Chapter 1: What are ghost plates and how do they relate to counterfeit goods?
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That's a Red Pocket Mobile fan line brought to you by your new ultimate cell carrier, Red Pocket Mobile. You know, a little good news for those of us who try to do the right thing. You know, I was coming across the Throgs Neck Bridge the other day, and I saw a big sign saying, you know, counterfeit plates will not be tolerated. Nice. Let's go. How long have we been talking about this? Long time.
Yeah. Paper plate, ghost plates, right? Yes.
Chapter 2: How did St. John's secure their Sweet 16 victory?
Ghost plates. Ghost plates from Texas, ghost plates from Georgia. Yeah. Now they're taking nail polish and kind of changing the numbers and letters on the plates so the congestion pricing readers can't read those plates. I mean, you had all sorts of crap going on. Man. That was interesting. I did not expect that at all.
You know, you're talking about how Stephen Waldron gets caught off guard by me. You go in ghost plates right here at 9 o'clock. Yeah, well, I figured it was 9 o'clock. Preface, preface, bye. I got some good news for everybody. Yeah, when I was going across the Throgs Neck Bridge and I saw that sign, I was like, man, all right. That's good.
Chapter 3: What was Joe Benigno's confusion about free thinkers?
I saw Suffolk County Police got a bunch of those catalytic converter dudes out there, shut down the big ring of the catalytic converter ripoff people that were out there in Suffolk, and they got them. A lot of that crap going around here. Big bust there. Can't hang on to those catalytic converters. I saw a very unique interaction down on Canal Street. Actually, Lispinard leaving the other day.
Some guy pulled out what looked to be like a Chanel bag out of some pouch and was trying to sell it to a couple of tourists, probably from, I don't know, Nebraska. Okay. And I could not believe the amount of counterfeit crap that was on the street. So that's all back now, huh? Oh, it's as bad as I've ever seen. All you have to do is go out Canal Street, go to Manhattan,
Yeah, I don't go that way. I don't like that way. It makes me nervous.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Knicks' recent win?
It is like a bazaar over there. Yeah, it makes me nervous. A lot of people running across the streets and stuff. I don't need that. If I have to do it, I'll do it, but I'm usually a Williamsburg guy. But, you know, so Lispinard goes parallel to Canal. It's just south of Canal. Yeah. I couldn't believe what Lispinard looked like. Oh, so now they've moved over?
Well, I think it's not that they moved over. I think there's no more room on Canal Street that they've got, and they're probably just going to keep moving. And just keep growing and growing and growing. And, you know, it's all knockoff stuff. And I just obviously.
Chapter 5: How is the MLB season shaping up for the Mets?
You know, it's being allowed. Yeah. So was it Giuliani who cracked down on the knockoff? He did. So he also got rid of the hookers, too. He got rid of the hookers.
Yeah, he got rid of a lot of things.
And then Bloomberg was able to keep it suppressed there for a while, right? Well, Bloomberg was so effective as a mayor that he was in office for 12 years. And then that Big Bird guy came in here, effed the whole thing up, huh? Yeah. Well, yeah, he did. And now all those people are back into this latest craze. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough.
Chapter 6: What tribute was paid to Chuck Norris in the episode?
Yeah. It's tough. They want this. They want this kind of crap. Who's they? The people in power, the people that get elected, and then the people who get appointed. They want counterfeit bags being sold? I guess they do. They don't want to do anything about it, and the police aren't doing anything about it. Yeah. Well, that stinks. Yeah. You know? It does. It's unfortunate because it really does.
Chapter 7: What was Sal Licata's encounter with Jerry Seinfeld about?
You know, it's kind of like the everyday life challenges that you have to face and There you go. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's just unbelievable what you see. You know what I'm saying? It's unbelievable. Yeah, I know. I know. Let's go to Scott in Amityville. What's going on, Scott? You guys ain't kidding with the counterfeit bags, man. It's not just Canal Street.
Whenever we take our daughter, like we go, my daughter's 12, right? 12 going on 17th.
Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude regarding upcoming sports events?
Anytime we go into the city to see, like, a show or we go out, like, we have to do the whole run in Times Square, and we stop at all the difference, and we try to find the most bougie counterfeit bag that looks like the super expensive. I mean, it's everywhere. It is, like, back in full force. And I don't think the brands care because it's just advertising. Like, my wife and I are amazed.
You can order stuff on Amazon. You can order fakes on Amazon and Sheen now. It's rampant, but it's every time we go in. I mean, I guess the argument against it would be like, okay, if you're buying the knockoff, then you're not going to spend the money on the real one. But I would imagine the brands would care. It would piss me off if I was CEO of something or other.
I think so, but I think it actually – I think it's just a boon for their business.
And my thing is, too, is who the hell knows if the big brands – aren't just making those knockoffs that take the money anyway. A lot of big brands do that. 1% of the people could afford the brand itself if you go into their stores on Madison Avenue. The rest of the people can't afford it, so you might as well let it go on and let kids have it and promote it. Exactly. It promotes it.
It's just a constant promotion, and the kids send it. And she loves it. It's hilarious. She loves it. She's got a whole closet full of fake coaches like Louis Vuitton. Yeah, it's crazy. But by the way, the reason I say this about Lisbon Art is because when you go down Lisbon Art and you run into, I think it's West Broadway, City Bikes got one of their bike things there.
So there's probably about 30 bikes lined up. There's a parking lot to the right. And then on the left side, on the sidewalk, Right next to the City Bike Bank there, there's got to be 30 people selling all of this crap. And the people that I saw up close and personal buying this bag, they were standing in the street. I had to beep the horn to get them the hell out of the street.
I'm like, I could not believe what I saw. I had never seen it this bad. Yeah. I mean, wow. We're in and out of the city pretty much all the time. No, it's true. And I have never seen it this blatant and this open and this just nobody doing anything about it. But we're not talking like 80s New York crack epidemic bad, right? We're not getting there.
Again, I don't know about the drug sales and all that. All I can tell you is that the streets are crowded with knockoff vendors. Rory, Monmouth County. What's going on, Rory? Hey, what's going on, boy? How you doing? I'm doing good, good. I'm working here at one of the golf courses in Monmouth County, and I happened to bump into your boy, Jerry Recco. Was he with his son, Joseph?
He was with both of his sons. Nice. Matthew and Joseph. Awesome. Yeah. I know Joseph is actually playing high school golf. That's why I brought him up. But, yeah, both of them are very good golfers. Yeah, so I saw he was playing with one of my buddies. I noticed the name on the tee sheet, so I came out to say hi to him, and then I saw Jared. Did you get a picture and an autograph?
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