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Goomba Johnny Unfiltered: Radio Fame, Stand-Up Comedy, Family & Finding Love · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: This is the Cats in Budding podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Melting Pot and now here's Jen.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of
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  Speaker 3: Cats and Pudding and today.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I have such an awesome co host
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  Speaker 3: with me today.
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  Speaker 4: So it's Candice Cordino. Oh my god, thank you for
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  Speaker 4: having me. I'm I have having so much fun today.
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  Speaker 4: By the like, I'm having so much. I know, to
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  Speaker 4: stop talk, we have to stop talking. They have to
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  Speaker 4: tell us to shut the fuck.
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  Speaker 5: We don't get the guests of Jam.
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  Speaker 3: With the Tobos, but we're gonna give this guest a chance.
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  Speaker 3: We hid and let's let's introduce our wonderful guests that
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  Speaker 3: he came here today for us. Really, Scott, you came here.
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  Speaker 5: We got Gumba Johnny here, Yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome, you got you got fifteen minutes. Je, let's make
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  Speaker 1: it snappy.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hurry up. We'll welcome with So you're here.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, look, you reached out and you're very polite.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Like to do different podcasts from time to time. I
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  Speaker 2: get asked often, I guess because of my radio background. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and I also get asked to do them. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got me in the right mood.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, you were polite.
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  Speaker 4: I was polite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're very polite.
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  Speaker 2: You're very gracious, and it made it very easy for
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  Speaker 2: me to say, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. That was so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently you're charming when you want to be.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I am so.
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  Speaker 3: I've been told my ex husband will can tell you
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  Speaker 3: the other sorry to make if you feel that.
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  Speaker 6: Way after you leave the conversation with us.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so glad that you hear like you're such an icon.
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  Speaker 3: You are like we, you know, listen to you for
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  Speaker 3: our lives, you know, Molly, I.
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  Speaker 2: Get that, you know as I I've been doing comedy
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  Speaker 2: for the past six and a half years, been you know,
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot in the Northeast, and then many times
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  Speaker 2: you run into people and it's complimentary, but it makes
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  Speaker 2: me laugh when they say, Google Johnny, I grew up
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  Speaker 2: with you. Yeah, and I'm like, oh my god, I'm
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  Speaker 2: that old.
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  Speaker 4: No. No, but you're but what you do you started
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  Speaker 4: when you were very younger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, Well I had a
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  Speaker 1: long career too.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the comments I get is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll meet somebody, you know, like in their thirties, early thirties,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll say, when I was driving to school, I
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  Speaker 2: told my mother, you better put Goolby Johnny Hans on
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  Speaker 2: the radio.
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  Speaker 6: Literally, that's the conversation I just have before I got
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  Speaker 6: here with my mom.
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  Speaker 5: She's liked going to see Google Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: Remember we used to put them on the radio. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty funny to hear that, and it's very complimentary
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very flattered by it. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you know, like we're in a podcast, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's similar. We are speaking, but we don't know how
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  Speaker 2: many people are speaking to so like it's station like
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  Speaker 2: kat you Over the course of the week, they had
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  Speaker 2: two million plus listeners. So I'm in a room with
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  Speaker 2: six to eight people and I don't I can make
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  Speaker 2: I knew I was making the people in the room laugh,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't, you know. I would go to the
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  Speaker 2: gym and then people would say to me, hey, you
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  Speaker 2: said this, I almost drove off the road and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I said, you thought that was funny, and he goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I said, I wasn't trying to be funny.
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  Speaker 5: So interesting, you didn't realize how funny you were and
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  Speaker 5: how many people you were reaching.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I knew how many people I was reaching. I
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  Speaker 2: just you don't know the reactions. And that's the difference.
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  Speaker 2: I do stand up comedy now, so I get that
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  Speaker 2: instant gratification. You know, jo doesn't joke, doesn't work, it's
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  Speaker 2: right in front of me.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel?
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about that transition like now that
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  Speaker 3: it's like live right in front of you as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to being on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, if anybody asked me when I am,
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  Speaker 2: even though I had a great radio career, I will
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  Speaker 2: always say I'm a comedian first. It is the the
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  Speaker 2: proudest thing that I've done associated with the brotherhood of comedians.
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  Speaker 2: I love comedians and I love being a part of
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  Speaker 2: being able to call myself a comedian. It's great. It's
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  Speaker 2: the only job that I ever had. Well, you can
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  Speaker 2: get off stage. I'll get off stage, or somebody will
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  Speaker 2: get all stage and they'll say, another comedian will come
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  Speaker 2: up to me and goes that bit that you did
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  Speaker 2: about your aunt is the I wish I wrote that
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  Speaker 2: kill and but sincerely mean it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean? A compliment about your
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  Speaker 1: work that is not just like to butter you up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like guy goes.
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  Speaker 3: Your peer from your peers such a respect.
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  Speaker 2: You get that acknowledgment from your peers, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really meaningful to me. I mean, I've never
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  Speaker 2: had that kind of work thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Radio is different, Yeah, you know, I mean radio personalities
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  Speaker 2: have reputation for being quirky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's well deserved. You know you are.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you are hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: You are so funny.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know you are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean my mother.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my mother said to me when I was sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: I used to break my mother's so bad.
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  Speaker 1: No mom, I but she my mother.
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  Speaker 2: Oddly enough, my mother was Polish and my father was Sicilian.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was sixteen, my mother looked at me.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, Johnny boy, I gotta tell you, I thought
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  Speaker 2: you were weird. I said, well, what makes you say that?
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  Speaker 2: She goes, no, I get your jokes now, I said, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: you're Polish.
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  Speaker 4: So she lies.
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  Speaker 1: She had a wonderful sense of humor.
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  Speaker 2: She was great, God rest her soul. She was so
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  Speaker 2: kind to my mother. My mother was just you know,
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  Speaker 2: you ever hear that expression A good egg? Yeah? She
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  Speaker 2: was people like when anybody needed help, they came to
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  Speaker 2: see my mother.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she was always there, you know, is.
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  Speaker 5: That where you get your humor from?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not my father too, because my father was funny,
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  Speaker 2: but he never told a joke.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it was just naturally funny.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: He was really sarcastic, you know, you know, like he
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  Speaker 2: was great.
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  Speaker 1: He was so funny.
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  Speaker 2: My mother was polish, like I said, And when I
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  Speaker 2: was on the radio and it was the height of
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  Speaker 2: my career, took my parents out.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So the check came and my mother goes, soal pick
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  Speaker 2: it up. She goes, what do you mean, what do
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  Speaker 2: you want me to pick it up for? She goes,
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  Speaker 2: he only works four hours a day. He has a
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  Speaker 2: part time job.
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  Speaker 1: My father goes, do you have any idea how much
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  Speaker 1: money he makes?
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  Speaker 2: She goes, I want you to pick up the check.
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  Speaker 2: My mother thought I had a part time job on
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  Speaker 2: the radio because I only worked four hours. So my father,
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  Speaker 2: my father got so mad he picked up the check.
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  Speaker 2: I said, you better leave a big tip. These people
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  Speaker 2: know me.
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  Speaker 7: So he goes, you're thirty eight years old. I'm still
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  Speaker 7: paying for you. Do you have no idea You're going
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  Speaker 7: to tell your mother, how much money you made? And
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  Speaker 7: then one of the funniest things.
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  Speaker 2: I was at my career was really it was in
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  Speaker 2: their early maybe two thousand and four, and the radio
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  Speaker 2: station was blowing up, and so is my career with it.
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  Speaker 2: And my mother comes home and she goes, Johnny Boy,
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Boy. You'll know she's calling Johnny by Johnny Boy.
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  Speaker 2: You'll never believe what happened today. I said, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: She goes, I went to get my hair done, colored
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  Speaker 2: and cut, and they would not charge me because I'm
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  Speaker 2: your mom. So I said, all the things I've done
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  Speaker 2: in my life, and now you think I made it
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  Speaker 2: because you got a free haircut.
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  Speaker 5: That means a lot to a woman.
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  Speaker 7: I got to tell you so polish, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So my mother was cute like that. You know that
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  Speaker 2: my dad was to it. So my father this is
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  Speaker 2: how my father sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get it. We're sitting down in the living room.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, you know, I accomplished a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: in my life. You know, I was a U police
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  Speaker 2: force for twenty seven years because I was the youngest
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  Speaker 2: councilman for ten years.
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  Speaker 4: Is that where you're from, youngers, No, Bronx Bronx.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and he goes, uh, I was in the Korean War.
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  Speaker 2: I said, you did do a lot, and he was
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  Speaker 2: going on. So he goes, if one more person introduces
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  Speaker 2: me as fucking gumba Johnny's father, he goes, I'm gonna puke.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, I said, you.
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  Speaker 5: Made me exactly uske.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my dad sent you to me, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom was very very sweet. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: just we had a great household growing up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the strength of my life was in the fact that
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  Speaker 2: there was not one day in my life that I
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  Speaker 2: thought what my parents would split up. I can't even
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  Speaker 2: I could hardly remember arguments, wow, anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean we had her moments, but it
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  Speaker 2: was a rock solid household. Yeah yeah, and I got it.
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  Speaker 2: That really laid a good foundation for me emotionally.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's important, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, if you see it a lot today,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's time.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, it's just well, it's too easy to
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  Speaker 2: quit right exactly, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: My mother told me a story. She was married.
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  Speaker 2: Three weeks she went back home to her mother and
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  Speaker 2: mother goes, what are you doing here? She goes, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I could do this. My mother, my mother
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  Speaker 2: threw out her house. So you go back to your husband.
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  Speaker 2: You never come back here again. And my mother last
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  Speaker 2: and tells her that story, and that was the mentality. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: what there weren't many opportunities for women then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as far.
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  Speaker 4: As workwise, get married to get out of the house.
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  Speaker 3: My sister got married to get away from my father
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  Speaker 3: because she wasn't allowed to chet to be home at
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  Speaker 3: nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting, you know, it's not like that now now.
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  Speaker 2: Now a guy could you know, you know, it used
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  Speaker 2: to be you know, women would you know, go into
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  Speaker 2: a bar and you know, look for a guy with
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  Speaker 2: a good career. Now you're a guy, you can look
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  Speaker 2: for a woman with a good career.
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  Speaker 3: She probably probably, But I feel like it's because, I mean, seriously,
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  Speaker 3: they made divorce too.
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  Speaker 4: Easy now, and I think that's horrible. They should not make.
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  Speaker 3: It so easy because if you're gonna get married, because
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  Speaker 3: they was like, oh, well, you know what, it's not
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  Speaker 3: working out, you know, I don't feel like, no, it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be that easy for people to divorce. And it's
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  Speaker 3: and it's all about the family, and it's about like
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  Speaker 3: the and I think that that's the problem with the society.
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  Speaker 4: Today is that the family unit is not together.
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  Speaker 1: Is it not like us?
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  Speaker 4: And that's a fabric of any society.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, and and the.
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  Speaker 2: Any ethnicity, like in other words, like right now, Asians
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  Speaker 2: are have the highest media and income, but they also
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  Speaker 2: have the lowest rated divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So and East Indians also, So you know, the nuclear family,
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  Speaker 2: that is really what makes the world go round. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean if I can't even imagine what my life
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  Speaker 2: would be like without my dad, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I mean I see for my own father.
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  Speaker 5: My grandmother.
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  Speaker 6: Drove to Mexico in nineteen fifty nine pregnant with my
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  Speaker 6: father to get a divorce because it was so hard
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  Speaker 6: to get a divorce, and she changed her name, so
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  Speaker 6: she trove to Mexico to do that. Very not normal,
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  Speaker 6: you shouldn't do that, but it was so are you like.
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  Speaker 1: An illegal immigrant?
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  Speaker 6: Don't judge me in some way in someway, But she
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  Speaker 6: changed our last name, like she did her whole thing
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  Speaker 6: because she wanted Oh yeah, they made it impossible, right,
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  Speaker 6: they made it impossible where now like you're a point
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  Speaker 6: you could just do these things.
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  Speaker 5: But I always think of that and I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 5: it's so hard for her.
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  Speaker 6: Now I have friends today pregnant, have a kid, don't
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  Speaker 6: have a kid, three kids that we're getting divorce.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we're just separating. I'm like, like, I mean, do
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  Speaker 5: you be happy?
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  Speaker 6: You know that's important, But I do wonder if that
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  Speaker 6: sort of stick with it, try to work it out.
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  Speaker 6: If it was sort of instilled in us a little earlier,
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  Speaker 6: maybe we would be doing that more.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think, well, I'm a boomer, so I come
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  Speaker 2: from that generation, you know. And I saw a TV show.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was Oprah and or Doctor Phil.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was interviewed six women who got divorced. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: six women who got divorced. Three of them said, if
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  Speaker 2: I knew what I knew now, I would never get divorced.
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  Speaker 2: If I knew the financial hardships I was gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or if I knew the type of men that was
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  Speaker 2: out there. I had no idea. My husband was a
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  Speaker 2: good guy. He wasn't perfect, but he was a good guy.
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  Speaker 2: And they said, I wish I never did it. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, And I think I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: A lot, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, if you listen to the wedding vows, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean for better or for worse.
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  Speaker 1: You know it doesn't say for better and not so bad.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's not always going to be good. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what I think the problem is today. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that my white thing is with these new feminists.
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  Speaker 3: They've wrecked, wrecked the whole thing about family life.
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  Speaker 4: We can have it all.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want it all, want it all, like I
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  Speaker 3: don't want it all, and like, listen, listen, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: strong woman. I'm a powerful woman. I have my own businesses.
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  Speaker 4: I have a gun. I have a gun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, I've been charged with a soul before.
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  Speaker 3: But I still want a man to treat me like
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  Speaker 3: a lady, open the door for me, treat me. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's being making you subservience, And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's putting you on a pedestal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure you equally will treat your partners the
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  Speaker 2: same way, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But you know they say.
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  Speaker 2: It's like uncool to say, marry your own kind, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, being Italian and I married another sillient too,
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  Speaker 2: just just celebrating the holidays the same way.
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  Speaker 4: And that's still by the way, I'm still a thing.
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  Speaker 5: That is still a fight even though you're both Italian.
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  Speaker 6: My husband's little Irish, but we don't talk about that
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  Speaker 6: as my mother gets upset.
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  Speaker 5: But like that's still a fight and we're both of
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  Speaker 5: the same.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like if Italians married Irish, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of it's okay, like it's it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's okay, but it's accepted.
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  Speaker 4: It's exactly we acknowledge it. They do make beautiful children.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's that's probably the most like the
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  Speaker 3: common nationality that it could be as common for us,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: But it's like it's so true. It's like and I
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  Speaker 4: hate to say that it sound politically incorrect, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does sound politically intocorrect. But I couldn't marry
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  Speaker 2: a woman that didn't understand my love for food right
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  Speaker 2: and eating and how much I have to.
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  Speaker 3: Eat right, Like when you come to your mother's house,
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  Speaker 3: how much if you're not hungry, you can't come inside
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  Speaker 3: my house because they're gonna feed you.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't marry someone that didn't understand my food salts.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, literally, okay, what are you doing? Just have somebody
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  Speaker 4: to eat all.
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  Speaker 2: I had a girlfriend come over my house on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: We ate every Sunday at two o'clock, same time, same meal.
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  Speaker 2: My mother would cook, my father, everybody would be there.
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  Speaker 2: It was great in a.
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  Speaker 4: Full especially your mom cook Italian food.
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  Speaker 1: My mother. This is a sidebar.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in the Bronx on Seymour Avenue, right
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  Speaker 2: on Gunhill Road, right.
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  Speaker 3: And you know Catherine no dude, right, Well she's I'm
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: close with her too, so she does the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: With me sometimes.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Katy's great.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's great people.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: And we're in the play together.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Actually she's doing another play with Colin in. Vinie Piazza, Yeah,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Piazza are you?
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Vinnie Pizza was my best man at my wedding.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Really, that's so amazing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: So, which was at City Hall wasn't much of a wedding.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to brag, like like we were at Russo's.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: On the bagod that's MyoD.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I called the can you got me go? Pink pounding around.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I called up Vinnie and I said Vinnie, I'm getting
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: married tomorrow. I need you to be a witness for me.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: So he goes, where are you going? I said, city hall?
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: He goes, okay, city Hall. He had flowers. He was
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: the best man and made of honor.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: At the same time.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: It was so unromantic. My wife was the only woman
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: there who wasn't pregnant and spoke English. And I mean
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: it was just I got married with like seventy two landscapers.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was not romantic at all. We got
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: in the elevator. You could ask Vinnie this, you have
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: had many shove We got in the elevator. It was
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: one woman in the elevator. We pressed the second floor.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget. The woman was in the back of
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the elevator and she goes, goes to my wife, don't
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: do it, honey.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: He's going to leave you anyway.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: So Vinnie goes, excuse me, miss, we haven't don't do it, honey.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: He's probably a piece of shit like mine. Oh my god,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not even married yet.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: She probably go to the city hall.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: You think it's like it's literally I got married in
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: city hall too.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: What's your name, John? What's your name, your Danielle. Okay,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: you're married. You can leave now, that's it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: That's it. Then I went to Sarah Bets for breakfast.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I got to ask you how long you're married?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Nah?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: October nineteen years?
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Come on, it worked. Oh yeah, you didn't need the
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: big wedding.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I have a.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: She's dropped dead gorgeous my wife, and she's also very
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: loyal and very loving. So that's all I asked for.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, more, do you need children?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: No, my wife got sick and when we first got married,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: she got chronic lime disease. Oh so we unfortunately, we
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: weren't in a position to have children.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, and you know I got married at fifty.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: So that's the first time you were ever married.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Do you think it was close to your career that
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: you did married before that?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: No?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I think it had a lot to do with me
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: being an asshole. Well, I mean I.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Think that was I love an honest guy guy I.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Had, I mean define asshole.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: No, I wasn't an ass an asshole.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: No, I wasn't either. I just I never was able to.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I had a very loving relationship with my mother, and uh,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: you know, my mother taught me how to love, and
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: my father taught me how to live. So I had
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: a great it's a great love. Yeah, I had a
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: great combination that way. So I had a deep respect
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: from women. But I had I had such an interesting
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: life and so many different career changes. And I don't know,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: besides my wife, I don't think I ever believed a
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: woman when she said I love you.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Really.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife's the only person that when she told
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: me she loved me. And I'm like, this idiot actually
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: actually means it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Why would you think?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just like a gut thing with me,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? It was like, you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I guess I was a little bit of a commitment fold.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: You know, I always found like eighty five ninety percent.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Of what I was.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: You know what it is You meet people, right and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: then this far away from being perfect for you, right,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: but it might as.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Well be a mile that's not your soulmate.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: No, No, so.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: My wife, I met her and I got married fourteen
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: weeks later.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: That was it. Well, actually, you know, it's not a soulmate.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: It's a twin flame? Is is that? What that said?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Twin flame is a personal posed to be.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I do something wrong. Oh, oh my my shirts bunching up.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: I didn't see it. I didn't notice.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I worry about it. Oh, don't shoot higher, lift the camera.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: I already asked her about her She knees, you know.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I facing she.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I got all sorts of fixed, fucked up ship going
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: on over here.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta tell you people everything.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: So you got your twin flames.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: She's got you, yeah, I mean, I'm very very happy
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: with my wife. We we you know, when she got sick,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that was a really trying time. I don't want to
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: say for the both of us, really for her, you know, but.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: It's got to be for the both of you because
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: you had to go through with her that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It's hard to see somebody, uh, you love suffer.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: It's hard.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: It was difficult, but I came to really love her
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: much more deeply because she was so tough.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: My wife's a.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Tough sob and she's Sicilian.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: She's yeah, seventy five percent Sicilian and the other twenty
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: five percent is German. So I don't know if that's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a great combination.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: As nails man.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's tough as nails, is right, So you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: we're still at it together. And you know she does.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I got her doing videos with me online now.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I was watching it so funny, funny, she's good.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're both funny. You are your chemistry together.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, my wife's it's funny now because we go
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: out to the supermarket and I'll be there and people
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: will come up to my wife.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I love your videos. What about me? What about me?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I have a career too.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Oh you're good, Johnny book. But she's really good. And
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like Jesus Christ, I created a monster I love.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: It's gonna have to kill her. I love it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: And you said she's an actress too.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: She was for a brief period of time and she
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: did very, very well, and she just lost interest. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: don't know why. I wish she would pick it up again.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You know, she's very attractive, and she's comedically gifted. You
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: could see with the timing and all that, and she's
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: the camera loves her.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean. My wife is one
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: of those people where beautiful lady, Yeah, it translates.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Sometimes people are attractive, and.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: When it doesn't translate into them, well, we're.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: One of those. Were those lucky one.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I'm going to thank you and I laugh really love.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: In my early early twenties, I once took an acting
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: class and the.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Teacher walks in and stood by behind the camera. You're
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: laughing already, Johnny, don't even know where I'm going with this?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Do you feel the same way?
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: And the teacher looks behy and the can't just sit there.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: So I sat and pasting the camera, and the teacher
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: sat behind the camera and.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Went, oh, oh, you've got a looking in person. I
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: was like, oh my god. And then he's like, all right,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: let's start the scene.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: I'm like, you just told me I'm better looking in person,
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: so you're like ship through that lens and I'm in
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: an on camera acting class.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I wish you told me that story off.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Listen, don't tell me I look like the way he
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: said it till this day. It made me left so hard.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: But isn't it hard with it?
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I mean as being an actor, I mean now all
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: the time I'm doing it now in my second life career,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I'm doing now and I'm like, I guess maybe because
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I'm I guess. I'm in the beauty business, and it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: like when I'm doing patients, I'm like on stage every
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: day talking to patients. While they're looking at you, they're
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: looking at me, and they'll look and they're trying to
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: like size me up and see like, so obviously I
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: can't look like the crip keeper because they would never
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: want to get a treatment.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: From me, because if I look like that, they were
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: like doing anything with this ugly lady.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: You don't look right and exactly if she looks like ship,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: then I'm gonna look like shit.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: So it's kind of I guess.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, they weren't hand in hand, but it is
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: difficult when somebody comes in and like they'll tell you
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: what you look so much better.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Off coming, so much better looking off yourself.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: But that's why I did theater because I was like,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Be in funny Now are you?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Are you guys interviewing each other? Now is the segment
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: of the show that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Tends to happen.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Sometimes happened. You know what will tell you women, this
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: is what's gonna happen.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Come on, Johnny, you know that, ladies and gentlemen on camera.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I just want everybody to know I never do it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: My career would end like this here and now. This
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: is the end of goomba Johnny. Right, yeah, there's podcast.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You'll never see me publicly again. You girls killed Johnny?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: You look great, you look great on camera.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know about that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: You know what you look like? Eric Roberts does that?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I get a looking.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I get John Cena.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, oh my god.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, you guys could do like a brother's thing.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: If I have a baseball hat on, definitely interesting. And
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you. Oh man, it's a long story. I
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: won't tell you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Oh no, you gotta tell us slid a shortened version
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: as my fault, A long story short.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I worked with Anthony Rodia.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we n we were working in Boston, right,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: So Anthony goes, I want to do a meet and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: greet and meet the people, meet the people.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Right after the show.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: This was when we first started working together, six and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: a half years ago.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: This was our first gig outside.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Now you know him from from the Bronx, right, you know?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: No, I know him from Nursehell. Really yeah, I lived
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in Nurse Show. Yeah for a short period of time.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But he's he's twenty five years younger than me. Yeah, so.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: A lot of people from the Bronx moved.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: To new Yeah, west Chester, mayor pac up there, Yeah, Bronx.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: They fled.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: So so he goes, let's do the meet and greet.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: This is a true story. So they were like fourteen people. Now,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: it was the first show we did.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Outside. There's a drunk couple at the end.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Guy the guy is really drunk, and he sees me
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and goes Johnny, Johnny.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is not gonna be good.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: He goes to did anybody ever tell you you look
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: like Tom Brady?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I said, I said no, he's more in Boston. I said,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: nobody's ever told me that. So Anthony puts down his
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: pen he was signing on. He goes, dude, what are
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you drunk? He looks nothing like Tom Brady? What makes
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: you think he looks like Tom Brady? So I said,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't say anything. Go Johnny, do you think you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: look like Tom Brady? I said, no, Anthony, he's drunk.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: So I got a little pissed off, you know Anthony
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: that Anthony was so vocal about it. Not pissed off,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: but you know, a little agitated. So the next like
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: six cities we went to we would do to meet
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: and greet, and then I would go to the back
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: of the line and I would grab somebody. I said,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: when you get to the front, tell Anthony how much
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I look like Tom Brady.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Beautiful?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Right, So they would get I would just stand on
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the side and the people would go up.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: You know, doesn't Johnny look like Tom Brady? And he
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: does not, right. So this went on for six cities
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: right in there. Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: So we're in Cincinnati, were having breakfast with drinking coffee,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: and he goes to me, you know, Johnny, it goes,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, but the whole country thinks you
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: look like Tom Brady. So I said, I don't know
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: what to tell you. Maybe I do look like Tom Brady.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And then that night he caught me.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: In the back line, like the whole country can't be wrong.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Whole country can't be wrong. So it was pretty It
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: was pretty funny. I've had people tell me Brian Cranston.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe yeah, yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: But John Cena mostly if I have a baseball hat
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and I'm in a supermarket, all all the all the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Latino workers up, yeah, John Cena. Yeah, I'm like, I'm
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: not John Cena's grandpa.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: You definitely have a recognizable face, obviously, but it's it's
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: funny because as in my brain as a kid goomba,
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Johnny didn't.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Have a face, had a voice.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: To me, it was just a voice. Right.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: And now that of course you're touring and all these things,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: and you're on stage and seeing people.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Now you have a face, but you in general have
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: a recognizable face.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's weird because if when I was
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: on the radio, and if I was in the store
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: or a supermarket, you know, and and if I raised
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: my voice and say you got baked beans, two women
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: would turn around.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: John never a guy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Then when you're on the radio, people don't know what
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: you look like. And then they come up to you. Hey,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I thought you'd be fat, And I said, well, I
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: like to.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Go to the gym, you'd be smart.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Now where's They say? Where's your mustache?
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Do you have one?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: No?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I am not Harry. I'm half Polish. I'm not Harry
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Polish people. No, people would say that where's mustache?
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't have hair?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is where I drew the line.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: One one woman said to me, I pictured you with
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: a wife beater with gravy stains on it. And I said,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that's so funny. Because I pictured you with much larger
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: breasts and I got fed up. I couldn't take it anything.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: But people don't, you know. I mean, you know, people
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: for the most part, are extremely nice, very polite.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I love people, so.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I don't mind interacting with them on any level at all.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: And even now, I'm the guy you walk into the elevator,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I start talking to you. Yeah, like, if you walk
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: down the elevators, Hey, how are you well, I'd like you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I'd like your ear as you know, how you doing today?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: That's me.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And then sometimes people look at me like, all right,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: this guy is too friendly.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: But I'm I'm kind and I'm earnest about it. I
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: love people. I love meeting new people. My wife says
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I talk too much, but I said, you know, how
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: do you think we pay the bills I talked?
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: My husband says, it's me.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: We're going on vacation.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: He goes, don't talk to no one.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Listen. This is how I get through.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Don't make any friends. Can I'm gonna say about that
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: we have.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: That's so funny that you say that. Yeah, yeah, And
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I enjoy it.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I enjoy people. I love people, and you know, I mean,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: if you don't love people, this this is not your
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: it's not your business.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: But I do. I do like being by myself.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: You know, when you get off stage, there's so much
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: you're so much, so much giving and so much.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Taking, so much.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: And then like you know, like when I was on
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: a radio all right, to give you an example, I
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: do the radio in the morning, right, and then I
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: have to do interviews after that, West Coast interviews, celebrity,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: so on and so forth. Get out, go out that night,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: do two comedy shows, stay on stage for forty five
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: minutes an hour each show, come home and lay in bed,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and you know, my wife goes, uh, you know, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: think we got a flat in one of the cars.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I just don't have any words, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: know what.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't. I mean, I'm sure we do,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: but I got I don't mean.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: To be rude.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: You got to recharge.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I don't give. I don't give a ship. And then
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: she she would look at me, and my wife goes,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: if the people knew what your real personality was, like,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: nobody would pay a time to see you. I said, well,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I hope my secret's safe with you. Yeah, that she's
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: really funny. Yeah, she's great, She's really great.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Do you ever see yourself back on the radio again?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, I would do it, but it would have to
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: be the right situation for me and the radio station.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: You know, radio has changed a lot, you know. Yeah,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: it's a lot different, you know.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I I think there's not a premium on talent now,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I don't know if
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I could ever get back in. I mean I would
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: under the right circumstances. But they eliminated so many jobs.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: And what that does is, like, let's say, Elvis Durant's
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a very dear friend of mine. We had the same
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: agent for years, right, Elvis is just a wonderful person.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Elvis is on eighty morning shelves across the country. So
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: what happened He eliminated eighty staffs. Okay, the company saves money,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: so on and so for So when you do that
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: and you do voiceover work on the weekend, what you
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: do is you kill the farm system. You know, where
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: do you get the new talent from? Even though Elvis
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: is very deserving. Ryan Seacurs is very deserving of being
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: on five hundred stations, where does the new talent come from?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, It doesn't.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: You know, the new talent used to come from guys
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: who did the weekend so guys who did overnights, you know,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: guys who worked on your staff, you know what I mean,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: who watched what you were doing, and you know, got
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a break into radio. And I think that's one of
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the problems with radio today is that they they had
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: a good business plan, you know, as far as like,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: you know, cutting back on costs and salaries and stuff
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: like that, but I don't think they took into consideration
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: the breeding of new talent. Yeah, and that's how you start,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah, you know, that's.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: How you get in it and you get a break.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, the guy who comes on the
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: sitcom steals a couple of scenes and then he gets
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: his own sitcom, you know what I mean.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: And that's just how it happens.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Which is also kind of not a thing anymore, right,
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: It's it's very very much changed.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I think it's just so much content out there.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: You can make content on your phone and that all
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: of a sudden is now a series and that's being
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: bought up and.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Crazy all of that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: You've interviewed so many people. Do you have like a
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: favorite interview.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I have a couple. It's funny you said that Luther
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Vandros was, you know. I mean, I've I've been fortunate enough, Madonna, Share,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I could go on and on, Ricky Martin,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: you know all of them.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Some people come in and you could see the white light.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: You could see you could you could see why why
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: they are. Other people come in and you just mumbled these.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know, because that's fascinating that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to badmount anybody,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: but I will tell you who.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Luther Vandros was just such a special person.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I think I did the last radio interview before before
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: he passed away.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: And I love his music.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I was totally totally smitten, not in a sexual way,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: a living Newton John.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: And I just sat there and I said, Sandy G.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: She was sitting to the right of me. I'm going
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Sandy D, Sandy D. She goes, you know it's me John.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Wow, that was a starstruck moment for you.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because of Greece.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: But she didn't disappoint in person.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: No, she was very very sweet.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: You know some people and I have to say, you know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Britney Spears.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He'll tell you what.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I interviewed Britney Spears from when she was sixteen to
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: like twenty two.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Every year.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Very sweet kid, you know, yeah, I mean, you know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I mean there was all these misconceptions about her. A
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: very very nice person. Ricky Martin was ridiculously impressive. He
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: was like the eye of a hurricane. Everything around him
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: is going crazy, and Ricky Mark is like, no mistake. Yeah, yeah,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: he was a wonderful person.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Who else There was just so many.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I can't that's amazing.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you a funny story. You'll know this one.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: They arranged a I was in the studio RuPaul and
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: it was me rupaula sheelvisage, and they arranged from spring
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: training and interview with Derek Jeeter. Right, So, Derek Cheeter's
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: on the phone and I'm interviewing. I'm asking him questions
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: about the team and so on and so forth. And
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I said, okay, Rue, you have any questions And he
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: goes Derek, it's RuPaul and he goes HI with Paul,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: and you know, and he goes, do you know Andy,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: what's the picture's name? Andy?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: No?
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Why Andy Pettitt? Yeah, I can't believe I forgot that.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: He goes, do you know Andy Pettitt? And he goes, Yeah,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: he goes, he's on my team. He goes, I think
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: he's really cute.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Can you tell him that? And you could hear Derek
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Jeter drop the phone and say, who set up this interview?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you know, and that's why was great.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was great for the station. The station
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: was great for him.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I have to say a meeting Roue Paul and working
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: with Michelle Visage changed all my sensibilities about what the
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: l gb Q community was about, you know what I mean,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I mean just tremendously. So I never had that insight,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I mean I would hardly.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Describe myself as, you know, anti anything, But after meeting
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: you know, a real the drag wing and then and
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: then yeah, Michelle is so Michelle is so open minded
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: and so cool. Uh. It changed all my sensibilities about
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the community. And you know, I was never anti, but
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I became a big fan.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you finally, like you said, had the insight
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: from them.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: It was wonderful meet and meeting RuPaul was.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Was a game changer for me.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: And listening to his stories about what it was like
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: to be a drag queen in the seventies in the
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: meatpacking district was ugly.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was ugly, you know.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: And people say, oh my god, Bruce Jenner. No, no,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: it's not Bruce Jenner. Yeah, definitely, you know Bruce Jenner.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: She paved the way.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: She's wonderful.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: I went to her the premiere of the drag Reef
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: a couple of times the last three years, and she's
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: really really nice person. I call her she because every
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: time I'm with her, she's in drag.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: When and when you work on the radio, he's not.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: He's dressed in like like some protest suit or something
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: He's very stylish.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: I still look and I don't think she has changed
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: a bit in twenty some sort of fountain of youth
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: going on.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: I would need to know what's happening.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: But she has not changed.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how. You know, after everything
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: he's been through, how was his mind?
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: And then that way, he's been very inspirational to me.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I mean he really he really could have been in
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: like a looney bin, you know what I mean. I
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: mean he went through I mean I don't know everything,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: but the little that he told me, and you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: especially at somebody like that who gets really put in
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: a position me against the world. Yeah, you know what
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I mean. And I never been in that kind of situation.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, I don't think I
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: could have handled the kind of pressure that that that
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: guy had to live with.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Got to respect that, yeah, yeah, you gotta respect it. Man. See,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: he's a special person.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: How many years were you on the air with him?
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: He was only on station for two years.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: And I didn't work with him on a regular basis
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: but periodically. But I worked with Michelle for like ten years,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Michelle and I after he left and it was me
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: and Michelle.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: You know, Can I ask you a question? How did
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: you Where did you gumbo Johnny come from?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: All right, that's a great question.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: Great question.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Last question.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, he's looking at his clock.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's looking at it. Look, how are you talking
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: about his clock? He's like, it's just more than fifteen minutes?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: John oh t baby, get some dummies on the way out.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: You'll understand. I gotta get what's coming to me. I'm
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: sure you girls have heard that before, what murder.
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: He was a great guy, the best guy around.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: So I was on the radio and station manager did
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: not want me to use my real name because it
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: was just too hard to remember.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: And too hard to say.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: So he goes, I love the fact that you're Italian
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: and your character is Italian. He goes, I'd like to
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: use an Italian nickname. Do you have any ideas? So
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I said, how about Tony Minaro? Goes, Tony Manarow, that's
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: fantastic Saturday night fever.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: He goes, that's great. I love it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I said, I can't do it. I can't do Tony
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Naro because why not? I said, I can't dance, just
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: in case.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: That would have been funny if you.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Want me to go in the club and everybody goes, Tony,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: you want to dance with me? And my ankle hurts,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: I just loved you to watch you dead, and.
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: If you hit it like you did, they'd be dancing
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: with you in grocery stores and be like, I.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Can't do that.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I can't. So he goes, okay, okay. So I said, how.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: About Johnny Gumbaugh And he looks at me and he goes,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Gumba Johnny Wow. And then he walks down the hallway
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and he turns around and he points at me. He goes,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be famous. And I had to trademark and
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: copyright the name. I had to stop people from opening
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: up pizzerias and restaurants.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: That's what you should do.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: That's what you should do. I mean, it's hot.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of you could rent out your name.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, with the name, I hadn't.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I had Orfers, I haven't. I haven't acted on any
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: of them when I've had Orfers for that kind of stuff.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: It is a great name.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Iconic.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what was funny, and I'll leave
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: you at this.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I was on the radio and I forgot what year
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: it was, and I get a phone call and a
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: woman she goes.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Johnny, congratulations. I said, congratulations on what you won. You're
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the champion. You have the champion.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I said, miss, what are you talking about? Apparently at
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: the Westminature Dog Show there was a poodle named Gumba
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Johnny that won the championship. Some lady named her dog
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: after me, and she thought it was my thought.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I smissed, I don't even own a dog. What are
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: you talking about?
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: I want to know is that she.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: Thinks you were Goomba Johnny that owned a dog named That's.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: What she thought. Yeah, I love it.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I said, I had no idea.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: You see, that's why I had a trademark your name.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I had a trademark, man, well, I did. I did
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: before that, but many times, you know, I had and
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: this will be pertinent for your show. I had many
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: girls come up to me. I named my cat Gumba Johnny.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Which cat, No, that's right, I wouldn't dare say that. Yeah,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: I named my cat Gumba Johnny. And that kid called
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: me up. I named my goldfish Gumba Johnny. I'm like,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: don't flush it, kid, you know.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: So I love that. That's a great story. And you
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: know what he was right, he said, You're you're going
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: to be famous.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very prophetic.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I mean the little fame that
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I've been able to accomplish. But you know, I'm I'm
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: still working and you know, to be to be someone,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: you know, to be a little bit relevant. And the
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: entertainment industry at this age is it.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Is good for me, very satisfying.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of people, you know don't still
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: get work, and I seem to still get work, you know.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: And what I'm trying to say is people aren't sick
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: of me yet, and you know, and I'm very I
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: feel very, very blessed for that. And that's it, you know,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, and I'll leave you with this. And this
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: became a joke as I'm getting older, you know, you
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: you I had to have a talk with my wife
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: and I was considerably younger than me about mortality. So
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: she says, what do you want me to do? I said,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want to wake, no wake. I don't want
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: anybody networking over my dead body. And I had no selfies.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I had three friends that met their wives at wakes.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Nobody's getting laid.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: At my way. This is hilarious.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: So she goes, what do you want me to do?
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: I said, I want a mass and I want to
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: be cremated. She goes, okay, I said, I want you
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: to take the ashes and I want you to put
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: them in the kitchen.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: In the kitchen, yeah, She.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Goes, why would I do that? I said, on Sunday,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: when you make the chicken cutlets, I want you to
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: sprinkle a little bit of me on the chicken couplets.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: She goes, that's sick. Why would I do that? I said,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I want to give you odgen a one more time.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Don't love that?
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: So? So she that's the That's what conversations in our
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: house are.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: Like that, And you got to keep that going.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I love she's always going. Is that for your act?
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Is that my own self?
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Like the other day we were in bed, and she
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: says to me, if they wrote a book about our marriage,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: what would they call it? I said, the woman who
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: took down Johnny? So I ruined my sex life. I
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: got to tell you, I'm my own worst you know,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: it's very hard to listen to this, to get romantic
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I'm my own worst enemy.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: But I make good materials, don't I want to have
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: good sounds. Tell everybody where they could find you.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Let us know when you're first of all, I'm starving
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: like a garbage you make. I know your No, I
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: can't believe that you don't you know, like you don't
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: have like a six foot wedge.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Out here or some I have.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: We have a lot of food in the kitchen.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: H it's all crap.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: Next time, I'll make sure i'll bring you. I'll bring
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: you some nice chicken.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: Cor We'll sprinkle some stuff on that.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Let's bring some new Tell.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Everybody where they could find you.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Well, when is it?
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: Probably a week?
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: A week on July twenty fourth, I'm gonna be at
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: the Brokerage Club in Belmore Long Island.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: I was just there on Saturday with Chris Monty.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: We're doing a double headliner show August first. I'm going
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: to be local finally at UH it's a restaurant show.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: It's a dinner show. It's called Pelham on the Rails.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: August first. It's a dinner show, like sixty five dollars,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: so you get drinks, food and tip and tax included.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: And then I come out and I do a show.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: You eat dinner and I love doing those things.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: That's so much fun.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: That's called Pelham on the Rails. And after that, I'm
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: doing a show with Judy torres On on on August
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I think it's August eighth.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, good friend.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Well, we're doing it on the beach at MJ's in Bayville,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. So I'm going to go up and do
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: some like a half hour Puerto Rican jokes and then
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: then Judy's going He's going to sing and it's on
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: the beach. It's fantastic. It's really like kind of like
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: the first of its kind type thing. So I'm very
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: excited about that. And I just want to say, Judy
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Torres is, without a doubt, an angel. I haven't met one.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: She could be the nicest person.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: And she's wonderful.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: And that's why, that's why I can't stand her.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: She's a great person.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: I love Oh my god, I work she sat next
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: to me, I mean for years.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: She's such a sweetheart. She's just she's a wonderful person.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Man, she's just a good person. She just reeks up it.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: And if you get to really really know her and
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, and uh, extremely talented and uh you know,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: she she keeps on blossoming. She does, you know, books
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: and one man shows and singing and stuff like that.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: I can't say enough. I've worked with a lot of people.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I can't say enough compliment. Yeah, she's really very very special.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Let's wrap it up. Thank you for being on my show.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Thank you for being on my show, and please, I
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: love to have you.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: You want to take a picture because you're never going
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: to see me again.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Let's get a.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Picture, everybody.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: You're never going to see Johnny again, but please tune
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: into my episode.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Where can we find this YouTube?
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: Apple and Spotify and click the.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Subsurcy need starlink to get starling together.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: And I want to send Gumbo Johnny after you if
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: you don't freaking subscribe to my channel.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Thank you, everybody, have a great time.