Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - Mike Vecchione: Florida Class

Episode Date: October 15, 2020

Kippy and Foley are back with a classic episode with the hilarious Mike Vecchione. Mike talks growing up in Florida, wrestling, and Youngstown Ohio. You know Mike from No Disrespect Podcast, Comedy Central, Tonight Show, and the King of Staten Island. Support our Sponsors: https://kushydreams.com and use code Garbage for 20% Originally Aired on www.GasdigitalNetwork.com on October 13th, 2020 Sign up for Gas Digital: www.GasdigitalNetwork.com - Promo code: AYG Follow Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/kevinryancomedy/ Follow Foley: https://www.instagram.com/foleygrams/ Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans?

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Yeah. Welcome to another exciting edition of R U Garbage. The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals or absolute trash. Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H Foley. Woo hoo hoo! Yes sir, hey everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite new podcast.

This is R U Garbage. The show where we sit down with your favorite comedians and find out if they grow up classy or if they're absolute trash. I'm your host H Foley coming at you on a nice chilly, rainy, foley day here in New York fucking city alive and well in the East Village here in the gas digital studios

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You save a couple of bucks. We make a couple of bucks. It's a win, fucking win, baby. Yeah, thanks a lot guys. Absolutely, and gang, we could not be more excited to have our incredibly special guest with us here today. Another super requested comedian on the podcast today. This kid's an earner.

I'll tell you that right now. He is a very successful standup comedian and actor. As a standup, he has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He has his own Comedy Central Presents, Comedy Underground with David Tell, Last Comic Standing, Conan, Comedy Knockout, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,

this week at the Comedy Cellar. All right, as an actor, he has appeared in Inside Amy Schumer, aka Wyatt Scenic, and a fucking scene stealer. Oh, and the summer fucking blockbuster, The King of Staten Island, but most importantly, he is a part of the gas digital family. He has an incredible podcast right here on the network

that I know all of you are fans of. And if you're not, you gotta fucking check it out. It's called No Disrespect. The big question was mine today, is he garbage? I'm saying no, because every time I'm around him, I get the feeling he wants to hurt me. So I think he's got a really good sense and judge a character.

Give it up for the one, the only, Mr. Mike Vecchione. Everybody. Thank you guys for having me in to test whether I'm garbage or not. I like you guys, Foley and Ryan. It's like rogue cops cornering me. Fatso and the Baldi is what we call it. We made some mistakes.

We're trying to get it all back, trying to get it right. Like I told you before, I'm a big fan of the podcast. I'm ready to be put to the test. I made sure I got plenty of sleep last night. I did my stretches and my mental acuity exercises. So I'm ready for anything you have to throw at me. Mayo, no, ketchup, no. Any kind of those white trash things

as condiments that you throw at me, I'm already ready to say no. Gray Poupon, yes. Oh. Yeah, let me make the decision for you easier, okay? I come confrontational. I come confrontational. It gets views.

It gets listens. He's putting the system on trial. He's on trial. Like a Jimmy Stewart over here. I'll go right into it. I know you guys like to work off. I know you guys like an arc. Dylan went to the, we went to the same high school.

Did you guys know that? He had mentioned. I didn't believe that. Community high school, home of the Bobcats. In Boca. You guys got a couple of live Bobcats in the fucking studio. I don't know if you realize that or not. This guy's all wrapped up on Kratom over here.

91 and 15 in this bitch. Holy shit. I do want to say you fucking stole that scene in fucking The King of Sin. Man, fantastic. Was that one of your, that's one of your bits, I believe, right? Or is it something?

Well I improv, the beauty about Judd is he'll put you in a scene and then there's lines but he'll let you improv it and he'll give you a bunch of takes and it's fantastic. That was like one of the joys to see you get that like as I was watching and then they kept coming back to what I'm like, oh and you just kept tagging it and tagging.

It was fantastic. And Pete was very generous in that too. He just let me roll. That was a very classy thing he just did there too. And I'm saying that there's no doubt in my mind that you're classy. There's no doubt. But you're still gonna ask me the questions, of course.

We'll see if there's any dirt there for sure. But when he said that's the thing about Judd. Yeah, that's fucking nice. It's a classy segue, that's the thing about you guys. You guys are being both good cops right now. I'm waiting for the bad cop to come out. You're bad cop for both of us, you came in shooting. You're psychologically trying to trick me into relaxing

and then hit me with a fuck. Get the phone book in here now. And then you're gonna hit me, do you have an above ground pool, which is your sign that you're white? Oh yeah, he's got one. He's got one that's half, they dug it, they dug it a little lower, so it's half above half on it.

Built a deck around it. Built a deck around it. You dive right in, Mike. Walk right off the patio, dive right in. But you can't dive, it's only three feet. Do a cannonball, look at gentlemen. It's more of a puddle. Is it Long Island?

No, outside of Philly. We talked about this a little briefly. You do have Jersey roots though. No, I lived in Philly for eight years and I taught there. But I don't have any, I'm not hungry. But you didn't grow up there. Okay, interesting. Did you start comedy there?

Cause you were, I remember you being a fit like, I remember back in the day, you were feeling, yeah. Which is no longer, you know, in business. But I think it's interesting the dives that you said, like it's like a cannonball is a white trash. A dive is actually classy. Sure, if you can hold one off, yeah.

You know, there are different ways to leap into the water. The trashiest would be the canop. Yeah, the one-legged. Because there was only few guys that could do that very well. They were always underage smokers. They were cut on jeans. They had like a really thin chest

with like a little bit of chest hair. They were banging somebody's mom. But when they showed up- You're describing everybody who hangs out at the Wawa in South Jersey. Oh, and they show up at that pool, man. They got fucking athletic ability. But the thing that made it interesting is like they were,

they, that was their time to shine. Yeah. They had to convince them. Like, hey, Greg, come over, do the can opener. Like really get it going. And they, they've reveled in it. What does a can opener look like? If I might be so-

It's the one-legged. One leg. You might know it as a cherry bomb. All right. I think too as well. AKA cherry bomb. That's really- The belly flop also is a light trash.

Of course. That's, you know. A belly flop contest. If you've ever been to or participated in a belly flop contest, you can't come back for that. I mean, it's one step away from suicide. That's just really be honest.

But the can opener shows athletic ability. And that is when people peek. There was that guy that could do that. All right. There was the guy, I knew a kid, he was the biggest dirt ball in our town, but he could hold himself sideways on a fucking like a street pole.

Wow. Yeah. It was always single family, single parent family. Oh yeah. Do weird shit like that. Had a mini bike zipping around. I had a mini bike. I think you guys are talking about core strength right now.

That's where we get into my current story. This guy, Sean, you're a buff guy. I'm losing weight. You do keep it tight. You have a strict diet, you keep it tight. Well, I was on a diet and we can get into diet if you want to. I don't know if this counts.

Big. But I was on the, I've been experimenting with a bunch of stuff, but I finally figured it out now in quarantine. I could be more excited about it. Great. What is it? What are you doing?

A keto version. It's a keto version of intermittent fasting. Ooh. So I'm doing keto, but I would just, my problem is overeating. So I would just do keto, but then I would just eat over each doing that. Yeah.

And then that didn't help me at all. So it's like, and I refuse to do intermittent fasting for a long time because I wrestled and I suffered when I had to cut weight really bad. He explains about it to you. I honestly, people don't believe me, but I, and I would never change it for the world.

I loved it. It was an unbelievable experience. I honestly feel like that has that fucked me up and fucked up my relationship with food. And I honest, every time I walk up a flight of stairs, I think about that. Cause we used to have to run these stairs

over and over and over and over again. I think I was already fucked up, but wrestling implanted that in my mind that this is a lot of suffering. My friend, Greg Warren, do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, of course. He's a fucking fantastic comment.

Hilarious. Was a really, really good wrestler. It wasn't all American. And I tried. He does have cauliflower. I noticed that. He doesn't get on a scale now. Wow.

It doesn't matter where. Doctor's office, physical. He's like, nope. And he will get into a verbal thing with the doctor. I'm not getting on a fucking scale, dude. He's like, just close your eyes. No, no, no, no, no. I'll know.

He makes him get down on all four. It's one of the funniest things. That's wild. It's throwing legs, throwing legs on a nurse during a physical. I told you I'd do it. Holy shit. So let's get into the origin story of Mike Vecchione.

Another thing too is want to point this out. If I may, sidebar, there's, I don't think there's gonna be anywhere to go on this. I have never seen him where his hair didn't look exactly fucking like that. What do you get? What do you get? A haircut every three days?

I believe the word you're looking for is equidistant. It's shaped up on both sides. I do that for geometric reasons as much as anything, guys. I gotta be honest with you. He's so much stylish. He's just big into angles. How many, how many, how often do you get a haircut? I cut it every two weeks, but I cut it.

I learned how to cut it in college. My roommate, James Burrell, shout out to, I give him credit every time I say, shout out to James, one of my best friends. Everybody's getting a shout out. Showed me how to. A bokeh to Jersey. From Judd Apatow to James in room 32B.

He's a lawyer in New York now. And we went to college again. He was a Maryland state champ. He was fucking really tough and a lawyer now and he taught me how to do it in college. So I would do it, mess up, and he would just be there to like fix it. And he did that until I figured it out.

So that's how, that's. Cuts his own hair, but it keeps, how do you get the back? I cut it with a mirror. I don't trust myself. It's like a magic trick. There's a lot of mirrors. Smoking mirrors.

Smoking mirrors. Same thing when I take my pants off. A lot of smoking mirrors. I'm always amazed by that, especially these days. I always hear like women say like, you know, like the guy pulled his dick out right away. That's my last fucking move. Yeah.

I'll make you a dinner before my dick comes out. I don't think that's happening so much anymore. Yeah, I think that's for the record. Boca Raton, Florida. Boca Raton, Florida. Well, I have a weird story because I was born in Youngstown, Ohio, which is like Rust Beltz.

Yeah, yeah. That's like, that's the epitome of like blue collar, like Youngstown, yeah. So my grandfather on my father's side had a family business. They had a mushroom growing and canning operation that started out as, started out as spaghetti sauce. Couldn't compete with Ragu and some of the other big names. Are you being serious?

Absolutely. That's like an Italian super hero origin story. Ragu's killing us. We'll get them cock suckers now. Hey, grandpa, what about these mushrooms? All right, put them in a can. So he started a canning operation. That's great.

Canning mushrooms. That's fucking awesome. Oh, he pivoted. Big can mushroom fan, I just want to say. Even now, can mushrooms and canned potatoes are huge at the Foley house. Well, they're old imports now. The back when they were.

Back when it was still. Back in the day. It was still American, yeah. So. Goddamn charnels. It was a canning operation and then he added a growing operation. So it was a growing canning operation.

He's a mover and shaker. He's a mover and shaker, immigrant. Yeah. And so my aunt and uncle under him ran the canning site and my father was on the growing operation site but they had a contentious relationship. So in 1981, the relationship blew up. My father was like, I'm not staying here with my family

and we moved to Boca Raton, Florida. We stayed in Boca Raton, Florida from 81 to 85, 86. And then we moved back to Youngstown because they decided to give it another try because the business was failing without my father. Gotcha. Two more years there. I spent eighth and ninth grade in Youngstown

going to high school, learned to wrestle in Ohio. Great wrestling in Ohio. Of course. And then it blew up again and we moved back to Boca Raton, Florida for my sophomore, junior and senior year. How bad did that suck going from fucking Boca Raton to Youngstown, Ohio?

I actually believe it or not, I wanted to move back. Really? Because you were there already. That was like your, that was your roots a little bit. Well, it was different for me because I was playing Pop Warner football. Organization took Boca Jets. And I would have to go to, I would have to,

it was contact football. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, of course. Of course, I know Pop Warner. Yeah, Pop Warner was big back in the day. 80 pound, 80 pound football league, 80 pound football league. It's like where they,

he put the shoulder pads on them like this big. We were fucking hitting, dude. Yeah, I remember that. You talk about me going back to high school, he's going Pop Warner, I fucking hit Warner. Putting a helmet on people, 11 men getting to the fucking ball, swarming defense.

What was your jersey number and position? I played, first year when I was nine, I played nose guard. What? Number 50. Nine year old nose guard. Number 50 at nose guard, dude. Well, he did have two pounds on the other guys.

Two cycles of roids a month. Oh, I love it. Nine year old with back hair, fucking killin' people. Dick buckets, that's fucking awesome. Dude, my neighbors used to play football. I never, we never played, we weren't a football household, but my neighbors played Pop Warner young. I met like those seven and eight.

Those families, those dads were all carpenters and they were all nuts. They were roofers, dude. My father was way in. And I'm lazy? A kid got paralyzed the year before I started playing when I was eight, and I go, Dad, a kid got paralyzed the year before.

You know what my father said? He's like, make sure you're in shape, tackle with good form, keep your head up, you be all right. Do your neck exercises. My father like, you'll be all right. Make sure you tackle with good form, don't tackle with your head down, you be good. That kid was an asshole, who knows what he did,

he had a gum, but that's wild, man. But I remember being so, I'd be like, I remember the girl, the girl next door played with the boys, she would lay dudes out. And I remember being so scared. I'm like, you're going to go out there and just tackle, but I was petrified. Seeing a football helmet up close as a child,

it might as well have been the fucking space suit. It just looked so thick and heavy and fucking, it looked like it'd hurt. That was not for me. So I did that, and so that was my, then I graduated from high school. I placed in states and wrestling in high school. And then I went to college in Florida.

And then I went to college at Penn State and I wrestled there for a little while. Maine? Penn State, yeah. And then I moved to Philly. I was playing sports at fucking a saddle. They do it, Altuna's got a good program out here. That's right, man, Altuna has a bad guy at Penn State.

I moved to Philly when I graduated because I was dating a girl from Philly in college. So I moved to Philly in 95, and then stayed there till 2003, then moved to New York. Started comedy in 2000. You came up here for comedy. Yeah, absolutely, came here for comedy. Is the canning operation still in business or not?

It's all sold, it's all done. And before your father left, it had gotten, it was a pretty successful company. It got successful, yeah, because one of their, their main clients were... You don't move to Boca if you're not fucking moving cans of muscle. No, no, no, that wasn't the case at all.

No? Boca's a wealthy area, but we weren't, we had more money in Ohio actually than in Florida. We broke ties, like the money was gone. Like we, he sold his stocks, he had enough, we had enough money to move and buy his place, but there was stocks in the company area. Wow, that's good.

So that means it was a publicly traded company? Yeah, that's not what it means. Okay. That was a publicly traded company. Yeah, what was it on a NASDAQ? Come and get a couple of bitcoins and a two cans of mushrooms, hit the breaks. But one of the big, at the time,

one of the big clients was Stofer's food. Damn. And they had government contracts also, so. That's where the case is. Holy shit. A lot of cash. So it was good, my grandfather did well and my father was a big part of the reason

they were successful, but they couldn't get along. And as a result, like we moved to Florida and we didn't have money in Florida. I just was home visiting my mother. Like a COVID test, we went to go visit her and we lived in a condo and it was all of us in this small condo, yeah. So we grew up very like working to middle class.

And how many brothers and sisters did you have? How many people were in the condo? Older brother, who was a musician, younger sister. Nice. So was the three is in there as kids? Yes. Did you have to share a room with your brother? Share a room with my brother, bunk beds at first.

That shit breeds wrestlers, I don't know why. Yeah. Yeah, because the lights go out and you start fucking putting each other in headlocks. It's really fun as a wrestler to try moves at home on your phone. Yeah, it's really great. It's a fantastic.

But I gotta say the thing about football is at a young age because there's been a lot of backlash about kids playing contact football. Contact football is, I understand the concussion and the brain injury part of it, but it's really, I think, good for people to do it. I agree. I agree.

I mean, the kids, now I went back to my high school a few years ago and they're like, don't hit during the week. Do you know how much this would have changed my experience of playing sports? It's like, we hit every day, except for the day before the game, Thursday. And it's like, there's something about that contact that makes you humble.

Of course. And it really does, it humbles you and it kind of changes your, it gives you a respect for everybody else that you wouldn't get if you're playing a non-contact sport. Yeah, absolutely. It's like being punched in the face. Yeah, we always say this.

Because you know what's on the other end of that. It's like, yeah, I could get fucking laid out going across the middle here, you gotta keep your head on a funnel. And I think that's missing in our, not to get preachy, but it's missing in our society today with Twitter, with all the social media that I don't think were evolved enough to do.

It's like people just saying stuff, flying around saying whatever with no kind of like, oh, this is consequences to it. Yes. You know what I mean? Whereas in the hitting scenario, it's like, there's consequences. You run full speed at a guy,

you're gonna feel it, he's gonna feel it, you're both, there's something in that. And maybe I'm not articulating it very well, but there's something in that that's very good for society versus when you could just rip off a tweet. I'm saying, I don't care. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, fuck this guy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. If there's a thread of getting smacked in the face, you're not gonna fucking run your mouth at somebody. Well, there's a one, it's very similar to comedy. It's like, there's consequences to your choice, right? Like if you decide to go, you're like, I could get hit, I could buy whatever it is.

It's like, there's an immediate consequence. When you're on Twitter or whatever, it's like, yeah, fuck you, I'll say whatever, I'll do whatever. And that constantly over and over conditions you to be like, I don't give a fuck about whatever. It conditions you and it's bad for you. It's bad for you as a person to do that

and to not think about how you're affecting other people or how you're just like hurting other people. And you're like, oh, this is no big deal. Yeah. I totally agree. Did you coach at all? I coached a little bit when I was, I taught, I got my degree in,

so I'll continue with the long story. I'm actually a hundred years old. A long story. I just want to tell you, because I'm fucking jacked up right now. I would start doing fucking wind sprints for you right now. To where? McDonald's?

What are you talking about? He's got the juices flowing. We're talking about popcorn or football. Popcorn or football, baby. You always shit on me if I bring up wrestling or football. Yeah, you're doing it like in the car. We're on a fucking interview podcast and we're asking about his childhood.

We'll just be driving down fucking third avenue. I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you about the big game against Lansdale Catholic in the fall of 94. Shout out to Zephyr Mission for that big six. Back to Bokeh. Okay, back to Bokeh. So I graduate college Penn State, moved to Philly with a girl that I was dating in college.

She was in law school and we lived together for three years. We break up, I'm by myself, and while I'm working, I started working, but then I was like, I started working with kids with behavioral problems. I worked at a place called Glen Mills Schools, which is no longer in business. We used to play them in lacrosse.

Yeah, they're very, it's adjudicated kids from all over the country. So instead of going to lock up, they send these kids to this school. Tough individuals. Tough, tough kids. But the beauty of the school was it was a narrow scope of kids, like they didn't take pyromaniacs,

they didn't take sex offenders. It was a very, it took aggravated assault, kids who dealt drugs, not addicted to drugs, but were drug dealers. They took a certain car thieves, they took a certain kind of a narrow scope and they really did a good job of working within the parameters of them, yeah.

So they did a good job. I worked there for a year, and then I was like, okay, I don't wanna work shift work anymore. And I wanna be more versatile than just being in this program, even though it was a great program. So I went back at night and got a master's degree

from Cabrini College. Shout out Mother Cabrini, got her statue. She got a statue erected to her finally. We've all been waiting. We've been waiting. I don't know if you guys- It's about time she got her fucking due. According to the newsletter Catholic Weekly,

we have been waiting a long time. My mom forwarded that to me, yeah. So she, I went to that school and at five years at night, and I got a certification and master's in special education. You're a fucking worker, man, baby. Fucking worker. You can use the word shift job anymore, that's as old school as it gets.

Step four to 12. What do you work a third shift? You're like a breaker boy or something like that. So in 12, go get a beer. Yeah, that's, wow. Man, he's a fucking- You're a sharp guy. I got a master's in special education

that I taught for five years in public schools. I went to- In Philly. In Philly, I taught, in Northeast Philly, I taught at Woodrow Wilson Middle School on Cotman Avenue. I was born in the Northeast. Northeast is great. I love how, I don't know the way it was zoned,

but Northeast High School, they used to go to work out with their wrestlers sometimes. Right across the street from the Purple Orchid, which is a strip club. How do I know that? I don't know the Purple Orchid. I don't know the Purple Orchid. I don't know the Purple Orchid.

I don't know all this up there. You're like a city planner with a sense of humor. You know what I mean? They're not gonna get it now. It's gonna pay off in a couple of years though. I love the Northeast. I love Northeast Philly. So I did that for a year.

And then I had a tough time. The breakup happened. I got a DUI. I had nowhere to live. I didn't know how, she was a lawyer. So she was handling my court case, but then things before us, things going between us wasn't good.

So she got another, she got a lawyer to help me, to her credit. But then I was like, I was communicating. We were so on the fucking outs that I just called the lawyer. I was like, look, just contact me directly. I don't trust, I don't know if he's gonna get back. Like I could miss a court.

I don't know what's going on. So, bam. That's fucking spiteful. That's vengeance. Well, I got passed the DUI. I got a place. I got a job in Upper Darby, which is a suburb of West Philadelphia.

And taught there, which was one of the best jobs I've ever had, Upper Darby. Upper Darby's nice. Drexel Hill Middle School in Upper Darby. Yeah, Drexel Hill's nice. It was a nice job, great area. I did two years there, and then I had a friend at Garnett Valley High School,

which is farther out, that Glen Mills area, and high school. So I went to go teach high school at Garnett Valley. I taught there for two years. Nice. And then I was unhappy with my job my second year. So I just resigned and with no job. And I was doing Tony and Tina's wedding

in South Philadelphia. Oh, my God. Yep. You know that one, and you booked me on that one. Listen, for the listener, Tony and Tina's wedding. Tony and Tina's wedding. It's garbage. Explain it.

I don't know if they're doing these, I don't know if they're doing these around the country, but Tony and Tina's wedding in the Philadelphia, the Tri-State area. It's dinner theater. Yeah, it's a fake Italian wedding. Yeah, if you get invited to, you get yourself an invite. I love it like he played to the camera on that one, too.

Tony taught him well. I know this studio. You want Tina's side or Tony's side? Could you even have to change your name? I just use your same name. Mike Vecchio, I'm here with Tony. Hey, listen, you're a little too Italian. We're gonna have to tone it down a bit.

I can see that in that audition you walked in, you hired. That's awesome. So I did that. Hold on, what, because I'm actually... I played one of the groomsmen for a year and then I played Tony for a while. And what theater? You were Tony?

Yeah, I was Tony for a while. What? Damn. Little fucking star power here. I'm sure a couple of my aunts saw you back in the days, Tony. Oh, and the guy who played Tony was unbelievable. Yeah. Gorgeous.

I probably did the dollar dance with him. I'll be honest with you. There's all kinds of different dances. So that was, it was really fun because the people that I was in it with were great people. Like, we all had so much fun together. I would just go out. I was dating a girl in South Philadelphia at the time

and I would go down, because I was teaching in the suburbs. Right? So I would drive down to South Philadelphia on 18th and Snyder. Yeah. We'd do the show and then we'd go out and I would just get fucking hammered out at those bars

in South Philly. Yeah. So we're talking mid-90s? No, we're talking... Early 2000s? Early 2000s. Okay. 2000, 2001, 2002.

So I would go to, and there's no social media or any of that shit, you know? And I would go down there. I would do the show, get hammered, go to my girls. We'd crash and, because she was like classier. She would like go to Center City. Like those Center City clubs.

Lounges and stuff. She would go and she was like a martini. Like she would go hang out with her friends there. That's how blue cholera is. He's like, she would go to Center City. To one of them fancy lounges when he's booting up. Boudicon. Boudicon.

And some of those other martini lounges and stuff on Second Mark. Blue martini, yeah. She would go to those places. Yeah, she would go to those places. And she would be like, You're up there shaking your hands to blue martini. What y'all living, you drink?

You're fucking embarrassing me. And she would always go, Do you want to meet me? I'm like, fuck no. Or me, I'll pay $14 for a drink. I want to get fucking hammered down here. He's down there at like two street annies with like fucking for nickel beers.

Yeah, I'm getting drunk with mummers. What are you talking about? I just put 20 in a jukebox. I'm here all night. I fucking loved it. My friend dropped me off one time. His truck, he dropped me off. She was right behind us in her car, ready to park.

And I was so hammered, I just laid on her windshield. And she was driving to go park. She was driving slow, but I was like on her windshield. Dude, it's lawless down there at like midnight. Oh, funny dude. I had such a good time for those couple of years. And then I moved, I moved up here. I was like, okay, I gotta take a real shot at stand up.

You know, so, and that's, and then when I got here, it was all about the clubs. You know, there was no YouTube, there was no Twitter, there was no any of this stuff. And there wasn't even that many alt rooms. It was like a village lantern was still, was running, but there weren't that many just rooms. It was clubs.

So I would go to the back of the Boston because different comics would run the Boston Comedy Club every night, right? And nights of the week. It was booked, a pro shows were booked on the weekends and Will and Talent did Urban Night on Sunday. Which was, that was like infamous, right? Huge man, it was packed.

They would fucking pack it out. It was unreal. They said it was like, I mean, that's like, that's like shit of legend. Dude, I was trying to get on it. Cause I said, I could get, you know, just Will and Talent are so nice. They're such good people that I approached them

to get on it. And from coming up at the Laugh House as well, there is nothing better than a fucking packed out, fucking show like that. It's unreal. It's fucking, the energy is unbelievable. But the Boston was bumping back then. And if you knew the comics producing the shows,

you could maybe get on. Marina would produce like a Monday, Blue Monday she did, which was Tony Woods' show. She did Blue Monday. And she ran it for a long time and did a really good job with it. So you, that and then Jason Sokolov, I don't know if you guys know him.

He used to do, he'd do like Tuesday, Wednesday. And then Tom the Dario would do like Thursday. And then Friday was the club shows. Wayne Rada was booking it at the time. And then Sunday was Talent and Will. So I mean, what I'm trying to say is that landscape was a lot different up here. So it was like the whole mindset to,

was get on stage as much as you can. But in order to get on stage, you have to hang out. Like there's a lot of hanging out. Nobody knows who you are. I mean, DeRosa had moved a year before me or nine months before me. And I knew Jay from coming back to Philly. And I knew Kurt a little bit,

but I knew Jay and I knew Joe mostly. So- You just tag along with them. Yeah, I would, Joe would like, I'm like, I remember being at that Cherry Hill Rascals and doing a show with them. I was like opening, Jay was headlining. And Kurt and Joe had come with Jay.

And I remember just asking them at the hang afterwards. I'm like, can you guys just at least, I understand the way the business is. So I don't want to be a burden, but can you at least point me in the right direction? What you want to do, yeah. But they did, those guys all were like, he's a friend of ours from Philly.

So that opens it up to like- Of course, you at least have like a little bit of a network of people who know you. Oh, this is, we did the same thing. We came up from Philly and there was like a gaggle of us. There was like, you know, from, all the way from like Derek and Monroe down to like, I think I was the last one.

And there was between us, there was nine people had come up. So it's like- Did you guys work at the Laugh House or was it already closed by then? He started the Laugh House. I did a little bit, they would make me, at that point there was like the Raven Lounge and shit.

So like there was other like, you know, kind of more mainstream rooms. Like there wasn't just helium or that, you know, you could, there, you could get up. But Chris Cotton, rest in peace, our good buddy. Chris Cotton's a great- He would force me because I was only doing the, you know, the white rooms, the mainstream rooms.

He was like, you gotta come. You got, and he would force me on stage at the Laugh House. And I mean, I would die sometimes, miserable. Or you would murder. It would be the greatest. You'd feel like you'd be like, I'm the new king here. Or you died a miserable, miserable death. I had some losses there too,

but there was certain honesty in that room. There was real honesty in terms of like getting your craft together. Whereas I have respect for the guys who worked at that Northeast comedy cabaret. I know a lot of them. Yeah, that's still, that was still kicking. Friends a lot with a lot of them,

but I don't know if you got the same responses because the crowds, I don't think were during the week when we would, you know, we weren't getting on, I wasn't getting on stage on the weekends really once in a while. But mostly during the week, you needed a good read on your jokes and the Laugh House really provided that.

It was an undeniable education. And it was, you know, it was tough and there was, but there was like a family. Like the night that I got passed there, like was able to start hosting there. I'd been, you know, doing open mics with WID and like pretty little produce shows. WID, WID.

Shout out to WID. Shout out to WID. Fucking WID. Once in the icy roads, this place would be packed. Okay, it's talent night. All right, I've seen him on the BET. If you were bombing, all right, all right, that's it. Dude, here we go.

He wouldn't use the light. He would use a stack of papers. And when people were bombing, he would just go, all right, all right, all right, all right. Just walk up and get him upstairs. But Ms. Mona threw me out of the showroom the same night that she passed me to host there. Cause Mr. Rod said I could go in.

And it was, I feel like it was almost like, not like a hazing thing, but like, you know, like a rite of passage. Like I didn't ask her or whatever. And I'm standing down in the back and I'm fucking, you know, shitting in my pants. She walks up, she's like, who are you, bubba bubba, lays into me.

And then brings me out there. And I kind of stood up for myself. She's like, all right, we'll see you Thursday night or something like that. And he gave me the job. Yeah, five years I worked there. Me, Cassidy, Richie Redding, is unbelievable. Richie Redding was there when I was there.

He started after me. He used to fucking like, like as a young comic, we'd go in there and he would fucking like that place up. Unbelievable. Really? Yeah. You know, just a fucking cool, sharp, funny white guy. Right, right.

He was killing. Right. Yeah. Yeah, him and Derek were, I remember those guys from there. Really? Yeah, Derek and Richie had started when I was. Absolutely.

We must have just kind of missed you, I think. Maybe it was like, it was in a couple of years. With a couple of years, yeah. Because those guys had started when I was about to leave. So, but I do remember, yeah. And Monroe, there's a good group from Philly. Yeah, they're strong, strong, strong comics. All the way from your class, it's like Jay and you and Kurt.

And then all the way down, like there's. And the weird thing is, it kind of doesn't matter, like racially, it was racially mixed. It was really mixed, but there was no weirdness in it. Nope. You know what I mean? It was like very, it was very good that way. We all did the same shows and the same shit.

Same shows. Same people didn't like us, the same people loved us. Right. After like the less and lesser clubs, we started doing our own thing. And we were all mixed in together, just doing everything. Yeah, that's great.

Look at this fucking fucking shop here. Great place to come up though, man. Yeah, it's such a brutally honest. It's like you can get in front of a larger group of people, which is good. And it, yeah, and it's trash, but it's brutally, it's like, if you're not funny, you're gonna know real quick that you're not fucking funny.

But I love the beauty of that place. Just come back on Wednesday, sign up and try again. Alter it, listen to the tape or whatever. There wasn't tape back then, but it's like work on your act, come back and try again. And at that point, when I went through a breakup, it was a living on my own. I was like, I don't care if I fail.

Like usually I would be more sensitive to failure, but I just didn't care. Nothing to live for. Nothing to live for. Nothing to lose, baby. Nothing to lose. Flying to the most in the song. The Mike Vecchione story, I like it.

But I kind of operate better when it's like, all right, get yourself together and fucking just keep coming. Because I don't know about you guys. That's that Rassler in you. That's what that is. I was gonna say that. That's why you're such a, if you're,

for the listener, if you're not familiar with Mike, most of you probably are. Maybe one of the best joke writers working today. Meticulous. Nationally. Definitely one of the best in the city. Like it's insane, it's meticulous. And you hit it, hit it.

And I think it's that wrestling. It's that blue collar, it's the mushroom canning. It's the fucking just go work, go, go, work, work. It's phenomenal. I've never heard somebody say we moved to Boca, but I wanted to go back to Youngstown and Ohio. I wanted to go back to Youngstown. I wanted to go back to the potato farm.

Big John Cougar Mellon camp fan. I don't know. Oh, I forgot to tell you why that, because I was playing Pop Warner football. My parents during the summer. He's good, baby. Have you transferred? He transferred Pop Warner.

He redshirted one year. They were sending scouts of like, I hear this kid, Beck Young can piece a pillow on those tackle. All the right moves. Great movie, by the way, with Tom Cruise. I mean, they're the same. This is one of my favorite episodes of all time.

So I'm in Florida. I'm gonna keep going with this. I'm gonna get this out. This is the real reason. I couldn't believe it. Nose tackle, right? Nose tackle, but the practices weren't till six at night. Six PM, and they started in the summer.

And you know how football, two a day, all that starts. So my parents didn't have the money to send me to a summer camp. So I went to this summer camp in the hood, which was a good, really good summer camp. And they would take you for free if you didn't have the money. And we didn't have the money.

So me and my sister went, my brother was a junior counselor at the summer camp that you had to pay to get into. So he got it for free. But me and my sister were put into this other summer camp, which there was nothing wrong with it, but they just didn't take many trips. Like the budget was because you didn't pay. So but there was supervision.

And my mother, we were too young to be left at home. I was like 10 or something. So left us in the summer camp and it was just so hot all day. I didn't want to do any of the activities because I knew I was gonna have practice at night. Yeah, you don't want to exert yourself. So yeah.

And you know, he's sitting in the shade, carbo-looting. Dude, what's six-year-old worries about that? He's like, listen, I can't fuck you. If I blow it all out in kickball, I'm never gonna be able to fucking do up and down. He got no creatine here. What the fuck?

Didn't have the energy. Give me a fucking protein bar or something. Did not have the energy level. And I'll tell you what- I'm not the soul of like a 300-year-old man. Really? I'm an old soul. Yeah, I love it.

I fucking love it. The summer camp was a great summer, it was a great summer camp because it was called Florence Fuller summer camp. This is why I want to know, he's such an old soul and he's so thorough. There's no way he's garbage because he thinks about everything.

He's got everything thought out, dotting his eyes, crossing his teeth. Fantastic summer camp for financially strapped people. And I was put in that summer camp. It's a long acronym. I was put in that summer camp. I see that in the brochure. Can I tell you guys something?

For every day for lunch, they would give us dark meat chicken. It was chicken- What? Yeah, it was dark meat chicken legs, wrapped in tinfoil and watermelon. Were they fried? That's what their service was. No, baked.

Was it a Polish after school camp? It's a fried chicken and watermelon. It was baked, a dark meat chicken, wrapped in tinfoil and watermelon. That's probably awesome. No, to this day, I do not like dark meat chicken. I'm not a dark meat guy. I do not like watermelon.

Because of the way it was wrapped in tinfoil, it was kind of sweaty when you would eat it. My skin's crawling. Yeah, I didn't like it at all and I still can't eat to this day. I would have crushed that. But overall, a fantastic summer camp but I just didn't have the energy to go.

And not to mention the fact when you play Pop Warner, I don't know if you guys realize this, but I was going to school different from where I was playing football. So it's like, you don't get any of the school spirit. You don't get any of the girls noticing that you're playing football.

Like none of that, it's all separated. So nobody in school knows what you're doing. You can't go back and talk about the blocks you had. Nothing, no one cares. You see that crack back on 62? So when I moved to Ohio, the football was attached to the school. It was at Canfield where my mother went to school.

You wanted an identity. And my uncles. And I went to school and it's like practices. Right after school, there's no six o'clock practice. It's like everybody was like friends in school. You would go play football. And it's like, wow, this is, I was loving it. 8th grade was one of my best years.

That makes sense. I would want to, I have total sense. I would want to do the same. Do you need to say? 8th grade was one of my best years. 8th grade, I'd say my single best year. 8th grade, 8th grade. Oh my God.

I had a good senior year too, but 8th grade, man. Senior year was the best, forget about it. Some people hated their high school experience. They absolutely hated it and I loved it. I love my high school. I love mine. I didn't have, we were like the partiers. Like we partied about like,

you were like the sports I'm not even gonna talk about. We were just like, party. We're like, oh, you see a movie and like they're partying. I was like, that's what I want to do. It's like, I loved that. I had a blast, but. With everything you're saying, I recognize it and I'm grateful and I know how lucky I was

the environment that I was able to grow up in. And the coaches that I had were fucking literally, I mean, I couldn't have been more lucky. So yeah, we, I fucking loved it. Me too. But I know people had shitty experience. On that note, I'm grateful. I'm from grateful for the coaches I had, the teachers

and the people that I went to school with in both places were unbelievable. Like it was really in both places very, very good. And that makes all. What are we doing here? Let's fucking come. God damn it. All the difference in the world, man.

I'll be steady QBs. One on one, I'm steady Q. Red 19. Fuck, I would love for Vecchio to lay you out across the middle. Fucking take your head off. Full pads, full gear. Yeah, you'd love it.

I take a good hit too. I never get a fucking nice concussion in fucking college. And the way we fell into each other, the defensive coach thought I hit the kid hard. I don't know my fucking name. I just fell into it. The big guy could take a hit. That would be awesome.

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This is one that I had for you but knowing hardcore Italian, I didn't know your family used to, you lost out to big ragu, big ragu came in. What jar, will you, if you, what jar pasta sauce will you buy today? You might make it, whatever, but if you have to buy a jar, if you're hemmed up.

Wait, hold on, would you ever? Let's start there. Oh, you would? Yeah, because I'm not a big like, first of all, I don't eat, I'm not eating pasta anymore. But if I did, back when I was eating it, I would do four cheeses was one I would buy. From Classico.

Yeah, Classico. And then the other one was Reo's. Right, what? I used to eat at Reo's before. Hold on, Reo's is like $15. Is it worth it? It's a pricey jar. Yeah, it's good.

You think it's worth it, really? And he's did a Vecchione stamp of approval. It's very good. He's from a sauce family. You get what you pay for. Yeah. I mean, it's $15 for Reo's. I can't bring myself to buy it.

How'd you get a table at Reo's, who'd you go with? Mike DiStefano. I can't make some of them with Chris, but Mike was a great comic. Do you guys see over him? Of course, I watched his, the documentary that the cringe guys, or the college, yeah, yeah.

But he was a really weird close friends, and he called me up. I was at the gym, I remember, and he was like, I wanna know if you wanna go. We got an extra seat. I'm like, okay, this is, Mike, I'm gonna tell you this right now.

I said, listen, why don't you think about it for 15 minutes? Yeah. Maybe there's somebody who can, I actually, maybe somebody can help you in the bit. Like, call Colin. Yeah, call someone who was. You know, call Colin and ask him.

Like, somebody who like, who your friends were all cool with, but like, somebody who can actually help, would appreciate it and help you, you know? Because I, you know. You're not, yeah, I'll take you to pizza next week. That's a fucking classy move right there. But he took me and it was fucking fantastic.

For the folks out there that don't know, Rao's is this ultimate exclusive Italian restaurant. That there, I mean, there's like five, six tables. Right. And I mean, you know. All controlled by mob captains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, in the heyday,

it's Madonna's over here, this one's over there, De Niro's over there. And to go to that restaurant is fucking. Damn near impossible. Yeah. Yeah. Mike DeSteffano.

Mikey D. Mikey D was the man. So he was. Paul, baby. He was the man. One of the guys from his neighborhood had a table there. So, and then, so we all sat there and ate and it was, it was fantastic.

I don't think I've ever heard the, the pass it off to go to ask someone else. That's a fucking home run. If you asked me to go to Popeyes right now, I'd be like, what's a fucking home run? No, because I know how valuable that scene is. I know, but still, that's like your thoughtful. That's your very thought.

That's thought out. Bunch of, you know. Pretty good. Yeah. Well, I didn't want him to like not think about it and be like, ah, you know, you know. That's a fucking class act move. Yeah.

Nowadays comics would be slitting each other's throat. Dude, I would, I would fucking, I would step over your dead body. But for people who don't know, Rao's closed on the weekends. Is it? It's closed on the weekends, even before the pandemic.

It was like closed on the weekends, only open during the week and everybody except our table was fucking hammered. Really? They were hammered. I love it. Classy. Because we were sitting with guys

that other guys were coming over and giving respect to. Ooh. And they were like, everybody was. He's a friend of ours. Everybody was hammered except for us. I was like, I want to be like sobered. Yeah.

I want to be lucid. I want to remember all of this. Damn. I would drink just out of nervous energy. I'd have to be like, I'd be scared they thought we were cops or something like that. Because we get that now. We can't walk into a fucking bodega.

No. No. Well, first of all, he dresses like the world's worst undercover cop. This is good for him right now. This is good. He's typically in a fucking huge Hawaiian button-up that doesn't close.

It's so great. Camo shorts. And he walks in. I walked in to buy a pack of cigarettes last week out front of here. We walked into two different bodegas. And I walked into the back to get a bottle of water and he stayed up front and he goes,

hey, how you doing today, man? Like he's making small talk with the guy. And I'm like, what? This is just, you come in with a weird vibe, dude. So then I get the water, I go in a pack of marble lights and he goes, no, no, no. We don't do that here. He walks from Florida coming up today.

He refused to sell me cigarettes at a bodega. And we walked into another one and I said, stop, you're acting weird. Don't do it. Walked in and asked the guy, hey, how you doing before? He refused to sell me cigarettes. So I said, you gotta walk around the block or something.

You're a fucking cock blockin' me, dude. He goes in with like, you know, you go in with mayor fucking vibes and people get, this is New York, this ain't fucking Bluebell or whatever the fucking game is. Kevin's not a big fan of mine. I'm a big fan of yours and small increments. This is more of a work relationship.

Not when he's not smoking. Yeah. Exactly. I'm trying to get my picks, dude, and you're over here fucking blocking me. I'm surprised you would even entertain the idea of a jar of pasta sauce, to be honest with you. You do cook, right?

I do cook, but like I eat different now. I don't eat pasta at all. I gotcha. But when I did eat, I was big on, I wasn't all make it from scratch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, it's awesome. That's a whole process. What's your make for a bunch of people or a lot?

My mother does that, and when I go home. She probably throws down. She throws down, man, she really fucking does. I really appreciate it now. But last time I was home, I was eating this way, which is clean. I didn't, I had the option for pasta, but I was like, no, you know what,

let's just go sausage and peppers, which is delicious also because we took the provolone and wrapped it in the provolone. Oh, buddy, I never even thought of that. Sausage and peppers with the olive oil, it soaks in olive oil. When mom does it right, man. Woo!

Out of the park. It's a killer. I imagine the apartment is meticulously spotless. No. Really? The apartment is not. Really? No, because me and Dan live together, me and Soder.

And I love the guy, I love, it's the best. It's really the best. And we just have a bunch of stuff that's accumulated from over the years, shows and whatever and just stuff that, so there's a table, my girlfriend actually comments about it. Any time I'm like, hey, can you put your stuff over here? And she's like, what, a whole table full of?

Yeah. We just add it to the table. So we have a table of both of our shit on it. And, but it's neat, but we've accumulated a lot. We really have to go through everything, yeah. Make your bed every morning? Yes. Fucking do that one.

Dude, I have to. Call that. That's Jordan Peterson. I don't know if you guys know that. Really? It's Jordan Peterson, that's how I make your bed. I mean, I made my bed anyway. The admiral, whoever it was,

that made the commencement speech? No, that's the guy on, he's been on rogue and a bunch of times as a psychologist who's like the 12 rule. He has a book, 12 rules for life. He's a whatever, controversial for some reason. Yeah, it was the Canadian guy that made the, he was a Canadian professor and gotten some.

Said he wouldn't say the gender pronouns. Yes. He refused to say it. But his book is great and he. Do you refuse to say gender pronouns? I will call you guys both Z and Sir. Yes, Sir. That's ridiculous.

But he's fantastic. And I'm a big fan of his reading his book and his book is all about that about, you know, you don't have that much. It's like, just straight up, take it up, make it nice. It's one of those things you've accomplished something before you've even left the room. It's like saying with a cold shower,

they say if you do a cold shower in the morning, you've accomplished the hardest thing that you're probably gonna have to face is that three minute cold shower. It's all momentum too. It's like, I get, even if you get up to pee, like charge my phone, cause I don't like to charge it overnight

cause it wrecks the battery. So I'll charge it. I'll charge the phone, go pee, come back. I'll wake up and the phone is already charging. It's like, we already have one thing done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got momentum going into the day. Get the ball rolling down the hill.

Cold showers are great if you're crashing really hard too. Get fucking, Jolt. Yeah, get a nice little jolt. If you were someone climbing, taking such activities. This is gonna be a long shot, but have you ever owned any inflatable furniture, Mike?

Inflatable furniture. A chair, a couch. I don't own that much. First of all, let me just say that. This guy, dude, this guy sleeps with a go-back. And shit, it's the fan. He's got a couple of passports, a roll of fucking five grand.

I got a friend in Florida. He went to West Point and I grew up with him. And he's great. He's a great guy. Went to West Point and he's a core of engineers. Guy's super, like he's a great dude. He lives in Miami as a house. And his house is the house he's Cuban.

And his immigrant grandmother and grandfather came in. They had 16 kids in the house. He owns the house now. It's just him. And it's just, he keeps it simple on purpose. I mean, he has the money to do whatever. He doesn't like that. He keeps it simple on purpose.

He doesn't have a flat screen, has a regular TV. He does that purposefully. And I love that. Wow. Yeah. Keep it easy. Keep it simple, stupid. Keep it simple.

So inflatable furniture, I would have to go now, okay. Let me ask you this. You're pouring something down. Do you have a garbage disposal? No. Okay, perfect. So if you're washing dishes or whatever and a little bit of food collects in the thing,

will you A, let the water run and use your finger to smush it down? Or will you scoop it out and throw it away properly? I don't scoop it out. We have one of those drains that catches it and I'll take it and then I'll bang it out in the garbage and then put it back. Yeah, I just got one.

I just moved places and I finally got one of those things. I feel like a fucking Rockefeller with it. I do the finger and smush everything down. We know. We could tell. I also pour bacon grease down that thing. Do you? Yeah.

Yeah, it's for like the whole building. Everybody below you. You're clogging up their holes. Man, you're the next guy. I just moved out. Tough breaks on your, you didn't get to deposit either. Well, do you eat bacon on your current diet? Yes.

What do you do with the bacon grease in the New York City apartment? It's tough. What do you do with it? I pour it in an empty can or a jar or something and then throw it out separately. Will you throw it out immediately? Or will you let it build up for a couple of days

or a week? I might let it sit there. Yeah. I'm not gonna throw it away right away because if I make it again, something again, I might need to. Of course. Would you ever use that grease to cook?

I thought about it, but I've never done it. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Have you ever owned a Sopranos or Goodfellas poster? I think that might be a yes. No.

Because I have, in my room, I gotta obviously redecorate. I got a lot of problems in there, but. I can see you rolling around Philly in fucking the early 2000s, baggy jeans, a royal blue button down. A pair of carpenter jeans or something. Royal blue button down, a T-shirt and a fucking leather jacket,

absolutely fucking with that exact haircut. Fuck, this was a popular haircut in South Philly. So perfect. In the early 2000s. That is the South Philly. What are you talking about? South Philly special. I have a Tony Atenis poster.

Okay, well that's a yes. Are you on it? That's work. That's just work. Is it you and the, are you? Oh, that would be awesome. You're like giving her like a dip. Tony Atenis poster.

I have a Michael Corleone in Sicily. Okay. In Sicily, he's got a fucking. He's in Sicily. I'm alone! No! Exactly that, yeah. It's right.

That's pretty trash. He's sitting at the, it's the scene where he's sitting at the table before, when he, before he asks the father, his, before he tells the father his true intentions. What do you mean, when they're sitting in front? When they're sitting in front and the father gets offended and goes in the back.

So that's, it's from that scene. And so that, and then I have Raging Bull, which De Niro is just like with his fists up like this. Poster of John F. Kennedy to pull. Then I got Jimmy Hoffa's ashes. Picture of Dennis Frans in the bathroom. Sip-a-wits. Corleone.

Sip-a-wits. Raging Bull, Jake Lamada, and then Brad Pitt from Fight Club. Wait, are these all in your apartment right now? Right now, as we speak. That's pretty trashy. Unfortunately, my friend, we're gonna have to put that in the box.

Are they framed? Yes. That's even worse. What the heck? I don't know. They are framed. I got them framed like eight years ago. I think frames are a little better.

It's got tape, like half ripped. Yeah, if it's like, you know, like, the tax that's ripped out of it. I believe my balloons brother's poster in college. Yeah. At least they're framed, but yeah, Italians love Italians, man. You know, you guys just love each other.

I know. But now I look at it and I go, this whole thing is hacky. Yeah. It's pretty hacky. But I like the calm coolness of Corleone. Yeah. Well, that's different because it's like,

it's also, it's a shot of, you know. It's a cinematic shot. It's a cinematic shot of a world famous movie. That's understandable. Is it the cover of the hero? It's a movie that's, I guess, but it's such a common movie. It's almost like when somebody says something that's hack.

It's like, it's just, even if it's like, it's just such a good, it's such a thing that's well known. So I'm not saying that Godfather is an unbelievable movie. Yeah. All of the series, but it's like kind of hacky. Like an Italian guy, a De Niro, Pacino, the Pope.

Well, the Ed Norton's a little different. So yeah, that's a curveball. You said you have- Well, it's Brad Pitt. Oh, Brad Pitt, yeah, yeah. When it went in the basement of Fight Club. But again, early 2000s, that was all class right there. People would think you were rich, like, holy shit.

Do you own it? I love that movie, by the way. What? Fight Club. Fantastic. I fucking love it. There's no reasons that most people like, like not for the fighting or any of that.

Big soap guy? I'm a big, for this. That's a deep cut. That's pretty solid. And I'm a sub-fieber. I know, and you evolved to people. I thought you were gonna snag that. Him, he didn't need what he needed.

I went right over his fucking head. I knew exactly what you were talking about. I make and I sell soap. I make and I sell soap. But it's the psychology of, the underlying psychology. Sure. I love it. And Meatloaf was great in it.

Meatloaf was fucking- First concert I've ever seen. Shout out to Meatloaf for having a hell tour. Oh, bad in a hell. Forget about it. I don't know why my mom took me to that, but I loved it. That played, at every fucking summer party,

that played fucking for hours. While my parents and their friends were all getting all juiced up, doing God knows what, to God knows who. Doing anything for love. Apparently. That's why he gets the big bucks. Printed as a clip.

Printed as a clip. That is a hot one. Do you have any DVDs now? Do you have any DVDs in here? We have a whole- And so, Art, can you see them when they're displayed? Do you use them?

Are you guys watching? That's Dan's thing. I don't wanna blow up his spot. Okay. Well, he's trash. We had a lot. Pure trash. I'd be upset if he didn't own DVDs.

He has them, and I have them in boxes, but I don't have, he hasn't displayed. That's another level thing where you go, this is look how much money I got, or whatever. And then he puts his pro wrestling dolls on top of it. We just talked about that as well with him. You ever see Friday?

I got it right here. You wanna check it out? One to entry. But, Dan, I know you said he's trash, but he's a specific brand of Western color. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give us that flavor to him. He was very 90s trash.

He was a very product of the not like 90s kid, yeah. Let's take the roommate situation, see if we can exploit that a little bit. We might be on to something here with the fucking pictures. Oh, and I have a picture of Jesus. I have an interesting picture. You're a good fucking kid, Mike, that's why. With the sacred heart that my mother gave me.

And then there's another picture of Jesus, and I have a joke about this, but inside the picture of Jesus with just a prayer. Ooh, that's frightening. So it's like two pictures. It's a little ominous. Yeah. Yeah.

Worry about hell much, Mike, don't you? My joke is if Jesus- This guy's fucking wound a little too tight. If Jesus was on Facebook, it's like his profile picture and there's an election background photo. That's Jesus's cover photo. Yeah.

Is there any TV trays in this apartment? You know what, I do have a TV tray. It's a wooden one, though. It's not the cheap plastic one. It is wooden. Do you use it? Use it to shoot like videos if I'm keeping something on it.

I won't use it to eat. Where are you eating most of your meals when you're home alone? Best home. Kitchen. And at the kitchen table? There's a kitchen, we have a desk that is high, so I'll eat the meals there.

So you're not sitting there watching TV like a dirt bag with the TV tray and a bottle of hot sauce on it. You're eating it in the kitchen. Eating in the kitchen. Are you watching TV while you're eating? I'll watch the computer. I can't lie.

I will watch the computer, yeah. Still, wow, that's fucking discipline right there. I would eat in my bed if fucking I was by myself. All right, this has been a hot button issue. Well, we've got two hot button issues. I wanna know this being in a roommate situation. Do you brush your teeth in the shower? I thought you were gonna ask if we are proud boys.

You got the haircut. We are both proud boys, but we are not in the organization proud boys. Excellent. Go ahead, I'm sorry. Brush your teeth in the shower. No. No, right, it's disgusting.

I just never thought of it. I never thought of doing that. Would you today go home and try it out tonight? No, I won't do it. That's gross for you. It's not gross, it's just I never learned those routines and I don't see a reason to. I'll shift routines if I see benefit in it, sure.

But because you guys are telling me to do it, doesn't mean I'm gonna get to give me some reason. Man, that's a great fucking answer. I've never learned those routines. Well, that goes back to it. You're not supposed to be brushing your teeth in the shower because I've never seen the toothbrush commercial or toothpaste commercial where in the shower,

brushing their teeth, they're always at the sink like a fucking gentleman. Well, I'm making it now, I'll take a look at that. Yeah, why don't they fucking have that? Because you're not supposed to brush your teeth in the shower, it's disgusting. I don't know. We'll talk about this after my piece.

The FDA's a sham, the FDA's a sham. It's the ADA, associated with Dennis of America. Four out of five, so that you can brush your teeth and then you brush your teeth. Four out of five states, four out of five states. Man, this guy's got punch lines. But it's like, how do you masturbate then? That's what I'm saying.

I got a brush first. I know, maybe use an electric toothbrush. That goes down in the shower, that's acceptable. Is that where you do your business? Masturbation? Yes. Not in the shower. Not anymore.

I mean, when I was really young, maybe. Sure. When there was nowhere else, you would be proud of yourself. I'm big into wet work myself. Really? Still? Yeah.

But I will tell you this, to that, I stopped watching porn. Yeah, you're in a healthy relationship that typically it slows it down, or was it a choice? Wow, too much. You're like, that's it, I'm done? I think it's bad. I don't, they've done studies, but I think it's bad for you.

If you fly too close to the sun a little bit. Yeah, it does something to your endorphins where it activates your pleasure cells too much and it's not good. I agree. I don't know. It's not a moral judgment on people who do porn, or people who watch porn.

Plus you're Jesus watching you. It's a little tough. It's a little tough. He's watching no matter what. I think you wanna take a walk or something, man. Go get the papers. Jesus, go look at the car, will ya? Yeah, but I find it to be almost, it's too stimulating.

No, I totally agree. Especially when you're like looking and you're looking and you're looking and you're like, what am I doing? If I had one of these when I was 12, I would have, you know, like, now I'm going through 9,000 videos. Yeah, I think Patrice had a joke about that

where it's like, you need more and more depraved things to get off. Yeah, of course. And that's, I don't know the science behind it really, but that's just not a good sign. That's a sign of addiction. For sure, for sure. Yeah, my endorphin system is all fucked up.

Really, you seem like you've got a good head on your shoulders. Oh, man. Getting into some weird shit. All right, let's see here. And also, if you go out to a restaurant, and I know you're the diet or whatever, but pre-diet, if you went out to a restaurant.

Right. Hold on, if you're going where you're going with this, this has been Devastated. Civil war splitting on social media. People are fucking going crazy about it. Oh, wow. Yeah.

But I am confident, and I know you're classy, that you're gonna do the right thing and answer the right way. God, Kevin, I'm sorry. You're out, you're out to dinner. Yeah. Will you, and there's leftover food, will you do a doggie bag and take home the leftover food?

Yeah, I will. And first of all, I object to the fucking, the way you, the way you said doggie bag. Is that a leading question? 100%. They're called doggie bag. Get your ex-girlfriend on the phone right now. That was fucking a leading question.

Why? It's leftovers. It's not a doggie bag. It's trash is what it is. If we're cutting the fucking, if we're splitting hairs here. Can you believe this? Do you believe, he doesn't believe in leftovers. You don't believe in taking leftovers?

I just think that's, I'm not a big waste guy. Sure, I finish my meal at the thing. I very rarely have meal left, food left over. I can't force. I was, I was grew up with eat everything on your plate. And since I've learned that that's wrong, that's the wrong way to be. So if there's food left over, for me, there rarely was.

But I would take it home. Just because I'm against wasting it. Now, do you have it that night, later on in the evening? Probably, yeah, I would have. Nice. Would you put it in the fridge or would you let it sit out? So it keeps like it's natural freshness. Natural freshness.

You know, the natural bacteria. Well, you know what? The airborne stuff. The COVID. Does this have COVID on it? I would, I would let it sit out, but I always with, when you let it sit out, it's almost like you're admitting to yourself

that you're a pig and that you're going to eat it again. Well, that's a foregone conclusion. Also, like we live in a world where he has leftovers. What are we talking about? Well, you haven't had a leftover since 92. That's not true. It is a Tony D's last week. I fucking brought up a whole bunch of muscle stuff.

Ordering an additional entree to go is not take home. Cut the commercial. Prank all of them. But leaving it out, when you put it in the fridge, you're like, okay, I'm going to delude myself and then think that I'll eat it tomorrow. And then you go to the fridge and see, I don't even skip that because it's better

if you just leave it out then around 11 o'clock, you fucking throw that in the microwave. You don't have to get it warm. You don't have to go from cold to warm. It's just like you're right at the restaurant. Mikey, it's fucking awesome. Yeah, but fasting is like, I got to get you, I got to, it's unbelievable.

I've tried, I've tried it and never clicked. I lost a bunch of weight doing, I lost like 55 pounds doing no sugar, no grains back in the day. I was able to keep most of it off. But, and then I tried intermittent fasting, I just can't, just doesn't click for me, it's not. You know, just discipline yourself,

be like six o'clock, I'm going to eat one last time and then I'm not eating. I don't give a fuck what happens. I just get, you got to boss yourself and be like, I'm not fucking eating after this. You got that discipline. I tell you what, fucking as hard as a nail this guy. I can't fucking believe it, dude.

I can't believe how. You look great, you're good. It's had on my energy level. Like I'm sharing it with anybody who will listen to me. I might have to take you up on him. I would love to see Mike tune somebody up. From like across the street. I bet he does this after he maxed him out.

Like he fixes his jacket. He shoots his cuffs real quick. Hey, Mike, he shoots the cuffs on his circle. I'm not that guy at all, I'm a very. Yeah, you're very calm. I'm a calm and loving guy. Yeah, you are. You're a sweetheart.

I bet you throw a good gut punch now, huh? It's not one where this one, this hand goes up. You know what I'm gonna do? You know what I'm gonna do? Just give me a fucking left over. Yeah, the leftovers, then like the Barstool guys who were friends with KFC and Feidlberg, they all picked it up

and it's been like an ongoing war now. And I just want to put. But if you take leftovers, you're trash. That's a trashy thing to do. I don't think you're trash. It's a trashy thing to do. One, because here's my points of view. And people say it's so good.

I'm not saying it's not good. KFC, Feidlberg and him say no. I like hot dogs in the microwave. Just because I like it doesn't mean it's not trash. It is a trash thing to do because I think if, if you didn't take it home, it's a literal trash. It's going in the garbage. There's no other use for it.

And it's like. Even if you didn't finish it, that's it. They're called doggie bags. It was supposed, it started, first of all, it started in depression to take food home to your dog. That's literally how it started. I've done some research.

Yorana, get range. I'm taking it home from my emotional support animal. Have you taken it home? Dude, if it's a thing, you can take home for you or your dog. It's not like, it's not a classy thing to do. That's a decent point. But I just, I look at it from a waste standpoint.

And I understand that. I don't give a fuck if it becomes illegal. I'm fucking still doing it. I'll pay that right now. Yeah, buddy, you're no fucking, what do you, you're no candidate. There's no way I'm leaving a fucking, have I played a carbonara fucking

for some bus boy to get his ass out. I was never a big carbonara guy. My wife, my wife turned me onto it. She's German, so it's all the Italians in Germany. And like, so there are pizza places that are all like actual- It's like a bacon egg and cheese, but with pasta. Man, you dropped the, it's got the egg.

It's got the fucking, oh, good night. I thought you were talking about the true TV show, Carbonara. He's in magician with pasta. The things he does, I'll tell you that. Is this your meatball? Big Nathan to you guys. I like it.

That's good. All right, here. I think I only got one or two more, maybe. I think he's pretty bulletproof. You're gonna find maybe one or two things, but I mean, what are we doing? This guy's fucking, you know. Here's one.

When you're eating, okay? Are you a bite and sip guy, or are you eat the meal, have your drink? What do you stand on? I gotta say that I'm- I only drink black coffee. Black coffee, herbal tea. I don't drink when I eat.

Turn the lights off. I don't know, I don't know about that, but here's what I will say. And I'm trying to work on this. I eat fucking fast. I eat really fast, and I don't drink water until like, after I'm trying to be- That's that steel country.

I'm trying to be more of a conscious eater. Take a bite. They teach you in fact camp. 25 times is something they say. They teach you in fact camp. It's like- Why did you go to fact camp? No, my father, my father was a real heavy set guy,

and they taught him different strategies. Like, eat with your non-dominant hand. Take all that shit. Slow it down, slow it down. Shoot 25 times. Take a sip of water. Put the utensils down and sit there for a second and just be at peace with it.

Like really taste the food. You have to appreciate it as well. Appreciate the food. Taste the food, swallow the food, sit there for a second, let it hit your stomach. Like I would just eat like an, and it comes from the conditioning of being in a family where my mother would put the food down

and we'd eat like fucking animals. After we prayed. Shout out to Jesus. Amen. Yeah, you're hitting a lot of bulls with me. We gotta get you on fucking, you gotta get you on intermittent fasting, or at least fucking something.

Dude, you could definitely, if you wrestled, you could definitely do it. What was the name of that camper I can get my hands on? That duck meat chicken, that's what I'm talking about. That's a school program. Let's go the other way. Well, sir, how old are you? Fucking tackling kids.

You got any thighs? Wow. All right, I got, what's your current ring tone? That's just the regular, what came with the phone. Class. Sleep with a fan on you? Directly on you? How many pillows are you using, if any?

I'm using an orthopedic, and then another one. So two. Are you snuggling the one or is it between your legs? Snuggling it. Crazy, but not garbage. No, I'm a snuggler too. I know, when I call it my husband. What's that all about?

Snuggle the pillow, but can't, apparently, my girl actually asked me to snuggle more. Like I can't do it with it. I can't, it's not emotions, but I just the logistics of snuggling another person. That and the heat. My pillow doesn't give off radiant heat, you know what I mean?

Yeah, that's gotta be something. I guarantee you people weren't doing that fucking 40, 50 years ago. There's no way you fucking guys that fought in Normandy were snuggling a pillow at night. That's something with society. How are they sleeping though? Probably on their backs, fucking straight up like this.

I would imagine you. With one eye open. That's how my dad sleeps. You stand it up in front of a footlocker with you. That's what I'm picturing. All right, Katie, you go to bed, I got watch. Like smoking. Katie's sleep back and back.

He's got a thermos of coffee. See, she sleeps, like she's disturbed by everything though. So if I would have this screen on my phone or something and she would, like we got into numerous arguments about that at the beginning of the pandemic. Like she can't sleep if there's any noise. Any light. Any kind of fucking light, anything.

And it's like, me, I would go to sleep with like a full boxing match going on. Oh yeah, it doesn't matter. I've fallen asleep at Eagles games before. It doesn't matter to me. I can go. Yeah. Did I remember the first time I went to my-

You get enough of that ketamine in your game. Well, excuse me. I bet you did. The first time I went to my now wife's house, she had blackout curtains and an eye mask. And I was like, this girl is psycho. Wow. She needs complete.

Complete, yeah. Complete blackness, stillness, no lights. Same thing with the phone. It's a fucking mess. Movement, any kind of movement. It's like a problem. How can you collect anything? You have a samurai sword in your apartment.

Yes. You do. Well, no, it's not mine. Stands. Stands. Fuck, I stank it. And there's a series of samurai swords- This guy's sticking a movement on us.

And knives. Have you ever gone to Myrtle Beach for a vacation? No. You travel with a full-size pillow? No. Take your shoes off on an airplane? No. Will you take food onto an airplane?

Yes. Ooh. Really? I used to do that. I don't do it now. I just fast. Okay. I'll just fast.

I would take, because I couldn't, I was doing keto, and I couldn't eat the snacks or whatever. Dietary restrictions is different. Yes. I would take it because of dietary. You're not only going to fuck it. I would get, like, baconator. Yeah, I would get the baconator and take the bread off,

and I would take it on the plane and eat it. Oh, really? That's what you're trying to say. Pre-Covid. Pre-Covid. That's tough. That smells and- But can I say something in my defense about- How do you hold it?

Do you eat it with a knife and a fork? What are you doing? No, I would take it with my hand. Wait a minute. Yeah, this is going to speak to trash, I would take it with my hand. This guy's a savage. But I'm not-

Push the next episode. We just found a well here. I look into the camera and defend myself. This guy's ready to fucking start off here. Ladies and gentlemen of RU Garbage, Mr. Vecchio. Turn the heat up a little bit. I'm not trash. I'm a utility guy, though.

Okay, if something works for me and I find benefit in it, then I will do it to that end. But I have to say that I'm not trash, but some of the things that might seem like trash because I find utility in them. It's functional. It's functional. Yeah, I get that.

And it's going to benefit me overall, which is trying to rise to a higher level, which is the exact opposite of trash. Yeah. So thank you for letting me make this statement. There might be a couple of United Flight Attendance that might say different, I'm paying that right now. We got Vecchio in 32B fucking scarfing down bacon haters

again. I actually am the Burger King. So. So. Forget about it. Forget about it. I think I got one more. How do you clean a public toilet seat?

If you're going that you got to do a number two, you're jammed up. I get it's not an ideal situation. It's relatively clean. There's no like big markings or so or anything. What do you do? Do you have a problem with doing a number two in public? No.

Okay. Functional. I'll take the toilet paper. I'll take a bunch of it. I'll wipe it down. And then that little crack in the middle there. That's what I get. I'll clean my penis, not that it's huge,

but I don't want to accidentally touching that. 100%. So I'll clean that last, put it in the toilet, flush it, cause I don't know where that water's been. I need fresh water and then I'll go. I agree. And then I'll flush immediately or halfway through it if it's more of a long version to respect the other people.

I do the same thing, but I take it an extra step, which I've been informed now is a trashy move. Is I will flush the toilet a couple of times, take all that toilet paper, give it a little dip in the toilet water, which I assume is clean because it's flushed and then give it a wipe. Yeah, but what about on the outside of the bowl? No, I mean, obviously there's shit in the bowl.

I mean, the water comes in the side of the bowl, baby. Right. You're not looking at the invisible germs that might be on the outside of the bowl that would tank the water. Please stop doing that. Okay. It's COVID dude, we're in a pandemic.

What do you do? You're using shit water. Even before COVID, that seems crazy to me. That's insane to me. He told, he said this before and I let it slide because we were late in the episode and we were running out of minutes, but you gotta stop doing that.

That's nuts. I mean, how dirty is toilet water? It looks so cool and clean, doesn't it? Dogs love it. First of all, clear. You know what's a second note? The middle section there where your twig and berries go, you can put a piece of toilet paper there.

So even if there's no, you can hang it over. So there's no, you have a different buffer in case you do, you're on your phone, you're whatever you slip, you're not gonna get. Well, curtain. Little curtain. Yeah, little buffer zone. You wear a robe in the house.

No, no robe, not a robe. Shoes off in the house? Shoes off, yeah. Have you ever worn a wife beater in public? Yes. In Philly. The way he said that. In Philly, yeah.

I do remember that. And now I had a short sleeve shirt over it, but I have to say, in full disclosure, I would take, yes, yes, that's sure. Would you take it off sometimes and throw the T-shirt over your shoulder? Cause that's a real garbage move. No, because I would.

I would hop into the bow dagger or something. I would, because I would wear, I would keep the shirt. I would take the top shirt off and just wear the beater. Oh, yeah. That's a tough one. When was the last time you wore jean shorts? I can't remember. Okay, that's the answer.

And it's not for any kind of, they just don't look good on me. What'd you get in your SATs? 900. It's all right. No, it's not. What are you talking about? What'd you get?

I got an 870. It's terrible. It's a terrible. I thought it by around a thousand was okay. No, 900 is pretty low. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, the scoring is different now.

Sure, yeah, but we're going up to standard 16 hundo. Gonna love the 40. Smartest guy in the room. You're fucking falling in love with this guy. How about Julian? This guy you wrapped around his finger. How about Julian McCullough got like a, almost a perfect score?

That's crazy. We were talking at the cellar one night and he goes, yeah, well, I got like a 1580 or something. Or he might've got a 16. He might've got a 1600. Who else did really good that we've had on? I think Gillis was pretty high. Gillis was like a 1480.

You got into West Point. You believe that? Yeah, West Point. West Point. What's that? Was it Amiko? Zach Amiko was like a 1480 as well. That I can see.

Yeah. Gillis, I was starting. 1480 is insane. Yeah. Yeah, Gillis got into West Point. That's crazy. Yeah. You need like a congressional football.

You went there to play football. Play football, got into, I know a couple of guys like that. Great Warren got into West Point. Yeah, that's right. The guy who beat me in the state tournament. What was his name? His name is Harris Brummer.

Yeah, you'll never forget that. You'll never forget that. He beat me good. He beat me twice and beat me pretty well. I'm fucking Brummer. Brummer, if you're watching this. He went to Notre Dame. In Adoma.

He went to Notre Dame on a scholarship and then they shut their program down or something happened and then he went to West Point. Damn. Yeah, he was a smart guy. And tough. I know as hard as wrestling is in high school. And it's, you know, state by state,

Pennsylvania, Ohio, it's fucking, it's insane. Really tough. But the toughest of the tough would go to college, like a division one college, and they would last maybe a fucking couple months. That's how crazy that was. Yeah, division one wrestling is brutal. Doing psycho shit.

Yeah, psycho. Our high school was really, I never wrestled, but we went to, I went to Council Rock and they were like notorious. Oh my God. They had them all state champions every year. So. What year, what year are you?

I graduated in 05. So there was one family that ran the fucking, that ran it, it was the Rappos. They ran it. There was like six, there were six boys. And each one was like tougher than that. They all went to like North Carolina. What the old man do?

He was like a fucking real, like a roofing and siding company or something. I know the, I know the coach. Sillen Perry? Yeah. I know him. He's the hangout. Yeah.

Actually we have a common. We used to hang out. No, we have a common. You're like, like he's a little more Italian than you are. He's him, but just darker. He was a super tough wrestler and to separate us. Like whenever we talk about wrestling, I make sure people know who I was good in high school

from where I was from. And then I went to college and I took my licks in college. In the second year of college, I was like, but I was in there, I fought hard. But the second year of college, I'm like, I can't do this. I guess it's too much fucking work and it's crazy beatings from guys who are just like great. And so I make sure, but he was like a college.

He was tough in college. Yeah, was he? Yeah, Brad. And so I know Tony, Fabri, who's a friend of mine. And those guys are both coaches of their real, they were close friends and they still are. Because I went, I do a benefit in Pennsylvania once in a while from my friend, Rob Bigley, who has a program

in the Avangrove, Avondale area. Where's that? I don't know where that is. And then Fabri coaches for Ridley. He also has a freestyle program. So I go do benefits for both of their programs whenever they ask me to. And those guys are great guys, man.

And Council Rock is fucking tough. Dude, they were, I mean, I didn't know anything about it. And just like every year was like, oh, stay champion, stay champion, play second and it was just like, they're really tough. But my friend, Rob Bigley has a program in Avondale that's really good also. You know what I mean?

And so I guess they're all competing. Pennsylvania is like just red. There was like, yeah, there's like Pennsylvania, like it's Pennsylvania, Ohio. Yeah. And these guys all wrestled in college and they were all Americans and stuff. So they're, they're super tough.

Man, this guy's a fucking piece of steel over here. I don't know. He's class, he's class. He's got a couple of garbage trades, but the guy's a fucking class act over here. Old school. I'll tell you, young kids that day, you take a page out of this fucking guy's book right here.

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Buddy, thank you. This was fucking. One of my favorite episodes of all time. Was I trash? No, you're. What? Trash. Hidden me.

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It's gonna be fun, gang. It's gonna be the fun end of the year here. I wanted to follow up again. Hit you with the fucking one, two, three punch. Make sure you fucking check out, no disrespect. And I'm sure most of you are watching this because you love the show, but if you don't, go fucking check it out.

Mike is absolutely one of the fucking best, one of the sharpest joke writers and one of the funniest guys ever. And this was one of the funnest afternoons I've had. Yeah, this was such one of my favorite episodes. So much fun. Guys, we thank you so much. We love you very much.

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