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Paul Flynn and Mike McCabe join the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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Feva Tequila Seltzer, the number one Heart shelter in the world and the official
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Heart Shelter Day Drinking Dog them all at Dela Welcome Back Day Drinking with Dog.
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I have as our second annual edition of the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in
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Milford, Connecticut, with the two people that basically run the parade, Mike
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McCabe and Paul Flynn. Paul Flynn was probably sick last year, had a
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little hangover, couldn't make it. Was that the excuse. Yeah, chances
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are pretty good, but Mike was here last year. I appreciate you coming
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back again this year. Actually reached out to you guys. This is my
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favorite time of year, event of the year. This is probably my twenty
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fifth year of bar tending it. We actually snuck it in during COVID as
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well, even though there was no parade, but people didn't seem to care.
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And now we're back to normal, right there was a parade day,
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Yes, yes, and uh and so now we're back and you know,
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last year was a big anniversary. What's it? What's this year? This
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is our thirty second thirty parade, last thirty second annual. Yeah, oh
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but you took out, did you take out COVID because he didn't have it
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well. The year week, the year that got canceled in twenty twenty was
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going to be the thirtieth anniversary, and so we figured, so this is
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our third year, this is our third year back nice and our second year
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without our without our The founder of the break Mary Yes, Marty Yeah,
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passed away right before the parade, right a week before in twenty twenty twenty
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two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember he was He was always
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I knew it was coming quick because he would come into Stole Ridge and Richie
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here, I gotta talk to him. I need to check. So i'ven't
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seen all over social media. Guys just did a huge like pancake event.
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I know Citrus was part of it, and who else Citrus sponsored, sponsored,
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sponsor the last he's produced it. Yeah, so obviously Kenny and the
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guys at Lassies are always great Kenny and Citrus, and uh, yeah it
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was great. We had we must have had one hundred people, but we
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made a couple of grand thanks to Citrus. Basically Citrus paid for the food,
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so pretty much pure profit. Uh and uh, then we had our
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afternoon at music on Sunday afternoon. That's that's sponsored by Major, Major law
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firm. And we had the Emily Major basis, the Emily Mensa band and
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the night visitors, So we had two bands on Sunday afternoon. We had
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a We had a really good crowd for that too, So so we made
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we made about four thousand dollars for the for the weekend, but obviously goes
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towards bands and cops and insurance and all the stuff that goes into putting on
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the parade. There are quite a few logistics that go behind a parade like
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this. Yes, I could imagine it. So we have we have a
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pretty good routine. We sit with the city, uh actually everybody at once.
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We sat with this fire department, the city, uh, public works,
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police department, Health department. So we check all the boxes, go
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around the room and uh and then they give us to go where to put
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the brolettes, et cetera. Uh, it's a well oiled machine at this
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point. Yeah. I mean it's the same thing as Snowbridge. You know,
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we know, you know, we have our numbers from last year.
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You know, if it was a good one, we'd al must you know,
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Guinness to get and always buy jamison in February because it's not posted in
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March. A lot of people forget that, but oh we got to order
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the week up, now get it before, you know, and stuff like
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that in the kitchens and handles there end. And I feel all the restaurants
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in town, you know pretty much here, you know, yeah, you
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know, we get excited about it, but it's it's old hat for us.
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Conn It's it's easy. We uh we. We did a nice raffle
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on Saturday as well. A bunch of local businesses donated gift cards and we
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on Sunday we did some fifty to fifty raffles. So everybody always likes those.
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So who's the Miss Emerald Isle this year? Young lady by the name
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of Caroline Doyle. She was a law graduate. She's a freshman at George
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Washington University. Very good that she's coming back. She's spending her spring break
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as Miss Summer Island Milford. So that's something that you know, a lot
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of a lot of kids want to go away, get someplace warm, right,
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she's coming back home and being honored off. Well, it's going to
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be warm. It's going to be in the fifties day let's yeah, let's
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hope, so let's slid around. We could use we could use a nice,
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nice, nice day, that's for sure. Yeah, I wish,
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I wish they just put like the the clock the spring spring ahead was like
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that week before. Well, that'd be nice because I just looked in the
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calendar and it's it's that night overnight. It's always the night we lose that
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out. Yeah, yeah, the next day is great. You sleep in?
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Ye? Do you sleep in? I always get those confused full spring
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forward? Yeah? I sleep every day anyway. It doesn't make it for
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you. I'm up. You know the job. True. So how can
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people like donate to this year round? Like it's just uh, I know
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you have your fundraisers and stuff. Is you guys have a website or obviously
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Instagram page. Yeah, we have Facebook page basically and and actually we're we
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are in the process now of really formalizing it now that you know, we've
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had our our this will be our third parade with the kind of reconstituted committee
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since since Marty's gone, but we are now incorporated. We are looking for
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our five oh one C three status. Uh, you know, so we'll
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we'll you know, people will be able to, you know, make charitable
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donations and be able to write it off their taxes. We won't have to
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pay sales tax and all that kind of stuff, right and but yeah,
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by all means people can certainly make a donation. And it got to make
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make sure it's clear we are not the club does not run the parade.
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That's run by a separate committee. It's a Milford Saint Patrick's Parade committee.
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And so that's what how the check have to be made out, gotcha?
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Got you so obviously like through the fundraisers, like I said, but just
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becoming a member, his money like that go towards the parade and everything.
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There was that more for the club, No, they well the club club
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driven, right, Yeah, the dudes go to the club. Now the
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club has clubs very generous to us. The board of the IHS gave us
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a donation slaunching Milford, which is the club's five to one seed three organization.
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They gave me that again sl I can never say that word slaunch.
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When I was I would just say cilantro because I would always messed up and
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cilantro. Yeah, so I'm not I'm not allowed to go to the club.
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I can go. I don't think you can go. You want to
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be a member. Yeah, most of the days that we're open, though
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you're working anyway, true, true, yeah, maybe not for long ago,
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you never know. Uh so, Yeah, slaunching Milford's are five one
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three organization. They gave us fifteen hundred dollars towards the parade. So,
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and obviously all our events are at the clubhouse, right and you know the
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benefit there is we get to use the facilities, but they get the bar.
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So you know, all these all the even the pancake breakfast. They
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we did about four hundred dollars at the bar, just Bloody Mary's and mimosas,
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so you know, and our drinks are four or five dollars there.
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So yeah, and that's not bad for Saturday morning. I think if I
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changed careers, I would probably saved money in the long run because I'd go
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there and drink make less money an hour. But I always said, that's
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my retirement plan. Just an uber and you gotta have cash, that's all
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it's. You know, we're drinking vivas right there, tasty green new watermelons,
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yep, you know, for the same time with the color yeah,
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color scheme but uh, you know, this stuff's premium, and everything's premium
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now, and like kids don't even ask for well, you know, like
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when I was bar hop and at Toad's in college, and you know,
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it was what's the cheapest thing you got? And I don't. I don't
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know how these I don't know if it's parents' money or what. I don't
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know how they afford to drink at these rates. You know, people say
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Stonemer's expensive, wasn't I drink around town? Nothing's different than everything's the same.
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Yeah, maybe a dollar a year, a dollar there, but it's
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not like you're buying a Viva Stone Wars for nine and it's five dollars across
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the street. It's just that's not how it is. Yeah, I know,
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it's it's it's across the board. Right. Ever since COVID the pandemic
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was over and the inflation hit, you know, you can just see in
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your even even in your normal you know, Deli sandwiches and going to going
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to lunch and going for fast food. I mean, you know, you
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can't go to McDonald's for less than twelve bucks these days. It's funny to
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say that. So Saturday night, I worked a wedding at Stonebridge and didn't
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get out till like twelve thirty. And the only reason I'm gonna tell the
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stories, and my girlfriend doesn't listen to them. So she was out to
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about ten and decided to stay out because one of her friends was up at
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Citrus. So now I'm getting phone calls from Citrus. You know, hey,
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who's driving your girlfriend home? Blah blah blah. And then my friend's
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like, I got her. So she goes home at twelve whatever. I
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pop up there to say hi to everybody, thinking she's still there. She's
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gone. I call she's passed out at home. Whatever, drunk. We've
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all been there, right, But when she's drunk or hungover, she needs
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for whatever reason, a fountain coke from McDonald's, which also in turn means
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you to get it. Yes, and you know, big kid, now
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you know Brandon now needs something to two cheeseburgers with fries and blah blah blah.
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And I don't really like McDonald's, so I said, you know what,
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I was a little home over myself. I had a drink in two
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weeks and I'm like, I'll just do Taco Bell. Bad mistake. So
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she paid for the McDonald's whatever, and it's just drive through. Was it
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on her app? I didn't even know what it was, but I had
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to be every bit of thirty dollars. I go over and I didn't mine
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through the app. I got three tacos and a small nacho. This is
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this is like lunch and dinner for me. There's no way I'll eat it
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all. Each taco was four dollars. Oh my lord, a taco.
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It was a Toriedo taco, but whatever, it's just a fucking different shell.
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There were three ninety nine each and I pre ordered and the nacho was
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like seven ninety nine. It was this fucking big and I get up there
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and he's like, oh, we're working on your order now. I'm like,
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dude, I put the order in fuck twenty five minutes ago. I
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could have just come up and ordered at the drive through window and it probably
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would have been ready or faster. And I got home. I'm just looking
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at this fucking crap, and I'm like, the fuck it. I you
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know, I blamed it on her, Like why if you weren't hungover,
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I just would have, you know, made something here. I don't know,
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it's just I don't ever eat fast food. I know I don't look
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like that, but I really don't. I don't like it. And that
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just reasured my uh my feelings about one. It's it's ridiculously overpriced now everything,
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but it has to be like there's just no way around it. Well,
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I mean, you know what the markans are. You know, it's
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you got payroll, you got insurance, yeah, you got everything's expensive,
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and now everyone wants fucking fifty an hour, twenty five dollars an hour.
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You're gonna shut places down. The you know, the reason why our prices
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at the club so uh, you know, affordable, we'll say, is
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you know that all our bartenders are volunteers, so we don't have payroll,
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we don't have workmen's cup, we don't have insurance that goes along with all
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that. So we're actually able to, you know, kind of like the
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Elks kind of right, we're able to give people a reason to come.
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Right, do you pay anybody there? Clean lady? Yeah, so everyone's
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volunteer. Cooks, No, just no kitchen. The kitchen we just have
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pizza ovens. Yeah, who the fucking made the pancakes? They're just last
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year, last seas ship community, those hot box warmers and nice. Yeah,
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it was grace so for some I mean I've been there once or maybe
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twice. Some reason. I thought you had a little kitchen in the back.
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I guess not, and we'll get food trucks. Well that's a great
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point. That saves safe tons of money. Yeah, you know, even
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paying I learned this like the hard way. When I first got into the
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bar business. I didn't know what payroll tax was. I just thought,
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all right, Paulie, come on in. I'm paying eight thousand an hour
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times for three and twenty bucks a week, and you're generating all this money.
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And then I and then the payroll comes and it's like, oh,
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I basically paid you double of what you know. And I'm like that just
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it makes no sense to me, Like they don't make it easy. If
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they made it easier, I feel or less more affordable for an owner.
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I think that's where you would see the salaries go up. Like maybe not
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not everyone's going to do that, but there's there'd be much more room for
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improvement. So many people think, you know, all you do is put
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some liquor behind the bar, get some food, open the doors, and
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the people come in the behind there is making a ton of money, right,
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that's the case, not the case at all. Yeah, well that's
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and then you see where they're they're they want to try to get rid of
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the sub minimum wage, right, which to me doesn't make any sense at
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all. You're going to have restaurants to go out of business, bars go
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out of business, overnetnett if you if they got to go from six to
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fifteen or whatever, I mean, I think it was it in New York
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City talking about go or maybe there was a city in California talking about one
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to twenty five. Yeah, I think it was California. Who was in
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California, like what you know, and they're already in the California looks at
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us. Oh, these guys are making twenty five dollars an hour, and
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we taxed, you had a fifty percent tax right in the state. We'll
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just gonna make more money. Yeah, it's it's it's it's a hard issue
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because you know, you got guys that you know, they need to support
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their families. They can't do it on fifteen bucks an hour. But then
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you have kids that are in high school or college and they don't need to
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be at fifteen bucks an hour. You know, they're just they're having a
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job for their gas money or whatever. Yeah, so they're really should be
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different levels, you know, whether I mean, there should be a part
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time minimum wage as opposed to a full time minimum wage. You know,
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so you have some kind of gradations there. There should be a ladder that
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everyone asked to climb. I mean my first job I made, I mean
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two I've told the story before. I make two fifty an hour. I
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was underage. I wasn't even supposed to be like illegally won maybe yeah,
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I was like fifteen. It was a little convenience store. My dad got
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me the job. The first week I worked, I worked forty hours,
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whether it was load and sodas in the cooler or scrape and gum off the
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floor. So it's forty times two fifty. That's eighty bucks hundred bucks after
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taxes. My check was like sixty two fifty and I opened it up.
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I got almost all excited, and I'm like, I looked at my dad,
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I'm like this bullshit. He's like, what what the fuck is?
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Says? I work forty hours? I made six second and go buy it
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came for my atari. You know that's hard work, so oh fuck man.
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You know, but you'll learn, you know, you learn what hard
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work is, and you know, and you strive to be better and you
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strive to find a better paying job. And now they just want to hand
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it to you. Like some people like that make twenty five an hour,
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would they're fucking happy as a claim for the rest of their life with fifty
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cent raises every year. And I think employers like that, like I worked
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in the Marriot for a long time and one of my gms was one of
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the smartest guys I ever knew. And I was young and you know,
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ambitious and wanted to rise up the ranks. And there was one, two,
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three restaurants, three bars in the mayor As one in Florida down tpc
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Sawgrass and there was these old guys that were managing the restaurants. So I'm
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just having a one on one with a GM and I said to him,
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I said, you know what's up with these guys? He goes, these
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are the best employees you could ever ask for in this business. He goes,
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They're just happy. They get their benefits, They already have their families,
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their kids are in college. She just got Yeah, they show up,
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they know what they're doing. I don't have to worry about them.
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They don't come to me for a raise, they don't want to get promoted.
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I'm like, so you hate me? He goes, no, no,
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no, he goes. Each hotel is perfect to have guys like you
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and guys like these. I don't want to be having to turn over every
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manager every freaking six months because you want to go move here or you know,
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rise up and be an assistant general manager here. He's like, these
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guys just stay, they do their job, and they're perfect for what I
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need. You know, kids like you, you come through the system,
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and then I don't have to stone Bridge and been there. Yeah, I
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know, I've been. We've been interviewing candidates for sales jobs at my company,
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and what comes through the talent pool. They all want to, you
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know, work twenty five hours a week and get paid you know, one
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hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, so it's amazing. Well, then you have
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guys like oh, and to work hard. I busted Owens balls. Owen.
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Owen is obviously my son. He was supposed to b bar back this
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Saturday night, and he does. He works a lot I'm just busting his
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balls right now. But he got it covered by Max. And I knew
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Saturday was going to be killer because we had that huge wedding in there,
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and it was just I just, you know, I look at a party.
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Shoot, I'm like, yep, working that one, you know.
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I said, oh, it actually can't. He said, oh, what
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do you You're leaving us networking on us in the morning, he does,
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My friends call me they're going out. So I decided to go out and
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then Cambula game ship and then I just turned to Camble like, dude,
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this is you at his age. Man, Come on, dude, just
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worked like three doubles in a row. Let him go have some fun.
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And I look at him and I'm like, but come out Sunday night.
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Don't go out tonight or tomorrow night, because you don't want to miss this
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one. And sure enough, you know it was. It was a doozy.
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But uh so, one last thing about the parade, So, how
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does someone apply to be the Emerald ile d Officially? Well, we have
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it's works through our Facebook page. We actually have like a barcode where you
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just you know, you just scan the our code and the and the young
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lady can pull up the application and then and is there a percentage Irish you
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need to be or you have to demonstrate that you have Irish heritage, you
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have to be between sixty through sepdes or through or whatever. But no,
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they have to do an essay and that's where they usually talk about their Irish
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heritage and you know, whether it comes through family or whatever, and the
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photograph and then they sit down for an interview with the committee and selection committee.
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Yeah, we had a we had a good, good crop this year.
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We had seven seven candidates and Caroline came up on top. So yeah,
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you're not eligible for that, Miss Emmeralisle. No, no, well
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that's discrimination. You see what's going on in this world there. Poll expect
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the lawsuits soon. I'll get Lynch on the phone right now, okay,
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Lynch, help me out log. All right, So that's parade at March
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ninth. The weather looks early weather looks, you know, fifty. We
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can't ask for better than fifty. I'd be happy with the sun's out.
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Obviously feels like sixty because you're drinking, you're outside, because I don't really
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have much coverage there but the tent, so hopefully the sun's out and shining
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for us. And uh and you know thirty two, thirty two, thirty
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second, Yeah, thirty second, thirty second one. Yeah, I've done
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twenty five of them. Wow, God, that's a lot. Grand Marshall,
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our Grand Marshall's Ben Blake, former miner. Nice welcome back then,
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Well, not that he left town, but actually he actually did a lot
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for us for the parade over the years. Yeah, it was it was
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a no brain or Tony g marching or anything with it. Of course.
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Yeah, we raised the flag. We raised the Irish flag at City All
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next Wednesday the sixth, So he'll be there with this proclamation and we'll we'll
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raise the Irish flag there and then obviously, uh he issues a proclamation and
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then we'll see him on the on the ninth, the leading the dignitaries.
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Yeah. I just texted h we're trying to get another show, a little
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uh what would you call it, state of the town? Okay address?
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Yeah, maybe a lot of stuff gets written on Facebook. It's it's it's
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just I don't know. I keep saying I'm so close to just getting rid
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of it, but I just keep it for the show. Well, you
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got it. You gotta stay in touch, you know, And I don't
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think being on Facebook is staying in touch. Well I get that was just
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because some guy like attacking him the other day and he happened to be a
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husband of a Democratic alderman like, well, okay, but he never said
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that. Like people, we have to communicate through Facebook, you know,
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we're not Twitter people. Who or Well, I tell you that both of
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you are not really much for for for texting. But you went out a
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little rant last night. You were like firing him out. I was I
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was not raining yet, So you're good. I was trying to be witty.
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Yeah. No, no, I don't let you're going well, I
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did we drink last time, Mike? Huh, yeah we had. We
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had another couple, right, we had that flavored whiskey. I forget which
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one it was, but did we had the proper apple? Yes, that's
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yeah, I don't think. Yeah, that's good. That's okay, that
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was right. So Ray's got me those two penaltons up there if you want
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to open one of those ones for military. Oh wow, yeah, nice.
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Yeah, I thought looked like I had a Red Sox. Very good,
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all right, So we'll stick with a little Iris. The It was
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a little funny story. I'll tell you this happened yesterday. So I've been
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trying to get Celtics. Celtics is the only Irish part of the fucking story.
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So trying to get Celtics tickets for a long time. Now, next
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Sunday, this Sunday coming up, they're playing the Warriors. It's like a
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Sunday game. So me and my friend, his kid, and and Braiden,
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four of us. We did this like a Yankee redsick game like three
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years ago. So let's do it again. We'll go up to Boston,
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spend the night. Take the kids. Now they're like fourteen. We don't
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have to worry too much about them when we go out drinking afterwards. And
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UH had no luck with all my connections. It's just one of those tough
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games. It's the Warriors or Steph Curry. You know what a Sunday day
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game. It's on national TV, the whole thing. So anyway, so
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I end up getting tickets. They're not good, but who cares. We're
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in the arena. We're set to go. My buddy got us a room
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through Zikorski an area. We're all set. So I get a text message
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two nights ago from I'm not gonna name any names, I'll tell you who
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was. After I get a text message from a friend of mine that,
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hey, my father in his apartment complex, there's a thing up that says
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four tickets to Celtics Golden State two hundred dollars a ticket and really good set,
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like a lower section, really good seats. So I'm like in my
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head, I'm like, all right, I could sell mine probably for more
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than eight hundred, probably a thousand upgrade, and put a couple hundred bucks
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in my pocket for the trip. Right. So, yesterday I get the
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text from the guy that knew this lady says she's gonna text you like a
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little later work. So I got a text message and she's like, hey,
23:03
I heard your friends with so and so. How many tickets you're looking
23:07
for? I said, well, I heard you had four at two hundred.
23:11
He's eight hundred. I do Venmo And she goes, oh, I
23:14
don't do Venmo, I do Zell. And I'm like, all right,
23:18
Uh, give me a little bit. I'll open a Zell account. It
23:22
may take a day for them, though, I don't even know. I
23:25
don't know, but I'll buy these tickets from you. So she texts me
23:30
back, Oh, I got to get to this because this is where So
23:33
I don't know if you guys know, but I'm been dealing with a lot
23:34
of my my father passed away, a lot of he was being scammed,
23:37
and I've been dealing with a lot of oh you know, finding out a
23:41
lot of shit. And so this lady just sounds like a scammer to me.
23:47
So she goes, let's cool, all right, yeah, do you
23:52
use Apple? No? No, no, do you use Apple pey because
23:56
Zell may take a while to set up. And I'm like in my head,
23:59
I'm like with the hurry, you know, like whatever, I'll die
24:03
right? Can't you send through that? And are you ready to are you
24:04
ready to make payment? Question Mark? Apple pay is better? I said,
24:08
who do I send it to? I can get you the interview where
24:11
you will send it to give me a few minutes please. I'm like,
24:14
no problem. She goes, I'll need your ticket Master email that's where I'll
24:17
make the transfer to tickets. So I give her my email address. So
24:18
she's like, okay, got it. I've got the Apple pay info.
24:22
Are you set question mark? And now I'm just like, this is weird,
24:26
just this red flags or like I've been reading through my father's text messages
24:30
on these scammers at text and I'm like, this fucking sounds all too familiar
24:33
to me. So she sends me a random phone number and then she says,
24:37
send a screenshot after make the payment so I can confirm from my hubby.
24:41
I can't. Okay, sorry, I haven't done it this way.
24:45
How do I Apple Pay? Because I've never done it through a text message.
24:47
So now I'm on Google trying to figure out how to fucking Apple pay
24:49
someone through a text message. It's actually very easy. I just had never
24:52
done it before. And she said, you're only in a phone number.
24:56
Are you sure you use Apple Pay? You have to link card to applepan.
25:00
Oh yes, I use it, used to this store all the time.
25:02
Okay, let me know when it's sent. So now I'm on Google
25:04
figuring it out. I miss three messages from her. First one is three
25:10
question marks, second one hello question mark like I'm not responding to her.
25:14
Third one is maybe I should get Vemo. I'm sure you know how to
25:15
use that well, And I'm like, all right, now, the ladies
25:18
being a fucking co on. So I'm like, what the fuck. I'm
25:22
like, I'm like working on it, looking for the ad button. Blah
25:23
blah blah. She goes, just send the payment and a screenshot of the
25:26
payment when done. So I get it to the point where it's eight hundred
25:30
dollars and this fucking fraud suspected thing comes up. So I'm like, in
25:37
my mind done, It's probably just to pop up, but I'm fucking done.
25:41
So I sent that to her. She goes, click on it anyway.
25:42
That's how Apple does it. It pops up like that every time click
25:45
send anyway. I'm like, sorry, too much frog going around. I'll
25:48
pass on these. She's like, wait, I have proof of tickets.
25:52
This person knows me so well. There's nothing to be scared about. That
25:55
is the proof of the tickets. We can do two at a time if
25:56
you want payment for two, and I'll four the blah blah blah. She
25:59
just goes on and on and on. I said thanks for no thanks,
26:00
sorry to waste your time. So my friend calls me like twenty minutes later.
26:06
He's like, what happened. I'm like, listen, dude, Like,
26:10
dude, too many red flags came up. With this person. She's
26:12
got a whole nother number. She's like being very aggressive to get payment from
26:18
me. Like, and he knows what I'm going through with my dad.
26:21
I'm like, he goes, dude, what's her name? I go,
26:25
I don't know. And then he's talking to his wife and he's like Mary.
26:29
And I'm like he's like, I don't even know Mary. I go,
26:30
funny, you should say that, because she says you two are very
26:33
good friends. He goes, I don't know her. She just left the
26:34
thing on a message board and the fucking thing. I'm like, well,
26:37
sorry, Bud, I hate to put you out, but you know,
26:41
thanks for thinking to me. But I'm not I'm not going through with this.
26:42
She's like, no, no, no problem. I wake up this
26:45
morning text message. It was all a fraud. He found out. I'm
26:48
like, he goes, yeah, she said it was. It was all
26:52
a fraud. I go, she's in on it. She's fucking in on
26:55
it. She's just trying to make herself say face like it wasn't her fault.
26:57
Like fucking bullshit. You just don't know what a lot of money can't
27:03
you gotta? Or she gets four hundred if I just said half, you
27:06
know, like that, they try to whittle it down, knowing I won't
27:08
send anything they can get. That's how these fucking people operate. True,
27:14
yeah, once they well, as long as there was no other information of
27:17
yours on that screenshop, right, she couldn't get anymore. I know.
27:21
But that's just that's just how fucked it is now. Owen. Owen's interested
27:26
in acting, and he we saw something for an audition for a movie that
27:30
they're auditioning in New Haven, and so he signs up and goes and he's
27:36
at the audition. He text me and he's like, Dad, they're asking
27:40
for my social Security number and I haven't even auditioned yet. I'm like,
27:42
get out of there. I'm like your social for it. Well, exactly
27:48
right, exactly. So it's like I think it was just a scam.
27:52
And then I looked up their web pages, like one of those one page
27:55
web pages, you know, like they just put it up just to have
27:56
web web address. And I said, I'm sure they just did it just
28:00
the harvest personal info. YEP, I got skimmed a couple of years back.
28:07
People's bank at the time before they emerge ev and T they actually the
28:11
number said People's bank, and they told me there was a fraud something going
28:17
on on my account, and do I give them permission to go in and
28:25
stop the fraud? I thought it was like, well, it says People's
28:30
bank on it, right. They got them for like six hundred and some
28:33
dollars, but the bank refunded it. But yeah, you never know.
28:37
They're so sophisticated now that they have the logos for the banks. They have
28:41
the you know it rings up on your phone, the proper the proper logo,
28:47
so crazy. Yeah, we have to be very careful in the especially
28:51
doing real estate closings, because there's a lot of wire fraud out there where
28:55
you know, people are misdirecting because now we do most of our transaction by
28:57
wire, and you know, you have to call it the law firm,
29:03
confirm all the information. You can't trust any emails anymore. It's a it's
29:08
a friend of mine and another name. I don't want to mention on here,
29:11
but you know exactly who it is. I'll tell you. After took
29:15
out I think he said ninety thousand dollars out of his four oh one k
29:19
through Sikorski to send off to an investor. He wanted just to move some
29:25
money around and see if he can do better with it. So they literally
29:30
cut a check and ups it. It got stolen in transit and cashed within
29:37
twenty four hours at a Citizens bank cashed, cashed. Who the fuck cashes
29:42
a ninety thousand dollar check? And it's like somebody's got to be working at
29:45
that bank. Yeah, you know, there's a whole inside job going on.
29:48
Yeah, definitely, because you guys he called mill for police. He
29:51
did all his due diligence, Like I think he'll end up like, thank
29:55
god, he didn't need the money. It wasn't like something he needed to
29:56
get right away for right, Like he'll get it right, right, right
30:00
right, you'll get it back. Yeah, yeah, something. It's like
30:04
it is crazy out there, how much, you know? And like with
30:08
AI now I used to answer all these robot calls just to fuck around with
30:14
people. Now they're recording your voice, recording your voice us, using it
30:18
against your grandparents. Yeah, you know, and my mother lives alone,
30:22
ninety years old. And you know, I said, don't just you know,
30:26
why do you answer the phone? If you don't, it comes up
30:27
on your TV. It's not me or my brother or your daughter, don't
30:33
answer it. I just like to tell them I'm not interested. It should
30:37
be a play. I mean there's stuff where they could take control of your
30:41
computer, Like they could be like, oh, yeah, we're you know,
30:45
we're from you know, Apple support. We need to just can you
30:48
give us the access code to computer? We just need to there's someone trying
30:51
to hack it, you know, while they're the hackers. Yeah, and
30:52
they get right in and they just go and then go to your fucking yeah
30:59
bank account. There's a that's gonna pop up on the screen. Just just
31:02
check yes. Yeah, And then they were all yeah, it's it's the
31:06
amount of time and talent that they're using. You imagine if they did it
31:11
for a legitimate purpose, for something, you know, it's crazy. Yeah.
31:15
I tallied up all my father's ship and was just under twenty thousand.
31:22
Wow, that's terrible. And I called my brother and he's like, oh
31:25
no, I got some more up here. We're over that. And I
31:26
don't. Wow. I mean I got addresses, I got phone numbers,
31:33
I got Gmail accounts, I'm doing my own res But it's like, you
31:37
know, these people are just going on Google everything, making an ad finding
31:41
an address, it's near where my dad lives or lived, you know,
31:44
and it's you know, I'll never find these people, but but I will.
31:51
And when Tony g comes on actually starting an awareness, an awareness program
31:56
called Scam See your Citizens Awareness Mission, that's great idea. That's yeah.
32:04
And I want to get to you know, I just want to. I
32:07
just want just the little things you can do to really prevent someone. You
32:12
know, my father was almost eighty, but I saw him the last time
32:15
in October, and I just felt he was ninety and was confused. And
32:20
we confronted him about you know, what he was doing and what he thought
32:23
he was doing and what really was happening. And we thought we got to
32:30
him, but they didn't stop. You know. I was like I always
32:32
say, it was like groundhog Day for him. He just woke up the
32:35
next day and did his routine. And his routine involved fucking sending people money
32:40
that probably live in Nigeria. It's fucking insane. Yeah, why don't we
32:45
get to start something, you know, And it starts with us, It
32:47
starts with the younger generation to have you know, that sit down with your
32:53
parents and just you know, I always say, have a safe word,
32:59
you know, if if your mother gets a call from from junior and it's
33:04
Ai generated and he's like, I'm in I'm up from Boston and jail.
33:07
I need ten grand. What's the safe work? Yeah, I say viva,
33:12
but it's good safe for good safe work. Right. Alright, enough
33:15
of that. We talked about a lot of that in the future. But
33:17
yeah, just keep uh, you know, always get that in mind.
33:21
You'd be aware of what's really what's going on. Don't answer the phone if
33:23
you don't know. The numb a senior soon so I might be joining that
33:27
club. That's all on you, Paul. You don't drink like you're a
33:32
senior. You go ahead, pop another. I try to pull out their
33:37
nice the huckleberry huckleberry, huckleberry huckleberry huckleberry, finn baby nice. All right.
33:44
So I was in New Haven the other day. We're just gonna do
33:45
a couple of weird topics and then we'll finish this up. I was down
33:50
there, not knowing I was going down there. Well, I mean I
33:52
knew I was going there, but I didn't think I was going on like
33:53
Worcester Street. Uh, we're looking after kind of a family thing. We're
33:59
looking at after we learned Nicole's nieces. She's four. She had like an
34:02
asthma attack, so she was at Yale Children's Hospital. So we had to
34:08
swap some stuff out. We had to go down there and drop some stuff
34:10
off. But hecky, we're in New Haven. Let's go to Sally's or
34:15
Peppies. So we went to get We turned the corner. I'm in shorts.
34:20
You know, it's fucking cold out. I was just I was gonna
34:22
be in my car, you know. So I'm in shorts and sandals,
34:25
and you know the line. It was Sunday night. It was it Sunday
34:30
night, or that was Monday night, but it was the holiday, it
34:31
was president So we turned the corner. Sally's got a big line, Peppy's
34:37
got a big line. But there was a parking spot in Peppies of boom.
34:43
Yeah, yeah, let's freshy there and this is the Huckleberry Viva's baby,
34:49
and yeah, Stoneber's my bar. Citrus for sure. Citrus is probably
34:55
one of the biggest sellers of them this time of year until till the summer
34:59
comes in summer and you guys take over and we're standing in line of Peppies
35:02
and I'm freezing and everyone what was the last time you've been down on Worcester
35:06
Street Ben a while? Yeah, I was there last year. Yeah,
35:12
maybe just because it was a holiday weekend. But I mean not one not
35:15
being like mean or anything, but not one person in line spoke English.
35:20
It was it was like, I mean, there was Asian people there,
35:22
Spanish people there, and I don't know if that's a product of you know,
35:28
bar stool like like just blowing the ship up and you know, but
35:31
I've never seen it like that used to be Yale students and the Italians,
35:35
you know. In me, I didn't care, but I was like,
35:38
everyone's looking at me, like, oh look, this is idiot shuts with
35:40
fucking sandals on it. So I look across the street and there was a
35:45
place is it Ellie's. Yeah, we went there. Holy if they had
35:51
these little makeshift probably COVID produced, like they're actually, but they're permanent structures.
35:57
They built like silt like cinder blocks up and then they you know,
36:00
put a top on it with and it just heated by you know, the
36:02
little portable heaters. There's two of them, one out front and one on
36:07
the side of the building. We sat on one on the side server was
36:09
great. We got three pizzas and an appetizer. Pizza was phenomenal, Yeah,
36:14
really good. And I wasn't drinking, but like she had two drinks.
36:17
We had some sodas whatever. It was fucking ninety nine pers in and
36:21
out right on the highway. See you later. Of course we had to
36:24
go to Libby's but ste are you? Yeah, as I would say,
36:31
not as a bakery. I was not a fan. Yeah, I mean
36:37
you just go there and get Italian nice or no, I never get Italian
36:40
nice. We always getting pastries. I don't know if it's because it's good
36:45
or it's just because it's there. So it's like a routine, you know,
36:47
you go to Peppies or Sally's, you go to the Libby's. Right,
36:50
So the last time I went to Libbyes was years ago when I just
36:53
got an Italian nice. But I didn't. But now it's like it's this,
36:57
how long it's been since I've been down on Wilsard Street. But like
36:59
now, hold, yeah, they put money, redid it, they redid
37:02
it's the structure. It looks nice in there. I got, I got
37:07
something going on outside, I got, I got, I got pastries.
37:10
And I was not impressed at all. I got canoli and it was like
37:15
whipped cream in the middle. It wasn't like thick. Yeah, yeah it
37:19
was. Yeah, it was weird. Yeah. I mean I gotta go
37:23
to Mike's Pastries in Boston, like you can't beat that. So I figured
37:27
Libby's would be kind of the same. And I don't know, I'm people
37:30
love it. I'm not like talking down on it just wasn't for me.
37:35
My favorite down there is Adriana's. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I mean
37:39
for pizza, I don't I'm not gonna stand a line for pizza. I
37:43
mean, I love Jimmy's. I'll go to Jimmy's. I'll put Jimmy's against
37:45
Pettiser. Yeah. And I gotta go to your Buddies to place pesquals in
37:51
Yeah, I got try that place. Yeah. Past Walls is it's different
37:53
though I had for Super Bowl. It's delicious, but it's it's it's not
37:58
anything like New Haven. Okay, it's almost I would say it's between a
38:01
regular pizza and a Cecily Detroit style. Okay. The cool thing about it
38:07
though, is you can order like a large and it's you know, each
38:10
one comes, each one's like this big at square, so you can get
38:15
four different styles in one large box. And they're like, you know,
38:17
they're like personal pizzas. Their wings are really good. But apparently he does
38:22
a deep frog calzone that's out of this world. Yeah, I mean,
38:27
fuck it, defry anything holy a calzone. I never thought about doing that,
38:30
but yeah, give them a shot. But all through your expectations on
38:35
pizza is the best way to put it. It's tasty, all the ingredients
38:38
are great. It's just not it's just not anaving style, you know.
38:43
Yeah, there's so many sites now that people talk about, you know,
38:46
Haven style pizza being the best in the world. And there's there's a couple
38:51
of snobs out there that, you know, I think they're experts any type
38:55
of pizza. And you know, you put a I was making homemade pizza
39:00
during COVID and I put a picture of my homemade pizza on there and the
39:02
guy was like, that's not that's not Italian. You know, just like,
39:06
come on, stop it or you to judge me. Well, so
39:09
you so your favorite pizza in New Haven? I know Jimmy's you take a
39:13
favorite pizza in modern modern sa I'm going to agree with you on that.
39:17
Paulie for plane cheese modern, but Pepe's it's the white clam of bacon.
39:27
Yeah. I don't like clan, but I grew up well, actually my
39:30
family grew up in the valley, so I always liked So we did that
39:36
once. We actually that was a product of seeing it on Barb School and
39:40
holy moly, what what a cool little joint too. It's like that old
39:44
school feel in the middle of nowhere, really right across from high school.
39:50
Yeah, we went there and uh, we over ordered. That's the problem.
39:53
Like when we find a pizza place like yeah, well, like the
39:58
three of us all like different pizza aunt Pepperoni sausage. That's how I get
40:01
my pizza. I don't care where it's at. She wants like a fucking
40:06
salad pie or some kind of white chicken broccoli, and Branden wants black all
40:12
those. It's fucking weird. We do have a We are spoiled with the
40:16
amount of choices we have to get pizza though, I mean from from Artes
40:22
to you know, I got New Haven pizza the other night. I was
40:23
like them, Jimmy's always like Jimmy's. It was weird during COVID, though
40:28
I felt like it was. I mean they were so busy. I mean
40:31
they were fucking like Friday night. They didn't pick up their phone. But
40:36
as they've you know, not slowed down, as they've calmed down, I
40:38
would say sometimes it was a little inconsistent. But I think they're they're top
40:46
three at Milford at least, if not the top. I think New Haven
40:51
could give them a run for their money. Papa's Papa's is good too,
40:54
those three at Milford. Right, Yeah, I gotta go. My daughter
40:59
Katie Brooks there, so I got to where Jimmy's. I'll take Jimmy's over
41:05
any new even pizza anytime. I'll it's been a little Toto on This's pizza.
41:16
Now the truth comes back. There we go. We got oh ship,
41:20
that was funny. I like Jimmy's even before Katie got up there.
41:22
No, Jimmy's is good. Jimmy's is real good. Uh. And they're
41:27
fast, they're quick, and they're cheap. Yeah. Haven is not cheap
41:30
a pizza place. Yeah, I think it's if I would order I think
41:36
I ordered. What did I order? I ordered? Oh? I had
41:38
a poker night Here was sponsored by Viva and uh it was just sixty idiots
41:44
came over and I said, I'll get some Jimmy's and I got three larges
41:46
and it was like sixty five dollars, three larger than New Haven. Is
41:51
your your your closing on three figures? Yeah, I mean forgetting especially pizza.
41:59
But uh yeah, I think I think Jimmy's place thanks to Dive Bar,
42:04
which is technically West Haven, but tom Sister's place. Yeah, Tomato,
42:09
They're good to ye And I could walk there, so you can walk
42:15
there. That's a little bit of a walk. I like to say that.
42:24
Well, you know what, I can see you walk there and then
42:27
we get pizza, go to Die for some drinks, because I don't think
42:34
i'd ever see Paulie walking down to Haven out with a pizza in his hand
42:37
because he wanted a little exercise. I'm pretty confident as charged. However,
42:45
if I do, I'm pulling over. I'm taking a picture and we're going
42:49
to prove it there. Well, there you go, and you're probably gonna
42:52
beat bombed and be like can you get it? Ride? How we do
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43:04
I just hadn't been going out a lot lately. I was at that
43:06
the other night and it was good to be back. I really I don't
43:10
go out as much as I used to. Are you done with like vacationing
43:15
for the winter or I know you guys usually tried vacation January February. Camp's
43:21
going back down. He's going to Richie's tomorrow for the Honda Classic. I
43:25
wasn't invited, but I'm fine with that. No, Yeah, he's going
43:30
down. I'm good, I'm back. I'm back working. Okay. I
43:34
am doing a cruise. So my fiftieth is less than a month away birthday.
43:39
Thank you. Very nice cruise meaning Nicole going on a cruise right out
43:44
of New York Bermuda and back. It's a week long in like late April.
43:49
I hear you right now. He's gon get some good deals. Yeah,
43:52
I mean I overspent a little bit because I got, you know,
43:53
a little upgrade about Getty room. But you know, I think it was
43:58
for the two of us four thousand. But everything is fucking included. It's
44:00
open bar, obviously, the food is included. The upgrades for dinners are
44:05
included. You know, I think you get one hundred dollars off each excursion,
44:07
which will probably do one or two. You know, I just got
44:09
to bring a couple of wads of singles and fucking tip the bartenders, and
44:15
yeah, if you don't want to buy all the pictures. Day to get
44:17
there, day to get back, and then three or no, it's it's
44:21
three days to get there, three days at sea. So you leave a
44:22
Saturday early Saturday morning, you're a sea Saturday night, Sunday, Monday night,
44:27
get talk. Tuesday morning, you're in Bermuda Tuesday night, Wednesday night,
44:31
all day Tuesday, all day Wednesday, and then Thursday head bag and
44:35
then you fucking charge up the engines and you get home in two days.
44:37
Okay, so you get home Saturday morning. Yeah, I've done it before,
44:42
but I did it like the beginning April, and it's like, you
44:44
know, Permuter's only off the coast of Carolina, so it was cold.
44:49
So yeah, I'm like, you know, papas swiths to a sweetheart.
44:51
But I guarantee it's gonna be eighty and Sunday at that time of year.
44:53
Big five. Oh finally, huh excited. I've had waiting my whole life
44:58
for it. PAULI that's such a bad thing. I honestly, Uh,
45:05
in the morning, I feel fifty and by the afternoon I feel like I'm
45:07
thirty, and at night I feel like I'm twenty two, gallant around downtown
45:13
Milford with all the young kids. Oh wait, hold on, that's campy.
45:15
That does that. So another interesting story this is this is one for
45:23
restaurant people. Uh. This happened actually a couple of months ago, but
45:29
now the lawsuit's coming out, and I think we've all been to this place,
45:34
Raglan Road. The Irish Barnes use these springs, does the spring?
45:37
Yeah, I used to be you know, I saw the dry ye saw
45:42
there. Yeah, they've been there. They're one of the mainstays of that
45:45
area forever. And a doctor was in with her husband a couple of months
45:51
ago and she told the waiter that she had a nut and dairy allergies.
45:59
I don't think she's said to the extent of if I have this, I'm
46:01
gonna die. But she ordered like a corn fritter or something, which like
46:08
right off the rip, like you if you are like super gonna die kind
46:14
of allergy. Like you know, I get stunned by b and I don't
46:16
have my EpiPen. I'm gonna die. Yeah, I don't think I corn
46:21
fritter and trusting a server who probably just started last Saturday to even know what's
46:25
in a corn fritter, or do you even relay the message right they can
46:30
put or the cook that just started three weeks ago, he probably doesn't make
46:36
the batter. I'm assuming there's probably some kind of dairy buttermilk something in that
46:38
batter. I don't know if that. They didn't say that was what it
46:42
was. But she left the restaurant, she went somewhere else. She had
46:47
trouble breathing. They actually epipender for out of the hospital. She died on
46:52
the hospital. So now the husband issuing Raglan Road for negligence, and I
47:01
think there's like a fifty thousand dollars wrongful. There's not much money, but
47:05
there's like a fifty thousand dollars wrongful. That's like a Florida Florida. Yeah.
47:09
Yeah, and then he's, you know, he's trying to sue as
47:13
much as he can, obviously, but it's just a lesson learned. Like
47:17
like you know, I get so many people like we're like Stones is very
47:22
gluten friendly, Like every menu item we have is either gluten free or gluten
47:27
free adaptable, which means will take the fucking bot off your burger, you
47:30
know, like something like that, or there's nothing in the ingredients, you
47:35
know. So that being said, we you know, we still don't know.
47:39
I still write it on my checks, like tree nut allergy, gluten
47:44
alogy, even if it's gluten free, I still write gluten free because we
47:47
actually are so good at work where we like separate our riolators. So like,
47:51
no fried fish is going to ever be with buffalo wings because across the
47:55
detamination of gluten. I don't know. Rag on the Road probably serves mostly
48:01
bangers and mashed and shepherd's pie. I wouldn't you think they added corn for
48:06
the corn for cile like fucking and it's your last meal to oh wow ow
48:15
geese. He took it there, man o man. But you know,
48:24
you guys still obviously don't have to deal with that because you don't have a
48:27
kitchen. But so many lot alleys. I mean, somebody could have a
48:31
blue an allergy and went to pig fucking breakfast. Dug. Yeah, I
48:36
mean it's it's uh, it's well, you know, we're so happy society
48:40
and there's you know, there's regulations on top of lawsuits and uh, you
48:45
know they look at the hot water stewl it's getting in too, you know
48:49
with that. Oh my god. Yeah, I didn't read too much into
48:52
that. So that so a young woman eat something there? Yeah, I
48:55
hate a cooking and the nuts. Uh. And it wasn't labeled. The
49:01
box was not labeled, and steel Lunters is blaming the manufacturer, Managemachers blaming
49:07
Stu Lenarns, and you know, on and goes. At least that last
49:12
meal was a cookie. Yeah, sure, yeah, corporate, I'm just
49:16
saying Cornford from Rankling Road. I don't know. My brother gots a sit
49:24
here in the allergy and I remember when we were kids. He went into
49:29
a store I think mom was doing something and he walked it into a convenience
49:32
store about a chunky You know, chunky is a little square chocolate barx fucking
49:38
yeah sure, and he ain't the fucking thing. For the next three hours
49:43
He's puked. We got rid in the hospital. I'm like, dude,
49:46
that's not you. You know, a little thing says chunking on it,
49:50
It says can your mother? I think she screamed out the whole rise.
49:54
He's puked out of the window to the hospital. Oh God, So yeah,
49:59
that's to learn. I mean, you got you got to careful with
50:00
that stuff. Yeah, anyone in the restaurant business. And some people are
50:05
so adamant too, They're like, my thought, are you sure you told
50:07
to cook? Remember? And I'm like, I almost want to sprinkle some
50:12
fucking nuts on top of your meal. Now I would never do that.
50:15
Yeah, they almost. People have to, you know, they shouldn't even
50:19
go out, right, And I don't want. I don't. I don't
50:22
mean to be dissing people that have allergies, but if it's that severe,
50:28
then you know you've got to really, you know, almost have a food
50:31
taster, right, right, So just order grilled chicken with no seasoning and
50:37
if you really want to go out, yeah, and you stick to you
50:39
know, top Knocks di rectaurants like you. You know, they're conscious about
50:43
that stuff instead of just throwing whatever in the fry lader. Right, I
50:46
was at I do a lot of gluten free just I'm not like Celia,
50:52
but if I overload on it and my stomach gets really upset. So I
50:55
was at a pizza place coming back from Florida. It was like a little
51:00
like it was almost like subway of pizza. It's called your pie and you
51:01
just go right down the line. You put the toppings on and bake it
51:04
and you're fucking off. But I asked for the gluten free car crust and
51:07
the guy says, is it a preference or an allergy? And I said,
51:12
wow, no one's ever said that to me. I said, well,
51:14
you know, it's mostly a preference. He goes, well, because
51:16
we do have a lot of flower floating around this restaurant, I can't guarantee
51:20
you, if you have Celiacs, that not a speck of flower might get
51:23
on this pizza, you know, because it's just a one big line.
51:28
I appreciate you saying that, but if I get sick, I'm still going
51:31
as you look at me like cross either. All right, let's finish on
51:38
this. Travis Kelce Taylor Swift. It's been in a story of stories for
51:44
about three months now. You're talking to a Raider fan number one, So
51:49
well, you know what, I have a couple of friends that are Raider
51:52
fans, and you don't see it as obnoxious as they are. But I've
51:55
never watched football with you either. I hate the Chiefs well no, no,
52:00
no, I hate the Chiefs too. Patriots, I hate the Choose.
52:02
I hate the Patriots too. Well, all right, d a fa
52:06
you probably hate everybody. I just saw your number one draft pick. You
52:09
gotta arrested again? The rad Yeah, no, it's not surprise. You
52:16
know, guns and ship in his car. He's since fancut. He was
52:21
like remember that guy, He was a d back draft. He was on
52:23
a Hard Knocks. He was in one of the stars of that Hard Knock
52:27
season with John Grutin. You should never put the Raiders in Vegas. No,
52:31
that was not a smart move. Let's see you lost the wide receiver
52:37
Henry Ruggs. Yes, for killing a lady and a dog and more people
52:42
were more concerned about the dog than the lady, which is which is a
52:45
whole other topic of top Yeah, but what about the bog? Oh Pete
52:53
is gonna be on my ass after this show. Uh So. The latest
52:58
rumor that rumor, actually this is fact was Kelsey. She was in Australia.
53:04
This is like last week or a couple of days ago. So she's
53:07
rounding out her Australian part of her tour and he went out there. Well,
53:14
he left the tour to go to Vegas to meet up with his boys
53:20
from the team from the Cancas Raiders. They're up Cancer Rats. H to
53:27
part of this boys out in Vegas, like post Super Bowl celebration. You
53:30
know, hey, we just led gunshots at KC. Let's go to Vegas.
53:32
Smart idea. That's why Tom Radio was at a ranch. She just
53:37
invited one to his ranch in Montana and they just shot their own guns,
53:42
no cameras. So now this part is rumor, but apparently she has given
53:47
him all these really crazy rules when he follows her at these concerts, Like
53:54
I don't really know what all the rules are, but I can imagine,
53:58
like, you know, you have to stand he you can't talk to anybody.
54:01
You're back to the room right after the show, like you can't go
54:04
have fun. And I think he got fed up. So fuck this.
54:07
I'm going to Vegas with my boys, which any thirty two year old guy
54:14
would do after winning his third Super Bowl, right, Yeah, true,
54:16
that's not very true. The funck wants to me down under when all your
54:22
boys are in Vegas, Dude, I'd want to be as as cool as
54:23
it would be to be down under. I want to be in Vegas.
54:27
My boys. Yeah, go see the show, you know, spend a
54:30
little time. They went to the zoo in Australia, and then right go
54:34
back and party with the boys. I sit around for another four hour marathon
54:37
watching you dance around and get one kiss from me after the show. Because
54:39
this relationship is so fucking fake, they're gonna be broken. I can't say
54:44
anything bad about Taylor Swift. I'll get my daughter loves her and my wife
54:47
loves her. I love you guys. So I so here's the deal.
54:52
Like, I get pushed back online about talking about this, but people don't
54:57
understand my angle. I hate Travis Kelcey. He is not right for her.
55:02
I don't mind Taylor Swift. She's fine. I actually like her.
55:07
I don't think she's super attractive or anything, but I think she's obviously very
55:10
talented. She's not the kind of music I like. He is a fucking
55:14
douchebag. He always has been. To ask any of his ex girlfriends.
55:19
All the songs that Taylor's gonna write about him, just wait until they break
55:22
up. They're all gonna be about him. Because he's a meathead. He's
55:27
an idiot. He's not even funny. He thinks he's funny. And that's
55:31
where I stand on this. I don't care about Taylor. Taylor, I
55:36
just what do you think about the running with the coach? So they all
55:39
say that that's a big, big, big red flag for Taylor. This
55:44
is what all the relation experts are saying. Yeah, I don't know,
55:51
Like Brady kind of got that way, Like I could see why I was
55:53
mad. I mean, like I will never take away how great Kelsey is,
55:58
Like he just can't deny it. Don't know why he's always wide open,
56:00
but because he is always white open. But I mean I just wish
56:06
Andy Reid kind of shout him back. I guess, like, like this
56:08
is my team. Get the fuck over. I would have said him,
56:12
yeah, yeah, I would have signal, would have said I'll call you
56:15
up when I need you. Balachieck would probably said go to locker room with
56:19
done for it again and would have rather lost the Super Bowl because Kelsey had
56:23
a good second half. Yeah, like he had like one target in the
56:25
first and then he even like had one hundred yards in a second. But
56:29
I think I think the whole, the whole, uh, Kelsey Swift thing
56:35
is just it's been fun. You know, it's been good for the NFL.
56:39
Her career is tremendous. What she does when she comes into a city,
56:45
I mean she changes the economic outcome of the of the city just from
56:51
having a concert there. Revenue goes up, Restaurants are busy, bars are
56:53
busy. I don't really have an opinion on Kelsey. Uh, I'm a
56:59
Steeler fan, so but I think it's good. So you the highest rated
57:06
TV show ever beat the moon Landing, but the super Bowl? Yes,
57:09
yeah, well that yeah, and they said they'll never replicate it. So,
57:15
oh, I doubt that. I doubt that she gonna be She'll be
57:21
dating Brady next year. That's what she should have dated. Yeah, I
57:24
said, set her up with O'Connell, you know what. You know what,
57:29
I totally respect about Taylor. So somebody's a reporter asked her why she's
57:35
not doing the halftime show. This had nothing to do with Kelsey, just
57:37
in general, like, why haven't you done a Super Bowl halftime show?
57:40
Why wouldn't you do it this year, next year, the year after?
57:44
And she literally said, and I don't even think this is being cocky,
57:47
she said, I don't want to take away from the game because she knows
57:51
she would, like she is it. She is the one right now,
57:55
Like you could put all of these R and B stars up there, you
57:58
put it whoever was on there that I can't remember. I don't really watch
58:00
him. Yeah sure, yeah, but Usher is kind of like yesterday's news,
58:06
like he's still relevant, but she is. No one's making billions like
58:10
she's making. He's in the billion stratosphere. I don't know, it's it's
58:15
crazy. And she made Travis Kelcey pay for this week that I think the
58:25
brother's got to be Jason. He he's awesome. He just looks like a
58:29
guy. I want to go out with the party. Oh yeah, definitely,
58:31
we'll take our shirts off. We'll be taking So, speaking of wanting
58:37
to party with, I have reached out to h ty Law's camp to try
58:44
to get them and won't be parade, but hopefully sometime in the spring to
58:49
come down and release the Courts vodka. Yeah, not much feedback yet.
58:54
But that night when I left you a dinner, we hung out with him
58:59
and he you know, he was a little drunk, but I got his
59:00
cousin's phone number and all this whatever. He was down. He was like,
59:05
I think he lives in the area, so he's like, yeah,
59:06
well come great. He took pictures with everybody hands. It was annihilated.
59:13
But like, these guys are like and even though he's retired, he's in
59:16
such good shape. Like these guys are just their machines. They're Hall of
59:21
Fame fucking athletes, right, and they just he was literally doing a shot
59:24
with everyone. They took a picture with him, every fucking one and the
59:27
line was around the corner. And then after the DA we saw him late
59:30
night and he was still ripping shots wow, with fucking Ray and me,
59:35
and I was like, oh my god, I'm like, I just wanted
59:37
to go to bed, my fat, old fifty year old self. I
59:42
can't hang anymore. Yeah, I put myself to bed round eleven. But
59:45
me and Polly were up the next morning. That's right, he had a
59:49
bloody had a guinness. Yeah, let's go. Yeah, all right,
59:54
what a show. We got a little off topic there. Oh I do
59:58
want to do one little shout out. The hat I'm wearing is a buddy
1:00:01
mine. Anthony Farina. He started his own podcast called Upstate Golf Guys Podcast.
1:00:07
It's on Instagram, Upstate Dash Golf Dash Guys Dash Podcast. They get
1:00:10
a lot of influencers, golf influencers on the show and stuff like that,
1:00:15
and him and his buddies every year State Ocean's Edge and Kay God and Prist
1:00:21
you know what that is a lot of there, super posh. I used
1:00:23
to deliver seafood there when I was a kid. And Winston where it's has
1:00:28
a big condo there and they stay there every year and their goal is to
1:00:31
hit every golf course on the cape and kind of do a podcast about him
1:00:36
and stuff like that. So good guys check it out Upstate Golf Guys Podcast.
1:00:40
And I'm trying to get a couple of local golf guys on right around
1:00:44
the Master's mister Swaboda from Great River yup and there's another guy that my friend
1:00:52
knows that qualified for the PGA. It's always fun to talk golf. I
1:00:58
don't think I anything listens on the old golf pot guys, but these guys
1:01:00
are you know what they're doing. And Polly Pollie is a fucking scratch golfer.
1:01:06
Yeah I used to be Yeah. Never, that's like, you don't
1:01:12
you know it's being on Tuesdays if it's rating and it's the after after the
1:01:15
hell you said that he last night, and well, well better plug the
1:01:19
golf tournament on May twentieth then oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:01:22
yeah, go ahead. I just launched a scholarship golf tournament May twentieth up
1:01:27
at orange Hill's nice breakfast and lunch YEP one hundred and eighty one hundred and
1:01:30
sixty five dollars this year. Yes, and for breakfast and lunch at eighteen
1:01:35
holes, and it goes to scholarships. We give out now six eight eight
1:01:39
eight scholar school scholars stations. Jonathan Law Feign High, Laurelton Hall, Plat
1:01:45
Tech. So what is a high school scholarship entail? Yeah? I think
1:01:51
we give we give oh the students the street graduating, seniors graduating. Yeah,
1:01:55
yeah, I gotta look at esday. Yeah. And this is the
1:01:59
first year we are selling parade t shirts. That's what I brought you today.
1:02:04
Oh so we got it? Well, put it on the camera quick,
1:02:07
nice, Yeah, you hold that up. You're right on. Yeah,
1:02:10
it turned out very nice. We have men's and ladies ye styles.
1:02:17
Lady size is small to two X and men's sizes large to three x nice
1:02:23
very nice, good quality, nice, comfortable and twenty bucks supports of the
1:02:28
parade. Nice Yeah, nothing wrong with that twenty bucks all right, gentlemen.
1:02:34
So so that tournament is on the May twentieth, Is that a ate
1:02:37
Monday? Monday? Monday? I'll rally up. Yeah, I'll rally up
1:02:42
beforecing for that. Yeah. Absolutely, you know me packing around of course.
1:02:47
But all right, so next week I don't even know what I got
1:02:51
playing next week. I just filled up January. That's Tony coming on a
1:02:57
couple of weeks ago. Nothing next week. Something will come up, Something
1:03:00
will come up. Something always comes up. Always, something happens. Somebody's
1:03:06
got something to say. If you fall short. I mean I could put
1:03:08
my parade outfit on and come back up with the with the bagpipes. No,
1:03:15
just pip piper over you same guy. But we have several bands in
1:03:20
the parade. I have like three three pipe bands in the parade. But
1:03:22
don't go to guys. Ted wrap up. He's with the Fairfield Gaelic Pipe
1:03:27
Band. So you just need a piper, That's what we usually go with.
1:03:30
If you just need a piper, Yeah, just on just one guy.
1:03:34
What's one guy? A funeral for a funeral, yeah, exactly,
1:03:37
Yes, people keep dying unfortunately. All right, boys, thanks so much
1:03:40
for coming on. Thanks right, I know we're gonna have great weather.
1:03:45
Uh, I know you guys are busy going back. If you guys want
1:03:47
to, just stop it and say hi if you can. If you can't,
1:03:50
I'll, you know, obviously, see you around the I'll definitely Julia
1:03:53
Dato stressed out too much about it and wake up Saturday morning with a nice
1:03:58
guinness or that's right, and I will do that. You'll tally after the
1:04:03
show. Yeah, definitely let you guys head out. Definitely. All right,
1:04:06
sounds good, Thank you, Thanks guys, mil for parade next not
1:04:10
the Saturday, next Saturday, March ninth. It is weather, penny,
1:04:14
but early reports looked like fifty one and a little light chance of rain,
1:04:18
which that's ten days away. I'm not even worried about that happen. And
1:04:24
all right, thanks so much guys for listening, and we'll talk to you
1:04:26
next week.