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Speaker 1: The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to
Speaker 1: interesting people about what brings them happiness.
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Speaker 1: Look, my guest today is a New York legend.
Speaker 2: A good friend of mine. He's also a wheeltor as
Speaker 2: well as well.
Speaker 1: You're going to hear a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: Please welcome to Wonder mister New York Jean no Philippo.
Speaker 1: One day, I remember the day we met because I'd
Speaker 1: heard about you before that. We met on my sixty
Speaker 1: first birthday, did we Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was my birthday that day. God, and you when
Speaker 2: I put you in my car, Yeah, we went in
Speaker 2: your car.
Speaker 1: And first of all, you're the only person ever I
Speaker 1: ever met who said I love driving in my nest
Speaker 1: and you were driving around my then I have good
Speaker 1: parking g Yeah, you have very good parking skills, and
Speaker 1: you can drive around and you enjoy it, and I've
Speaker 1: never encountered that. And it was my sixty first birthday,
Speaker 1: and you found me a rental apartment on Second and
Speaker 1: eighty second Street. And then I through that period you said,
Speaker 1: I remember you said on that day you'll buy in
Speaker 1: the next couple of years, you'll move.
Speaker 2: Back to New York.
Speaker 1: Within two years, I had moved back to New York,
Speaker 1: whole family moved everybody back.
Speaker 2: That was it. You were very smart to do it
Speaker 2: that way. You know, you didn't just go out and buy.
Speaker 2: You need to rent and I kept saying, well, the
Speaker 2: market is really dipping, but it dipped furst more.
Speaker 1: It's still going to dip a little more of you think,
Speaker 1: so maybe a little bit. I was looking at some
Speaker 1: houses on the Upper East sites and apartments and the
Speaker 1: Uper East site. I'm like, that's very reasonable for what
Speaker 1: it is. But I I do like, like a lot
Speaker 1: of people, the Trulia app or the street easy app
Speaker 1: in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my porn.
Speaker 1: Me too, I say that, but you, amongst other things,
Speaker 1: you're a realtor, though it makes sense for you to
Speaker 1: look at it.
Speaker 2: But the but I'll tell you what I love about
Speaker 2: it is now there's so much off market opportunity. So
Speaker 2: there's like, well there's me and my buildings. So a
Speaker 2: broker who knows who seasoned, who knows me, is going
Speaker 2: to call and go, do you have anything coming up?
Speaker 2: Do you have anybody that you think would sell? And
Speaker 2: there's always off market opportunity.
Speaker 1: So now I've already we moved into a part aartment,
Speaker 1: I guess what, three months ago, and I'm already looking
Speaker 1: at the apartment next door.
Speaker 2: I told you to start. I mean, she incapacitated yet
Speaker 2: that time, and she's very nice. No, no, she's very nice.
Speaker 1: I keep like leading over at the top of the stairs.
Speaker 2: Hey, let me help you done this?
Speaker 1: Oh no, they but it's it's fine. But you know
Speaker 1: why I was. I was looking at your bio today
Speaker 1: and I had no idea none. And I know you
Speaker 1: pretty well at this point about the wedding thing, what's
Speaker 1: that tell me about?
Speaker 2: Like? It was in New York City. So everything I've
Speaker 2: ever done has been in New York. From New York,
Speaker 2: I just I'm not from the city, but my grandparents
Speaker 2: owned a big company and they did all the billboards.
Speaker 2: And my father was a street guy from Parkchester, the Bronx,
Speaker 2: So we were rare here a lot anyway. But I
Speaker 2: mean I grew up in the suburbs, a little bit outside,
Speaker 2: and I became a New York City tour guide. I
Speaker 2: speak Italian and I used to pick them up at
Speaker 2: JFK and give them tours. And I hate the Italians
Speaker 2: because the Italians all they want to hear about is
Speaker 2: love stories and they didn't really want to connect. And
Speaker 2: the British were very refined. They would listen to you.
Speaker 2: You know, people in the UK have degrees to do this.
Speaker 2: I was just a licensed tour guide and well, I
Speaker 2: think also has something to do with the accident Bretton
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: People sound smarter than that smart Possibly I really like
Speaker 1: wearing trousers right now if I like wearing pants.
Speaker 2: But how do I say this? There is a certain
Speaker 2: perversity to the Brits that they kind of hide, and
Speaker 2: I was able to tap into. So I started doing
Speaker 2: night tours with them, taking them to sex clubs, health
Speaker 2: fires and all these things. And you'd see these people
Speaker 2: in literally burbery skirts going to like at two o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning and some guy was licking their toe
Speaker 2: at the bar. But that's what they were paying for.
Speaker 2: The first thing I realized was they weren't interested so
Speaker 2: much in the culture they study. They knew it. I
Speaker 2: gave them the tour, and then it was like, do
Speaker 2: you really want to see New York now? And so
Speaker 2: I would take them to a I wouldn't do the
Speaker 2: after hours first, I would do a night tour where
Speaker 2: I had a couple in the West Village, Irish Americans.
Speaker 1: We're doing We're doing the drink and they said.
Speaker 2: I went to them and I said, would you consider
Speaker 2: opening your house like three times a week to fifty
Speaker 2: breads each time, and they go and I said to
Speaker 2: have cocktails, and they went, well, we're middle class, we
Speaker 2: would have to serve our dirves too. I go, that's fine,
Speaker 2: and they had taken out a floor so it was
Speaker 2: like walking into a loft with a big garden on
Speaker 2: Jane Street. It was incredible. I found them just from
Speaker 2: knocking on doors you went to. People says this, use
Speaker 2: single family houses because people New Yorkers down in the
Speaker 2: village are very creative and they like that. So I
Speaker 2: sold the tour as a night out with the dinner
Speaker 2: at Chumley's, which was an old speakeasy on Barrows. I
Speaker 2: remember you had to go to somebody's house together, so
Speaker 2: first we would go to Bobby and Jack Gillen's place
Speaker 2: and have and they had a big rescue German shepherd
Speaker 2: that was crazy, was knocking drinks all over and they
Speaker 2: didn't understand the ritz asking. I love the way the
Speaker 2: British asked for you know, drinks, you know as it's poured,
Speaker 2: you know, Scotch, as it's poor, as its poor and
Speaker 2: or you know what is the other line they would
Speaker 2: say if they asked for not ginger ale, was it
Speaker 2: what's the common drink? Anyway, the the g would mix
Speaker 2: it up and put seven up instead, but all the
Speaker 2: drinks were filled up to the top, you know, so
Speaker 2: everybody was just falling out of the town is when
Speaker 2: is this in the eighties. We're talking late eighties, early nineties,
Speaker 2: so like the village a late seventeen.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, the village in the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighties and nineteen nineties is a different, slightly less family
Speaker 1: friendly village.
Speaker 2: Than it is now. I still think it's pretty artsy
Speaker 2: and there are some single family town homes. You know.
Speaker 2: The taxes became very expensive, and they were making They
Speaker 2: charged me at the time twenty dollars per person, so
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty people a week times twenty dollars
Speaker 2: was good with the math, yeah, like a million dollars. Right.
Speaker 2: They were getting a million dollars a week off of
Speaker 2: me in cash, and they loved it. I was paying
Speaker 2: their taxes. It was like having someone.
Speaker 1: How did you get that, though, I mean, how did
Speaker 1: you get to.
Speaker 2: Oh? Right? Eh, I was doing it, and I just
Speaker 2: thought people wanted people were bored. You know, when when
Speaker 2: you were a tour guide in New York, you always
Speaker 2: sit on there seeing the people to see their reaction, right,
Speaker 2: and I could see everything was falling flat. It's like
Speaker 2: being a comedian going, oh my god, I've never experienced that.
Speaker 2: How dare you? How dare you not? You others have
Speaker 2: experienced that? Yeah, the way we I said, you know,
Speaker 2: let me come up with something different, because they kept
Speaker 2: asking how do people live in this city? And I
Speaker 2: was like, well, the same way they live in London.
Speaker 2: But really these weren't These weren't London refined people. These
Speaker 2: were people from you know, other parts of the suburbs
Speaker 2: and suburbs. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this though, what how did you
Speaker 1: know about the sex clubs?
Speaker 2: And I know that from a lot of tour guides
Speaker 2: started after hour. There was one guy named Giuseppe who
Speaker 2: lived on a house boat on seventy ninth Street and
Speaker 2: he would take four people. That's all we had were
Speaker 2: for it. Like at the time, nobody was really into it.
Speaker 2: We would go to do a sex club tour to
Speaker 2: take because they wanted to experience.
Speaker 1: I've got been to that sex club.
Speaker 2: Well it's you know, it's pretty much everything that you
Speaker 2: can imagine. People just like have sex and the other
Speaker 2: people it's more about a fetish and less about the sex, right,
Speaker 2: So it's all of the you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of licking and there's a lot of playing and toying.
Speaker 1: It's like that's dogs the.
Speaker 2: Dogs. Well now at our age. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: get discussed be my dog lives up his leg when
Speaker 2: he goes to the bathroom. I don't want to see
Speaker 2: that people.
Speaker 1: So if you're in a sex club tour and you
Speaker 1: go to the sex club, will someone say, hege you
Speaker 1: want your leg linked and the lick your leg and
Speaker 1: stuff that they loved it. I feel like I was
Speaker 1: just annoying and it didn't ever get your legs And
Speaker 1: that was an optional tour. That was that was included
Speaker 1: in the price, so you should now they'd be going,
Speaker 1: so you want you like lick it's actually once.
Speaker 2: You go in there like whether you like it or
Speaker 2: not any or not. Yeah, that's it. You were just
Speaker 2: you had to participate. I don't I don't know. Well,
Speaker 2: Hell's Fire used to be below fourteenth Street on where
Speaker 2: the Guggenheim is now, but you used to have to
Speaker 2: check your clothes to get in and just have your
Speaker 2: underwear on. Then they would say to me, Look, you're
Speaker 2: coming in with these people. We understand, but we can't
Speaker 2: just have like onlookers. They have to kind of participate.
Speaker 2: So I said, less is more. That was the tour
Speaker 2: would go. They took the I mean, forty people is
Speaker 2: a lot. I started out with four and four were
Speaker 2: paying five hundred each. It was so expensive. And you
Speaker 2: know who, let's talk cultures now. The Italians loved it.
Speaker 2: The Italians take them my clothes off. The British were
Speaker 2: wanted the experience. I'd like to have my leg lit.
Speaker 1: Why I'm on a New York part of the experience
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was magical, And that's how that kind of started.
Speaker 2: It started for me just saying I.
Speaker 1: Lived in New York round about time. Well, I was
Speaker 1: here in the mid eighties, early.
Speaker 2: Mid eight we probably cross paths. Maybe, well i've done.
Speaker 1: And I remember the only sex club I'd heard of
Speaker 1: and I never went there, but I always wanted to go.
Speaker 2: It was a place called Plato's God's So seventies was
Speaker 2: that seventies? Oh my god, that was Brazil. That was
Speaker 2: like the first one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, I just remember seeing ads for it
Speaker 1: in the Village Voice and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: really want to go because like a Scottish Protestant boy,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I bet they've got little jumpers off
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: You were, you were, you were ready to roll. The
Speaker 2: big one was Hell's Fire, and then the less Squalito
Speaker 2: which was underneath Port Authority bus terminal, and there were
Speaker 2: drag shows. I was doing theater then as well. You know,
Speaker 2: when I travel, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I
Speaker 2: always hire a private Like in Prague, I hired a
Speaker 2: private tour guide to go to a sex club. I
Speaker 2: wanted to see everything. Not the sex clubs, no, but
Speaker 2: I wanted to see off the beaten path, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: What is the sex club's good, Well, it sounds like
Speaker 1: the beaten path if you forgive the fun, well, the
Speaker 1: the but the I I kind of I'm fascinated by this.
Speaker 1: But the idea that all of this is it still
Speaker 1: going on others those sex clubs.
Speaker 2: I'm too old. I go to bed at nine. Now what,
Speaker 2: I'm sure they are passed the baton to a lovely
Speaker 2: group of people. The beauty is you buy and you sell.
Speaker 2: I think the gen zs they don't, they don't have,
Speaker 2: they don't. Everything's done online apparently. Yeah, you remember the
Speaker 2: days when you met someone in a bar and then
Speaker 2: you would hook up, and then after they left, you
Speaker 2: took your clothing and hung it on the radiator because
Speaker 2: it smelled of smoke and that was the only way
Speaker 2: the smoke would get it. I mean that's how I
Speaker 2: would set my clothes on fire. It never happened. You
Speaker 2: were very you would have been a star on this tour.
Speaker 1: But the the idea of it, though, I think apps
Speaker 1: have probably taken that all of that away, like because
Speaker 1: you you can like if you want. I mean right
Speaker 1: back in the day when some of the like real
Speaker 1: kind of full on clubs in the village, I think
Speaker 1: that's probably all ungraineder and tender. Yeah, that's I don't
Speaker 1: think there's gonna you strap into your leather and get
Speaker 1: your whistle and go nuts in a dark room.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe I'm too old for this, but I'm
Speaker 2: hearing now. You can just meet people, I mean they
Speaker 2: track you. You can be in the same restaurant and
Speaker 2: say let's meet in the men's room. I've had friends
Speaker 2: that constantly say they hook up, like in the moment, I.
Speaker 1: Feel there might be you can get will be fresh
Speaker 1: STDs coming in.
Speaker 2: If it's that easy, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I feel like you shouldn't you interview someone a
Speaker 1: little bit?
Speaker 2: I would think so, but I mean they can read
Speaker 2: your bio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess no one can hide really, I mean
Speaker 1: it's kind of like you can't assume an identity now,
Speaker 1: you can't.
Speaker 2: I bet the majority of people that are together have
Speaker 2: met online.
Speaker 1: You know, I think probably no, I think, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're in how did you meet fluid?
Speaker 2: Did you mind? You may know? Really AOL you put
Speaker 2: money in the machine and it was one of those yep, wow,
Speaker 2: he's not gonna like that. I said that.
Speaker 1: No, I think it's fine. I think it's uh. I mean,
Speaker 1: we can cut it out. But it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: amazing to me that you must have been quite early adopters.
Speaker 2: Then it was the beginning AOL.
Speaker 1: You've got mail, someone wants to lick your leg, and it.
Speaker 2: Was fun, it was mysterious. It was that and a
Speaker 2: nice way, that erotic place of that took place of
Speaker 2: going to a sex club because you had this fantasy
Speaker 2: of what the person was going to be like when
Speaker 2: you met them, right, and obviously it worked out twenty something. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys have long, long time baby. Yeah, but that's okay,
Speaker 2: that's good. Yes, it's excellent.
Speaker 1: Hello, this is Craig Ferguson and I want to let
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Speaker 2: I can't look.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna come rund your husband show you how
Speaker 1: to do it. If you can't do it, then you
Speaker 1: can't have it.
Speaker 2: But if you can.
Speaker 1: Figure it out, it's yours. So how did that turn
Speaker 1: into the wedding thing?
Speaker 2: Then? Because you you tourists? Said to me, two British tourists,
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. They said, we really loved your tour Dino.
Speaker 2: I said, well it's Gino actually, and they said, would
Speaker 2: you helpless get married? I'm going to call you prefer like,
Speaker 2: I mean, would I help you get married?
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking is there a dollar to be made
Speaker 3: in there? So I said, I'll get back to you.
Speaker 3: What hotel you and I'll be right there, ran down
Speaker 3: his city hall and it's when they have the old
Speaker 3: bulletproof windows. It was like the set of Barney Miller.
Speaker 3: Ye take a number.
Speaker 2: And then I looked a little bit into it. I
Speaker 2: realized that I could coordinate these weddings because countries are different,
Speaker 2: like the UK when I from my recollection, you file
Speaker 2: and it's eleven days you have to wait.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you also have to be interviewed by the Ringing monarchy.
Speaker 2: And Paris in France it's two weeks and you must
Speaker 2: eat a certain so vegas. It's like, what are you
Speaker 2: doing later? So we are twenty four hours in New York, right,
Speaker 2: And that was always established to give the couple time
Speaker 2: to realize are we going to do we really want?
Speaker 1: Like you can get married twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 1: you have to wait twenty twenty four Like buying a.
Speaker 2: Gun yep, right, okay, yeah, is that what it is
Speaker 2: for a gun? Jeez, I don't know.
Speaker 1: What it is in New York where there are certain states,
Speaker 1: the state where I have my other place go buy
Speaker 1: a gun.
Speaker 2: I'll remember when I just remember that when you come
Speaker 2: to be rude, to remember I'm as citizen and I
Speaker 2: have a driver's life. I think you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. So yeah, so I realized I could
Speaker 2: do it, and then I coordinated it, and then it
Speaker 2: just happened. I opened up this company. The tour company
Speaker 2: was called Ultimate USA Tours, and then I opened up
Speaker 2: Ultimate USA Weddings and we had contracts with British Airways, Koiwone,
Speaker 2: Virgin Holidays, everyone. So we would package the weddings weddings
Speaker 2: abroad and they would sell them, and so I would
Speaker 2: give them a discount of rate. But we would get
Speaker 2: you know, you come and get married in New York,
Speaker 2: and then we would arrange for the license, we would
Speaker 2: script the ceremony. We would get oh yeah, I got
Speaker 2: ordained online. So you're a rabbi, Gino, you're a rab
Speaker 2: I'm a vicar. You're a vicar, a rabbi, I'm an officiant,
Speaker 2: all right. So you have no your it's a secular position.
Speaker 2: You have no religious Well, I mean, I will do
Speaker 2: anything as long as I don't have to slaughter an animal.
Speaker 2: There's no sack anything I will do. I've done, Yamica's
Speaker 2: I've done. You know, I did a Jewish wedding because
Speaker 2: my friend married an orthodox guy and for some reason,
Speaker 2: his divorce had not been completely finished yet, right, And
Speaker 2: so they had this two hundred person highly orthodox wedding
Speaker 2: and they went through the whole ceremony, but it wasn't legal.
Speaker 2: And then three days later when I met them in
Speaker 2: a Mexican restaurant on Ninth Avenue, because I mean.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of getting married in a Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 2: I think that. I mean, I like the idea. Again,
Speaker 2: we go back to that kind of slightly perverse thing
Speaker 2: of like, oh my god, nobody knows this is a
Speaker 2: force except me. And in three days, when the divorce clears,
Speaker 2: I'm going to meet them at you know, El Cantona
Speaker 2: or whatever. The Mexican place was, La Cantina, and we're
Speaker 2: going to make this official. So that's what I started doing.
Speaker 1: That's it. I mean, we spent quite a lot of
Speaker 1: time together talking.
Speaker 2: You didn't know that. I just it's never come up.
Speaker 2: You just never don't.
Speaker 1: I talk about myself a lot, Is that what it is?
Speaker 2: No? We talk about you. No, we talk about Megan
Speaker 2: and how beautiful she is.
Speaker 1: We talk about my wife and how beautiful she is,
Speaker 1: very beautiful, and she's fun but I will say I'm
Speaker 1: married two thousand people, good lord, and of them were Brits.
Speaker 2: And you guys do it the interesting way. Where's different
Speaker 2: that Americans should listen to. I can attest to this.
Speaker 2: You meet in school, this is the general brit You
Speaker 2: meet school, definitely, you date, you buy a house together,
Speaker 2: you have a child, and then you fly to New
Speaker 2: York and dino marriage you Well, you know why why?
Speaker 1: Because the tax in Britain, you get no tax break
Speaker 1: for being married in brent You feel really yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're if you're married to someone, they file a tax return,
Speaker 1: You file a tax return. There's no violent joint filing.
Speaker 1: There's no that's not going to happen. So there's no
Speaker 1: financial incentive to get married. You get married because you
Speaker 1: you want to get married, but there's no kind of
Speaker 1: like if we get married, you know it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's different.
Speaker 2: Well, out of two thousand weddings, I probably did only
Speaker 2: one hundred Americans.
Speaker 1: Can you tell when people immediately as soon as you
Speaker 1: can touch you know, how many of them have last.
Speaker 2: I'm dying to know. I do see on Facebook like
Speaker 2: they're having kids, and in my case, some of them
Speaker 2: are even had their kids are having kids. I want
Speaker 2: to kill myself. It will till I see that, I know,
Speaker 2: but very few times I'll get an email going, hey
Speaker 2: he died. I mean, what a show that would be.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if you put me on the evening
Speaker 2: news in the UK, people would just their their teacups
Speaker 2: would shake. They would go, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, that's our that's the that's she's the wedding guy.
Speaker 1: That's do you know.
Speaker 2: The wedding Do you know the wedding of the wedding guy?
Speaker 2: I know it's Dina from New York.
Speaker 1: He's back and he's married us.
Speaker 2: Do you like that? Would be a fun reality show?
Speaker 2: Driving through the UK to see who's you know? Who's
Speaker 2: a great idea.
Speaker 1: I think we should do it and fight. I think
Speaker 1: you and I should do it together.
Speaker 2: Who's driving? I can't drive there because I get confused
Speaker 2: on the other side of the road. I'm such a
Speaker 2: good New York.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what I tell everyone when
Speaker 1: they talk about my early sexuality.
Speaker 2: I so you've got to try it both ways.
Speaker 1: Before you know, before you know which you prefer, So
Speaker 1: you know if you like driving.
Speaker 2: On one side. Tried driving on the other side. See
Speaker 2: what it feels like. Then you'll know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people can drive on any site.
Speaker 2: It's not the size as much. You know. It drives
Speaker 2: me crazy in the UK. Oh god, they're the worst.
Speaker 1: They are terrible and I always miss it and I
Speaker 1: hate that they're coming to America now and there's starting.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you if you go outside of Manhattan, which
Speaker 1: I don't like to do, as you know, but if
Speaker 1: you do there, they have roundabouts, they have the traffic
Speaker 1: circles and they and you know, Americans are not great
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 2: We're not great. Or yeah, I know, I'll be very careful.
Speaker 2: It's horrible. Yeah, when you.
Speaker 1: Go to targets or places like that. You know in
Speaker 1: the suburbs they have.
Speaker 2: Them, they have them. Okay, well I'll look out for them.
Speaker 1: But I think that's a good idea. I could drive
Speaker 1: you around. I can show you where things are in Britain,
Speaker 1: and we can go and meet the uh, the people
Speaker 1: that you got married or the grandchildren. It's significant. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you.
Speaker 2: I actually have been in bars with my partner. I
Speaker 2: was in the Hamptons once and a drink came over
Speaker 2: and the guy said, that woman said that you married
Speaker 2: her and in the UK, I got stopped a few
Speaker 2: times every time we go to London. I know the odds,
Speaker 2: and I think I sent a picture. But I was
Speaker 2: sitting in a cafe in New York City and a
Speaker 2: woman I'm sitting and so I'm facing the window with
Speaker 2: a friend, just having like a lunch, and this woman
Speaker 2: kept walking by staring at me. I was like whatever,
Speaker 2: and I'm talking to her, and then finally she put
Speaker 2: her phone up to the window and it said, GINO
Speaker 2: you married my husband. You uncle and I ten years
Speaker 2: ago was the cover of my book. That's what it is.
Speaker 2: It's her like this with the picture and on her
Speaker 2: I'm not the picture of her on her iPhone. And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. Of course I didn't
Speaker 2: remember her, but it was.
Speaker 1: See I get out with late night. I did over
Speaker 1: two thousand late nights. When I think about it, you
Speaker 1: did as many weddings as I did it on late night.
Speaker 2: That's that. Don't let's think about the price difference. Jesus
Speaker 2: shoot me, well, I don't like volunteer work. What I did,
Speaker 2: I don't how much were they paying you for a wedding? Nothing? Really,
Speaker 2: I mean, we would just rack it up. With like,
Speaker 2: do you want hair and makeup? How about a limousine?
Speaker 2: You know anything I could sell. I'm the extra guys,
Speaker 2: you know, I like to sell the other stuff.
Speaker 1: About the Did you ever do it like a sex
Speaker 1: club night before thing?
Speaker 2: Did you? I've taken it back to the sex those
Speaker 2: weren't I didn't do that, but I did marry a
Speaker 2: couple in bed at the Plaza Hotel. They were in bed,
Speaker 2: come in. I was like, who was the witness? Were
Speaker 2: you the witness? There was My assistant, Marissa used to
Speaker 2: come to the weddings with me and she would have
Speaker 2: the license and everything, and I go, I would go,
Speaker 2: what are we walking into? She goes, I don't know
Speaker 2: they paid blah blah blah. I said, great, you know
Speaker 2: sometimes we would do ten eleven weddings a day. I
Speaker 2: didn't like that. Oh yeah, I mean, how do you
Speaker 2: get to two thousand and a lot of these people
Speaker 2: stayed together. I don't know. I have no idea. There
Speaker 2: was one really interesting one where Marissa said to me
Speaker 2: and she was a beautiful, she's still alive, beautiful Latin
Speaker 2: American girl, and she said, I think the groom has
Speaker 2: a crush on me and the groom was very handsome,
Speaker 2: and then the bride came down. It was I think
Speaker 2: it was also at the plaza down the stairs, and
Speaker 2: the moment she was at the stairs, she saw the
Speaker 2: connection between my assistant and you know, and then she
Speaker 2: turned around and walked away. Yeah. Oh, I've had a
Speaker 2: lot of grooms say I can't go through with it
Speaker 2: our brides incredible. The most embarrassing moment though, is you
Speaker 2: know what it is when you go to city hall
Speaker 2: with the British couple they have to write down who
Speaker 2: their parents are on the license and a lot of
Speaker 2: them don't know in Britain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom, mostly we pro create by children floating
Speaker 1: down the river at baskets.
Speaker 2: He was like, I said, I used to save them
Speaker 2: ALTI And then if they say that they can't go
Speaker 2: through the paperwork, so we would have to say in
Speaker 2: advance so you're clear about your putting your parents down,
Speaker 2: because if not, John Doe is a perfect name. Just
Speaker 2: anything you want to write John Doe, it just goes
Speaker 2: on the license. Who cares that? Well? Isn't that fascinating
Speaker 2: that things you learn? Like what a moment for somebody
Speaker 2: to say I don't know who my father was My
Speaker 2: mother met him in a bar and that was it.
Speaker 2: Now it'd be like, you know, okay, it's probably not
Speaker 2: even on the license anymore.
Speaker 1: But I feel like soon you'll have to do like
Speaker 1: you'll have to give blood so they can keep tracking.
Speaker 2: That was the old days. You had to do blood tests.
Speaker 2: Did you really?
Speaker 1: Yes, they have that thing, and they have that app.
Speaker 1: You've heard this app. It's in Iceland. So many people
Speaker 1: are related that they have this app, so you have
Speaker 1: to check to see you're not related to the part.
Speaker 2: What else are you going to do in Iceland? Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, two hours of light a day,
Speaker 2: you're gonna yet, you know, let's go and see by
Speaker 2: the way. But reindeer, I don't think so. They want
Speaker 2: to know I'm not eating that. Oh they eat you know.
Speaker 1: The only time I've been to Iceland, I stopped at
Speaker 1: Wreckuvig Airport for uh the change planes, and I had
Speaker 1: some Icelandic chocolate, the worst chocolate.
Speaker 2: I ever tasted at to go right through it tasted
Speaker 2: like seal. There's nothing bigger than British chocolate. Yeah, British chocolate.
Speaker 2: It's the best, I think, so oh my Cadbury that
Speaker 2: forget it. This is crapier. I haven't had a Hershey
Speaker 2: bar since I was There's a pretty good chocolate in
Speaker 2: New York. I know what. I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: The mass produced chocolate is probably not as good as
Speaker 1: the British stuff.
Speaker 2: But I will say.
Speaker 1: This the it's the crisps in Britain again. The chips
Speaker 1: they have like yuck and you know, spaghetti flavored chips.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're unbelievable. They're delicious and they're delicious. Here
Speaker 2: we get your doritles.
Speaker 1: But what we do here is we dippleman things. They
Speaker 1: don't diprimant things in Britain because they don't need to.
Speaker 1: They're ready delicious. I gained so much weight when I
Speaker 1: go to Britain, like I'm still working on.
Speaker 2: Getting you were looking very felt. We got thank you,
Speaker 2: I have been You're really doing it well.
Speaker 1: I've got this scrout this game show coming up, and
Speaker 1: I'm doing scrabble, so I felt like all my late
Speaker 1: night show suits, I was like, I'll just wear them
Speaker 1: on this game show, and none of them fit me.
Speaker 2: So now you're gonna have to borrow my clothes.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's all right. First of all, I've got
Speaker 1: but I can get into them again now. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about it. I haven't had a good dress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: You are. You know exactly what to wear.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're in a suit, you're in charge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a power thing. Yeah, I know. I still
Speaker 2: wear them. Yeah, I mean I always wear a jacket.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm out.
Speaker 1: You always wear a nice jacket on a Citi bike
Speaker 1: bike where I'm always on Citi Bike.
Speaker 2: It's my porn. I love it. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's just that I'm cheap or what, because I have
Speaker 2: saved thousands of dollars because I don't love the subway
Speaker 2: so much anymore. I at love the crowds. And I
Speaker 2: get because I'm a suburban kid and I grew up
Speaker 2: on a bike. I get stimulated when I'm on a bike.
Speaker 2: It excites me. I get really.
Speaker 1: Explained it like in a sex club.
Speaker 2: That we're back to those clubs. Yeah, just fascinating. I
Speaker 2: just love to get Yeah, that was what a life.
Speaker 2: I love to get on the bike. It makes me happy.
Speaker 2: I would have rode here, but I was like.
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to take a bike home. You are, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the I just find out that you could. There's
Speaker 1: a city bike place just next to the studio. Then
Speaker 1: I'm jumping on and then you can go over. They
Speaker 1: have a bike land on the Williamsburg Bridge. You can
Speaker 1: go right over.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe that's what I'll do. Ye. I just came
Speaker 2: from a closing from a mutual who you know, a
Speaker 2: very talented actors apartment. I just sold what a journey today?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is that that that good? Today? We won't say who closed,
Speaker 2: We won't say who it is. That's very happy. I'll
Speaker 2: bet so he sold it, sold it right done? That's
Speaker 2: good news. Is he leaving New York? No? He has
Speaker 2: another place? All right? Okay, because I sold him? I
Speaker 2: which ib we doing? With you two? Going? Yeah? Yeah, John?
Speaker 2: Are you ready to move? She's now? Yeah. No. When
Speaker 2: we find out what the next door neighbor is going for,
Speaker 2: like cellular work on her longevity, she's then you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to move. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like the the when I moved back to
Speaker 1: New York like two years ago. Really, when you you
Speaker 1: kind of plugged me back into the city. I I
Speaker 1: kind of regret ever leaving I do. I feel like
Speaker 1: this is this is the this is the best study
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this one works for me more
Speaker 1: than any other place I've been in New York City work.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't you think you get more material here
Speaker 2: than anywhere? Oh my god, I can't even imagine you
Speaker 2: guys in California. I didn't know you then, but it's
Speaker 2: like it's so remote out there.
Speaker 1: Well, the kids are really young, so you know, we
Speaker 1: were kind of like, you're in that world then you're
Speaker 1: kind of dealing with It's all like.
Speaker 2: But that's one cycle.
Speaker 1: Well we had too because Myla was young when Megan
Speaker 1: and I met, and then when he was about nine
Speaker 1: years old, he was just over nine years old. Liam
Speaker 1: was born'siga right back into it again, right right, And
Speaker 1: so it kind of lasted quite a long time.
Speaker 2: My god, he's gonna he just loves New York, doesn't he? Liam?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's crazy for it. It's perfect for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of It's an interesting thing because
Speaker 1: I was talking to us about it today. We were
Speaker 1: walking over the street here just in Brooklyn, and Tina
Speaker 1: the crossing guard I would have been working here a
Speaker 1: couple of days. Tina the crossing Guard stops the traffic
Speaker 1: we're walking over the road. She starts talking about when
Speaker 1: did you get your first tattoo? I got my friend
Speaker 1: she's talking about her tattoos.
Speaker 2: Now we know that.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we got together a nice call
Speaker 1: for right right the way back right. And this city
Speaker 1: has I think and people go crazy. Well, people who
Speaker 1: don't know don't believe it. This is the friendly city
Speaker 1: I've ever been in my life. This is the fabric
Speaker 1: of New York.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. You will never see a more And I love
Speaker 2: to know where I stand and New York. You will
Speaker 2: always tell you and I'm the same way. It's like,
Speaker 2: that's a lovely dress. What do you mean lovely? It's great.
Speaker 2: It's the most increasing you know they and it's not
Speaker 2: an insult. It's just them. Everyone stakes their claim here.
Speaker 2: It's it's the most amazing city for that.
Speaker 1: It has a certain directness which I really appreciate. It
Speaker 1: was once I was doing it, I started doing a
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton in person.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yeah. I used to do that late night, like.
Speaker 1: That was pretty much all I did. But it was
Speaker 1: kind of a regular gig guy. I used to do
Speaker 1: it late night and I was walking down the street
Speaker 1: in New York and a guy shouted really literally from
Speaker 1: a construction say a guy with a heart, and went, hey, Ferguson,
Speaker 1: nice Clinton.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that worth it? Yeah? It kind of was.
Speaker 1: Actually, I've had a lot of coffee.
Speaker 2: Have you do you drink a lot of coffee? Now?
Speaker 2: I do not because we got your coffee. But I
Speaker 2: love it. No, I needed this little thing. These. I'm
Speaker 2: doing these walkthroughs right now. I have another one today.
Speaker 2: It's the pre closing. Didn't we do it in your apartment? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I didn't see the apartment till after I bought it,
Speaker 1: Megan Memory, I have to.
Speaker 2: Say, I'm noticing that. Another thing is I you know,
Speaker 2: I will say that I'm coming up with a knack
Speaker 2: of taking an apartment online and saying that's the one
Speaker 2: for you. Yeah. Well you well you gave me like
Speaker 2: a five block radio, so well that was.
Speaker 1: Very specific and where I want it to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean because that because look, location, location, location, Lord.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. Well we can it's over. But you're
Speaker 2: but women, I mean, who knows, cut this out if
Speaker 2: you don't want to do it. But women are fantastic
Speaker 2: to shop with for real estate. Yeah, they really just
Speaker 2: kind of get the whole thing. Well, I think men
Speaker 2: like to come in and they're more about the numbers, definitely,
Speaker 2: and they kicked the tires as the approval thing. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, what do we got here? You know
Speaker 2: what's the pros? And there you're much more vocal about
Speaker 2: the pros and cons. Women, it's more of a nesting
Speaker 2: See my family in here. It's not so much the kitchen,
Speaker 2: it's just the whole vibe of the place. And then
Speaker 2: they throw in their decorator hat. It's like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: that's one of the things I'm very glad about. Megan.
Speaker 2: She's amazed she's the.
Speaker 1: Design Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. How did you end
Speaker 1: up going to real estate from.
Speaker 2: I just love I've always loved real estate. And we
Speaker 2: were living out in LA and we used to go
Speaker 2: to Santa Barber We used to go to Palm Springs
Speaker 2: and I would look at these homes and go, holy shit,
Speaker 2: this must be fun. If I can't afford to live
Speaker 2: in it, I might as well sell it. And so
Speaker 2: we were going to make our life out there. But
Speaker 2: then my partner did the option the right to share
Speaker 2: his life story and did the share show on Broadway.
Speaker 2: So I knew I was coming back. I was already
Speaker 2: running the businesses in New York and they were running
Speaker 2: and so I came back and pivoted and just got
Speaker 2: my license, and then I was doing weddings and real estate,
Speaker 2: which was incredibly stressful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's a low because people You're
Speaker 1: dealing with people at two different points in the life
Speaker 1: where there's a law of emotion involved.
Speaker 2: Right, I already know what my next position is. Like,
Speaker 2: I am one of those people at any age have
Speaker 2: no problem reinventing myself. I'm literally like a person who
Speaker 2: if I'm not happy doing it or f I'm saturated
Speaker 2: the wedding business. After ten years, I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: done right, and I had no problem. I don't look
Speaker 2: at it and go, God, i'm a certain age, I'll
Speaker 2: never get a job. I don't do any of that.
Speaker 2: If it's meant to be, I just move forward with it.
Speaker 1: I think that's very healthy. I also think that's New
Speaker 1: York a little bit. And I think this is a
Speaker 1: city like la and by extrapolation of that show business
Speaker 1: I think, and which everything is show business. Everything getting
Speaker 1: this is somehow shameful, Like you mustn't.
Speaker 2: You must go.
Speaker 1: You must like have you know, surgeries, and you must
Speaker 1: look young, feel young all the time. And I think
Speaker 1: in New York that's lass of an issue is like
Speaker 1: have a nice coat, right.
Speaker 2: Right, So I think the next thing for me, well,
Speaker 2: I love real estate right now. I mean, look, it's great,
Speaker 2: but it is a relationship business, like weddings were a
Speaker 2: relationship business. Oh literally, yeah, you know, I mean it
Speaker 2: really is. But there is a thing in the UK
Speaker 2: and I can't remember what it's called. I remember a
Speaker 2: brit telling me this, which was that when somebody dies,
Speaker 2: there's a man that comes in and does the service.
Speaker 2: But he's called something. He's not the vicar of obviously,
Speaker 2: he's called the and it's got to come to me anyway.
Speaker 2: That's what I would love to do in New York. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: work on that. I mean, I'm gonna skip the divorces
Speaker 2: because who wants to do that. That's just an attorney.
Speaker 2: There's no fun in that. But like the celebration of
Speaker 2: life thing, oh what are they called? The person who
Speaker 2: comes in? There is a person these humanists humanists, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: and now even religious like the Catholic Church, no one
Speaker 2: is doing the wakes and people that I know. It
Speaker 2: is just at two they're just doing one day a celebration,
Speaker 2: right change now, I think a little bit that's true.
Speaker 1: We had on the podcast William Villanova.
Speaker 2: Oh what a name. I love it.
Speaker 1: He's lovely man. He's the head of the the you know,
Speaker 1: the big funeral.
Speaker 2: Chapel on Madison. Oh my god, yes, I go there
Speaker 2: all the time. Campbell's Frank Campbell's Oh my god, he is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's that's he's the guy in charge. Oh that is
Speaker 2: a great guest to have.
Speaker 1: He was fabulous. Why I didn't know about about funerals
Speaker 1: and like to be in his position that's like a
Speaker 1: four year college degree. Oh yeah, I mean he's like
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he does everything though, from you know,
Speaker 1: soup to nuts.
Speaker 2: I guess that is the place the place to be
Speaker 2: honored value that in the Riverside Memorial, Riverside Church. So
Speaker 2: so what would you do? Like, Like, I would script
Speaker 2: something like I love having lessons more. I loved writing
Speaker 2: a ceremony. I had a template and the bride and
Speaker 2: groom I would go, tell give me something that you
Speaker 2: love about you know whatever, And I wouldn't tell her
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't share it with him, and so it
Speaker 2: became like a moment. It wasn't necessarily a lot of
Speaker 2: times emotional, but at least they have you could see,
Speaker 2: you could feel the moment in the room. That's what's
Speaker 2: you know what I know.
Speaker 1: You go to you've been to Italy recent course.
Speaker 2: Right when you go.
Speaker 1: To Italy, do you ever go around the graveyards and yes,
Speaker 1: have you noticed this new trend where they have the
Speaker 1: video of the deceased that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's it's weird at the graveyard on
Speaker 2: the on the tombstone.
Speaker 1: The tombstone, you mean you push something in there, you
Speaker 1: can make a little video so that you're like, it's genius.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's me. I'm well, you know, enjoy your art.
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, you put a little video on
Speaker 2: your tombstone. Oh my god, what a thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not so sure. I mean because look, imagine
Speaker 1: you're like your old your grandpa, and someone goes and says, hey,
Speaker 1: can't buy it's time to make the video. You're like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, No, it's you know, it's a fine.
Speaker 2: Grandfather would have just given me instructions on life. I
Speaker 2: told you not to take that job.
Speaker 1: But I mean I feel like, first of all, I
Speaker 1: don't know how long is that video gonna last. I mean,
Speaker 1: the stone's going to be there for a while, but.
Speaker 2: The video just thinking, I'm just thinking, like somebody's just
Speaker 2: gonna take it. Well, who's gonna who?
Speaker 1: Kind of heartless monsters?
Speaker 2: It's it's a piece of like an iPhone, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do?
Speaker 1: I think there's a little there's a little kind of
Speaker 1: uh solar thing on the top for power supply.
Speaker 2: And then it kind of I love that idea.
Speaker 1: I think once you go, like when I go, I'm
Speaker 1: not coming. I don't want Aren't you going to be cremated?
Speaker 1: No Viking funeral?
Speaker 2: I think, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know, in all seriousness taking.
Speaker 2: Up space, I think that is such an ego thing.
Speaker 2: No Viking funeral.
Speaker 1: You get burned, you do, yeah, boat boat out to
Speaker 1: see and your children fire flaming iris onto the boat
Speaker 1: and then you burn as it. I know, if you
Speaker 1: go to Valhalla, tuble is trouble is I think if
Speaker 1: that ends, if I end up in Valhalla, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be the sassiest of Valhalla there is I'm no
Speaker 1: way qualified to sit around.
Speaker 2: You know, you're never going to die. So you've been
Speaker 2: spared on so many levels. You have you should would
Speaker 2: on so many levels in this room right now. There's
Speaker 2: been a couple.
Speaker 1: Of times, but things where back then things were a
Speaker 1: little more like like in New York when you were
Speaker 1: doing the tours. Do you ever ran any danger these
Speaker 1: because late night in New York back then it was
Speaker 1: kind of different.
Speaker 2: No, But I do see or hear about a lot
Speaker 2: of people that I was in business with are dying,
Speaker 2: you like, have died, you know, the sad things, you know, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it freaks me out.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 1: People that are contemporaries and they like die and like
Speaker 1: why could they die?
Speaker 2: You know, it's really weird.
Speaker 1: You run into people that you knew from back in
Speaker 1: the day and they look really old, And I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, it's a compliment for me that, you know, do
Speaker 2: I look? I know, you go back and you go,
Speaker 2: do I look like that? Yeah? I know, I do.
Speaker 2: Do that. You know what you get for that, a
Speaker 2: three way mirror. I told my partner that three way mirror.
Speaker 2: You got to see yourself from every ankle, because there
Speaker 2: are certain ankles I see myself when I'm trying on
Speaker 2: a pair of pounds, and I go sis, and I
Speaker 2: realized it's no old guy in the room with me.
Speaker 2: It's me from the side.
Speaker 1: So as long as I'm looking directly in the mirror.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you remember the old thing about when you
Speaker 2: see a hot girl, she was hotter walking away or
Speaker 2: coming towards you. It was never both, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's you have to make sure it all ties in, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm ready for a three way mirror. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: well I come and look at mine. If you stand
Speaker 2: there naked and you change fourteen, well, I mean, then
Speaker 2: you know what you gotta do. I gotta call. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'd like, you've had no work done, you
Speaker 2: look great, you're rugged, you're ready. Well, God bless you
Speaker 2: know not me. I've had work. No, you have? Have
Speaker 2: you absolutely a little tweaking here and there.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. I'm going I want to mega. I
Speaker 1: I want to see a cosmetic dermatologist. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to have like all the
Speaker 1: same you.
Speaker 2: Want to do that like CO two laser thing? What's
Speaker 2: that is that? Like they burn your face off and
Speaker 2: come back looking like an eleven year old. I don't
Speaker 2: think that's the best look for you, but it probably
Speaker 2: isn't It kind of one of those you see them
Speaker 2: and go, gipe baby or something. Now I'm doing I'm
Speaker 2: into the stem cell thing? Was that? So they do
Speaker 2: a little they remove your stem cells. I have to go.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a lipos suction thing, which is discussed.
Speaker 2: I don't do well with needles, so I'd have to
Speaker 2: be out for everything, which I love being. I love
Speaker 2: that's look if it was proven, Oh my god, count
Speaker 2: back from one hundred. Yeah. And then they send your
Speaker 2: stem cells to Virginia to a lab and they harvest them,
Speaker 2: and then four to six months later you get some
Speaker 2: of them back on a drip and they put them
Speaker 2: in and all after you do it three times, all
Speaker 2: the ages and pain start to go away. That moment
Speaker 2: of getting out of bed in the morning going is gone.
Speaker 2: You're now the eighteen year old. So it's all cellular
Speaker 2: work and it's age reversal, but not so much the
Speaker 2: exterior the interior, which is who do I What do
Speaker 2: I care? As long as I'm feeling young inside. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm hearing. I have two people that I've tapped into
Speaker 2: one is a big, big person and it's really helped
Speaker 2: her knees and she's completely, uh, I know, don't go there,
Speaker 2: leave that alone. You knowing those young guys, is it?
Speaker 2: Is it very? Is it very? No? I know where
Speaker 2: you're going.
Speaker 1: I've reached the point light where I hear it.
Speaker 2: But stuff for these And I'm like, but that's what happens.
Speaker 2: You just you know, don't drink and don't die, is
Speaker 2: they say? Isn't it true? It happens overnight, especially with men.
Speaker 2: And listen, statistically, men do not lasts as long as women.
Speaker 2: Well I've noticed that. Yeah, I mean that is scary.
Speaker 2: It is a little bit. But you do you feel
Speaker 2: the great beyond? No? What do you mean? Do I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm at the end of my life? No?
Speaker 2: I mean do you What do you think happens after
Speaker 2: you die? I think you're I think it's all energy
Speaker 2: and you're reincarnated and it's just energy.
Speaker 1: Right, So you don't think it's like, you know, angry
Speaker 1: Santo in a club.
Speaker 2: I think you're you know, you know, I'm not. I
Speaker 2: don't even think you're trying to work out the stuff
Speaker 2: you couldn't work out in this life. In the next life,
Speaker 2: I think you just immediately are reincarnated. It's a sole thing.
Speaker 1: But but reincarnated is energy, not like like as a
Speaker 1: hamster or something.
Speaker 2: Maybe, who knows, God, I hope not. I hope I'm
Speaker 2: a rescue hamster, because you know the word rescue is
Speaker 2: just like living at the plaza.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know how many rescue hamsters are living
Speaker 1: in it, but I don't even if hamsters actually qualify
Speaker 1: as a rescue animal. I'm sure that there are rescue hamsters,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's usually like cats.
Speaker 2: Seen them on menus, let's put it that way. Oh no,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I mean it's certain places. People fry up anything.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I couldn't eat I know that.
Speaker 1: Megan when she was in South America, she was offered
Speaker 1: guinea pig, and I think Peru.
Speaker 2: I couldn't eat a guinea pig. That's horrible. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 2: be bad. My dad used to eat rabbit. My parents.
Speaker 2: You to eat rabbit too, That's a delicacy. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: so sad. French. The Italians will eat that horse. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: all of that stuff. I can't eat. God, let's not
Speaker 2: talk about that. Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm mostly veggie now anyway you are. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was vegan for a long time and then I didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could do that, but I'm almost veggie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll be a pesca pescatarian.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I don't you eat the shalefish.
Speaker 2: I'm not as much. Well, my partners goes intown in
Speaker 2: phylactic shocks, so that limits.
Speaker 1: Megan is Oh really, she's terribly allergic to shrimp, was
Speaker 1: my partner.
Speaker 2: So I mean I down to an occasional lobster prima
Speaker 2: era thing, but I don't even love it that much.
Speaker 1: No, I kin'dt eat see me, I don't eat. I
Speaker 1: could eat it, I don't. I'm not allergic to it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bug. I think these things.
Speaker 2: Like a crab, a lobster. It's just a large underwar bug.
Speaker 2: Well they say they're bottom feeders. Did they are bottom?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: I mean what you're right up? I think I'm going
Speaker 2: to go to bottom feeds. I think we're going to
Speaker 2: go back to those sex tours again. I want to
Speaker 2: go on the UK Evening News and go let's not
Speaker 2: talk about weddings. Let's talk about how many of you
Speaker 2: people went on that Geno sex Yeah, the Geno sext
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was magical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was magical, dropping them off at four o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning and then getting up and doing it
Speaker 2: all over again. It was the cycle. They'd come in
Speaker 2: on a Thursday, we would do Friday tour, Saturday night,
Speaker 2: Saturday night sex club, Sunday hangover, shopping, and then they
Speaker 2: would leave Monday and I'd drop them off and pick
Speaker 2: up the next group.
Speaker 1: I find that fascinating.
Speaker 2: It was the greatest gig and I loved it. I
Speaker 2: loved just it was just freedom and it was being on.
Speaker 2: It was reading the room and people were like, you know,
Speaker 2: the boring tours were when you had like IBM Incentive
Speaker 2: tour and those guys didn't want you know, I didn't
Speaker 2: do those. Those were horrible because you're just about New
Speaker 2: York City. I did learn a lot about New York.
Speaker 2: I know all the history, which is why we why
Speaker 2: I love real estate so much, because I love those
Speaker 2: beautiful pre war the architecture, the history of New York
Speaker 2: building buildings around people who didn't want to leave their
Speaker 2: little rent stabilized apartment like on the I know buildings
Speaker 2: on the Eastie. There are books about this, which is
Speaker 2: fascinating for me. They've offered them millions of dollars, will
Speaker 2: buy you an apartment, we'll move out, and they won't go,
Speaker 2: and they have to build an entire building around a
Speaker 2: little townhouse. But some woman on the fourth floor, it's like, uh,
Speaker 2: it's just unbelievable. Yeah, that's crazy. Thank you for being on,
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: You're the best you know, or maybe if you're if
Speaker 1: you write the stakes, you're written repea