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Girl House and Bar. This is the Drive by with Freeway Frank. The Drive by podcast brought to you by OwnSpace. Episode 206 Freeway Frank. How you doing? Hope you're enjoying summer so far. Today is the 4th of July. We had Canada Day. Well, not in Montreal. There was no Canada Day celebrations because they outlaw Canada Day celebrations. They go back. That's just the way it goes. These woke people, these granolas, they don't want any of that. So no Canada Day for you, but if you're in the United States, I know they can never take away. Well, they've tried to take away Independence Day, of course, for its meaning and the 4th of July, I'm sure toppling statues everywhere. But the 4th of July is a celebration best celebrated with family and your friends. And of course, appreciating your country and flying your flag. In this case, the American flag nice and high and proud. Nothing wrong with that. Today on the podcast, I'd like to tackle this. You know you're old when you know you're old when you get excited after you buy a new lawnmower. That's right. I got a brand new lawnmower. My other one lasted just short of 18 years. As a matter of fact, I brought it in to a guy to get it fixed, a guy who fixes lawnmowers. And he basically says to me, I can't find parts for this lawnmower. Wow, this lasted a long time, but egos, it's it would cost too much to fix it. You're better off buying a new one. And he goes, you could come and pick it up or I could scrap it for you. Now, of course, I had to trust him that he wasn't actually going to fix it and then sell it later. But the guy sounded pretty sincere. He kind of very well done that to me. And I'm the, I'm the fool who knows. But he said, I'll bring it to the scrap yard. So I trusted him. I went out, bought a brand new lawnmower, and it cut my grass beautifully. And these are the things you realize, man, am I getting old? Because this excites me. Another thing you're you know, you're old when the neighborhood kids start to annoy you. How so? All right, well, there's these two kids and I know, I know the parents. And I come out and I'm talking to the kids. And they're not answering me. They're completely blowing me off and completely ignoring me. And I have to remind them, Oh, by the way, I know your parents. But now of course, I sound like a complete stranger. And who knows what? Inviting these kids, even though I didn't invite them. They probably, they probably take it as, you know, when their parents don't talk to strangers or who is this guy talking to them. And then finally, I have to mention, I know your parents and I mentioned their names. They still completely blow me off. But let me get to the part that that really irritated me. Not only are they ignoring me, but they're playing, they live on another street, but they're playing in front of my house and the, these other bunch of houses. And I don't care about that. But then I catch one of the kids riding his bike on my grass. And my grass is separated by a curb. In other words, there's no sidewalk. If you come out into my grass, it's my grass. It's not the city grass. You know, sometimes there's a city grass and the sidewalk, then you're a grass. No, no, this is my pure, beautiful grass. And they're riding on it like it's nothing. And I say again, this is my last attempt to talk to them. I was like, I was a good thing. I know you guys, no, nothing just ignoring me. Like these guys are either taking me for the fool or they're just effing around with me, these kids. Then I realized they're going on, on the driveways of all the homes in my sector, in my, in my section. So they ride up one driveway and they come down. They ride up another driveway and they come down. They ride up my driveway and I'm thinking to myself, I don't like this at all. Now I almost want to say something, but I don't want to be that guy, you know, you know, your old when? Yeah. Okay. But no, this would irritate me even when I was younger, and it was my property. Now I understand when I was a kid, sometimes I would irritate the different neighbors and the neighbors would, you know what they would do? They would go tell my father and then my father would threaten my life, like stay away from the guy's tomatoes. Make sure the ball doesn't go in his garden. And there were neighbors where if your ball or soccer ball went into the tomato garden in the Pomodori garden, they weren't giving your, they would actually have a collection of balls, tennis balls, soccer balls, they would just keep it, just to F with you. That's, that's what the homeowners would do. And, and my dad would know, my parents would know they wouldn't even say anything. It was like, yeah, I was part of like this, this, this group of people who steal kids balls, just to teach them a lesson, but we never got them back. And to get them back, your, your dad had to go back and, you know, have a conversation with them. And just like literally not even ask, but just grab your ball from the, the chestino, the basket or the whatever container was it, it was insane. But nowadays these kids, they don't give a shit. So they're writing. And all I'm thinking is if one of these kids falls on my driveway and gets hurt, I'm going to be responsible because it's my property. So I'm thinking, do I call another neighbor and tell them to call their parents because they know the parents more than I know the parents, even though I know the parents. And I don't want to be that guy because I don't have kids. You know, you know your old one. So I didn't do anything, but I kind of gave them this look, almost like stop freaking riding on my grass and, and, and I think they got the message. And then what do I do? You know your old when you go to the blinds and you flick the blinds, you flicker the blinds to see outside, right? And you don't want people to see. So you're kind of like opening it. Yeah, like I've become the old Italian woman on my street. I like to consider myself neighborhood watch. But sometimes I'm a neighborhood, I guess some would call me Ficanas, which in Italian means, you know, basically sticks his nose into other people's business. But that's not me, honestly. I don't really give a shit what people are doing. I never watch to see what people are doing. If a neighbor of mine is doing something on his, I don't care what he's doing. I really don't care what he's doing. But if I see somebody who's not supposed to be there or a stranger or somebody that who's this person, right? Yeah, then of course I'm going to be curious and watch the person because I don't know who these people are. You don't know if they're breaking in. You don't know if so I like to be aware. That's better. So they're saying a Ficanas, aware of my surroundings, nothing wrong with that. I hope all my neighbors do that. You see, the problem is all my neighbors are, are don't have a home office. Most of them are working somewhere else. And they come home after a long day of work oblivious to all this shit I have to endure because I spend a lot of time at home considering my work, my studio, a lot of the things I do are right here. You know, you're old when you buy lottery tickets. When you're younger, I mean, it would be rare that I would buy a ticket. Even today, it's rare buy a ticket unless it's a big jackpot. I'm more aware of the lottery counter when I leave a grocery store more than ever before. I would, you know, just leave the place, the establishment, the grocery store, whatever store I was in. Now I realize it. Now I see it. It's that old guy thing, right? When you start becoming, it's like, ah, you see a 40 million. And then I was like, I could use 40 million. So you stop and then you play your numbers. But I haven't become old. At least that old that I choose my own numbers. You just do the quick pick. But if you're not doing the quick pick, and you're actually entering the numbers, your own set of numbers, you know, you're old. You know, you're old when you see a very attractive woman. She's sexy. She's hot. But then you start doing the math. I never did this before, right? I would notice a woman and I'd be, okay, I realized this woman is pretty. I'm a married man. And but, you know, okay, I see the woman's, but now I start doing the math in my head. And now it's almost like I play a game with myself where I get guilty, right? And all of a sudden, I'm like, wait a minute, she's old enough. She could possibly be, if I had a daughter, how old would a daughter be right now if I had a daughter? And I go, she's got to be older than that. She might not be. That's not good. Okay, I'm not looking. Or I forget the fact that I looked because it was blatantly there in front of me that this girl, beautiful woman was there. So you know, you're old when you start to actually think for a second and go, wait a minute, is this this this woman, this girl is old enough to be my daughter, you know, if she's in her 19, 20, 21, mid 20s, I don't know, I don't think I'd be having a daughter that would, that would, math out to mid 20s. But I have some nieces that are around that age. And when I see women around that age, it's no, it doesn't do honestly, it doesn't do anything for me. I have to like, at least if I see somebody and has to have a three in front of her, at least a three. Like my wife has at least a three. She has a three in front of her age. That's good. A two is not good. But you know, you're old when that stuff means something all of a sudden, you know, you're old when weather, you're checking the weather constantly, whether it's because weather, it's because you're seeing, you know, when when was the last time the grass was watered, whether it's, you're going somewhere and you're looking ahead before. Yeah, sure. I always liked the weather to know what the temperature was and all that. But now as you get older, weather is even more important. I don't know why I remember my dad his whole life as he got older was about the weather. You know, it's going to rain today. I know we're going to get snow. I know it's going to be blistering heat. He was the weather man. He may as well have been a meteorologist. He was a butcher, but he could have been a meteorologist because that's all he ever talked about. And it's an old person thing, not necessarily elderly, but you know, you're old when the weather starts to mean something to you. You know, you're old when you go to a restaurant and you look at the prices, but those are the that's the first thing that you see. Now, when you're younger, you're oblivious to that. You want to eat, you want to be in a cool place. You want to have the experience. You don't give a shit. It's like, yeah, it's that much. I'm having it, whatever. Now you start looking at everything. So why I have no idea. I just think it's because you've lived your life and you lived a good part of your life. And you just refuse to pay bottled water. I don't know 18 year old. My niece was just in Greece and she told me they went out to this nice restaurant. And she goes, when they looked at the bill, they got a bottle of and they figured it out, I guess, right before the bill was handed to them. Good thing they had them purchased another bottle. And they purchased a regular bottle of water, which was 18 euro. Do the math. That's like 25 to $30, probably closer to $30 Canadian. So I said, yeah, see, that's the thing when you're young, you don't even realize that it doesn't even matter. And you're like, you know, I think her her new husband. So my, my nephew in law said, well, we're out. What are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to do? Okay. Yeah, sure. When you're younger, what are we supposed to do? I mean, we have to drink water. No, I said to her, I go, well, how much was the wine? She said, Uncle Frank, the wine costs less than the water. You could get a bottle of wine for $12. I go, okay, I've got two bottles of wine. One for my wife, one for me, but I am not paying a bottle of water 18 euro. I have no problem buying two spending six bucks more on two bottles of wine, 24 euro. No problem. I could wait to drink the water 18 euro. That's insanity. When you get older, you start noticing all these things. And you start realizing that the whole restaurant experience, maybe you become pickier in your old age, but you start realizing the whole restaurant experience. I know all of my friends, even friends that I have that are early 40s, late 30s. I don't know if it was a COVID thing after COVID, but now you get horrible service. Prices are inflated and a lot of these business owners have no choice because everything is so expensive and cost so much. And then, you know, you're not getting great service. You're paying double for most things, sometimes triple. And then at the end of the night, you get this bill, you're not really even satisfied. It wasn't even a great experience. And it just cost you how much? 250 to 60 to $7,300 to go out for an evening that would you would usually pay maybe $120 to $150 for it's crazy. But these are the things as the years go by and you get wiser. I should almost say, you know, your wiser when, not necessarily, you know, your old when, but these things start being clear in your mind. They start, you know, you see it, you see the forest for the trees. And my friends and I would much rather have a great night at one of our on one of our places, get incredible wine, spend a little more to get these great wines, but have the whole experience, you know, she knew at our place, get a nice cut of meat, get all that because it would still cost less money than going to a restaurant considering what you get nowadays. And I know a lot of people will agree with this. I see the Instagram pictures people post. I see the pictures. I see the volume of food, not too much. Hopefully it's tastier than it looks. And sometimes, you know, volume is not everything. Of course, you know, when you go over to the United States, they fill you up with all this stuff. And it might not necessarily be as good as smaller portions when the smaller portions are fantastic. Sometimes you might pay a little bit more money, but you're getting an experience, you're getting a culinary experience. Sometimes it doesn't even have to be a five star restaurant. It's just tasty. It's great. The chef knows what they're doing. The servers know how to bring food to everybody at the same time, not one at a time, which completely ruins the experience. Oh, I'm not finished. I'm on fire here. You know, you're old when you not only walk funny, but you sometimes walk like you've had a couple too many of the drink. And that's because you have parts of your body that never hurt you before that hurt you now. So whether you put a nice pair of shoes and that's why, you know, you're a higher, tiny bit higher that your sole, your foot does not settling prop. I don't know what it is. Maybe your knee hurts from going on or whatever it is. You're at the gym doing something that you thought you could do. But then you realize I'm too old for this shit. It's it's something that that I see people that are older, just walking funny. I feel like I have a funny walk now. I never felt like I had a funny walk before. This is a big one I heard people talking about. You know, you're old when you realize you have reached the same age of the people you used to think world. And now I'm constantly asking Siri. Hey Siri, how old is I don't know this guy? How old is this girl? How old is or I check? I go to Wikipedia and I check and I always tell my wife I turn to my wife and I go, wow, he's a year older than me. I look way younger or wow, they're three years younger than me. They look pretty good. Staff, do you think I look older or do they look older than me? And then sometimes she's like, no, you look about the same age. That one always hurts when Steph says, no, this whatever actor it is. No, you look about the same. And then sometimes she'll be like, Oh, wow, you look way younger. He looks like he could be your dad or older brother. I love that. You know, you're old when you actually look before you step down on a staircase. You know, before when you're young, you're walking downstairs, going upstairs, you're not even paying attention to the steps. Now I find myself and this may come from me helping my mom go up the stairs. I'm looking at every step like almost like I'm going to miss it and fall down. And I'm not even that age yet or that old, but I'm realizing that I'm doing that. You know, you're old when fashion is not as important to you. And it's not because I don't like fashion. I like cool things. But I realize just the other day I went into a store to buy some clothes. I bought maybe five or six different articles. It was the first time and maybe very close to a year. I haven't done that. Before that, it was maybe a year and a half before that. I just don't care anymore. In other words, I have so many clothes. You know, people say, I have nothing to wear. I have a lot to wear. And I should be wearing it. If I wore one different piece every day, I could go a long time without having to double up. But you know, we know and we all have our go to things, right? So that nice shirt. I want to wear it again. But I wore it yesterday. Okay, I wear it tomorrow. I'll wash it. I'm washing clothes all the time. But that's a sheer sign of you getting older is that before you would look at, like I was going to buy a brand new pair of shoes. And then I said, wait a minute, I just bought a brand new pair of two brand new pair of shoes last summer, one of which I never used literally has the tag salon. And another one I literally used once. And I spent quite a bit of money on it, has a little black mark. I cleaned it off. And I said, Oh, this will be good. I don't have to buy another pair of shoes in the past. I just buy another pair of shoes, or maybe two pairs of shoes. Weird. Now I'll even buy clothes, you know, your old one. And I'll hang them up. I don't know if you ever do this till stay months with the tag on it. And then one day I'll have like a reckoning, I'll wake up and I'll be like, Oh, yeah, I haven't worn that shirt yet. Maybe I'll wear it today. And stuff will be like, yeah, you bought it two years ago. You're getting old when that stuff happens. Episode 206 of the drive by podcast is sponsored by Lydellis Laffronet Brossard. And their mobile can only espresso bar. It is available for weddings events and corporate events. Just today, I was checking out their IG page at Laffronet Brossard. And they were at yet another event. People were enjoying it. They pull up, they could pull up into your driveway as well, your workplace, and you'll get hooked up with the best desserts and coffee in the South Shore. Contact Anthony. 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I bet you she was just doing it to be cute and fun, and she seems cute and fun, and now it's a worldwide video meme, the hak-tua trending on X. Imagine one day she's a grandmother, and the granddaughter's asking her about growing up. What do you remember? I remember I was famous for a second, for 15 minutes, for being the hak-tua girl, and the person goes, "What's a hak-tua?" It might not be described as hak-tua. It might just be described as what exactly it is. I guess hak-tua is what it is exactly too. These things make me laugh. She's everywhere. Everywhere people put it on videos that have nothing to do with sex or it's popping up everywhere. I'm sure it's embarrassing for her because she doesn't seem like the type of girl that prior to this was the type of girl that would be public or open about. I'm sure she is because she said it on a mic, but she seems like a wholesome country girl, and all of a sudden she popularized hak-tua. You know there's going to be shirts, you know there's going to be songs. It's going to show up in a Taylor Swift song maybe. Maybe not Taylor. She's too clean, but somebody is going to come up with a hak-tua song if it hasn't already. It's a hak-tua phenomenon. It's just hilarious, but I just love this shit. It makes me laugh. Back in the day for us, it was more innocent. We had this, and it had nothing to do with sex. At least I don't think so. It certainly is a big one. It's a very big one. Big trophy bun. It's a very big fluffy bun. Where's the beef? Some hamburger places give you a lot less beef on a lot of bun. Where's the beef? At Wendy's, we serve a hamburger. We modestly call it a single. And Wendy's single has more beef than the Whopper or Big Mac. At Wendy's, you get more beef than less bun. Hey, where's the beef? I don't think there's anybody back there. You want something better. Your Wendy's kind of people. So where's the beef? Even though at the beginning, they're talking about the big one, it sounds like there might be some sexual innuendo, but it had nothing to do with hak-tua. It had to do with Wendy's having more beef on a single patty than the competitors. McDonald's and all the other ones. That's what we had back in the day. Now, 2024, what do the kids have? The hak-tua. Now you would think, you know, there's young people, they don't know what this is. Young people know what things are now. When, like, I was old when I found out things. I would find out things in high school, in the locker area, in the court. People would be talking about this. I had no clue. My parents never told me about anything. I learned about all the surprises in life. I learned about it. I was like, "What's this now?" I mean, I was like, "Alright, cool." But now, it's like, you cannot not be exposed to all this stuff. And I'm sure there are kids who are on their phones or their parents' iPads, who are their tablets, who will be asking their parents once they see this video pop up. Mom, Dad, what's a hak-tua? Yeah, parents, care to explain that one. How would I answer that? I would say it's some country song by Lou Combs, or come up with something. I would not be telling my kids, especially young kids, about the hak-tua. Hopefully, you're not listening to this podcast and you have anybody in the car that's asking you about the hak-tua. Too late. I'm sorry. Hey, this is not a podcast that's made for kids. Even though some parents are listening to it with their kids in the car. Episode 206 of the drive-by podcast, sponsored by Batau Rouge, Grillhouse, and Bar. Now available, their icy espresso drink, summer bliss cocktail, or summer cactus. Enjoyed, especially during the hot days of summer 2024. And all 29 locations, including the newest one coming soon in the Montreal area in La Salle. 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In this Episode, social media users are swallowing up the latest sensation, the "Hawk Tuah" girl. The memes and videos of her are everywhere! "If she don't hawk tuah, I don't tawk tuah! Also, we all come to a certain age when you realize, "you know you're old...when?"
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