1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Let's go. The fifteen minute morning show podcast is here. 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: It's now, it's yes, okay. So we've got Scotty b 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: here today, we've got Gandhi and it smells like sewage 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: where she's sitting. It's making me insane. And there's You're 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: Too Late, and there's Scary and Froggy's up there in 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: Jacksonville High Frog special guest Uncle Johnny, there's Garrett, Here's Danielle, 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: here's Straight and Nate. Can we make this with the 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: Uncle Johnny edition? Remember we did ask Uncle Johnny anything? Okay? 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: So during one of the breaks, Uncle Johnny was telling 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: me something interesting. He technically worked for the Mob. Is 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: that not correct? Yes? Or your dad right? Right? My 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: my dad was. That was before I came to New York, 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: when I worked stone Wall all just trying to see 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: the Mob used to own a lot of the gay 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: bars here in New York, right, Yes, That's how they 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: kept them open because they ran the city. Mob didn't exist. 17 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: Well back then, it was a eco to be gay. 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: I was when I was working at the stone Wall 19 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: At all the clubs back then, you had to knock 20 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: on the door and say is there a secret? Knock 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: and you just knock and say who you were, what 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: you wanted, and now this and that. Did you have 23 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: to admit your raid? The joints did come in, or 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: if we were standing on a corner through you and 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: I were on a corner talking, and when they could 26 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: come and arrest us and put us in jail overnight, 27 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: because you know, no congregating of homosexuals, no homosexuals congregate. 28 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: And you go to a bar and you have to 29 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: sit and walk straight and look straight ahead. You could 30 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: not look at talk daddy. But everybody. Let's say you 31 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: and I were on a street corner and I'm not gay, 32 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: but you are, would I go into jail with you? 33 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: They'd probably bring you in aside you only that's what 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: it takes two tango exactly. Johnny also tells the christ One. 35 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: There's a great story Johnny has about Fire Island, which 36 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: is all the weekends, men especially men and some women 37 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: in the city would act straight, and then all weekends 38 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: they would take the train out to Fire Island and 39 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: they could live these great gay lives, right, but they 40 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: would raid those clubs sometimes too. And so that's why 41 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: lesbians were invited to dance with the gay men because 42 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: the guys have dance together. We would have to have 43 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: uh with one man would have to be one woman 44 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: with every two men dancing, you'd be illegal. Oh wow, 45 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: you have to pay the women to be there. Uh no, 46 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: they were out there. They were the lesbians. But but 47 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: there was just a few of them at the time. 48 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's stand on the The owner 49 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: of the club would say. Jimmy Murray would stand on 50 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: a milk cotton with a flashlight and go, I need 51 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: a girl over here. We need a girl. So can 52 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: you imagine dancing on the dance floor, and then Jimmy 53 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: Murray's on the milk carton saying, dog too, man, we 54 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: need we need a lesbian man to be a fly 55 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: on the wall there. I would There was no DJs 56 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 1: back then. There was. There was a joke box. You go, 57 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: we didn't you play the things on the juke box 58 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: and that's why you danced and everything? What was the 59 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: most popular song? Oh? Oh god, I can't remember back that. 60 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: I can't remember. I go, I walk out of here. 61 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: I can't remember what I'm doing here. But there's if 62 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: they were mentioned to me, I could probably remember them. 63 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: But Johnny when the police came up, came up to you. 64 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: Would you say, like, I'm sure, Like, did you pretend 65 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 1: that you were straight? Or did they didn't know you're gay? 66 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: You're coming with me, You're going well. And they called 67 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: it the Pattiwagon. It was a massive truck and they 68 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: drag queens in there. There's gay guys and gay and 69 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: they would all be at how many nights a week 70 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: where you raided and taking a jail? Oh, I've been 71 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: debby jail in Manhattan because I worked in different often 72 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: did it happen, Johnny? Oh, once two or three times 73 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: a week? So they got so you made friends in 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: the bad of these patty wagons and in jails. Yeah, 75 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: and they pick up costume and they put me in 76 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: a jail cell in the middle of the room. But 77 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: how would you get out of the jail like that 78 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: someone of the post mail? No, you go, you go 79 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: to court the next morning and then they dismiss you. 80 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: How much was the fine? There was no fine, there 81 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: was you you were just you're arrested. It was it 82 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: was everything. It was It was illegal, you know what 83 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: I mean? It was it was it was harassment. Where 84 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: we were Now we've come so far and I'm so 85 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,799 Speaker 1: proud of where we are now, that we're all equal. 86 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: Everybody's equal to could be who they are, you know, 87 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: and and that's well we're still working on that. You 88 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: can know. You see gay people on television now, there's 89 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: more gay people on television apparently every Yeah, there's so 90 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,799 Speaker 1: many of them. Know, even on the game shows and everything, 91 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: they have gay couples that this is my husband and 92 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: this is my wife's true and and it's and people 93 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: would just and you know, that's it. When I first 94 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: met him, the heat and him and Alex and I 95 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: met him, the nobody said he was here. He met 96 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: us and he said, I'd better come out, Will you 97 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: drag me out? But also there there's a reason why 98 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: we should thank the pioneers like Uncle Johnny and his 99 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: friends who have been around for a three tree Tree 100 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: Tree worked at he said, he worked at stone Wall. 101 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: We don't know, but all all I know is you 102 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: guys paved the way for the lives we're living now. 103 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: And I think that that should be recognized. Dead we 104 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: fought Father meant that because we wanted our rights. We 105 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: were it was not being treated right. But there are 106 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: to be fair. There are still members of our society. 107 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: There are still not treated correctly. And yes, with compassion 108 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: and with equality was this time and and we were 109 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,559 Speaker 1: all equal. We should all love one another, everybody, every color, 110 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: every race, every every person, every you know, Janet, it's 111 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: we're here where this is what it's all about. I 112 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: will tell you something. Johnny Gandhi brings up an interesting point, 113 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: and it's it's very relatable to us as gay men 114 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: of being the different one in the room. I mean, 115 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: you are you have talked about this before. You know, 116 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: we don't under a lot of people don't understand what 117 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: it's like being the different one in the room. They 118 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: just they just assume o't es or whatever. And you know, right, 119 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: you don't. I think a lot of people don't understand 120 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: what it actually means to be the different one in 121 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: the room unless you are the different one in the room, 122 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: which means a whole lot to a whole bunch of people. 123 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: But you know, a lot of people will say things 124 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: like I don't see color, and I totally see where 125 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: they're coming from on that. But when you say you 126 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: don't see color, you're missing my culture. You're not understanding that. 127 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: Maybe I go home to a family that speaks a 128 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,239 Speaker 1: different language, and I have different food and it smells different. 129 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: We celebrate different holidays and everything is different. It's okay 130 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: to see my color, and I want you to see 131 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: my color. I just want you to also understand that 132 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: things are different from this perspective than from a lot 133 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: of other perspectives. And I know that Diamond feels the 134 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: same way about things like that. And look, Johnny, is 135 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: I see the gay color? Because he put Oh boy, 136 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: is this is this your final moment? He maybe laugh? 137 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: Oh no, what if you're about to die right now? No, 138 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: I'm I think I'm fine. Okay, okay, okay, just check. 139 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: Have you ever beaten anybody up for money? Yes? I have, 140 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: But but you have a different You had a different 141 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: name when I was When I was younger, much younger, 142 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that that's the early fifties. Would I 143 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: would say that, uh, you know, gay people have beat 144 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: them up? And I would uh at my name back then, 145 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: nice to Whale Leather and was Ace Marino. Ace Marino 146 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: was his name. He was a street thug, and that 147 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: was the street. I would rob him. Before you actually 148 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: beat people up and stole our money, I would rob 149 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: houses and uh, and and would get people and would 150 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: beat up gay people on the streets. You'll beat up yes, 151 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: because no he didn't. No, no, no, Ace Marino. Did 152 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: you're a gang banger? You are a gay banger? Yeah. 153 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: But then then then I realized I had a girlfriend 154 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: and I and I took one of my father's guns 155 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: once because she was cheating on me, and I went 156 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,679 Speaker 1: and kicked the guy out of our house. And uh, 157 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: that's when they was that Dale. I know this was 158 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: Dolly another another girl we actually met. One of his 159 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: girlfriends came up for the we're still friends. Well, I've 160 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: said for almost seventy seventy sixty seventy years now, you 161 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: didn't try to shoot her boyfriend? You know? It was 162 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: my other girlfriend, Dolly. I had a girlfriend named Dolly 163 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: that back then. But they're the ones who told me. 164 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: They said, uh, you're not you're not You're you're gay. 165 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: You know how did they know you were gay? Because 166 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: when I went down here, I didn't find anything. Untile. 167 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: Johnny is the gift that keeps on giving here. I mean, 168 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: I've known you all these years. It's like there's another 169 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: story that you teach me something. It's like you know, 170 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: it's like you're the Yoda of the morning, so you're 171 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: like get wisdom. How much money did you get paid 172 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: for beating somebody up back then? Oh? I don't know. 173 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: We would shake them down shape take whatever they had. 174 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: Did you take the jewelry too or just money? I 175 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: was I was not nice, you know. And then then 176 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: my that that's what they told my father that they 177 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: put me. He's gonna he's gonna go to jail or 178 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: we gotta uh, we're gonna have to put him in. 179 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: And so I went in the amy and then he 180 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: went from being Ace Marino to my mother an because 181 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: I cooked for for the big deuce at the uh 182 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: at for this is a joke. D I X. By 183 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: the way, d I X, were you out when you 184 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: were in the army, did you know well did you 185 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: know that you were gay? Well? I found out you 186 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: found out how because I started. But there was a 187 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: couple of guys that we ended up Were you blowing 188 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: guys at Fort Dicks? Just wanted to joke, beautiful thing 189 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: is you don't know if it's the same time or not. 190 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: And then did you become nice then? Because you said 191 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: you back then? But then I turned really nice, and 192 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: I started realizing that do you think because I was 193 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: you back then it was to be gay, you know? 194 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 1: But I told my father I was. I didn't want 195 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: to tell my father I was gay when I first 196 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: came out, you know, when I was eighteen. And I 197 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: looked at him, and I I know I wasn't eighteen. 198 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: I was sixteen, seventeen. And I looked at I said, Dad, 199 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: I think I'm bisexual because this is in the fifties, 200 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: and I didn't want to say gay or anything like that. 201 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,239 Speaker 1: But he looked at me and he went he looked away, 202 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: it looked back and when that's our right kid, I 203 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: know a doctor. We could fix it. I said, no, 204 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: I don't think so, dad, And that's when I moved 205 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: to New York, that was and told him the name 206 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: of the first street you lived in, nine Gay Street, 207 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: Gay Street Street with Charity the Drag, Waverley and Gay, 208 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: the Wizards of Waverley Place. You lived right over there, Yeah, 209 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: Waverley and Gay right on the corners. Yes. Now, did 210 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: you purposely moved there because you're like, this is the 211 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: street for me? Or you have? I got there, but 212 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: I but I said, this is a good street for me, 213 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: and I moved into with my friend Allie, who was 214 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: Charity the drag queen. Wow and uh yes, and that's 215 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: what that's how I did it. That's what I was. 216 00:11:54,400 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: It was nineteen sixty, Yeah, that's that was nineteen sixty one, sixty. 217 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: You moved to New York ride around a little before 218 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: I was born, And when did you live in for 219 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: Lauderdale at nineteen. I moved on there in nineteen seventy. 220 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: I at seventy three opened I did the bar at 221 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: the Mowain Beach Hotel called Johnny Post uh Blood, the 222 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 1: bar at the Pool Poo Bar, and then I went 223 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: from there. I went and did another bar and men 224 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: and Fort Lauda Dale, and then I went to Key 225 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: West and opened a Pigeonhouse patio and that was there 226 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: for nineteen eighty ninety three. Then I moved back to 227 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: Manhattan and opened up the Waverley Waverley and then opened 228 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: my own club because they paid me to do that. 229 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: Then opened my own club called Oh Johnny's on fourteen Street. 230 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: Whoa damn Johnny was the I had all the all 231 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: the Broadway stars coming in and and coming in and 232 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: doing that. Everybody came in there and uh, Eliza MELI 233 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: did cocaine off the bar. That was that was what 234 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: I was working as a doorman when that when I 235 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: was Judy Gowan's Uh, I was her what do you 236 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: call it? Bounder bodyguard? No, I'd pick her up and 237 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: and no I picked up no sue. No I was. 238 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: I would pick her up and bring it to gay 239 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: bars and make sure she got I was the rest 240 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, And uh, I did Judy for you? 241 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: Did Judy? I know? I brought her around to all 242 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: the gay bars we used to go to. And she 243 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: was living on the Upper west Side then with her 244 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: daughter Eliza, And then I worked also as a bouncer 245 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: at the uh what do you called? It goes on 246 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: and on and on by the way, But Judy Garland 247 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: was no place like home. Richard Burton Symbol Richard Burton's 248 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: wife Sybil, that I guess before Elizabeth and he was okay, 249 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: lot of people don't know. And it was it was 250 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: a club on the Upper east Side called Symbol, No, 251 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: not Symbol was I forget the man? All right, Well, 252 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: hold on, Johnny, you got to understand something. Most people 253 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: in this room don't know who you're talking about. Because 254 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: so anyways, I was the bouncer there and that's when 255 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: the lize when Aliza Renelli and Patty Duke was sitting 256 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: at the bar doing coke, okay, and they and they 257 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: told me to come over. They said, the kid, this 258 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: is when the big coke was back then. And this 259 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: is when they said, you can't have somebody sitting at 260 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: the bar doing coke. Got you got to tell their 261 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: do I said, dude, who that is? They says, I 262 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: don't care what it is. If they can't do it 263 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: over here, you gotta ask them to leave. So I 264 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: had to ask her them to leave, and then she 265 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: had to go home and I had to go pick 266 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: up her mother at the house. Please Uncle Johnny, Oh 267 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: my gosh, man, we have boring lives. Guy. Uncle Johnny 268 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: was driving his car, I think somewhere around here, and 269 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: there was a woman on the side of the road 270 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: hitch hockey. It was Barbara strike Rising. I picked her up. Yeah, 271 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: I brought it to a Revere beach where she was playing. 272 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: And I went to the movies with the Lizard Taylor 273 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: and she I had try to ring on. She said, 274 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: he try this. This guy's like forest go. I was 275 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: thinking that would say Hollywood Forest that was. Yeah, the 276 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: stories go on and on and on, but unfortunately we're 277 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: at a time. Uncle Johnny, thanks for not keeling over 278 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: in the middle of my podcast. John We gotta get 279 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,479 Speaker 1: out of here. Have a beautiful day.