Speaker 1: There was a problem.
Speaker 2: We're taking my hey, righting back to listen to two
Speaker 2: cool moms. I am Joe Ghatto.
Speaker 3: I'm Steve burn I know how to sit in a chair.
Speaker 3: Joe literally almost didn't make it.
Speaker 2: I've seen you stand and you'd fall down. That is true.
Speaker 3: After you had a couple of years you you do
Speaker 3: it on purpose, whereas I do it like literally accidentally.
Speaker 2: Good to see you, buddy, to see you, buddy. I'm happy, happy, uh,
Speaker 2: happy fiftieth happy, sorry, happy fiftieth? Is this it?
Speaker 1: Oh, here's your gift for our fiftieth episode. Shut up,
Speaker 1: I got you a little something.
Speaker 3: I didn't even Are you fucking with me? No?
Speaker 4: Not.
Speaker 1: It's our fiftieth episode, and I got you a gift
Speaker 1: because that's the kind of person I am.
Speaker 3: So this is I didn't know. I didn't know we were
Speaker 3: doing this.
Speaker 1: I know because I didn't tell you. You don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to things it should be.
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it hard to open? It's okay, you
Speaker 2: got it. No, you're you're doing great. Wait?
Speaker 1: Fuck, so this is this is our fiftieth It's like
Speaker 1: trying to take a bra off when you were younger.
Speaker 2: Do you have the first braw you took off. Okay,
Speaker 2: here you go. The first bra took off. I take mine.
Speaker 2: I threw off for a long day work. Well my grandma. Okay,
Speaker 2: oh hey, you talk about your office a lot.
Speaker 5: There we go, and I figured I figured we would
Speaker 5: get I think it's I think it's great.
Speaker 2: I think you just do this. There this whole thing
Speaker 2: comes out. So there you go fiftieth. This is cool.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So this is this is a picture, a photo of
Speaker 1: you and I. But this is printed on glass. Oh shit, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's from this box from a company called Fracture,
Speaker 1: which I had found and I liked. And we always
Speaker 1: talk about your office. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: have a picture of me up at your home.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have anything in my house. No I have
Speaker 3: I have stuff you guys when we first hung out
Speaker 3: bud Light Lounge, Yep, you guys sent me an Oasis
Speaker 3: album that says thanks for the laughs, love the Tenderline.
Speaker 2: There you have that up.
Speaker 3: There's there's one or two pictures up that I just yeah,
Speaker 3: but this is awesome, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: So this is that's the photo of you and I.
Speaker 3: It's that guy the photographer, by the way, does amazing
Speaker 3: work best and he did a shoot for you.
Speaker 1: Yes, Jonathan Thorpe, this is great. Yeah, he's a fantastic
Speaker 1: So that's this great. That's such a relationship.
Speaker 3: This pretty much says it all. This is the face
Speaker 3: you make when you edit the episode. You go Steve, Steve,
Speaker 3: and it's like, Joe, it's all right, I make the funnies.
Speaker 2: I put that down there. You go, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: There you go, Bud fifty look at us, So I'll
Speaker 1: give me that. Put that in the boxes. That's what
Speaker 1: used to hang it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. You got a buddy. So fifty we made
Speaker 2: it to fifty episodes. We made it to fifty. Some highlights.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 5: Coming up with the word bazonkers bazoncres definitely one of
Speaker 5: it all started with Yan par Yang farmer, which is
Speaker 5: what it was almost.
Speaker 3: I still think that's that's crazy.
Speaker 2: That was almost what we called it.
Speaker 3: Great title, and I think even after fifty episodes, I
Speaker 3: still wouldn't know how to spell parmesan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's tough. I've learned how to pronounce hen.
Speaker 3: I say pene, Penny penn Pene, it's Penne, Yeah saying
Speaker 3: it's Penee, it's penn a.
Speaker 2: You were saying Penne, you're seeing.
Speaker 1: Pa and still can't get it right. You know the
Speaker 1: dessert panakata that's a little like it's lemon. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: a little little cake thing. It's like a little like
Speaker 1: custardy thing.
Speaker 2: Of course, p A and analogies go to dessert. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's ass, that's Penna. Penne is p e n n A. Look.
Speaker 3: I love doing the show, but I think my favorite,
Speaker 3: probably my favorite memories the last fifty episodes have been
Speaker 3: because we've gone on the road together and just the
Speaker 3: meals are my favorite part for sure, just sitting around
Speaker 3: hanging out bs sing, but just seeing how you order,
Speaker 3: Like I've never seen anybody order appetizers at breakfast. That
Speaker 3: one I forget, like Swedish place in what was it,
Speaker 3: like Wisconsin or something, the Dutch foot what was it?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was some we were just wood window.
Speaker 3: You go that looks great. We're like okay, yeah, and
Speaker 3: then my fatty sense was thing like I did it
Speaker 3: ever and then you got that oh my god. It
Speaker 3: was just it was one of the best meals I've
Speaker 3: ever had, and it was one of the best breakfasts
Speaker 3: I've ever had. And that's happened quite a few times
Speaker 3: with you. Yeah, and I consider myself a.
Speaker 2: Food you know.
Speaker 3: Look, I eat like an eighth grade, but I'd like
Speaker 3: to eat good food.
Speaker 1: It is one of the one of the best meals
Speaker 1: I've had. You do did you skip bread? You don't
Speaker 1: eat breakfast? So it's almost lunchtime, you're getting you' getting hungry?
Speaker 2: Now? Yeah.
Speaker 3: I stopped in it as a bagel and it was
Speaker 3: one of those where you opened the door, You're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll see you later.
Speaker 2: It's just the line was just rat all right, God,
Speaker 2: we'll get one soon. But that means we've spent about
Speaker 2: fifty hours talking to each other.
Speaker 1: Yes, that doesn't even include the road life, or include
Speaker 1: all the time we spent together on the phone, calls
Speaker 1: or any of that.
Speaker 2: So fifty hours over about a year.
Speaker 1: Right, what did we launch this? I think it was
Speaker 1: about a year ago, right, it's almost it's gotta be yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: But you consider the fact that we did test we
Speaker 3: literally though we did six episodes before, yes, we never
Speaker 3: released them, and we did it over zoom and then
Speaker 3: we went to your old apartment downtown. We recorded a
Speaker 3: bunch there, and that's when I think there's probably eight
Speaker 3: episodes that are just out there.
Speaker 2: I want want to drive zoom ones. I forgot how
Speaker 2: this is well.
Speaker 3: We did the very first one. Do you remember the
Speaker 3: very first one you did? You call me immediately afterwards
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, I felt like I was being interviewed,
Speaker 3: like you just had all these questions for me, and
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was just trying to do my homework.
Speaker 3: We're like, yeah, let's not do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's have a conversation. But that's what you
Speaker 2: have to do.
Speaker 3: You have to find the voice. And then I think
Speaker 3: it was you that came up with uh the minute
Speaker 3: you said two cool moms. I remember it was one
Speaker 3: of those things like on the on the show, I
Speaker 3: just couldn't stop laughing, for sure, and I was like
Speaker 3: that this is gonna be great. But it was also, Uh,
Speaker 3: it's one of those things where when I'm on the
Speaker 3: road or you're doing radio or whatever and they're like,
Speaker 3: what are you up to now, Michael? I do a
Speaker 3: podcast with Joe Gatto from Jokers, and like, what's it
Speaker 3: called them like two cool moms. Everybody always laughs two
Speaker 3: cool Moms with Joe and Steve.
Speaker 2: It's such a great, good title.
Speaker 1: So if there's fifty two weeks in a year, I
Speaker 1: mean we have to be there, are right? It's not if,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there is.
Speaker 2: You're right. I just checked the back. It all worked out.
Speaker 1: So that means we have to be coming up on
Speaker 1: our year anniversary. Yeah, one year of doing this. Why
Speaker 1: are we still doing it?
Speaker 2: So I have two weeks to get you something. Two
Speaker 2: weeks and anniversiversary? Is it paper? Paper? Is our first year?
Speaker 2: It will? What is glass photographs? Could you look to
Speaker 2: see when.
Speaker 1: We posted the first episode of it? I wonder on
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel if you're not subscribed at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you, guys. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't know either. There's so much more we could
Speaker 1: do about it, so much.
Speaker 2: We've we just give of it getting served.
Speaker 1: My sister Gina, she she was like, hey, I started
Speaker 1: she started working out, you know, and she was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I listen on the treadmill every morning, and I'm like oh,
Speaker 1: I was like oh, She's like yeah, I just start
Speaker 1: listening to you.
Speaker 2: And she's like Steve's really funny. I'm like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: and she's like, yeah, no, I didn't.
Speaker 1: You know I've hung out with him, you know, Gina,
Speaker 1: she's from now and of course she's like you know,
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, I hung out with them something like oh.
Speaker 1: She's like it's so nice, you know, to hear you
Speaker 1: every morning. I'm like, you could call me you are
Speaker 1: my sister, like yeah, but she she gets in to it.
Speaker 1: So people, I think have found it and just now
Speaker 1: are ripping through the episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My father listens on his bike. High Dad, he does,
Speaker 3: I'll be riding on your bicycle right now. But he uh,
Speaker 3: he calls me and then he'll ask me about the episodes.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Dad, I.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you get it all the time with.
Speaker 1: Jokers people and my parents are Dad. They don't call
Speaker 1: me about the show. So thanks for bringing it up.
Speaker 2: Bud. March first, twenty twenty two is the episode one
Speaker 2: of Tookool.
Speaker 5: Mom Oh, really look at that. We're ahead of the Wow,
Speaker 5: okay one still have two more weeks. Yeah, it's fifty
Speaker 5: two weeks.
Speaker 2: Fifty two. We did every week. Oh that's great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we were consistent. I'm proud. Of us be able to
Speaker 2: get one out every week.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool, dude.
Speaker 2: Wow, March first is our birthday. Yeah, who knew that
Speaker 2: I was. I can tell you it's my last episode.
Speaker 1: I'm retiring, so let's leave it on the high note. Well,
Speaker 1: we haven't gotten there yet. Let's keep going until we
Speaker 1: get to the high note, and now we can talk about.
Speaker 2: What has been a highlight for you. I will say
Speaker 2: doing the live one was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So we just came off and did the live, our
Speaker 1: first ever live one in Nashville, first live, two cool moms.
Speaker 1: I thought it was so much fun to get out
Speaker 1: there and do a lot. I think people had a
Speaker 1: good time, sold out crowd to blast. Doing it live
Speaker 1: was different because we had talked before the show and
Speaker 1: we said, you know, this show isn't always funny, and
Speaker 1: that's not the purpose of it, right. Sure, but we're comedians,
Speaker 1: so of course it's going to be funny eventually or
Speaker 1: at moments. But we've had some episodes where we get
Speaker 1: deep and talk about things, sure, which I think is
Speaker 1: very important too. And I think it's super important, especially
Speaker 1: at these times and everybody's dealing with stuff.
Speaker 2: It needs help.
Speaker 1: So we were like before the show, do you remember
Speaker 1: the green room? You're like, all right, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just hope it's funny. I'm like, well, just because
Speaker 1: it's a comedy club, I mean, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be it's funny. So then we went out and asked,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, who's listening. Two moms and like three
Speaker 1: people clapped and like, oh shit, scan.
Speaker 2: It was like there's like one up in the attic.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh ship that we just discussed whirl out,
Speaker 2: but we did like almost how long was it almost
Speaker 2: two hours? Almost two hours? Yeah, that's great. That was
Speaker 2: a complete blast.
Speaker 3: And I think as soon as I came off stage,
Speaker 3: you and Jiggy were backstage and I walked off and
Speaker 3: I threw open the door and I looked at you
Speaker 3: guys because Reno joined us too, and I said, that's
Speaker 3: the most fun I've had at this club in all
Speaker 3: the shows I've done there, and I've done a lot
Speaker 3: of fun ones, that in particular was.
Speaker 2: A complete blast.
Speaker 3: And even just the when we're doing the crowd work
Speaker 3: towards the end and I was going through and you
Speaker 3: knew exactly when end the show. It was like, I
Speaker 3: think we're all sitting there. It's one of those things
Speaker 3: where nobodys saying it, but it's like, how do we
Speaker 3: wrap this? So we got to end on a high note.
Speaker 3: And then it was like you were like, Jordan, give
Speaker 3: me the ball. I set up the question. You had
Speaker 3: an excellent response, It got a huge laugh, and you're like,
Speaker 3: good night, walked off.
Speaker 2: I was like, that was great. It was really great,
Speaker 2: really great. Good. I'm glad you had a good time
Speaker 2: doing it too. We might do that again.
Speaker 1: We people want to go to different cities. She do
Speaker 1: it down like in Miami. Uh yeah, let's go to Miami.
Speaker 2: No, let's go to des Moines. You do Moin? I
Speaker 2: like to don't shoot on des Moines? No? I well
Speaker 2: des Moines? Why? Okay?
Speaker 1: Name name Okay, you're in the scenario. This is fun game.
Speaker 1: Name of shit city, go, name of ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like you're saying a story and you're like, it's at
Speaker 1: least it's not It doesn't mean that you don't like it.
Speaker 2: But what's one of the ones you say?
Speaker 1: Because I have one that is a sleeper hit for me,
Speaker 1: I'd always go at least not Boise, but I love Boise.
Speaker 2: Boise's beautiful. Is that so funny. Before I had gone there,
Speaker 2: it was always like, well, you're in the middle of Boise, Idaho.
Speaker 3: I think it's because, like I wasn't Warner Brother like
Speaker 3: the Looney Tunes that always made fund of Boise.
Speaker 2: I should have made it, left it out, but good,
Speaker 2: I should have made it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was something about Boise that that
Speaker 3: was in our heads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Bois's Beautiful Boys is a fun city name.
Speaker 2: Ohio gets dumped Donalds all the time, and I love Ohio.
Speaker 1: So my favorite big hitters Columbus bringing knock knocks Inincinnati. Hello,
Speaker 1: come Onova, I'll move in for a minute. I don't
Speaker 1: even get me started about Dayton.
Speaker 3: No Dayton, no shit. Columbus is a sleeper you know why.
Speaker 3: Here's what people don't realize. So many of the chain
Speaker 3: restaurants and fast food restaurants are head Okay, what the
Speaker 3: fuck was that?
Speaker 1: It's so funny because you're like so many You're like,
Speaker 1: here's the best thing about this Columbus.
Speaker 3: There's chain restaurants, but they're all based there, and the
Speaker 3: fast food restaurants are based there, so they test market
Speaker 3: a lot of things before they go nationwide there, so
Speaker 3: you'll go to McDonald's and have like mic pizza before it.
Speaker 1: Ever hits the streets. There's a lot and that's a
Speaker 1: lot of people move from there for that reason. But
Speaker 1: you know what's interesting that a lot of their flag
Speaker 1: ships stores are there, so you know what, you're getting
Speaker 1: the best version of the fast food chains there right right, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is weird because the Kentucky Fried Chicken I think
Speaker 1: is out of there, which is doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Okay, So he just just announced today they're they're limiting
Speaker 3: their menu and focusing on the chicken. Coming back to
Speaker 3: the basics, Back to the basics.
Speaker 2: Yes, maybe now I'll go back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because lot of people stooped away from the colonel
Speaker 1: when he started getting crazy. You know what I had
Speaker 1: growing up? I used to love from there. They had
Speaker 1: little chickens the little chicken sandwich is. They were like
Speaker 1: sliders that had a little bit of lettuce on those.
Speaker 1: I forgot what their name. I think they were called littles,
Speaker 1: chicken littles. That's it was it, right, chicken remember the campaign.
Speaker 1: I called them little chickens Chicken littles. Little chicken littles
Speaker 1: were phenomenal. I used to pound those mother I used to.
Speaker 2: You can't. No, I don't want. There's no need to.
Speaker 2: There's no need.
Speaker 3: Of.
Speaker 2: But there was no need for that f there.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I know when you use it, it's when I say
Speaker 2: something stupid and dumb mother.
Speaker 1: I say that, But when you read it, when you
Speaker 1: beat a stupid piece of mother, then then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it at you.
Speaker 2: Your dumb ass.
Speaker 3: That though, that's my favorite dumb asshole. That's what you
Speaker 3: call me when I'm late for something. When I come
Speaker 3: off stage and I'm shredding a twelve year old, You're like,
Speaker 3: you're dumb asso, this is twelve.
Speaker 1: It's not really a small asshole. Doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: there that disclamored of a dumb in front of it.
Speaker 1: If you're going to live a life, I guess live
Speaker 1: it that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, chicken litter was my jam. I love those.
Speaker 2: What is your go to now? Because Jiggy and I
Speaker 2: have talked about this.
Speaker 1: For well, I can't really do much at a KFC
Speaker 1: now because they don't really have a much of a
Speaker 1: fake chicken sandwich with the impossibles. I love the impossible,
Speaker 1: the impossible Whopper on the road, Well, we can need
Speaker 1: a fast drive through I've been really hitting the burger
Speaker 1: king impossible whopping and.
Speaker 3: You tried to when they when they when you complimented
Speaker 3: the new BK retro shirts so great from the drive
Speaker 3: through guy, and they recognized you and they're like, we're
Speaker 3: going to get you a shirt. Hold on, And they
Speaker 3: came back with an x XCEL that somebody had worn
Speaker 3: while there there was like rees on it. They're like
Speaker 3: here Joe, and You're like, what, guys, I'm not working here.
Speaker 3: Wanted that I wanted to wear, like on stage, like
Speaker 3: a new one, Like I don't. I asked if you
Speaker 3: sold that? The kids said yeah, hold on. Then he
Speaker 3: went and got somebody who clearly quit in the moment.
Speaker 3: Was like, hold remember when Terry quit threw it in
Speaker 3: the puddle.
Speaker 2: Let's get that one. Can't try dirty one out of
Speaker 2: the back. Joe needs a shirt. It was so discussed,
Speaker 2: so weird. Yeah, I would uh, I would say, do
Speaker 2: you remember your first job?
Speaker 1: WHOA, Yeah, well not un necessarily wasn't my first job,
Speaker 1: but I was working a party City, the party discount chain, right,
Speaker 1: and I remember my mom came to visit me at work,
Speaker 1: well because it was in a shopping center and.
Speaker 2: She was, yeah, she wants to come visit her.
Speaker 1: No, I guess she was like shopping next door or
Speaker 1: whatever because it's in the So she comes to party
Speaker 1: City and I was like like goofing around or whatever.
Speaker 2: And she came over and she was like, this is
Speaker 2: your career. That's what she said to me. She's like,
Speaker 2: take your job seriously, this is your career. And I'm like, mom,
Speaker 2: it's called party party.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, like to get caught by your mom
Speaker 1: at work like that, what are you doing. I was
Speaker 1: just like laughing around with some friends. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I know I was in that helium, that helium balloon tank.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna say I was in the helium
Speaker 1: up but she had called me there. But I guess
Speaker 1: it comes from the steps where my mom was the
Speaker 1: secretary in my school, grammar school growing up, and I
Speaker 1: would were always so she she was the she was
Speaker 1: the only it was all nuns and my mother, so
Speaker 1: she was the only person in high heels. And the
Speaker 1: and the and the woody cole were cavernous, the excuse
Speaker 1: the hallways were cavernous. So you would hear the click, click,
Speaker 1: click click, and it would just be echoing my my
Speaker 1: mother mother, she was coming. And when you got in
Speaker 1: trouble that they had to send you to the research
Speaker 1: table they called it. It was in the lobby and
Speaker 1: you had to write I won't do that again a
Speaker 1: hundred times or whatever it was, and I would hear
Speaker 1: my mom coming down the hallway and I would like
Speaker 1: try to like hide my face. There's this big table
Speaker 1: at the end of the way. You get in trouble
Speaker 1: a lot as a kid, not much. In eighth grade,
Speaker 1: I got a little bit because I started coming quick witted.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to pass a lot because of
Speaker 1: my mom and everybody. You know, my mom was the
Speaker 1: secretary and everybody loved her. And I wasn't a bad
Speaker 1: kid by any means, but I started being like funny
Speaker 1: and quick, and some teachers didn't like that. But I
Speaker 1: remember like hearing her, so i'd always like see her.
Speaker 1: So whenever I was in trouble, right and my place
Speaker 1: of business, the school, which working, I went right back
Speaker 1: to that place.
Speaker 2: When I was like, my mom caught me being bad
Speaker 2: at work at school and I felt so bad. What
Speaker 2: what was it like working a party city? Was? Is
Speaker 2: this just balloons? Balloons and a balloons and all the
Speaker 2: problems stuff, so fun me. I got Marie a job there.
Speaker 2: Murder he got fired from there.
Speaker 3: No way, you guys worked at parties already.
Speaker 2: Stay together.
Speaker 1: I got Murray job and then al the manager didn't
Speaker 1: like him and had to fire him. He's like, I
Speaker 1: got to fire your friend.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't care. Do I still at
Speaker 2: my job? What was Murray doing that? He just wasn't good.
Speaker 2: It was just being himself. No, he was just like
Speaker 2: he was just like he just could running up with
Speaker 2: this is what I would. He wasn't like you know,
Speaker 2: it was it was just it was party city. He
Speaker 2: was a team.
Speaker 1: We were fifteen, sixteen years old, was sixeen years old,
Speaker 1: so whatever we're doing. But we did run the scam
Speaker 1: where we would uh stole We stole the Halloween candy
Speaker 1: out of the out of the trailers in the back
Speaker 1: because there was no way to account from these just
Speaker 1: big boxes of candy. So we put him in and
Speaker 1: then we would just bring him to our high school
Speaker 1: and we would just sell the candy in high school.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, we ran a scam there that.
Speaker 3: Is such like the Italian like I got something off
Speaker 3: on the track of the truck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that is crazy that I literally got candies
Speaker 1: off the back of a truck.
Speaker 3: What other jobs did you have growing up? Where were
Speaker 3: you and one of the guys maybe worked together.
Speaker 2: Besides the tench did you besides the ten years ago
Speaker 2: we did on television and then in the movie? How
Speaker 2: many more do you want of that? But you mean
Speaker 2: a young Joe.
Speaker 3: I think it's so funny to like picture you guys
Speaker 3: as teenagers working at party City together and so so funny.
Speaker 2: I think sal was a bowl er too. I think
Speaker 2: that was in the bowling I forget. No, we didn't
Speaker 2: really do any outside work. Me and Mary did that.
Speaker 1: Me and Maury hung out, you know, friendly with with
Speaker 1: with groups of people. Me and Salad did as well.
Speaker 1: I didn't hang out with Q that much.
Speaker 2: And in high school and then I don't I want
Speaker 2: Q was a toll booth collector.
Speaker 1: I think I'm not sure a total look like there
Speaker 1: for a minute, yeah, after college, like after high school,
Speaker 1: before he went to college, before we trying to figure
Speaker 1: things out at think he were always worked for the city,
Speaker 1: like his dad was a city workers.
Speaker 2: Dad was a his dad got him job. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure he was a totals collector. I might be
Speaker 2: making that up, but I think it's true.
Speaker 3: There is I don't think there was a worst job
Speaker 3: in the world in a tobooth collector.
Speaker 2: Did you tell me my favorite total? The story? No?
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety nine?
Speaker 3: Me, me and my friends are drying when we were
Speaker 3: set down the way.
Speaker 2: Guys, are you ready?
Speaker 1: I got to I got a phenomenal total of the story.
Speaker 1: I'm driving down to nineteen and nineteen ninety ninety into
Speaker 1: two thousand. I took a cruise to turn the New
Speaker 1: year with five of my good friends, six of us.
Speaker 1: We called ourselves Sixteep.
Speaker 2: We were driving. We had a rental vans, we had
Speaker 2: a rental van sixtep dot com.
Speaker 3: We had a website. Two left, and then Burne came in.
Speaker 3: It's like burn you.
Speaker 2: Could be part of five people, but not six sixteen.
Speaker 2: So we did.
Speaker 1: So we drove, We rented a van, and we drove
Speaker 1: down to Florida from Jersey and uh to get on
Speaker 1: this Carnival cruise ship to bring in the new year.
Speaker 1: And we were blasting the whole time. It's kind of
Speaker 1: parted like it's nineteen nine and right. So we're driving
Speaker 1: like fourteen hours straight all of us. Right, take a turn, strive.
Speaker 1: My cousin Mike's at the helm. We're driving down and
Speaker 1: this was back in the day. We had to pay
Speaker 1: with diamonds.
Speaker 2: Diamonds. He had to pay some experience, I met dimes
Speaker 2: with you know, a coin.
Speaker 1: So they had the buckets that you had to throw
Speaker 1: the money in, you know, they had those buckets that
Speaker 1: collected thirty five cents when you were driving down the turnpike. Right,
Speaker 1: So we're driving down the Jersey Turnpike and we're all
Speaker 1: laughing and singing whatever, and my cousin Mike drives up.
Speaker 1: He's got the two thousand glasses on. Remember the glasses
Speaker 1: that said two thousands yea with o'sh Yeah. Right, So
Speaker 1: we're dancing, you know, world dance, were singing and having
Speaker 1: a good time. The trip just started. So Mike drives
Speaker 1: through and he goes and he has the thirty five
Speaker 1: cents and he's dancing. He just throws it out the
Speaker 1: window and he didn't realize that he pulled into where
Speaker 1: there was a collector.
Speaker 2: He just pits this woman in the face with thirty
Speaker 2: five cents.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure it was a
Speaker 1: old nickels, so like seven nickels.
Speaker 2: So Mike's face drops and all in the back.
Speaker 1: It's dead quite in the car and is on the radio,
Speaker 1: is kind of a party and I team and he's like.
Speaker 2: Taking shrapnel. This little woman I remember, I will never
Speaker 2: forget her face.
Speaker 6: And she's like, ah, the seven nickelas I was like, oh, sorry,
Speaker 6: But then we still had to pay the toll, so
Speaker 6: we had to awkwardly look through the airstray for the change.
Speaker 2: As she stood there. Yeah, and he's like, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I I'm sorry. It's one of the funniest things ever. Completely,
Speaker 2: that was a weird day for that woman. I wonder
Speaker 2: if she tells that story. We said, think about that
Speaker 2: from hersman.
Speaker 1: Second, she was like the six Italian guys wearing two
Speaker 1: thousand glasses rolling.
Speaker 2: Up listening to the prince assaulted me with nickel. I'm
Speaker 2: sure they've got some crazy stories. You must see some.
Speaker 3: And then the people that can't pay, or what do
Speaker 3: you do if you can't pay.
Speaker 1: Till well, now it's easier because they just take your
Speaker 1: thing and they send you the bill and dry. But
Speaker 1: back in the day, I think it would eventually like
Speaker 1: if you rolled up and you're like, I don't have
Speaker 1: the thirty five cents, where they're like, all right, go ahead,
Speaker 1: Like no, there's no accounting for it.
Speaker 2: There's no cameras, right, so it's up to the toll collector.
Speaker 2: I guess the troll at the at the bridge, she
Speaker 2: got pelted with necks galloped to give you a ticket.
Speaker 2: I used get tickets all the time in Florida. Oh,
Speaker 2: you didn't have the cash, they would hand you a ticket, right. Oh,
Speaker 2: and you have to pay more than this, you have
Speaker 2: to pay a fine for not having the plus the
Speaker 2: feet Oh my good. It was like seventy bucks or
Speaker 2: fifty bucks or whatever it was plus seventy two cents
Speaker 2: or whatever markup market.
Speaker 3: I would just I would just run it because what
Speaker 3: are they going to do back in the day. But
Speaker 3: that's that's like the same when there were meters here
Speaker 3: in the city. If you didn't have fifty cents, the markup,
Speaker 3: I forget the percentage markup.
Speaker 2: It was like five hundred percent. Like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're paying a sixty dollars bill plus the fifty cents.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Yeah, well, you know, good thing, there's easy
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Speaker 3: So we have a mom to be celebrated. Should we
Speaker 3: start it off with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, okay, let's let's start. It's our fiftieth.
Speaker 3: It's our fiftieth, so we're celebrating moms.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: And she wrote this and I thought this was very sweet.
Speaker 3: This comes to us from Celeste. Okay, Celeste, Hi, Joe
Speaker 3: and Steve. My name is Celeste. I just listened to
Speaker 3: your podcasts about sending and photos of her moms and
Speaker 3: why they're the coolest. My mom, Lida, passed when I
Speaker 3: was eighteen. She was truly amazing and selfless. She made
Speaker 3: sure I had the best I could, like cry I
Speaker 3: want to hear it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read this.
Speaker 3: But she made sure I had the best experience everything
Speaker 3: we did. She she did so much for my friends
Speaker 3: who are in need of anything. She loved comedy, but
Speaker 3: unfortunately she didn't get to listen or watch you guys.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for brightening my mornings with your podcast.
Speaker 3: Love you guys, and picture and posted a picture of
Speaker 3: her mom. Her mom's quite the looker.
Speaker 2: Back in the day.
Speaker 3: So Lida, I just I think what struck it was
Speaker 3: struck a chord was when she said she tried to
Speaker 3: make the best of everything, of every situation. And I
Speaker 3: think that any I think like parent can relate to
Speaker 3: that for sure, Like when you have kids, just like
Speaker 3: we're gonna have the best day ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel that you're a fixer.
Speaker 1: If your kids are having a bad day, you want
Speaker 1: to make them laugh and feel better instead of go
Speaker 1: through it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we also want to talk it out. I talk
Speaker 3: to my kids like their adults though. Yeah, so I
Speaker 3: don't talk, I don't dumb things down or whatever. I
Speaker 3: literally I'll use the vocabulary use when talking to anybody.
Speaker 2: And and you call them dumb assoles. I said that
Speaker 2: to my son, all stop being a dumb asshole. Do
Speaker 2: you really? I just beat him relentlessly. Give a cold steak?
Speaker 2: Am I put it on your eye like a man.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I talked him. You remember the old cold
Speaker 2: steak back in the cartoon? That work? I don't think
Speaker 2: that works.
Speaker 3: But my uh, my son, what I what I really
Speaker 3: love about that he's discovered lately's Looney Tunes. He loves
Speaker 3: Looney Tunes and loves shut up such shed But now
Speaker 3: it's like fun. I every every week we go back
Speaker 3: and before he goes to bed, he's like, can I
Speaker 3: watch two? I'm like, yeah, let's watch two. And it's
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just nostalgic. But you I think
Speaker 3: when you're a kid, you don't realize how funny those
Speaker 3: those are.
Speaker 2: For sure, back of the day, but for sure.
Speaker 1: I think I I I try to tether the balance
Speaker 1: between let them go through the fields. My daughter is
Speaker 1: super super like emotional and doesn't know how to handle
Speaker 1: that when she's not feeling happy.
Speaker 2: Sure like, she has just a tough time not being
Speaker 2: She's such a happy kid, so she's not happy. She
Speaker 2: just doesn't know why.
Speaker 1: Like she said to me one she's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm not happy, and she didn't realize responds.
Speaker 2: We had to talking down and figure.
Speaker 3: Out what was that when you turned off the show
Speaker 3: and said, Okay, I don't want you to have to
Speaker 3: watch my show anymore and make you.
Speaker 2: Want it was just close. It was Sullivan it sun so.
Speaker 3: Daddy, why do you keep working with that asian Ela
Speaker 3: Musk Please?
Speaker 2: He's bringing you down. Yeah, she loves Stevie, she loves you.
Speaker 3: She always had a great time with her by the way, and.
Speaker 2: Took her on the road. Yes.
Speaker 3: She she's one of those kids that just like, like
Speaker 3: you could tell when she's on the playground, it's like
Speaker 3: you want to be friends, you want to be friends.
Speaker 2: Let's be friends.
Speaker 3: He let's all do this together. She was just like
Speaker 3: like getting me over, giving me markers. We're gonna color
Speaker 3: this together. I'm like, this is so cool to see
Speaker 3: a kid that outgoing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's pretty cool. She's pretty cool, man.
Speaker 1: But it's it's when you have that I always like,
Speaker 1: if she's upset, I'm like, I want to get washed upset,
Speaker 1: but I also want to make her laugh and you know,
Speaker 1: forget about being upset, you know, So it's it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's hard to do that.
Speaker 1: I've always been trying to be that, but my mother
Speaker 1: was always like super like, you know, life sucks, don't
Speaker 1: worry about it, go ahead, like one of those you
Speaker 1: know what kind of things. So any adversity I came through,
Speaker 1: I would try to barrel through it, but I don't
Speaker 1: know how much I would be, like being a father
Speaker 1: now and looking back, like I don't know how much
Speaker 1: I would process what was going on, right, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much that molds your perspective. Right, it's nature
Speaker 1: versus nurture, right, So I think I think a lot
Speaker 1: of like my just like boom, it's all right, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get through this. You know, life sucks right now,
Speaker 1: don't want to get it you guys just suck harder,
Speaker 1: like do what you gotta do there. So I wonder
Speaker 1: like how my kids are going to be equipped with
Speaker 1: it because I try to find the balance. I try
Speaker 1: to keep my mom's steadfast optimism. It's okay, you'll get
Speaker 1: through it, sure, stronger than you think, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But then also it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is why this sucked, Like let's take
Speaker 1: a minute to live in the live in it, which
Speaker 1: I don't know if I did much when I was little.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you look, I think sometimes when you're
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many different variables of why you're
Speaker 3: upset or whatever. But I think if it's something that
Speaker 3: you caused, right, then it's like, all right, well let's
Speaker 3: regress and what are you accountable for?
Speaker 2: What did you do wrong?
Speaker 3: My daughter the other day, she came home and she
Speaker 3: was she was saying how she feels excluded from You know,
Speaker 3: there's three kids that palle around together that are best friends,
Speaker 3: and we all know when there's three, somebody's gonna be
Speaker 3: the outcast and you just kind of revolve.
Speaker 2: And so she was explaining how she's the.
Speaker 3: Outcast right now with these two friends, and you know
Speaker 3: how this girl's this, this goes this, this goes this,
Speaker 3: and then the conversation goes, okay, well what did you do?
Speaker 2: You know, what did you do? Did you do anything?
Speaker 3: And then as we start peeling back the layers, we
Speaker 3: discover that yeah, there was something right. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: so do you think she appreciated that?
Speaker 2: It's like, no, she wouldn't. Would you appreciate that if
Speaker 2: it happened to you, that's why you're in the situation.
Speaker 3: So don't do it again. Yeah, and now you're on
Speaker 3: the outs and you put her in that situation. Now
Speaker 3: you know how it feels. So don't put anybody in
Speaker 3: that situation. Be inclusive. Always be inclusive. I always tell
Speaker 3: my kids that, but uh, but it sometimes it just
Speaker 3: takes a little peeling back, and I always try to
Speaker 3: make them, No, you got to be accountable for everything.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it starts with me. I got
Speaker 3: to be accountable for a lot of things I do.
Speaker 3: That's why I come home, bring home two because I'm
Speaker 3: not home and my wife's like, stop your You can't
Speaker 3: buy your way out of this. You just got to
Speaker 3: spend as much time with them as you can, you know,
Speaker 3: So you got to be accountable for sure.
Speaker 2: I stopped. I stopped doing that buying on the road thing.
Speaker 2: I stopped it. It's the worst trap. Stopped it cold. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because now when I come home, the
Speaker 1: kids are excited to see me and that it's like Dad,
Speaker 1: you're home, and it's a questions would you get me?
Speaker 2: Like? I love that? Yeah, I love that. So but
Speaker 2: it is kind of fun.
Speaker 1: It is fun, but I like but I like to
Speaker 1: shop for them, so it's hard, and you missed them
Speaker 1: when you're on the road. So it's it's a delicate balance. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is mom and ain't easy. So much
Speaker 1: left to all your moms out there, especially Celeste's mom.
Speaker 2: We love you.
Speaker 3: And by the way, one of the other things I
Speaker 3: saw in the in the thing about Lida that I
Speaker 3: just want to bring up is that she's not a follower.
Speaker 4: Well she she's Alida's circum to get there.
Speaker 2: Well, I threw it out there. We go swear just now,
Speaker 2: just made it up. Yeah, what you said her name,
Speaker 2: her name is great.
Speaker 3: But but another thing, that's the social clip you have
Speaker 3: to we'll put up the picture lead and then. But
Speaker 3: another aspect of being a parent I think that you
Speaker 3: don't realize is that when your kids have their friends
Speaker 3: coming over and stuff, that her mom was so nice
Speaker 3: and inviting to all her friends. And I think, like
Speaker 3: when I was growing up, my father was like the
Speaker 3: super cool dad. My mom all kids love my mom. Yeah,
Speaker 3: even you know, even now.
Speaker 2: People meet my mom, they're like, oh my god, your
Speaker 2: mom's so nice. So I was always appreciative of that.
Speaker 3: So when my kids are their friends are over, you know,
Speaker 3: our neighborhood at four point thirty. I mean, these kids
Speaker 3: just are raiding pantries and bouncing at homes, and whenever
Speaker 3: they come in, I try to make it a point
Speaker 3: to you know, know their names, how are you doing,
Speaker 3: how's your day going?
Speaker 2: You guys having fun and be out going to them
Speaker 2: and again talk to them like adults as well. That's cool.
Speaker 1: That's cool because you weren't the house to be part
Speaker 1: of it. My house there was always there's always extra.
Speaker 2: Dish on my table. But you said, when you're that
Speaker 2: was your house was so welcoming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I try to do the same thing with mine,
Speaker 1: but it's it's kind of harder because it's it's not
Speaker 1: my house anymore. So still a little tricky there.
Speaker 2: I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's hey.
Speaker 2: That is just crazy. All right. Well, well we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that off here. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: This coming us from Teresa. Teresa, Oh, you know what,
Speaker 3: I wanted to do this one. Okay, let's do this
Speaker 3: one because I saw this one and I thought this
Speaker 3: would this would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, this coming up.
Speaker 3: From Brady Brady Brady. I love the fact that you
Speaker 3: just get right to the point. I love these direct
Speaker 3: These are great. Okay, star Wars were space balls?
Speaker 1: Oh spaceballs? What are you being crazy? What are you
Speaker 1: being a You're being a nutcase. Mel Brooks my icon,
Speaker 1: my role model growing up, my favorite, favorite influence in
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the New History of the World Part two?
Speaker 2: It didn't come out yet. Oh, okay, have you heard
Speaker 2: anything about it? I heard that's phenomenal. It really.
Speaker 1: It's a four day event starting March fourth, four day event,
Speaker 1: four days, and it's got so many cameos and it
Speaker 1: I was left out.
Speaker 2: I always thought his.
Speaker 3: Uh his autobiography that he wrote that came out, what's
Speaker 3: six months ago. I saw the title and I just started.
Speaker 3: I laughed at at the title and it's just him
Speaker 3: on the cover of Black Line says it's all about me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I uh yeah, I think. I mean without
Speaker 1: Star Wars, there's that's the question though.
Speaker 3: But I'd worked with Colin Jos recently. He had a
Speaker 3: great joke about Spaceballs and Star Wars. He's like, he's
Speaker 3: like I was a kid and when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: Spaceballs had just come out, so I saw Spaceballs and
Speaker 3: I'd never seen Star Wars, and then I years later
Speaker 3: saw Star Wars.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this is just a rip off of Spaceball.
Speaker 2: This is just funny Spaceball. That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I really I love Spaceball. Isn't my
Speaker 1: favorite Meebooks film, but it's definitely up there. I think
Speaker 1: it's really I love History of the World Part one.
Speaker 1: I think it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: My my favorite. Frank is my favorite at all of them,
Speaker 2: because it's actually it's a it's a movie. It's a film.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic, it's got heart, it's unbelievable, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: Gene Wilder and is untouchable, and it Blazing Saddles is
Speaker 1: great too. But I mean, for for me, it's the
Speaker 1: only one I didn't get into that people really liked
Speaker 1: was High Anxiety.
Speaker 2: I never saw that one. Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was one of the ones I watched and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh not not that it didn't connect as
Speaker 1: much as everything else.
Speaker 2: For me, but yeah, I just I love Young Franks.
Speaker 3: So that's his take on Vertigo, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he did like Elevated I wouldn't even call him a spouce,
Speaker 3: but he did elevated kind.
Speaker 1: Of he put he hit movies inside of spouce, Like
Speaker 1: scary movies are just straight like the movies the movie.
Speaker 2: Scary movies are just set up jokes, set up joke. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're taking a trope, they're changing it whatever. You had
Speaker 2: a real narrative, But he had a narrative inside his movies,
Speaker 2: which he was.
Speaker 1: He's a comedic filmmaker right while making fun of another genre,
Speaker 1: which I thought was so unbelievable.
Speaker 3: The guys in his nineties now and he's still he's
Speaker 3: still there. I'd seen an interview with him recently and
Speaker 3: and he was very you know, he wasn't like your
Speaker 3: classic nine year old they're kind of losing it. He
Speaker 3: was very very energetic, sharp, Yeah, funny, funny, still had
Speaker 3: the sense of humor. I don't know, there's something about
Speaker 3: like when you see Jerry Lewis in his seventies or
Speaker 3: it was just like, it's not funny.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Down right? Those are you thinking?
Speaker 2: Those are gonna say? Somebody should put that down.
Speaker 3: Take it behind the shed, Give me a grand give
Speaker 3: me a grandpa, bro.
Speaker 2: Not a cardinal. He's still he still got it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure. Star Wars. You say Star Wars.
Speaker 3: Star Wars is the the like it defines my childhood.
Speaker 3: But Indiana Jones.
Speaker 2: He wasn't in Star Wars.
Speaker 3: He's not in Star Wars. But that was my favorite
Speaker 3: growing up, hands down the greatest. And so when I
Speaker 3: saw the trailer come out for the new one, it
Speaker 3: just came out, I'm like, you know, I go to
Speaker 3: Apple trailers all the time, my Apple TV.
Speaker 2: I watched it. I watch Apple trailers as much as
Speaker 2: I watched regular TV. I just love that. My wife
Speaker 2: will walk and be like, are you watching the trailer again?
Speaker 2: It's a trailer.
Speaker 3: I'm like yeah, but I'm like trying to and I
Speaker 3: had my kids. I'm like, guys, we got to watch
Speaker 3: the Indiana Jones trailer just came out. Let's watch it together.
Speaker 2: Watch it.
Speaker 3: Just water works, complete water works. And my daughter's like,
Speaker 3: are you crying? I go yeah, She's like why, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I saw my father cry once when his father passed away.
Speaker 3: Really does you gonna tell I saw my father cry?
Speaker 3: I've cried in front of my kids. Where to begin
Speaker 3: I'll see commercials, trailers, marshmallows. I've never cried from a
Speaker 3: meal I've known to have you really, Oh.
Speaker 1: My goodness, this parpadel was from heaven prop from heaven. No,
Speaker 1: it's right after I. You are fatty?
Speaker 2: I am fatty?
Speaker 3: I was?
Speaker 2: I was. I would cry.
Speaker 1: I cried while I was eating because the food reminded
Speaker 1: me of something that was at What was it?
Speaker 2: I was?
Speaker 1: I had my father had just passed away, and I
Speaker 1: had a prisut what's adel sandwich that he liked and
Speaker 1: he would always get pursued what's ofell sandwiches?
Speaker 2: Together? And I was I was eating it.
Speaker 3: How funny would it be if you're just somebody walking
Speaker 3: by you see some d Have you tried the ragin?
Speaker 2: You just put it down? It's so sad. I was
Speaker 2: eating and driving walk away from the sandwich I was eating.
Speaker 1: I was eating a driving auting what's adel sandwich with
Speaker 1: bosamclaze not vinegar, because that's the difference.
Speaker 2: And we would dry.
Speaker 1: I was drying and uh, blaze holds, Yes, it holds nicely.
Speaker 1: Doesn't so sog the bread up? Don't If you don't
Speaker 1: have to step up your sandwich game, get yourself about
Speaker 1: samic glaze g L A z E.
Speaker 3: My.
Speaker 2: So I'm meaning to bridehooting what's theel sandwich?
Speaker 1: In the car I'm driving my I'm driving my Saturn
Speaker 1: and on the radio is Will Smith's just the two
Speaker 1: of Us, which just had happened.
Speaker 2: It came out right after my father and Pat. So
Speaker 2: that's my song. So it's just all things were firing
Speaker 2: and I'm singing. Just as I got the window down,
Speaker 2: I was like, I love you Dad. I was driving
Speaker 2: down Richmond Avenue. True story.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've cried over. So that was his that
Speaker 2: was his go to.
Speaker 1: Hey, we used to get them together, Like he would
Speaker 1: take me to and ask the sal Maria by me
Speaker 1: and he was like, let's go get sandwiches and we
Speaker 1: would bringing home for everybody and we would go with
Speaker 1: a sandwich shop and I do that my son now
Speaker 1: with this place called Jamelle's.
Speaker 2: That's by me.
Speaker 1: I was like, let's go, we got get food for everybody,
Speaker 1: and he loves it, and I'm like, it feels very
Speaker 1: nice to be able to carry.
Speaker 3: What is like this is such a tough question to ask,
Speaker 3: but reflexively, what is just a memory that you have
Speaker 3: with your father.
Speaker 2: That just always makes you happy.
Speaker 1: We used to go shopping in the Staten Island mall
Speaker 1: and I was younger, and I remember this now because
Speaker 1: I remember what it's like to be in a mall
Speaker 1: and you're with your mother and two sisters when they
Speaker 1: had to go close shopping and my dad was like,
Speaker 1: they you know, they leave me.
Speaker 2: It was a Saturday and we'd have to go. And
Speaker 2: my dad used to to keep me, to keep me
Speaker 2: engaged with what was going on.
Speaker 1: He used to hold the bags for me, and it
Speaker 1: was right after like Karate Kid came out and he
Speaker 1: would like me practice my karate on them when we
Speaker 1: were standing outside, and he would just stand there and
Speaker 1: just let me kick the bags as we did it,
Speaker 1: and he'd like and he would like tell me, okay,
Speaker 1: hi us your left light like kiding around like you know,
Speaker 1: and just do that. And I remember and then he
Speaker 1: would send me like on little missions and he'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh over there, I think I see a
Speaker 1: bad guy and I would go over and I would
Speaker 1: give like a karate chop to one of the planters
Speaker 1: like he was like for ten and he would just
Speaker 1: be totally engaged with me while we were shopping and
Speaker 1: you were eighteen and I was, yeah, nineteen, which was
Speaker 1: crazy because he was one year dead. So I would
Speaker 1: carry around his skeleton and hear his voice. I guess
Speaker 1: some crazy look.
Speaker 2: Building ship. Oh god, alright, you got room from We
Speaker 2: got talk for another one. Yeah, okay, it's coming us
Speaker 2: from Kenzie. Oh, Kenzie.
Speaker 3: It's it's a great name.
Speaker 2: I love Kenzy.
Speaker 3: What a great name can By the way, when you
Speaker 3: get like if you're Hooters and they're like, U have
Speaker 3: a seat, Kensy's gonna be here a second, You're like,
Speaker 3: we gotta.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna be fun. Kenzie is a fun just a
Speaker 1: fun name. The person matches the fun.
Speaker 3: It's a cool it's a it's like a cool chick name,
Speaker 3: a cool sarcastic girl's like Aubrey Plaza off on the corner. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you want to hang at Denny's with ken love ship on?
Speaker 2: Everybody? Whatsie? No Kenzie, Kenzie, that's all right. Here we go.
Speaker 3: How do you deal with someone who's practically in love
Speaker 3: with you but you've already told them repeatedly you wouldn't
Speaker 3: want a relationship with them. Bit they still treat you
Speaker 3: as if you're exclusively dating, getting angry, upset when other
Speaker 3: people take an interest in you, et cetera. I don't
Speaker 3: want to hurt his feelings, but I told him from
Speaker 3: the get go, and he still believes or he still
Speaker 3: behaves as if.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I want. So she's friends with somebody.
Speaker 1: Who thinks that they're thinks that they're dating. Hm, that's tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've laid it out pretty. It's no longer
Speaker 1: on you, right, as long as you're being clear and direct,
Speaker 1: established parameters. Well, she's saying that, but let's hope that
Speaker 1: she's acting accordingly, right, because you might just be thinking
Speaker 1: he might be misreading any signals or anything that you're doing.
Speaker 1: So if you're taking a true look at yourself and
Speaker 1: what you're doing, and you're doing everything above board and
Speaker 1: you're not, like, you know, treating any you know, you're
Speaker 1: not taking advantage of the situation where someone because you
Speaker 1: see a lot where people take advantage of the situation
Speaker 1: where somebody likes you, sure, and you're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: person likes me, So yeah, you can know you act
Speaker 1: a certain way.
Speaker 2: But if you're being above board across the board, that's
Speaker 2: not on you.
Speaker 1: That's not your problem, Kenzie, Like you just make sure
Speaker 1: that you've been clear and direct. The other thing is
Speaker 1: like telling you know, be stra be like, look, we
Speaker 1: can't hang out anymore.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna be like this, yeah, I would wonder
Speaker 3: how good of a friend is he, yes, like if
Speaker 3: he's a great friend, if if if the friendship supersedes
Speaker 3: those emotions and he is there for you, he's there
Speaker 3: to listen or whatever. You know, I would take stock
Speaker 3: of how good of a friend you actually are with
Speaker 3: this individual, because if you're not, just cut cord and
Speaker 3: take go on, because I yeah, I mean, nobody wants
Speaker 3: to be putting.
Speaker 2: It's not health. It's not health.
Speaker 3: Look, it's definitely happens to a lot more girls than guys,
Speaker 3: I think, especially in your early twenties, which she looks
Speaker 3: like she's in her own twenties. That's a tough age
Speaker 3: because everybody's trying to find their own identity at that
Speaker 3: particular time. And guys, you know, if you gotta crush
Speaker 3: on somebody and you're hanging out with them constantly and
Speaker 3: you would love more, it's like, yeah, that's a tough
Speaker 3: spot to be in for that guy too, because then
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, it's like, well, why do
Speaker 3: you keep hanging out with me?
Speaker 2: Then? Yeah? Were you? Were you a piner? Were you pining?
Speaker 2: Were you a piner? I was always.
Speaker 3: I remember I was in college and this girl she's like,
Speaker 3: you know who you are? And I was like, she's
Speaker 3: like Lloyd Dobbler.
Speaker 2: I was like, what do you mean.
Speaker 3: She's like, from say anything, you're You're a great friend.
Speaker 3: And I was just like a fuck, But I really was.
Speaker 3: And I remember just I would go hang out in
Speaker 3: girls dorm rooms and just to.
Speaker 2: Hang wait for them to get back. What are you
Speaker 2: doing here? I'll throw the cut out for you? How
Speaker 2: was he? But yeah, I just I don't know. I
Speaker 2: just I enjoyed.
Speaker 3: Like I used to get made fun of it the
Speaker 3: cellar all the time by by certain comedians. They'd be like,
Speaker 3: so you just hang out with girls like and I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, yeah, you know, it wasn't always about
Speaker 3: trying to look up or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah I was a piner. Yeah I could see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah there's a helpless romantic stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was a pineer my freshman year,
Speaker 1: Poor Megan Donnaho. Freshman year of college, I was just absolutely.
Speaker 3: Just straight to the other neighborhood. You went Irish, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. I don't know. I don't know what about her,
Speaker 2: but there's about mcnannia for sure.
Speaker 1: If Virginia girls, there was three, there was three of them.
Speaker 1: There was a group of three girls that were together, Tara,
Speaker 1: Danielle and Meghan. And I ended up being great friends
Speaker 1: with all of them throughout college and it ended up
Speaker 1: but I pined after Megan pretty hard. Actually used to
Speaker 1: us write. I used to write poems and slide them
Speaker 1: under her door, her dorm room. What I thought was anonymously,
Speaker 1: not realizing that she was like knew it was me
Speaker 1: and sorry coming through the thing. And she they did
Speaker 1: like this, They did this sorority raffle where like they
Speaker 1: did used to write poems. She lived upstairs for me,
Speaker 1: and she used to write poems. I'd wait till like
Speaker 1: two in the morning, and I would like sneak down
Speaker 1: the hallway and I would go and the slot and
Speaker 1: I would run and go rip down the stairwell and
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 2: To my room.
Speaker 3: If she brought one of those poems out, my god,
Speaker 3: I mean how I was pretty good poet. Would you
Speaker 3: consider yourself pretty decent, Yes, I would. Would it be embarrassing.
Speaker 1: It'd be embarrassing because they were probably very love pony
Speaker 1: to a stranger who probably showed a zero interest in me.
Speaker 1: So from the loser aspect, they'd probably pretty embarrassing, but
Speaker 1: they probably good pros.
Speaker 3: Did you ever, it's probably good pros. Did you ever
Speaker 3: structurally steve structures foundation?
Speaker 2: I'm not high cool.
Speaker 1: I mean I've got I mean, if you take it
Speaker 1: down to basics, I've got great run. Did you ever
Speaker 1: approach her like in person pentameter? Did you ever ever
Speaker 1: go up there? I feel like, hey, could we go out?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Yeah? She was like shut you down. Now, Well,
Speaker 2: here's what happened.
Speaker 1: They did a sorority auction where you could like win
Speaker 1: a date for charity kind of thing, and so I
Speaker 1: won her by like borrowing money from everybody. I bought it,
Speaker 1: and it was like a gross overestimated, like I just
Speaker 1: didn't want to get so like girls are going to
Speaker 1: both like this is college, you know in nineteen you know,
Speaker 1: like the late nineties, people were like.
Speaker 2: Thirty dollars and now we have missed Donnie four thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I did? I did? I got like three hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: I paid for like three hundred bucks again because I
Speaker 1: didn't want to get out bit or whatever, and people
Speaker 1: knew that I wanted to, So people were like outbating
Speaker 1: and people were pushing but like running it up because
Speaker 1: they knew that.
Speaker 2: That I was gonna you know, it was no secret
Speaker 2: that I was obsessed with her.
Speaker 1: Sudden we ended up like going on that date, and
Speaker 1: I was just super nervous and I just like tried
Speaker 1: talking and she was like, yeah, no shit, you like me.
Speaker 1: And I was like, but she was super she was
Speaker 1: super nice and sweet, and she was like yeah, She's
Speaker 1: like I'm just not interested in you and whatever. I
Speaker 1: was like fine, and then she's like, you know, but
Speaker 1: I would honestly like to be friends with you still,
Speaker 1: and I was like fine. And I was friends with
Speaker 1: Danielle and Tara as well, and the three of them
Speaker 1: like are inseparable, and I was like, I was like sure,
Speaker 1: I said, I guess we could be friends. And that
Speaker 1: at the same time is when I like started being
Speaker 1: like in the fraternity and they were in a sore.
Speaker 2: So we just ended up all being good friends and dependent.
Speaker 1: She got in a boyfriend a boyfriend and whatever, and
Speaker 1: It was fine, and I had got my girlfriend and
Speaker 1: we were all just friendly. My girlfriend actually ended up
Speaker 1: in the same sorority as her, so it was it
Speaker 1: was just fine. But I was definitely like a piner.
Speaker 1: I always even like after that, like I could just
Speaker 1: see I pined for people.
Speaker 2: I'm a piner And what what take me through a pining?
Speaker 3: What? What?
Speaker 2: What's what the smirk? What's what the smirk? And yeah,
Speaker 2: it's that like my heart has that face? Like what
Speaker 2: a lot of wood? Ifs a lot of why not?
Speaker 2: I had like a lot of long distance like stuff.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, if we only the winds
Speaker 2: were changing, if the winds were blowing in a different direction.
Speaker 2: Are you are you astrological? Do you follow that stuff?
Speaker 2: Not at all.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with a girl who was worked
Speaker 1: at a store that used to drive by all the
Speaker 1: time at Giggle And wait what So I worked at Giggle.
Speaker 1: I worked at Giggle in downtown so and there was
Speaker 1: this girl who worked at the store.
Speaker 2: I forgot what was it was. It was a high
Speaker 2: end store. Yeah, uh, you know, they sold cool bags
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I used to see her all the time and
Speaker 1: I just would park my car in front of there,
Speaker 1: and that's where the spots were. And almost I walked
Speaker 1: by and i'd see her and i'd wave, and one
Speaker 1: day I remember I waved in jute.
Speaker 2: She was like, I just waved. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Then one day I went in too, just shop around,
Speaker 1: pretend I was shopping for my sister, just to talk
Speaker 1: to her. She seemed really nice whatever, and we had
Speaker 1: a nice rapport, realizing she worked out commission. So then
Speaker 1: one day was raining and I thought this was such
Speaker 1: a pimpass move. It was raining, and I got go
Speaker 1: to my car and I opened the door and I
Speaker 1: grabbed an umbrella and I went in and I wrote
Speaker 1: a note and I said, if you want to return
Speaker 1: this umbrella, here's my number.
Speaker 2: And I went in and I asked her. I said,
Speaker 2: I said, hey, it's raining pretty bad out there. She
Speaker 2: goes yeah. I said, did you haven't bring an umbrella?
Speaker 2: She said no. I said you could have mine. I
Speaker 2: presented my umbrella with a note on the side. I
Speaker 2: never heard from her store. She was gone forever she's there.
Speaker 2: She quit the next day, moves gone.
Speaker 1: She's like this crazy ass stalker is she killed herself,
Speaker 1: probably with the umbrella. I like to think she got
Speaker 1: struck by lightning because she had the umbrella. That's how
Speaker 1: she went. But yeah, yeah, I'm a romantic pineer. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it was or is.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know what's great.
Speaker 3: I I was walking to the comedy store one night
Speaker 3: because I used to live on Sunset, yeah, by Bristol Farms,
Speaker 3: so walk like the three quarters of a mile. I
Speaker 3: remember one day I was walking to the hotel which
Speaker 3: is now the and Az Hotel, and they had this
Speaker 3: great like you know window that showcased the bar, and
Speaker 3: there was this booth and it was like the most
Speaker 3: beautiful girl I'd ever seen in my life. And she
Speaker 3: was just sitting there and talking and I just kind
Speaker 3: of like, you know, you just kind of like, gobs,
Speaker 3: what the fun? And I just kept walking. And there's
Speaker 3: probably every month or so like I'll be in La
Speaker 3: or I'll walk to the store, I'll drive past that
Speaker 3: and Az or I'll I'll be staying at the end
Speaker 3: AZ and I'll go to Corneys and get a hot
Speaker 3: dog in huh. And then I I look in like
Speaker 3: thinking on a sea. It's weird that just five seconds
Speaker 3: that one individual crazy.
Speaker 2: It's it's I don't know, and then.
Speaker 1: This happy fiftieth here's say there we go. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's weird. I don't know, that's just you know,
Speaker 1: so like Valentine's Day just happened. So did you do
Speaker 1: anything with Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2: Do you? What do you do?
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 2: Like? What's your regimen with the missus?
Speaker 3: I mean, I you know, we're just so comfortable with
Speaker 3: each other, And to be honest with you, she'll get
Speaker 3: upset if I spend money on her. They don't spend
Speaker 3: money on me, and then but if you do, they're
Speaker 3: really happy. Like Christmas came and she's like, don't spend
Speaker 3: anything on me. We're making a pack. Don't spend anything.
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I'm not going to spend anything.
Speaker 3: And I got her like two really nice gifts, and
Speaker 3: I was just like, look, you've been through the ring
Speaker 3: of this year. I really appreciate everything. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: And she's like, oh, well, I stuck to the pack.
Speaker 3: I didn't get you anything like you You say it
Speaker 3: and then you say, yeah, she didn't, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: probably spoiled myself. Anyways, how about you?
Speaker 2: Are you I'm romantic? Are you romantic? Come Valentine's Day,
Speaker 2: oh for sure.
Speaker 3: But even like knee deep in on a relationship, like
Speaker 3: you've been together for a long time, you still bring
Speaker 3: out the bells and whistles.
Speaker 2: I try to. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I started a pretty cool tradition which I liked, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad we do it, and my son likes it
Speaker 1: now too, where I buy a rose for Milana, my daughter,
Speaker 1: and he buys a rose for his mother, and she
Speaker 1: saves them in these boxes so we have the years
Speaker 1: all the end.
Speaker 2: I started when Milana was. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So I started when Milana was I think two or three,
Speaker 1: and she saves them and puts them in the year,
Speaker 1: and they've had these matching rose boxes and it's every
Speaker 1: years of dried out rows that she got from him
Speaker 1: and that my daughter got from me.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty cute. And you never get to
Speaker 2: see it. No, it's at the house. Thanks for listening
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