The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #521 - Nick Turturro
Episode Date: October 3, 2017Nick Turturro, Actor seen in films and TV such as "The Longest Yard" and "NYPD Blue," joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio. This podcast is brought to you by: Five... Four Club - Go To Fivefourclub.com and use Promo code JOEY for 50% of your first month's package plus a free pair of sunglasses. Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout. Recorded live on 10/02/2017.
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Hit it, Lee.
Tuesday, October 3rd.
I want to see nothing but assholes and elbows this week.
We ain't fucking around no more.
It's a different fucking planet.
We got to rise up, cock suckers.
That's why the church is here for you.
Because you're sitting there thinking, what the fuck, Joey?
That's right, motherfuckers.
Straight out of Philly, all the notes.
1981, drawing fucking heat.
It still holds up.
Get those shoulders bumping.
It's early morning, Coxsepper.
Do you think?
Are you kidding me?
Or what?
We're kicking this fucking meal early here.
October 2nd.
Throwing fucking heat on you on you on Monday night.
My brother Nick Tatouros on here shows up with a pizza and blue cheese,
pizza dough rolls, something gentiles would fucking...
These fucking kids would pay an extra six bucks from pizza pizza to get those things delivered.
They get that Staminke's shit.
What's they delivered?
to you. Fresh mozzarella sticks with a
pizza. You can't shit for a
fucking week. You can't shit for a fucking
vicarans. He called them bombs. And get something
out of them. These are bombs. These are clas up your little muffler.
What's happened? Beautiful people. Lysayat
here. Uncle Nick Nick is here. Before we even start this,
my heart goes out, our heart goes
out to the victims in Las Vegas.
It's a different fucking world out there. And
thank out we have each other. Because
this, you know, what a way to wake up on a Monday morning.
I could say it's a beautiful day to be 10 fucking times today
and nothing made a difference.
By 10 o'clock I went to write and I couldn't even write.
Thank God fucking Burke Chrysha showed up
and I talked to him until about 10 to 11
and then finally I go, what am I going to do, sit here
and think about, you know, going to a show
or going to a football game and getting fucking shot now in this day and age.
Yeah.
So I finally went to Jiu-Jitsu and that was great for an hour
when I got home and then tonight I watched world news tonight
and at one point I just started crying
I mean these people were all 23 24
27 the chick was 35 with three kids at home
you know I mean to be standing outside
and to be fucking targeted like that I mean
there was nowhere to go
the guy they were all like John F. Kennedy's
poor fucking people that's what they were
they were John F. Kennedys they were trapped in there
and this was a fucking other
so my heart goes out to you
people and the people listening.
I know today was a hard day
for you guys too. It's a crazy world
and I was just talking a couple of weeks ago
with a guy and we were arguing about, you know,
I said the world today is nothing
like when I grew up. Not that it was perfect in the
70s and the 80s, but
you know you didn't see this kind of
shit that's become like the norm
the last 10, 15 years
and these mass killings
and children and just people
that are at a concert, at a movie
and you get massaceted, you get blown,
away. I mean, he's world technology and we're curing things. I don't give a shit. It's a,
it's really a world that's become like a video game. And it's a shame because, you know,
people's lives can be like snuffed out in a second. I just can't understand the mindset of,
the maniacs that do this. They inflicts so much and then they blow themselves up at 64 years. Oh,
he doesn't fit the profile. Well, obviously you didn't know the fucking guy. There's no profile anymore.
what profile?
How do you know who the guy next to you?
I mean, today you're not safe anywhere, anywhere.
And, um, I don't know, it's just sad.
I mean, I'm not a gun guy either.
That's why I don't like guns, period.
He had 18 guns here, had 19 guns over there.
I don't know what the answer is anymore.
How the fuck do you get these guns?
And this is why I tell people...
He passed the, the, whatever it is, the, the checks.
No, what checks?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I'm not talking about the guns.
What I'm trying to say to you people is, what do I
tell everybody all the time.
For the love of Christ, put that fucking phone
in your pocket.
For the lover Christ, when you're walking,
you have to pay attention.
I want you to walk around
like this is the Bronx,
and any of these people can mug you.
I don't give a fuck if you're in a church.
Because that's how you have to walk now.
You have to watch and look.
You have to live like you're selling drugs now.
That's how you have to live
when you walk into a room.
Before you take a seat, you have to fucking sit next to an exit and sit with your fucking door, your face at the fucking door,
and you have to know where the other doors are when you sit down.
And if there ain't no other doors, you know what, get up and go to the bathroom and see if there's a way to fuck out of there.
Because that's the only way you can live now, guys.
Nobody wants to get slaughtered.
These people got slaughtered last night.
That's what they did.
That's the only way to describe it.
They got slaughtered.
500-something people got injured.
Yeah.
That means shot, shot, period, injured, a bullet.
He shot bullets that would go through body piercing on cops.
Oh, no.
This was a horrible fucking night for this country.
There was just a horrible night for the world.
As somebody who was in entertainment, what do you want me to think anymore?
What do you want me to think anymore?
These comedy clubs, except the punchlines, have fucking metal detectors.
Yeah.
You know.
I was going to say 10 years ago, I lived in Israel for six months.
and they have metal detectors at malls.
They have metal detectors everywhere.
And it's just something that you deal with.
Alex Jones, the UFC in Houston,
six, seven years ago, with all his craziness and all his tank,
he's pretty crazy.
We were sitting there talking and he goes, I predict.
And he said in five years, so he's off a year,
that we were going to start having TSA at Parks,
TSA at concerts,
TSA at Moles
TSA everywhere you walked into
TSA was going to take over the United States
You walk into a fucking bodega
And there'll be a TSA agent that 20 years
As weird as it sounds
And I could be misremembering some of it
But it felt like there was a lot of soldiers
Doing the like the checking in Israel
And I felt safer there than
Sometimes than I do here at TSA
Like they felt more, it feels more professional
It wasn't messing around
it was a quick check and you were through and
I felt totally sad
I was an 18 year old kid
who didn't speak the language and I never
once felt
like in danger or anything.
And I'm going to tell you people something.
I'm going to tell you something
from the deepest valley of my heart because you guys
know I fly and you guys know
I've been flying for 20 years. When it comes to
flying, I'm a fucking professional. I'll tell you what
they, you know, XFO
I'll tell you fucking XNA. You know
what's XNA airport? You've been laying
XNA, Northern Arkansas,
fucking airport, listen,
I can drop knowledge on you that most
people don't know. You know, I know
all about flying points.
Lee, how much do I get upgraded?
97% of the time?
I know every scam,
every fucking... But he also wakes
up at like 3 a.m. to call sometimes.
Sure, you got to do what you got to do.
You got to sacrifice. You got to take one for the fucking
team. You want to hang out with fucking
doctors? You got to fucking, you know,
play the assistant. I dress up in
wait. And I'm going to tell you guys something.
I could, not me. I didn't say me.
I'm sorry that came out of my mouth.
Anybody could sneak a bomb on a plane.
I'm telling you guys, as a fucking observer,
I go through there every fucking twice a weekend.
I go through TSA four times a month.
And after 20, after, since 9-11, I've got to tell you something that I don't feel safe at all.
That's sad
That's the really sad
You could bring something on there with Lee
Okay, I could bring one piece
Lee could bring the other piece
And you could bring the third piece
And together
They become something
Right
Okay
We all meet in the first bathroom
You make the right
I go in the big
Handicap store
Because I'm the fat guy
I put it together
And I could go on a plane
I could go on a phone
I could go on a fucking, I could go on a line, I can do anything.
I've seen it.
I sit there and go, wow, I get through with a vapor pen.
I get through with, you know, stupid stuff that should shine through.
You should stop me and go take that out of the bag.
Let's see what that is.
My iPad, I don't take my iPad out.
Don't they tell you that when you get there, take your thing out?
You don't take your iPad out?
Never.
God damn it, Joey.
That's why, well, they never brought, they never talked to you about it.
Never.
Most of the time they let the iPad go.
The iPad goes in my sleep apnea bag.
Before that, I had a bigger sleep apnea bag,
and I put my computer in there.
And I'll go on the plane with the surfers.
You can go on there, was it?
You never take it out.
You know, they tell you're taking out of the bag.
I never took it out.
Fuck you.
If I take anything out, I take the sleep apnea machine bag out.
But I'm telling you, as an amateur,
that I've been watching there, that I sit there and watch them.
Like when I'm going through the line, dog,
my heart's pounding.
I feel like I'm about to steal something.
And I'm not doing anything.
You know why?
Because I have no trust.
Yeah.
Because I know at any minute I could hear,
Abdul Abbaq and fucking bab boom, my life's over.
Next year you know, I'm on eyewitness news.
They got my sneakers on there.
And one sock, the other one clung onto my fungi toe.
Yeah.
So that's the truth.
I'm telling you, in my opinion,
but it's 98% accurate.
Yeah.
And I'm not a fucking terrorist and nothing like that.
I'm telling you how they could do it.
I'm not like, I don't want the military to take over.
over like the country or anything, but don't you think if we hired had like soldiers that
were manning the airports, don't you think we feel safer?
Like manning the checkpoints?
Well, let me tell you something.
I don't know what dimension you live in.
I don't want to LAX some days, dog.
You think they're there to get Pablo.
Oh, they have people there.
I'm not saying I feel.
No, no, no, no.
There's some more.
I've told you, I fly early and I get on there with an edible and I don't go through changes.
When I fly around 10 o'clock, that's the fear of death.
that means you're getting there at 8.30.
You're checking in.
You're checked in already.
And you go outside for that last breath of fucking fresh air.
Look around you.
Look around you.
It's guys with fucking baboomba.
And go to Kennedy Airport.
Kennedy Airport, they're prepared for fucking a war.
Go to Kennedy Airport.
They're prepared for a fucking war.
Oh, they're very prepared.
They have to be now.
At Kennedy, they're prepared for a fucking war.
war.
In New York.
If you go through, let me tell you something,
if you buy a cheap ticket and go through Kennedy,
what are the Italian say?
Madonami.
That's what I got to tell you,
because they have a thing at Kennedy Airport.
Well, you know how they tell you two hours before flight?
Let's pretend you go on checking,
and it takes you 22 minutes and you check in.
The fucking security won't let you on
until a certain time period.
So you got to wait in line like Mook DeVille.
That's why.
So you don't get there until exactly.
No. What I told you happened happened.
Pre-TSA has been over-absorbed.
The last two weekends I've flown out,
I just got in the Express First Class Light.
And there were two people.
Pre-TSA, I fly with sweats now.
So I don't lose.
There's no belt to take off.
Right.
There's the, yeah.
So if you're pre-TSA and you hold your license up with a ticket,
they don't make you take your shoes off.
Right.
And there's two people.
Everybody now is pre-TSA.
Everybody.
Yeah, that's it.
They just sold a fucking dream now.
to a bunch of mooks.
I didn't pay for it.
And eventually you fly so much,
they give it to you anyway.
Yeah, you can buy it.
I didn't buy it.
I didn't buy it.
I'm a felon like a motherfucker.
As soon as I call all the airlines,
your fucking record comes up on the airline.
Did you know that?
Oh, really?
Sure.
As soon as you call the airline,
soon as your number goes into their bank now
since 9-11, everything of yours pops up.
They just test you and fuck with you.
Who's this calling?
They fucking know who's calling.
Your name comes up, your address,
what you do if you do.
flown with them before, your visa card number, your Amex number, they got it all.
How do I know?
Because I know these things, this is what I am.
You're beautiful, baby.
I have friends or friends.
What's going on in your life, Nikki Tate?
All right, how you doing?
I'm getting ready for the playoffs tomorrow night.
This is your fucking world.
It's my time.
Yeah, you know, I'm a hardcore Yankee fan.
Nicky feel like a throw away everything.
I thought about it over the weekend.
You know, I love you.
I know you want to act.
I know you want to be veto call Leonie.
But listen, there's no value in that.
No, there is no value in that.
Oh, there isn't.
Let me tell you what the show is called.
See, it's too late now.
Now you got to wet it out until next year.
This show is you in a room by yourself with a pizza.
That's it.
Okay, with the Yankee game lung with no sound.
And you watch the Yankee game.
Oh, that's no problem.
Listen to me.
It's ten bucks to watch the game with Uncle Nicky.
It's good.
I like that.
Listen to me.
That's it.
No TV show.
So tell me again.
Ten, ten.
Ten dollars.
Ten dollars.
They can buy a season.
pass if they pay you they give you for the first month they give you $10 a day no $5 a day for the
first month or $60 for a month if you do the first day you get a two-day trial with Nikki Tee
but I'm gonna tell you something it don't mean nothing with Nikki T to the season starts getting
closed and Nikki T starts going fucking bananas right and for the extra fin they see the tweets on
the screen right and that's it what everything that you throw the anger yeah and then you
Somebody has to come in as soon as they lose.
This is the reality of it because reality television is scripted.
Yeah, it is.
Okay, and then when the Yankees are losing,
and they do like two errors,
somebody has to open the door and ask you like a stupid question.
Can I ask you a question?
What's the Capitol Tennessee?
Oh, God.
And you're like, fuck you.
Fuck you, fuck your mother.
Get the fuck out of here.
The Capitol of Tennessee.
Oh, shit.
You ever see a little rascals?
That episode, it was the little rascals.
schools with Chubby
and Chubby was jealous
because the teacher was coming over
so Alfalfa went over there
and tried the Mac on the teacher
and Alfafalfa was all dressed up
he bring no no no no no no no no
it's the Chubby kid
he combed his hair
Chubby Ubsy Ubsby Chubsby
Chubsby and she calls him something
she calls him like lunatic
like a letter
and he goes you don't have to call me letters
he can call me Chubby Uzby
She's Yubsby
like 40. He's like fucking 12
and he's trying to Mac on this episode.
Let me see if it's on.
What was the...
What I Google? Chubsy Ubsy?
Don't Google YouTube.
Chubsby.
Oh, I love Chubsby Ubsy Ubsby.
A funny fucking guy.
When fucking Alfalfa comes
out and starts to make a noise from the curtain,
that is one of the funniest things
because every time Chubsby Ubsby
runs his game
before she could say something,
Alfalfa comes from behind the curtain.
and tortures them.
That's what you need.
That's part of this reality show
is that you sit there,
watch the Yankees, and if they're losing,
people have to come in and torment your life.
Ask you stupid questions.
What happens if they're winning?
If they're winning, then nobody bothers you.
It's okay, nobody bothers me.
And people drop off because it's not funny.
But the thing is for me,
they've got to be losing.
Let's see, Chubbery Usby.
Yeah.
Oh, you know, look at that face.
Holy shit.
Look at that, Joey.
The third one,
The first one. The first one.
That's the one with Miss Crabtie.
Oh, man. I want to hear his voice.
Oh, Miss Crabtee. You don't have to call me Norman.
Call me Norma. You have to call me Chubsby.
I told you. Who the fuck you think you're dealing with, though?
Put the smiley models.
Oh, God.
Look at this episode.
This is brilliant.
Chubsby. Oh, look at this. Jackie Cooper.
Jackie Cooper. Here he is.
Please.
How is Fazi?
Well, what do you want?
Oh, this is brilliant.
I thought I dropped in.
Well, just keep passing by
till you come to the river and then drop in.
Wow.
Oh, shit.
Look at the Macon.
Look at them.
On this crab tree.
On this crab tree?
Some flowers.
Oh, aren't they pretty?
Oh.
I brought some candy, too.
Why, I know.
Look at that voice, Joey.
Oh.
You get in here.
Oh, I just blew.
I just blew it.
Did you see this in?
Did you see this in pan?
Hey, Pousy.
Well, what's he?
Oh, wow.
Pull the curtains, will you?
This is private.
Oh!
Was he eating candy?
Oh, Miss Grouchy.
I have something heavy on my heart.
Oh, right.
This is classic.
This is brilliant.
It says on a piece of candy.
How about a kiss?
Oh, Norman.
I'm calling me, Norman.
Call me Chubsy
Ubsy
That's the fucking buddy
This is the shit I grew up on
I know me too
Chabby
Ubbsy
Watch this
Lady
You're watching this
I want to ask you something
Heavy on my heart
I want to ask you something
Oh chubsy
Ubsy
There's gonna be something
heavy on your nose
Ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Every time he tries to rub game
Watch
there's something heavy
I have a heart attack right thing.
Bha.
Look at that.
Oh my God.
Oh, miss gratitude.
Oh, Miss Morgan.
Oh, Miss Morgan.
Oh, my God.
God, Jesus, Joey.
I was a little kid
with me to watch.
this shit in my heart
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god
Fucking brilliant
little kid. This is what I was.
Oh, this is
Spanky. Hold on, hold on. Hit on the Blackwood
Kid. Oh, my God. This is when they make
the fucking cake.
That fucking... Up there. Up there.
Right there. That one. Click on that one.
That's when they make the fucking cake.
This is something that...
1932, guys.
I saw this... Every time I saw
this episode was going to come on.
Speed it up. Speed it up.
When they make the cake and the cake blows up, I'll tell you.
Keep going.
He needs money to buy his mama dress.
So right there
All right
So they're making cake
And they just push it in the fucking cake
So they get all this stuff
This is as racist
As could fucking be
This episode
Is this racist as to be
Just this episode
Look at them, they're putting pipes in there
They're gonna get a surprise
When they get there
They're putting toys in a cake
So they're making a cake
to sell it by the slice
and then get the donations and buy their
mom a dress. Because the husband
wouldn't let her get. This is, these are great
stories. Speed it up a little bit.
So they start
putting shoes in the fucking batter.
Oh, right. They're putting all the shit in there.
Yeah, they put, I got it right there.
I remember this.
There's a scene here
where it gets hot in the fucking kitchen
and he goes like this, to sweat.
And he throws the sweat on the wall in his black sweat.
No, there's not.
Yes, there is.
Look at the oven.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Watch this.
This is, this shit.
This noise.
I heard this every day in school at least once a week.
And the music is great.
You hear the music?
Yeah.
The music.
Oh, shit.
Oh, yeah.
Whoa, bo, blah, blah.
Hit it in a minute.
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God.
It's fucking brilliant.
Even as a child, I would giggle my...
Oh, yeah, that noise.
The noise.
What?
Did I ask one question?
Did you torture your teachers with this noise?
Every fucking thing.
B'baw.
Oh, my God.
I haven't laughed.
I haven't seen this in years.
I forgot how funny this was.
This is how comedy started with my heart, guys.
This was before the honeymoon is for me.
Yeah.
Are these like your first joints?
What's this shit?
Flower shot out and hit poor fucking buckwheat in the face.
Look at him.
He takes a fucking shoe out.
Oh, he's got a hot water bottle.
This is a surprise.
What was there
justification for putting these things
in the cake?
A pride.
Look at this.
They couldn't make comedy like this today.
No.
If they fucking...
This was kids.
This is...
This is...
This is so...
They don't like...
They don't got kids like this anymore.
They can't do this kind of stuff no more.
I just want you to put in you there
enter this house.
Okay.
Let's see, little rascals.
Little rascals, you dare enter this house.
This is great.
Just watching this.
This makes me cry.
It's fucking brings me back to my child.
I want to cry.
I want to cry.
On a couch, you eat in a fucking...
Every once in a while, I'm in a hotel room.
It's one of the morning.
I got insomnia.
And you put this on?
I put this shit on.
And I fucking giggle my fucking ass off.
Oh, my God.
All right.
You dare enter this house, little rascals.
Let's see if it comes up.
Scroll it. Let's see.
Nah, there's nobody even.
No, I talk about it.
Oh, you're talking about it?
That's you, Joey.
Yeah, you're talking about you there into this house.
That's a great episode.
They go into this fucking haunted house.
The other one that's good is when they fucking make the car and it's got a boxing glove.
Yeah.
And whenever people are standing at the light, they're boxing glove.
Yeah.
Bunches them in the face.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember that one.
And they steal the cart and they're going down the hill.
And guys, when you're a kid, man, you're having a bad day.
Maybe you fucked up a word in school.
No, this was great.
Between this and the three stooges.
Yeah, and then the honeymoon is.
And then the honeymooners came in later on, and that was it.
Fucking brilliant.
Last night, I went home.
What was the episode that was on last night?
Jesus Christ.
The golfer.
Oh, when he had to play golf?
Last week was the fucking, when he was the superintendent of the bill.
It's on Sundays at 11.
At 11?
11 o'clock every fucking Sunday.
Yeah, the fucking golf was great.
They were all great episodes.
They're all great.
And the comedy, and you watch that type of comedy and that style, and the catalyst was Art Carney.
Well, he was there.
But Gleeson is a fucking really a great actor.
He was a powerhouse.
He was a dramatic actor.
So that's why in off set with Arcarni, it was just genius.
Arcarni, I watched some of those episodes.
And again, I fucking die.
You know, it's great.
It's just the fucking lines you remember.
Hey, Ralph, want to take another boomph?
You know, when they're on the fucking train going the wrong way?
That was one of the most brilliant episode.
Oh, it's fucking great.
How about one more boonf?
Yeah, how about another boonf?
Get up there.
Get up there.
Get up there.
Get up there.
And he shows Rob.
The mask and everything.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
It's comedy that, I don't, you know, listen, who knows how you get the act that do comedy.
No.
I will tell you one thing, Nick.
And, you know, there's things in your life that you remember forever.
And I still remember going to Doom Buggy's house and him being on heroin.
And us listening to the Beatles, me and his little brother listened to the Beatles
and him coming in on heroin, like, the fuck you pussy's listening to her.
I'm a scared of both of these.
You know, I'm a scared kid.
He's telling him he's going to knock the fuck out of us.
Let me show you what the fuck to listen to.
And he put on Richard Pryor.
And that was it for me.
Between Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason,
I was off to a different level.
I was confused.
I didn't know what comedy was,
well, here it is, bitch.
This is as good as it gets.
Right.
And then I got introduced to George Carlin,
David Brenner.
But at first, that was it.
And then Red Fox came into the game.
Yeah.
And I nearly had a heart attack on fucking TV.
But then I bought his albums.
I bought two of his albums.
I got to tell you some.
At the age of 12,
the Red Fox album was a little too strong.
Did you go see anybody live when you were?
At that age, no.
No.
Between you and I, I saw one comic before I got on stage.
How old were you when you did your first, you know, comedy thing?
1991.
1991.
So how old were you?
28 years old.
You were 28?
First time I got on stage.
How old were you the first time you acted?
Like, you know, professionally?
Yeah, my late 20s, like around that age.
Yeah.
What was the first?
How old?
When did you get into acting class?
When did you?
Yeah, it was probably because I, you know, I let it go for a long time
and did a little bit in high school, senior.
I was in a musical, guys and dolls.
And then I didn't, you know, finish college.
I dropped out.
So I had never really done anything professionally, you know,
until, like, I was in my late 20s and Mo Better Blues with Spike Lee.
That was the first, like, real job.
And all these great guys were in the movie.
and Robin Harris and Denzel Washington.
I was like, wow, I can't believe I'm,
I don't even know how this fucking happened,
but, you know, I had done something for Spike,
and then he liked me, and it just gave me a shot.
I had been taking acting class with this guy, Bob Motorcar at night.
I was toying with the idea.
And then I said, wow, this is actually, this is a fucking,
I hope I just don't suck, you know.
I just, even though I was acting with my brother,
he was up and coming, and all these people in the movie were good.
so I was like you know
I was just I just wanted to blend in
you know but I remember
after the two weeks I took off
from the hotel as a door
door man after it was over
my brother said you know don't
don't forget what happened here don't forget
the experience
because you could tell something kind of changed in me
and I didn't forget I was affected
by the whole thing
but I was like wow this is way fucking harder than I
I thought I saw Denzel I was like this guy's
great I saw Robin
Harris. I said, who was that guy? He destroyed a whole room of people. He was like kind of a modern
day red fox. He was brilliant. He was fucking brilliant. He was funny and he could act too. He had like
some soul. The first time I saw him. Do the right thing. I lost my mind. Oh my God. He was on the street.
Sweet Dick Willie. Yeah. And he was next to a guy that throws heat too. Yeah. That guy that played
the Jamaican. Right. That guy was a good veteran actor.
Savage. Yeah. We went to see that in New York with Spike. I mean, all
black audience. It was like out of body
experience. Everybody was screaming,
laughing. You know, that's
it, man. You go, that was a wild audience.
That was a wild
movie. It's crazy that there were
two movies and I talk about this all
the time. There's two movies that
I was not going to see Harlem Knights
and do the right thing.
Well, one is a good movie. I signed up for a sociology
class, intro the sociology class.
One of those
fucking classes, something like that.
The teacher, that was the homework assignment.
To watch do the right thing and do a paper on the whole fucking thing.
And I got to tell you something, it blew my fucking mind.
It's a good movie.
It blew my fucking movie.
Till today, it still blows my mind.
Yeah.
But that movie just, you know, just fucking worked.
It just works.
It hit a nerve, I don't know, for the time, everything.
For me, it hit home.
It's funny.
It reminded me of being home.
Yeah.
It reminded me of the racial, listen.
Anyone in New York understands that kind of racial tension.
It's different there than out here.
No, no, no, no, no.
Way different.
That was a different racial tension.
You'll let me tell you what type of racial tension that was.
And do you remember this?
It was subtle, but it was light.
It was funny.
Nick, you're still dating that speech.
Yeah, right.
Oh, you understand?
That's completely different.
Joey, you still dating that mule nion,
you're still eating the fucking ass, you'd be a motherfucker.
I would never eat a mulean ass.
You know what I'm saying?
You're not saying nothing negative.
That's what people don't understand.
That's a joke, Lee.
I'd still say to you, what's going on?
You still dating that Jew bra?
No, I dumped that piece of shit.
I'm dating this Mexican chick now.
I'm so positive so far.
It's the truth.
You say that now.
You say that now.
You get outcasted.
You get destroyed.
But that's how it was.
Nick, you still dating that Cuban chick.
Yeah.
Yeah, fuck.
You like that little spikaroo.
You like that Puerto Rican ass.
I know.
And you'll tell me right to my face.
Let me tell you something, Joey.
I don't know what I like more.
The fucking pussy.
order food. Right.
I gained 18 pounds in two weeks.
Yeah, but you know what? I go to the mother's house. They feed me.
They call me your momo. I'm drinking with them.
They invited me to a party in Miami. They paid for the tickets. These people fucking crazy.
Here's the ironic thing about that shit. It's really not that racial.
It sounds it. You know, everybody, growing up there, you had something to say about a Puerto
Rican. He had something to say about a Jew or black.
Well, I think I'm the way I am. I say something about. I'm the same way. And nobody on
understands that.
No.
They say,
oh,
this guy is,
you know,
he's a bigot,
he's this,
he's that,
I'm like,
you're full of shit.
I'm none of those things.
But we all said that
because out of curiosity,
no one really understood
what it was like.
But in the end,
you find out,
we're all just fucking people.
We all kind of like each other
in our own way.
We just didn't understand
our own little
gubrigats,
our own cultures, you know?
But once you've got to taste
that, you were like,
oh shit,
you get some...
But listen,
I grew up with the oceans,
the Bosanos,
I grew up with the Aresas, the Sabatinos, the Altmans.
I grew up a little, everybody had a little joke about something.
The Irish mix, the shanty Irish.
But at the end of the day, they made it all work.
It was just a joke.
That's it.
At the end of the day, they made it off.
And that's what Dudea Right Day.
The only thing that I like about was at the end, it got a little, you know, to me,
the only problem I had with that movie was at the end.
Maybe it got a little bit, you know, a little,
got a little hairy and maybe a little political
with the guy getting choked out and all that shit.
But for 90% of that movie, it's very funny.
It's very funny.
Even when they're playing with the Water Fountain
and what's his name's.
God bless us.
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Martin Lawrence was brilliant.
He was so funny.
Jesus Christ, Martin Lawrence has been around forever.
I know.
He's a Jimmy Smith type of dude.
Yep.
How about his fucking Jordan's way?
Oh, your Jordans are fucked up.
10010 plus tax
I mean they were fucking
It was just so funny
Every little thing
You know who's better
Roger Clemens or Doc Good
And everything was like
It was just so fun
Springsteen or Prince
Yeah
Oh my brother was funny too
You know Bruce
The other dude
Yeah Farrik he goes
Farrakhan
Farrah man
And my brother was so fucking funny
And Danny Ayala was hot then
It was good too
It was good too
I was on the set and I was just like, wow, that's how I met Spike.
And I was like, man, this is, this is kind of exciting.
I didn't know what it was, but you could kind of feel like, you know,
he brought Martin Lawrence over this guy, Steve White, you know, all these dudes.
And I was like, man, I want to be part of this gang.
This is, this is fun.
Spike, you know, he had it going on then.
And all these, you know, Ozzie Perez, he found her in the club with those big nipples
and everything else.
I mean, my God.
I was nothing like a Puerto Rico
and big nipples
So tomorrow
Guess what I'm thinking about doing dick
Tomorrow
What are you doing?
Yeah that was with my daughter
At the park over here
I was walking and I saw
Beginning acting class
For older adults
You?
Yeah beginning acting class
For older adults
I called the number
They said it's show up
You gotta commit to eight weeks
Signs and paperwork
And you're in the class
I'm taking to go on tomorrow
11 o'clock
Really?
Why not?
Yeah.
No pressure acting class.
This is because I want to do it.
Not because I have to be.
Have you ever taken an acting class?
Absolutely.
Oh, okay.
Absolutely.
That's your, you have to.
I did the whole circuit, the casting director,
the Van der Chubbick, the other chick.
And then one day I did a movie with Coburn.
And he's like, stop doing it.
So who's taking, who's doing this class?
I have no idea.
Oh, so what do I give a fuck?
Right.
I don't give a fuck.
Listen, you always learn something and you exercise the muscle.
That's right.
And everybody complains there's no work.
Go exercise a muscle.
Generate the work.
Yeah.
And you never know what's going to happen.
That's right.
No, you don't know.
You know.
Everything leads to something.
We always, every time you and I speak on the phone, there's laps,
but there's three minutes or four minutes of the conversation that how much long can this last?
We're not working.
I know.
And every offer that does come in is you can't.
even leave the house for that. Yeah. You got to bring your own shoes, your own suit. They want you to fly
yourself in, put up your own hotel. And we're screen, actors. I know. I'm doing this a long time.
You're in the union 30 years. I'm in the union 20 fucking years. How could this be possible?
I know. That we have to pay for our own, what are you looking at them? You keep looking at my t-shirt.
No, I'm just looking in the middle. Don't worry. All right. I'm looking at this fucking
I'm thinking about this, what was the movie I did with the Niro?
Oh, grudge match.
Grudge match.
And I've said it a thousand times.
I had to fly myself in.
Yeah, I know.
Delta, the New Orleans.
There's the same thing with Blue Bloods.
I was doing three years, four years.
You can't fucking believe it that you've been paying union dues
and you paid another point in a half at the end of the year.
And now they won't even pay for your fucking plane ticket.
Hey, listen, I did 40 episodes guest starring.
How is that a guest star?
40 flights.
Yeah, about 40 episodes.
35 flights.
Yeah, I used to come off the plane, do my shit,
memorize my shit on the plane rehearsal,
because I knew I wasn't going to get many takes.
Boom, knock it out and then get back on the plane.
The kid I worked with used to go, how do you do it?
I go, I do it.
I go, you know, I was just like, it's part of the,
it's part of the whole, I never thought I could do shit like that.
You know, I'd be on a plane talking to myself.
People would be looking at me.
One time I was in somebody who was, are you okay?
I said, yeah, yeah, I'm just, I'm memorizing lines, right?
Oh, what do you do?
Meanwhile, they're fucking Googling you while they're sitting next to you.
I'm a pediatrician.
Pediatrician?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whatever.
But, I mean, that's the world we live in.
You know?
Now you're a guest star.
You're a guest star for 100 episodes, and they get away with it.
Unbelievable.
You believe that.
And they won't tell you, like, at least tell me if you're going to put me an age.
No.
No.
They say, you know, like, listen.
They don't tell you nothing.
No, where are you?
I tell you this.
not griping.
No.
We just want to keep you informed at home that I never want you to think when you see these
actors tell you these mid-get rid of these mid-range guys you see and you think we're making
millions.
No.
You know, you're fucking fighting for your life anymore.
That's it.
And the unions cut you to your throat your own union.
Oh, yeah.
Who you fucking pay.
I know.
A lot of money, not a little bit of money.
No, a lot.
You pay him a lot of money?
This guy wants to hire me for a movie in Canada and he goes, well, it's a Disney movie.
They're making the remakers.
an old, you know,
I forget the movie,
but they don't even want to like, you know,
they don't want to pay,
and then there's another thing my brother's doing
in Europe, he's like, I don't know,
I got to see if they'll let us hire another American
actor.
Well, they're hiring you.
Why can't they hire one more?
Because of the union, you know?
I'm like, I'm fucking believable.
I mean, you can't make a living.
You know, I'm actually going to work with Spike again,
I think I haven't worked, you know, I started out with Spade.
It's funny. The people you start out with,
you know, like Cranden says,
the people you meet on the way up, you're going to meet the same people on the way down.
And it's like full circle.
I started out with, you know, Abrams.
And now I'm like 30 years later, I'm with these people.
You know, I started out with Spike.
Now Spike calls me up, what's up?
What's up?
It's tough out there.
I'm like, yeah, yeah.
I feel you, man.
I hear you.
I got you.
I got you.
I go, yeah, right.
I'm glad somebody's got me because you feel very alone in this business.
People don't know.
They just know, oh, I love your show.
I love you on the show.
I'm not on the show
No, but I saw you.
I go, I know you saw me,
but it's a rerun, you know.
No, you know,
that's what your life becomes.
You become like a fucking rerun.
Like, you know, what are you doing?
I let people that go, what are you doing?
Like you died, like you passed away.
You know, okay?
I haven't seen, you know.
What do you haven't seen?
You don't know me?
You don't fucking know me?
Like people that say, I love you.
I love you, man.
I love you.
How could you love me?
You don't know me.
How do you love me?
How do you know you love me?
me. No, it's true. I mean, you don't
fucking love me. You'd say you love
me. That's what I love about this town, man.
Love you, baby, love you. You know,
where you been? I'm like,
where I've been? I'm here.
What I mean? Where you've been?
I'm working. I'm working. I'm working.
I'm working. You're fucking movies
that only get released in Austria. I know.
I did about, you know, fucking
55 independent movies that
no one will ever see. These
fucking movies. I don't even want to, I just go
in and let's go, pay me cash.
having a conversation about that
two weeks ago with Chris DeLeah
that these
independent movies, they started out
fucking tremendous and they
want a bus to. When I
first moved here in 98
to get an independent film dog
you had to kill 20 people.
And then you got one and nothing
happened. Then you got in the
second one and nothing happened.
Then they call you at the festival bullshit.
Those are the best ones when they call you.
All right, one down the corner.
if I'm in town. I can't cancel.
But then there's the people who say to you,
hey, guess what?
We're in the Iowa
Springs Film Festival.
Can you fly yourself? Can you come
Sunday? You're like, are you fucking crazy?
Yeah. You don't want to spend a weekend in Iowa
Springs? I love Iowa, but I'm not going out there
for a film festival, stand around and play
Johnny Celebrity while people
point at me and go, oh, you were great in a film.
Oh, my goodness. Great things
are going to happen for you. Sure. Right.
Keep saying that for yourself.
Ain't that going to happen.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a plumber.
What are you going to do?
Give me an ad on your network.
What do you do?
It's really, and you don't want to look at it that way.
When people contact you now, you look at it, and you go, so what's the deal?
Right.
And they tell you, you go, let me think about it for a day.
I got to know why I want to be on YouTube.
Exactly.
And they're like, excuse me, and you're like, you just told me you got a cousin who works at CBS.
That means I got dick.
That means I got dick.
By the time we shoot this, there's no cousin.
And next thing you know, you're calling me up
to see if my agent could call up
FX and selling this piece of shit
with this lighting guy that didn't have no light bulbs.
Look at me. I'm darkly than ever.
I haven't been this dark in 20 fucking years.
Look at me.
No, no, no. It's a fucking joke, people.
I just did a fucking dog movie.
It was hilarious with fucking dogs and Dolf Lundgren.
what a fucking guy he was
nice guy
but fucking
let me tell you some
you don't know
what you're acting
with people
you just go
how did I wind up here
you know
and we're trying to rehearse
the scene
and he's like
oh blah blah
I said
a doll
daff
I said
we got to rehearse
got to rehearse
oh okay
okay
you are funny
you are a funny guy
I said yeah
I'm all right
never mind funny
let's just rehearse
so
I can get
my fucking line in.
Let me get my fucking line in.
You know what I mean?
Doing the fucking movie with dogs and the
dog train is like, okay, don't make
any noise when the dogs are on the set.
I said, yeah, it's all about
the fucking dogs now. Thank you, Lee.
Let me tell you something. Again,
I did six
movies
for Disney with a fucking dog.
Yeah, you did a bunch of those, right? Dean and
Gary Valentine?
Listen, I would never volunteer for those.
Like I said.
They sell.
I guess they sell these.
They sell.
You got a movie about dogs leaving.
Here's the story that people don't fucking know.
Okay?
Let me tell you, again, this is a podcast, and I'm not ratting nobody out.
I'm just informing the fucking consumer.
What's really cracker-lacking.
Like we discussed.
So, you have a scale film, and then you have a film $100 a day.
What these people do is they try to sell you on $100 a day.
So what do you think happens?
And I'm really sorry.
say it this way. When you're in a holiday movie and there's
dogs involved and cats and snakes, listen to me.
That's going to be a long fucking day.
Because these guys didn't make it out of the top of their class.
When you work on a fucking real Disney movie, scale plus 10,
your own closet, clothing, meals every three hours,
great script, great actors, a few from yesteryear
and a few from today to sell the film on ABC, fucking family.
You know, it's, and you got a fucking canine that's smart.
You got a laugh.
Oh, yeah.
On these one long day movies.
Yeah, they're not only long day movies.
These dogs been hit by a car and they trained them.
Right.
I don't want to be there.
They've been hit by a car two years ago.
Yeah.
You'll put me on this set to run around with a fucking bowl in my mouth.
Give me a fucking break.
Yeah.
They give them cookies.
These dogs don't respond.
It's fucking bad.
The cats are bad.
I know.
I went through hell on those dog movies.
Remember that?
those days, when you see an animal on the script,
that's a 14 hour.
That's a 14 hour day.
Because whatever that was, add the dog time.
And the dogs will only be there for eight hours.
Right.
So what you do is you shoot all the scenes
with the dog doing all the shit you can,
and then once you shoot all those scenes,
you cut the animal,
and then you shoot your scenes like if the dog was there.
Mm-hmm.
So we're still in the room talking,
and they're shooting a dog.
Right.
We're still having the dialogue from our scene.
We shoot all those scenes.
Go, boy, go get him.
He's a crook, bite him, all that shit.
Then later on, they cut the dog, and we do all our things.
They do our shots.
Right.
They already got the coverage on the dog.
Right.
But the dog gets tired.
After an hour and a half, he's like a human being.
You need to fucking breathe it.
Yeah.
The dog has better working conditions.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The dog, no, there's a game and an animal on the set.
Oh, I'm sure.
When you have a movie with an animal.
animal you got to doce out
some fat fuck like me to come on your set
and tell you excuse me
the animals it's time
they go for a walk and eat now
and you got to yeah and then they come in with the kids
too yeah the kids got to work a certain
amount of time they got to get school
time they get breaks I saw that
so they'll come right in with the kids and
cut in and go hey that that's it
he's got to go to class for two hours
a couple hours when we shoot around
their scenes right then they come back and
finish out there and fucking that
No, I know.
Pretty.
That's why whenever you shoots and they have kids in the script, people get fucking,
this better be a good, good idea.
Tim Allen better be here.
Yeah, you need somebody in charge, somebody that makes it.
Yeah, but if you got a free-for-all and an indie with these kind of, you know,
circumstances, you'd get fucking fucked up.
Like the other guy was working with, he would show up and sit there for 12 hours.
I said, I'm not coming.
Call me when you're ready.
This other fucking guy could be here.
I was here for seven hours
So that's you
I'm not sitting here for seven
I'll go insane
You know
I mean one night
I just went home
I was like I was there all night
I said
I'm so angry
The guy goes
You want to go home
You want to go home
I said yeah I don't want to go home
I'm going home
I'm fucking going home
I'm going to Denny's right now
It's 5 o'clock of the morning
Fuck it
I'm at Denny's eating a bullshit breakfast
I'm angry
You know
Doing a dog movie
I'm like, you know, you don't want to wind up like this shit.
It's like I was playing a mad scientist a few weeks ago on a Sunday
in some fucking warehouse.
That sounds like fun.
Yeah, it was kind of funny.
I made something out of it, but I was acting with, you know, you're acting with all these fucking people.
What's your mad scientist's name?
Huh?
What was the mad scientist's name?
Oh, my name?
Yeah.
I can't even fucking remember now, but it was, it was funny.
Well, he don't want to remember.
I don't want to remember.
I don't want to remember.
The guy just gave me an envelope, and I just said, that's it.
You know what I mean?
It was a day's pay.
At least I got to laugh a little bit.
Yeah, it sounds like fun.
Kind of was.
But you want to do like more prestigious jobs sometimes?
Yeah, but you want to do something more, you know, worth what you've put in.
You don't work 30 years and then you're, you know, you're picking up Mission Marsh.
If you come to me today and going on a nice movie, it's going to pay your scale.
Joey, listen, I'm going to shoot you in and out of there.
You're not going to get no overtime.
I'm going to pay your scale.
Four hours, a couple.
scenes you get shot, maybe
four or five days.
Where's your shoot?
Ventura, I'm in.
Something, what are we doing with the thing?
To be strictly honest
at you. You know, that company
they gotta put the fucking movie
on there. We're gonna go
straight to that. You get some
yearly residual and that's everybody's
happy. If it's gonna be
fun, I know the director.
Yeah. Everything's good.
You don't mind. And the material ain't bad.
Yeah.
You feel like, all right, I got a good workout.
It was actually like you felt like you did something rather than just now it just became like about, you know, making money here and there.
But, you know, at least with that you go, all right, at least I, this could be something.
It could be decent.
You know what I mean?
You know, every now and then you need to do something for your soul that you go, all right, at least I tried.
This was fun for me.
Yeah, this was fun.
You know what was for me the last couple of years when I did those two episodes of Married?
I just went nuts.
For IFC, they had nobody on there,
so I could do whatever the fuck I want.
That's good.
The other day when I was in fucking Pittsburgh,
which if he came to the shows,
thank you very much.
You guys are fucking tremendous.
Some guy came up to me and he goes,
I never saw you until an episode of a man
when you were doing coke off the table
and you said something about him.
And he goes, after that, I went nuts.
That was one of the funny.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I could let loose.
By that time, I knew how to let loose.
Right.
The longest shot, I didn't know how to let loose yet.
I didn't know the responsibilities of letting loose.
Yeah, well, in the longest short, there was a lot of people.
There was a lot of people, and maybe you hadn't done that many movies.
Not like that.
Not like that.
No, I was fresh off like Spider-Man too.
Yeah.
And taxi.
I could tell you were, in the Longest Shard, you were kind of like, you were out of your element.
You weren't like...
Absolutely.
It took me two weeks together.
I had been doing a lot of stuff before that, so when I got an opportunity to do like a comedy,
I just, you know, I did my work
as the other than breaking my foot,
but I was making the most,
I was going to make the most out of that experience
and then, you know, Adam made it a better part for me
as it went along, but I knew,
I kind of had an approach and then I saw what he was doing,
but I think for you it was a newer,
it was like, it was a big scene, it was a macroeconomic scene.
Yeah, and it was a big deal.
It was a big deal.
Instead of micro comedy.
It's not me and Lee.
It's not me and Nick.
It's nine people.
You had to come in with a character.
You had to come in there and try a rocket.
Yeah, and you had to rock it because there was 85,000 guys in there.
But if you could, you know, if you have an approach, you have a good character,
the good thing about a guy like Adam is he let people, you know, there was room to shine.
Believe it or not, there was.
I thought, you know, but I think for you, I think you had a great time, but I think it was also,
it was a new experience for you.
Yeah, no, no, it was.
It was like that one day, we got right.
Remember we got wrapped?
And you called me, you're like, Nick, we got fucking wrapped.
Not a calling us back.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
That's why I couldn't deal with this.
And then you go, what are we doing?
I go, well, I got to go back.
They unwrapped us.
And you were like, fuck it, I'm not going back.
I said, I know, but they unwrapped us.
I said, you know, the right thing to do was to go back because, you know,
and then I got back then they wrapped me again.
So, I mean, I understood where you were coming from, but, you know, it was.
I took a chance, Columbus.
Yeah.
You know, I just didn't like the, I didn't like, there was a lot of whatever, but I had a great experience.
I mean, Adam treated everybody good.
No, Adam's a great.
I mean, there's no two ways about that.
The time in Santa Fe was great.
I missed him near at the comedy store.
I missed them by two minutes.
Really?
I walked back there and he goes, you know what he saw?
He goes, he said you were on the line up and he giggled.
He giggled.
Oh, he liked you.
Yeah, so now it was cool.
No, Adam liked you.
I don't know.
I thought you were Italian.
It was funny when I first fucking saw you.
I still remember the first van ride home that Thursday night from the high school.
Do you remember it was me and you and we were at the high school first?
Oh, yeah.
The food truck was there.
Yeah.
We ate and it was me, you, and the one producer in the van.
The Italian guy with the kid.
The real cool, not the dude with the retarded brother.
The cool dude with the, with the, with the,
the kid that was about 16 and one weekend that weekend he left but left his 16 year old kid and i went down
to the pool with bosworth and i saw the kid and the kid jumped in the pool and he was shining i talked to
the kid and we went Nate with the kid and the kid was a great kid you know and i'm like what you're
dad he goes well he wanted me to go back on him what was i going to do i'm 10 in l.a for the weekend yeah i'd rather
stay here with you guys. So we had a great time.
Kent didn't end up coming to
see me in the laugh factor a couple of times.
Yeah. When he turned 19.
You know who it is. It was
me, you, and that producer
in the van that Thursday night.
God rest of the soul,
your mom was sick the first time.
She had a heart attack. We were
going back. You were worried.
We were going back to the hotel.
Yeah. Adam was a good guy. That's when I had met.
He'll, we yacked on the van.
We giggled.
Yeah.
Something.
We had somebody in common.
I forget who it was.
And then that weekend, I was by the pool.
And I'm sitting there with Bosworth.
And he's taking me into murky waters of the NFL.
My jaw is in the jacuzzi.
And, you know, like, as a sports enthusiast,
you really think you know shit about sports.
And you don't know dick until you talk to Bosworth.
And the hard on they had for him
and how they took his fucking bonus check every weekend as a fine
because he didn't tuck in his shirt.
Just he had me that Sunday that my head was spitted.
Oh, really?
Like they took his house, psychotherapy in Hawaii.
Yeah.
Then did you see they do it 30 for 30?
30.
Did you watch it?
It's a good one.
It's very good.
Yeah.
And that's it.
He had the nervous breakdown.
He had to leave Seattle.
I mean, it was fucking deep, you know.
Yeah.
And here you grew up thinking these guys lived,
fucking life of Riley.
It ain't really like that in the NFL.
It hasn't been a fucking long time.
That was interesting.
It was interesting.
But that Sunday night,
your family wasn't down there yet.
Right.
So I'm walking past, I think, and I hear you, fuck you.
And I'm like, let me go talk to this guy.
I knock on your door.
You just barely open the door.
You're on the fucking two little cedar couch.
The balcony door was open.
Oh, the balcony.
And you're up there fucking yelling at the TV.
I'm like, what's going on there?
The fucking Yankees.
They got a man on two hours.
And you're yelling and I'm loving it.
I haven't seen that type of behavior in 20 years.
Now, there's fakers.
When there's women around, there are fakers.
You know, characters, what you do when there's nobody watching.
You know what I can hear you yelling from the fucking pool.
I'm like, why is he fucking yelling?
And that was just brilliant.
I went upstairs and saw the act.
You remember that, huh?
Like a fuck.
It was yesterday.
I remember like a fucking bull.
Oh, yeah.
No, I've had people, you know, they walk in the house and walk out.
That's the show, Nick.
There's nothing.
No, you're right.
No, you're right.
It's right.
It's an episode.
Nine innings with Nick.
That's the name of the show.
With no sound.
No sound on the TV.
On the TV.
But you could chit chat.
Once you put the sound on this,
I like that.
I like to update people.
You're like, all right, guys,
the third inning is starting right now.
Like this guy, like...
Yeah.
Well.
Look at this fucking dude here.
He's, he's.
He's one for fucking two, and this fucking bases are loaded,
and this fucking guy hasn't hit nothing in 10 fucking days.
And they put him in, and they got the southern Muleignan.
What's his name?
He did the Dominican kid, whatever.
By the way, I got to tell you something.
Last night I'm sitting by the computer.
I get home, I take a nap, I get back up.
I'm still fucked up from the flight back from Pittsburgh,
which again, I had a great time.
What a beautiful fucking city.
What a beautiful fucking city.
It's a good city.
I love that city.
I've always loved that city.
It's always a pleasure going there.
The flight, everything.
Can we talk about the food?
The food's delicious.
Anyway, mind your business.
What food?
I had Chinese.
I know that I was going to talk about it.
I had Chinese three days in a row delivery.
That old school Chinese, pork fried, listen.
Poor fried rice.
I explored outside the realm.
It was no bueno, and I stuck to what I know.
There's three things you get.
If those things suck, you don't.
Don't call again.
One ton soup?
Not even.
No.
Who wants to drink one ton soup?
I got to go on a plane 18 miles.
That's true.
They give me a half a cup, half of it is drained.
Pork fried rice?
Pork fried rice.
Two egg rolls, two shrimp egg rolls.
Two shrimp egg rolls.
And dumplings.
Dumplings?
The first day I got pork fried rice, a little container, and two egg rolls.
I ate one egg roll and ate the other pork fried rice.
And I was ready to throw that egg roll away.
And I go, you know what?
The spirit of fucking Satan will punish me for throwing this shit away.
I flew to the...
I'm never going to eat this again.
I kept it in the room.
That night, I got back from doing comedy
about 11.30.
I fucking ate that fucking egg roll.
It was kind of stiff.
Yeah.
The grease was evaporated.
It was deliciously...
Nothing like a good egg roll.
With a tube or hot mustard on it.
Sure.
With a fucking water.
Because, you know, me, I can't be drinking that soda.
No one.
I'm trying to be good.
I'm trying to be good. This shit like that.
Mm.
So, yeah, I had Chinese food.
I had breakfast. I kept it normal.
And at night, I had avocados and chicken.
Avocado's good.
I'm trying to keep it together, a little by little.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with avocado salads.
But it was interesting as fuck.
But what I was going to tell you was, what?
What?
Oh, oh shit.
So I go on Facebook and I try to answer a few messages,
and I go on Twitter,
because I don't take the computer on the road with me,
I don't want.
So I don't want to see nothing.
I'm doing comedy.
Oh, good.
If I do anything, it's right, and I joke.
Yeah.
I don't need to do comedy to jump up and down yet.
Right.
So I fucking
I turned on the computer last night
And who do I see
After 15 years
Are you ready Lisa yet?
Who?
Louis Hernandez
A.k.a. Louis de nigger
He was the first Dominican kid
That moved into my name
In 174
Really? This name was a racist
But they didn't know
Louis had an afro
Right
So in their mind, he was black.
So behind his back, they called him Louis de Nigger.
And then when they just started calling him Louis de Nigger to his face.
And he would keep saying, I'm not black?
It was hysterical.
I know that's funny.
He was dynamite.
And you know who else was in that picture?
Who.
All I could say is his first name, Gerard.
Gerard?
Me, and there was a kid Sabatina, who I grew up with, who I've spoken about in the podcast.
There was like four or five cats.
Chepente, a kid named
Aponte. That fucking name is
always like, we had a guy in our name with Gerard
and he was like a scary fucking dude.
Well, this dude was a beautiful
Italian man. I even called my wife and go,
because his
Gumba is my daughter's godfather.
They're the same blood. They go, come here for a second.
You think Mercy's Godfather's a good looking man?
Take a look at this side of the family.
My wife's like, Jesus Christ!
What happened to him? How come he's no
on the TV, I go, he became a doctor.
Yeah. But when that kid
was 16, 17, Nick,
he was my
straight man when I used to try to roll gay guys.
They weren't really gay. They were guys that came
over from the city to get that dick sucked in Jersey.
God. So this guy was a good
looking dude. He was the bait out there.
We put him out there like a soldier, Nick.
Wow. And cars would pull up next to him. Wow, you're beautiful.
You want to go on a date and you go pull over.
and then we'd get out of the car, walk him into the park, and we jumped the dude.
Really?
Oh, my God, we were young and stupid, though. Can you imagine?
The things that could have happened.
It's a different time.
We and him went out like two months.
We were evil.
We used to go to this bar, and he was such a good-looking dude, bro, that he would just lord chicks at.
We were in high school.
We were juniors.
and nobody really knew him and I hung out together.
His father was Italian,
but he made the best chili and rice
you ever had in your life.
Chili and rice?
Chili with white rice on the side.
You can eat it without the rice.
He told me one time,
have it with the rice.
You don't like it better.
I'm cute, but not like Bigot of you.
It's the same fucking thing.
Yeah.
Every time I go over there,
because he would call me,
my dead made chili, come over.
So whenever I would go over there,
I'd go over there, he'd, and while I was over there, he'd tell me who we were going to pinch that night.
And he was really good-looking, so we always robbed some chick's house.
Right.
He was always robbing some chick that was 26 or 27 times.
And this guy began with Doctor?
Yeah.
Wow.
It took him like 49 fucking years to get his degree.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah.
He was one of those dudes, yeah.
But he's still straight up.
I still, people say he sends his love to me.
me. I loved him daily. I loved
his sister daily. His
father was my gumbarich.
He got me out of a couple of messes growing up
and shit. So I would go over
and eat the chili and shit. But I remember
oh my God, this me and this kid
used to do some creepy shit.
So he hooked up
with this stripper.
He told me that. We were in high school dog.
He was 17.
And she told me that he would
bring him over the house at like 11 o'clock
at night. He was getting booty
calls in 19,
fucking 80 already.
Oh, this guy?
She was 26, he was 16.
He was a stud, huh?
And he would walk to a house.
How tall was he?
5-9, 5-10,
thin,
looked like a fucking mile.
Like, there was three or four
those Italian dudes that had that
different Italian looked at them.
They didn't look Italian and hard.
Right.
They were Italian and beautiful.
They just had, they looked like
Robert Redford, but they had
brunette hair.
I grew up with like three of those
motherfuckers.
that they were unstoppable pussy.
Right.
Just landed on them.
Yeah.
Bapa.
It's unbelievable.
But this dude set up this check.
He told me she's a stripper.
I go, why did you mean her?
He goes, I met her at a bar, and then she invited me out.
She's 26.
He goes, I fucked her like 10 times.
I know exactly where the jewelry is, where her money is, the whole fucking thing.
Oh, boy.
So on a Tuesday night, like 11, he picked me up at his father's car.
We went over and that was the lookout
And I heard him kick in the fucking window
I counted a tent
I didn't see nothing
And all of a sudden he comes running out with a bag
He gets in the car, we go for a fucking ride
And he found cash
Not much, we each got like 200 a piece
Which in 1980s a lot of money then
We got a little jewelry but he said
Fuck I couldn't find the main thing
What was he looking for?
A hand
A hand
The chick had a hand
that had rings
diamond rings
saffer you know she had the whole fucking thing
he cased it out he had the whole fucking diamond eye
and this guy this guy was one of my favorite partners
of all time and I always knew
he wasn't a bad kid
he was not gonna end up a criminal
oh yeah I tried to protect him as much as I could
but I also knew his dick got hard doing this
there's certain people that you grew up
with that you know they're not bad people
yeah but they get a rush get hard
Yes, they got a rush.
Doing a certain thing.
Yeah.
He got a rush from that.
And I had like two or three of those in my life that came to me and said, listen, I don't really want to do this, but I want to do this with you.
I wanted to fucking go have a good time one time.
You know what I'm saying?
And that was crazy.
He was one of those guys.
Until today, he still sends love.
Like I have a mutual friend that really sees him.
He always goes, hey, gee, sends his love.
Is he still good looking?
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
He's my age now.
in this picture.
He was, it was him,
Sabs.
He was like,
this kid at Chapinthi,
a Ponty.
They were at a car,
they were at a baseball tournament
in high school.
They were young kids.
Just amazing memories,
man, with those guys.
It's amazing how fast your life goes,
right, man.
Lately I've been thinking about a lot.
And I'm just thinking like,
wow, it's fucking,
not that it's over,
but, you know,
it is kind of,
and the way it is because you go,
fuck man
I'm 55
you know
like what's Al
says in that movie
you know
scarf is
you got a bag
you got a belly
you know
he says it
but it's kind of true
because you look in the mirror
you see your fucking belly
and you see this
and you're starting to feel
your skin a little bit
not as tight
you ever at the light
huh
you've ever been
out of light mind
in your own fucking business
yeah
and you look over
to your right hand side
yeah
and there's a couple
about 18
and a half
yeah
And they're walking home
Hand in hand and hand
Yeah
They're going home to do homework
For about two minutes
Yeah
Then he's gonna rip off
A fucking pants
Right
And fuck it till the end
Yeah
And once you snap out of this dream
And you go
I know
That's never gonna happen to me again
I know
Like I'm never gonna fall in love again
Yep
Not gonna make out anymore
I'm not gonna know
The beginning of
I mean I love my wife
We still make out
Yeah
Oh you make out
That's good
I'm talking about
we're never going to be at that place
where we meet a girl for the first time
and take it to a movie
and that magic
and that dinners
and bringing a flowers
and falling in love and scratch
that fucking magic you know what I mean
that sets in I'm 55
that sets in already
I'll be 55 in February
God take me that
you're with me
but you have to realize
these things aren't going to happen again
in your life
I know you go to these jiu jitoo classes
and sometimes I get frustrated
and I'm like, wait a second
how am I going to do a fucking Z guard?
You know, you got to reach down and pull yourself.
I'm 300 pounds.
I know.
But I go.
I show up and I do what I fucking could do
and when I wrestle young kids
and I get frustrated,
but at least I'm exercising,
which is what keeps you alive.
That's why I dress up more every now and then.
You know, I put my outfits together, this and that.
It's not that I'm trying to be young,
but just to fucking feel good, you know,
I mean, just to feel like, yeah, I still, I got something.
I ain't got what, you know, I still got something.
I got to have some edge.
I got to find some way to fucking get off.
But what would, listen, what do, I mean, what do you, what would be the life for you right now to have a 22-year-old?
No, I didn't mean like that.
No, no, no, I'm not even saying that.
I'm just saying.
And I walked in my son's room the other day and he was home from college and some good-looking board was in there with an earring.
nose and she was braiding his hair
and I said, oh hi.
She was like, hi.
I was like, look and I was like,
I look at this shit.
This is it. This is, you know, young
people, you know, we're not that.
No.
Just not that.
You know, you're not like completely
over the hill, but
you know.
But we are over the hill.
Listen, when you go to a show
and you look around and you see a guy like me or you,
you go, ooh, especially if you
20 year old.
Yeah.
What do they want with me?
No, no.
You have to be honest
with yourself.
You know, what I see in the mirror
is not what people see.
People adding 10 years to this.
I know.
And it's not like I'm trying to win
a beauty contest.
I couldn't win a beauty contest
when I was 21.
I'm not going to win a beauty contest
now at 50 fucking 4.
So you accept a lot
of things.
That one was really shocking.
I just can't believe it
went so fast. To be honest,
I fucking tortured this fucking kid.
Lee, take care of this
Lee, don't miss a day. Lee,
if I got any advice
for anybody, listen, don't miss a day.
Don't miss a day. I missed
30 years
of days by doing
drugs and fucking around. I miss 25
years of days and I wish I could get half of them back.
Yeah.
Well, that's the problem. If you spend half your life,
stone. Sitting around. Getting high or
Walking around, doing time.
Listen, man.
You can't get it back, man.
And it goes, Jesus Christ, guys, I lie not to you, it goes by.
No.
You're 2019.
Next thing, you know, you're 23 and you graduate in 24.
You get the dream job.
And guess what?
Next thing, you know, you're 30.
I lived it in my 30s.
And then you're 34.
And then all of some 38 creeps on it.
And you have a nervous breakdown because you're 40 in two years.
It happened to me.
But you start writing.
confusing yourself and saying 40
is the new 30 and all the
bullshit that goes with it.
Garbage. And then, you know what, man? It's not, you
never fall apart. If you
take care of yourself, you will
not fall apart. You are that staying in shape
too. And you try to, listen,
when I did the longest yard from that point on,
I got, after the longest yard, I gained
another 40. I was so used to eat
pastrami sandwiches. Well, for my
third breakfast. The longest shot, I mean,
you know. You know how much I eat on that fucking
set? We were eating like,
Savages.
We ain't good, man.
We were eating like fucking savages.
Oh, yeah, Adam Fedder's good.
Savages, savages.
Those fucking buffalo burgers at the hotel?
No, I didn't touch those.
No?
No.
I touched the kids spaghetti and meet with the kids.
I saw Irving.
I saw a man over with the fight.
I told you.
Pick me up, gave me a big ass hug.
He was hugging me for so long.
Michael Irvin.
We're sitting in the dining area one night.
It's a little room, maybe seats,
30 tables, maybe 25 tables.
we're about three weeks
until the longest shot.
It's a Friday night.
We have Saturday and Sunday off.
Adam has to go do something.
And that Friday night I decided
to go downstairs and have macaroni and cheese
from the kids menu, Lee,
at the hotel.
A good hotel.
Lee, you have no idea.
I would call you up and say,
I just had kids macaroni and cheese from somewhere.
Not usually.
Your mind would blow up.
and here's the beauty of it.
It's the kid's menu, Lee, say that.
That's the scary thing.
This is what I ate for two weeks.
I couldn't wait to get back to the hotel room.
And listen, there was no reason for it,
because I was galvoning it on that fucking set,
especially in Santa Fe.
We had the smoothies,
we had the prosciute,
we had the fucking ham, the wet muts.
But Lee, I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.
They already knew.
When I'd walk in,
The kitchen was right there.
When you walk into the desk, the kitchen was right there.
And I go, throw the order in.
And I go to my room, take a shower,
smoke a join in the balcony, come in, put my shorts on.
I go downstairs and they'd have a table for me, Lee,
with the kids' macaroni and cheese.
Monja, baby, with a piece of bread.
That was good shit.
Bleet, tremendous.
Good shit.
You wouldn't eat anything else.
The kid's mac and cheese.
In the morning, they had a little breakfast.
for you.
Yeah.
You started the morning
off there, Lee,
with a ball of meal.
Nice coffee.
Nice coffee.
Two eggs, sunny side up.
Mm-hmm.
Tons of bacon,
tons of fucking
saucers, strips,
and tons of bread.
Then you got in the van.
Okay, Lee?
You went to the fucking set.
You went into tattoos.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
And you put your equipment on.
And then from there,
they would say to you,
go eat.
So 45 minutes later, Lee,
you were back in the choward room
with eggs, sausages,
Polish sausage, pancakes,
French toast, whipped cream,
waffles, cherries,
bananas,
protein shakes.
Lee, you're like, what is it?
I just had,
I just had a new wardrobe
every few weeks or something.
Oh my God, they bought
extend the clothes for me.
Now we ate good, we drank good,
everything.
You know what that's like, Lee?
Your call is at eight.
Right.
But at seven, you're already eating like a doctor.
Like, you're like, I can go to prison and do life after this meeting.
But it don't end.
You're going to go on the set now.
Is everyone doing it to it?
No, no.
People are adhering to their diets.
Everybody's doing, everybody's smoking refo.
I didn't have any of the producers.
You had no fucking idea.
Then we went to the fucking set, and there was a room.
Tell them how big the room was with benches.
It looked like a prison cafeteria.
Huge.
And it had tables upon tables of cakes.
I still never forget the night with Lobo.
When they made me and Lobo work towards the end as a goof.
It just was a goof.
They weren't going to use none of this shit.
It was so bad.
They put a picture of, I was supposed to be a tattoo artist.
A Lobo was a tattoo artist of me.
And he put a picture of what was the chick that we goofed on?
That's on the view.
The chick that's a comedian, Abel.
Joy Beahaw.
Joe Beha. Remember that he liked Joy Beah?
Because he says that her name.
Right.
So in those scenes, they put a tattoo on me.
Well, that night, it was me, Lobo.
I think Michael Lurvin had shot a scene early and a few other people.
And it was a fucking chocolate fountain.
Were you there that now?
No. I wasn't in that.
A chocolate fountain.
This is at the end of the shoot.
Like, we haven't eaten enough.
Like, we haven't eaten like fucking.
pigs enough. And this is
week 16.
There's nobody left in this movie
shooting. It was me and
Lobo. They just had us torturing
us. What was that about?
Was it something they
added? They were just
keeping us there to
they were like three night shoots
and it was me and Lobo
in LA? Yeah, at Fox
Studios. Paramount. We went
over there the one night. Our call
was at four. They put
makeup, you know,
put your shoulder pads on,
do this, do that.
Oh, we're going to break
for dinner. Really?
We just fucking got here.
Yeah, but they were here shooting
exteriors of planets and shit.
You motherfuckers.
We broke for dinner,
we ate, and we sat around for another hour.
Then they put me and Lobo in a cell.
And we do eight takes
or something, and they go cut.
All right.
That's martini
Rap and we're like
Really
You dirty motherfuckers
And then the next night we came in
I didn't know this
And it was a scene where Lobo was giving me a tattoo
And I find out he fucks up
He doesn't put Joy Bay on like that
What did he put?
Abe Lincoln or somebody
Somebody different
He fucked up
He put Oprah or something
Yeah he put Oprah
They never used any of that shit
No it was pure garbage
It was pure garbage.
I knew as they were shooting it, this is a fucking story.
I was at first, they're like, yeah, Adam wants to add all these scenes with you and Lobo,
and then they tried to reshoot the scene where we throw the toilet paper,
which we just could not pull it off.
Which one was that?
The scene when we scored a winning touchdown, we're all supposed to be hurt.
I get knocked out, Goldberg, somebody else, and somebody else.
Ali, we're all in the hospital
and if you watch the original
when they scored the last touchdown.
Oh.
We're in the hospital.
Oh, you guys are in the hospital?
Throwing toilet paper, fucking picking up a nurse.
And at this point, it was me,
Goldberg, Lobo, no, no,
and Rob Schneider,
played the nurse.
They never used it.
No, we raped it.
Oh, shit.
Supposed, you see us throwing her shoes off
on the band.
Yeah, they're all going to use that.
They're not going to use that.
I'm not going to use that.
No.
That was all added footage.
That's the director's cut.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was all bullshit.
They were not.
They just kept us there.
And our calls were at four, and they cut us at exactly 11 o'clock.
All right.
Cut, Martin.
What the fuck?
Why don't we even do this?
We're not going to shoot from this night.
No, no, no.
We're just going to.
Almost everything I did in that movie.
It was practicing.
It was.
It was everything.
Except the one scene with Chris Rock and Adam at the beginning.
It was in one cut
And it was very, very funny
Where I did the push-ups
Right before
You know, it had the whole big gunfire
In the mess hall
And Adam looks at me
And I look at him and I go
Brooklyn, bitch
And it was very funny
And then I think it was like
It almost like
It took away from Adam
And Chris's opening
And they should have left it
That was the one thing
They didn't leave
And they should have fucking left that
But it was very funny
I remember, because I just did these five push-ups, and then he's like, yeah, so what?
And I go, bitch, something like that.
That was really fucking funny.
It was really fucking funny.
But most of the shit all made it, most of it, I mean.
You know, you watch a film as a child, you watch a film as an adult.
It's on every week.
Can't believe me.
And then you get in the film, and now you watch it years later, and you see those takes.
and you go, you know what, those takes weren't dick.
It's what we were doing in between those takes that they were shot.
And said, fuck the movie.
Let these guys go.
Like that, my memorable thing on that movie
was the day we ate that cranberry sauce and the chicken.
That was definitely, for me,
I never laughed that hard in my life.
If you think I was laughing with the little rascals and Chusby Usby,
that was funny, but...
That was the week.
Okay, Lee, let me tell you something.
You know me lately.
Lee's been around me for five years.
Six years.
If I tell you that at that point,
every weed I had was good.
But for some reason,
that particular week of the longest yard,
and I still remember who called me and said,
Joey, I know you're a long time,
I know you like marijuana.
Do you have $800?
And I go, what's $800 going to get me?
And he goes, Joey, I'll come over and bring a sample.
But I tell you what, I got three pounds left.
And I'm going to bring a sample to another guy.
When you see this and smoke this, you're going to want this.
I said, okay, he brought me maybe two grams of this shit.
I smoked a skinny joint, and I almost passed out.
This was the next level.
At that point, whatever I was smoking after 2004 was good.
When I got the Albuquerque, I had that blueberry hill.
That was good.
That got me high.
When I was a kid, I used to smoke chocolate tie in New York from Harlem,
from the fucking Arastafarians, whatever, from Jamaica.
That was the shit that killed McDady.
But this weed took me to the next level.
So when he told me 800 for the number he wanted me, there was only one man.
I had the money at the house.
So I told the guy, I said, you know what, show up with two of them tomorrow.
The guy showed up with two out of three next day.
I paid him.
The next day I went in there.
I went to a certain black dude that was.
was on our set.
And I said, here, smoke a joint of this.
And the next day he came up to me.
He goes, what's the number on that?
And I said, what an ounce?
And he goes, no, a pound, motherfucker.
And I said, give me like 12.
12, what?
Pounds?
1,200.
And he goes, you know what?
Give him 1,200.
And I said, it's in the trunk of the fucking car.
And I said, I gave you another one.
He goes, give me another 1,200.
That's how fast it went.
It was a miracle.
this weed was tremendous.
It fucked you up.
What did you feel?
You just felt fucking stone like goofy.
For 45 minutes you would lose, you know, conscience.
Like you couldn't focus on your words or shit.
Did you smoke it while you were working?
Oh, please.
We smoked it.
A lot of people were high in that movie.
Oh, so here's what happened.
Not me.
The day that we shoot that scene with the turkey and the cranberry
You were laughing a lot, right?
And the chicken.
Yeah, the chicken.
The chicken and the cranberry sauce was mashed potatoes.
That was the day you were on this?
And now, here's the funny thing about it.
There was a group of kids there
that Mori Polvich had brought on the show
because he was friends with Goldberg.
But this was also, ironically,
the day I show up with two pounds
of this weed on the set.
This guy took it in this trailer,
started rolling up fucking blunts
and started passing them out.
We smoked this shit.
And I'll tell you what, I was never so hungry in my life.
So we're sitting at this table.
And I'll never forget the cranberry sauce.
Had to be 10 inches from me.
I started on the cranberry sauce.
And then someone else started on the cranberry sauce,
because eight of us at that table had smoked that shit.
So everybody was fucking hungry.
You don't remember?
They got mad because we kept eating the chicken and the cranberry sauce.
They had to go get more, and they finally goes, guys, enough.
There's no more left.
Oh, I think I do remember that.
We fucking went nuts.
That was why we were going nuts because we were stoned on the same weed.
And this weed was so fucking strong and so next level fucking weed.
Like every eight months you smoke a weed that you're like, Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
I'm going to store tomorrow.
I'm buying the rest of this and I'm putting in the safe.
Because this is why I'm going to be smoking when that missile the Korean sends over.
Yeah.
This is what I'll be smoking.
You went to another place, huh?
Oh, my God, for 45 minutes, then for 40 minutes after that, you would just high.
And then 30 minutes after that, you have to go to your house and eat everything.
Oh, yeah, the munchies.
Peter, butter and jelly, to the potato chips.
Or I made you hungry?
To the fruit, to the ice cream.
Anything.
The blow pop, the fucking old money got.
Devil dogs.
The fried rice, the devil dogs.
You wake up the next morning and go, oh, my God, I'm constipated.
Right.
I had six devil dogs, fruit.
Yeah.
Anything you can get your hands on.
Whatever your wife bought for the kids, that's a gana.
That goes down the fucking drain.
The fucking munchies, man.
That's crazy.
I loved, like, I don't know.
I always felt fucked up about alcohol.
Alcohol since day one just wasn't for me, man.
My mom had the bar.
I would try it from time to time.
My mom would put my bib, my, my,
What's that shit to pacify and Blackberry brandy when I was a kid?
That aftertaste of whatever.
I have a friend that drinks vodka.
I don't see him much, but whenever I do, he drinks vodka.
And I liked one vodka in orange juice with an extra splash of orange juice.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
That vodka alcohol flavor gets me gagging all the fucking time.
It does, huh?
It's not the best.
Vodka's a little near.
How about rum?
Like rum?
I like dark rum with a Coke.
Yeah.
A little splash of fucking lemon or cherry or a lime.
Not bad.
I like, if I had a gun to my head, a little gin and tonic with a lime, a ginger ale with a fucking little do-as, maybe.
Seven and seven.
Maybe doers on the rocks.
I could dig with more rocks.
I also like an Irish cream on the rocks from time to time.
The only time I drink is one cocktail on the plane.
But I'll tell you what, the last like six months.
months I don't even take that cocktail no more.
You don't drink wine?
And I should.
I should drink a nice glass of red wine.
Look, red wine is good for the blood.
Every three days. Yeah.
I should drink some wine. I'm not, I'm slipping.
Thank you for reminding. I see Italians believe in wine.
That's why I live to 98.
Gotta have a little.
Even the big fat ones that eat spaghetti once a week.
With pasta, all with a nice steak.
Thank you for showing up with the blue cheese buns.
Don't worry.
It's my pleasure.
You know?
I like to cook.
Oh, you know, I didn't make the pizza, but the bombs are special.
What's going on with the sauce?
We need an investor for the sauce.
Yeah, we do need an investor.
We need an international investor for Nick's sauce.
No, this is a...
Uncle Nicky's red sauce.
The last time he was on here,
Lee still talks about the sauce.
It was great, right?
It was delicious.
It was the best sauce I've had it, and it was fucking cold.
I know.
Jesus Christ.
People have been asking me, you know, how do I get it?
We need investors.
We need investors.
Blue.
Come through with this sauce.
You're fucking cold.
fucking people.
You know, we should put this fucking theme.
You ever hear the old Yankee theme from the 1970s?
The song, you can bring it up on the fucking soap.
It pumps me up.
The old Yanke, it's the Yankee theme song.
It gets me fucking going.
I dare you.
From the 70s.
Get me going.
Get me ready for tomorrow.
Yeah, put it on.
Put it on.
Just put it on.
Just fucking.
I had to respect.
He's older than you.
And he's been listening to the Yankees.
When you were itching your daddy's pants.
Get the one from the 1970s Yankee theme song.
I love this.
You had a horn.
Yeah, theme song.
Yeah, theme song from the Yankee theme song.
You're going to love it.
Go for it, baby.
I think this is it.
There it is.
Turn it up.
Listen to this, Joey.
Oh, wow.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Do-dud-dood-dood.
Woo!
That was a kid, W-P-A-X.
Bobby Mercer,
Thurman Munson,
Salarino Sanchez,
Horace Clark,
Roy White.
Holy cow!
Here we come!
The New York Gagies.
Tomorrow night, the baby bombers.
Beat those fucking Minnesota twins.
Otherwise, my whole week,
my whole month's going to be fucking jacked.
Let's do the acoustics.
This is to the acoustics.
Hear the trombone
This is beautiful
It brings me back to my kid days
I'll be watching this
I listen to the whole song
On WPiX 11
Oh man
I wouldn't come out of the house
Not until the game was over
Now do you still watch the game
On the New York feed
Yes
Really?
Yeah I watched the whole game
On the New York
On the yes channel now
I get the yes channel
and then when the games are on WPIX, I get the baseball.
So give me the playoff picture as it stands right now for the people that are not
what your prediction.
I want the whole thing.
What do you got?
You got a dog in this wally?
Well, right now, you know, tomorrow night the Yankees are playing Minnesota for the
wild card game.
The Yankees won the first wild card.
They came up two games short of the Red Sox.
So they now have to play the second wild card team.
They used to just be one wild card team.
That would play the wild card team would play the team with the best.
record. But now, because there's two
wildcard teams, a second
wild card team, you have to play this
one stupid
Russian roulette game.
So the Yankees, if they get through this game tomorrow
night, then we'll play Cleveland
who has the best record. And then
the Red Sox will play Houston. And then
over in the National League, the Dodgers will play
the winner of Wednesday night's
National League wild card game, which is
the Diamondbacks and the Rockies.
The winner of that will play the Dodgers who have the best
record in the National
League and the Washington Nationals will play the Cubs and the other the other divisions.
So the winner of the Cubs National will probably play, you know, the Dodgers will probably get
past the Diamondbacks or the Rockies. I think the Diamondbacks will beat the Rockies and I think
the Dodgers will beat them and then I think the Cubs will upset the Nationals always choke in the
playoffs. I think the Yankees will beat Minnesota tomorrow night and they'll have a hard time against
the Indians.
but I still like their chances.
And the Red Sox, the Astros are definitely favored,
but I wouldn't be sure.
Anything could happen.
Anything could happen.
The Astros are National League.
They went from the National League to the American League.
Like the Milwaukee Brewers just missed out on the playoffs.
They were an American League team who transferred, you know, switch leagues.
It's weird because the Astros were always a National League team.
They belong in the National League.
And the Brewers really always belonged in the American League.
But I don't know why those teams switched leagues.
but it's working
it's working but the dream world series
would be the Yankees and the Dodgers
I mean if the Yankees could get that far
I would be I mean they're coming
that baby bombers they had this kid
Aaron Judge who had an incredible rookie year
50 two home runs he's 6 foot 7
270 pounds
and he can fucking hit man he can really
and he got hot again he had a bad
month but he came out of it
and he's fucking his other kid Gary Sanchez
Dominican kid he's some hit it too
but he can't catch the ball that good he's a
The ball goes through his legs.
He's a little bit on the dumb side, but he can fucking hit.
He can really hit this kid, Didi Grigorous, shortstop.
He's had a great year.
And tomorrow night we got our stud, young stud, Sanchez, Severino going.
He's a Dominican kid who put it all together.
So tomorrow night, the key is they've got to just get the lead in the game.
Get the lead and don't get behind.
And he's got to pitch your head.
He can't get behind in the counts.
If he gets behind, he can get fucking hurt.
Because anybody can lose one game.
So, you know, one game, it's a skis.
scary, you know, scary thing.
I'm going to be on edge tomorrow.
So they got one game.
Yeah, they got one game they got a win to play a series now.
So the winner of that game will play Cleveland.
So, you know, tomorrow night it's fucking, it's going to be touchy.
Five o'clock.
Well, five o'clock out here, eight o'clock there.
So, you know, it's not going to be a comfortable game because anything could happen
in one fucking game.
Anything.
You know, how many things could go wrong?
I was telling my brother today, he goes, well, you're really pessimistic.
You should be happy.
I said, well, I've got to think about what could.
go wrong? Or what about what could go
right? I said, never mind what I know what could
go right. It's what could go wrong.
That fucking worries me.
So, because baseball, you know, it's little
things that people that are not hardcore
fans don't know. They don't really understand
what went wrong. A pass ball,
an error, a stupid
fucking play that could change the whole game.
You could throw the game into whack
or, you know, you're going to watch out. You don't want to have a crooked
inning where you give up three, four runs in an
inning. If you're going to give up a home run,
you better make sure nobody's on
fucking base.
Anyway, it's, you know, I'm looking forward to the game, but I'm not because, you know,
I know that if they don't win that game tomorrow, it's going to be, you know, I can beat the
Dodgers.
Who could beat the Dodgers?
I mean, the Cubs, the Cubs could beat the Dodgers.
You know, I don't, I don't think the Diamondbacks or the Rockies are going to beat the
Dodgers.
I don't think the Nationals will beat the Dodgers.
I mean, the Cubs, maybe.
I think the Dodgers are going to go to the World Series this year.
I really do.
I mean, Kershaw, it's about time that he has a great, great postseason.
And they got a fucking stud guy there, too, Bellinger and Seeger.
I mean, and the Pueger's having a better year that the Wild Cuban.
I think the Dodgers, you know, this is the year they get over the hump and go to the World Series,
possibly win it.
They have a good, Yankees have a great bullpen, too.
The Yankees have three great guys.
So the bullpens are key too.
And no Red Sox is yelling?
No Red Sox are playing the Astros, yeah.
Oh, that's right.
They have a great closer.
That sounds nice, but the Red Sox are going to win.
Well, the Red Sox, if they beat the Astros and the Yankees.
Look at Lee.
He knows.
I have that.
I've seen zero games, so I have no idea what I'm saying.
Yeah, so it all starts tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night and Wednesday, the two wild card games.
And then Friday and Saturday will start the division series.
So, you know, let's just hope and pray after tomorrow.
night, you know, Yankee fans have another,
have something to look forward to, because it's a long
fucking year, 162 to be out of
one game, it's horrible.
I'm stoned. You're stoned?
Stop with that bottle, God damn, and I thought it was my
bottle fucking cracking, people get pissed
off, they jump out of their skin.
Yeah.
Good to see you, my brother. You too,
pal. You look good. Thank you. The fucking
blue cheese muffin. Yeah.
It was just delicious. I couldn't look at it no
more. It was killing me. It's like knowing
You have something in the refrigerator,
and you're sitting there watching fucking TV.
It's 1130.
Nothing like good food, you know?
You're getting hungry and hungry about a goddamn minute.
How's your child doing in Chicago?
He's doing well.
He's doing good, yeah.
Is he adjusting?
He's adjusting, you know, and the Midwest is a little slow,
but he likes it.
He's writing a lot of fucking rap songs right now.
He's got some good shit.
Not bad, he's getting good at it.
You know, it's crazy how, after I spoke to you,
you told me, I don't know.
It's tough for a kid.
I was writing about where I,
I was in 19, the place I moved,
and I remember that the theme was, it was weird,
but this is great.
I'm on my own.
Nobody fucking knows me.
I'm meeting people.
Right.
People saying hello to me.
You know.
It's got to be.
You're 18.
Yeah.
It's a fucking tremendous.
Great opportunity.
You know, you have a little money in your pocket.
You don't want to go to a bar and you can't do anything anyway.
You're done anyway.
You can't drink.
Right.
So you enjoy the little things.
I'm good with fucking drinking a beer.
He went to see Hamilton there.
He went to the fights over there.
He was hanging out with Pauli Malinagi one night.
So he's experiencing things.
I'm like, man, that's fucking great.
He lives in the dorm.
He lives in the building, like, right in the city.
Yeah.
A lot of kids, you know, so.
We're in there watching Game of Thrones and all this shit.
This is what you do.
Yeah.
It's a little different in the house, but you know what I'm adjusting.
The house is empty.
Well, you know, he's...
had such a bit, the kids were always there,
all the Crespi boys, that the house
was always filled with, you know,
with all his people. And so now
it's like, wow, everybody's gone.
You know, my daughter's still there,
and she's doing this crew box thing that she's,
you got to come out and do a class.
It's fucking good in West Hollywood.
She's an instructor. It's really, it's a good
workout. You both you guys,
you would like this crew box.
It's fucking, you know, listen, man,
you don't got to be a boxer.
Look at a fucking Montadell over here.
fucking sweat it out man that's mush
any mush? Oh my god
I didn't think he bets on it
even if he watches the team
He's getting so bad by watching
The team now oh man
He's been watching New England Patriots
They're one and three with him
With him watching
Yeah you don't want to jinx him
Another two and two
He jinxed him
You gotta watch another team that you hate from that one
I may believe you like him
And go against New England
That's you got to watch the Jets or Miami
The Jets won two games
They said they were not even win a game
And football is so mediocre now
I'm not a hardcore football guy
But you know for me
Baseball is everything
I grew up in football
I love Steelers
I love
I like the Vikings
When I was a kid
I loved that Sunday night family game
I've been watching a quarter lately
Three four plays
I don't I don't care about what's going on right now
You remember when we were kids
This weekend Saturday night
This week in football
It was beautiful
The guy had a great voice
You'd watch the highlights
I missed that simplicity of sports
Now it's 24-7 in your face.
Everybody's got a network.
Everybody's got analyzation.
It's the like when sports, there was more to the imagination.
Every sport.
You know, you couldn't see every game.
You had to listen to the game.
You had to wait for the game.
Now these fuckers are on, you know, all day long, the same shit, 24.
I'm like, it's overkill.
Do I need to hear this shit all day?
I want to have something to dream about.
You know, it's just like a.
You want to be with a woman.
You don't want to see her all the time.
You want to have something to look forward to.
That's the problem with sports.
You're correct.
Correct, Doug.
I can argue with you.
I don't believe he was going to say something.
Lee, when you fuck up my shit.
Go ahead.
What were you going to say?
Oh, well, no.
I was thinking about that today because I was watching the video for the 2004 World Series.
And I was in high school.
I'm pretty sure. Maybe you're 8th grade.
And I just can't...
I can't explain how happy I got watching that video today.
I watched the first, like, 45 minutes.
I was a Red So you know that.
And it was...
Like, they don't have social media then.
And I get it.
Like, I totally get why they have it now.
But there's, like, a mystique to it, like, what Nick was saying.
Yeah.
And, like, I just got emotional thinking about how...
Like, that team, like, really the whole...
Like everywhere you went
It wasn't even like
It was just like instead of hello
Like the rents house
Like do you see that last night
Like it was pretty good
It was amazing
You know there's an abundance of podcasts
And they're coming in with shows now
Whatever
And I don't get angry
So in my business
It's a free country
That's why we live in this country
We each have opportunities
But I gotta tell you what I don't want to hear
Any more is like sports shows
If you can't
sleep like a guy like me. Some nights I get home.
I can't sleep. You know, I get home at 11. It's not going to happen until one.
I'm already committed to it. I'll watch those ESPN shows just so I know I try to learn what's going on.
Right.
And they're unwatchable.
Especially the ones that they talk shows and they argue about sports, I'm over that.
Why should I feel stressed out about the Yankees or the Redskins?
It stresses you out.
Excuse me, sir?
It stresses you out, those shows.
Yeah, the arguing, the yelling.
when I think you're wrong
Simon, I see the Minnesota
Vikings as underdogs here
You know what I like
In New York WFAN
You know sports talk radio
But in the middle of the night, 3.30 in the morning
Put that little fucking radio on transistor
And you hear some nut job caller
In the middle of three o'clock
At the morning
It's great
He's talking to this fucking guy at night
Middle of the night overnight guy
I find it soothing
I find it like
you know this guy's up
people are up 3 o'clock 3 30
fucking making phone calls and
arguing about talking shit
they gotta train him he's a fucking
bo-saintiff
this is rainy right now
I know right now
what are we gonna do
I try a little I had a buddy
but it's funny
we used to shoot heroin
and listen to that shit
and then there were 20 minutes
get involved
like he'd go for the phone
yeah
you forget the phone number
yeah
and he'd go back to sleep
then the argument
would come back
yeah
you think you're dreaming
or some shit.
It was a trip.
But that fucking radio on him.
By your ear, it's nice.
It's funny.
Little low radio.
My mother used to keep a little low radio on.
And then I would fuck with him.
I would grab his ankle and fucking pull his leg.
And I go, he'd go, what, though?
And I go, hurry up.
They want to know if you want to talk to Pete Rose on the phone.
I torment them three or four times.
Really?
Oh, my God.
Those are, you know, it's so funny when you're going through shit that is not.
enjoyable in your life. You go through a rough patch. There's always this bright light. In 93, I was going
to the worst part of my divorce. The cards were gone. The car was gone. I was trying to do comedy.
That's all I really wanted to do. I didn't want to do a day job, but I found the pigeon who had a
bunch of valiums for sale for like 35 cents on a dollar. And I told him to give me a box to them,
that I'd be back on a week, and I never came back. I stayed down.
fucking jersey and I was
fighting it out. 1993
in New York City, the summer
delivering phones, delivering
packages, selling tickets for a comedy club
I'm just learning the ropes, you know?
But my roommate at the time
was on heroin
and it was my own private little reality
show and my job was just to torture
but that was his thing
that I'd be sleeping and also had to hear
like a conversation in the middle of the night
and I wake up and I'm like, what the fuck?
And it'd be George on heroin like this
with his mouth open with the fucking string around his arm still
with a little blood coming out of his arm
and he'd be laying there fucking listening to sports radio
and then the argument would ensue
and he would just get up out of nowhere and start arguing with me.
Dog, that's bullshit.
The Yankees have been doing worse since they signed that guy.
What the fuck's his asshole? No.
what do he say the number was?
And I feed him like a fake number.
And he'd go for the phone,
pick up the phone and start dialing.
And then he'd say to me, what's the number?
And he'd light a cigarette.
And he'd forget the number.
And he'd go, what's the number?
And I go, do what?
And I'd give him the house phone number.
And he would call the house phone number like three numbers.
And he would just pass out.
And then I would leave him like that.
For about 25 minutes.
I go out and watch TV or the news.
leave him with the cigarette burning.
His mouth.
Oh my God.
You know me.
I'm a torture job.
I come back 15 minutes later.
The cigarette's about to burn him.
The cigarette's about to burn him.
And I wake him up.
And go, George, what happened to Pete Rose?
He's like, huh?
And I go, fucking Pete Rose was on the phone.
You were going to talk to him about the 1973 World Series.
He goes,
Oh, Pete.
What are you doing Pete?
There was no Pete there.
No Pete.
I thought I would laugh my ass off with this kidney.
Oh, that's funny shit.
And it was every night when I got home.
So I get home from the city, working all day 9.30, and he'd already be on fire.
Or he'd be waiting for Grandma to go to bed because Grandma knew he was a heroin junkie.
So she'd watch him like a hawk.
Wow.
So about 11.15, Doug, he'd be scratching the skin off his first.
fucking arms.
And once
he crawled
on the bed day,
he'd make
just thinking about it
makes me laugh
because he'd be like
the TV Sabbath
bloody Sabbath
and he'd be watching
the TV very thing
like the press
like it wasn't
bothered him
but I knew
he was eating himself
up alive inside
every minute
I'd grandma
and sometimes
sometimes
I knew
he wanted her to go in
and I knew
that if I kept grandma
out there it would torture
him so
so
every time
she'd go okay I'm going to go
no no grandma wants his part
in the movie and he would turn pale
he would turn pale
he would turn pale
I did this for my two times
then I tell her grandma go to bed
the parts not to let it
and she wouldn't be inside
but 10 seconds
like he would
do you good night
good night grandma
he may believe
like nothing was happened
and all of a sudden
at the count of 10
he'd just get up
and run to his fucking bathroom
he'd have the work's hidden
already in there
he'd have the heroin
in the syringe
he was ready to go
and he'd fucking go in the bathroom
flag himself up
I'd count like the 15
and then I'd either knock on Grandma's door
or they had a big gong in the hallway.
And I would hit the gong and then go back to the chair.
And then she would come out with a rope on.
What the fuck is that?
And I go, oh, grandma.
She goes, somebody here?
What, what happened?
And, like, I'm not in Grandma.
She goes, where's George?
And then I go, I don't know.
Grandma, I think he's in the bedroom.
I try to throw her off.
And he would hear me.
I think he's in the bedroom sleeping, Grandma.
Where is George?
And I see the bedroom, like, did you leave the bathroom in the light?
Hold on, let me see George.
And she'd shoot back there and open up the door.
George is not in here.
That's George in the fucking bathroom.
And she would run for the bathroom and start banging on the door.
George, open the bathroom.
And George would open the bathroom all fucked up.
Oh, my God.
He'd hide the syringe.
You could still smell.
She'd run in there.
I smell that shit.
I smell that shit.
I smell that in here.
Open that fucking window.
Oh, she knew?
Oh, everybody knew.
What year was this?
1993.
It was the best was grandma went to Panama for a month.
And he moved into her little bedroom.
George?
George.
And at that time, how he made a living was,
he chipped him for rent
and what he did was
he sub-rented himself
as a framer
once a month
he's very good of framing pictures
that's what he does for a living
tremendous
oh you mean today
still at that time
when he was doing the age
for a while there he dropped out
lived off his living
sold his car
but then once he tried to get back on his feet
he went to like his first rehab
he was still getting high a little bit
that was fucking rough
because I was a mess
I was living and working in Manhattan
so on the way home I'd stop up on 178th Street
and pick up a grandma tutelhoots for 35 bucks
I'd take the bus like nothing happened over the bridge
I'd go home and do a couple bumps watch TV
jerk off call an ex-girlfriend trying to make it come over
and suck my dick
she'd say no you know stupid shit
I was a kid yeah I was on coke
but he was back there doing age
so he got a job
as a framer
and he cut a deal with them
to work four ten hour days
because he was that good
he goes I don't want to fuck around
I want to work four ten hour days
and have three days off
oh my God
framing houses
framing pictures
at a mall and paramas
we lived in Cliffside Park
they were paying them a good hourly wage
and a base salary
and a percentage of what pictures
whatever he framed that they sold,
he was making a nice dollar.
And he was working, brother.
And he would probably do a little taste
to heroin in the morning
to keep him together all day.
And I had a couple friends that were on heroin.
I had him and Bonehead.
I had another friend Bonehead.
He was always on heroin.
He had his own plumbing business.
You wouldn't know it,
because in the daytime, he was a businessman.
At night, we go into a fucking
Washington Square Park
and go to mix all these alehouse
and fucking get pills
and fucking heroin from him
and he'd disappear in the bathroom
and I'd have to drive the van home
it was tremendous when you're a kid
that's tremendous shit
but that other guy
What did heroin do it
What kind of high is that?
Yeah that's pretty
Oh my God
Haven't been a kid
And going to the Bronx
In the early 70s
Those people were everywhere
Yeah
nodding on the cross light
Waiting for the light to change
That's a fucking crazy drug
That's a bad drug right
And the shit
They were pumping
All that American gangster and Nikki Barnes and all those stories.
Let me tell you something.
Like any other criminal enterprise in the movie, it looks alluring and it looks okay.
But what they did to that community, no matter how generous Nikki Barn was or the character that played before he was Denzel's, you know, when Denzel was his bodyguard, that guy, they were both generous.
businessmen, but their general
business was heroin, which
was just fucking
destroyed a lot of lives, a lot of people.
And then the mafia cut it on
the business, the Jews had it first,
and the mafia cut it on that, you know, because it was
a $50,000 investment,
you walk away with $400,000
profit. Yeah.
But not go ahead, like me and you,
400,000.
It takes us three weeks to sell it.
Well, you fucking nuts. We're doing one of those every month.
Yeah.
200 Gs a month.
It's standing on the corner.
We're going to stay on that stupid fucking corner.
That's why the old wives guys,
they didn't want you to mess around with what they call it,
babagna or something.
Because it's a lot of dough.
But if you sold it and I'm your captain,
if you tell me it's bookmaking money,
even though I've heard rumors that you're selling heroin,
I'm still going to take it.
Right.
It was always a very two-edged sword.
Right.
If you know how to present it the right way.
If you know how to present it, yeah.
Now if they question you
But if they found out
What corner am I am?
Yeah
What corner am I?
Well no
They said you're in cahoots with Joe Diaz
No, no, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I know Joe Diaz for 10 years
I know he does something
He came to me for an all-purpose loan
He's paying Vig payments
That's my partner's shit with him
So you're not in the heroin business, no.
I get payments on him from fucking little Vig
Yeah
Why do he tell somebody he's in business with me?
I don't know, was he in the mess?
How big is your umbrella?
I'm getting a big envelope.
What do you care where it's coming from?
It's not everyone.
Let's move on.
That's what it...
You're making money.
I'm making money.
Lee's getting an envelope.
Oh, shit.
You're the biggest...
What's going on?
No, I'm happy.
Yeah.
What's going on?
That's what happened.
If I say no to you,
if I say to you, you can't fuck,
fucking midgets in the ass no more.
All right, you're going to stop fucking midges in the ass
But how can I tell you to stop doing something
That I'm trying to make money on
Don't you want free money?
If I came to you every week
And gave you $500 every Friday
And you took it
And your wife said, you don't take it no more
He's a child pornographer
Are you going to take my nickel every week
Or are you going to turn your back?
I'm going to nickel
Who knows? Who knows what people's judgment is?
Yeah.
But that's what the mafia did.
They didn't care.
Right.
They don't fucking give a fuck.
Not real.
Look at the end, they all found out they were all selling heroin.
At the end, in the end, all of them were double-crossing each other.
Right.
All of them were double-crossed.
Don't do this, don't do that.
And then there's a way to tip-ar-round.
What if Lee wants to get into heroin, but Lee could only move three kilos a month.
But I know a way for Lee to sell eight kilos a month.
The only problem is Lee's got to run the whole hour.
operation. What I'm going to do is
get Lee started.
Right. And Lee's, I'm an owner.
I'm 50% in.
Lee's not in the mafia. It doesn't matter.
Lee's selling the heroin, and
he's loyal and he's going to give me
50%, which you're going to get a
fucking taste up, Nikki. What the
fuck do you give a fuck? And then
you're going to come to me when they goes, bro, there's a thousand
rumors going around there you sell heroin.
No. Who am I selling heroin
with? The fucking little Jew? No.
I lent him money.
If he sells heroin, that's his business.
Right.
How he pays my loan back?
That's my fucking business.
You get a piece of those loans, right?
Well, I didn't know you put it that way.
Yeah, there's no drug in the law.
Whatever he does, he's a Jew.
He's got nothing to do with his job.
He ain't bothered him, but he wants to move 22 pounds of heroin.
He's a true.
Yeah, he ain't bother nobody.
Now, now, let's pretend.
I did blend him money
and he's paying me back
but at the end of the month he's starting to reach out
he's fucking around with the Chinese
he's fucking around with some brothers
up in Holland yeah the Jew don't feel safe
so the Jew wants to pay us a taste
so he could throw our name around
right that's it
that's it they don't know that you're going out
at night with a fucking half a package worth
$82,000
right
taking it to Florida
fucking some Puerto Ricans down there
waiting for a fucking envelope.
They don't know that.
They don't care.
They don't want to know
you don't need to tell them.
If you went to your captain and said,
listen,
I'm doing a heroin deal
and I'm going to make 80,000
on the way back,
I'm going to come over and drop 30.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
You think that guy's going to tell you
don't do the deal?
Fuck you.
You're going to give 30 Gs out of your 80
and nobody knows nothing.
You don't have to be.
to give a taste upstairs. He can give a taste upstairs and tell him it's anything
just to cover his ass in case you ever tell him it was heroin money.
So he'll take it, but he'll give a piece upstairs. This is something Nicky bumped into.
Right.
What do you mean Nicky bumped into? Yeah, I don't know what he bumped into. Something with the
fucking music industry is running up and around with a bunch of fucking little Italian kids jumping
up and down in the town. That's it. Nicky gets busted for heroin.
Didn't you bring me money, Nicky?
Yeah, I don't fucking know.
He's not with me.
Right.
I lent them money years ago.
Also, he came to me and he said he was reaching out.
And if he gave me a little taste, would I protect him?
I don't need to know what his business was.
I don't even selling hot shoes.
That's it.
Right.
And besides, I gave you a taste.
That's what that was.
Yeah.
You know, I wouldn't give you drug money.
Yeah, okay.
Forget it.
Everybody looks the other way.
Yeah, no.
They don't give a fuck.
On paper, if you're selling heroin, you give me 10 grand a week,
I don't give a fuck.
That's $40,000 a month.
Can you imagine somebody handing you $480,000 a year?
And he reports just to you.
The other guy, Paul Costello, had two dudes.
They just reported to him.
One guy that was on the board of directors of Tannenbaum.
That guy.
I forget what his name is.
Board of Directors of Tannenbaum
was like that in supermarket
and all over New York, whatever.
And I was telling Lee that what this guy did
was he put an extra lane in every supermarket
that the store didn't know about.
That went right upstairs to the mob.
Can you imagine?
Oh, really?
They had, I don't know how many supermarkets.
What was the lane consist of?
Check out.
1970.
It was lane number 13.
Oh, it was a checkout.
The corporate headquarters never knew about.
So all that money?
Went right to the mafia.
The lane number 13 at all.
That was a mob lane.
Mob lane.
So if you were enrolled 13,
whatever went into that cash register,
nobody knew about.
A guy came every day, emptied it,
and took it to the fucking,
took it to a room and threw it in the kick.
It could be three, four hundred dollars,
but what if you got...
What was that store?
Strout cannon bombs or something
Wow
It's a really fucked up world, bro
What people do for cash
It don't matter
They don't give a fuck
What do you think, Lisa?
How are you feeling, buddy?
You're fucked up
It's all over
You're lucky Uncle Nick brought you
Some pizza
And a napkin
He was in before
You had to hear him people
He's like, ah
I don't know
You should take the pizza with you
I'm going to throw it away anyway
You can have it
I know you can have it
He's a savage
Heat it up.
He put it in the oven.
There's no home tonight.
Don't put it in the...
His home is that constant.
Oh, it is?
Yeah, but you don't want to put that in the microwave.
We'll eat another couple of stars now.
No.
Look, I'm saying, he's ready.
He ain't ready.
He knows it.
Hey, you know what drug I had when I had the epidurals last year?
The Michael Jackson drug, that was fucking good.
I got to tell you that.
How did they give it to you?
And put me on my stomach, everybody in the room, and an injection, I guess.
They froze me, and they said, we're going to get.
You're going to give you this fucking propothal.
You're going to go out in 10 seconds.
But I'll tell you where I went to like some happy, happy fucking place.
I was so happy.
Like you have a dream where you feel like you're...
I mean, I never was so happy.
And then I woke up crying, bawling like crying my ass off.
But I was so happy when I took that drug.
I wonder why Michael got...
That's a powerful drug.
Can you imagine why you feel that happier your body?
like it just takes over your dopamine
like even cold. It was weird.
Yeah, it's weird. I was in this place.
When you have surgery. Very, very happy
place. Yeah, warm. It's warm.
Then I woke up and I was crying and I was.
It's a weird fucking feeling.
Yeah. But when you go out, those first
fucking six or seven minutes.
I couldn't believe they said, you know, you're going to be out in ten
seconds. I said, you're sure,
you're sure? I don't remember nothing.
Nothing after that. You're talking shit.
Yeah.
Dogg, they tape those.
Who knows?
You talk shit for like an hour after.
The one guy talked to me when I had my elbow.
He said my eyeballs were open the whole time
and I was talking smack through the whole thing.
I said, really?
He said, yeah.
Because you were really funny.
Your eyes were wide open.
I said, they were wide open.
And you were talking nonstop.
It's crazy what you're saying
when you don't know what you're saying.
Because dreaming is weird, you know?
I hate those fucking dreams where you're trying to wake up.
You can't wake up.
Man, you're fighting a dream, you know?
I have weird dreams in hotels.
I do, too.
Especially when I have to eat edibles to fall asleep.
I have to eat edibles to help me go to sleep,
and I go overboard to get really high.
You go to sleep, and your dreams are in color and vivid,
and you have retarded dreams.
I have dreams that I left my wife and daughter
to go back with my high school sweetheart,
who got rid of her fucking boyfriend
to live down in Rumson, New Jersey.
Oh, boy.
This chick sucked 80 dicks.
Oh, my God.
But the time she was 25.
I'm going to leave my wife to go back.
You're going to go back to that?
And I woke up like what is...
So many dicks running out.
I woke up thinking, what the fuck.
And I like, I still talk to, I like, I respect the...
The blood jump girl?
Which one? Yeah.
I still love it at that.
She's like one of my favorite people.
She always had my back,
and I always had my back on her.
But I had one of those dreams this weekend.
And I had a dream that I was somewhere,
and my wife came in with the baby,
and she didn't bring the baby over,
or she didn't come over and say hello.
So I went up to her a little while late.
I go, what did you come up to me?
And she goes, what did you end up doing last night?
And I go, nothing.
And she goes, how come somebody called and said,
you're on the run.
The cops are looking for you for like a stabbing or something.
That was horrible.
Wow.
That was horrible.
In the dream.
I thought the cops were looking for me.
That's horrible.
I don't even know what the cops are looking for me for.
I can't lie to you.
I don't know why.
I remember telling my wife,
why didn't you come to me?
She was like I couldn't.
The cops were about to arrest you.
They were standing like 20 feet from me.
Why were they going to arrest me?
And I don't know after that.
No, you go to that stupid mumbo-jumbo,
talking about whatever. Did they meet anything dreams?
Yes, they do. I think so.
What do you think, Lee?
I don't know. I think it has to
definitely has to do with what you're thinking about at the moment, but...
Do you have deja vuzzly?
All the time.
Airports, planes, stuff like that.
Do you feel you were there before?
Yeah. Really? It's interesting. I always thought so, too. I get them once in a
not every time. When I was a kid, I got a kid.
him so much that before I even heard that mumbo-jumbo about reincarnation, I thought I was reincarnated.
Like I knew I had lived before.
I knew all that stuff.
That's fucking crazy to admit, but that's the truth.
You go to church, Joey?
Lately, I'll hit it this Sunday.
I'll hit a 7.30 mass this Sunday if I can't.
It's very interesting for me now, how I feel about it.
There's no pressure.
When I go, I have a great time.
Take the bread?
Sure, sure.
Drink the wine?
No, no, no, never.
That gives you the fucking fluids dirty.
A bunch of people don't brush their teeth.
I know.
You're going to see how I drink it.
I put my mouth above the thing like...
That's Manichovets.
I don't even get a bit of it.
But for some reason I get a kick out of it.
Don't drink that shit.
That shit makes you sick as a dog.
You think so?
I know for a fact.
Sources, it don't take a fucking genius to know that
drinking out of a cup
that 100 people are going to drink them.
Let's say your number past 10
your odds go up more.
Maybe I'll stop. Now you get my head.
You got me thinking.
No, no, no. You tell them beautiful. Thank you.
But none next time.
You eat the cookie, you say a prayer,
and a ronka.
You put a film in the past.
Yeah.
Arranka, let's go.
Arranka.
Let's go.
I'm going to sit down here.
I'm going to talkin de cagga.
That's a car of cahle.
mother.
That's good.
Yeah, no, it's pretty funny how
my philosophy
on church, especially how
much I believed
and when I stepped away,
although you know, once your mom dies at 16,
you lose, you believe.
What God takes your mother at 16?
No God. Fuck it.
I'm not going to fucking church
no more. Why am I going to go to church?
It's all bullshit.
Yeah.
So I stepped the fuck out of it.
After I got locked up, I went back to church
for a while.
And I liked it.
the guy married me
I went to church on my own there on Sunday
but I got forced into that I caught me this mass
the 11 o'clock that's too much time
for Uncle Joey
that's too much commitment
that hour and a half every week
I tell you what I've been doing is the 5 o'clock
5 o'clock is the profession
On Sunday not bad
No I found one with a lot of good music
Half hour
Yeah 40 men but the music's good
You know my son's school
I was going to his school masses
last few years,
they're the Carmelites.
I actually like,
maybe because it was a high school.
I don't know,
I just kind of dug the Carmelites a little bit.
A little different.
Still a little different style.
Are they still Catholic?
Yeah, they're Catholic.
But they wear brown.
They wear brown.
And I don't know.
They just seem not as up,
you know, I don't know.
They just seem maybe not as uptight
as the regular priests.
But they're, you know, they're Catholics too.
Musics are pretty good.
I like the music.
Like I said, I enjoy twice a month now.
How old is your daughter now?
Four and a half.
Wow.
She's not right.
She goes to our church with a mother down the corner.
Some whatever Stamink your church.
At four and a half.
Can't believe you have a daughter four and a half.
That's wild.
Really?
And it gets wilder every day, Nick.
And you went through it.
She's four and a half.
She's a girly girl.
Tonight she was showing me a new dresser.
She got with Mommy on Saturday.
She loves the skirt,
Denny, don't you love the skirt?
Little girls are the best.
She's the goods.
Yeah.
When they get older, they get very complicated.
But when they're little,
there's something about little girls.
They're just like the most sweetest things.
They're just so innocent.
She runs the joint.
Yeah.
There's a scene in Narcos
when his brother-in-law comes to visit him.
And Pablo tells him,
he goes, Jesus, she's getting bigger every day.
She's beautiful.
And Bobba goes, brother.
At the end of the day, she runs the house.
I just pay the bills, and she tells me what to do.
And that's exactly how I live in people.
I had to meet somebody this morning.
I told, listen, I thought the schedule this week was I'll pick her up at school at 5.30.
We're cool.
I'm packing my computer.
I'm packing my notebook.
I'm ready to go meet this cat.
She comes in this morning.
Daddy, where are you going to meet?
No, no, no, no.
you're taking me to school you want to go and then i go i got no your daughter says yes she goes let's go
turn off the light it was hysteric when she tells me to turn off the light she says turn off the light
she says turn up the light remember when she slammed the door in my face oh yeah she's hysterical
she's funny huh she's funny what's her name mercy so she gives me she walks me to the door daddy
daddy let's go come on daddy come on daddy i walk outside i open her door she jumps in
and my mother puts a seatbelt on, you know,
it's a whole thing in the morning.
This morning I walked in with her.
I took the fucking lunch thing from her.
I took the cup out, put it in the box for her,
and I walked into the refrigerator.
She goes, no, Daddy, give it back to me.
I want to put it in there.
You know, it's a fucking trip.
Like, that's it.
Like, I'm her assistant.
Yeah.
You know, there's a time when I could be fucking busy as fuck at the computer.
Have three pages open.
about to book a plane ticket.
I got this all front of the table.
I want to see if I can make the date.
I got to call him back by 4.30.
This guy keeps calling me. This guy keeps calling me.
And I'm ready to fucking put the deal together.
I'm ready to go. And she comes in.
And I got earphones on with music, so I can't hear.
And she'll come in, dog, tap me.
I'll look at her give her a kiss.
And she'll push me at the same time.
Put her leg over my leg and crawl up and go,
Daddy, put on trolls, and that's it.
Yeah.
I got to close all three files, go to YouTube, and she types it in.
For the last year, I had her type in everything.
T-R, what the other one, the other one, the skumbach, the fucking Smurps.
Yeah.
So everything we type in, I make her type in since for a year now.
F, P, Z.
Doesn't matter how old shit.
She's smart, though, huh?
I'll sit there with her for a little while.
And she'll go, Daddy down.
Daddy down.
That means I have to scroll for...
Right.
But about a week ago, I got up to go talk on the phone.
She figured it out.
That's it.
Wow.
So now I'll be sitting there with her.
She'll try to be sweet, touch my face, tick on my hand,
giggle.
And then after that video ends,
as soon as the switch, she'll look at me and go, Daddy,
can you go now?
Like, what do you mean?
I'm watching this for you.
She goes, Daddy, can you go on that?
That means this is it.
And she'll get up off me and I'll get up.
She'll sit on the chair.
I push her in.
And I go in the living room and I listen for her to go,
Daddy, that means I got to go in there and press the video.
But now she figured out how to do that.
So she'll sit in my office for an hour and out, dog.
She knows how to click the videos.
She knows how to skip through the fucking commercials, Lee.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
What they learned.
And this is what I live with.
I live on borrowed time.
When I wake up in the morning,
I don't know if she's coming in the room.
Right.
I hope she does.
She's my daughter.
But I don't want to be manhandled either.
You know what I'm saying?
She's just a gorilla.
She'll sit there playing me like a fucking fiddle.
Last night I get home,
she goes, Daddy, come out sleep.
And listen, you know my ears fucked up.
And I can't have you hit it with your foot
or your fucking head and son tomorrow night.
I forgot to be in the bed.
Yeah, she does it every Sunday night.
Every other Sunday we let us sleep with us on Sunday night.
We have family night.
We watch a movie.
Then her and the mother eat popcorn.
Then they go to bed, and then I come in like an hour later.
So last night, she asked, are we doing it tonight?
I go, no, it's next Sunday.
But what I'll do is if my ear didn't hurt, I would do it this week,
but I'll do tomorrow night.
I forgot I even said that to her.
She got home in school today.
And she got next to me, we watched TV, we watched Wally Kazam coconuts,
she rubbed my legs, she rubbed my finger, and then she goes, Daddy, how's your ear?
And I go pretty good, and she goes, see, I kissed it.
I made it better.
That means I can sleep with you guys tonight.
I go, God damn it!
I forgot, she set me up this afternoon.
So listen, man, you learn from your children, you see yourself, you think of you.
yourself at that age.
Oh, yeah.
You're like, what the fuck
was I doing at four and a half?
Yeah. I was running around the bar.
She's a little daycare
with a bunch of Hindu kids. They're all twins.
There's more Hindu twins
at that school. There's three sets
of Hindu twins.
The preschool.
And there was four.
Two of them went back to India.
And they were adorable. Two girls, they were
adorable. These two girls,
I was this close. I'm going, Nick, come pick me up.
Forget about it. We're going to
manage these two Hindu girls.
Show up in there on a pilot
for Disney, whatever.
Yeah. About two Indian girls that live with a black
family in Harlem. Forget about it. We're making
billions. A lot of money. We cut that dude
in from Atlanta that dresses up like a woman.
Yeah. They got abused by his father.
What's his name? What's his name?
That shoots all his movies and Atlanta guys.
Oh, that guy, Tyler Perry.
Tyler Perry. We tell him this is a black
spectacle. Oh, man. That's a home run.
A black family adopts two Hindu
twins in the Bronx.
Are you kidding me?
And after a while, they'd become a band.
We put them on Empire.
And then it's like cross-pollination.
It's like when the Green Hornet went on Batman,
we just set them loose after that.
That does sound like a home run.
What do you think of dealing with Joey Bananas?
What do you got coming out on DVD?
Anything.
There's nothing like me.
I got a couple of...
You got shit hidden.
I know you.
You shot shit four years ago that's getting finished now.
I got a couple of things.
I mean, I got this
couple of, this movie
called The List.
I got a couple of horror
flicks. I don't even know the name of them.
Then I'm trying to still sell
this pilot over the hill, which
I don't know. We might find a digital
platform for that.
Next week I'll be on the Kevin
James show.
You know, a lot of little
things. Things that I'm not really
that excited
about right now. I'd be
much happy if we could sell this little show I did
because there's actually some good shit in it
so we'll see
maybe one of these companies
Hulu or YouTube brand I mean
you know they say everybody's looking for content
until you get out there with your show
yeah we have something similar
well we do yeah we have something similar
and the guy on Netflix was like we're talking about
the Aziz show I go yeah it's funny I go but what does
I got to do with my show
it's not I'm nothing like him
you know I don't I feel like
I'm the last of the moment.
I don't know.
I feel like a guy who's like,
you know, it's like, you know,
you're just trying to find your way.
And it's like,
I've been doing a lot of little shit,
but it's like,
this was kind of fun to do
because I felt like I actually did something.
Even though it's not perfect,
I feel like I actually did some good stuff in it.
But you need the proper writers,
the proper support to get it to the place where
it could be good.
It could be good.
My cousin Aida was in it.
It was really funny.
He needed an HBO show
or show,
That's what I need.
Showtime.
That will give you an hour to express yourself.
It's comedically trauma.
Yeah.
You know, which is your good little last hurrah to go out with five years on HBO.
That's what I'm looking for.
You go out like Julius of Brown.
Like a soldier.
Go out like a soldier.
You end up at a retard home with a bird on your shoulder.
And Tony S comes to visit you.
Exactly.
And ask you if you still remember him.
Yeah.
I mean, look, I've been watching Dice.
You know, it's not bad.
You ran North Jersey.
That's it.
That's it.
So what episode of Dice did you watch tonight?
The new season?
I watched the new season last night where he was like,
he had a part in a Martin Scorsese movie that his best friend wrote,
milkshake.
And this freaking Swedish guy who was screaming was the director.
And then Michael Imperioly played like the star of it.
He was playing the guy based on Dice.
He was a little over the top.
But Dice played like his best friend.
And Dice was actually good in it, but he wound up getting fired.
He wound up getting fired.
And then Mickey R.
Rock was in his house.
Mickey Rock, who looks...
I love Mickey Rock. He just doesn't look really good.
And he was like, Mickey, what are you doing here?
What are you doing in my house, Mickey?
And Mickey was like, out to fucking, like, kill himself and kill him at the end.
Dice talked him out of it.
And then I watched a little bit of the first episode of Curb.
I mean, Larry David's back.
Funny shit, man.
Fucking Larry David makes me laugh.
You like Larry David?
I forgot he was aiming on.
Yeah.
He's back, man, with J.B. Smooth.
Fucking funny. J.B. Smooth became, he fired his assistant.
Then he was like, give me that motherfucking job.
J.B. Smooth was funny.
And, oh, man, he just cracks me up, Larry.
I like Larry David.
One thing, we got to give a shout out to our boy.
My brother, Felipe, Spars.
Yes.
His HBO special.
Lee went to the event.
And all...
Good man.
Thank you guys.
We're all from the bottom of my heart for supporting him.
He was on the show last week.
and we saved them for the end of the month
to help them get eyeballs on the special
and you guys fucking came through.
So thank you very much for that.
Thank you for the support on my niece.
She's going home tomorrow.
She had the last bone marrow test today.
She'll get the result in 24 hours.
But again, thank you for all your support,
donations and love.
It's been a rough two or three months
between Florida, Houston,
Puerto Rico, I know everybody on fucking social media asking you for a buck.
It's been difficult, so thank you very much, especially going to the holiday season, man.
And that's it, my brother.
Uncle Nikki Poo, we need that sauce.
Yeah, you'll get that sauce.
Me and honest to God, there's people who'll shoot you.
We're going to get it out.
That sauce with the bread.
Yeah.
That's all how you sell it.
Believe me.
Listen, we make the sauce, but the secret is I want people to stop and pay seven,
99 for six slices
of bread and a container
of that sauce. Forget the spaghetti
and meatballs. Eat
the carbs. You might die tomorrow. That's the
model of the company. Eat the carbs.
You might die tomorrow.
Fresh, nice Italian bread
sliced a little bit of Montequite.
Pretty good sauce for a jar.
And you dip it into that fucking cold sauce
or warm however you wanted.
We give you a cup and that was heaven.
That was fucking delicious
if you love food. I know that.
Especially if you want to eat at night and keep it light.
Six thin slices of bread ain't going to send you to the hospital.
Especially if you're going to get up and run in a way.
You wake up with a little carbs.
The amarinata sauce puts your fucking stomach.
Yeah.
Put a little fucking juice in there.
Yeah, and that's it.
You know exactly how to do.
No, I know.
I mean, I have my little secret.
So what's your secret for the World Series?
What's the Rock?
The Yankees beat tomorrow, when tomorrow night, the Twinkies.
Yankees beat the Twinkies tomorrow night.
Then they play who?
And then we play the Cleveland.
Indians, we upset them.
Oh, shit.
In four games.
Oh, shit.
Then we take the Red Sox.
Oh, you just smack them like Red Sox.
Smack them. Smack them in six.
What do you think, Lee?
Well, why we're two games ahead of the ALEs?
Yeah, but I don't know.
I haven't watched it.
Season's over.
Playoffs to start next week.
That's it.
Oh, that's bullshit.
Oh, bullshit.
New season.
I know that.
I'm not even talking shit.
I'm not asking who was about.
A better team?
Well, the Yankees are definitely a better team than the Red So. I think they're a better team than the Red So, even though the Red Sox beat him by two games.
Yankees beat him head to head, 11 to 8.
Okay.
So.
But, you know, that doesn't mean shit now because now it's a new year postseason.
So it don't matter what you did.
Now you're in the dance.
Can you win it?
Who has better pitching?
The Yankees have a deeper bullpen.
They have a great closer on Greg Kimball.
Better starters, though?
Well, you got Chris Sell.
You got one stud, but he's never won in the postseason.
Right.
It's close.
And Price is in the bullpen now, but he's doing pretty good?
Yeah, he's throwing bullets out of the bullpen,
even though he's never done anything in the postseason,
but he could be a good weapon out of the bullpen.
I actually think that's a good move for them.
That seems to be working out.
I got to be optimistic.
You know, they call, where the baby bombers, young guns.
I'm not saying we're going to go all the way,
but I think we're going to make some noise.
You always have to root for a Red Sox Yankees series.
I always root for that.
There's nothing like Yankee.
The Yankee Red Sox brings us.
out the hatred in me
you know it's like the cousin that you hate
it's the cousin you fucking despise but you know you respect them
there's something about the Yankees
in the Red Sock when you get them together
It's magical and Fenway is awesome
Not like that new Yankee Stadium
I mean you'll see tomorrow night there'll be these rich seats
And then half of them are fucking empty
You know they should put seat fillers in there and pack them in
People got to stay in their seats
A Yankee Stadium
Yeah these fucking seats that are always empty
Now, what happened yesterday, the Dodger, what happened at one of the stadium football yesterday?
It was so empty, they had to put tarp on the fucking stadium or some shit.
Is that the charges or something?
The charges is one of those.
This is a moronic.
They can't even support the Rams.
Why would you move another team, you know, down here, the charges who really belong in San Diego?
Keep them in San Diego.
Don't move them here.
You got the Rams back who were eventually from here.
Can they move back now, though?
Could they?
They lost face.
Yeah, well.
Unless somebody builds a stadium, you know,
I don't know, these guys that want a new stadium and then, you know,
but they got a good fan base.
San Diego's a little sports town.
L.A. is not really a sports town.
They have sports fans here, but they're not,
it's not really a sports town.
I sit here and I listen to you,
and I can't tell you how much the baseball world
needs a baseball podcast with that voice and that passion,
especially for the Yankees.
I think you could do the whole thing
I think your whole spectrum is the Yankees
and fighting for the Yankees
Yeah, that's with my whole
Having people call you and argue with you
And you light them on fire
And head the bottom from time to time
I get them
I think that's your show right there
Maybe that's maybe
Listen, I'm glad to always be here
You fucking show up with a pizza like a gentleman
That's it
Most people show up empty-handed
I don't like to come empty-handed
You know I always tell the
It's a good show
I always tell Lee he should do things certain ways, the East Coast way, you know.
There's been a couple situations lately where you hate to say it, somebody's in the jam,
somebody's kids getting married, and you as an adult and a human being go,
you know what, Nick's always been good to me, his daughter's getting married.
Let me do the right thing, and you, you're a wedding present,
and then you put money in the envelope because you're busy to work in that,
weekend it was in Vegas working, you know.
And then I sat there and I go, Jesus Christ, they never sent
the saying thank you note.
And they got married in June.
It's fucking October.
And you're like, I'll shame on them.
I mean, you know, what are you going to do?
There was somebody else that my wife did something.
She never got a thank you, God.
No man is.
Somebody that, again, no thank you card.
I get home Sunday.
And there's a card on my desk.
And I look at it.
and it's on my buddy
the daughter's
my daughter's godfather
and I opened it
and I said thank you God
for the flowers
when his dad died
September fucking
8th or something
and I'm like
you see what I'm saying
people think I'm wrong about shit
there's still people
who think like me
they didn't wait a month
like this is ridiculous
because I came home
that cash was in that envelope
on my dinner mantle
for two
months and we looked
to each other like when are we going to spend this cash?
Obviously she's not going to come together.
When I went over and I gave the envelope to the dad
I still haven't heard
a fucking thank you.
It's amazing how people
take shit for granted.
Oh I know.
You know what? That means
it just means a lot
when someone is there
or does something and you just say hey
I appreciate that.
No no no.
You know this generation
they're not
they barely ever say
you know let me get some kids you know
I've been around a lot of kids the last few years
and you know you see the ones that have manners
I've treated them here there I'm like
I treat them like they're my extended family
but the ones that really appreciate you know
and then there's takers
the ones that they come in they trash the joint
they leave like animals
they don't pick up after and I'm like you know
you just you get tired even even some family members
I don't want to name names but
you know you just go
there's fucking govones
you know it's like you know
just have some manners
nobody has manners
nah no more
they come they eat they walk out like animals
you know the people that took me in
when my mother died
I knew them for like five years
I was going to the house every Wednesdays
and eating pasta
but the main thing
how I got tight with them was
because they got a pool
and when you got a built in pool
in 1970
you were the hot commodity
neighborhood
So everybody came, everybody came to your house, jumped in the pool.
People who got, even though you had a party and they went on the list,
they were still getting in a jump in your pool.
And after they pissed in your pool and shit, scratched their balls,
they left the pool as is.
They left the mask out.
Yeah.
The thing they were blowing out up, the things out.
And I had a pool for a while.
I had an above-ground pool.
Oh, above-ground.
Yeah, one of those were big.
They were funny.
They were funny.
Until somebody punctured the fucking neck.
and then the pool drains.
That happened every year.
That's how the summer ends.
Somebody jumps in there with a knife in their pocket.
And next thing you're fucking longer than the next day
and you've got two feet of water.
It's green.
It turns green immediately.
Yeah.
It's fucking quick.
That thing ain't running.
You see all the piss.
Right.
Then you get a chance to glue the side
and fill it up with fresh water
and it's still cold for three fucking days.
Oh my God, my memories are cleaning that pool.
Every morning you have to get up
and take the lead.
off the top.
And then you had to put the vacuum
on the bottom of the pool
and take the algae off the pool
where they would develop like this.
Then you had to test the water.
Those are the above ground.
Those were the above ground.
And then the other, I would go to the benders
and test that pool.
Like, it was crazy.
If you had an inground,
you thought the people were rich, you know?
Yeah, when you had an in-ground pool,
and May you were a movie star.
A movie star.
Fucking Sinatra was coming over to hang out.
I know. I had my first fucking house
I bought in Tarzanum and
The reason I bought it, the pool looked like a pond and had a grotto.
And I was like, wow, I couldn't believe I had this.
I was like, look at this fuck.
I never went in it much, but the grotto had all kinds of ideas for the grotto.
But I didn't really take advantage of it completely.
But, hey, you just couldn't believe.
I'm like, who would have a pool like that growing up unless you had money?
Maybe one family in the neighbor had that.
I don't know.
They owned a McDonald's franchise or some shit.
Are you getting residuals for real?
From Reels, they play your shit, don't they?
Yeah, I get a lot of...
You know, I've done great with...
Actually, Blue Bloods on syndication.
I mean, I wish I would have did more episodes,
but, man, I never saw a syndication like that.
I mean, even NYPD Blue, I don't think...
They must have sold this show.
It's a very popular show.
It's unbelievable.
It's still doing really, really well, syndication-wise.
You know, yeah, you get...
You know, it keeps you alive.
Keeps you live.
I mean, that's why, man,
the more episodes, the better it would have been.
Every Sunday at 601, I go to sag after.com.
And I look at what residual checks are coming in.
I don't, I just, I just.
And then I look at in processing.
That's how Jewish I am.
Really?
I look at what's on the list.
I think you told me that, and I did that once or twice.
I do it.
I don't do it no more.
I just, you got to see what's coming in.
No, they keep coming in.
You got to check it out.
You got to see what's coming in because you might miss one or two.
And God forbid you call.
You have to go.
If you go to Sag after, there's a list.
Really?
You go to and you type your name
And within 72 hours
You get an email
Wow
They'll go Nick the Turro
Come down to office box six
And print up the label we give you
Oh my God
Let me tell you what happens
And this is shocking
You've been in the business for 30 fucking years
You're going to go down there
And they're going to hand you
A stack of checks
That your jaw is going to drop
And you're going to go
What do you mean money
You never claimed?
Money that
Where is this?
This is SAG.
You go to Woosher?
Sag after it.
I've never done this.
Yes, you have to go down there.
I did this 10 years ago.
My wife is going to count it.
Okay.
So she goes one day, let's take it right down there.
I got the thing and I got your thing.
We went down there.
And you asked what?
They came back.
Go online and start it.
Checks, missing checks,
or something it's called.
See if you have a check at after SAG.
You press your name or you look for the names.
It don't have your name on the list.
Oh, I know I have money out there.
And what you do is you go down there, you give them whatever they send you, Nick.
They're going to come back with a stack of check.
And they're going to tell you excuses, whether they didn't mail that check,
that your heart's going to stop.
You're going to get addresses that you've never even seen.
Wow.
From how did this happen?
So it's unclaimed money.
Unclaimed money.
Yeah, but do you have to do any research before you go to them?
You have to go online.
There's something on sagafter.org.
and you go to SAG after.org
That's where you check the residuals and stuff
on Sundays now.
It's not whatever it used to be.
So said after.org.
And just keep looking for payments.
And then there somewhere will say
lost checks, unclaimed checks,
do what it tells you to do,
what the process is now.
And I think there was a bunch of ship.
I never pursued it.
I went down there one time with my wife
and they threw me a stack and a envelope.
And the reasons,
the address is.
they had sent stuff to
did not make sense.
They were sending
to addresses where...
I mean, one time I had something
where they had me and my son
confused, not even in...
Yes.
No, this is what they do.
I had four or five thousand.
I had a bunch of places.
Yes, no.
And I got to the bottom of that,
and I got that money.
Yeah, you get that money.
I got that money.
It's down there waiting for you.
It's down there waiting for you.
It's so fucking weird
and you cannot believe you look...
First off, you look at after and go,
can I ask you a question
why did you guys
get my address
and put this in the fucking mail
and they'll go well
How do you find that
unclaimed stuff
You go on the line
You go on the line
And I went down there
Me and my wife looked at them
And said
Since you had all these
Why didn't you send this
To the address?
Yeah
And they said well since we got these
We really didn't know
What your address was
Like let me answer your question
How did you know
To send a bill to that address
Yeah
And they were stuttered
Well, maybe the address will be...
I definitely know I have something out there.
I don't know how much.
And the fuck-ups are just unadmissible.
So you're saying it could be...
Oh, you're going to see...
You know how I know for a fact?
Because there's 10 Totoa, whatever your last name is,
Totoro.
There's 10 of them.
They're going to have checks for you that belong to your brother and Ida.
And they're going to have checks for them that they'll have your name on.
Really?
Because somewhere along the line, some assistant spilled coffee on the paperwork and the sack paperwork.
Your address weren't blind.
She had one glasses.
She wasn't paying attention.
She typed in tutorial.
Nicholas, George, Henry.
When did you do this?
I did this about 10 years ago when I first met my wife and we were flat broke, maybe even 12 years ago.
You got a stack of checks?
My wife also did one for the state.
And I picked up a stack of checks.
We tried doing one for Jersey because I told to listen, I had 20,000 jobs.
God knows.
Yeah, I know.
God knows what's out there.
Give it a shot.
If you're broken home right now and you're from Kentucky,
go to Kentucky's website and look to see for unclaimed checks in the state.
That means that one time you hurt yourself and you claimed disability
and they told you they were only giving you 12 weeks.
What the doctor told you was you were getting paid for 18,
and those six checks were waiting for you,
and they probably gave you $800 a check.
You don't fucking know.
Right.
You claim it, and your jaw drops.
Yeah.
And with you guys, there's Taturo's.
You moved two or three times.
Yeah, I did.
You had the house in Jersey.
That's not, that's bad, because that's their excuse.
Well, we sent the house.
Yeah, because I used to get checks there, too.
Yeah, so they're going to go.
I used to get checks in Tarzana.
We sent checks to New Jersey, and they all came back.
Yeah.
So why don't you send it to my new address?
Well, we didn't know where you looked.
Well, you know what they're fucking sending?
I mean, it's fucking crazy.
Wow.
So that's what will shock you.
That you have checks down there that are significant.
There's some checks that maybe they show the TV show.
And again, sent it to the Tarzana address.
And it's top of the fucking game residual.
That's like what, you know, there's a bunch of shit.
Like that?
They make mistakes like that.
And then, you look at these people, you go, did they make things?
these mistakes to not
for you not to cast these checks
or they just made the mistakes
where I lived just now
before I moved into this place
I was getting checks every
three months for some dude
from BET for $2,000
bucks
I thought about
sounding his name on the deposit
and I go why do this
this is actual theft
so on that
the kind of something I would actually call
BET
and I said
accounting and I gave the name and the
address go, yeah, we have it. I go,
listen, I got three checks from me here for two grand,
which is six grand.
You don't live here no more.
And they go, what's the address? I told
them, they go, all right, we want
to send checks to them. Two weeks later,
I got another check.
A month later, I got another check.
They don't give a fuck, though.
Sometimes they're on the other computer
that don't fucking enter.
Who knows, brother?
Who knows? You probably
didn't have another address to
to replace it.
I know for a fact,
especially if you've been
in the union for 30 fucking years.
Yeah.
Which you have been.
I'm coming up about 30 now.
30 fucking year.
Yeah, I'm doing 20, so we're getting
fucking old, my brother.
I'm happy you took the time.
You're a fucking gentleman.
Thank you.
And a scholar.
I love you.
My pleasure.
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