WEBVTT - Gamblin' Mommas: Episode 21 with Joe Gatto and Steve Byrne 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:08.080 If there was a problem, where to your mother? Hi everybody, 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:08.840 I'm Joe Gaddam. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.240 Hi, I'm Steve Byrne. We have a very special, special, 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.520 special special episode of two. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.279 Cool Moms Moms. Now it's sill cool mom Moms. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.600 Sorry, listen, my mom my mom's Our moms taught us 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:23.239 to be accountable. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:24.360 Okay, And here's the thing. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:30.200 We didn't have podcasts this week, so we said we're 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.279 gonna sit down and we're gonna talk a little bit, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.440 and we want to release some to the people because 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:35.440 we know everybody wants it. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.840 You know, favorite pitch, that's a favorite pitch America's. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.600 There's tens on hundreds of people listening that are like, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:43.879 we need to get up on this. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.479 We we eye contacted time to say we should be 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.680 the people of the Year, and they said, who are 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.760 you guys? So we said we better get started. We 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.800 better get started. We got work to do. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.680 But this actually got us down the rabbit hole a 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.920 little bit of saying what did our mom sees you? 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.000 My mom was huge on accountable and she was always like, 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.040 you know, you have to you know, And I was like, oh, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:04.520 by my mom to teach me a lot of stuff 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.240 and this weekend we were performing together on the road, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.520 which was so much fun. We were in I did 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.800 my first theater run and Steve was kind enough to 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.839 come with me and get that crowd all juiced up. Toledo, 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.280 Toledo we started, and then we went to Indianapolis and 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.960 then mew Copuia YEAHNOI, which was phenomenal, such great crowds 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.480 and also some fun casino nights. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.600 So we discussed this. People think, okay, you would assume 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.280 being on the road with comedians, especially one that likes 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.039 whiskey late nights, like it'd be exhausted and hang out 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.600 with me the sober one. The sober one is the 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.800 one that you're gonna getdragged through the mutt. Oh my god? 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.800 Five in the morning? Was it five in the morning? 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.920 Leave leaving a casino? Laughing my ass off? One of 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.880 the best nights I've had in a long time. Fun, unbelievable, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:52.280 so fun. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.320 We had some fun casino and a casino is my 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.680 world stage. I love being a casino with my friends 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.120 around the crap stil It's always such a. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:00.560 Good time dance floor a casino. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.240 WHOA, that's a good one. That's your toss up dance one. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:05.120 Casino is tough. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.320 That is a you know it will I will say 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.520 if the DJ is I'm gonna say one hundred percent, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.640 music's right on the dance floor. If it's a great one, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.519 I'm gonna have to probably go. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.200 I'm gonna have to go dance floor. I think, really, 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:18.480 I don't know. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:24.480 That is Yeah, well, here's why I will tell you, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.760 because the numbers of interaction could go up, like you could. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.160 You know, there's only a certain amount of people at 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.040 the crabs table you can go, and you're also working 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.360 a little bit trying to think about like we are 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.240 you doing? But on a dance floor, I'm a free bird, baby, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.800 I'm out there peacock and strutting around. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.080 But you like winning, I do. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.160 But I like making my friends win just as much. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.560 I love helping people win money like our boy Justin 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.600 this week was I was helped him a lot win 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.560 a lot more than he would have if he wasn't 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:48.160 betting correctly. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.079 So that was wedding with Justin, who is uh perpetual 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.239 has the dark cloud. It's always raining. I never win 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.600 and he won, Yeah, he won this past weekend really 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.440 and then he won it left left right, center. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.160 Yes, we left right center when we ate pignoles. What's 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:09.680 the name replace partello? I was pay Yeah, that was 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.239 that was really fun to hang out and play there. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.720 I don't know where would where? 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.560 Do you think you're freest as a bird because you're 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.399 a social butterfly to well, I'll also put in there 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.280 a large dinner table with friends, like a dinner dinner. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.160 I think that's that's the polite like nice yeah for you. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.440 I I think you're in your element at a craps table. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:33.200 Yeah it is. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.840 It's so fun even when things aren't going so well, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:36.480 it's still fun. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:37.240 Yeah that's true. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.000 Yeah, that's true. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:39.280 I don't I always say I don't mind losing as 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:40.960 long as I having a good time doing it. And 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.960 it's the worst when you're not having fun doing it, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.720 and then I just stop, Like that's what will make 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.880 me stop gambling. I'm like, uh, this isn't even fun losing, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.480 Like if I'm losing, and I was like okay, because 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:49.920 I always go with what I could lose and do 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.000 it responsibly. But I'm like, if I'm not even have 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.000 fun and I still have money in my pocket, that 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.240 I'd like just forget it, Like I've done that a bunch, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.960 but I love I love just the This weekend was 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.400 very different though we it was like the wild West. Well, 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.200 at one point my cousin Mike Williams, who's a very 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.640 strong gentleman, had Steve on his shoulders like. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.000 A totem pole at the crash. I've never seen this 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:12.600 in my life. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.720 Has to get them backlog right, Okay, backstory, So, so 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.200 Justin was on a heater. He was on a heater, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.800 but I think the key was is that he and 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.720 I would have to make eye contact. You're on opposite 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.920 under the table, opposite into the table, so every time 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.480 there's only so many times you could look at each 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.800 other make a silly face or like you know, stuff 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.320 like that. So I was getting more and more inventive 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.320 with what I could do during an eye contact. So again, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.600 your your cousin Mike, who's very fit. Yeah, I said, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.960 do you think you could put me on his shoulders 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.520 lift you up? He's like, oh yeah, He's like okay, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.039 when he gets the dice, he always looks down and 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.479 then he looks up to see what I'm gonna do. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.720 So when he looks up, I'm going to like corral 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.560 you like I'm on a horse, syat and then you 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.720 go up. He goes okay, and so Justin has the dice, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.080 he mutters to you. He looks up at me, and 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.960 as I do that, I donkey kicked Mike, and all 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.799 of a sudden, I go up. But then I'm going forward. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.800 He almost lost it and there was a stutter step, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.120 and then I went back up and I was. I 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.760 was because Mike is six two, Yeah, I was. I 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.880 was definitely like five feet up in the air, just 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.599 like staring, totally committed, staring at Justin and Justin seeing him. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:20.200 Not break at all. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.120 Right, he didn't break, and he still rolled after he 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:23.640 rolled them, after he rolled. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:24.720 Them, when he was what he was losing. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.240 He would try to keep eye contact with you, and 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.320 I couldn't believe how good you were doing. I even 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.400 so much, was like amazed because I would watch it unfold. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.160 Justin wouldn't look at you, but I would watch you 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.080 take your shirt off. You had your shirt off at 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.800 one point, you had you had you had it around 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.560 you like an ascot, like a proper gentleman. You grabbed 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.800 your drink at your pinky out and he looked up 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.360 at you and you were a bare chest in European, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:46.640 I guess some sort. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.120 And when he rolled, I completely shoved my stomach out 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.640 so far. I was spraying myself like a shamoo show. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.640 I was deep throat and chips. I was. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.880 You took a bottle of water and just shot it 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.719 all over your face and just looked at it. Looked 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.920 at him like like you know a romance novel when 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.040 the guy's under the waterfall and just does the hairwimb 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:08.719 It's so funn Yeah. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.279 I couldn't believe that didn't throw us out. I thought 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:10.839 for sure. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.080 I absolutely thought I was. I was like, they're gonna 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.800 kick me out. And we were getting so delirious. Towards 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.160 the end, I was crying, laughing at the things I 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.920 was thinking of doing, you know, being behind Mike on 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.000 that one. Yeah, and then Justin was hid from one 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.039 and just had your eyes at the top. I just 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.440 had my eyes like this. And then Justin he was 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.200 talking to you, and I was like, oh my, now's 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.880 my chance. And I ran all the way behind everybody, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.240 and he looked up at and he and then I 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.160 was below his feet, at his feet, and I was 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.240 looking up at him, laid under his leg and he 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.160 looked down at me, and he took the dice and 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.080 still looked at me as he rolled the dice, got 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:48.960 he got. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.720 A heart sex. It was a phenomenal Oh great time, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.760 you have great time. It was just I love I 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.240 love that. I love the energy of that. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.280 But you start, you you create that. Like you start, 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.000 you give license to be like, let's just have fun. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.080 And then we're having fun. The crew at the table 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:08.160 is having fun, and then all those games happen because 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.280 you are the gatekeeper and you're like, oh, let's just 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:12.800 let's kind of go off here a bit. I mean 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.920 you're dancing around the guy moving all the all the 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.240 all the chips through the casino. It was beeping, and 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.920 it was just standing there having a conversations. I mean 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.760 that was that was crazy. You were dumping on him 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:24.360 and the. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.520 Stanch I wrote a stanchion at one point. It was 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:27.200 it was a good time. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.400 I will say though, on the dance floor now, if 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:30.720 we're gonna go the other way, I love a good 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.240 dance floor because the dance floor is always you never 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.760 know who're gonna bump into. The possibilities are endless, Like it's 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.480 always fun. You turn around you're gonna see these guys 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.200 in the wine shirts, right, You're gonna see the wallflower 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:41.440 that all of a sudden knows how to dance. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.120 You're gonna see the person who really knows how to dance. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.080 You have a robot off and they're doing splits, but 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.120 you don't know what's gonna happen. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.480 I love that, And if the music is right, I 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:49.640 think that's a huge key. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:50.880 The music's gotta be right. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.960 You do like a dance floor, but you don't dance. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.160 I don't dance, no, but you curate. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.520 I love a sing along. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.560 I love a single night. Yeah, yeah, I love a 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.400 good sing along. But if there's like, uh, you know, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.240 if I'm basically a little tipsy and there's a song 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.520 I love, I'll go out and sing it. But I 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.400 don't like dance. Like you can dance even though you're 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.680 goofing off, like you could still dance, you could. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.840 Be well, I convince people that Jiggy is a good dancer, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:20.920 is a great dancer. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.800 Jiggy was showing us some moves backstage. I was like, oh, 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.840 he can really dance like he's actually obviously he's a 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:27.560 great athlete. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.960 But well, that's that's that's what we haven't common. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.440 we both have athletic bodies. I've shaved like a bowling 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.720 pin and he shaved like. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.560 But there's also the you know, the fact that there 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.040 is ladies on the dance for too, which which makes 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:43.360 it well. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.440 I love the I love the opportunity to make romance 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:46.960 between the shy fellows. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.120 I like to break the ice. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.160 I like to dance. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.640 I am man, I'm I'm I am a wingman. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.839 You'll get the game stop crew that is a little 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.200 nervous to talk to the girls. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.600 Also just want to have a good time with some 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.439 guys that working gamesop. You know what I mean. It's 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.280 it's it's I think I think it's important. My my 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:04.960 mother at. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.000 My sister's wedding didn't tell anybody and went to the 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.000 band and sang Chenda Luna, which she didn't know the 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.840 words too, which is one of my favorite things ever. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.240 So my my, my sister's on the dance floor and everybody, 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.040 you know, is dancing and and this. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.559 Song goes Gendolona Man's you know, and it's a. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.960 Bunch of just Italian works one together. So my all 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.600 of a sudden, it's a big wedding. My sister's had 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.320 this big wedding, and we're all hanging out and dancing, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:28.319 laughing on the dance floor. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.520 I spent a whole night on dance floor and all of. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.720 A sudden, you hear gend alone a man and and 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.400 I'm like, oh, that's we didn't hear that sing yet. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.240 That's a beautiful voice. And we look and it's my 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.679 mother and she doesn't know the words, and she's just going. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.400 Tenda menda, madaginza g gets in the sonna mada what 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.800 just what figure whipping her dress round the place went 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.199 nuts of My Mom's like, I don't got the gold hey, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:52.240 and she's just doing. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:52.520 The whole thing. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.599 And I was like, oh, you're kidding me, mom, And 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.839 then she came over. I was like, Mom, that's not 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.200 the words, Like, I don't know what the fucking words. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:00.920 Just trussed the whole wedding. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.120 It was so crazy how old she got up there. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.960 I mean, that was what my sister's married twenty years, right, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.800 so I'm twenty Yeah, I'm like twenties, late twenties. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.600 And that was the first time you saw your mom 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:11.400 thing like that. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.640 Yeah, she went crazy like that at a wedding like that. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.920 My mom was always a party animal, always a good 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.440 time and whatever. But to just do that, I was like, wow, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:19.880 she was like just so cold in the moment. It's 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.600 so happy, I think, And it was just really funny 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.120 to see her sneak and just do it, you know 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.320 what I mean, which is really cool. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.319 The only time I saw my mom like come out 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.880 of her shell like a party or whatever. My brother, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.760 I've never seen my mom have a drink in my life. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.160 I've never seen her drink anything. My father, on the 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.840 other hand, but my mom. My brother had just come 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:45.200 back from Iraq. This is maybe two thousand and five 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.760 or two thousand and six, so up in or he's 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.719 about to go on a second deployment. I forget which 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.800 one it was, but but we we were I think 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.439 we did a show. We did a show for them. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.959 We did a show before they were taking off, That's 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.880 what it was. So I got like Robert Kelly and 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.360 Jay Okerson and Short Small and we go do a 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.800 show for my brother's company. My father bought them all 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.520 a steak and lobster dinner and then my father put 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.760 together a comedy show and he said, can you help 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.559 me do this, I said, of course. So we go 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.800 up there and that night my mom did a beer 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.040 bong what. So they held the funnel up and there's 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.640 My brother's got pictures of it. But she like chugged 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.000 a beer and I was like, oh my god, Mom, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.200 what the hell? And you know, here I am seeing 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.040 this four foot eleven Korean woman amazing, just like take 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.800 it down. And I was like it was It was 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.719 like one of those moments where you're like, oh, my 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.560 mom was kind of cool. Yeah, you know. I was like, oh, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:38.880 that's pretty cool. Yeah that is cool. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.520 Yeah, yeah, my mom. Seeing your moms do first things, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.040 it's crazy. My mom was always against sushi and I'm like, Mom, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.920 I really think you like it. He's like, no, I 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.240 can't do. I said, Mom, come on, and I took 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.000 her for sushi and I was like, all right here, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.080 I'll get you. I'll get you a crab roll. I said, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.720 you know, I'll give you a California role it said's 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:53.960 good crabs, let's take whatever. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:54.760 She ate it. She loved it. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:55.520 This is so good. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.079 I was like, of course you do. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.120 Everybody loves you know. I said, you want to try 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.280 some of the some of the real stuff. He's like, Okay, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.600 what's this one? And it was Alm, what is this one? 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.480 It's like it's tunent cucumber. She's like okay. She goes, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.679 took two bites and she goes, get me out of here, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.840 Get me out of this. Really, I was so proud 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.199 of her those she tried to at that time. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.720 She was like a sixty four year old Italian Staten 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.679 Island woman who was like in her box, you know, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.199 set in her ways, who had nothing, but Palmadora was 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:25.920 also a whole life, you know what I mean. I 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.240 was so proud of her that she tried it, and 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.760 but then whenever we ordered sushi, she'd maybe get her Yeah, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:31.400 it's really funny. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.120 I took my folks to Vegas when I was doing 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.120 you know, Vegas for the first time. He was doing 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.400 Beatrice Madhouse and my mom, I don't think she had 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.319 ever been to Vegas, never gambled into life. Because our family, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.280 our Korean side of her family, my mom's side is 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.480 steeped in royalty. And what happened is your mom my 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:58.280 mom's side has a great great grandfather who was part 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.199 of this royal family. What ended up happening was I 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:05.240 think it was my great grandfather, and he was a 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.560 notorious gambler and gambled away the family fortune. So there's 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.319 a statue of him in Korea. It's Sol Saul. It's 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.240 a very rare name, the Soul bloodline. And so you 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.480 kind of like this outcast. And so my mom was 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.000 always adamantly against like gambling, but the rest of the 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.959 family hitting, you know. So we're in Vegas and she sees, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:33.240 you know, the gimmicky huge slot machine. I'm like, Mom, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.280 you got to you gotta do something in Vegas. The 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.200 whole time, like getting her to play black She's like, oh, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.199 I'm not going to gamble, do this for me. Just 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.680 do that. Okay, do that. She goes, okay, well, how 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.280 much is it. It's a dollar, let me put it in. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.679 So I put the dollar in. She goes and pulls 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.559 the thing down. I have to help her. She's so kind. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.160 She pulls the thing down, hits the jackpot. No, yeah, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:53.839 she won like five hundred dollars. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:54.600 Amazing. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.880 And so the rest of the weekend, every time we 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:03.240 passed it, she's like, see she's jumping up on the roads. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.720 Oh my god, it yeah, man, Yes, it was hilarious. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:07.840 She got a little taste of the fever. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:08.559 That's crazy. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:09.079 My mom was. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.600 My mom was a massive It was a massive gambler. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.960 She gambled away everything. Oh really, oh my god, everything 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.160 was crazy. When she talked to you when she died, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.320 she owed the casinos one hundred thousand dollars in markers. Yeah, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:22.240 it's crazy. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.200 Yeah. So that's where your fever for the casinos comes 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.160 into play. Because you said your father took you guys 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:28.560 to Vaga. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.760 My father was a gambler as well. My father was 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.160 a gambler, and my mother was a gambler. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.960 But my mom was, like, well, the thing when my 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.600 mom was my mom came into money when my father 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:37.960 died because my father passed away. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.840 He was the vice president of insurance company. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.120 Wow, and I'm ninety seven percent sure he just called 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.680 in every favor and got all sorts of policies added. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.480 And when he died, he left millions to my mom. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:46.880 Wow. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.200 So she came into money like whoa nowhere. And she 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:50.960 loved to gamble. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.240 Yeah, and she loved the way she got treated in 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.840 Atlantic City. You get treated like a queen down and 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.480 she knew all these people, you know, so she would 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.400 go down there. Everybody would know her because she was 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.200 a firecracker. You know, she's not easy to ignore, right, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.120 So she would come in. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.080 The room and like get the dinners and all this stuff. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:06.840 She would love bringing people down with her, and you know, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.480 her friends and us, the kids, you know, because we 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:09.880 were all of. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:16.120 Gambling age, and she would just like love to play 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.640 draw the dollar poker machines, the machines. You didn't like playing. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.760 Cards, right, She hated that other people could affect your money, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.360 Like she would say that all talk about like blackjack 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.000 or whatnot, right, So she would just sit there and 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.800 play draw poker all the time. And I've never seen 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.320 somebody so lucky those machines. Wow, she used to be 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.400 so lucky at them. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.240 Somebody so lucky in the casino like you, yeah, call things. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:41.200 I've never the horn high, unbelievable. We're playing craps again. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.040 Most of us I now have a familiarity in terms 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.240 of what is required of you to bet, to be 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.560 at the table. But then in the middle all the 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.080 side bets, all the carnival stuff, yeah, all the middle yeah, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.960 all those what do you calling parlor bets or the. 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.920 Ones in the middle of carnival bets, like call them carnival. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.520 Okay, carnival one off bets. Yeah, so we're playing. We 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.520 have a hot hand. I'm rolling dice. You say, everybody 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.240 take take a five dollars chip. Give it to the staff. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.800 We all take a five give them around the dolls 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:10.720 because they're out here working. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.720 They're working. And then he says, everybody take another five 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.400 dollar chip. Put on a horn, high horn. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:17.920 Two ones. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.040 We need two ones. That's it, right. I have no 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.160 idea what I'm doing. I just put the chip in, 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.560 I take the dice. What the hell's horn? I roll it, boom, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:30.840