THE NOW | I'm the rope guy — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey, what's up, man? Can I help you?
2. 0:01Yeah, I, um, I'm looking for a rope.
3. 0:03Rope? Rope, awesome, right this way.
4. 0:06Um, what do you need it for?
5. 0:08Uh,
6. 0:09nothing. I'm just looking for a rope.
7. 0:11Right, but what what do you need it for?
8. 0:12What are you uh, lifting something? You
9. 0:15you towing something? What do you got?
10. 0:16Yeah, towing something, yeah.
11. 0:18Uh, what?
12. 0:20What what?
13. 0:21Well, what are you towing?
14. 0:23Yeah, my boat.
15. 0:24Boat? Oh, you you need a rope, you need
16. 0:26a trailer hitch for your car, right this
17. 0:27way, man.
18. 0:28Yeah, no, I'm not I'm not towing the
19. 0:29boat with a car, so.
20. 0:31Okay, so uh, what are you towing it
21. 0:32with?
22. 0:35Uh, another boat.
23. 0:36Another boat? All right, in that case,
24. 0:39this is as good as it gets. Right here,
25. 0:40this is your rope.
26. 0:41Yeah, no, that's that's going to be too
27. 0:43thick, you
28. 0:44Too thick? All right, then runner up
29. 0:47would be right here. Yeah, this is nice
30. 0:48and thin.
31. 0:49Um, you know, that's going to be a
32. 0:51little scratchy.
33. 0:52Uh, scratchy? How does that matter for a
34. 0:54boat?
35. 0:55You know what? Maybe maybe just 10 ft of
36. 0:56this one, this looks pretty good.
37. 0:5810 ft of this? I mean, she don't have
38. 1:00the tensile strength to do what you're
39. 1:01trying to do, man.
40. 1:01Yeah, this is it's good, that's the one
41. 1:03I want, so please just 10 ft.
42. 1:05Hey, buddy. Hey, you come to me for
43. 1:06help, right? I'm the rope guy, all
44. 1:08right? I know rope, all right? And this
45. 1:10this won't pull a bag of balloons across
46. 1:12the moon, all right? Well, what's your
47. 1:13payload?
48. 1:14Uh, my what?
49. 1:16Well, how big is your boat, man? Cuz
50. 1:17this thing can get caught in a current,
51. 1:18it can get up
52. 1:19Okay, man, look, I'm not I'm not
53. 1:20actually towing anything, I just need a
54. 1:22rope, so please
55. 1:23What do you need it for?
56. 1:24It's personal, okay?
57. 1:29Oh.
58. 1:30Okay.
59. 1:31All right, yeah.
60. 1:32All right, in that case,
61. 1:35you need one of these?
62. 1:37All right, you know, especially if you
63. 1:38got to, you know,
64. 1:39freeze it.
65. 1:42You to freeze it?
66. 1:43Yeah, yeah, freeze it, you know, for tug
67. 1:45of war, hm?
68. 1:46Why why did you just do that in quotes?
69. 1:48Oh, come on, man, you know what tug of
70. 1:50war is, right?
71. 1:51You playing dumb with me?
72. 1:53You know, when you get the rope, you got
73. 1:55to put it in the water, right? You and
74. 1:56your friend, you put it in the freezer,
75. 1:57you take it out, and you shove it up
76. 1:58your friend's ass. I know. go.
77. 2:01Some people call it the elbow popsicle,
78. 2:03I mean, depending on where you're from,
79. 2:04I don't know. But feel this. Feel this.
80. 2:06This is what you're looking for, man.
81. 2:07Look at the ridges. Come on. See the
82. 2:08ridges? Yeah. See, it's really hard
83. 2:10going in, but real soft like a kitten
84. 2:12coming out.
85. 2:14Whatso ever.
86. 2:16I'll take it.