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On The Road Again: Sees. Season 2, Episode 50.
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American Dream Mall Experience
00:01:12
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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Joining you live, not technically live, from the diamond level G ILM of the American Dream Mall in Secaucus, New Jersey.
00:01:32
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Yeah. Special parking. Unauthorized. Allegedly. No stop signs here. If I get sideswiped by somebody. How the hell do you get out of this place? Look for the sign that says exit. Yeah, it looked like it was that way. I think that was the valet parking area. Huh. Oh, okay. This says out. We got clearance under this thing?
00:02:04
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Yeah. How the hell? Doesn't seem like. The way out, but. So, yeah, we.
00:02:24
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Where we left off last week, we were pulling up to gyms, we dropped that stuff off. On the way back, he said, why not go to the American Dream Mall? We crossed it off the bucket list. It had been contemplating going to for the last several times we drove by. And we did it. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get out.
00:02:56
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Let's see what happens. Jeff's putting his pass. Oh, this thing's pretty close. Ay yay yay. I don't know what's going on here, but this exit is seemingly closed. Let me just back up this big van blindly down an alleyway.
00:03:30
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I'm going in the out. They can suck it. So this place is not easy to leave. They've got a couple of fire engines in here. What's going on? We're in the underground garage at the American Dream Mall. If you've ever seen that Seinfeld episode, it's a little bit like that.
00:03:54
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So what are your impressions of the American dream? It was underwhelming, I'll say. I expected more pizzazz. What the... That just set out and we got shoehorned into a dead end, it looks like. You can get through there. Don't think you're supposed to though.
00:04:22
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I'm gonna say that at least half the retail space was empty. Yeah It was pretty disappointing just driving under the structure here Look, I think we found another person looking to get out They don't want you to leave apparently it's like Vegas We can keep them here they'll keep spending money
00:04:50
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There's no way out of this little area. Out. Follow the signs. Yeah, that says out. Let's see. That also says out.
00:05:08
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This is where we came back into the parking garage. This is quite an episode so far. Yeah, riveting. So we walk in and half the mall is dark. Little do we know that the place doesn't open up till 11. I mean, the main doors open up because I don't know why.
00:05:32
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But none of the retail stores opened up till 11. So we kind of wandered around for a little while, for almost an hour, 45 minutes. We did end our experience with a pretty nice meal at, what was the name of that place? Yard House? Yard House, yeah. You know, like an American food kind of place that served a lot of tap beer. Let's go right here.
00:06:05
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Jeff had a nice big salad with chicken. Yeah, it was good. I had sort of like a chicken filly sort of interpretation. You know, grilled chicken with cheese and grilled onions. It was pretty good, too. All right, we found a way out. Much more difficult. They're going to say, like, you paid for parking too long ago because you've been driving around.
00:06:32
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And we're out. Thank you for visiting. The gate is up. Thanks for letting us out. We did see, we didn't go into any of the, what do you call the attractions. Yeah. They have the water park, they have Nickelodeon lands. Yep. Sea life. Lego experience.
00:06:56
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The ski thing. Yeah. Ice rink, we saw that. Yeah, ice rink. We saw the guy driving his Amboni. Yeah. Oh, no, we're going straight here. Everything was pretty expensive. Yeah. You know, food was not crazy expensive, but like the attractions were really costly. Yeah.
00:07:25
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I was severely disappointed. I was expecting to be wowed but I mean when we walked in it was cool you know they had all these like funky decorations and these like Buddha head planner kind of things it was like whoa this is pretty cool and then you you walk like a little bit further it's like oh this is like a regular mall.
00:07:50
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Yeah, I haven't been in a mall in 100 years, but the tile or marble or whatever it was on the floor was very fancy. The furnishings where people just sit and lounge was really modern and colorful and that sort of thing. There was a lot more attention to detail in that regard.
00:08:19
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Here we go, we're going by it. Wave. Yeah. Well, until next time, American Dream. Don't mind me, I'm just running over to Rumble Strips. Alright, we're awake. Yeah.
00:08:37
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We didn't see the skydiving thing. No I said it was coming and that's a virtual skydiving. I think that was something else. Virtual wingsuit it said. Oh that's right. That's the skydiving thing right there. Yeah I wonder where that was. And then is that part of the water park right there? It must be because that's like you know it's like so you're almost like it's outside. Oh look that's where the roller coaster is. Okay.
00:09:04
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Yeah, they had a pretty serious looking roller coaster. Two roller coasters, I think. Yeah. But like 70 bucks to get into this Nickelodeon thing, I text my wife about it. She said, oh, we should do it. And I said, no. I said, I'd rather go to Six Flags. $200 to get in. Yeah. You know, at least at Great Adventure, it's huge.
00:09:35
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Yeah, that is like, what? I don't know how big, but I mean, Great Adventure has got to be a hundred times bigger. Two miles long or something, at least. They have like 25 roller coasters instead of two.
00:09:56
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Yeah, I mean, just your basic stores at every other mall. I mean, I haven't been to the mall in probably, took 10 years. But, well, maybe once in the last 10 years. But yeah, just your regular stores.
00:10:14
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Bath and Body Works, H&M, Express, went to the van store, Foot Locker, Jurnee's, Champs Sports, all that crap. Only about half of the storefronts were actually filled. Yeah. Look at this. There's always traffic right here. Yeah. A lot of those temporary wall fronts. Yeah.
00:10:41
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I mean, even those were done really nice. Yeah. Yeah, they had murals on them and stuff. I mean, definitely a nice maw. But not the experience that we were expecting.
Fashion and Brands Discussion
00:10:57
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Maybe our expectations were too high. Yeah, that's probably it. That's usually the case, it seems. We're just optimists. Total optimists all the time. People usually say that about me.
00:11:13
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Rob, if you wouldn't be so optimistic, you wouldn't be disappointed so much. Yeah. What's the opposite of acidic?
00:11:27
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Yeah, it won't be visiting the American Dream again very soon apparently it opened in three phases starting in 2019 I don't know what the hell is taking so long, but yeah, I mean literally half If not more of the stores were not open like you know being Actively built out right. I mean there was there were a handful of stores being built out But the rest were just
00:11:53
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You know, waiting to be developed. Waiting for somebody to come in and even say they're interested in renting a space. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know. You know, that's on state land. Is it? Yeah, they got like a 1.15 billion dollar tax abatement or something. Holy crap. Yeah.
00:12:19
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We forgot to mention it last week, but wearing some Brunt shorts today. That's right. Friends over at Brunt reached out, asked if we wanted to give their shorts a try. I'm liking mine. They fit right out of the box. Yeah.
00:12:36
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Yeah, no complaints here. I like the fit of them, like the diameter of the leg openings, you know what I mean? A little bit long for me, but I'm sure. Yeah, they seem to fit me pretty well. I could stand to lose about two inches in the length, probably. But I like it. You know, it falls, like, right at the knee. I like that the little slid pocket on the side fits your phone. Yeah, that's, I think, probably
00:13:06
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Intentional design feature The it's like so I like I wear the true workshorts right now, which are nice. They're super stretchy But they're that like swishy kind of material. Oh, yeah, I like the noise Yeah, I like that. These are more of like a regular material, but they and they do have like a little bit of stretch Yeah, it's like I could do it some more stretch but
00:13:29
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They haven't felt like restrictive at all. No. I mean, we didn't really work today. Well, we walked around a three million square foot ball. That counts for something. Yeah. But I think they're going to work out.
00:13:51
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Yeah. Now, I haven't bought the 1620 shorts because, again, the inseam is just way too big for me. Theirs are cut like a, I don't know, they're like a tradesman cut or something. Yeah, they're really big. The leg openings are really big, too. I have a pair. Yeah. I don't have the body type to, I'm going to look like, I don't know. Yeah, I almost look like I'm wearing a skirt. Yeah.
00:14:21
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I haven't spent the money because I'm not going to spend that much money if I know that I'm not going to like the way they look. I like these shorts I was getting from Amazon. They're Amazon Basics brand, but they seem to have stopped making them. They're definitely not good quality at all, but they, at least for me, have a good fit and a good stretch to them.
00:14:50
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Yeah, it's no longer available, unfortunately. I'm a fan. My wife said, oh, those pants fit good. It's like, I wish I could find pants that fit that good. Oh my god, why is it always got to, they always got to turn into something like that. The whole thing. Oh my god. Spoken like to a married man. You're not even wearing them. How do you know how they fit?
00:15:24
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Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. That dickhead's got shorts that fit. Oh, God. I want to know how many people out there just related to that whole comment. I think it's that we're just not as nearly as picky. You know, it's like, we put them on. All right, they're all right. We'll wear them.
00:15:54
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or it's just going back to the uh the optimism thing like i'm expecting the shorts to suck and not fit when i get them i'm i'm satisfied if they're just remotely uh right you know so my standard is a little lower because oh cooking brothers there we go been burned before on on
00:16:18
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work shorts so I'm no stranger to being disappointed in what I get. But these are pretty good. I think they call them the Marin? The same name as those boots that they have. I do like the look of those boots. Heard mixed, mixed feelings on them.
00:16:34
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I don't really wear boots Yeah, I'm the boot wearer. I'm looking for a new pair. I mean I've been the most comfortable boots For most of my life have been Doc Martin brand. Yeah for whatever reason that fits the shape of my foot Good for stomping. Yeah, and I the last pair I bought
00:16:58
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were one of those they're like they make like work boots now not just like their regular docks yeah yeah and they're pretty good but they're so heavy
00:17:11
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You got to wear them every day and when you stop wearing them, you put them on. It's like you got ankle weights. Yeah. Yeah, I'll put on boots when it snows. And I do notice at the end of the day, my legs are more tired than they would be. Yeah. I've been in these lightweight Danner trainers for most of the summer.
00:17:36
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And they're good. They just don't offer my feet the kind of support that I like. What about an insole? Everything about going to an insole? Yeah, I've tried those. I've tried the custom orthotics. I like that real rigid kind of sole that the boots have. Yeah. Those are the best for me. Red Wings have a real hard
00:18:08
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What the fuck is beeping? Beeping at me? Yeah, dickhead. See why I'm not going any faster? Because there's a fucking dump truck right there. Red Wings have that real hard soul. I've had Red Wings. Again, it just boils down to like how it fits on your foot. Right. Yeah, the Red Wings is like rock hard. Yeah. Like the top leather part.
00:18:39
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That's important, too, like where it stretches across the top of your foot. Look at this person actually texting instead of driving. Two-handed texting. Yeah. Had they honked the horn with both hands on the phone with their knee? I want to get up next to him and ask him if he was fucking beeping at me.
00:19:06
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Yeah, red wings. I've only had one pair. And for the first week or two, they're like, they're awkward on your feet too. But then they are like molded to your foot. Like you can put your hand in there. That's it.
00:19:24
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That's the thing about, you know, the boots. Like I even have that, that newish pair that I got from that company in Pennsylvania, but I can't bring myself to break them in like my old boots are. What are those, Keystone or something? Something like that. Yeah. And they're really well made American boots, handmade, hand stitched. So I've kind of been on the hunt for like,
00:19:53
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a lightweight pair of high tops. The vans, I thought were gonna do it, but this guy's a menace. Yeah. This is telling us to go carstruck the buses. Man, I really wanted to tell that guy off. Yeah, you got no satisfaction.
00:20:23
Speaker
that's the shame of it sorry i can't drive through the back of the dump truck that's in front of me i'd like to see him just get like a double tire blowout just just smash into the concrete median yeah
00:20:47
Speaker
No death, but a little maiming would be OK. Yeah. Maybe like, yeah, like chronic sciatica for the rest of their life. Oh, god. I guess sciatica is probably chronic by definition. Yeah, I've heard it's pretty painful. Oh, yeah. So Lou's going to stop by, right? Yeah, let me, what's our ETA at the shop? 135.
00:21:22
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Yeah, one o'clock on a Friday, no beach traffic yet. Might be kind of getting past the point, it's almost Labor Day. Yeah, it'll be past Labor Day, I guess, when this comes out. What kind of lights to place this? A temp tech? Yeah, I think so. Keep all those New Yorkers home.
Airport Naming and New Jersey's Reputation
00:21:42
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Virginia. Might be a secret service.
00:21:48
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I want to know why all the Massachusetts plates down here this summer. Yeah, a lot of Massachusetts plates. And they're almost as bad driving as New Yorkers. I know. They're probably a little worse because they don't really know where they're going. Yeah. I mean, it's not hard on these roads to go straight.
00:22:22
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There's beautiful Newark Airport again in Port Elizabeth. Why do they call it Port Elizabeth? And that's Newark Airport, and they're right next to each other. That's two different cities. That's a good question. Shouldn't it be Port Newark? Yeah, we're Elizabeth Airport. Is Elizabeth the city named after Queen Elizabeth?
00:22:49
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I don't know if the podcast has taught us anything, the odds are pretty high. Why is Newark Airport's call sign EWR? Yeah, I guess because of...
00:23:06
Speaker
Oh, maybe there was a New York. I don't know. An EW, and they just moved it over one. EWR. Wait, EW. Yeah, it should be EWA then. Yeah. But New York has JFK. Yeah. And it's got LaGuardia, which I think is LGD. And what's the other one?
00:23:34
Speaker
Definitely got some upstate ones. I guess they're smaller though, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's a good question. Should be like NWK. Right. Well, I guess you got to look at all the airports all across the country. Yeah, well, Newark is a big one. They should get a priority. I agree with that 100%. It's top 10, for sure.
00:24:04
Speaker
Got Atlanta, O'Hare, LAX, Newark, LaGuardia's probably up there. JFK, yeah. Dulles in Washington. Yeah. Probably one in Texas. Oh, yeah, DFW. Dallas-Fort Worth. Yeah. Probably Orlando or Miami or Tampa, 103. Florida one's got to be down there.
00:24:36
Speaker
Wait, is there an airport in Tampa? Yeah. Yeah, I flew in there. Yeah, I've flown into Tampa and Orlando. I feel like Vegas is probably a pretty big airport. Like in terms of traffic. They have two, even. We flew into the little one, which was like Mick something. Yeah, Mick not MacArthur, something like that. Look at this. I know that light hanging there.
00:25:06
Speaker
Yeah, I mean Newark is a big international airport. That's why they call it Newark International Airport. Look at that Boston Market rotisserie nuggets. The chef preparing fresh for you. Chef Mike.
00:25:25
Speaker
fresh out of Chef Mike and into your stomach. Out of the freezer? Yeah. With the Chef Mike. Anything you can get at Boston Market, you could probably buy frozen Boston Market bran at the supermarket. That's right. And it'll taste better. Oh, man. Yeah, so we got a semi-empty shop now. All we got in there is a 12-foot long countertop.
00:25:57
Speaker
and a laser and two big stacks of wood. Yeah. Which will have to become two huge piles of boxes. Yeah. Might have to get some big cardboard boxes and fill them up so we can stack them better. Yeah, or move them off-site, you know what I mean? Or bring them into my basement. Yeah, yeah. Not that there's much room in there anymore.
00:26:25
Speaker
Our houses are so full with crap. Oh, man. Uh-oh, I see tail lights. Yeah. Looks like it's going to rain. I know it is supposed to potentially rain this afternoon. Oh, man. Let's see what Lou says if he's going to be able to make it. He said he might be busy later. Yeah, we got held up at the American Dream.
00:26:56
Speaker
He's out to lunch with his wife. He'll let us know. Passing the oil refineries, which we do have here in New Jersey, believe it or not. Actually, I think it's a pretty big thing here. Because the port, you know, the food comes in. We refine it.
00:27:25
Speaker
This is what I thought all of New Jersey looked like. Yeah, the Sopranos intro. Woke up this morning. They don't call it the garden state for nothing. Yeah, Jersey gets a bad rap. Term of appearance and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's kind of like...
00:27:51
Speaker
Brooklyn before Brooklyn became gentrified. You know, people knew I was from Brooklyn. They thought, hey, oh, and you couldn't be too swift. You couldn't be too bright. I remember I had had this job when I was in college in Arizona, an Arizona state. I worked in this warehouse.
00:28:18
Speaker
And this one lady used to come out from the... It was like a design showroom kind of place. She used to come out from the office all the time and really just... Ooh. Man, you see that fox body Mustang? Tough doubt. It'd be really condescending to all of us in the warehouse. And one day,
00:28:46
Speaker
And she had a kid going to school. One day she just was on my last nerves, making some comments about me. And I told her, I said, I got a 4.0 at Arizona State. What's your kid got? Well, I'm sorry.
00:29:12
Speaker
But that's the way it was back then, you know. Shut up, Karen. It was pre-Karen, you know, and being a youngster from New York, everybody out west. Dooms the worst. Yes, they all had these notions of who I was. Like, I saw that movie, My Cousin Vinny.
00:29:40
Speaker
It was a couple of stereotypes to buck there. You weren't an Anglo-Saxon from New York. No, no. That was back.
Weather and Driving Stories
00:29:52
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It's hard to imagine if you're
00:29:56
Speaker
of a certain age, how slowly information traveled back then. Yeah, wow. It's still traveling pretty slow. Yeah, real information. What are you doing, asshole? Connecticut. But like trends and things like that, you know, they travel at lightning speed now. Oh, yeah.
00:30:22
Speaker
Yeah, they're probably still wearing Ed Hardy's t-shirts in the Midwest. Yeah, yeah. Tap out. Like, yeah, these are cool. Oh, man. People would say, what are you? They didn't think there was anything wrong with that. Can you elaborate on that question? That was an innocent question back then.
00:30:54
Speaker
Hey, here comes the ring, like you predicted. Yeah, good. The van needs a little rinsing. Oh, man. It's coming down pretty good. Yeah. Got that post-lunch haze going. Yeah, I don't usually eat lunch, so...
00:31:22
Speaker
I was eating those peanuts, but it was messing me up. Yeah, and you had a pretty healthy lunch. Yeah, a little salad with chicken. I had Brussels sprouts in there too, which were good. Yeah, they can be good. I like Brussels sprouts. You know, nice and roasted or something. Yeah, these said they were roasted, but they were... they seemed pretty raw. Which was fine, they tasted fine. Allie likes them like burnt. Oh yeah. Which I don't like.
00:31:58
Speaker
Like to Palermo's custom cakes and bakery. Only city anyone knows is Sicily. I know. I've been to Palermo. Gotta go through Palermo to get to Calatafimi.
00:32:26
Speaker
Police police action on the byway. I think that used to be a little Rosa chicken billboard. Now it's black bear pile. Whoa, look at this. Big time rain came out of nowhere. The sky is pretty clear, though. I think we'll be out of it shortly. Yeah. I don't know if we can hear that. That's just the rain off the windshield. I'm guessing they can definitely hear that.
00:33:00
Speaker
You ever driven in a hailstorm? Nah. Not a lot of hail on the east coast. I was in a hailstorm in Texas. Like this person puts on their emergencies like it's that serious. And they're in the left lane. Oh, they've got another emergency. Don't ask this. Go back to Connecticut. In New Jersey, that ain't an emergency. That's nothing.
00:33:32
Speaker
It's gonna be an emergency if you don't get out of my way. Yeah, I was at my Volkswagen bus in a hailstorm. And so you can imagine the sounds coming off that tin can. We did. Remember we had that hailstorm? I think it was on like a Saturday. I went into the shop for something. And next thing you know, it was like the ground was covered with crushed ice. Like, what the hell?
00:34:01
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And it was one of those like freak where there was no like prior talk of there being any rain or hail or anything like that. What's going on here? We got scrapers. We got scrapers going to the Gawne State Parkway.
00:34:33
Speaker
The guy with the hazard lights on in the left lane is of course a scraper. And that butt ugly little Range Rover. Oh my god. Texting. I swear. They had their hazards on to warn everybody that they were texting. My $95,000 Range Rover doesn't have voice to text.
00:35:08
Speaker
getting off the beautiful turnpike and on the beautiful Garden State Parkway the Garden State Parkway is a pretty nice row especially down like where we are man that guy's rolling cold look at that oh geez having a hard time getting up this little incline it's not that steep
00:35:34
Speaker
Man, you can see the soot in the air. Yeah, it's heavy, it's thick. Geez. That's good for the environment. Yeah, oh my god, look at it just spewing out of that truck. But you know, those batteries, they don't really have a way to recycle those yet, so...
00:36:05
Speaker
Yeah, those are bad, too. You better get your act together. Which EV truck were we looking at that had the solar roof? Was it the Atlas? Oh, yeah. Is this still... Yeah, this still turns into one lane. Man, they're still working on the parkway over here. We haven't been up here in ages and they're still working on it.
00:36:34
Speaker
I don't know if I've ever seen anybody actually working. I mean, they had the signs out. Well, work is putting it. Work with the air quotes. Yeah. You not know how fucking merging works, you dickhead? Try and race me when it's my turn to merge. I'm gonna get ahead of you.
00:37:11
Speaker
This guy's got some ladders. Yeah, it must be a roofer. Gauging the turbo. Turbo on. Boost on. Wait till we get the, whoa! Wait till we get the nitrous hooked up on this thing. Yeah. See, Manny was at some kind of burnout contest or something last night. Oh, yeah?
00:37:40
Speaker
I don't know, it was a bunch of motorcycles doing burnouts. That's good for a $300 tire. You gotta have a spare set just to take with you when you go to the burnout. Burnout excursion. New York are of course
00:38:10
Speaker
Gonna stop, but yeah, you gotta go easy on that. Gotta love sticker on the back of that car. Love to smash into the back of them.
Car Brands and Driving Habits
00:38:25
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Here's another Massachusetts Range Rover. He looked like a yuppie. Yeah, he was related to the Kennedys.
00:38:43
Speaker
This Subaru is jockeying for position. Yeah, well, he's all butthurt that I took his spot in the merge, when really it was my spot. He's got us taking 35 or, you know, going Driscoll. Good old Driscoll. Wonder who's that name after? Who is Driscoll? I think it's Edward Driscoll, I want to say. What's he responsible for?
00:39:17
Speaker
I mean, it's a pretty substantial bridge. Yeah. It's not raining, but it's that thing where all the water's coming up off the road. I hate that. Yeah, he was governor, Alfred E. Driscoll. From New Jersey? Yeah, well, I guess I hope so. Is Murphy up for re-election this year?
00:39:47
Speaker
Does it happen on the... Oh no, didn't he just... didn't he just win? He just got reelected. But it's so weird because I get political ads, unless maybe I'm remembering before. Is the gubernatorial election not yet? It's in like June or something, right? Yeah, I think so. That must have been before. I was getting a ton of ads on YouTube, political ads.
00:40:15
Speaker
Never got one for Jack Chittorilli, though. No, I wonder why. Alfred Eastlack Driscoll served in the New Jersey Senate from 1939 to 1941 and was the 43rd governor of New Jersey.
00:40:43
Speaker
get to see where they have allegedly been building Bass Pro Shops or something for the last like 10 years. Doesn't look like there's any progress going on. Yeah, sounds like a conspiracy. I see they're putting in the lake for the bass fishing. Yeah. Oh, that bulldozer is driving.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah, I've seen people moving dirt around down there. Looking for Jimmy Hawthorne. Another inside joke for this part of the woods. Was that Sammy the bull that took him out? No. Leaf lettuce. Sammy the bull likes his leaf lettuce.
00:41:39
Speaker
Not iceberg? No. He didn't want it chopped up. That was the whole thing. He wanted his lettuce and whole leaves, like the romaine leaf. Uh-huh. Every day, his, we'll call it his companion, his lunch companion would bring me his food, and then he would say, and he wants leaf lettuce.
00:42:04
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Or else. Yeah. You know, you want to say, I got it after the first two days. I got it in my memory. But you just kept your mouth shut. This is Scrape Central right here. Oh, yeah. Let's count the numbers, Scrape. Let's see if we can predict the scraper. Risk life and lint. When you see a minivan with New York plates with a bumper guard on it, just stay away. That's the idiot who was in front of me in the toll plaza.
00:42:37
Speaker
Then it gave me a look like I was a jerk for going around them. In New Jersey, you disregard the 15 mile an hour speed limit sign on the toll plaza. You go through it as fast as humanly possible. That's why we got easy paths. Right, to make it easy. Yeah.
00:43:01
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You can't split the middle of a 20 foot wide or however wide they are. Probably a 15 foot wide thing. You probably shouldn't be driving. That's right. Take your license away. Well, the sun is shining down here in our half of New Jersey. Yeah.
00:43:27
Speaker
I mean, it definitely feels different down here than it does up there. Oh, yeah. Once you cross that Driscoll and go through the toll plaza. It's much more wooded. Although, the parkway the whole way is pretty. Yeah, as you get up north, especially, it gets really nice again. Yeah. It's just a turnpike that's very industrial.
00:43:53
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You got the port, and the airport, and all the warehouses, and the refineries, and the co-generation plan. Even like Turnpike, going down south, it's a lot of warehouses. I mean, it's a big truckers. Yeah, with the port there, it's a lot of shipping and receiving and transport of all kinds of stuff. Yeah.
00:44:23
Speaker
So when we get back, we're going to unbox the lamello. Yeah, I wonder if it came. Oh, that's right. It wasn't out. It's out for delivery, but that's pretty vague. Yeah. Well, FedEx, is that who dropped off the brunt, or was that UPS? I don't know. It was just I was walking out the door, and there it was on the porch. The thing, the tracking said it weighs like 40 some odd pounds.
00:44:51
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It's probably a little kit, you know, and well tonight sit to sustainers like one of them has those drawers Nice that has all the biscuits and stuff in it. Yeah, that was eight hundred bucks That'd be friggin nice that's funny, I mean
00:45:14
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The Domino one I bought it as a kit was only $800.00. Yeah. It's $1,000, $1,100 now. Then it's like another four for the biggie, or $600 for the, no, well, if you want to get the kit that is a sustainer, that's all full of Domino's. Oh, yeah. But I think that's all that comes with. It doesn't come with anything else. This comes with the screwdriver and the drilling guide and all that crap. You know what else LaMela makes is, I forget what it's called, but
00:45:44
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It's a magnetic thing that you put in your drill. And you can use it on handrails, for example, where they butt together. And you put this magnet thing up in the front. And then they connect together. It's like a blind bolt kind of thing. That's cool. Yeah, I've never seen one in person. I've seen the little videos. This guy's got the Italian flag sticker.
00:46:10
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Oh yeah, with a Punisher skull on his Dodge Challenger. I'm always leery of that. He's probably got a pepper hanger from rearview mirror, too. There's now a little redundant to have the pepper and... I'm an Italian sticker on the back of your car. I think I must have been...
00:46:35
Speaker
25 before I found out that it's not actually a pepper Well, I mean they're always with the red. Yeah, why did why is it red if it's not a pepper? Yeah, I don't know I mean, that's my I'll be my first assumption. See a red pepper shaped object. Yeah, I think pepper will look at that Jaguar. Oh
00:46:59
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Jaguars do make some really sexy cars. Yeah, I wonder if the quality is any better than they were, because they work pretty bad. Yeah, yeah. They've changed hands a bunch of times. They did. They used to be under Ford. Yeah, I don't know if that was
00:47:18
Speaker
part of their restructuring to get better or if that was part when they were not so good I forget who it's like two companies are under the parent company it's Jaguar and somebody else forget what it is though I was surprised Volkswagen is like
00:47:37
Speaker
Porsche, Audi, Volkswagen Bugatti. Are they Fiat too? No, no, no, that's Fiat owns Dodge Ram. Okay, yeah, there you go. Or no, well, what is it? Chrysler? It's Fiat Chrysler, yeah. They were owned by Daimler for a while. Right. Now that's only Mercedes.
00:48:07
Speaker
Yeah, because it was Daimler Chrysler. Yeah, I saw, like, a float chart the other day. Ford is literally now just Ford and Lincoln. There's no more Mercury, I guess. No. I was, you know, if you would have asked me, I would have had to think if there was even Lincoln. Yeah, they got the Navigator, the Aviator. That's right. The MKZ.
Local Life and Future Plans
00:48:33
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lose white i don't know if she still has and she had that SUV Lincoln SUV there you go the GM I guess is what Cadillac Chevy GMC yeah like Oldsmobile and Buick don't exist anymore do they? Buick does it does yeah oh that's right they have those commercials now like
00:49:00
Speaker
Once they have some kind of tagline. I saw a Buick wagon. What's up with that? Truck's got a bunch of crucifixes on the back. A Buick wagon. That one was pretty cool looking. Oh, I wonder if it's going to a funeral. Those look like military markers or something. They look kind of shoddy. What the hell is going on at the Easy Pass lane? Everybody's going 15.
00:49:32
Speaker
You see Kia is ripping off the Mustang SUV with that footer in there. What I was told is that the designer from BMW got poached by Kia. And that's why now they're trying to make some cars all looking nice. It's still Kia.
00:49:56
Speaker
It's funny though, from the outside they have had some really nice looking cars. Like I've looked, I don't know, I'm gonna say half a dozen times and say, well that's a nice looking car and I see it's a Kia. They have good warranties and stuff. Is that that guy in the Subaru? Is it blue? Yeah. Yep. I don't think he had that pink license plate thing.
00:50:26
Speaker
He also had gold on the bars up there, whatever the hell you call those things. Oh, the roof rack? The roof rack, yeah. No, it's not him. Oh, yeah. That's a lady. There's a Lincoln right there. What about Mitsubishi? Are they still making cars?
00:50:57
Speaker
I think so because the Eclipse is now in I mean, I know in the last few years and the Eclipse is now a SUV. Oh Here's the truck with the crucifixes, let's see what this all about Unless there's something completely different. Oh, they're mailbox Well, they're hanging halfway in the thing yeah That's funny
00:51:29
Speaker
It seemed like a very secure way to transport those things. Oh man, it did look like a bunch of crosses off the back of his truck. Popeye's not getting good reviews about this location, but the manager, a heavyset man, you have no business. Contact Nazi1 at gmail.com. I know.
00:52:03
Speaker
Oh man, I'm still full. Oh, look at that. Fake shot. Yeah. Yeah. He has the police up there.
00:52:26
Speaker
I want to know what they're doing over here. Oh, there's a bunch of ants. Yeah. I mean, there's been work going on. There just was a ShopRite pizza bank, probably. But they got the front all bricked off. And it closed up some of the entrances. Look at these guys. They're having a pow wow. There's some mysterious work going on in there.
00:52:57
Speaker
Grills and chill, Keensburg amusement park. One chill per customer. Yeah. Max one chill with coupon. Free on the first Tuesday, but you have to reserve. Free admission to the aquarium, but no complaints allowed.
00:53:26
Speaker
Oh, crucifix guy's behind us. Mailbox man. I got a tight neck for most podcasting and driving. Yeah. I put a thick layer of mind derm on there this morning.
00:53:47
Speaker
Which it did help. It's only just coming back. To me, that stuff's good for like 45 minutes an hour of real relief. This release for sale, that used to be a bank, didn't it? Yeah. Banks seem to be closing in droves. The brick and mortar locations for these small banks.
00:54:12
Speaker
It's unnecessary. You know, what do you really have to go to the bank for? Oh no, that was, oh yeah, that was a bank. What do you really have to go to the bank for? We only have to go when we have checks that are too big to cash on mobile, but that's the bank's problem. Yeah, all you need to do is change the rule. And you go there and there's like 10 people working. You know, that's some business model.
00:54:40
Speaker
Well, they take our money and lend it out, take a nice little slice, and they tell you what you can and can't do with your own money. We got a real indecisive guy in front of us. I think I see some fish jumping in the pond.
00:55:07
Speaker
Yeah, I gotta make it out there. It looks awfully buggy, though. Oh, forget it nowadays. The problem is getting out there. You gotta park over there and walk across the street. I wonder how the salmon fish it is. Oh yeah, look at that. Man, littering Route 36. What do you think's going on up at the Salmon River?
00:55:38
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Oh, Sam are starting to run. They've been catching them. Not a lot yet, but they're starting to run. Usually Labor Day weekend is the first shot of really getting them. Which I did twice and didn't get any.
00:55:58
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But we did see some. Yeah, the experience. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you go fishing and you think you're guaranteed to catch fish, you're going to be sorely mistaken. This building used to be a Senoko. Look at that cupola. It's leaning awfully. Oh, yeah. The roof must have given way on that side.
00:56:31
Speaker
It's a pad for lease. Yeah, I guess that means they'll knock that down. Get rid of it. It is condemned. It's got that thing on the front. Oh, is that what that square, what the X means? Yeah. Haslett PBA 189 Car Show and Festival. September 10th. Yeah, we're going to have to start contributing to the Keensburg Chamber of Commerce. Yeah, we'll have to put the van in.
00:57:00
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the St. Patrick's Day parade. Throw candy out the window to the kids. By the way, I went on that website for a popcorn park. I got to call them up because they don't have any parameters for the ad at
Final Thoughts and Sign Off
00:57:18
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all. That's what I noticed when I'm like, this is very nondescript. It's just like, and then I even try going through the thing where it's like, pay for it, put it in your car. It's still nothing.
00:57:31
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So, I'll call them up. It's for a full page color add. Gotta put it on there. We got these ropes that we're gonna bring the monkeys at some point. Gotta bring the monkey ropes down. Fresh wash one power washing. This guy's got a lot of liquid detergent, it looks like. If it's one, shouldn't it just be fresh wash? Yeah. When you have a two, that's when you start adding numbers.
00:58:00
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It's got a nice little logo there, like a Yosemite Sam type character with two pressure washer guns. The screen's not coming out of my laptop over here, are we? Okay, there we go. Still recording. So we got a couple of episodes in the books.
00:58:28
Speaker
Yeah, this is episode 50 of season 2. Yeah, we're going to have to do something to celebrate at the end of our second full season. Yeah. We might have to take a little vacation. They've been trying to sell this Jeep over here at Fast Track for I don't even know how long. I think it's been out there forever.
00:58:57
Speaker
Think we're gonna get any work done today? I don't think so. I don't think so. Maybe if the lamello is there, we can take it apart and play with it. I'm in a food coma still. You know, I eat lunch every day, but every time I eat out, I realize how little I eat compared to what the servings are in a restaurant. Oh, yeah.
00:59:30
Speaker
I mean, I did a pretty good job, but I couldn't even really clean my plate. Yeah, I mean, the portion. They're just huge. The sizes are huge. I mean, we don't think of them as huge, but if you go to like another country, they're definitely a lot bigger. I remember when I first started dating my wife, I used to cook.
00:59:55
Speaker
And I would make the meals, you know, plate them up and everything, because I was still kind of fresh out of the kitchen. Just like, is that it? Like, what do you mean, is that it? You know, she was used to it. You're not going to finish it all anyway. I would say, if you want more, I'll make more. This is a serving. This is, look at this frigging door they got on that boat. That's a barge. Yeah.
01:00:22
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And she always says, I remember when you say that, and I never needed more. It's like, well, that's the, I mean, I know how to portion a meal. That's like if you do like a tasting menu, you know, each course is like the size of like an amuse and people are like, that's it? Yeah. OK, well, you're having nine courses, so settle down. Check back in when you get to course nine. Or six. Yeah.
01:00:51
Speaker
Man, for my 21st birthday, Mikey Metz did a tasting menu for me. We were at Dennis Foy. Uh-huh. Man, was that good. Made all kinds of stuff. I forget how many courses. It was a lot. Where's this guy going with all those Penn Internationals? He's got a box doll reel up there, too. About five grand worth of fishing reels right there. Turn it on to Wilson Avenue.
01:01:20
Speaker
It always feels good to get back. You always hit a yellow light right here. Yeah. Must be the timing. Come on, big box on the porch. Don't do it, Ford Focus. Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah. Oh, and a little bunny.
01:01:54
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Run Rabbit! That's an awesome buffer.
01:02:02
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Well, folks, we're going to sign off. Yeah, everybody have a great weekend. See you next week. As always, Rob and I, thank you for tuning in and we'll see you next week. If you want to help support the podcast, you can leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. You can join our Patreon or you can use one of our affiliate links in the podcast description for vesting finishes or Myoderm CBD pain relief cream. Again, we appreciate your support. Thanks for tuning in.
01:02:47
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Ain't no shame, but there's been a chain