WEBVTT - Gino Filippone 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.440 This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:05.920 and see my brand new comedy hour. Well it's actually 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.360 it's about an hour and a half and I don't 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.959 have an opener because these guys cost money. But what 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.000 I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.520 come and see me live on the Pants on Fire 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.720 Tour in your region. Tickets are on sale now and 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.120 we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout twenty 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.960 twenty five and beyond. For a full list of dates, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.280 go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com. See you 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.000 on the road, my DearS. My name is Craig Ferguson. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.440 The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:44.559 interesting people about what brings them happiness. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.680 Hello everyone, my name is Craig Ferguson. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.560 Welcome to Brooklyn, New York, to the Kids Super Studios 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.199 here in Williamsburg where. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:53.559 We're coming at. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.320 You live from a tens inside a warehouse, which is 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.400 a studio and also a fashion place. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:59.800 That's a whole thing. Anyway. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.319 Look, my guest today is a New York legend. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.040 A good friend of mine. He's also a wheeltor as 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.000 well as well. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.160 You're going to hear a whole bunch of stuff. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.920 Please welcome to Wonder mister New York Jean no Philippo. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.479 One day, I remember the day we met because I'd 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.120 heard about you before that. We met on my sixty 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.800 first birthday, did we Yeah? 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.679 It was my birthday that day. God, and you when 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.640 I put you in my car, Yeah, we went in 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:29.039 your car. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.200 And first of all, you're the only person ever I 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.640 ever met who said I love driving in my nest 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.760 and you were driving around my then I have good 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.319 parking g Yeah, you have very good parking skills, and 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.600 you can drive around and you enjoy it, and I've 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.200 never encountered that. And it was my sixty first birthday, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.520 and you found me a rental apartment on Second and 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:54.680 eighty second Street. And then I through that period you said, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.360 I remember you said on that day you'll buy in 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.800 the next couple of years, you'll move. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:01:59.440 Back to New York. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.560 Within two years, I had moved back to New York, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.200 whole family moved everybody back. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.760 That was it. You were very smart to do it 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.480 that way. You know, you didn't just go out and buy. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.280 You need to rent and I kept saying, well, the 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.880 market is really dipping, but it dipped furst more. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.679 It's still going to dip a little more of you think, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.840 so maybe a little bit. I was looking at some 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.440 houses on the Upper East sites and apartments and the 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.080 Uper East site. I'm like, that's very reasonable for what 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.119 it is. But I I do like, like a lot 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.800 of people, the Trulia app or the street easy app 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:31.520 in New York. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.320 Yeah, that's my porn. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.399 Me too, I say that, but you, amongst other things, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.200 you're a realtor, though it makes sense for you to 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:39.680 look at it. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.320 But the but I'll tell you what I love about 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.600 it is now there's so much off market opportunity. So 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.800 there's like, well there's me and my buildings. So a 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.120 broker who knows who seasoned, who knows me, is going 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.640 to call and go, do you have anything coming up? 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.880 Do you have anybody that you think would sell? And 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.560 there's always off market opportunity. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.320 So now I've already we moved into a part aartment, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.760 I guess what, three months ago, and I'm already looking 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:04.799 at the apartment next door. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.119 I told you to start. I mean, she incapacitated yet 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.840 that time, and she's very nice. No, no, she's very nice. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.800 I keep like leading over at the top of the stairs. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:16.920 Hey, let me help you done this? 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.080 Oh no, they but it's it's fine. But you know 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.000 why I was. I was looking at your bio today 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.920 and I had no idea none. And I know you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.200 pretty well at this point about the wedding thing, what's 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:31.040 that tell me about? 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.720 Like? It was in New York City. So everything I've 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.800 ever done has been in New York. From New York, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.559 I just I'm not from the city, but my grandparents 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.600 owned a big company and they did all the billboards. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.280 And my father was a street guy from Parkchester, the Bronx, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.840 So we were rare here a lot anyway. But I 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.120 mean I grew up in the suburbs, a little bit outside, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.080 and I became a New York City tour guide. I 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.000 speak Italian and I used to pick them up at 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.480 JFK and give them tours. And I hate the Italians 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.760 because the Italians all they want to hear about is 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.640 love stories and they didn't really want to connect. And 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.600 the British were very refined. They would listen to you. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.000 You know, people in the UK have degrees to do this. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.480 I was just a licensed tour guide and well, I 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.559 think also has something to do with the accident Bretton 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:16.880 as well. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.240 People sound smarter than that smart Possibly I really like 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.640 wearing trousers right now if I like wearing pants. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.920 But how do I say this? There is a certain 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.960 perversity to the Brits that they kind of hide, and 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.680 I was able to tap into. So I started doing 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.240 night tours with them, taking them to sex clubs, health 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.520 fires and all these things. And you'd see these people 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.720 in literally burbery skirts going to like at two o'clock 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.000 in the morning and some guy was licking their toe 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.680 at the bar. But that's what they were paying for. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.680 The first thing I realized was they weren't interested so 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.440 much in the culture they study. They knew it. I 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.039 gave them the tour, and then it was like, do 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.000 you really want to see New York now? And so 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.560 I would take them to a I wouldn't do the 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.720 after hours first, I would do a night tour where 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.720 I had a couple in the West Village, Irish Americans. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.800 We're doing We're doing the drink and they said. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.839 I went to them and I said, would you consider 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.360 opening your house like three times a week to fifty 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.000 breads each time, and they go and I said to 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.840 have cocktails, and they went, well, we're middle class, we 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.119 would have to serve our dirves too. I go, that's fine, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.560 and they had taken out a floor so it was 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.240 like walking into a loft with a big garden on 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.160 Jane Street. It was incredible. I found them just from 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.560 knocking on doors you went to. People says this, use 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.640 single family houses because people New Yorkers down in the 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.880 village are very creative and they like that. So I 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.679 sold the tour as a night out with the dinner 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.480 at Chumley's, which was an old speakeasy on Barrows. I 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.320 remember you had to go to somebody's house together, so 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.960 first we would go to Bobby and Jack Gillen's place 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.640 and have and they had a big rescue German shepherd 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.720 that was crazy, was knocking drinks all over and they 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.560 didn't understand the ritz asking. I love the way the 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.359 British asked for you know, drinks, you know as it's poured, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.160 you know, Scotch, as it's poor, as its poor and 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.000 or you know what is the other line they would 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.120 say if they asked for not ginger ale, was it 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.920 what's the common drink? Anyway, the the g would mix 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.920 it up and put seven up instead, but all the 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.839 drinks were filled up to the top, you know, so 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.599 everybody was just falling out of the town is when 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.760 is this in the eighties. We're talking late eighties, early nineties, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.360 so like the village a late seventeen. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.640 I was going to say, the village in the nineteen 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.160 eighties and nineteen nineties is a different, slightly less family 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.279 friendly village. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.000 Than it is now. I still think it's pretty artsy 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.279 and there are some single family town homes. You know. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.760 The taxes became very expensive, and they were making They 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.200 charged me at the time twenty dollars per person, so 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.520 one hundred and fifty people a week times twenty dollars 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.920 was good with the math, yeah, like a million dollars. Right. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.800 They were getting a million dollars a week off of 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.400 me in cash, and they loved it. I was paying 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.800 their taxes. It was like having someone. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.040 How did you get that, though, I mean, how did 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.359 you get to. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.760 Oh? Right? Eh, I was doing it, and I just 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.680 thought people wanted people were bored. You know, when when 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.720 you were a tour guide in New York, you always 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.600 sit on there seeing the people to see their reaction, right, 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.920 and I could see everything was falling flat. It's like 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.240 being a comedian going, oh my god, I've never experienced that. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.400 How dare you? How dare you not? You others have 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.400 experienced that? Yeah, the way we I said, you know, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.400 let me come up with something different, because they kept 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.920 asking how do people live in this city? And I 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.760 was like, well, the same way they live in London. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.040 But really these weren't These weren't London refined people. These 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.920 were people from you know, other parts of the suburbs 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:48.800 and suburbs. Yeah. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.520 Let me ask you this though, what how did you 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:52.960 know about the sex clubs? 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.000 And I know that from a lot of tour guides 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.680 started after hour. There was one guy named Giuseppe who 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.560 lived on a house boat on seventy ninth Street and 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.040 he would take four people. That's all we had were 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.080 for it. Like at the time, nobody was really into it. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.320 We would go to do a sex club tour to 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:10.800 take because they wanted to experience. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.920 I've got been to that sex club. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.080 Well it's you know, it's pretty much everything that you 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.960 can imagine. People just like have sex and the other 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.080 people it's more about a fetish and less about the sex, right, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.320 So it's all of the you know, there's a lot 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.960 of licking and there's a lot of playing and toying. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.600 It's like that's dogs the. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.680 Dogs. Well now at our age. Yeah, I mean I 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.920 get discussed be my dog lives up his leg when 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.280 he goes to the bathroom. I don't want to see 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:40.920 that people. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.640 So if you're in a sex club tour and you 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.040 go to the sex club, will someone say, hege you 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.480 want your leg linked and the lick your leg and 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.520 stuff that they loved it. I feel like I was 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.360 just annoying and it didn't ever get your legs And 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.520 that was an optional tour. That was that was included 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.360 in the price, so you should now they'd be going, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.600 so you want you like lick it's actually once. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.520 You go in there like whether you like it or 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.560 not any or not. Yeah, that's it. You were just 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.760 you had to participate. I don't I don't know. Well, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.040 Hell's Fire used to be below fourteenth Street on where 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.319 the Guggenheim is now, but you used to have to 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.640 check your clothes to get in and just have your 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.760 underwear on. Then they would say to me, Look, you're 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.640 coming in with these people. We understand, but we can't 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.120 just have like onlookers. They have to kind of participate. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.000 So I said, less is more. That was the tour 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.880 would go. They took the I mean, forty people is 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.079 a lot. I started out with four and four were 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.640 paying five hundred each. It was so expensive. And you 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.600 know who, let's talk cultures now. The Italians loved it. 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:45.360 The Italians take them my clothes off. The British were 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.720 wanted the experience. I'd like to have my leg lit. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.559 Why I'm on a New York part of the experience 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:51.880 it was. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.840 It was magical, And that's how that kind of started. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.640 It started for me just saying I. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.800 Lived in New York round about time. Well, I was 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.719 here in the mid eighties, early. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.320 Mid eight we probably cross paths. Maybe, well i've done. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.240 And I remember the only sex club I'd heard of 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.800 and I never went there, but I always wanted to go. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.640 It was a place called Plato's God's So seventies was 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.920 that seventies? Oh my god, that was Brazil. That was 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:18.640 like the first one. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.959 Yeah, well no, I just remember seeing ads for it 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.800 in the Village Voice and I was like, oh, I 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.800 really want to go because like a Scottish Protestant boy, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.920 I'm like, oh, I bet they've got little jumpers off 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:29.360 in there. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.880 You were, you were, you were ready to roll. The 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.959 big one was Hell's Fire, and then the less Squalito 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.000 which was underneath Port Authority bus terminal, and there were 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.000 drag shows. I was doing theater then as well. You know, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.640 when I travel, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.400 always hire a private Like in Prague, I hired a 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.400 private tour guide to go to a sex club. I 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.760 wanted to see everything. Not the sex clubs, no, but 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.360 I wanted to see off the beaten path, the whole thing. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.480 What is the sex club's good, Well, it sounds like 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.200 the beaten path if you forgive the fun, well, the 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.320 the but the I I kind of I'm fascinated by this. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.320 But the idea that all of this is it still 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.319 going on others those sex clubs. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:12.840 I'm too old. I go to bed at nine. Now what, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.199 I'm sure they are passed the baton to a lovely 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.680 group of people. The beauty is you buy and you sell. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.080 I think the gen zs they don't, they don't have, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.080 they don't. Everything's done online apparently. Yeah, you remember the 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.319 days when you met someone in a bar and then 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.280 you would hook up, and then after they left, you 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.200 took your clothing and hung it on the radiator because 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.800 it smelled of smoke and that was the only way 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.640 the smoke would get it. I mean that's how I 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.120 would set my clothes on fire. It never happened. You 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.600 were very you would have been a star on this tour. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.440 But the the idea of it, though, I think apps 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.959 have probably taken that all of that away, like because 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.120 you you can like if you want. I mean right 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.200 back in the day when some of the like real 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.920 kind of full on clubs in the village, I think 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:02.000 that's probably all ungraineder and tender. Yeah, that's I don't 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.400 think there's gonna you strap into your leather and get 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.760 your whistle and go nuts in a dark room. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.079 I mean maybe I'm too old for this, but I'm 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.120 hearing now. You can just meet people, I mean they 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.880 track you. You can be in the same restaurant and 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.680 say let's meet in the men's room. I've had friends 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.240 that constantly say they hook up, like in the moment, I. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.240 Feel there might be you can get will be fresh 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:23.679 STDs coming in. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.280 If it's that easy, I. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.559 Mean, I feel like you shouldn't you interview someone a 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.000 little bit? 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.880 I would think so, but I mean they can read 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:30.360 your bio. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.680 Yeah, I guess no one can hide really, I mean 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.199 it's kind of like you can't assume an identity now, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:37.720 you can't. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.960 I bet the majority of people that are together have 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.280 met online. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.600 You know, I think probably no, I think, yeah, if 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.439 you're in how did you meet fluid? 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.360 Did you mind? You may know? Really AOL you put 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:54.080 money in the machine and it was one of those yep, wow, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:55.719 he's not gonna like that. I said that. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.880 No, I think it's fine. I think it's uh. I mean, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.000 we can cut it out. But it's it's kind of 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.559 amazing to me that you must have been quite early adopters. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.559 Then it was the beginning AOL. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:14.200 You've got mail, someone wants to lick your leg, and it. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.079 Was fun, it was mysterious. It was that and a 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.480 nice way, that erotic place of that took place of 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.520 going to a sex club because you had this fantasy 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.960 of what the person was going to be like when 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.640 you met them, right, and obviously it worked out twenty something. Well, yeah, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.120 you guys have long, long time baby. Yeah, but that's okay, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:34.600 that's good. Yes, it's excellent. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.800 Hello, this is Craig Ferguson and I want to let 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.840 you know I have a brand new stand up comedy 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.760 special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So Happy 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.480 and I would be so happy if you checked it out. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.920 To watch the special, just go to my YouTube channel 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.040 at the Greig Vergison Show and is this right there? 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.680 Just click it and play it and it's free. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:00.680 I can't look. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.200 I'm not gonna come rund your husband show you how 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:03.600 to do it. If you can't do it, then you 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:04.160 can't have it. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:04.640 But if you can. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:13.680 Figure it out, it's yours. So how did that turn 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.160 into the wedding thing? 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:19.160 Then? Because you you tourists? Said to me, two British tourists, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.480 I'll never forget. They said, we really loved your tour Dino. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.120 I said, well it's Gino actually, and they said, would 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.560 you helpless get married? I'm going to call you prefer like, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.520 I mean, would I help you get married? 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.760 And I'm thinking is there a dollar to be made 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.440 in there? So I said, I'll get back to you. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.040 What hotel you and I'll be right there, ran down 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.040 his city hall and it's when they have the old 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.760 bulletproof windows. It was like the set of Barney Miller. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.000 Ye take a number. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.160 And then I looked a little bit into it. I 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.480 realized that I could coordinate these weddings because countries are different, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.120 like the UK when I from my recollection, you file 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:58.920 and it's eleven days you have to wait. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.320 Yeah, you also have to be interviewed by the Ringing monarchy. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.120 And Paris in France it's two weeks and you must 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.400 eat a certain so vegas. It's like, what are you 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.440 doing later? So we are twenty four hours in New York, right, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.440 And that was always established to give the couple time 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.920 to realize are we going to do we really want? 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.520 Like you can get married twenty four hours a day, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.440 you have to wait twenty twenty four Like buying a. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.520 Gun yep, right, okay, yeah, is that what it is 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.800 for a gun? Jeez, I don't know. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.880 What it is in New York where there are certain states, 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.920 the state where I have my other place go buy 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:31.200 a gun. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.000 I'll remember when I just remember that when you come 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.400 to be rude, to remember I'm as citizen and I 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.440 have a driver's life. I think you know what I'm saying. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.600 Oh my god. So yeah, so I realized I could 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.880 do it, and then I coordinated it, and then it 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.520 just happened. I opened up this company. The tour company 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.720 was called Ultimate USA Tours, and then I opened up 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.720 Ultimate USA Weddings and we had contracts with British Airways, Koiwone, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.320 Virgin Holidays, everyone. So we would package the weddings weddings 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.440 abroad and they would sell them, and so I would 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.240 give them a discount of rate. But we would get 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.280 you know, you come and get married in New York, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.160 and then we would arrange for the license, we would 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.320 script the ceremony. We would get oh yeah, I got 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:19.040 ordained online. So you're a rabbi, Gino, you're a rab 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.560 I'm a vicar. You're a vicar, a rabbi, I'm an officiant, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.800 all right. So you have no your it's a secular position. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.160 You have no religious Well, I mean, I will do 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.400 anything as long as I don't have to slaughter an animal. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.680 There's no sack anything I will do. I've done, Yamica's 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.400 I've done. You know, I did a Jewish wedding because 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.280 my friend married an orthodox guy and for some reason, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.080 his divorce had not been completely finished yet, right, And 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.880 so they had this two hundred person highly orthodox wedding 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.920 and they went through the whole ceremony, but it wasn't legal. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.520 And then three days later when I met them in 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.760 a Mexican restaurant on Ninth Avenue, because I mean. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.080 I like the idea of getting married in a Mexican restaurant. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.360 I think that. I mean, I like the idea. Again, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.399 we go back to that kind of slightly perverse thing 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.800 of like, oh my god, nobody knows this is a 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.040 force except me. And in three days, when the divorce clears, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.640 I'm going to meet them at you know, El Cantona 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.080 or whatever. The Mexican place was, La Cantina, and we're 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.600 going to make this official. So that's what I started doing. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.040 That's it. I mean, we spent quite a lot of 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:22.760 time together talking. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.879 You didn't know that. I just it's never come up. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:26.360 You just never don't. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.159 I talk about myself a lot, Is that what it is? 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.919 No? We talk about you. No, we talk about Megan 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.240 and how beautiful she is. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.280 We talk about my wife and how beautiful she is, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.280 very beautiful, and she's fun but I will say I'm 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.840 married two thousand people, good lord, and of them were Brits. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.879 And you guys do it the interesting way. Where's different 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.360 that Americans should listen to. I can attest to this. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.280 You meet in school, this is the general brit You 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.080 meet school, definitely, you date, you buy a house together, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.199 you have a child, and then you fly to New 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.919 York and dino marriage you Well, you know why why? 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.400 Because the tax in Britain, you get no tax break 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.840 for being married in brent You feel really yeah, if 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.200 you're if you're married to someone, they file a tax return, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.959 You file a tax return. There's no violent joint filing. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:15.800 There's no that's not going to happen. So there's no 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.920 financial incentive to get married. You get married because you 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.600 you want to get married, but there's no kind of 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.119 like if we get married, you know it's I don't know, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:26.719 it's different. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.200