 Greetings, everyone. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and Progressive Discussions. And before I go on to do my next video talk show, I am stopping by from my immediate area off Route 17 south in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, the one and only, the famous Bendiksteiner, as seen on the Jerry Seinfeld Netflix series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. That's right. It is in my close area and I love it here. Outstanding food, outstanding coffee, and I will go in soon before I go on to do my next show. James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and Progressive Discussions here. And aside from the famous Bendiksteiner in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, Route 17 south, right behind the famous Teterboro airport where everyone with private jets lands who wish to visit New York City. We are right next door, directly next door to the famous Bananas Comedy Club in the Holiday Inn on Route 17 south in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, and there it is. The famous Bananas Comedy Club with a very highly rated Gabriel's Restaurant. What does she do every day? Oh my God. So, hopefully Rod Rosenstein will put the last nail in the coffin for the Trump administration. I hope so. I love England. Yeah, the corrupt always, well, the corrupt and very wealthy always seem to weasel by. Yeah, hopefully something will happen. Hopefully. I saw Walgreens picking up my mother's prescription. I told them, could you wait until she needs all three and then send me a text? All right, so I go there. They got a new express lane at Walgreens Pharmacy. I'm standing there for the longest time. I go, gee, this is almost as bad as being in the emergency room in Hackensack Hospital. The girl laughed. They go, yeah, I've been here for like 15, 20 minutes on your express lane. Meanwhile, there were like a few heavy said, you know, black girls in the back moving like at a snail's pace. But they have like a private little office there now. It says patient health center. It's like private. I go, what's that all about? Is it a massage parlor here in Walgreens? Yeah. I think she said no, they do exams and they give flu shots or something out of them. But I noticed the cashier talking about accumulating Walgreens points. I says, you know, every time I got a store card and retail and they told me I'm accumulating points, I never really got anything. Sometimes I wonder if the point, that point thing is just another like a farce to make you buy more items. You know, PEDCO, I had a PEDCO card and I've got anything from there. That's why I cut up all my store cards. But nothing surprises me today. Like if I lean really was with Ray, that wouldn't surprise me either. How late, how late did you hang out? Must have been really fun, hopping last night on Saturday night. Got Gabriel's? I was there, parties and something else. They've got one going on now. A bunch of buses arrived around 10s and 30s. Nah, I'm sure on Saturday night Gabriel's bar got a nice little crowd around it. Little bananas to the back. Oh, because, oh, I see. At least they got the room for doing things like that. What they really should do with Gabriel's is play, show the sports, all the games in the front and put CNN on the side with closed captions. So this way you can stay abreast, stay abreast of the news and watch the games at the same time. Texans, Houston, Texans, Texans, they should have kept the Oilers name. Sick with tradition. Where'd you go, Karen? Where'd you go last night? I can't hear you. Some of our nutly New Jersey. That's where you went to eat? Holy Family Church. Yeah, they had a feast there. Oh, they had a feast there. Oh, you went to a festival. I wasn't. You know the guy, the people that make zeppelies and calzones are the same ones, they go to every festival. It says Tony's, zeppelies and calzones. I've seen them every time I go to a festival. I see them. Autumn is just, it's got to be the most fun time of the year. You have a small fridge in your room? Good. All you need now is like a microwavable plate to heat stuff up in a microwave. You probably have one in your house. You've had a lot of stuff. You've been a pyrex of some kind. Corning wear. Still one of my favorite bowls and plates. Pitched out. You can even grab your farber wear and put it in the oven. Put it in your room. Haven't I worked out? Farber wear grill. We had this one guy over there. Yeah. I said, look, you said stop. Outside or inside? I said, man, you don't stop. Everybody said, has he ever shut up? I said, I don't think so. I said, look, he's going to stop. You're just going to not stop. I said, this is enough. Oh, I didn't want to have to. I tried to give him a hint. He hasn't come up for air. There's so many transients that go through that place. He goes, you don't talk a lot, do you? No. Why do you want to yak out? Nothing. That's a pain. The bartender, she's a smart girl. I said, you guys go on and on. She didn't realize there was a... Well, she doesn't say much. She's very quiet. Yeah, but when she talks, she's smart. She makes sense. Well, she gets to the point, which I like. I mean, no long shift. Oh, God. She had no idea it was a Google Photos app that makes life convenient for your photos and videos. And she was fascinated with it. But it's important stuff she talks about. Yeah, honestly, I would have expected Eileen to show up on a Sunday. She doesn't know what she's doing. The Sunday caregiver gave mommy a shower. Boy, was that a job. I had to help her out because mom had an anxiety episode. I said, I think it's easier to bathe an elephant at a circus than my mother. Oh. Poor thing, you know. Soft brain. I said, mommy, why are you so frightened? I says, you're getting a nice hosing down. Nice shower. I used the Syreflex with the hose. Oh, did you pick up a breath-farb copper thing? No, I was going to go to Walmart to get one. I mean, Walgreens. Walmart, Walmart. Are they both half of them? No, they don't. I was at Walgreens three days ago. They didn't have it. You know what? I noticed they're, as seen on TV section, shrank quite a bit. Yeah. You would think it would expand because, I mean... I'll go to Walmart. Infomercial's a popular. I told Joseph a bit. Yeah. Retail managers are not the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree anyway. I've known some supermarket managers that weren't too sharp either. Pathmark. Yeah, yeah. Joseph is like... It's like Eileen. What's your girlfriend today? I know she ate at the festival, but I don't buy food at the festival except beers. Because there they want a lot of money for their food. It's like baseball parks and the boardwalk down to Jersey. That's terrible. We don't know. No, no. Every time I go to a festival, they want too much. Moe Howard used the word imbecile, knucklehead. What was it, 20 to 15? I don't think he heard much about it. Giant's coach or owner should get on their ass for playing so badly. These New York teams need old man Steinbrenner's personality back. What happened? Where'd Karen go? She was going to sit down. You know... You gotta get an action. That nap is when you're up there. Oh, God. Moe Howard, you are right. You know, every festival I go to, I only end up getting beer because the price of the food is ridiculous. It's like the boardwalk down to Jersey Shore. Yeah. High. Or basic. Each. Yeah. Or even a ballpark is a rip-off. The soda was a dollar. I can't have soda. That was a dollar. I had brownie. I wonder if this guy left. Brownie? Yeah, since you... How was it? Good. What'd you eat there besides the brownie? I had two slices of pizza. That's it? What'd you do? Just walk around. After I only had a DJ there, I was dancing for a while. What'd you dance with? My friend. Oh, dear. No dudes? No dudes. No dudes. Well, girls are... Girls dance with each other nowadays. It's a new thing. Well, it's not a new thing. It's a... Ever since the feminists took over the country. When I was a kid, you know... They used to snow... Listen. They used to slow... When I met him, they used to slow dance. You know, men and women used to slow dance and all that. And we... In a players club in Hackensack? Yeah. Oh, yesterday. It's an ad house. You know what's worse? You know what's worse when you get a bunch... When you get a bunch of kids... Get a table, they leave all this stuff there. They don't throw anything out. That's like the worst thing. I feel so bad for people like you. I don't know if he wants to... If he wants to move over here to his favorite table or not. Yeah, or then again... Because you can't really see... You can't really see anything except the highways from there. No, usually he loves it here, but... Oh, yeah, no. Actually, to be honest with you, with the millennials... You never see guys and girls dancing with each other in a dance club anymore. No. It's sad though, you know, but you know... You can blame Gloria Steinem for that. And Bella Abzog, man, was she ugly? Oh. Well, I hear people are registering to vote. The numbers, which I'm happy about for this November. Oh, yeah, you gotta counter that lunatic that's in the White House. My iPhone is acting weird. All my ringtones are there. And my volume is cranked up to the max, but I hear no sounds. Yeah, isn't that strange? Weird. Autumn has got to be the best as far as holidays. Weather. The climate is nice. If you have a jacket, of course. The holidays are fun. You like fudge cairn? Like what they have back in a boardwalk? I like the one with nuts in it. The walnuts or pistachios or almonds or... I think it's made from cream cheese, to be honest with you. Like a cheesecake, yeah. That's your favorite table. Actually, it's kind of Eileen's too. Yeah, it's true. Right, exactly. It's today's paper. Why do people pick them up? Is this your paper? Let it migrate around the... Do you go back to work tomorrow? I'm going to go carry it back tomorrow. Is there anyone back in the week? There's been a week ago. Wow. What do you do during the week? Waste management? Waste management. Oh, waste and measures. Oh, yeah. They used to come by when I worked in seafood and check the scales out and everything. Make sure it's not like my grandfather said back in the 1920s, he used to put the thumb on a scale. Waste and measures. The health department is a little iffy in their performance. Where do you plan to retire? I'm retired. You've been there 30 years? I know, but I don't have any. You don't have the pension yet? Your pension is not ready? I thought the years would count if you retired. I'm sorry, I can't pull it close to your age. I'm 67. That's ridiculous. Yeah, in other words... You want to collect something you can sell if you've gotten it up to the board. That's because... That's because the Republicans want you to drop dead before you collect. If you put the years in, it doesn't seem fair. It shouldn't be an either-or. It's obvious, Karen, why they're doing that. So people don't end up... Not collecting, so they died. I think we already have the years in. That's alright. 67? Oh, my God. 67? No, I'm not that old. 12 more years, Karen. Yeah, but that was way out of here. It does? Not really. Yeah, but who wants to enjoy your retirement? That old. You want to enjoy it when you're more in your prime. No, it's not your fault. It's the system that did a jackass thing like that. You know they're trying to steal Social Security in Washington. They're trying to allocate it for the military or something. But it's not theirs to take. People pay into that. It's embezzlement. You're damn right it isn't. People pay it into Social Security. How many years here? 37? 39? Holy crap. This place has been around. Really? Holy mackerel. I had no idea it was that old. Same franchise owner or different? Different. I guess it is. I heard it's a guy that was 49 of them. It's his company. He was 49, he lives up in Connecticut. I heard these strip malls. These strip malls are owned by real estate companies, which is the reason why it is so greedy with the rent. The leases. Sadder Book Mall or Walmart is they told me a real estate company. Just like the piece of shit that owns the building that he lives in. And I use that term accurately. Jeff Bezos. You control him in there too. They're all the same. Office gossip. That's one thing I hated about working in the office. It's like everybody is nosy. They're all watching you. Where's the burger go? Oh wow, look at that. That wasn't that big though. Did you chew? Subway? Oh yeah, right. No way is that huge. How is drinking life? It's like living. Living is kind of suck. They just gave you fillers, a lot of lettuce and stuff. They didn't put much meat on it. Subway was better. How about Firehouse? Did you get her that? I don't know. It started by firemen. You bet the food is pretty good there too. How was Jersey Mike's? Where's one around here? It was good. It used to be a subway. They got one there. Oh really? You know. There is a subway on Tom's River. You know, Rot's Hut is like a famous landmark. They've been on TV and everything, but when I went there, everything is like greasy. Everything is deep fried. Even hot dogs were Rot's Hut. Everything is like deep fried. But their onion rings are great. I have to give them credit. They're known for their onion rings. I love onion rings, especially when they're crispy. Big Callahan's I think had them. Callahan's had onion rings too. Yeah, the big hot dogs, yeah. You ever get the chili and then the baked potato with sour cream for a dollar? It is good. Oh, it isn't? They jacked up the... Oh, they used to have it on the dollar menu. Yeah, the big... Crap, they took it off the dollar menu. No, I don't even think they have a dollar menu. That's even worse. The value, but no dollar menu. So the value menu... Oh, those tricky bastards. The value menu was not a dollar... Yeah, they... I'm thinking of years ago it used to be a dollar. Damn right. The value menu could be whatever they want to charge. If they could sell it. You write about that. If it's a dollar menu, it has to say dollar menu, not value menu. Yeah. You know what fast food is underrated? And I think... Because they don't really advertise much as White Castle. They got a lot of... They got fried clams, codfish nuggets, sweet potato french fries. They got a... They got a great breakfast... They got a breakfast sandwich that's written on bad. Really good. Sweet potato french fries? When these have sweet potato french fries? When these have sweet potato french fries? Excellent, both of them are. One of the things that puzzles me is, as fantastic as Popeyes is, they have no milkshakes. No? No, just soda. Now White Castle has very high quality shakes. They're thick. They're real thick and creamy too. I had a puree in my mom's frozen dinners in the ninja processor because she only has two teeth left. That's all? Yeah, two teeth. Wow, they... She's 86. Time wears away, you know. When did you get a ninja? My sister bought the new one with the brain. It's... Almost as good as the CEO says on the information. Almost as good. I would say I'm happy with it. But the one... He makes it sound like it pulverizes everything into a liquid. Not quite. But it's great. Vitamix is a lot more money. I think the Vitamix motor might be higher wattage. 1,800. 1,700. But the blades... The blades are second to none. The ninja blades are fantastic. Good thing I have all these bratwurst and knockwurst smoked in the freezer. I put them in a freezer bag. They're owned by a German company. There's market. So they have a lot of German. They have a lot of good German things. Like I said, knockwurst, bratwurst. A sauerkraut. Imported sauerkraut. All the... Yeah, I know. Their soup is awesome. German potato soup with bacon. With vegetables and bacon. It's a creamy German potato soup. I don't want to stop there before I go home. I got to get more. It's really that good. And a can? Now they have a flip top. No, you don't need a can opener. It's a big can like this. A chunky soup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have a German... It's got leeks in it too. The potato soup. There was a hole in the bottom. It was dripping on my table. Leek soup. There was with a can? Yeah, no. They put leeks, vegetables, bacon. Got to have bacon for them. And potatoes. No, I'm just making fun of the vegetable leek. It's like a scallion actually. And then they have a lentil. Like a hearty lentil soup. Which is great during the cold when the weather gets cool. You know, lentil soup. Yeah, I like it. You know, lentils are very high in protein. Like 26%. Yeah. That's it. I'm going to all these. I'm going to get more of that. Of course, my shepherd's pie is out of season. Oh, shepherd's pie, yeah. They have the big shepherd's pie. I say, how could potatoes and ground beef be out of season? You like stuffed clams? Aragonada or clams casino? Stuffed clams? Before all these opened up, I used to get it at Stop and Shop. The Mat Laws and Sea Queen. All these thousand? Has the Sea Queen and Mat Law when it comes in? You know, the big stuffed clams. They're good. I think the clams casino has paprika on top. And the oregano has oregano. You know what I mean? You should take the eugenics from G&C and get some testosterone. Impetus. That's a funny word. Impetus. She got it. The scorcher will always be in the lower corner. They don't get scorers. Huh? Giants have to... Giants have to play bad teams in order to win, I guess. They work like friggin' Red Fox now. They got to do this for one second. Come on. Are you really an intern? Oh, gosh. Game break. Oh, look at this. Oh, baby. Fourth quarter. Come on, babies. Oh, look where we are. What a feather and air cap that would be, huh? Real good confidence. But now it's over. Come on, my mother. Shit. Whoa. This has been a MegaLife 21 production.