying they need to earn a livelihood. But you know what I mean? this like these like food delivery apps that'll be like oh 10 15% of your order is the tip like you know don't make me have to be the bad guy here now you're making me have to be an asshole and take money out of these people's pockets I do it because I'm like I'm not I don't want to be that guy you know like I'm gonna I'm gonna pay it forward when I have the opportunity but like since when has delivering a pizza gone from being max $5 tip to 15 dollars now I mean yeah I don't know I had I had the opposite you guys had when I was

delivering pizzas there was one guy who no matter what the order was would only give a dollar so we were all fighting to not take his order but like even at that time that was normal like I'm not saying it was kind but like I feel like that's what I remember people would tip a delivery person between one and five dollars when I was younger and like my parents would give me money and we would order pizza I would always like three was like the max because I didn't even know that it was like a percentage based thing

which maybe it wasn't back then it was just kind of like $3 just like a standard delivery like yeah maybe it wasn't it was also like $15 for a large pie of pizza where now it's like 30 yeah if you're getting like a specialty pie it's fucking bananas

there was this one woman that like at this pizzeria you can't order slices you could only order pies but there was this one old woman that they would let her order slices so I delivered two slices to her one time i forget how much how much it was but i gave her the i gave her the pizza and then she gave me the money and she was like it was like this whole thing like i think it was like

six seven dollars or something but she gave me a ten dollar bill so she's like oh just pay me like exact change and i was like okay cool so i gave her three dollars like let's say it was seven she gave me ten so i gave her the three dollars back and then she she goes in her pocket and she takes out a quarter and puts it in my hand, I was the cutest thing in the world. Yeah, I left there too and I was like, you're old bitch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was, it was super cute to be like this fucking old woman is like, yeah, I remember my grandmother

when we would order food, like she would open a coin like bag and she, like the one that had like the clasp that like, it's like the two bowls that like sit like this, you know what I'm talking about? I go like this. I know, I just do it like that the whole time. But like she would literally open it and she would pick quarters out and she'd be like give this to them for a tip. I just, I don't that guy is an idiot because that guy clearly like he fumbled and he's probably pissed about it

because just like how dare they wanted to you know fuck you give the person they probably need it a lot I hate I hate that but I also hate the idea of just like I'm ordering sushi takeout and it's 80 bucks and I'm tipping 20 bucks yeah am I like am I am I wrong for that I do it because I'm like paying it forward but like I don't know I honestly don't know like that's just never been my experience because like like I said when I was delivering I would the most I was ever paid for a delivery was like 25 bucks and that was because I had to go into their house and I had these catering dishes and I had to set those up and like this thing on fire above a lot she gave me 25 bucks which I was hype about um because you never get $25 when you're

driving around the neighborhood delivering shit it's usually like you know three bucks here, five bucks here, three bucks here, like, but to get $25, it's like, wow. But then if someone's spending $80, which is a lot, and then you have to tip, you know, 20% on top of that, it's a lot. It gets up there, dude. I'm more impressed at the fact that you delivered pizza prior to, like, online GPS, like GPS on your phone.

Did I ever tell you about my first day when I worked there? By the way, RIP, RIP. No. Yeah. No. You're done. oh that's fucking heartbreaking the pizzeria that i that i worked at is

they're they were like a staple in the neighborhood and they're shutting down why my sister i don't know my sister just went with her kids as like a last like for being there oh what are they shutting down think they may like this week i think crazy right that fucking breaks my heart yeah that is so sad yeah it's fucked up but my first day of work at this place it was a Friday night and I have my dad's giant red van and I went to go pull into a parking space

and mind you I had been driving for like less than a year I pull into a parking space I hit the car next to me and the woman's in the car so she gets out of the car and she's freaking out and I'm like oh my God I'm so sorry

this is my first day of work and she looks at the car there's nothing wrong with either of our cars so she's kind of like whatever like you're fine like just back up so I could get out I was like oh thank God I get into work this has never happened

entire time working there I get in there the guy goes you have eight orders and I'm like what so I called my dad and I was like I need you to drive so I was in the back of this van my dad and my dad's driving I'm fucking slamming against the walls here yeah yeah yeah yeah and I'm yelling out addresses and I'm like where's this 23rd terrace the fuck is that and I'm like organizing them and then I'm running them out and blah blah blah like halfway through the shift though he like left and I was able to figure it out but I had no GPS PS. You just had to know I kind of read addresses. I mean, we also grew up in a

pretty, like, easy to understand neighborhood in terms of just like, all right, it's a 40th and 20th Avenue, you know, like, okay, you could fit that, that's a, that's one block. You can kind of piece it together from there. You can read addresses, right?

Yeah, for the most part. I mean, like now, growing, like, not growing up, but like living in like a more like, yeah, that's a possible. Outside of the city area where it, just be like, you know, 1-286 Maple Drive. Maple Drive.

And I'm just like, come on, brother. What the fuck are we doing? They're like, oh, it's right off of fucking Main Street, which is next to. And I'm like, give me, give me the grid. I'm good with the grid. In New York, it's like 22, 46, 49th Street. So, you know, 22 is the avenue. And it's the 46 house, not the 46 house,

but like the house that says 46 on that street or avenue. Yeah. And most of it. the houses went by twos so it would be like it was like odds on one side evens on yes yes yes and then also if it was on the avenue it would be like it would be the avenue instead of the street yeah it was so it would say like 4204 you know because then you're like oh okay it's it's moving toward 43rd yeah way fucking easier i will say we have avenues and streets and that first batch the first one i looked at said 23rd terrace and i was like i don't know where that is yeah i've never heard of 23rd it's by a story apart

It's like one of those like side. No, that whole area is such a fucking cluster. Yeah. There's like half streets. I remember when I used to drive to you when you lived in Long Island City. It was just like, I'm driving down 21st Street and it's like 23rd Avenue, 23rd road. 23rd drive. 23rd. Drive. 23rd terrorist.

23rd circle. And I'm like, what the fuck is this? Yeah, yeah. You know, it was such a cluster. Don't love it. Don't love it. But we do have more sponsors at the end of the day. We do have that.

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maybe two hours it's probably a problem honestly like too much i would say like the baseline is too much i thought you're going to give a number and you said too much i feel like this is an unfair question for me it's like it's the job and i run a lot of social media accounts that's true yeah it's a lot but like okay so what amount are you just like leisure yeah and i guess leisure is also like like when you have to post stuff like that's not a lot of time that you have to spend you're Right, but then you're spending time on it. You're right, but then once you get on there and you already post it, it's like, well, I'm already on here. Yeah, probably a few hours for sure.

Yeah, but that's so vague. I feel like three to three to four, because at night, I'm scrolled. Yeah, that's the thing is like, in the morning, in the morning, so in the morning when I wake up, I'll like. When I wake up, I put on my makeup. Oh, I didn't know that's where you were going there. I'm sorry, I don't leave it. I want to look up my screen time. Go ahead.

In the morning, when I, when I rise. What is that? Jesus? What are you saying? I sit there and like I'll have like my morning like, you know, kind of like drink routine or whatever and I'll sit there and I'll scroll for a little bit. And then I'll, you know, get some stuff done. TikTok, TikTok. A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

Mostly TikTok, I would say, honestly. Okay. But I also sit there and I'm like, what can I post? You know what I mean? Because I try to get like ideas to post. myself and then and then at night you're just there

well like at night so like when it's when all the kids are asleep I put my phone down and I just like I hang with Becca and we'll watch something but like when the kids are awake and they're just like leisurely watching something before bed I'm fucking going on that thing but yeah I would say

whatever the answer is I don't like it because I feel like that's just one of those things we're like I feel like if you were to ask the most people they would say that they spend too much time on social media oh yeah what about you um wait do you have your screen time yeah it's a lot on tick on tic on tic talk i was right it's like three hours three hours a day okay my total screen time daily average is nine hours that's a lot but i do like in the shower i'm youtube and i'm watching videos all the time you're youtubeing in the shower yeah like i like

i used to do that i used to do that but i've stopped i haven't done it in three years Alright, it's not meth I mean, I made it Oh fuck you both I made it I made it like a resolution Something I wanted to do And I stuck with it

To stop watching to YouTube Just to like stop using my phone In places I didn't need to Like you know Like I would throw a video on And I'd get in the shower And you'd watch it while you're show No I wouldn't watch it

I would just listen Interesting Like in the car on long drives I don't listen to music I'll put on like an informational podcast or something Yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah I'll listen to like my like movie talk stuff

I have such like The misophonia thing is so real. Like, dude, after doing that OPL episode and listening to what misophonia is, I was like, oh my God, I fucking have that, like, bad. Can you explain it one more time? It's, you're, I mean, I don't know exactly, like, you know, whatever, but you're very sensitive to, like, sounds. So, like, I can't do two things at once.

If I can barely, like, if I'm driving and the radio's on and someone's trying to talk to me, I can't do that. Like, that's too many things at once. And I can't, like, I can't read unless it's. absolutely silent and like if I'm watching TV and someone's playing something on their phone that's like making noise I can't I'm like it literally gives me like a visceral reaction I'm like turn your fucking phone on. Interesting. It's just I guess I do that for like reading for like the three times a year I read but like if someone's like if like I'm watching a show and Becca

scrolling on her phone that doesn't that means nothing when you can hear it yeah no I can't I can't. That means nothing to me. I would be like, do you mind, like, lowering that, like, to basically, and also, in return, I don't like even doing that. Because if I'm on my phone and I'm watching stuff, but the TV's on, I'll lower the fuck out of mine. Because, like, I don't even want to mix them. So it's like that. Do you do the thing where you lower the music to park, like that kind of thing?

Absolutely. Yeah, I do. I do that. If I'm, like, coming up on a place I've never been before, I lower it. I don't know why. Don't ask me. It doesn't make sense. It's just, like, focus maybe.

Yeah, it's just, like, a comfort. thing possibly. Yeah, I don't know. But I can't, like, I wouldn't be able to, like, shower and there's, like, a video. I'd be like, I'm clearly not watching that. My screen time is also fucked, too, because, like, on the days that I come in, I, just to get an idea of, like, what time I'm going to be here and, like, what is the best route to take home?

Because there's several routes. And if you take the wrong one on the way out of New York, you could be fucking finger blasted by donkey sauce traffic. Not very gangster. Yeah. but most of my screen time during the week is like on the days I come in it's heavy because it's basically four four and a half hours of Google Maps the whole time yeah yeah you know so but yeah I think I I saw something recently that the like average screen time for people

now is like doubled than it was like 10 years ago or something like that I mean, that makes sense. We had almost all the same apps, and the only thing that would be different is instead of TikTok, it was Vine. My daily average... I guess we're going to look this up. Yeah, my daily average is five hours, ten minutes.

My most used is TikTok. That makes sense. And then my next most used, these two, by a large. large margin are TikTok and my text messages. That's me as well. I got TikTok, text messages, and then Instagram, buy a mile. Yeah, yeah. All three of those by a mile.

I'm trying to find screen time. I have a lot of Apple TV. That's fucking surprising. If you go to settings, it's right there. Google.com. I'm literally looking at settings. I wonder what everyone's, like anyone who's watching this. I wonder what your screen time is.

You can write in the comments. My daily average is six hours, 49 minutes. But again, if you look, you'll see the days that I'm in the car Are significantly higher And my most, yeah, my most by a while is TikTok Oh, and then YouTube Because like I'll throw on like Bro YouTube have 46 minutes

A day? I'm never on YouTube I have like an hour a day But again, that's because on my days in I'll throw something on and listen to it Yeah You know Did you ever do a phone detox? What's that?

Yeah, Mad Times and you just seem like someone who would do it. Do you want to hear how bad it was for me? I'll explain. Don't worry. I still got it. It seems like something I would do, right? Oh, yes.

You don't even know the fucking half of it at it. Yeah, he was so pumped. So here's what I did years ago. I bought a flip phone. I bought a flip phone and I got a new, it was $12 a month, a new plan, like a new phone number. By the way, this lasted one month or two months maybe. Is the number still in use? No.

Oh, I still have it. But I bought that because I was, this was also, I'm not going to give the whole backstory of why this was happening during that time, but like, whatever. I was mentally in a weird place with my job and whatever, and I just felt like I was spending too much time on social media and I didn't like it. So I was like, I need to get rid of this. So I bought a flip phone so that any time I was like leaving the house,

I would just take that. so if I was like going out with friends or I go to dinner or whatever I would just take the flip phone because it's like don't I don't need to be texted right now just call me on this if it's an emergency that's the only reason why like that was the only reason why I was like convincing myself that I need my phone on me all the time was because what if there's an emergency it was like well I fixed that problem so I did that two months it was over it was I mean I think the the attempt is admirable the intention was there but it was I don't think there's anything wrong with it I'm I really try, like, when I'm not working or when I'm not here, and like, I'm with the kids or like we're having like family time or something, I put my phone down in like the other room and I leave it there on loud because like, same idea. If someone needs to get in touch with me, they'll call me. I hate when people are just like texting and it's like, it's urgent. Like, if you need me, call me. But I think I probably need a phone detox because like, I don't know. I just feel like it's just like TikTok is just like.

It's just so easy. It's just so easy. mindless and like it to a point where like I was having this conversation like conversation I was thinking to myself the other day like oh like if I feel stressed I open it and I scroll to not feel stress and it that's not good you know what I mean like the the feeling stressed should be like all right figure it out deal with it not like let me just have this dopamine response to something and I'm not like sitting there like oh my god I love that it's literally just staring yeah and it's just so fucking mindless and I know I'm a child of this

era and like I'm part of the problem but like there's little things I forgot who mentioned this but it stuck with me and I try like when I get into the modes where I'm very aware of like phone usage there are moments where I'm like okay this is where I'm going to earn some of my life back essentially like anytime you're standing in a line or if I'm waiting for the elevator or I get in the elevator in my building or you're at a red light or you're just waiting for something. Everyone just pulls out their phone. Even if it's like you know this is going to be 30 seconds, people just pull out their phone. And like I've done that a billion times. But when I'm aware of it, I will just, I'll have to be like, don't do it. Like I'll have to actively not

grab my phone because it's like muscle memory. It is. It is muscle memory. And like, like you won't even like, there have been times where I've gone to do it and I'd be like, what the I have no reason to open these apps. I'm not checking on something in specific, you know, in particular or anything like that. I'm just doing it because my brain is telling me like, you have a moment, do it. Yeah, yeah. So like, I have been in the same regard. I have been like one of those people that's just like, I don't need this right now.

Like I know, and I know I sound like a fucking addict, but like we're all, we're all kind of addicted in a way. And like, we're going to have to figure out eventually how to break the cycle and fucking, because it's, it's, it's. a lot. There is definitely, bro, 30 years time, when our kids are like in their 30s or 40s or something, the like amount of research and data that comes out about smartphone usage is going fucking scare the shit out of us. Because these things are also 15 years old. Yeah. Well, yeah. I feel like I'm always on like my brain. So I like it just because I could like stop. Just scroll. But see, like, and I love it. I get the problem.

Yeah, but that may be a byproduct of you just like being an addict. Maybe. Yeah. I'm scrolling. We might be getting too deep here, so forgive me if we are. But like, another reason I hate it is because I have been like dealing with like the feelings and effects of like, as our show is getting bigger, more and more people recognize us and stuff like that. And like, it's getting more uncomfortable for me personally. and I'm sharing this just to be completely transparent

sometimes when I open my phone I feel like I need to be even though I'm not around anyone and I'm not doing anything I need to be a character like it's so strange to think about because like I've said to myself like that doesn't make sense but like it feels like I need to be on

like I open it and I need to be in like cameras are on mode even if I know that they're not it's just like a weird response my brain had and I know I need to like put it down I think that maybe with time that will go away.

Because I feel like there was a time for me, like when I first started doing internet stuff where I felt similarly. But then after a while, you kind of get this like, this attitude. Because that's very interesting to hear you say that, honestly. Because now it's like I'm remembering a feeling like that, a feeling like

before it was my job, it felt like I have to treat this like a job and I have to do something or, and I'm not even doing anything. Like, I'm just like, I don't know, it's like a, it's an energy thing, sort of. I'm not, like, it's not like I'm scrolling my phone, like, like, I'm doing something like that, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it's this thing that you're like, oh, there's a purpose to me scrolling right now or something like that. After a while, though, you know, through my little experiments of phones and, you know, being anti-social media forever, I feel like I've kind of gone to a place now where I'm kind of like, I don't give a shit. Like, I just, like, can't, you can't control any of that. And it's all psychotic. So I'm just like, I think maintaining, I, look, it's.

the way of the world right now. I think finding and maintaining a healthy balance is the best because like it's, it's in my opinion. Sure, it might be admirable if you can like completely remove yourself from social media and stuff. But you're also missing out on a major component of modern society. Yeah. Which, you know, if you want to be one of those people, go for it. But like, I don't think the answer is just like, have nothing, get off it, get rid of smartphone. Go live in the woods. Yeah, I don't think that does anything. Like, I think the, unless it's like with certain instances with, like, other things on. But I'm specifically talking about smartphones and technology use here.

Like, I think that's where it's about finding a healthy balance, healthy usage. You know, like, you're never going to hear someone say, like, oh, you're an alcoholic. You should learn how to drink in moderation. Like, you should probably not drink at all. Yeah, yeah. I mean, also, one thing that really got me was, like, think about why you're doing any of it. And, like, that, to me is, like, the easiest way to find the balance is, like, think about why you're doing anything on social media like there was a time where i would go places and it's like

i would post stories about where i was or i would try to make i would try to take like an artistic photo of this and like post that and whatever but then like if you really sit with the idea of like why am i doing that like it's very cheap to be like i'm entertaining people and it's like bro you took a picture if i can't like be real yourself yeah like that's a lazy answer to be like oh that's why i'm doing it is because it's my job or whatever about like that's bullshit though like how many of your actions are you doing and then you're like eventually someone asks you that and then you go I don't know why like I don't know why I'm doing yeah like and there was so many instances where I felt like I don't even know why I'm doing

that and then I was like I'm not doing any of that shit anymore like I don't I don't want to I like there being a very like separated thing I like doing this show especially because we have to just like talk and be ourselves and it's not like you know fucking you know we don't have to like put on some huge act or anything like that but i like they're feeling like i have my real life and i have this thing and you know people enjoy this thing and i love that and it's my job and i love doing it but i like this too like i like that they're separate shit yeah we we occupy a weird space too because like we are also finding that like in today's society something can go mega viral and you could become very successful yeah seemingly overnight i mean

look at fucking Haley Welch, you know, like, I don't know what. Hac Tua? Hac Tua. Got it. Mrs. Tua. Yeah. Like, literally went from being, you know, working a spring factory. Spring factory job to the next day.

And for several weeks thereafter, the biggest, like, star on the internet. Yeah. You know, so, like, the current mentality is just like, oh, I can use this leisurely. and just like maybe you know just continue to work my regular job or I can do it with the intent of like maybe something will happen one day you know which is like such a strange space to occupy like no you've never heard of people in like previous generations like basically working a job and a half like and like one of them is like passive to like the hopes that it blows up yeah you know dude dude you remember you know when like uh very famous people will have complaints and then people would be like well you signed up for like blah blah blah it's like every time you post on social media now because of like how quickly people can go viral people can say that about you like anytime you post anything it's like well you signed up for it the second you posted that you're not like a celebrity who's been in a bunch of movies and

now it's like i can't even leave my house without people complaining about or taking pictures of me or doing whatever the fuck blah blah blah it's like you could just post something and then the next day you're the biggest thing in the world and then everyone's gonna find a reason to hate you. Yeah, because it's not them. That's such a fucking crazy thing. Because you did what those other people,

like I said, like those other people hoped happened to them so they fucking hate you for it because the way you went about it was stupid. I mean, like, it's crazy. Let's use fucking Mrs. Welch, not Mrs.

Miss Welch as an example. Like, I'm sure people hate her not because of anything other than the fact that she got famous for talking about, well, originally, the rugpole really did it, but... Yeah. I know.

I think that's a better example because, like, she... There was a street interview on someone else's thing. Yeah. So, like, what happened to her is like, okay, I get like, yeah, she didn't really ask for that. But the people who post and then go mega-viral and then complain, it's like, well, you did kind of sign up for that. See, I don't know if I necessarily agree with that, because the intent is not always behind going viral. Also, she didn't post that herself. Well, that's why...

Well, that's what he was saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's a good example, is her, like, in this whole thing, because she didn't X for that. And it happened to her. That's a good example. But people who do post, it's like, well, then why did you? I think that everyone should be under the assumption that if you're getting in front of any sort of camera, you are one second away from having to live with whatever you're saying on camera. But that's what I'm doing.

But that wasn't the case forever. Like, even when I first started doing YouTube, no one, like, had one video and then you're somebody. Like, you had to have some sort of consistency. and then you were like with the groups of people and and you know working with this person that person and you kind of establish yourself but now it's like it doesn't even matter like they it goes like this like one person go crazy violent the coolest thing in the world and then no one cares like a month later but for that one month everybody's looking on you and everyone's expecting like you to have opinion like an opinion on everything on everything you say and also like it be correct and like they can judge you and say whatever like you have to be on the assumption that everything you say will be like a cop held a against you. Yeah, I mean, but also like when you started doing it, the only place that that stuff lived was basically just on YouTube. Yeah. Now, it wasn't even Instagram. It wasn't it. That makes me feel so old. Yeah, you are. You are. You are. Like, it was before like, so now if you post like this, it's on YouTube and then it's on TikTok. Some of up by, by us like are doing. But like you see that there are people that make their clips. And like, then it's everywhere. And then people that like, like it's just it spreads like wildfire. And yeah. Correct. Then everyone is just like, well, you put it out there, you're inviting the criticism, you're inviting, you know, it's, it's strange. So like it. It also starts to get dicey when like you use its benefits and then complain about its negativities as well. Like in the same like vein of. That's the only thing that I struggle with is because I, I really used to have the mentality. And we might have even like an earlier episode of this show that you and I did like talked about like, well, if you're famous and people come up to you, you signed up for it. But like, I've, I've. kind of done a 180 on it because two things could be true at the same time like you can have fame and notoriety and an amount of celebrity whether small or large but like with that should come a

reasonable expectation of privacy you know and respect just because you're a you're a person on a thing or in a thing doesn't mean like oh then then all fucking rights have gone for that person entirely bro that happened to me and and i'm going to speak about this very candidly I doubt this person is watching this. But, like, I went out with Becca and the kids, maybe like two weeks ago. And I was standing in line for something. And a guy came up with his sister, partner, whatever.

I don't know. And he's like, listen, I'm a huge fan. I don't want to bother you. Came to your Radio City show last year. It was so much fun. Congrats on everything. Do you mind if we take a picture? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. Of course. No problem. Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. We took a picture.

There was a girl standing behind me. And she goes, can I ask you a question? I go, yeah. She goes, does that make you uncomfortable? And I was like, sometimes, you know, sometimes when they're not being respectful or something. And she's like, yeah, I could see that. You know, and I was like, yeah, you know, it's just like, it could, it's a strange world to live in. Five minutes later, not even.

She goes, can I take a picture with you? Like, and I have no problem doing it because like she was kind and I have, you know, like it's a moment like for this person okay but you asked and you got the information that was like oh so in your mind it's like you know this makes me a little uncomfortable but like that that doesn't matter to you in that moment

and it's just it's a it's a weird space to occupy and and I think that that you could make an argument and again like I said in 30 to 40 years when all these documentaries and long term studies are coming out about the effects of social media that's when we're going to be like holy shit this is crazy yeah what i'm curious what what about like people recognizing you makes you uncomfortable

it's not people recognizing me that makes me uncomfortable i consider myself very lucky i really do but i'm saying like specifically where you're like yeah sometimes makes you uncomfortable well in that situation i was with beck and the kids yeah which that makes me a little uncomfortable because like i'm here with my family i'm chasing kids around like you see so like you're gonna ask me for a picture i have to keep my eyes on this child and i and i always ask anytime i've been with the kids and someone's asked for a picture I say as long as the kids are not in the picture you know because that's not them you know like I don't want them to be involved in that so like that and then sometimes too like and I'm sure you get this

sometimes I just want to go and grab something and I'm not fucking Taylor Swift or some massive celebrity that it's like crazy but like I'm sometimes in the mood where I just don't want to be bothered I want to go and buy something at Target and then just go home with complete anonymity yeah you know and that's changed completely transparent you know being completely transparent so like i i just think that like that moment in particular was like that person had information i gave them what they asked for i yeah it is yes it makes me a little uncomfortable okay didn't matter to them okay no i was but like is the uncomfortableness that you're

feeling like like what do you think is the root of that it's just like i don't want to interact with a stranger right now? Sometimes. Sometimes it's also like, I think we are, we're very transparent with who we are, with the people that listen.

And I think that when they see me, they like, sometimes they want the Frank in front of the camera. You know, or the Joe in front of the camera. So it'll be like,

yo, douchebag. What's up, brother? Fucking hot dogs, yeah. And, you know, I play into it a little bit,

but like, you're not always ready for that. At least I'm not personally, you know? Yeah. I mean, luckily I haven't really experienced that too often where people are kind of like whatever and like I don't mind seeing people in public the only thing I mean it's uncomfortable because I just don't

I don't get it like I just can't really understand I don't I don't view like my my life doesn't feel that important like I like I don't understand people having a reaction to seeing me to the point where they want to take a picture with me I don't I don't get that like it does because I don't feel like that like i and it's weird sometimes i see celebrities acting like celebrities and i'm like are they like lying to themselves or or are they just like living very differently than me you know what i mean like yeah i feel like you have to cross this line eventually where you just submit of like yes it is me here and like and i'm gonna wear a disguise because i'm so popular and i i just can't get myself to that point because it's like i i just don't get it like i don't get it like i

don't get in the case of me like maybe for other people it's like like legendary people where it's like you've been entertaining people for 50 years and you know people never see you so like now it's like cool or whatever the fuck but like I don't know for me it's like I don't I don't I don't understand it like that's the only part that gets me uncomfortable I'm not uncomfortable by people approaching me or or like you know wanting to take pictures or anything it just the part that makes me uncomfortable is when that does happen and then other people are around are looking like

who the fuck is that and now people are just staring at you and I'm kind of like oh god because people will make their judgments like who the fuck does that kid think he is and it's like oh I don't even want to you know do this because I feel like I don't want to explain myself because there's been times of people like who are you and I'm like oh I don't even

answer that I hate that question like that's an awkward one but I honestly in the last five years have not had anything that really stands out to me where I felt like this was a horrible interaction and I hated that and it made me extremely uncomfortable or whatever for the most part you know especially in New York if I go out people will recognize me but it's usually like very quick you know sometimes there's a picture sometimes there's not and it's super fine and everyone just keeps pushing I'm not even saying that these interactions are negative like These 99% of the people are kind and very, very, very, very sweet and, you know, are not being disrespectful at all.

You know, it's, and it's not like, I am very appreciative of it because I am well aware that like it might not be like this forever. I'm very okay with that because like it's those people that are putting us in these positions that we could do this that we could do fucking Madison Square Garden. But like there is a level to it that just is uncomfortable for me because it's. like this this interaction is is it's in a bubble it's not a real human interaction like it and I just like you're saying like who am I supposed to be in this situation yeah you know like I feel like myself and to that person it's just it's it's it's I'm still waiting through trying to figure it out better way of sort of explaining it it's like I feel like me but the person you feel like I am I don't feel like that so do I have to pretend to be like

Yeah, yes, yes. So sometimes I'm like, oh shit, and they're not doing anything like overtly most of the time to make me feel that way. But it's just like, they know me as this. Uh-huh. So like if they're seeing me and they see me as that, like, do I have to be that? Like you want to be, but also you kind of feel like bad because you're like, I don't know if I can do that. Yeah. And again, they're not doing anything. It's, it's really just me waiting through. It's a mental thing. It's waiting through trying to figure this all out. And it's difficult. And if you're, if you're watching this and you're a little confused, like, just imagine that, like, all the sudden you would go out and people, you know, are, are, like, know you. Like, strangers, like, know your name. And then some people want to take pictures with you. And some people, like, reference things in your life that you didn't even know people knew. Like, if that happened enough, like, eventually you become a little desensitized to it. But if it happened enough, you'd be like, okay, this is sort of weird. It sort of changes how I behave a little bit.

because like even for me if I go out somewhere and this has been happening to me for a while but this has been happening to me for a while but if I'm out at a place and I know that people have come up to me and even they're super nice and you know whatever I think some like not now but like for a period of time

that would reflect in my behavior because I would feel like oh I don't feel like I can be totally myself now because someone's looking at me and I don't even think they're doing this but I think me having been being insecure of feeling like oh I have to like be somebody now because people here are expecting that's exactly what I just said

yeah like oh no now I have to like I don't know it's like a weird feeling no it's not real I'm doing it to myself yes and and that's exactly what I just said and 95 99% of the time all of the interactions have been kind and they've had such nice things to say about us and our show and and but it's just like it's just a weird thing and then like you said the people like that someone will come up and take a picture and then literally I had a guy at a pizzeria go who the fuck are you yeah what am I supposed to say to that you know what I mean like and I know it's it's a New York New Jersey thing where they're not impressed by anything you know what I mean it's like who the fuck are you I don't give a fuck you know you play for the Yankees I only like that like

it's it's a very weird space to live in and uh yeah you don't play for the Yankees we know that right fucking crazy absolutely fucking crazy we're talking we're having a nice conversation and that's what you chime in with he's like yeah but let's

let's just get this out of the way you don't play the for the fucking I have gotten yo I got to admit I thought I was meeting the catcher for the Mets today I swear to God like his name is Francisco Alva

yeah recently someone said to me like oh I there was a small part of me I was excited I might have been going to the you know meet the catcher of the Mets that's so funny and I'm like nope you know no I know I am not the catcher for the Mets

nope but uh that's all I got yeah well we didn't do find a catcher at least I was a catcher never for the Mets right you know but listen the finance bros conversation this I mean we waited to the end of the episode it wasn't the entire episode yeah a couple minutes yeah it's totally fine and I'm gonna sweat my ass yeah it's hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot You know what that's wrong?

Yeah. Anyway, thank you guys so much for making it through that conversation, a little venting sesh, a little therapy with me and Frank, no big deal. Joey loves these episodes. What? Like where I like, we have, like, deep conversations. Well, I got to trick you into therapy because I know you're not going. But you guys, thank you so much for watching.

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