Florida Woman Not Thrilled with SQZ A55 License Plate

Summary

Payne & Pendergast Episode Summary

Episode Title: Florida Woman Not Thrilled with SQZ A55 License Plate
Date: July 16, 2026
Hosts: Seth Payne, Sean Pendergast (Brandon), guest Cole Thompson
Theme: Lively discussion of a viral vanity license plate mishap in Florida, sports banter, and humorous cultural commentary.

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Overview

This episode opens with typical Houston sports updates but quickly veers into a highly entertaining exploration of vanity license plate mishaps—most notably, a Florida senior horrified by her seemingly innocuous but accidentally risqué government-assigned plate: “SQZ A55.” The trio riff on the DMV’s oblivion, senior community stereotypes, the cultural significance of vanity plates, and viral local stories before eventually looping back to Houston sports. The tone throughout is irreverent and playful, with plenty of witty exchanges and local flair.

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Key Discussion Points

Astros Prospect Chat & Vanity Plates Banter (00:06–01:29)

• Discussion about Astros’ undrafted signee Jaden Fielder, with clarification he’s a low-level prospect.
• Segue to vanity plates:
  • Seth admits never having had one, but his wife does (“KLD75,” her former last name).
  • The group jokes about the appeal (or lack thereof) of vanity plates, with Cole declaring, “I would have divorced her if she wanted [one].” (01:47, Cole Thompson)
  • They riff on how people could try creative, sports-themed custom plates or cringe-inducing designs.

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The “Squeeze Ass” License Plate Story (01:29–05:30)

Discovery & Initial Reactions

• Main story: 77-year-old Nancy Della Streeto of Florida receives state-issued plates reading “SQZ A55,” which reads phonetically as “squeeze ass.”
  • Brandon: “If you’re just glancing at it, it looks like it says Squeeze ass. She will not drive with these plates.” (02:42, Brandon)
• Comic speculation on how Nancy noticed the issue—herself or via a family member pointing it out.

Senior Communities & Stereotypes

• Cole jokes about active dating (and more) in retirement communities:
  • “Those places are hotbeds for all kinds of fun and frivolity, man… they’re not looking to fall in love. They’re just looking for a good time.” (03:52, Cole Thompson)
  • Seth: “Grammy, just make sure you don’t have any pineapples sitting in the front seat.” (04:11, Seth Payne)
• Extended riff on The Villages, a famed Florida retirement community notorious for an STD epidemic:
  • “Small town that has a movie theater, golf courses, actual scorching inferno of herpes.” (06:21, Seth Payne, jokingly exaggerating reports)
  • A listener texts in to confirm: "135,000 residents... the STD thing is very real." (09:18, Seth Payne)

DMV Oversight

• The crew are incredulous the DMV missed the risqué potential:
  • Cole: “DMV will flag all kinds of things just in case they might mean something dirty… but then here is the DMV just randomly spitting one out and not catching it.” (05:00, Cole Thompson)
  • Brandon suggests the use of numbers for “S” helped it slip through: “I wonder if the fact that the two S’s… are numbers, if that made it kind of fly below the radar.” (05:07, Brandon)

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Plate Anecdotes & “The Villages” (05:30–11:12)

License Plate Lore

• Cole recalls seeing another risqué plate in Cleveland: “Mrs. BJS”—implying an adult joke—on a Mercedes C300:
  • “That gets through the DMV?!” (10:12, Cole Thompson)
  • Seth laughs: “But if it’s a business, put the QR code right on the corner. You know where to scan?” (10:55, Seth Payne)
  • Brandon jokes about the car model: “Felt like her husband should have sprung for the S500 if that’s what she’s… if she’s married and that’s who she is, she’s not driving a nice enough car.” (10:39, Brandon)

More on The Villages

• Return to Florida’s “Swingerville” reputation.
• The team reads a listener text confirming wild stories about The Villages (09:18).
• Seth: “If you’re in a 55-plus subdivision, you ain’t just hanging out and going to play bingo.” (09:43, Seth Payne)
• Brandon, summing the joke: “No, you’re going to get in the gonorrhea.” (09:49, Brandon)

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Viral Houston Story: Pole-Dancing Mishap (07:12–09:14)

• Commentary on Asha Gilbert, a Houston woman who went viral practicing pole dancing in her apartment; her temporary pole falls, setting off the sprinkler system.
• Brandon: “Learning how to do that for… either for work or for her man. Either way—” (07:33, Brandon)
• Seth: “Or both. We’re not judging.” (08:01, Seth Payne)
• Cole likens this to the anxiety of trying to use “doorway pull-up bars” that never seem secure. (08:57, Cole Thompson)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Vanity Plates:
  • “No, not a vanity plate guy. As Brandy.”
    (01:43, Brandon)
  • “If I did get vanity plates, I would do something like Jordan 23 or something… Is that Michael Jordan in that Honda Accord?”
    (01:49, Cole Thompson)
• On the DMV:
  • “DMV will flag all kinds of things just in case they might mean something dirty. …but then here is the DMV just randomly spitting one out and not catching it.”
    (05:00, Cole Thompson)
• On Retirement Communities:
  • “Grammy, just, just make sure that you don’t have any pineapple sitting in the front seat.”
    (04:11, Seth Payne)
  • “Small town that has a movie theater, golf courses, actual scorching inferno of herpes.”
    (06:21, Seth Payne)
• On Social Life in Senior Communities:
  • “Those places are hotbeds for all kinds of fun and frivolity, man.…they got nothing to lose. They’re not looking to fall in love. They’re just looking for a good time.”
    (03:52, Cole Thompson)
• On Plate Lore:
  • “Mrs. BJS… that gets through the DMV!”
    (10:12, Cole Thompson)
• On Viral Mishaps:
  • “Learning how to [pole dance] for… either for work or for her man. Either way—”
    (07:33, Brandon)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:29: Introduction of SQZ A55 plate story
• 02:42: “She will not drive with these plates.” (Brandon)
• 03:28–04:53: Senior community banter
• 05:00: Discussion of DMV oversight (Cole)
• 06:21: The Villages and STDs (Seth)
• 07:12: Transition to viral Houston pole-dancing story
• 09:18: Listener confirms “The Villages” stories
• 10:12: Cleveland’s “Mrs. BJS” license plate anecdote
• 11:07: Wrap up and transition back to sports topics

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

• Tone: Playful, irreverent, locally rooted, with plenty of ribbing and off-the-cuff humor.
• Key takeaway: Even innocuous license plates can slip past the DMV with unintentionally naughty messages, leading to viral news and lots of laughs—especially when seniors and notorious retirement communities are involved. The hosts blend this lighthearted banter with their trademark sports chatter and local commentary, making for a lively, quintessentially “Payne & Pendergast” episode.

Transcript

[Seth Payne]

Hey, guys, Fly on the Wall is back for another season. That's right. On audio and video every Monday and Thursday.

[Brandon]

Follow and listen to Fly on the Wall everywhere. You're getting your podcasts. Yeah. People pointing out Fielder, Jaden Fielder, Cecil Fielder's grandson, Prince Fielder's son, the player who came over in the. In the trade. People pointing out he was an undrafted free agent. He's not listed as one of their top 30 prospects. He's got good numbers. He's got no PS over. 800 right now.

[Cole Thompson]

Oh, right. Yeah.

[Brandon]

He's not even really a prospect. We know, we know. We're not saying he's the future.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah, no, no. I brought him up as a prospect. Like. Yeah, like you just. Just know that he's not going to likely be part of a World Series.

[Seth Payne]

He's joining the squad tonight.

[Brandon]

This. This is not the outfield bat that the Astros are looking for right now.

[Cole Thompson]

Right.

[Brandon]

The major league level. He's just. Yeah, he's a low level prospect.

[Seth Payne]

Hey, credible crowds, dude. Dana did draft a power hitted left handed bat, so maybe that was what he did about.

[Brandon]

He did. All right. So this. I saw this video yesterday. There's a 77 year old Florida woman named Nancy Della streeto and she's 77 years old and she just, I guess just got a new car maybe and got some new plates and. You know, I've never had vanity plates before. Cole, have you ever had vanity plates?

[Seth Payne]

No, but my wife does.

[Brandon]

She has vanity.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, she has vanity.

[Brandon]

What do they say?

[Seth Payne]

It says I should know this. I'm talking about. It's.

[Brandon]

Yeah, it's just a license plate.

[Seth Payne]

KLD because it was her former last name. 75.

[Brandon]

Oh, so they're obsoleted now. Yeah, because you took her hand in marriage. Okay. Have you ever had a.

[Seth Payne]

She hasn't changed it yet because. Doesn't want to pay the price.

[Brandon]

Yeah, I don't.

[Seth Payne]

I don't blame her either.

[Unidentified Female Guest]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

Who cares? Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Don't let her know what your last name is, please.

[Brandon]

I'm gonna guess a hard no at minus 20,000 on Seth Payne having vanity plates on anything.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

No, no, not a vanity plate guy. As Brandy.

[Cole Thompson]

No. Okay.

[Brandon]

Yeah.

[Cole Thompson]

I would have divorced her if she wanted.

[Brandon]

Absolutely.

[Cole Thompson]

I think if I. No, if I did get vanity plates, I would do something like. I would try to. I would get like Jordan 23 or something. If people wonder if this.

[Brandon]

You don't want that.

[Cole Thompson]

Is that Michael Jordan in that Honda Accord?

[Seth Payne]

Would you have the A spelled the at symbol that way? It makes it Even cooler.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Go full like Wing Ding style.

[Brandon]

Like the kids. So anyways, 77 year old Nancy Della Streeto the plates that she was randomly given SQZ a 55. Okay.

[Cole Thompson]

Oh, okay. It took me a second to realize what this might be interpreted.

[Brandon]

Qz. In other words, Squeeze ass appears to be an abbreviation for squeeze and then a 55. The two fives are subtle S's.

[Seth Payne]

Here, they look like S's.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

If you. Yeah, if you're just glancing at it, it looks like it says Squeeze ass. She will not drive with these plates.

[Unidentified Female Guest]

I don't think a woman that lives in a senior community that's going to be 77 years old next month will be driving around with what this plate has to say.

[Brandon]

I double and triple checked to make sure that this is not AI.

[Cole Thompson]

I kind of like her voice. She can, she can get it. Yeah, this is.

[Seth Payne]

That's like a 77 year old, right?

[Brandon]

Ben, play. Ben, play it one more time.

[Unidentified Female Guest]

I don't think a woman that lives in a senior community that's going to be 77 years old next month will be driving around with what, this?

[Brandon]

She almost sounds. Wait, that sounds like a grandmother. You do not want to get on her bad side.

[Cole Thompson]

I wonder though too. Like did she realize it herself or did one of her grandkids say hey grandma, you know, in the way you explain things to your grandma. I wouldn't think this, but some other people, some other people might think that this says Squeeze Ass.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

Do you think she knew at the time when she looked at it or did somebody have to point that out to her like, hey, the other thing.

[Cole Thompson]

Especially when she says living in a senior community.

[Brandon]

Yeah.

[Cole Thompson]

You might think like, oh yeah, yeah. Those places are hotbeds for all kinds of fun and frivolity, man. A lot of people, they just don't. They're. They're widowers or they're widows and they got nothing to lose. They're not looking to fall in love. They're just looking for a good time. She's probably like, I'm driving around with this thing. I'm going to have every bastard in a golf cart chasing after me.

[Seth Payne]

Grammy. Just, just make sure that you don't have any pineapple sitting in the front seat. We don't need.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, and it's in Florida.

[Brandon]

Yeah, exactly.

[Cole Thompson]

Well, there's that, there's that one huge community that retired. It's like a whole town where it's the.

[Seth Payne]

Not the Oaks. I know what you're talking about though. I'll Tell you a second.

[Cole Thompson]

But they've got like, the highest STD rates in the nation. It's.

[Brandon]

And it's an old people.

[Cole Thompson]

Yes, yes. Sean, this is what I'm telling you. You see, this is one of those things. You think I'm joking about, like. No, these places are like. It's Swingerville in some of these places. Yeah, Yeah. I keep trying to get Brandon to move there.

[Brandon]

I was gonna say, like, I haven't really thought that far ahead, but this is definitely giving me some food for thought. Absolutely. Other than the STD part, that sounds like you'll be fairly miserable at age 82.

[Cole Thompson]

What's annoying about this, though, is that the DMV will flag all kinds of things just in case they might mean something dirty. And this is. But then here is the DMV just randomly spitting one out and not catching it on their own.

[Brandon]

I wonder if the fact that the two S's in squiz ass are numbers, if that made it kind of fly below the radar.

[Cole Thompson]

Right, right. Yeah, that's something obvious.

[Brandon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cole Thompson]

It's the same like. Yeah, it's kind of like one of those little captcha things.

[Brandon]

Right.

[Cole Thompson]

You know, computers don't pick up on it the way. The way that humans.

[Brandon]

Exactly, exactly. Exactly. So. So this woman is not driving around with those plates. All right.

[Seth Payne]

Florida.

[Cole Thompson]

There was. I don't know if I should say this or not. I will. I was in the Cleveland airport once.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Cole Thompson]

And I. Let me think about this for a second. Whether I should divulge or not. It was a license plate that I was amazed. It had the. It was Ms. B. Something else after that. It was another letter of the Alphabet. And it was. I was kind of surprised and I felt like I was like. Well, it's definitely. It was definitely miss and not misses because we know what happens.

[Brandon]

Oh. Oh, yeah. So that was the whole. That was. The whole place was just those four letters.

[Cole Thompson]

B. Blank space.

[Unidentified Female Guest]

Okay.

[Cole Thompson]

Fill in a letter after that.

[Seth Payne]

So, Seth, the place we're thinking of is the Villages.

[Cole Thompson]

The Villages.

[Seth Payne]

It is a 55 acre.

[Brandon]

It is a 50.

[Seth Payne]

This small town that has a movie theater, golf courses, actual scorching inferno of herpes. And the number one existed version of

[Brandon]

herpes in the same Florida.

[Cole Thompson]

Does it say that? Is that what it said when you found it?

[Seth Payne]

It's in the harpies part.

[Brandon]

I added that part.

[Cole Thompson]

That was one of those things that I heard once. And then I never, like. I never fact checked it or anything.

[Brandon]

Gotta be true.

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[Cole Thompson]

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[Brandon]

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[Brandon]

Hey, did you guys see the Houston woman that went viral practicing pole dancing in her apartment?

[Cole Thompson]

No.

[Brandon]

She may be listening. She's from Houston. Her name is Asha Gilbert. And it was on all the, it was on the news everywhere, but obviously here in Houston. So she's in her apartment and she's got a pole. Not permanently installed, like a temporary pole.

[Seth Payne]

Right.

[Brandon]

That, like you, you raise it so it clamps to your ceiling. It's an adjustment. Yeah, it's basically what it is, a shower curtain, but like a, with big plates, you know, so, so I. It's in. And it's a poll. Like, it's a legit poll. So she was, she had, she has a big screen TV on the wall and she's watching a lesson on how to pole dance, which I think that's a good woman right there. Like learning how to do that for. Either for work or for her man. Either way.

[Seth Payne]

Or for both.

[Brandon]

Or both.

[Seth Payne]

We're not judging.

[Brandon]

Yeah, she's enterprising. She's eager. Well, she got to a move where she had to essentially wrap herself around the pole with her feet off the ground. The pole tips over.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, God.

[Brandon]

And the, the, the plate that was supposed to be clamped to the ceiling, like, she didn't clamp it, you know, so that, like, so the pole, she was basically getting on a pole that was ready to tip over. It tipped over and the pole hit the sprinkler head on the ceiling and the sprinkler head just exploded.

[Cole Thompson]

Oh, wow.

[Brandon]

And was soaking her apartment. And she. People are probably wondering. Well, she was this staged or whatever. I, My theory is she was shooting the video so she could, you know, critique herself with her pole dancing lessons. I don't think she was trying to damage her apartment with the sprinkler, but it's, it's a pretty incredible visual. And I get nervous every time I see stuff like that.

[Cole Thompson]

Well, it's like one of those, those doorway, those doorway pull up bars.

[Brandon]

You're talking about the pole. Yeah, yeah.

[Cole Thompson]

No, no, no. Yeah, like. No, I'm saying you get nervous the same way when you look. Those pull up bars in a door stay that. Yeah, it never seems like it's quite right.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, yeah, I didn't try that anymore.

[Brandon]

The pull ups.

[Seth Payne]

No, no, no, no pull up bars. I'm going. If I'm doing. I'm going to the gym. Oh, by the way, Seth, we have a comment on the text line that is confirming what we already knew. The Villages. I used to work there. My wife and I ran a few of their entertainment venues. 135,000 residents. It literally takes 50 minutes to drive from one side to the next. And the STD thing is very real.

[Brandon]

Okay, so all the preconceived notions about this are all accurate.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

If you're in a 55 plus subdivision, you ain't just hanging out and going to play play bingo.

[Brandon]

No, you're going to get in the gonorrhea.

[Cole Thompson]

Doesn't mean everybody there is there for that reason. But there's just a lot of people that are just like, hey, let's like, what do I got to lose?

[Seth Payne]

You know, Nobody's judging me here.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brandon]

All it takes is a few people though, man. That's, you know, it's. If you get the most promiscuous one. Now, I can tell you right now, Nancy Del Estrido is not spreading any of the herp or the gonorrhea at all. I can promise you that.

[Cole Thompson]

Hey, I just found the. I found the picture on my phone. I definitely. I didn't want to. I wanted to be sure I didn't misremember that the license plate. It's a Cleveland license plate on a Mercedes S300. It actually is Mrs. BJS. Like. Like that gets through. That gets through the DMV.

[Brandon]

Yeah.

[Cole Thompson]

This other one. Yeah.

[Brandon]

Well, maybe. Maybe it was a vanity plate.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, that's close.

[Brandon]

Maybe she wants her business out there. Man, I felt like her husband should

[Cole Thompson]

have sprung for the S500. If that's. What

[Brandon]

if she's married and that's who she is, she's not driving a nice enough car.

[Cole Thompson]

This is an unappreciative husband, I'll tell you that much.

[Seth Payne]

But if it's a business, put the QR code right in the corner. You know where to scan?

[Cole Thompson]

Oh, yeah, no, but it's Mrs. It's Mrs.

[Brandon]

It's QR.

[Seth Payne]

Does she have a pineapple in the front seat? I guess that's the bigger question.

[Cole Thompson]

Yeah.

[Brandon]

All right. Pain and pender gas with you. The other voice you hear, that's Cole Thompson. Final segment coming up. Let's circle back one more time to to CJ Stroud and, and Jeremy Fowler. The one thing, if the Texans do this, you can win with CJ Stroud. Did you have something you want?

[Cole Thompson]

It was a Mercedes C300. I wanted it for the sake of accuracy. Where.

[Brandon]

Where is. Is that, where is that on the spectrum of Mercedes? Is it.

[Cole Thompson]

Well, it's not. I don't know. I think that, I don't know. I think it's like higher the number with a nicer car.

[Brandon]

She deserves better if that's her.

[Cole Thompson]

I threw out S500 like I knew something, but I don't know.

[Brandon]

Coming up next, final segment, we'll find out what the guy's got going on on in the loop as well. We'll do all that coming up next. Make money from your podcast with the Odyssey Creator Lab. You create the show, we bring the advertisers. Apply [e-mail].