The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - Joey Diaz' 2nd seventh grade teacher

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

 Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt are joined by John and Joe Barone. John was Joey's teacher and basketball coach and Joe was also an athlete and pharmacist. The three men talk about how the teachers were some of the best and the kids loved them, some of them were also criminals. They also talk chicken factories, locks being thrown at cars and much more. SHOW NOTES If you're 21 or older, get 35% OFF your first order + free shipping @ IndaCloud with code CHURCH at ⁠https://inda.shop/CHURCH⁠ #indacloudpod Get 25% off your first order of MASA Chips with code JOEY @ ⁠http://MASACHIPS.com/JOEY⁠

Kick this motherfucker, Neil Lee. What's happened, you beautiful people, is the church of what's happening now. New Testament. I keep saying new addition. Who the hell knows? It's February, Tuesday, February the 17th, a beautiful day to be alive.

My sidekick here, Lee Syatt, the Jewish Cato. Say hello, Lee. I hope we switch to a camera with Mr. Barone. And we got old schoolers in the room tonight. We got Mr. Barone, my seventh grade teacher, and his trusted.

sidekick Joe Barone, who grew up to become a pharmacist, good man, down in Hoboken pharmacy. Check them out. Anyway, we're here. We're queer. What's happening, gentlemen? Great. Great time. Great to be here.

You were talking about the NBA game last night, the African ballet. Poor guy. He's like, you can't put this out of there. We can't have this. Made off. Third sentence. Mr. Barone, you know how we do it, but it's funny that you came here today because I was doing something last week,

and I saw a public service announcement, Julia Serving, and he was headed to the Soul Power premiere in the city. They had a screening, and he talked about Soul Power, and I forgot to tell you in Staten Island when you came to the show. So Soul Power is like an eight-part documentary on the ABA.

Fucking tremendous. I got drafted. Yeah, no, the Miami Floridians. They showed him, And they had, it started with Rick Barry, how they had to get a name, and then they had to take him to court, Golden State. Fucking, and then he sat out the year.

And then they went after Connie Hawkins. And then I'm only up to episode two. They're just going into Julius Irving. But it's fucking you. It's great, man. But it was showing how it was like, the NBA was boring. And they showed some white guy dribbling.

And the announcers like, look at how he dribbles meticulously. And also they show like Alan Iverson, fucking doing shakes and all this shit. For us all. He was in the ABA, but they were just saying that the NBA was not exciting. And that's when the NBA took it. That's it. What year did you get?

The Florida team. Miami Floridian. They showed every team according to the map in the beginning. The starry. They drafted me. Yeah. And I went down there. I went down to their gym.

The gym was. like a bakery. The ABA was a great, it was starting to be good, but the NBA knew, we got to get rid of this league. We went, my first practice that I went to, I said, where's my shirt, my, I got out in the way, I didn't bring anything. The guy says, it's in, it's in that box.

I open up the box. It's the Flintstone shirts. That's what? Is this a comedy? I wind up saying for two weeks, the guy sent me down for a contract. When he gave it to me, I said, I'm going, I got a job in a grammar school. And I said, I'm making twice as much money as this. And you're, ABA got eight up.

The guy who was the star. They had great players and they all went to the NBA. The star of that team was Mac Calvin. Mac Calvin. Yeah. They talk about him getting drafted. He was the star. He got drafted for $15,000 and for a $3,000 bonus.

He was the star in that team. Something crazy. He goes, they gave me the opportunity to play and all the shit. He knows everybody. Yeah. You know who the president of league was? George Miken. Really?

The Miking drills are used to doing shit. Yeah. This was really interesting. So I thought you should watch it. You know, take your time. It's on Prime Video. It's free. I think for two bucks you get no commercials.

But I want to know, I want to know more. So were you eligible in the NBA draft, too? No, just ABA. And you made that choice? I did that, the free throw thing in college. You had, like, you have the record for the most free throws? Yeah.

And then, but. And the highest percentage. No, is you play one year and you get the highest. They give you your percent. They were, they were, they were, today, if you have 88, you win. I was 97. How many free throws do you take? 246 out of 250.

And I had the record, I had the record which is 65. It's 50 years now. Now, the thing that annoys me the most, after I missed, and it was one of those... Mount Clear State. I missed one game,

and I made 52 more. They never broke that. They're going to break. this soon. He's a senior now and he has to graduate. Somebody told me a girl that has broke it, but. Tell me what you told me. He said, if I ever knew about, we didn't know about it until he had, he was going after the 60 record. He said to me, if I would have known about this, I would have made 300, he said. Nobody will break it for 9 million. He didn't know. I made a free

throw all of a sudden. Everybody was waiting to see if I made my first two that night. Why do you think so many NBA players have, like, such a problem? Like, I watched the Knicks. What about that center? Like, Robinson? Beautiful. He's, he's, he's great, but he doesn't, he, at least last year he couldn't hear a free throw.

And, like, Shaq is, like, famous for, like, why do these? That center you're talking about? Yeah. Like, why, or any of them? Why do all them suck? If he was standing on the beach, he would miss the ocean. And, like, like, these are the best players in the world. Why can't they?

He's going to get, I'm making him getting touch with this guy. I can help him. He wants me to see if I get. It's embarrassing. It comes to the end of the game. Nick's around. Find out where he lives? They foul him.

He's in the game. What does the coach got him in the game for? He misses free throws. They lose. And you're 100% right with him. He don't take two the same way. No. And he shoots.

There's no, you know, about free throw shooting. It has to be. We got to get in touch with him. Let's get in touch with him right now. It's crazy. He's crazy how... A third of his salary. It's crazy how you play basketball

and you can do all these moves. He's a good player. He plays a great defense. But then you fuck to miss a free throw. And he rifles him off the day. And I know that the art of free throwing is something completely different. He really is.

Mr. Barone will break it down for you at a different time because he ain't none of his basketball players here. I just went to her dinner and Chuck Ema Brin is speaking. So he says, hey, did you know my old coach is here? My grammar school coach. So he says, you know, I had a, I was a smart guy in grammar school.

And he used to get even with me. He says, and one day I'm in a gym, and I said, I can out shoot you free throws. He says to me, because he was cocky. Yeah, he was cocky younger. You know, and I said, all right, how much? He says, $10. He gets a dollar from each kid.

They're not eating lunch today. Okay. So sure enough. He says, you got to give me, move back. I said, no, I'll shoot lefty. And he tells the story. Chuck made eight in a row, eight out of ten. I made ten out of ten lefty.

Because I'm all screwed up. I'm ambidextrous. I play baseball left-handed. And he throws lefty. And I throw left-handed, but I shoot a basketball right-handed. That's weird. He played, whenever we used to go do something, I say, what are you doing?

this as. Like, first time I went to play golf? He golfs lefty. And, wait a minute, softball, he doesn't, he don't break about himself as a softball player. I love softball. Championship game down in Hoboken, and that was a great league down there. They had all the greats. He hits three homers in the championship game before Jackson did it. He hit three homers, championship. Championship, game of all the... He wasn't even, like, considered a baseball, softball player. But I remember that game. I was there.

You hit three homers, Leo's Grandavu. Leos. You ever go to Leos down there? Was there? Yeah, Leo. Was there? That was our team. That was their team.

Leo's rendezvous. You missed teacher, Mr. Brown? Yes. I miss the kids and I miss the teachers. And I really enjoyed being it. You miss the kids. You know, I taught 49. years, but I made a mistake.

I wanted a stay for 50 years. Yeah. So I put in my papers. I go home and I'm figuring out. Let me just check this. I thought you was a mad teacher. It was 49 fucking, it's 49 years. So I call up to school.

Can I, you know, they wouldn't let me fucking change it. No, no, that's, that's it. You're retired. out. If your grandfather was there, I get it, you know. Who's North Bergen's biggest rival? Hoboken. Go to Hoboken for a year.

Always. When I first moved to North Bergen, I needed a fucking cop to follow me around. Because we always beat North Bergen in basketball. Right. Always beat them. And you were the killer. And when I started hanging out in places and courts,

I used to be scared. I used to say, I'm not going to kick the shit out of me. Like cursing me and this and trying to hurt me. I said, hey, but guys, I live here now. The first time I'm a brewing. The first time I met Maddie Sobello,

he's always had a fedora on. He says, Barone. He says, your brother's John Barone? He says, you're coming to North Bergen, right next year? I said, yeah. He says, He's the one that made me get this.

Takes his hat off, bald head. He says, I'm bald because of your brother. I never lost a burger. Six times they played them six times they beat. I played against them. Six. I started as a sophomore. Six times.

Yeah. We beat him six times. You found the whole team out one time, remember? Oh, that's a record, too. I have 23 for, you know, it's not in the picture I gave you. I got to give you a different one. I had, they found me St. Joseph's Cross Street from Memorial. They found me 20.

I got to the line 23 times. Four. And I made 22. That's a high school record. Nobody even, I never even knew about it. You found that whole team out too. Huh? You filed that whole team out too.

They only had three guys. Nobody mentions that. It fouled the whole team. Was it the last few minutes, there was three guys. How cool was it to be a good at sports in high school? Like, were you getting all the girls? Like, was it cool being good at sports in high school? Because I wasn't.

I had some Mufeté's Italian girl whose mother was the best cook in Hoboken. I stayed with him for two years. It's all about the food. I love it. It's all about the food. I figured you'd miss. I figured you're running this. I miss it.

When I take my grandson when he was going to Lincoln School and I passed it everything, I wanted to walk in. And I did it a couple of times. I walked in, they said, what are you doing? Yeah, shut the... I'm here. I feel like walking around, all right? These people who don't know who you are, these new people working.

Hey, you! Yeah! I ran this place. Now I'm in charge. I'm in charge of, I'm in charge of in school for my last 20 years. I get the worst kids every day. I had 160 kids. We couldn't fit in the, you know, the big theater?

They have a theater there with like 60 chairs. We had to go in the auditorium. You should have seen that. A couple of times I went to visit, I'd give him something or whatever. Hilarious. He's up on the, he's up on the stage on the desk. And all these kids are like this. You know, he's watching them all.

And he, I don't know how he did it. I did it. Stop talking. How you do it. Stop this. Don't do that. I, I, I was a, I was a comedian. I was a motherfucker.

I was like, and it works. And then the kids knew, I liked you. When you were in my class. What about when the parents came to parents? If the kids don't like you, they won't listen to you. Parents night. Not today, forget it. What about when you told me parents' night,

a couple of parents came to you and said, you're their favorite teacher. Yeah. Yeah. Not English teacher, the detention teacher. How the hell is that? It's crazy because I go to all my daughter's events now, and she's in the seventh grade.

God bless. So now when I look at the fucking teachers that they have, down there. They're bad. It's not that they're bad. They're young. Like, we had teachers that were dusty. But you know, I...

Like, you could blow the dust off in the morning. I have a thing with that. I rather my kid be with a young teacher. You know why? Because they take it on the level as their first year. It's like your first year coaching. You do too much. All right?

It's the people teaching 49 years that are fucking doing... Take your book out. You know. But there's no, no. They're the best teachers. The first 10 years. They're young, but there's no bond. Okay.

When I went to school, I was there at 8.30, and you went home at 3. That's six and a half hours without the lunch, right? But you're still walking around at lunch. In those days, that was more than your parents saw you. That's 30 hours a week. You get home at 3. Let's say you play a sport. You get home at 5.

If both your parents are home, you're lucky. If one of them, you know, you ate dinner, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, you went to bed. Yeah. So you didn't see them. They became a part of your fabric. Now, I'm watching my daughter. My daughter goes to school and comes home. I ask her about the teachers.

Not a fucking word. Not a fucking word. Because these teachers aren't pushing through that barrier. They're not getting through that barrier. They just scratched the surface. Your generation of teachers, whether it was whatever you want to say about Mr. Kingwell,

that motherfucker made you do oral book reports. You make a kid doing oral book report today, he'll fucking die. He'll die, okay? And he would go to the middle of the book and ask you, what was the name of the janitor on the third floor when Penny went upstairs? And you're like, oh.

And you talk about how good you guys, like his era, the students will. like they're your kids. They never had a gym and they never had a lunchroom. You know what they were? They ate lunch in the hallway in front of my class

on a piece of wood coming out of the wall sitting on empty boxes every day. And being happy about it. And playing punchball in the hallway. Playing punchball. We did in the winter. the time you either shoveled snort McKinley or you did fucking America's

the presidential program. We have to do 10 pull-ups and 10 push-ups and there's always that chubby kid that can't do it. And you torture him and shitty. Yeah. No, fuck that. So, but now that's what I've been going to this school for three years. It's a great school, great curriculum.

But that personal... And I tell, like, I look at my daughter's friends. they're a bunch of fucking retards. Like I look at, you know, they make plans on Friday, Saturday the kid's mother isn't driving now. They're fucking retarded. I mean, the whole experience, and this is what I think.

I think when we grew up, we were all going through the same thing at home. Everybody had something going on at home. Everybody. Whose father was a bookie? Whose father was this? Whose father shot a guy in the back nine times? in self-defense, whose mother did this.

And even if it was known or it wasn't known, you were friends with kids through an emotional bond. Like, it was, my daughter don't have that. You brought your problems to them. You brought your problems to them. You said, what do you think? This is what I'm going through. Well, it happened to me.

It's, it's, you bonded with them, and they got you through a lot of shit. And I guess at the end, I mean, I can't imagine. I used to say to myself, what? What's his fucking guy do all summer, Mr. Brown? He swims in his yard. He plays basketball or whatever.

He's missing us as much as we miss him. We've been in his hair for 10 fucking months. He used to be good the first month. Remember him every year saying to me, eh, you know, I should retire. Then August 1st, he used to say to me, I got to get the fuck out of this house. You know, like, I don't care.

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like, that's, I think that the emotional thing with kids has cut off, and these kids need your... That's why they're blind. I was in L.A. and I look at these young kids come up to do stand-up and I go, these kids are fucking retarded. They're fucking retarded.

They're 40 years old. Usually eat them alive. Oh, you usually do. You just eat them alive. You just eat them alive. But the point is, that thing is missing now. And I see, bro, I see it with her. Like, she always asked me, how do, on the way home,

she goes, how did, how was he your teacher in the seventh grade? They don't, I don't think these kids, when they grow up, they're going to talk to their friends in the fifth grade or eighth grade. Not like we did. Now, I can't make a move without thinking of one of my friends or whatever. I can't move. You know? So it's just really weird how.

Teaching is changed. Mr. Barone was a fucking mind reader. Because I remember jerking off one time. Not in school. Not in school. Because we had Mr. Barone during the big Benny Hill thing, the beginning of Benny Hill.

So every day, me, Bishop, you know, people were saying that there was a tit on Benny Hill. They would show titties and shit. And one night I banged one out for like a Benny Hill thing. Right? I'm in there. My mom's not home. I'm banging this motherfucker out.

And that was not the first time. I came, right? And the next day, I'm in school acting all creepy and shit, not knowing what to do. And Mr. Barone's got this glue. And it's not Elma's glue. It's the glue that looks like Kump. And he's going like this one. And he goes, hey, Coco, what's this remind you of? I was like, how do you know? I think the Holbeau can help me there. Yeah, the whole book and really did. I went to school there. We had, I could write a book.

I could write a book. Have you read this book that's out, but I've been getting calls to read? What's that? Bob's gold. Menendez's gold. Gold bar, Bob. Oh, like the senator in the New Jersey.

Did you read it? I didn't read it, but I'll tell you. I got a message. Union City. I got a message. And how does a guy like that who had 10 gold bars in his closet and all this other money that they found in his bank and everything,

how does his son with the same fucking name run and win? Where are these people looking at? That's what gets me. Beautiful. I give some, you know, if my kids were in school, I worry about that. You know how hard that was? Yeah, it's just that. Ten million dollars.

You remember Musto was the mayor? It was worth his. He was like a legend. He must have done some good word for them. I mean, did people like him other than the... He don't get gold bars by doing bad work. Right, that's it's... But it's just really crazy.

That's the message I got. That's the exact message I got. Don't read that book. Don't read it. Don't read it because you're going to know a lot of the names. Yeah. And you don't want to see those names. So I ordered it today on Amazon.

I'll get it. I was going to go to... I went to the weed store yesterday. And it's right next to Barnes. and Noble, and I got to the weeds to, and I got excited on the way home my past bought. Fuck! So I had my wife just order it, and I'll get it this week.

I'm going to take a look in there. They said it's fucking... Should be interesting. I know Wally Lindsay's in there. Wally, by her. Wally's in there. He's in there. Turk.

Turk. Oh, Turk Jordan's in there. I heard he's still around. No. Turk Jordan. He collects, he takes change out of... Newspapers. Newspapers.

Cadillac is always fucking running all this. You know, that was another one of my jobs. They said to me, they said, Wally Lindsley is a new teacher in McKinley. Right. Now, they say, John, did you meet the new kitchen yet? I said, no, I didn't meet him. Where is he?

He said, in that last class. So I walk in, I'm talking with the guy introducing myself, who I am. He says, you're the best punchball player I ever saw. and stickball. He says, where did you see me do that? He says, I lived across the street from you in Holboken. He's a Hoboken.

He is. So he says to me, we got to talk in, had a good school year with him. He says, what are you doing this summer? So I said, nothing, why? I'm trying to get a job from North Bergen in the summer. Now I'm just, that's a long time ago. So he says, you want to work?

for me? He was the mayor. A wheeler. Yeah. He's the mayor of weevoking. He's the mayor of teaching. Right. So he says, Mayor Holbrook. You want to work for me? You want to work for me to summer? I said, sure. He says, I go to the town hall and we walk and I said, wow. He said, you said everything to me, but one thing. What do I do? He says, you see that guy over there with the wig on? So I said, yeah, what about? He said, he says, you, you, have to be with him every day, whatever he wants to do, he's head of recreation, he's the head of about four things. He says, just, if you come to me and say, you lost 10 votes, you're doing

a great job. He loses 10 boats for me every day. You know what he used to do? We're driving a we hawk, we hawk and truck. You know, he used to hang out? Yeah. In that, you know, when you're going and up to the East Boulevard. There was that recreation building there on, what was name of that street? Patterson Plank. Yeah, I know what you mean. That was his headquarters.

That's where he had all the courts. Right, looking down the Lincoln Tunnel. Where the basketball court was, you mentioned before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was his office. Oh, he brought a, he told him up. That was his hotel room. That was his stat, he did the craziest thing.

Listen. He did the craziest thing. I've ever heard. Ever. Ever. He told us in the 8th grade that if we had a winning record, he would get us late. Eight grade. And we kept bugging him. Bro, we had a winning record. I got you.

Bro, we had a winning record. I got you. I got you. He used to go like this. If somebody cut him off or somebody did something. He didn't want to drive with him. He used to have combination locks. Underneath. This is the truth. You did something to him.

If you, like, cut him off or you didn't let him go, he'd take a, throw it at the car. And dent the car or break a window and then argue with the guy. Like, he's right. He was fucking out there, that dude. What about when he told, he comes to me, he says, you came to me or somebody, said, you got to go empty all his machines. The newspaper machines. He owned every one.

He drives up. You put a quarter in. Yeah, yeah, you own. He drives up, he goes, here's the car. Take it. First of all, now, the cars like this. Right, it's crooked. Because all the-

drag, all the quarters in the trunk. Fucking amazing. You know what? It was like this, the car. Five-gallon drums. He had 20 of them in the trunk. They were all full of quarters. I was driving like this.

He says, Empty them all. He had a link of continental. He brought a naked woman. to 38 basketball, 38 street courts. The day school ended. And he goes, guys, she's in the backseat. I'll never forget how he rubbed his hands.

Yeah. It was like satanic, satanic. He was the original Epstein. This motherfucker was like, girl, guys, she's in the backseat waiting for you. And we all ran over there. We were a horny, eight-year-old, eight-grade kids. We get back that.

So, a woman with her top ripped, passed out. Fake tits. The tits were, fucking solid. She's like with a drill and we're like, nah, this ain't going to work. We got to go home and do homework. He's like, it's the last day of school, for Christ's sake.

We got to prepare for the eight professional days. We just tipped. There was a woman that was passed out. He took us to a six a game and didn't have tickets. Oh, yeah. I got a story. He don't need, no, you know. He says, this guy, let me tell you.

He says to me one time, you don't have to work today, go home. But you got to be here tonight. I said, for what? He was with taking kids and their parents to the Yankee game. So I said, oh, that's nice. I go home and come back. He says, I'm in that first bus with the kids. You're in the second bus with the parents.

I said, oh, no problem. Now, we drive away to Yankee Stadium. We pull up to the stadium. He says to me, now I'm behind. He said, I see him go like this to the guy. He's got the tickets. back. Now, the guy comes about in my, I don't know what you're talking about.

The guy said, you got the tickets. He didn't have any tickets. He says to, he says to the cop, they're going to arrest him now. And he says to the cop, you know, listen, I got to make a deal with this guy. The cop lets him go. He talks to the guy, he says,

you got all your equipment for the town for the, what was the big thing? where they have all the, where you, they keep their instruments, where they keep their, all their stuff for Radio City. Oh, like a warehouse? In a warehouse and we walk it. He said, I want the number of the guy who owns that warehouse.

We're fighting waiting. He gets the guy on the phone and he says, I want all your stuff out of our warehouse. So he explains what's going on. The guy says, put the cop on the thing. He bought all our tickets. So I said, how could you put me in that position? Yeah.

The guy back there's got the tickets. What do you expect me to do? What am I when you guys were going down to shore? I don't know if you could tell this story. You're going down to shore. And he pulls all in there. There was a woman there. He says, get in the car.

Remember that story? Every 15 minutes? Every... He said to... He says to the walk. He says, get in the car. We're going down the shore. Every 15 minutes, you'll get a fresh load.

There's four of us. You know, it's just funny. This is Turk Jordan. And then a cop. He embarrassed you. No, that guy, you just waved to him. I said, yeah, Turk Jordan. What do you do this time?

He said, he drove backwards. six blocks in Holboken in reverse. You know, to trouble that cause? What is New Jersey? Streets are like this. Cause like this. The New Jersey and the 80s

sounds like a fucking like the Warriors movie. Like what were the, like what is it about this place that like you feel like I've never met anyone who had any of these stories and you guys could spend hours. If I ever get it in my home.

This is Norberg, and we do Norberg. My whole broken group thing is... What do they do, kill each other? It was crazy, Lee, isn't? It was all fun. These guys were my teachers that they took us to basketball games and no tickets. On Christmas Day, the Nick Sixers, for two months, he promised us. He got tickets.

The day of, he told him to meet this at a bar by the garden. Again, Joe Barone, when in the fucking eighth grade? We went with our basketball. That's how fags we were. Oh, yeah, right. Me, Chucky, and Whitey were fucking fags. We get there, and he's like, I got no tickets. Take out your money.

We're like, what are you talking about? We gave you money. That was a while ago. The tickets went down. Like seven bucks. Eight bucks. I didn't give a fuck. He goes, get $5 and put it under these tickets and we'll get you in.

We did it all the time. But, God, you're a fucking, you work for a fucking city? down. Like, what the fuck? He was a lunatic. He was a fucking, then we went in and he couldn't find the seat. It sold out.

Sold out. Can't find a seat. He's just sitting. Go to the track with him. We used to go to the track with him. I can't even imagine. I can't even fucking imagine. I say, I don't want to go.

He said, you got to go. He said, I'm going. You're coming. And the best part is that you guys were like, the teachers were way better back then. Like, imagine of Mercy's teacher was doing this. would lose your mind. Our parents had no reason to ask.

Right. Our parents would not ask, and we... They didn't suspect. We had a generation that we would not come home and talk. No. We didn't come home and talk. I was school today, like fucking your mom with an apron on with fucking, you know, cookies.

You know, nobody did that. You walked in the house, you got a fucking ball amount of gut, and you ran the fuck out of that house. That you were never home. You were never home because God forbid you miss something. Right. God forbid you miss something. Because now you get goofed on for not being there.

What were you doing? You were too busy with your girlfriend. Oh, fucking bag. I'll never see that woman again. Yeah, because this is it. It was a different world. There was different... Because there was no phones like we got now.

You had to go. You didn't know what was going on. No. There was no Twitter. There was no IG. Something happened. Nobody was pulling up. you know what I'm saying?

We just went. Dude, your mom didn't know you got left back. No. You met that's wild. That's, that explains the whole thing. I didn't say a word.

Not a word. I did not want her involved in my day-to-day activities whatsoever because she didn't know that world. So why would I include her and anything to do with that shit? I gave up after Catholic school.

She made a fucking jerk out of me in Catholic school, you know, cursing of people and shit and fucking, no, I wasn't going for that. But your parents trusted the system. There was no teachers dating a 16-year-old man. There was no teachers fucking students. If anything, I used to always grab Ms. Brando's tits in the seventh grade. I love Patty Brando with all my heart. You know, and it's it was just a different fucking world for kids. I look at my daughter now and I'm sick to my stomach.

not because she's not a good kid because on Saturdays if she doesn't have practice or we take it to the mall yeah she's got a couple little retarded girlfriends but my daughter is North Bergen she's 13 going on like 16

her little girl don't know what she's talking about he's got a little bit of advantage huh sure you know you have to take them into deep waters from time to time if not they're going to be like the rest of these fucking kids they're you know they have nothing going on

well him with this with the detention in school. One time I had to get something from my house in Home Depot. So I said, come with me. I don't know what I'm doing. He don't know what he's doing either, but we went to Home Depot to get the stuff to do whatever I had to do in my house. So we're going up the aisle, he goes, oh, man,

here's my principal coming down the aisle. What was his name? Al something? Al Maitish. Right, he goes, cut over. George Jackson. George. I said, how are we going to come?

George Chetson. That's what we call. Hey, he looked like that. Next week, I'm going to see Wally Lindsay. He's coming to the show in Tampa. Hard Rock Casino. Wow. So, I'm going down that day earlier

so he could come to the club and eat with it. So we were. And that's going to fucking blow your mind. So I says to him. That's like having him in stereo. So I said, he's got a whole different farm, a whole broken stories. He got us in trouble.

Yeah. Three, four teachers. he set up a basketball game between the teachers and the kids. Now, we play the game, we're sweating on our ass off. He says, listen, I got permission. We're going to the spa.

You can take a shower, take your time, get something to ease, and then we'll come back to school. I said, did you get fucking permission to do this? He goes, yeah, I own that principal who was made. So now we're missing. We get back.

It was 2.30 from 12 o'clock. We took all that time. We walked in there. They had the superintendent. They had fish back there waiting for us. He had some pair of, you know what, to set that up. I figured they get mad, but they can't do nothing to me. Me and Marco are like this.

He was. I moved here in 1973. My mom had the bar in Union City way before, like in 58. And I went to Catholic school. I went to Sacred Heart and Carney. They threw me out, and I had to go to McKinley. And as soon as I got to McKinley, there was a thing like that October. I know if you guys remember, remember when the Mets played the faculty,

the North Bergen High School family? Yeah, yes. John Matlack and a bunch of guys came over. I played in that game. That was my first experience ever in a North Bergen event. Okay? I told Lee about this. I go to this game.

You know, nobody's smoking pot. Nobody's doing nothing. We're in the fucking sixth grade. On the way out of the auditorium, some guy yelled, that girl's a whore. There was just some girl standing there talking to another girl. And they go, that girl's a whore. She wants to get felt up.

And I never saw 50 kids surround this woman. and everybody was just grabbing the tits, grabbing her ass, she's crying, and I'm standing there going, well, after I grabbed the pussy and tits too, because I went in there. But when I stepped away, I'm like, these people are fucking animals. Like I lived in New York City. My godfather was in Harlem on the weekends.

This was unacceptable in so many ways. And then we walked home on the boulevard, like 80 fucking kids walked all the way down. You know, people who had to stop at Franklin. St. Cecilia, fucking McKinley in Kennedy's school. I was like, I'd never ever seen anything like that. There was hundreds of kids on that lawn

fucking grabbing that poor girl. I think she fucking moved to Wayne the next day of some shit. But that's how I knew. Like, I was like, I'm in a different fucking world here. And then going to McKinley, that liked you. Because if you went to McKinley, that came with Carmine Balzano.

So you knew what was growing up. going on there and you're like, what, why am I even trying? This guy could just smack the feature and I get a B, you know what I'm saying? Why? When I can fucking try. It was just, it was so surreal. And I understand where you're coming from, Lee. You're like, what the fuck?

Where were you guys raised? Bro, and Planet Rock. That's where we were raised. Go look at, because it's not when, listen, look at this. Before, when you came in, Joe Barone, you were talking about the 77 basketball team. The tallest guy was six-foot-six. Yeah. And they won the fucking Moses Malone. No. But they squeezed that out and won the states. And then a year later, the Bruins won the States at the Meadowlands. That was Habilich. Well, no, football. Football.

Football. And I'll never forget, looking at the size of those kids and who they had to play in Snyder. I'll never forget. They had to play against Walker Lee Ashley, who fucking and won a Monday night football game for Minneapolis. We covered a fumble. That was a linebacker. Big motherfucker. Big motherfucker. And North Bergen were these five-foot-nine

Italian midgets. Caposi. That sentence has never been set up. It was tough. Five-eight, five-nine Italian midgets built out of fucking brick and money-gut and meatballs and Italian bread and New Jersey pollution. What a runner.

What a-frey. And that's why I knew. There's something going on here that is not. And then, you know, us fucking having summer jobs where you had a duck when the cops drove by. You know, that that's unheard of. Who has to duck when cops go by? What are you talking about? The guy that dropped this off was like, listen, you're going to do this landscaping job on 463 field.

463 field had like, you know, where you put plants in, like those houses. We had to tear them apart. They were doing it with no permit. and they were paying us like $4.50 an hour. That was like gold in 1978. Like you had all those jobs. Like people just come to you. I knew who they were.

I'm not going to say a motherfucker thing. But they come to you. You want a summer job? Just go down there a couple days a week. What about the other days? Nah, do what you want. Like you were living in the surreal. Then it snows.

And then next thing you know, you're on a hill going this way, behind the police station. You know, fucking, it was just. just a fairy tale. And then McKinley, forget it. Fucking forget it. From the sixth, I did the sixth grade, two stints in the seventh grade, and the eighth grade. I was there for four years. Every one of those fucking years was insane. From a teacher getting beat up to having a teacher that's a mayor that gets

arrested for fucking murder. Fuck, I mean, you know, this happens to everybody. He was, he was, what was he doing with chickens? Nothing good. Oh. Who's he doing with chicken factory? He calls, he calls me one day. You want to be a chicken doctor?

You know, he was a pharmacist. Say, Barone said he wants to, he wants to go with you with the chicken factory. Okay. He was trying to get a chicken factory and steal it from this guy. Old guy, he owned it. He said, we'll get it for nothing.

You'd be my place. He said, all right. And then he went to, he was going to jail for that. Hey, he asked me one time, he says, you know anything about chickens? You want to be a chicken doctor? Everything's legal. FBI came to McKinney. I'm a pharmacist for people. I'm not a pharmacist for chickens.

Where's the other guy? He was with. They, they didn't squeal on me. The teachers, I said, watch them squeal on me. Who's the other teacher that, this guy was with? And I said, I'm fine. fucking dead. And they didn't know.

Oh, we don't know. We don't deal with him. He's different than us. Well, he came close to making it big. And I used to tell him, I want to do this. I want to do that. No, you know, you want to hold a chicken factory. We'll make billions.

What do we know about chickens? Nothing. What do you need to? Nothing. That was when Frank Purdue was like in his prime. He was in his prime. crime. Fucking crazy.

We had those crazy-ass teachers and shit. But nobody, you know, everybody was on the up and up, or at least. It doesn't sound like, what do you mean, the up and up? We consider it at the open-off.

You described like 84 crimes a person. I've never, dude, can you... It sounds like they might have. Oh, my God. Hutchin County, I want to write a book

about Hudson County. Yeah, everybody does. I'll probably get shot. Yeah, you'll get shot. The stuff that I know. It's just, I've had that idea now for about five years. I'm going to, I hope I hurt myself or I can't walk. And then you make it.

And I'll write it. And I'll write it. And it'll be all stuff like we talked about, the whole thing. And I'm not talking one town. I'm talking about Holboken. I'm talking about North Mergue. West New York. I'm also talking about Jersey City.

and people don't know about Jersey City, but I do. They're going to have to put you in like a different state. Yeah. West New York. Movie to Pennsylvania. What about West New York? Well, my father had the store. My father's an ex-con, you know.

That's why I got along with a little. So the people that knew me really knew me, you should tell their kids, his father's mafia. Your father had the fruit fit. Yeah. Yeah. I remember, he's a good guy. I want to pick a couple times.

He was bookmaking in the back. He was in the basement. With three phones. Ladies to come in the store, she said, Joe, Jesus, the oranges are four for a dollar. He said, take nine of them. What do I care?

The other day. He was worried about the booking. He wasn't worried about oranges. He was booking, and then the guy that had the hot dog stand on something. Oh, yeah. was booking. That was right there.

Well, we got by you on the side. Headed at the County Boulevard. That van was there every day. He sold two hot dogs a day. Two. You know, I said, give me three. I have to take three home. Give me two to eat here and three in a bag. So he does it. He gives me a bag.

I'm walking to my car. And he starts, I hear him screaming, he had a customer. He wrote all the numbers that the guy, I was playing on my bag. He says, oh, if that one of them would a hit, oh, thanks. Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Union City. A friend Lucio, a friend of the show, is one of the commissioners.

He said one of the captains was a fan and listened to the podcast. So I went down there. Now, I drove around. It's 38th in Park. So I kept driving around. You know, I couldn't hit the right street. But as I'm driving, I'm getting. fucking goosebumps. Because that was

the neighbor. Right around the corner from that fucking police station, when I was a kid, was the bank. It was right there. A little bar that was there, the Cuban bank. And if he went up two miles, that was Belcham's father. Felix. Felix, he's still there. I don't think he's taking numbers, but that whole circuitry. They called that street, 38th Street, his Cortina way.

That was the Cuban doctor. Lefty Cortina also went to North Bergen. Talk about, I'm going to hit you with a name from the past that I bumped into his brother. That was also a good basketball player in his own right. Brian Smythe. Oh, my God. Part of him.

Brian, you fucking remember. Lefty. You taught his kid, his brother, Maddie. Maddie, the hippie. They coached him, I think. Yeah. They coached him on JV. Yeah, yeah.

You walk into a feeder. that's who you're going to see, all North Bergen kids. They're all the stage hands. That generation, they all became stage hands. The McMahon brothers, the smites, a bunch of Irishmen. He wasn't a bad player. Yeah, no, he was a good player. I remember that's the guy who took me to Hudson County Park from Bernard King.

Yes, yes. He used to living around a house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Galaxy, I think, yeah. And he would go up there. We would hide in the bushes. So about one in the morning, and Bernard King would come up. But this all fucking North Berger, that you sit there and go,

what the fuck? So, I finally parked. He goes, come down that one block and you could park there. And when I parked, I just remember pulling the car up and turning it off and just going, wow, where the fuck have I? And I looked and I go, holy shit. And he goes, he goes, everything okay. I go, yeah, yeah.

And he's the captain of police. I go, we used to buy guns and bazookas when I was a kid in that house. He goes, what are you talking about? There was an Italian girl from North Bergen and her boyfriend was Colombian and he sold everything at that house. He sold everything. Bazookas, guns, bullets, coke, heroin, gold chains.

It was a fucking nightmare. And I don't even want to tell you who took me there. I will not tell you who dropped me off there one night. He's like, I know where I'm going to drop you off. I'll pick you up in an hour. And they dropped me off there. And I'm smoking pot with the chick and she's got a body suit on.

1984 she had a leopard body suit but the pussy was cut out you could see a little pubic hairs coming out and I'm smoking pot with her trying to focus I'm looking at the pubis and then she'd go she'd bring out coke and she'd go here you can do this I'm gonna go to the bedroom and freshen up she would come out 20 minutes later

still looking all fucked up she'd come out do coke give me more I realized she had a guy back there she was fucked she was a hooker too I mean this was fucking those bars in Union Cs though, they played baseball on a Sunday, 10 grand a game. That's how Stevie Baum messed his armor. My father's grocery store was, there was one in Broadway,

and there was one on Park Avenue, 60th Street, West New York. You know, where you go down and then the pools there. But his store, it could have been a big hit. Oh. Get it. As a television. Like the honeymoon is, it was better than the honeymoon. A lady would come in and he wanted to be bothered with ladies,

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None of time. We had to do the dirty work there, me. What about the time? He was by the grapes. He says, Joe, you want some grapes? He says, I'll give you the loose ones on the bottom, you know, that come off to. So I said, I don't want the loose ones. So he goes, open the door.

He takes the loose grapes. And as he throws them out of the door, ladies walk in. Lady walks in. She gets hit with the face. So now she's, no, my. father runs, he's hiding in the back of the store. The lady's going, Joe, Joe, Joe, I got stung by a bee. So my father, my father comes out, goes, holy shit, yeah, you did.

You know, those big grapes. He had something funny to say that every customer would come and say, Joe, can I have six slices of bologna? He said, oh, you're having company? Give me one pepper and one party. He says, I'm not even going to walk to the register. Just take him. It's not even worth the walk to the register or weigh him.

Then there was the other. Then there was a fat bookmaker. Ernie, remember him? Fat. North Bergen. North Oregon all the way up. Like towards. I don't remember that.

Ernie was a fat guy. They used to call him Shaker. He weighed 500 pounds. And he made lemonade, but he made the lemons from scratch. He would cut the lemons, squeeze him, put sugar and a little club soda. That's what the difference was. It was like, when you went up there, you were like, Ernie, let me get six lemonade.

And you can see a look on his face. Fuck. They take out his stubby little hands, and he looked like a bomb maker. He had fingers missing from cutting. his fingers from making the lemons. And then when he shake him, like he wiggled. You know what I'm saying? And we go, shake her.

There he go. My name is Ernie. But, you know, I think that. Is that hot dog place still there? Who? Ernie's not. Stand in Union City by the park. You know where I'm talking about before you go down?

I don't think he's there. No, he's there. The one on 30th Street is still there. That motherfucker is still there. That's up the block from my mother's. Right. He went from Bergen line to the other corner. Now he does beeches,

the stick with the kebab on it. Fucking delicious. You know when you go through the transfer station, you come out and there's a park there? What's name of that park over there? He usually taken that a hot dog place all the time. In fact, he was betting with... He come up from Hoboken and then...

What's that? What's that? He was always right by the entrance to that park. Okay. Because that guy had good things. dogs, too. Plus, I used to get there for nothing because he always owed daddy money. You'd collect on your dad dead at the hot-time place? I wish you guys could spend

a day there with us. In that store. You know, I caught the tail into that mentality. You know, like with you guys. Defino, who was the mayor of West New York. Was my father's lawyer. So now, when he becomes a little bit of, you know, when he becomes Mayor, he goes to my father's store and he says, Joe, I want half of what you're making,

and you could still do this. If not, you got to stop. Because they know, everybody knows we're friends. I'm your lawyer. My father said, get the fuck out of here. And he made the kid that delivered for him piss on one of his pizzas. He used to take a whole pizza. fold it in half and eat it like that.

Hold the ends and eat the whole thing. He was five. So my father said, easy. He had to go to, he had to spend, how old was that in jail? Which time? Huh? Which time? That's amazing. The pheno went to a, somebody died one time

in Hudson County, like a politician. And I remember we were the ushers at Veneeris. And the Finole came. we had to carry his chair. He brought his own chair. Oh, yeah. That motherfucker brought his own chair like a throne and shit.

I have no problem with him eating an entire pizza, but the fact that he had to fold it because he didn't want to waste time eating two slices at once. And you didn't cut it. What? You know when you go with that dish.

No, I know why. I know you cut things. You leave it along. So we can fold it. Oh, my God. You just eat the pizza. The slices is a whole thing. And then he eats.

And then he'll get moved. And then you do it. And then you'll get it. You just have the ends in his hands. Slices would get loose if you're cut. He used to eat all the way up to the ends. Did he eat the whole pizza that got peed on? Who?

Did he eat the pizza you guys peed on? All every crumb is gone. Just the end was left. I told you, he was five. He ate that like a slice. He just don't know what Pete has left. Joe Marco hit him with a camera in a fucking head. He was in North Bergen taking pictures with another guy.

When Marcos were in. And Joe Marco, we're taking stuff out of mailboxes. And Joe Marco says, who's that over there? That's Stefino. He crosses the street. He takes the camera that he had. And he cracks it over his head. And you see him on the floor bleeding.

He said, I'll get you. This will be in every newspaper. I don't know how he got out of that. And then I bought every paper there was the next day. It wasn't in. They must have had something on it. That was a different world, man. There's no proof.

There's no video going anywhere. They didn't put anything in the paper. No. You know, it's fucking craziness. What a different world we came. What a different fucking world. It's funny. When he was the disciplinarian,

I always run into guys that know him. One day, I just thought of this. I run into this guy, he says, you're a brother, he was the best. I said, why? He said, one day I was talking to a guy next to me. And he says, you guys like each other so much, hold hands. He made them whole hands for the whole eight hours.

You like each other so much, hold hands. You do that today, you get sued. Yeah. You used to say some wild shit. I could have got quiet about four times. Wild. But it wasn't a bad thing, but you can't do that. But what's the difference of the kid then?

that ran home and told his mother and took the fence, well, again, what was the difference between us being 13 or 12 and these kids today that they run right home? You know, God forbid, listen, I shouldn't have said this before, but it's true. I mean, I never heard nothing crazy in North Perrigan. But I'm sure in all the eight schools, there was a teacher sucking a tremendous dick. You know what I'm saying?

whether it was Horace Mann, Robert Fulton. There had to be a teacher sucking dick. This is North Pergin. You never heard about it. Why? Because no kid went home and told his father that some teachers suck my dick, let's call 911. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's a jockey thing.

But think about what I'm coming with here. We didn't go home. That's what I'm saying to you. Lee, we didn't go home and tell everything to our parents. Those kids didn't go home and say we had a whole hands for eight hours. Yeah. They didn't go home and tell their dad we had a hold of hands for eight hours. But not because you lived.

in that section. To me, the kids that came from the from the school around the school, they were the best kids. They were the best kids in the upper school. Because when I got to the high school, then I saw the different groups, different schools.

Yours was the best. The best. The kids were the best. You know what happened one time? I never got in trouble with the principal or any time I never had to go into the office and you knew the superintendent was going to come to talk to me. So they said, John, fishback's coming over.

You got to, he has to talk to you. He's pissed off. So I said, for what? I didn't know what she was talking about. We go in Tenero's office and there's a girl sitting there. And I don't even remember her being in my class, but she told her father that I pulled her hair. Okay, so now Fishback says to him,

where's your father, to the girl? She went to the bathroom. Now, the kid comes in, and when she told everybody what I did, now it was my turn. I said, my turn, nothing, I said, I didn't do anything to this girl. I don't know what she's talking about.

Now her father walks in. Don't you know, I don't know his name, but he's a McKinley kid. that I had. He goes, wait a minute. He didn't even, he said,

wait a minute. Mr. Barone? I said, yeah. He says to the, she's a fucking liar. She's a fucking liar because I know this guy.

He was my teacher and he wouldn't lie. I was like, I couldn't sleep that night. That's how happy I was. That was a good one. I never heard that. And I don't even remember this kid.

He grew up. He was the guy he made whole hands for eight hours. No. Remember when you first got to McKinley, we had a problem in North Pergum. Joe, you're going to remember this. Fontana. Oh.

We had two of them. One was a baseball guy, and one was a track guy. Yeah, Frantaner, I didn't. He had him in McKinley. He was a track coach. Really? At McKinley.

Now, which one? The baseball? We're talking about the baseball coach. Yeah, I know. When I was in the seventh grade, do you remember they were? Wasn't the greatest guy. No, he was a piece of shit.

And one of the reasons why he got a beating was because they were on a bus. He told two Spanish kids not to speak Spanish. Oh. And he said, if you speak Spanish again, I'm throwing you off a bus like in fucking Newark. And he threw the two kids off the bus in Newark. That didn't work out for him at all. Like, that just did not work out for him. No.

I think one of the parents called the school and the other guy just went up there and threw a beat on him. They would just let you go when a parent said. threw a beating on you, I think, because I wouldn't see those guys anymore. You know, those field trips. I never forget that day. I always cried. I said, I'm going to get fired, something I didn't do. I don't even know what this girl's talking about.

And he walks in and says that. I still remember like it was yesterday. The field trips were great because days did. So I just to show you how many people are innocent. and they get buried like that. What about the field trip? We said go, and then everybody had to be back on a bus by a certain time. So we started out with 35 kids on a bus.

So bus driver goes, how many of you got? She says, 18. That's how many kids were missing. We went to the zoo. That happened with his group. We went to the zoo. Yeah, we went to Bear Mountains. We went to Bay Mountains, and there's two buses.

I got one bus. That's crazy. The teachers got the other. bus. I said, you're ready? I'm all here. So she's, I didn't even count mine. Now, how many people are on a bus? Forty-four or something? I said, she comes out and she goes, John, 30 a missing. Yeah, I was like, they're up. Now, we look at the mountain. You can see this one big mountain. And they're fucking waving. You're climbing on the trees. It was unbelievable. That school. That was normal field trips that year.

I'll tell you. You were talking about Mr. Mustash before. Who? Mr. Maytash, mustache. And he had the George Head, George. George. Whatever.

Jetson. Jetson. Jetson. And the 8th grade. I gave him that name the whole school. Yeah, he gave him George Jetson. Remember he said, I wish I can know who gave me this name. Who said to me.

He told me. He lived on the next block from me. He was a sweet out of the guy. Sure enough, I slipped one day and I say Jetson. Hey, the Jetson's here. He heard me. He heard me. He says, you just said that to annoy me?

They're driving me crazy in school with that. If I ever found out who gave it to me. I gave it to him. If they made a movie, he definitely would have been... George Jackson. Small, short. You know he died? Spaceship.

He's on the next block, and I had to do something for him. And I think he's my principal, I did it. I threw something with, oh, he's going down the shore. Can I bring his garbage cans out? So I did it. That night, it snows like crazy, like the one we just had. He never comes home. He never comes back.

Those two garbage cans are standing in front of his eyes. I said, oh, I don't know what happened? I get dressed. I go to school. Do you hear what happened? No, what happened? Maytash is dead. I said, how did that happen?

He was shoveling, and they found him frozen holding the shovel. Holy Christmas. He took a heart attack while he was shoveling, and it happened to where. It's the leading cause. It snowed so much like we had. His body, they had a picture of it.

Cancer is one, shoveling is two. But he was a pound shovel. Thank God. He was on duty when Carmine beat up, Mr. Zatar. I'll never forget the look on his face. But the best was he warned us. Do not, he goes, there's a rumor going around that you guys are going to field day.

In the eighth grade, he goes, Coco, please don't go. Just don't go up there, mind your business. Fuck you, we're going to field day. We're playing, like, big-time basketball on those courts. And he fucking came from the hill. and he just stood there watching us. And I remember I saw him and I'm like,

I'm in trouble anyway. Let's finish the game. And he's like, when are you going to step over here? Come on, we're going back. He drove us back to McKinley. I think it was me, Louis Hernandez. He drove a couple. And we got suspended for maybe an hour. And then the thing about Mayters

that's unbelievable is when I, when a month or a year passed and somebody says to me, do you hear about Maitash? I said, no, what happened? I know he died, he froze all that shit. He said, no, no, no. He worked for the CIA, and he was a priest for four years

before he went to school and became a teacher. He was an interesting guy. He was. That sort of makes sense. I'm playing table tennis. The teacher had a table tennis in the gym. You did play it at lunchtime. So, Maytash, I'm playing him.

And Kingwell walks in. He says, you're getting tired, right? I go, no, I have the joy in this. He goes, give it to me. I want to get him. Because he is the boss Kingwell's waltz. So now, I said, what do you mean you want to get him? He says, I'm going to fucking put holes in his head when I play.

I'm good at this. So sure enough, God fucking. punished him because the opposite happens. This fucking guy, they're hitting him in the face, Kingwell. One almost went in his mouth. And after I get done, I said, Mr. Matis, can I talk to you for a minute?

Because, yeah, I said, I'm shocked. Because Kingwell was a decent athlete when he was in school. I said, how did you beat him like that? That's all you do when you're a priest on your spare time. You play table tennis. He got great at it. He was slamming it at him.

Fuck, man, I didn't know. Who are Mr. Maytash? Poor Mr. Maytash. Died out there, frozen in depth. With a McKinley school shirt on, you know what? Poor bastard. What do you got going on now, Mr. Brown? What's that?

What do you guys? Are you still involved with different basketball things? I know, I'm with the kids, and I, I, my, my, My granddaughter is on the girls team. Kick an ass, right. And they lost today, they got locked out of the playoffs. But I wish I could say something, but I can't.

Okay. That's your focus, though, now with the rank. Mr. Barron, we are still being recorded. Worst coach ever. Okay. Pick that up, did they? Joe, what are you up to these days? Eh.

The pharmacy's done? Pharmacy's done. I went to, I went from there. to corporate Merk Medco, and should have did that from the start. You know, 401K, call out whatever you want. I was working seven days a week. That's another sitcom when he had this.

The pharmacy. All forget that. That's three more episodes of this. He's got boys that work for him. And I said, I'm giving, and I'm helping out in the store. I took care of the register. So I said, Joe,

Where are these fucking guys? 45 minutes. They only had to go two blocks. The kid comes back and he got a haircut. They took a big. Another kid comes in. For years, though, you know, I worked in Charles Pharmacy. In North Berger.

You know, down from McKinley, right across from Collins Diner, there was a pharmacy there, Charles Pharmacy. For years, I worked in there. There's another sitcom. After Hoboken? After Hoboken? After Hoboken? After Hoboken? After. After. You talked to any?

from your... Nobody. You know that famous... I was talking to you, I thought about something. Frank a little bit. Who? Frank a little bit. Frank, I should. Joan.

Who's the Italian singer? Jimmy Roselli. You ever hear of Jimmy Roselli? Hoboken. I'm working the register in his store, and he's doing what he's got to do. And Jimmy Rosili, I know him. He's Italian.

He has a thing with Frank Sinatra. Right, that's why he could. Sanantra. He sold him off. Right, because he wouldn't sing for his mother. And they used to tell him. Frank, put the fucking close the trunk.

You're embarrassing us. Rizelli sold him out of the trunk. If you're from Hobo, can you know who Jimmy Roselli is? Sinatra's mother loved the way he sang the dialect, Neapolitan dialect. And Sinatra asked the singer her birthday,

and he said no. Now, Joe is working. Look, he said. was still alive. To myself, I say, Jimmy Rosalie, looks like Jimmy Rosalie. So he goes,

give Joey the pill thing. Hurry up. One of them things he says. Hurry up. I'll be waiting outside. So I'm waiting. I figure he's just been a bad mood. Jimmy Roselli walks in.

He says, he got my, he goes, no, I didn't do it yet. He don't know who Jimmy Roselle. I don't know who this guy is. He was getting fresh Hey kid And he was a mean fuck He says hey kid

Don't you know who I am So I'm going like this to Joey He don't know He ain't picking it up So sure enough I didn't want to lose him as a customer So he says Hey kid I'm the famous Jimmy Roselli

The singer You don't know that He's always looks at him He says, I'll tell you what I'm going to do for you. You sing me a song, and I'll do your prescription. He trusts. He made $400 worth it breaking things. I thought he was going to have a stroke.

He said, Joey, that's fucking trivia. His wig was, like, crooked. You should have seen the condition this guy went in. He went and took a fit. He didn't know him. I said, tell you what? Tell you what? You sing a song, and I'll do your prescription.

I didn't sing for Sinatra. He went to a whole thing. I said, holy Christmas, what happened here? How did this go sideways? His fault. I, I, when he left, I said, fucking Joey, that's Jimmy Roselli. How do you not know?

I don't know who to, I don't know, I don't know shit about this guy. Toopay, I said. They were going to make a move, Travolta. Yeah. I was auditioning, me and Billy Godell. And at the end, he pulled it out for a fucking cosmetology movie. What's those movies?

Scientology. You don't love him. You don't love him anymore. Same thing. You know, Sadd, who died. Sal Roselli? No, Sal from Norberg. He loved who?

He lived in... He loved Jimmy Roselli more. He saw him. every other month, wherever he's singing. He was Atlantic City a lot. We became big friends after that. We're going to wrap it up here, Mr. Ball. You know why? Right. And have card games up there.

I heard he had card games up in that house, Rizzelli. Big time card games. Joe. What's up? I'm going to wrap this up. Hey, you know who I saw in Colorado? Oh, Chris Marron. Oh, yeah. Real quick, my son went to UMass. Chris is a teacher at UMass.

Wow. Teachers that like, you know, plants, natural healing, you know. He was always a hit. Eat a clove of garlic. Yeah, he was weird. Instead of taking your blood pressure pill. You know, we were opposites. You know, I was medication.

He was, you know, eat this or that. plans. Yeah. I remember he went to meet George Berkel. I was in George and we went. I haven't seen George or heard from him in many years. He started with Danny in a back court. He was better than him. That's all right.

It happens, brother. I'm happy. I like your fucking sneakers, Mr. Borough. Those are good sneakers. All right. Thank you for coming on, Mr. Brown. I appreciate it. I enjoy it.

The people are going to love it. Joe Barone. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for, I saw you at one of your shows, remember?

That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I came to, I can make the last one. I was, uh, I got five grandchildren too now.

How many kids? Two. That's all you need. Lee, how you doing, Cocksucker? I'm doing great, buddy.

I'm going to be at the Saratoga Comedy Works this weekend, the 21st. Who asked you? Nobody even fucking asked you. Ha ha ha. No, I'm happy at the Saturday.

I got nothing this week. I got nothing till the fifth in Tampa and the 16th and 14th in Foxwoods. Foxwoods Casino. And that's it. That's all we got this week. Yeah, we got a birthday. I want to wish Dario, happy birthday. And Ralphie Mae, a happy that, uh, a happy, uh, that's his birthday.

Fuck yeah. 60, 63. God bless you. Who gives a fuck? We're just lucky. We're from North Bergen, baby. We got that pollution in our lungs. I'll see you, Savage's next week.

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