Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #221 | UNCLE JOEY’S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: December 15, 2022

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Check one, two. Welcome to Uncle Joey's joint. Look who it is, you bad motherfuckers. It's your Uncle Joey. On Thursday, the 15th of motherfucking December, it's the halfway. It's over. You got nine more shoplifting days. You got 10 days to Christmas. You got about 15, 16 days till the year is over, and that's it, motherfuckers. I am excited. 2023 is going to be my fucking breakout year. I've been sitting on my hands for fucking two years. Now I got to change stuff around shit like that, but no, I'm not planning on that.

I got the book coming out. I got no movies. I got nothing. I just got my family. I got Mike. I got Lee and I got my friends. Everything is beautiful. Great fucking week this week. Not really great. I had to go to a fucking wake. No, whenever you got to go to a wake, it's not really a great week. You got one Saturday? Yeah, this is a wake season in Jersey. You watch the Sopranos, they're at wakes every fucking episode. You can't go to all of them. You have to pick a wake. That one's in fucking an hour away. They're not going to see me. I'll send flowers.

Every week, somebody's dying. Somebody's sister. And I'm the type of guy, listen, if it's immediate family, I'll go. If I grew up with you or something, if I know you, but I'm not going to go to your sister's cousin. I can't. I'm not even supposed to listen. I get creeped out in those fucking places. That's what I was talking about. That's why I got to tell you about this yesterday. Because I usually go to a wake. I send flowers first and then I go to the wake and I sit in the back. And I watch the family and I watch all the stuff they put up, like the pictures of the family. And yeah, they have videos. I sit there. I don't want to be, I'm not there to fucking ruffle any feathers.

I'm just there to observe and to be supportive. You know, so I gave it about, you know, you give it a couple minutes and then you go up, you say in prayer. Dog saying a prayer by the body used to creep me to fuck out. I would just close my eyes and whatever. And then you go up, you shake the family's hand, you talk to them, you sit with them and they got a lot of people to talk to. And you don't make a big scene and you fucking slip out of there. You know, if they're immediate family, you got to hang till the end. And it's great because like I forgot what it was to go to a fucking wake, you know, since I've been back yet. I went to my sister-in-law's wake, one of my best buddies died. I didn't make it to that wake.

It was in the heart of COVID. I didn't want to mix formaldehyde with fucking COVID. I don't know if you guys even know what I'm going to get into. But yesterday was different because he was, he's a dear friend of mine, his mother passed. And he's been nothing, nothing of supportive of me since I moved back here. He's great with my daughter. He taught my daughter how to play baseball. He goes to a fucking games and he shuts his mouth and, you know, he's just a great guy. So when I found out his mom died, I know his mom came to my, to Mercy's fucking community. Like he went down there, picked her up and brought her to the party, you know, and so I was like, you know, let me go up there.

I just made a day of it. I worked out. I did what I had to do around here. And I shot up there. The wake was in North Bergen at my buddy, Venere's Funeral Parlor. And I stopped at my favorite restaurant, Rudy's first. I had a meeting up there first. So I was going to go from the meeting straight to the fucking wake at three o'clock. The wake started at three. I was going to walk in at 301 and be in the car by four. That was the plan because I would drive back with traffic. Route three, the whole fucking thing. So I got to this meeting. We had a cup of coffee. And that was it. We talked about whatever we had to talk to. I signed two contracts.

He came over from the city. I said, I'll meet you halfway in Fort Lee. And I got in the car and I had like, maybe it was like 215. I probably had 45 minutes to spare. I said, you know what, let me go to Rudy's. I walk in the fucking Rudy's. It's packed because it's the Croatia was playing Argentina. And the soccer thing, I had to sit in the fucking back there. I got nice little Rhode Island fucking clam chowder. They make it the best. And I got a half water, a calamari. That's it. No fucking entrant. I'm telling you, I'm going on this fucking superb diet. So I finish up there. I see some guys I know on the way out of Rudy's.

And I drive through my hometown and holy fuck, holy fuck. I don't know what the fuck happened up there because whenever I go north, I don't go through my hometown because of the goddamn traffic. The traffic is that you just want to fuck LA traffic. Listen, when I tell you fuck LA traffic, Hudson County traffic is on an all time fucking horror show. Bergen Line, if you go to Edgewater Road, if you go to Kennedy Boulevard, it's unbearable. So, you know, it takes me fuck. I mean, I could get from Rudy's to Venere's in 12 fucking minutes, 10 minutes, you know, took me 30 fucking minutes. If I wasn't behind a bus, if I wasn't behind a double parked car, a fucking Puerto Rican bus, they got those Spanish buses on Union City where they fucking stop for a dollar. The buses too, but the immigrants take those for a dollar and get out. That motherfucker stops everywhere. They don't even have bus stops, so they could just stop anywhere. You got to pay a tax.

I went down Bergen Line for about fucking 10 minutes and then I had a hooker right and get the fuck off Bergen Line. I'm like, enough. This is, this is enough to make you want to fucking crash the car. Then I got on Kennedy Boulevard and that was worse to a degree. I moved around and fucking, if you, I'm telling you, everybody's making a left turn and you're behind them and you're like, I got it. And now you got to wait for, there's a thousand cars coming the other way. So you ain't getting out of that fucking left hand lane. So I get to the fucking funeral, Paul. I parked my car. I didn't dress up in a black suit. Forget it. I'm not putting the suit on for a long drive. That'll, that'll fucking destroy me.

So I fucking just wore like a nice black sweater. I busted out a brand new pair of fucking Adidas. I'm not wearing those things no more because my feet fucking stink to high heavens. These Nikes are a lot better on my feet. Yesterday my feet smelled so bad last night. I had to spray Lysol downstairs because I could smell it. I finally go, I can't, I can't walk around with dirty feet. I went and took a shower like fucking 915. I was like, I can't, can't have that. I soaked my feet. I went over, I walked into that fucking funeral, Paul, a man. Now, Venere funeral, Venere is one of my tightest friends in the world. I love Anthony.

Anthony's busy now. You know, he's got politics and he's the county commissioner. I don't see him as much as I do. We're older, you know, so it's like we talk on the phone once a week or twice, twice a week. And I see him every three months. We go to dinner and I haven't seen him in like two months. Last time I saw him was at El Nido when I went to dinner with Vic and he was there with a couple of my other friends. I walked right past him. I didn't even know. There was three guys standing and I just walked right past him and he goes, Coco. I didn't even recognize, I mean, we're getting old guys and he was talking to the mayor. I just hugged the fucking mayor. I didn't even know what to do. I just hugged the fucking mayor real tight. I go, you didn't invite me to your wedding? Shit. He didn't even know it. I love the fuck. I love Mayor Sacco.

He's a good fucking dude. But then I talked to Anthony for a minute. He goes, come see me. Now I had grown up. Guys, you know, I walked through that lobby and it's like deja vu, 1980. It's 2022, 23 in 10 days, 15 days. I've been walking into Venere's since 1978, since I was 13 years old. I've been walking into Venere's either for a week or because he was my friend, you know. And when I was talking to Anthony before I turned around, I'm like, man, this place has got smaller. No, I got bigger. Like when I was a kid, I just was always in there. So I said hello to Anthony. I walked in. I saw the family. I saw Eddie and I just sat down. I didn't say nothing to anybody. There was maybe 40 people in there. I just sat there and looked around the room.

I looked at the pictures. I looked at the fuck. They had no video player. They just had the family. I'm looking at, and all of a sudden people started coming in. And it was like one after the other, all the kids that were maybe two years older than me that I knew well, that I had grown up around. My friend, Brian DeGromi, walked in fucking. I love that dude. I don't know how many dinners I had in this fucking house growing up with his brother, Mike and his brother, Teddy. And it was just great to see him. He came right over, sat next to me and started bullshitting. I'm like, where the fuck do you live? And then two guys came in. There was two other guys just standing there, you know, and I looked at them. I didn't recognize them.

And finally the guy goes, didn't you go to five-star basketball camp with us? I'm like, who the fuck are you? And he goes, I play for Snyder, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We were talking about five-star basketball camp are loosening me up. And then at that point Eddie came over, you know, I gave him a hug and he thanked me for coming. You know, his family was busy with other people because listen, awake works this way. This is the way wakes used to work. They used to be a two-day wake. The first day is for family. The second day is for friends. Since COVID hit, they've cut wake hours in half.

If you get three hours for a fucking wake now, it's a lot. So the earlier people, like the three, the only reason why I went up early was because fucking, uh, I had to be back for wrestling practice and the traffic, you know, I just wanted to get it out of the way. I wanted to go pay my respects and see him. I would have gone at night if it was a Wednesday night. Oh shit. I would have gone at night because I would have gone to fucking the burger place in North Bergen. There's a place in North Bergen, Hudson burgers. I had nothing but good things about them. They put a picture of a hamburger.

Some of you ever see a picture of something like God damn, it was God damn. Somebody told me they use tremendous meat. The girl's name is Vienna bellow. So, you know, I follow on Facebook and I was like, fuck it. I'll go to the wake and then stop and get a burger at Hudson burgers. See Vienna. I haven't seen her in years. Say hello. But now I had to go in the daytime. So, you know, I walked up by fucking talk to a few people. And then people just started coming in.

Gamio, the fire department, you know, it's one of the guys from the fire department I had grown up with. I came over and gave him a big hug. Gamio, when I saw him, I gave him the biggest hug and I go, bro, tell these motherfuckers how we were the first picks of McKinley. Because we all went to McKinley down there, that fucking school across New York hotel was me. Gamio, the Cortina brothers, one's a doctor and one's a fucking teacher at Union Hill. And the beast, Alex Carvajal, La Heteria. That's what they used to call him in Spanish. That motherfucker was a beast in two languages, La Heteria and the beast.

So I'm talking to all these dudes and there's a minute where I'm just sitting there guys and all of a sudden it's like, it's like I smoke the fucking joint. Like when you first smoke a joint, when you're a kid and you sit there mummified and then your brain opens up and you get all these fucking weird thoughts about playing on stage or Led Zeppelin. And you know, you get all these, when you were a kid you smoked pot. That's what happened to me yesterday when I was smoking pot. It's like the fucking valve opened up and all the memories I had in from that place just started popping the fuck up. You know, when you walk into a funeral parlor, you could smell the flowers.

You smell the flowers. It's like a mixed formaldehyde flowers. But when you go away from it, like I was thinking of a story in 1993 when I came back, Anthony had a gym downstairs, a fucking beautiful gym, pulleys and benches and Olympic weights. You know, I don't know who was using it and he told me I go, can I use it? And I was broke. You know, I was a starving comic. And I would come over from the city some nights and just shoot in there like at seven.

And you know, my friend Regal would pick me up at 9.30. He'd go do comedy somewhere. So I would work out for like 45 minutes and take a bus to Clipside. The problem was that I would lift weights next to the room where they did the embalmings. And the fucking formaldehyde, you would smell it. You would smell the formaldehyde as you were working out. So you're in there, you know, breathing, doing sit-ups, jumping jacks and shit. But at the time I was outside, I was all fucked up.

I don't know if you motherfuckers have ever smoked a joint with formaldehyde in it. It'll fuck you up for three fucking days. You'll hear shit you've never heard before. So I'm sitting there and I'm like thinking about how many, I only did lift down there like three times because after the third time I'm like, I can't take this shit. This formaldehyde gives you a fucking headache and a half. And I thought about cleaning the bathrooms there. I thought about parking people's cars there as a kid.

I thought about fucking, you know, cleaning the, we used to clean the sink and the general manager at the time was a pickler about hair. Like if there was like a little tiny hair, he'd call you in there. Come here, look at that. Do you see that hair? And I'm like, I don't see nothing. God, leave me the fuck alone. He was just complaining about a little hair.

I used to have to open the door for people, put the flowers in the flower car. I mean, I did. And here's the fucking weird thing, guys, that when I was a kid, listen, when I fucking saw my dad in a casket, only Cuban people do that shit. They take a picture of somebody dead in a fucking casket. That is the creepiest fucking thing in the world. When I was a young kid, I saw those pictures of my dad in a fucking casket and I was like, I'm not dealing with that shit.

I'm never dealing with that shit. And then the Cuban religion has a lot of fucking spiritual things like spiritual things where there's one part of religion where they summon spirits and they drink fucking rum and the spirit talks to you in African. I did it a few times. It creeped me to fuck out. It wasn't for me, but I was young and I wasn't paying the rent. So I had to go for a ride.

You know what I'm saying? There was no babysitter available. So, yeah, that was my ride, my mom. So, you know, it wasn't for me. And then I still remember my mother's weight, guys. She was in the casket and there was a couple of nights. So I'm like, she's my mom. I ain't going over there.

Like, I'm not fucking going over. Like the night that I came in and heard Zariah fucking, she was doing bumps and telling how she was going to take care of me. I was 30 feet away from her, guys. I didn't want to be close to that body. It took me like two days to get close to my mother's body. She's your mother and on top of that, I was scared of ghosts and creepy things. I was, I'm telling you guys, I've always heard things and saw spirits and shit.

When I was a kid, I saw a guy with a fucking cape. I wasn't high. I was like fucking six in my backyard. I told my mother there's a guy out there flying around like a bat. You know, I was watching too many episodes of the months. I don't know what the fuck happened to me. But I, you know, just fucking didn't like that world. After my mother died, this is when I really got tied.

I knew Anthony like two years before my mother died. But after my mother died, I got to meet, you know, I got to help Anthony and he knew my mother had this. He would help me out from time to time. I was in the CIE work study program. A lot of people don't know that shit. A lot of people don't even know. I don't even think that exists anymore. The CIE work study program.

You go to school at 730 in the morning and you basically stayed until 1130. It's like five classes. Jim, CIE, something else. CIE counts for 15 credits. You could get into the CIE work study program when you're a sophomore year. I got it in the middle of my sophomore year. The Balzanos got me a job. Pete, political Pete was taking a different job.

So political Pete wanted me to take the job so I could fucking keep the stealing up. Because he knew once he quit that they would know how much plywood and lumber he was taking. So he's like, you got to keep it up. I'll give you some accounts. Just give me a taste. Okay. So I knew all these motherfuckers. In fact, there was a cemetery across the street where my mother's buried.

You know how many times I went up and down that fucking block and I would never walk on the cemetery side. I would always walk across the street from the cemetery and I would make sure I was looking up. I would never even look at the cemetery. That's how much of a pussy I am when it comes to fucking spooks and goblins and all that shit. I still sleep with a night of light on. There's got to be a little light in my fucking room. All these people, I lie turning black. I put shields on.

I don't want to see no fucking shields because if I'm getting choked, I can't see you in the middle of fucking night. Dog, I was around with Rick Ramirez. That motherfucker was breaking into your house and choking you and taking your eyeballs and shit. He ain't doing that shit to me, dog. Remember that company that sponsored me for a while? They used to send those sleep lens. I did it for like a month and I'm like, I don't know. I don't feel uncomfortable.

I kept having to pull the fucking Zorro mask up with the sleep apnea mask or it wasn't for me. So when I started, when I took the CIA work study program, I had to render lumber job. When render lumber fired me, I had no other choice. And then I used to see Anthony there at the CIA work study program because he had other young kids in the program. So I just told him, dog, you got to sign me up. So he would sign you in that you worked. You got to work maybe four days a week. That's the requirement.

Maybe three days part time from 12 to five. And I still remember like telling Anthony in the beginning, listen, I don't mind cleaning bathrooms. I don't mind vacuuming off. There's a lot of vacuuming that a lot of vacuuming offices scrubbing walls. I'll do anything. Just don't, you know, put me around the bodies. And he's like, sure, but he probably knew when the back of his head,

the evolution of the funeral business that the more you're around, you got to get closer to the fucking body. You know, the bodies are there. You got to adjust chairs. So there were nights where we were putting our chairs and stuff. The body's already being laid out. So little by little, I started taking peeks at the body. You know what I'm saying?

And I would like catch myself and I would run the fuck out of there. Like I can't deal with this shit. And then finally like one night, he's like, hey, man, we got to go pick up a body. And we went, yeah, I worked for him. What am I going to do? We had to pick the body up at JFK Airport because people from this area moved to Florida. They die and then they come back to fucking, you know, when they die, they want to be buried back up here with their loved ones.

I don't know how many fucking days we went to all those airports. Newark, Kennedy, and he had me, Glenn Conte on the roster. He probably had Sharples who's still there. Jimmy Labrano. He had all of us, man. He, you know, this was like the perfect fucking job. It was part time. He would let me work nights sometimes to eight o'clock at night.

But that job, having that job overcome my fear to being around fucking bodies. Even when I go to the cemetery, I would go in the back door of the cemetery, like not a door, like a back fence, because it was a shorter distance to my mother. I would never take the, because I didn't want to be caught the fucking day. That's how now I walk through the fucking cemetery. And it's because of Anthony because of picking up and being around, you know, dead bodies, you know, but the fucking clinker was Michael Jackson was playing at the metal ends. 1985, the victory talk.

Anthony had four tickets. He was gracious enough to take me at that time. Anthony was my, you know, I was down and out guys and he would take care of me. I slept on his pool table. You know, he was a great friend. He still is a great friend. I'm lucky to fucking have him, but we were going to fucking Michael Jackson and we were in a rush to get to the metal ends. And we had to pick up a body in Kennedy Airport in the hearse and we came back and I ran in first because I had to get on the phone.

Somebody had paged me. I ran in in the garage door open and then they have rollers and you just one person could do it really just pull the body off and the wheels come down automatically. And then by mistake, when he pulled the reel down, the body was rolling towards me and I didn't even know it. And when I turned the body hit me and the guys had a, you know, thing on it, but I saw like from the impact that hit me, his little mouth opened up. Guys, I wanted to fucking die right there. Die. That don't happen to most people. Yeah.

And I was like, that's it. My funeral fucking parlor days are coming to an end. But that, that right there, that's something that would have fucking killed me when I was, you know, three years before that, four years before that. So at that time it was, uh, it was, it worked, but I'm sitting there daydreaming about all this shit. Like I'm like, and people like, hi, how are you? And I'm like, hold on one second. Let me finish my fucking daydream because it was tremendous at all. You know, it's like a fucking well of information that came in.

And I'm like, wow. Did you go to the concert after that? That day? Oh yeah. We went to the Michael Jackson concert. Like we owned that motherfucker. The Jackson's were there for eight nights. Then there was a break for two days.

Then Bruce Springsteen was coming in for nine nights. This was, uh, yeah, July of 84. That's how back we go. You know, so it was, uh, it was great just to open up my mind to that. I hadn't thought about that in years. All the fucking hustling and just being in that place. It was one of the best jobs I ever had. It taught me a lot.

It taught me detail. That job taught me how to detail. People don't want to come in. That's why that dude was so picky about the hairs and shit. People paying for a funeral and he did guys. I've never met anybody. I had a bad experience there. As a matter of fact, I got my little fucking tub of candy and shit.

Yeah. Venere Funeral Home, North Perg, New Jersey. My brother, he gave me in 93. Every year he gives something. Like when I went up there yesterday, I brought some pens back. I brought some, I gave my daughter a pen this morning to take to school. Give this to your teacher just in case. You know, I, uh, I always use his calendars.

For years, I would only use his calendar. His calendar was my comedy calendar. The Venere Funeral Park. I asked him, yes, you got a calendar for me. He gave me that. But, uh, it's, it's fucking crazy. He gave me a bag. You know, when you, at the end of the funeral,

you have all these mask cards and stuff and you put them in a bag. Well, Venere made a Venere Funeral Home bag. And I didn't, you know, I just, he gave me to me one day and I didn't think about it. Then I got a job in the city and I'm like, fuck it. And I would get on the train with that little bag and people look at me and go, like people would get grossed out by me having a little Funeral Apollo bag. It said, Venere Funeral Apollo. But the highlight yesterday was I never mentioned this dude's name to you guys

because I don't want to confuse anybody. When I grew up, I grew up with the Balzanos and this is the highlight yesterday. And, uh, and it happened as I was walking out, I went to see Anthony. I said goodbye, gave him a big hug. I took a picture of one of his employees. I saw my buddy Sharples, who I love dearly. And I went outside and when I was outside, somebody was like, Coco, is that you? And I'm like, yeah, he goes, you don't remember me.

I go, I fuck remember you. He goes, you know, man, he goes, uh, I mean, me and this guy were not tight at all. As a matter of fact, I know for a fact as a kid, he was not fond of me. He was a straight up guy. You know, I forgot to ask him what he ended up doing. But his father used to work at render lumber with me. He didn't work for render lumber. And this is why, you know, I won't mention his name because his father was the dude who bought coins.

He bought coins and rings in 1979 and 80. If you guys check it out for yourself, Google it, the price of gold skyrocketed to like 800 ounce. And all these places started popping up like little play. You know, we buy gold chains. He had a little, like a little fucking thing at the hardware store. And I would go in there every day and I was polite to him, you know, for the sake of the story. His name was Mr. B. I always told you guys between the ages of 16 and 19, I had this creepy fucking other life.

Once I moved uptown, that creepy downtown life went away. You know, when my mother died, when I turned 16, 17, all those years, I was with Mike Denny and he was doing some creepy shit. And I couldn't tell my friends what he was doing. He's doing time now in North Carolina. It doesn't matter. And we were doing some creepy shit. And I just had, you know, I had my regular high school friends, but they had to be in an 11. I had no fucking curfew. So I would do little side jobs with these other guys.

You know, they were just teaching me the ropes. And I had Mike Denny, I had this guy Pat, and I had this guy Mr. B. Mr. B was the most decent out of all. Mr. B belonged to a crime family. He never told me that, but I knew by talking to him and talking to other people. He was very low key, had a shitty fucking car. He would just go in there every day and buy fucking coins. That was his gig as a mafia dude.

He just bought coins. He had some money. He had a construction company, too, on the side. So we became friends and he told me if you ever have coins or anything, bring them by. It was perfect because at that time I was beginning my journey into the low life isms of burglaries and shit. And I could just bring him shit. He wouldn't make me do paperwork and he wouldn't say nothing to me. You know, he never judged me, never asked. He bought me lunches across the street. There was like a little place on Tully Avenue.

He would buy me lunch and he would buy me like little bagels and shit like that. Oh, I know what he would always buy me. Ham and egg on a fucking Kaiser roll. Tremendous. So, uh, and then he started giving me little fucking jobs, like cool jobs, like some of them were clinic kinky. But he's the guy that used to make me sweep the roof. You know, like sweep the roof, $15, just an hour, just sleep. I'm fucking 17 years old, $15 an hour at that time. I blow you for it was for 15 hours, fucking minimum wage.

This guy's giving me $15 an hour for five hours. He would make me like if there's this construction company built a wall. I don't know why if there were a unit or not. I don't know if he was just trying to help me out. He was going picking you up at five. I want you to sit by the wall between six and nine. I don't care what you do, bring a friend to sit with you. I need you by that fucking wall.

And I would just sit by the fucking wall with this guy. And then he taught me about like he, he was one of the many guys that would always sell hot shit. Like he had blow dryers and fucking, you know, bubble bath. I mean, when he came in with a case of Mr. Bubble one day, you guys don't even remember Mr. I bought like fucking 10 of those things. I love Mr. Bubbles. I gave him away for Christmas presents and shit. This guy would bring his shit all the time to the hardware store.

But I, you know, I got to know him and he told me once he goes, you know, my sons aren't crazy, but I got to know they're a little older, a little more strict. And he just helped me out a lot when I was a kid. He was one of my creepy, I must have done a thousand fucking dirty things for him that nobody knew about. But, you know, we just stopped hanging one day. But when I saw his son, he goes, he died. You know, I go, how's your dad? He goes, he passed away about, you know, 15 years ago or something.

He goes, but he goes, I showed him the longer chart and I told him that was you. And he goes, boy, you got fat. He goes, I bet he was proud of you at the end. He goes, you know, he gave me his hand. He shook my hand. And that was it. That was my fucking wake. I got in the car.

I saw another buddy in mind of Willow. I saw this guy Balls. I haven't seen him since high school. That was his name Balls. And he had nothing but balls. This guy, he was tough motherfucker. And it was just kind of nice to get out of here and it's a shame it was a wake. You know, that's what, like I sat here.

Usually I go to a wake. I'm fucked up for two days. Not this time. I felt kind of good. It was, it was her time to go. It wasn't a horrible fucking death. You know, she was 80 and I felt great about it. So every once in a while you got to go to your comfort zone.

I hate fucking wakes. I hate him with all my heart. And when he first called me and told me about his mom dying, I can't tell you. I didn't cry a little bit in the car because he's a sweetheart. He's an Irishman. His mother was Irish, bad man. All his friends, like from the Gourmet to Gamma, all those guys that were there talking, all said the same thing.

They remembered his mother going back to his house with his mother and she would have cookies and fucking. They would play baseball. It's just a different fucking life. And that's what I was talking to Gourmet about. He goes, you know, I listened to the podcast from time to time. I listened to the church a lot more because my son was home. He goes, and he would ask me about those stories. And I told him we grew up in a very fucking special place with a very special bond.

I mean, he had a bunch of his childhood friends in there. That was just tremendous to fucking see. Anyway, enough with the fucking funeral parlor. But remember, boy, if you know things, go to venereal funeral parlor. My brother told me you want the cocoa discount. You get like a dollar off. Maybe you'll give you an extra flower or some shit like that. And then I had some fucking excitement.

When did I have some excitement? Monday night at practice. Guys, I love my daughter. I'm not father of the year. I've never said I was. I've never said I was the man of the year. I make a ton of fucking mistakes. But I do have one thing going for me.

It's not comedy. It's not the size of my balls. It's not that I'm funny. None of that shit. The only thing I have that's always very good on my side is I've always been very intuitive. If that's the word to say, I've always looked at things and go, you know what? That's not for me because I tell you what's going to happen. This is going to happen.

This is going to happen. And I've always been one of those guys. It's not negative thinking. For years, I thought it was negative thinking. It's just a way to think that, you know, just it works for me guys. So my wife took this coaching job. And again, it's her job. I never fucking muscled in.

I never, nothing, nothing. She did the picks. She does the lineups. I don't even sit on the coach's thing. I sit on the other side and I just cheer for her. And I cheer for the girls. And right before the season started, she goes, I got a call from this girl. She wants to play.

The father called me. Okay. And we get down there and I see the guy and I say how he's talking to my wife and I see how he's acting. And right away I made a fucking decision. I go, this guy's going to be a problem. It doesn't take a genius. It doesn't take a fucking genius to know this guy's going to be a problem. You know, again, when I go watch my daughter do whatever, I've never, I don't give a $20 to hit a home run.

I don't, you know, none of that shit. I won. I won her to play the game. I wanted to laugh because that's all you want from your kids. And Mike, when your son gets old and he's playing soccer or stickball, whatever the fuck they decide to choose and he strikes out. It doesn't fucking matter. It really doesn't matter at the end that a fucking problem. Nobody's going to remember.

Oh, you. But, you know, in the, in the sports, you know, in the sports world, I've, oh, I read that pistol Pete Marovich book. And I fucking hated it. That's one of my favorite books, but I fucking hated it. I hated how his dad treated him. Always did fucking, you know, just to make, used to make him sleep outside, fucking beat him in shit. If he, I just, and when I came here, I started going to Luke's games. Jimmy Florentine son.

And I didn't see a lot of it, but I saw it from time to time, you know, and that's okay. When my wife started, when we started playing softball, I heard it the first year, but then it disappeared. The Chittichata, the challenging, the coaches, the fucking, why doesn't the stadium have lights? Why don't we have hot dogs? Why don't we have a fucking, why don't we have a flag? You know, there was always complaints from parents. I do. It's fucking baseball.

I grew up in North Bergen. You know what our fucking feels look like? We play the shits in park. The butcher was up there. That motherfucker would chase you with a butcher knife. That's why they call him the butcher and a dog. Okay. That's why they call him baseball.

So when I see grass, four fucking bases, dirt, you got me. You're good. Okay. This year with basketball, fucking everything. I mean, she picked a great team. They were all young girls. She picked four of the girls from the softball team. So they had that bond and, you know, listen, my daughter, all of them, they barely know the fucking rules.

Okay. When I go there and I'm a basketball dude and it's painful to watch. Okay. When you're a basketball dude, it's painful to watch, but I watch it and I understand what's going on. They don't know it. I'm just happy that she's doing it, not sitting upstairs on a fucking computer screen. So this father, every fucking week or something, you know, and the thing that I saw that I didn't like right off the bat was that no matter what was going on with my wife on the sidelines, this motherfucker would call his daughter over and then he would give her instructions. Or whatever my wife was telling her, he was fucking giving her instructions.

And that's like backbite. And what's the purpose of this? So she could score 10 points or whatever. Who's here? The NWBA? MW? What is it? WNBA?

Who's here? Holy cross here? Who the fuck is here? Who's here? They're fucking nine and 10 years old guys. No, you're fucking, you know, he walks in with a scarf, Mr. fucking whatever. Okay. Last Saturday, that three, you know, last Saturday going to that fourth game, fucking great game, but for some reason it got a little physical.

And there was one ref with a bad fucking leg. And he's got to be 65 fucking years old. Now, I'm not mad at the ref. A dog. I had a ref with a glass eye. Okay. In the eighth grade, we had a ref that had one glass eye. And if he called a foul on you from the fucking right side, we've caught, we've, you know, challenged him.

Like, dog, did you really fucking see that? You don't have a fucking left eye. You got a glass eye. How the fuck did you see that? Anyway, this is Jersey Reference. They always got a fucking dilemma. The one guy had like a little hook and he would blow his fucking hand with the whistle. They always got some fucking handicap or something.

So, but they're controlling the game to the best of their abilities. Both of these teams, including my daughter, who's a fucking karate fucking Fowler, was karate. You know, they were each hitting each other. But every time they would hit this guy's daughter, he would yell, ref, what the fuck? They're hitting my daughter. And meanwhile, everybody's karate chopping up. You know any rules about basketball? When somebody jumps to get a shot, you're supposed to jump straight up.

Once your hand goes down, whether you hit him or not, that's a fucking foul. When somebody's dribbling at you, if you're like this, you're fine. If they go to crossover and your hand is there, it's no foul. But if you reach for the ball in high school basketball in New Jersey, that's a foul. Little things. And you go, well, I didn't touch him. It doesn't matter. You reached the reps off from the other angle.

You had a glass eye. You fucked up. It all fucking works together. And I'm not saying nothing to the rep. There's two girls in particular that are really hitting each other, the centers. The two centers were battling it out. It wasn't good. Anyway, I'm sitting there last Saturday with my friends, other parents, other dads.

This guy's on the other side and he won't shut the fuck up. He won't shut the fuck up. Why is she doing this? Like just saying shit about my wife. Now game one, I should have probably choked him, but I didn't. I'm a gentleman. I'm a Christian. I go, uh, you know, I'm not going to come here.

I'm not that type of person. Guys, I don't say shit at those games. You know, he complained, complained, complained, filed, filed, filed sadly. Okay. We left there and then on the way out, one of the moms is like, is he saying something to your wife? I go, he better not be. And I yelled at my wife, right?

Terry. And she looked like, was there fucking problems? We could stop this guy. Cause you got to nip this motherfucker in the bud. And that was my problem. I didn't nip him in the bud game one or two. So this Monday we have practice. I'm sitting on the stage.

I'm not bothering nobody. I'm sitting with one of the moms and he comes in. What are we doing here? We're going to do a scrimmage and there's another team there. There was one of the gyms was closed and now we were stuck at the same gym. So we had to go home. Let's scrimmage the other game. We just played around sadly.

Let's scrimmage the coaches like, let's do it. And we'll stop them and tell them what they're doing wrong. Tremendous. My wife comes over and she goes, listen to the two dads. She goes, listen. And the other dads are sweetheart. He goes over to his dad and he goes, listen. Today's game we have to learn how to do assist.

So your two daughters are not going to be shooting. They're going to be passing as guards. The other guy didn't say anything. The other guy made like a face. Well, she's going to be a well rounded play. Right away I should have got up and said something. I don't say anything guys. Again, the holiday season is coming.

I don't want no fucking problems. They're playing. He's complaining about the fouls again. Where's the fouls? This was good continuation from Saturday. Guys, you know, I just couldn't take it. So now there was a play where the ball went to the corner and the girls tumbled.

And he goes, time, time, time. And then the girls tumbled after he said time. This guy comes flying out of there like, hey, you should have stopped after the fucking play. And the coach on the other team goes, whoa, relax. Relax. They're playing. It happens.

And that's when I just fucking went off. I go, guys, sit the fuck down. You haven't shut the fuck up since Saturday with those fouls. What is the matter with you? And sure enough, these white privilege. You know, the whole fucking thing. I'm like, shut the fuck up. Go let them play.

What the fuck is wrong with you enough? And right away he left and they came back here. I talked to my wife and they went outside. My wife's like, don't say another word. My wife was mad at me and they go outside. And then they have a talk and she comes back and she'll face his red and I go, what happened? Nothing.

And then I'm like, you don't say another word. And then as the practice ended, she told me what had happened that she told him. She goes, you're not a fucking coach. I am. And he fucking his whole demeanor changed. And then he told my wife he was pulling her from the fucking team. So he's going to shit on the other girls because and what

really happened here, guys, has been walking around. Mr. White privilege. The other coach shut him down, which was tremendous because he froze. And then I told him to shut the fuck down. Shut the fuck up. You don't even know. He doesn't even know about the game.

This guy has never touched the fucking basketball on his goddamn life. And I love the daughter. She's a sweet kid. She's going to be great player someday. But this guy's one of these guys that's going to be at every fucking practice. I think my daughter should start a coach at the camps.

Shut the fuck up. If you want to coach, coach until then, shut the fuck up. So here's where it gets better. The practice ends. I'm cool. He's got his butt little three little fucking coaches out there talking to him. I told him to go fuck himself.

And when I walk out, I go, is there a problem? And he just looks at me with that stupid face. I walked to the end of the thing. I saw one of my coaches, Eddie, Ed, he coached Mercy. So he came up. What happened this fucking guy? He goes, I know that that dude's a pain in the ass. He says he's walking by.

He holds his daughter tighter and he walks past me. I don't say nothing, guys. I'm an adult. When I get outside, he's outside with his daughter talking to some other guy in the fucking outie. Whatever. They're talking and I look at him and I don't say a word. I get home.

My wife is like, he's texting me. He wants to fight you. He wants you to go to his house right now and all this shit. And I'm like, I'll go to his fucking house. He could just give me the address. Let him come here. You know, I'm not going to fucking back down from some guy. I mean, I'm a fucking old man, but I don't need this shit in my life.

But he was texting. Yeah. And then he told my wife that his daughter's a black belt and that they follow her again. She could beat up all the little girls on that court and all this shit. Yeah. So I knew, dog, I felt really guilty. I hate making a mistake, especially embarrassing my family, my wife and my

daughter. Before I make those kind of mistakes, I grab all the facts. Like, when I went off on that stupid coach and his wife was there too, the fucking coach from the softball, you know, he comes to the games and sits on the other bleachers. He's never apologized to the moms or anything for doing that to us. These are the people you deal with today. It's a shitty fucking world, guys.

But you know what? I made my fucking point. And I thought about going over there and arguing with him and not. And it's like, what's the sense? How old do we want now? You know what, man? This guy is just hurting his fucking daughter by doing this shit. I'm happy because my whole point was my wife's the only woman in that league.

I love my wife very much, guys. And there's one thing about my wife. You call me a spic fat. I'm not funny. I'm a criminal. You say whatever the fuck you want about me and I'll giggle it off with you. You mess with my wife and my daughter. It's not going to be a good day for you.

I got nothing to lose anymore. It's just, I don't need to deal with this shit. So I spoke my piece. He told my wife he was pulling her from the team and getting the throat out of the league and all this shit. And my wife made some calls. Yeah? And me not allowed to be at the fucking games. And the whole thing about this is, guys, he got shit on in public.

He got shit on. Somebody called him out and what did I tell you about white privilege? They all do this. Nobody's ever called them. This is black for me. This is the king of swing, motherfucker. One dime, one phone call, 20 motherfucking Puerto Ricans. How do you want to do this?

How do you want to do this? And this is how I live my life. I'm just trying to be a good guy. I was telling Mike that I get up in the mornings. I always try to make somebody's day. I mind my fucking business. I don't give a fuck, especially now. The state of mind, I've been lately the last year.

I don't give a fuck about that. You guys might think and people send me stuff. Do you care what's going on now? Guys, I tell Mike when he comes here, what's going on? The only thing I fucking read is Yahoo. And I read like one thing until I'm leaving. They still throw Kanye under the fucking bus every day. Now he's saying shit about Jews, family, Russian Jews.

It's all bullshit, guys. We got fucking 10 more days to Christmas. And listen, some podcast along, some podcast is short. I love podcasting and I love podcast. I don't care what guest is on. I don't care if Jesus is on. I don't care who the fuck is on. The only thing I could do, you got me for 40 minutes

when you do a podcast. You got me for about 40 minutes. And then when I come home that night, I could finish up your podcast. If it's three hours, four hours, Lex Friedman and all that shit. It takes me a week to listen to those fucking things. Okay. When I started doing podcasting, we were doing three hour podcast, two hour podcast, an hour podcast and you listen to them.

And you're like, these podcasts were great, but it should have ended 30 minutes early. That podcast was great, but it should have ended an hour earlier. You know, I just lost an hour of my time listening to you guys talk about whatever. Joe Diaz improving, you know, for the 18th fucking time. So there's days I come on here. I want to talk to you motherfuckers for an hour.

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