Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt talk about the show at The Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, FL, an experience of a lifetime, and Joey brings childhood friend John Crowley on to discuss their reign of terror toge...ther in high school. SHOW NOTES New DraftKings customers can bet just 5 bucks & get $200 in bonus bets instantly. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app & press in code JOEY If you're 21 or older, get 25% off your first order + free shipping @IndaCloud with code CHURCH at https://inda.shop/CHURCH #indacloudpod

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Starting point is 00:00:02 Kick this motherfucker, Neil Lee. Greetings from Podcastville. The church of what's happening now, New Testament, is coming out. What is it? It's September the 9th, 2025. If everything worked out right, I would have been married 36 years today and still been a fucking loser. So it's the truth.
Starting point is 00:00:46 I would have been married 36 years, taking orders. I would have probably been a fucking roofer with one hand by now. I would have had fucking skin burn. Why would you have lost a hand? Because who the fuck knows at this, you know, at the rate I was going. How are you, Cogsuck? I'm doing great, dude. Everything good.
Starting point is 00:01:00 There's Lee Syatt, my fucking Cato of love. Hello. What's happening, buddy? Dude, what a great weekend. Tremendous weekend. What a, what a, like, just from, like, the beginning to end, it's just, like, one of the coolest. I had the most fun I've had in a while. Like, first of all, and this is, like, a very, if you had asked me two years ago, if you would
Starting point is 00:01:24 ever have a private plane, I'd be like he would never dare do that. But now, like, it was, like, it was so cool to just walk right onto the plane. So where, like, and then they brought food, which free, which, you know what was funny about it? The difference between the flight there and the flight back? The flight there, everyone was, like, having, like half a sandwich. No one ate any of the snacks. On the way, right after the show, I was going against that. I got, I had this, I don't drink.
Starting point is 00:01:59 I had two little nips of makers mark. Dirty milligrams of edibles. Your eyes were fucked up. And then you started eating nut of butters. Like, listen. First of all, you were the one who told me about it. I do two fucking makers marr. I mean, the salami sandwich, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:02:13 They didn't have salami sandwiches. That fucking, uh, slim jigs. Well, fucking, first of all, slim jim is gross. It's not gross. It's, it's, it's a lot better than another butter when you're drinking. No, no, it is not. I will put a nutter butter. That was one of my favorite food tips
Starting point is 00:02:27 on this entire podcast with Ali Sadiq. He would put in prison where they know how to fuck around with junk food. They had honey buns slathered and peanut butter butter on the outside. That, when I know I'm dying, I'm making that. That sounds so fucking good. And by the way, that's bullshit that you bringing that up.
Starting point is 00:02:47 I got to be honest. Because you were the one who was like, hey, they got nutter butter. You want some of hers? I just said it. I went over that. specifically told me. I went over there.
Starting point is 00:02:55 I got those chili Cheetos. Right? I sat down and I go, wow, there's nut of butters, there's Oreo, there's chips oil. You can't say that to me. Hi?
Starting point is 00:03:04 That's, the best was when George was talking to the cigarette girl in the casino. And she had cigarettes, but she had M&Ms and fucking peanuts. And I'm like,
Starting point is 00:03:14 and Lee's looking at them. As we're walking by and the chicks got tits out of here. I didn't see the tits at all. And Lee's looking at the fucking $100,000 bar and the Kit Kat. Unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:03:25 It's a problem. Listen, man, I've always been very lucky that people have taken me on shit and also when they got a private plane. I don't say anything. And I didn't know how much, listen, let's be honest. One thing that people don't know is how much things really cost. People have no idea what anything costs. Right.
Starting point is 00:03:44 It's like that saying, you don't know what you need to, you need it. You know, it's like somebody came to me. In fact, make a mental note. We could get ads on New Jersey. 12 for fucking oceans. Yeah, absolutely. You know? And they're like nothing, nothing compared to if you call the New York Times
Starting point is 00:04:02 you want to put an ad. It's nothing. Radio, nobody listens to the radio. You got a better chance to fucking shoot yourself. I swear to God. Who listens to AM radio? Not necessarily AM. But what's left on FM?
Starting point is 00:04:14 They have at least in Boston. They have all the sports on FM now. Well, sports in Boston and New York is huge. Yes. Sports radio is fucking amazing. They should get this guy as a draft choice. I think not. I grew up on sports.
Starting point is 00:04:28 I love when they have like regular callers who like call it. And they think they're like a star of the show. It's like it's Charles from Brockton calling. And he's like I called yesterday. And they're on every day. It's my love sports radio. So it was funny because I saw one of our friends. I'm not going to throw him under the bus.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Blue with this company. Okay. And I just went on their website. I went on their Instagram page, and I saw who else flew there, and I just called them. And I thought, but they were the best, they were everything, everything across the board. There were just nice people. They had work with comedians before. So I'm like, let's give it a try, you know.
Starting point is 00:05:12 And I told you guys two months ago, I'd rather, listen, comedy before the pandemic for me was a business, and it was lucrative and I was having fun with it but I really wasn't having fun I was beating myself up because everything was so serious everything was so serious I had to take everything so fucking serious because they call you and they're like you know you're three tickets from selling out
Starting point is 00:05:37 I don't need this at 6.30 you know what I'm saying? Like you don't need this at 6.30. Then they call you on a Friday at 6th. The agents think they're slick. I made a no-call policy with me. Don't call me. after Wednesday because you're just going to torture me.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Unless you got an envelope, call me. If there's no envelope or speculation, I don't want speculation. Because what they do to you is they call you Friday after you sell out. They wait until you start selling out. And then they call you and they go, hey, congratulations, you sold out. I just talked to the people 1024. And they start booking you. You're high on the ether.
Starting point is 00:06:13 You don't even look at the fucking calendar. Right. They just threw you an extra five grand. And you're like, okay, I'll beg. Then you go home and that's the week. You're fucking, you have to go to a wedding, your kids fucking roller skating. And now what are you going to do? Now what are you going to do?
Starting point is 00:06:28 And it's like I used to have like a two weeks a month towards the end. That's what I can handle, man. Four different cities, two shows a night. That's plenty. That's plenty. And every once in a while I would sneak a fucking Friday and Saturday in there or they sneak it in. Like I would go two weeks a month. And next thing you know, I'm looking at.
Starting point is 00:06:50 at my calendar, I'm working six weeks in a row because the two weeks bumped into the two last weeks of the month, bumped into the two first weeks of the fucking whatever month. So I just, anyway, I want to start having fun again on the road. If I'm going to take a fucking flight, I'd rather take half the money and have fun with my friends. And me getting up at five in the morning to walk through a fucking airport, ain't fun no more. I earned my stripes. I fucking did it already.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Many a fucking day. You don't know what it's like to walk. through a fucking airport. After you've done four shows, four flights, you took edibles the night before. Go ahead. I'll put you at the Detroit airport. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Well, you have to go under the fucking airport, and it's just blue lights. And you think you're in the fucking twilight zone in four in the morning. You have no fucking idea. Well, I'll take you to Chicago one time where they switch your gate and you need a car to get to the other place.
Starting point is 00:07:42 By the time you get over there, you're fucking done. You're done. Your flight's taken off already. You know, I went through all that shit in the morning. 4.45, getting to the fucking airport. Remember that time we went? What time we had Kennedy?
Starting point is 00:07:55 When we ate the edibles at three in the morning? Oh, we got lost in the way there. We got lost in the way to Kennedy and shit. You got mad at me that I didn't know the directions to Kennedy. There was no ways then. We were doing some shit. I'm like, Lee, we're in fucking Queens.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Where's Kennedy Airport? And we had like 10 minutes to get there, dog. I was cutting motherfuckers off. By the way, we ate banana bread on the way. Like, as we left the hotel. We ate fucking banana bread for breakfast. We were fucked up. fucked up by the time we got to the airport.
Starting point is 00:08:22 Yeah, we did get there, though. Yeah, we got there. And I think we just ran away from the rental car. They thought we were Arabs. And they just fucking ran away. They figured it out. They always figured it out. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:08:35 But it was, I will say the Jew and me was like, you know what? The way there I could have flown commercial. Like the way there, but the way back, the way back was the best part. That's what it is. The way back to go from literally, the stage to our bag to on the plane. Like they drove us. It was like an Uber to the stairs.
Starting point is 00:08:58 That part was cool. Because then we were home. I was home at 3.30. I got home at 4.30. I was wide awake. I watched something. Yeah. I was up to 5.
Starting point is 00:09:07 Yeah. Listen, man, I think that let's talk about, let's say you do a weekend and you're a feature act. You have a six-hour fucking drive. You get back to you, you have a few beers, and you get back to your hotel room at one. in the morning, 1.30, you got to get up and leave this hotel room, get in the car, and drive six hours. After you had the weekend of your life, you opened up for Dave Attell, he had five
Starting point is 00:09:32 sold-out shows, and to top it off, they're only giving you $500. A guy like Attaire will throw you an extra thing because he's a fucking gentleman, but you still got a six-hour drive home, which is a fucking nightmare, okay? So think of, and I, listen, I did that point. I even got on a bus after a long weekend. I don't want to hear it from any fucking body. I paid my fucking dues. And then you get on the plane. And it's like the same thing.
Starting point is 00:09:58 When you're a feature acting, you get on a plane, you're sitting in the back of the plane. You're smelling farts, feet. You're next to fucking federal prisoners and shit. They're trying to fucking work you for a nail file. You know, it's a fucking late. Yeah, you get delayed. You can't afford a big flight,
Starting point is 00:10:14 so you have to take a connecting flight. And now you're sitting after a connecting flight, and you're so broke, they're like, We're offering $250 to switch till 6.30. And you're up there fucking, let me say something. I'll take $150, but $100 got to be a bill. I remember one time they were like, I don't know if we could do that. Well, you got to do it.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Because I had no money. I needed cigarettes. I was in Denver. Finally, I just went behind the counter and took the fucking camels and ran out of there. And then you got to walk out of that airport. And I just went in the bathroom and started smoking. You ever go to Denver airport? Bring your fucking roller skates.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Bring your fucking roller skates. Bring your fucking roller skates. And then after you get in your Uber, he still got 45 minutes to get out of that. And then you got to hit whatever the boulder. And that's another fucking hour. It's not like when me and George were partying, 35 minutes to pick up a gram of blow.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Those days are dark, Jack. That's a fucking hour of fucking boulder now. Well, I don't want to hear it. So, anyway, the point is, we fucking deserved a private plane. We pulled it off. We did great. The show was great.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Lee blew it up, Steve Simone. blew it up. I had the best set in five years. At least I was, I knew what the fuck I was for the first time my lap. And it was great. The hotel was great. The stake at Council and Oak was fucking on fire. The veal chop. George even brought half of it home.
Starting point is 00:11:32 He brought the bone home. He's planting it in his yard to see what comes out. Fucking tremendous. It was just a great weekend. I'm happy you guys had to do it. It's like fucking Christmas in September. I don't know when this will happen again. Right. Virginia. We might be taking the train and shit, but
Starting point is 00:11:47 We'll work it out. You never fucking know. But yeah, like you said, the shows were awesome. The show was awesome. I don't know, but that was the most people I've ever done a show for. And there was a lot more than 3,500, gentlemen. Yeah? Damn, dude.
Starting point is 00:12:03 That's crazy. 4,600. No way. You serious? There was 4,600 people in that motherfucker on a Saturday night, though. Oh, there weren't. There were 4,600 people. I'm glad I knew that.
Starting point is 00:12:17 You might faint You know, when you get out I knocked them out, hold on Luckily the lights are fucking bright as hell I could see nobody I had maybe maybe the little bit of the front row It was fucking gorgeous But don't even
Starting point is 00:12:30 And when I went out there It took I don't know how I didn't faint That's the biggest room You know like that's a big room The energy will knock you off a little bit Wow I say oh you fucking stuttering
Starting point is 00:12:41 Oh no I'm glad I'm glad Steve Simone saved me And I went up second It was it was crazy because even there was a little bit of an echo which I was like I'm glad I heard before there was an echo on the side but I think
Starting point is 00:12:54 it wasn't as bad once you got on there once you got on stage thank God I was a little worried about that I was like okay that's up but it it was something I was like getting ready for because I had done Newark which is like 31 and I did I did okay
Starting point is 00:13:08 but it was like I was a little bit more prepared for what it might sound like because it sounds weird but it just sounds different. And it, like, it messes with your timing a little bit the first time you hear it. What are you going to do? You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:13:22 Don't worry about nothing. Don't worry about nothing. I'm not worried about it. I had a great time. I'm worried about sound. Who gives a fuck? Just crack your jokes and take your time. I worry about everything.
Starting point is 00:13:33 You know that. Anything. Anyway, we got a great guest. Guest coming on tonight. These are both two childhood friends of mine that I love with all my heart. So give me two minutes and we'll be right back
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Starting point is 00:18:18 You know what I'm saying? We're back! Anyway, we got a great guest tonight. I haven't seen this guy in fucking 30 years. We spoke about 15, 18 years ago. You were doing children's books or some shit. And I'm like, we're from North Bergen. Children's books. This motherfucker lost his mind. But I want to introduce to you, John Crowley. We got another guy over there, Dennis Kalanger. He'll come on later during the football podcast. We'll tell you about it later. Anyway, What's up, Big John? How you doing? You know, trying to put the pieces together.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Me too, man. At the end of the show, remind me, we'll bring the picture that you drew to show America. All right, yeah. The best comic in the world. No, no, no, no, no. What's up, John? Talk to me. Who gives a fuck about comedy?
Starting point is 00:19:03 Tell these motherfuckers how it came to be. Let these motherfuckers know where we came from. Shulling Snow at Kennedy fucking school. That's it, man. smacking each other to death. That's right. And this guy, Joey here. Coco.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Coco, that's right, Coco. He convinced me to, what was it, shave my eyebrows back in the death. I don't remember that. You don't remember? With Louis and Kurt? God rest their soul. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Dead. Yeah, Kurt. Kurt. So, you know, remember this. You were, you were saying, we believe, Crowley, we believe. And then, come on, Crowley, we believe, you know, and then use, I don't know, you know, so long ago, but at the end of it, either I shaved my eyebrows or you or Kurt or Louie. And then this was in the summer. We were smoking so many joints. And it was, and then I remember. And then I'm
Starting point is 00:20:12 I remember had to hide it from my mother. Everybody did. Yeah. That's just you. You're one of the only lucky one. It was in the summer and I had to wear, I wore a long hat to try to, you know, like, cover my fucking eyebrows. And we were down, down Seaside Heights with my mother.
Starting point is 00:20:29 My mother, she's like, what the fuck did you do? Then I had to tell her what happened. How old were you at that sign? We were like 16, seven days. Push that mic closer. like 16 or 17, something like that, yeah. How long did the hat trick last? Like, did it last a couple days?
Starting point is 00:20:49 You know what? It was, uh, it was on a, it was on a weekend in Seaside Heights and, uh, like my mother, like in the summer wearing a hat, you know, I was like all the way down and she's like, what the hell are you doing? And, and then I had, you know, I had the show. And then, you know, I was with my Aunt Chinette and then my cousins were there. And, you know, then, you know, that's, you know, that's, you know, I looked kind of, I look more fucked up than I am now, you know, at that point.
Starting point is 00:21:18 It's crazy because I met you through a guy named Kurti Lorenzo's past, loved them like a brother, so did you. Yeah, yeah. And then you introduced me to Louis Castellito, probably sophomore year. And I would hang out with my usual buddy's gland and all those crazy lunatics. While I'm one of the tastes of the wild side, it was these motherfuckers. And we also had a fifth member of the Beatles in those days. He would come in and out of our lives. And his name was Darren Rago.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Yes, right. And that would be the fucking Cherry or Renee Cantero, aka Dedi. I mean, when you put us all together, it was not a, looking back at it, it was like a fucking powder keg. But I remember, I mean, listen, you got to remember one thing,
Starting point is 00:22:05 that I had lost my mother, like six months before I started, Like I knew you guys, but before I started hanging out with that circle, I lost my mother. And at night, the pain would be out of control. And I tell you guys, I come around, I talk to you guys still, because I don't know the magic that you guys had. It would take my pain away.
Starting point is 00:22:26 The three, four hours, whether it was you, Dennis, Conti, you know, that was my escape, was you guys. It was drugs and you, motherfuckers. And whatever went down in between. Like I remember taking double barrel sunshine with you Me, you, maybe Kurt And that's, this is how long it did We went to see Apocalypse now
Starting point is 00:22:50 At the Fairview Cinema Like just tripping our boy And I remember Marlon Brando's face was melting You know, you're a fucking 15, 16 year old kid This is why he's drawing pictures of me Like I look like I got AIDS And I'm fucked up We were taking ass to the fucking 15, John.
Starting point is 00:23:07 You were a fucking state chain And you would take acid And then rub garlic on the armpits Whenever you wrestled People that stunk worse than you Or whatever To make sure I stunk, yeah Yeah
Starting point is 00:23:18 That's fucking like this is all the shit That comes back to me I remember that time And then I remember us going to see a midnight movie In Fairview Now granted None of us had mommies and daddies That drove us around
Starting point is 00:23:32 No This was all by foot And it was all mescal and based Nick's pizza and alcohol. That's all we fueled this shit with. Because we always stopped at Nix and tortured that motherfucker for a few minutes. Got a slice on the arm.
Starting point is 00:23:46 You still owe me money, you fuck. You know, the whole thing? And then we walk. You know what's crazy? I look at that distance from there to Fairview, and it's like 18 miles. We used to walk that 18 minutes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:01 Parking shit right up to the... I don't know the math heads up to... What, brother? You're driving 60 miles than that? Like, we would be walking and talking and giggling and fucking walking with our backs. No Uber's. No Uber's. No fucking cars.
Starting point is 00:24:16 None of us had cars. No. Oh, that's, none of us. Everything was on fucking foot. But I remember one night we got there and Rocky, it was, they had two movie theaters. They had the Rocky Howard Picture Show and maybe Led Zeppelin. The Sarme is the same. And there's a line from here to the fucking.
Starting point is 00:24:36 corner and then it cut over to the where I bought the bathing suit in 1998, whatever, that little fucking store there. I still got that bathing suit, $4 on sale. It's still the best bathing suit I ever bought. In Fairview, New Jersey and a dollar fucking store.
Starting point is 00:24:51 You still wear it? I still bust it out from time to time. I would like to see that. Oh yeah, it's just a blue thing with yellow stripes. So, love to say it. There's a fucking line. We're dripping on acid. And we get to this line and we're like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:25:08 We ain't standing on this fucking line. And my brother here, there's a Carvel next to the fucking thing. And it was open till midnight, maybe 11.30. But before we're going to stand in line, we see the cone upside down on the ledge. There's a little ledge where people put their cigarettes out and shit. There's a cone
Starting point is 00:25:28 upside down. And there's a few ants by it. I go, Crowley, if we're going to cut in this line, you've got to eat that fucking ice cream. And then we start. Then we believe in the fucking turk. They couldn't get enough of that. Fucking. This motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Picks up the ice cream cone and starts eating in front of the people in the line. They're like, ew, ew, whoop, we just got right in there. The movie theater open, we go right in. Again, we sit down. We're in the back. They're yelling. This is Cliffside, North Bergen, Fairview. These are all these fucking towns.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Again, it's a powder keg. And they're yelling or whatever. And we're like Crowley, go up to the front, straighten these fucking people out. This motherfucker, where do you think I got the idea to do stand-up and movie theater? Do you think I invented that? This guy did it in 1981, maybe? And he just walked into the front and he goes, can I have your attention, please? And dog, somebody started yelling.
Starting point is 00:26:24 Some of the guy goes, no, no, no, let him speak. He's the dude who ate the ice cream call. I haven't, to be honest, I've heard about you for your years. For years. That's that story. I met, you know, every night I would go, what the fuck is, how did I grow up like that? John Crowe.
Starting point is 00:26:40 And when you tell that to something. I fucked you up. Oh, my God. And when you tell somebody that shit, they look at you and go, you know, where'd you grow up, retardville? No, we grew up where there was a heart. There was a heartbeat. I got another time we went a party and there was a chandelier.
Starting point is 00:26:57 I think we did acid and somebody was playing Bruce Springsteen and somebody ate the album. Like, you weren't allowed to fucking play Springsteen. They're like born to run. Somebody picked it up and cracked it in half. And then somebody put Pink Floyd dark side of the moon on. And it's that, Dun, before taking away the moments that they make up the dull day.
Starting point is 00:27:17 And it's going through all that pre-stuff. Boom, boom. And Crowley puts his hand up. Everybody's looking at Crowley goes, the inner light. And fucking, we just died. Like, how do you still remember this after fucking 40 years? Because I was going through hell at that time.
Starting point is 00:27:35 And you guys would say shit that would just put me out of the planet. How about quintessence? Remember quintessence? Wintersons? The disco on tunnel, remember? Yeah, but here's the thing. I boycotted quintessence. I never went to quintessence.
Starting point is 00:27:49 You fucking, no, I didn't. I never felt to put, you with that. Never to my mother's grave, to my daughter, because I stood by it. I will never fucking go to that club. I'm a corkies guy. And if I'm going to snort Coke, it's going to be in a hotel. I'm not going to go down there with face. fucking DJs and dog that's how solid I was even then I guess I was a little screwed
Starting point is 00:28:10 that up then yeah no we went listen you weren't screwed probably we hung out tough let's get rid of the ADD and the fucking box shots we got to the head and life we hung out tough proudly with Kurt or maybe 79 to the time you guys graduated high school you graduated 81 maybe 80 and then I maybe saw you a year after that I was with you when fucking Bon Scott died We took a head of acid It was snowing out And we were walking by Vineris
Starting point is 00:28:42 And there used to be a tree there Right across Marlaya Libra And there was a sign That said like the road is closed or something And Crowley says I gotta take a piss And he just got on the tree He started pissing
Starting point is 00:28:53 And he started going like this And the cars are going this way And you can see people like fucking You can't write this shit You cannot You cannot, you don't understand. We tricked, were you with us tonight? We all did ask it again.
Starting point is 00:29:09 And on the way home, this motherfucker, it just rained. It was one of those Jersey rainstorms. It just fucking rained. And we're walking and we're getting close to the diner where George had the hardware store. We're getting close to Fairview Diner, whatever it was at the time. We're walking. We're close to Robinson Anton, where they fucking make the thread, okay?
Starting point is 00:29:33 and we're walking and Kurt keeps me, you and Louie are looking at each other This is cold-blooded. Lee, you ain't the first one who suffered. Don't think you're a martyr here. Who called me a martyr and I am aware that there's another one of us here? What years were used in service? No, this guy, we were like dice.
Starting point is 00:29:57 We did the fucking. Okay, we did the fucking in those days. So Kurt was a smart guy fucking, you know, and me and Louis look at each other. I'm like, Louie, you hear that? He goes, no. We either did it to Kurt or to Louis. I think we did it to Louis. We're like, Louis, you hear that?
Starting point is 00:30:17 And Louis's like, no, I don't hear nothing. And Kurt's like, come on, Louis. You don't hear that fucking siren? And Louis's like, no. And he's like, come on, Louis. Jesus, and we both started going, Jesus fucking Christ. And Louis, there was a puddle on the middle of the street. he just bent to his knees and started throwing one on his face.
Starting point is 00:30:34 He just got drenched and he's like, I don't fucking hear it. And he just tore his ass home. We didn't see him till the next week, the next day. Like that type of shit. And there's a thaw. We went to see Nazareth. Oh, yeah, that's right. We went to see Nazareth at the fucking palladium, June 6th.
Starting point is 00:30:53 And also Ozzy with, what's his name? At the palladium. We went to see Ozzy. Yeah. What do you think you? you're dealing with motherfuckers? So, I don't know if you remember, I got ripped and I, uh, we, I, I, I, I asked the bouncer, I remember this.
Starting point is 00:31:09 I asked the bouncer to, uh, I said, you know, when they started playing Mr. Crowley. So I, I, I said, I'm Mr. Crowley. And they're like the, I'm, you know, we ripped. Of course. You had your ID and shit out. And I'm trying to, I'm saying, I'm Mr. Crowley. They're singing my song, right?
Starting point is 00:31:27 So then the bouncer just get the fuck, you know, get the fuck out of here. And then I threw my license as far as it can go. I don't know where I landed. So to this day, I don't know what happened to my license. I still remember going, where's fucking Rowley? And they're like, he's going over there to tell him that. And I'm like, whatever. At this point, what, fuck.
Starting point is 00:31:48 I mean, that's how deep we were. We were. I got ripped that night, man. Ripped. Ripped. Did you go with us to Philly to see Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio when Rago took the purple Qualo's? No, I think I missed that one.
Starting point is 00:32:04 This mother, we go to a Burger King, like a stop, and a random. And this motherfucker comes on. He goes, guys, there's a guy in there. He's got purple acid. It was like fucking marshmallows. Like, the guy had marshmallows. He made him purple, and then he froze him.
Starting point is 00:32:19 And I go, Raygo, knock it all. We just ate masculine. We got everything. We got methadend to do pills. We got it all. He's like, no, I really want to do this type of acid. Okay. He does the two fucking things.
Starting point is 00:32:30 Nobody else eats it. I'm right, Ray, is you tripping? Not yet, not yet, but it's gonna work. We're like in the sixth row. Where's Raygo? He's fucking sleeping. He's out. We had to pick him up, put him in the car.
Starting point is 00:32:43 The next day, he's like, I don't know what happened last night. I go, yeah, he bought purple lutes. I did not. So 20 years later, whenever he would get out of control, I go, dog, I don't know if you remember. You're the one that ate the purple lutes, and he would still, fuck you, Coco, you're walking home. He would still get pissed. Yeah, too bad what happened on him, man, geez.
Starting point is 00:33:06 But I just want people to understand the guys you were wrestling with. You had Perry's locking. I was just talking about the other day. I seen caught beating on four motherfuckers on Kenny Boulevard one night, a week before Christmas by at Pizza Parlor by Louis Casolito's house. It was a running back, rotundi. He had a fight with, four dudes.
Starting point is 00:33:31 I can't mention their name. Fucked them up. Because they made up a story that they ran into 20 Puerto Rican and they got mugged. No, no, no. It was Rolndi. It was Perry's Lock and Kala.
Starting point is 00:33:41 All four of them. They showed up a week later with fucking arm braces and shit. Yeah, we got jumped by Spicks in the city. It was two in the morning. I was walking by. I might have been fucked up.
Starting point is 00:33:53 But I hit in the corner, I'm like, what the fuck is Perry doing? Blah! Blah! Yum, yum for everybody. You had Didi? You had Rago. You, Haley, God rest is so.
Starting point is 00:34:04 Bertie Lorenzo, God rest is so. Dead! Anyway. I don't know. You had Brian Haley somewhere. He just passed away a few weeks. Yeah, the younger... I don't remember.
Starting point is 00:34:14 Or Bob, I think Bob was the older brother. The one we went to Kennedy's school with. Bob. Bob. What's the one I ran with in Kennedy's school? Glenn. Glenn. What was his name?
Starting point is 00:34:26 Glenn. A couple weeks ago. Three weeks ago. Glenn? Glenn. Glenn. Oh, shit. Rod was the old one. So, Ra, okay.
Starting point is 00:34:33 All right. No, I heard. Yeah, I heard one of them died. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I still remember being at one of your wrestling matches at the high school. We would go see him. Who the fuck didn't go see Crowley? You went to see Crowley, Colangelo, Calendrillo.
Starting point is 00:34:49 You went, you just went, and you drank a fucking shitload of booze before you walk in high school. And the teachers would see you and go, Jesus Christ. But I still remember walking in and being fucked up. and looking over to the corn and seeing Mr. T T and thinking I was cool and opening up like a winter jacket and going out of like a half pint of Southern comfort
Starting point is 00:35:08 and I thought I was cool and I go T's and he's like and he opened up his jacket and he just looked he closed the jacket and he goes and he just stood there in the corner that's how that high school was on a fucking Friday night
Starting point is 00:35:25 the teacher was already boozing and then it was on you watched the wrestling match And after the wrestling matches, it was on. It was every man for myself. Nobody wanted to go home. Quailudes, guerrilla biscuits, whatever we eat, those black beauties. I used to get in East Brunswick, East Strasbourg, East Trousburg, New York. Oh, yeah?
Starting point is 00:35:46 Me and another friend of us used to take a ride on Saturdays. Were you there when we wrestled Fort Lee and had the big riot? I think I was junior or senior. When I, because I said I was, I don't know if you remember, like, so the Fawley High School, they brought, they were our arch rivals, right? So I said when I'm like, are they interviewing me because I got an athlete of the week or something, right? So I said, I'm going to wear like an executionist mask, right? For, you know, when we wrestled, right? So then I, so when we run out to, you know, like the warm up, you know, where are they?
Starting point is 00:36:31 And then all the, all the Fort Lee guys, they threw out like nooses because they were, you know, right? So then that match, when I, when I wrestled Bojanovic, right? I wound up. I grabbed his arm like this and he landed with his hand like this. And this bone went through his, you know, he landed really hard. And this bone went through there and all fucking blood was on the fucking mat. and his fucking brother, his brother came on the mat and, you know, was trying to fight me
Starting point is 00:37:08 and then there was a fucking huge fight. There was like a riot, you don't remember that night? Or maybe you didn't go to that night. That was a fucking crazy night when we fought away there. I'm coming all that shit in those days. All I remember was, you know, fighting and everything. It was a crazy night that night. I mean, yeah, night we went to dinner with Eggersie
Starting point is 00:37:27 and Carlos Rodriguez, and we were talking about the night we play these storange and lift the bus on fire. You know, kids wouldn't even fucking understand that. Crazy, right? It's crazy. It's a bus on fire. They just lit it on fire.
Starting point is 00:37:41 We had to wait there. The good old days. JV. Or somebody. And these buses had no air conditioner. They barely had brakes. They barely have fucking breath. Those yellow North Bergen buses had no air conditioner.
Starting point is 00:37:54 Oh, you froze your fucking ass off in that shit. So why did they let it on fire? Because they're, Patterson East Side. Because they're savages. Oh, the other team did it? The fucking area, East, whatever the fuck. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:07 In that town, you don't leave your car out like that in the 80s. It wasn't like, you know, hold on to the keys, Mr. Valet, man. Not much better now. No, it's not much better now. They fucking lit the bus on fire. That's, you know, and you tell that to something like that never happen. All right, and it happened. I was fucking there.
Starting point is 00:38:25 I was there. I was on that team. I'll never forget, like, you had to get home to make out with a chick. to get an A-PAC, and we were stuck at this fucking thing. Because the bus was on fire. I'd bring another bus. We had a ride back with varsity or whatever the fuck it was. So where'd you go to college, John?
Starting point is 00:38:44 One year of Bergen community. Yeah, one year. And then that was pretty fun. I went to, you know what the fucked up thing is? Like in the, I remember in the, you know, I was, Good in high school wrestling, right? So, like, when I was a senior, took second in the state. Then I go to the college, and I, like, I was out of shape, you know, like, in the summer,
Starting point is 00:39:11 you know, your party, your ass off. I go to fucking college, and I'm like, I lose, like, my first few matches. I was like, and everybody else is winning, right? And then by the end of the season, then, you know, I kind of caught, you know, caught myself back up, you know, got back in shape. And then, well, yeah, like also I had a, I broke, what is it, a cartilage removal or something like that. So I don't, so, and then, so then we went, when we went to the, you know, I made it to the nationals, you know, for the wrestling. And then I think it was, I lost second round, right?
Starting point is 00:39:54 So we had to come back home, right? So I remember like a party in that night, right? You know what? You know what they did for fun out in Minnesota? We went cow tipping. Fucking got, you know, we had like a, you know, everybody, I guess, who lost, right? You know, everybody who lost that night in the wrestling tournament, we had a big, you know, big party in the hotel.
Starting point is 00:40:21 And then all got drunk and we went fucking cow tipping, man. It was fucking great. you know, pretty fun. You ever go cowtipping? No. You got to try it, man. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to leave next week. I'm going to take an adventure to the cowland and go fucking cowtip.
Starting point is 00:40:38 Yeah, man. Anybody, you know, so you got to try cowtipping, you know. How did you end up back in Jersey? What? When did you end up back in Jersey? When the, oh, oh, we wound up like one or two days. The coach told us, you know, we were, I didn't stay for the final. is there, you know, so, um, and so I had to come back, back to, uh, you know,
Starting point is 00:41:01 Primus, uh, that was a Bergen Community College. So, and then what'd you do? Do you graduate? Because I haven't fucking seen you. No, no, what happened was, um, I, um, I was dating a young lady and, um, uh, she got pregnant and, uh, we had, I had a son. And, uh, and I got married, and, uh, so I have a 42-year-old son now. What did you do for a living, all of those? Oh, I did a lot of different things. A lot of different things, you know. And then...
Starting point is 00:41:35 Did you know, no, no, I didn't sell coke. You didn't do a lot of different fucking things. No, but what I do now... No, what I do... No, what I do now is... I'm on OnlyFans. Okay. Yeah, so...
Starting point is 00:41:50 Just your feet or your dick and everything? No, I'm Johnny Jiz. Yeah, so I, uh, I, uh, I, no, I, I, I, hey, I got to make a living. So, uh, I ejaculate on women's underwear and sure. I don't want to stop this podcast or just call 911. Is this real? Johnny Jays. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:18 Johnny Jays, yeah. I mean, got to make a, yeah, it pays good, man. What do you make a month over there? you don't mind this asking. You can just, you know what I'm saying? Well, I make money doing the, you know, the Johnny Jizz. It's like I have to ejaculate on women's stuff, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:36 And then, and then on my website afterwards, I auction off the panties. I'm just fucking with you, man. I wish you were doing this. Oh, you should have kept going with it because people love Johnny Jiz. People want to know who Johnny's. You never know. I was trying it out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:54 This is a good idea. I'm gonna go with it now. No, you do it with your wrestling mask. From the 80s. No, the executioner's mask. You do that, Johnny Gilles. That's it. I know you're heavily into music.
Starting point is 00:43:05 And you started doing fucking art, like, before COVID, and you're like a fucking Picasso. Fun. You're a man of a lot of fucking dimension. A lot of dementia. Oh, that's nice. No, no, no. I remember somebody who told me they saw you.
Starting point is 00:43:21 This is the last rowley siding. It might be real. or it might be fake. Somebody said they saw you work in construction. Like 85, you want to scaffold something. In 80s, yeah, sure. Okay. I was right.
Starting point is 00:43:39 That's the last... Yeah, well, I used to be in construction. And you always stayed in my heart because of all the comedy you brought into my heart when I needed it. Good, good, good. The time you ran around the Luli feel naked and slid into home?
Starting point is 00:43:52 Yep, that's... Brilliant. Fucking brilliant. I was there. I saw it my own eyes. I mean, Crowley was just doing shit. Like, listen, man, in those days, I look at kids now and they go to school and, like, I asked my daughter, how was it today? That fucking school sucks, right?
Starting point is 00:44:10 When we went to school, bro, you know, we were talking about Nick's grandfather outside. We went to school. We didn't go to school because we wanted to go to school. We went to school for certain people. Like, for me, I couldn't wait to get into school and hear what Mr. Teranova said. Like, if you had Mr. Teranova in the fifth period,
Starting point is 00:44:32 by the third period, he'd already insulted somebody. And it was already in the airways. Did you hear what Mr. T told that Indian shit? No, he didn't. You know what I'm saying? Like, it was always something. Like, if it wasn't him, it was Dennis always had a story of from what happened before.
Starting point is 00:44:49 But number three, strong was this guy. Like, this guy, I knew that I couldn't miss school because not what was going to happen in school. I was going to be anyway. It was what we were going to do after school. And you never knew. In those days, you went to first period because I used to take the CIA work study program.
Starting point is 00:45:08 So I would go to first period. As long as I took those, and it was two, you stayed in there for 7.30 and 9.45. Then you went to home room. After home room, all bets were off at North Bergen in those days. And it could be anything. We used to go, I know for a couple times, me and Dennis went in Mr. McGrath's car
Starting point is 00:45:28 when he used to fucking be the driver ed teacher and the Massey Cadillac gave him two fucking Cadillacs with the pedals and shit. Oh my God, that was like you went to school. You signed up together. It would be him, Villano, your uncle, and Perry Vigiano. And it started with, they would go to Chan's parking lot.
Starting point is 00:45:49 And then they would stop it like a little before Chance and then a chance and you would rotate. So everybody would get eight minutes behind the wheel. Then it started nice and easy. Mr. McGrath, come on, chance is open. You think we're going there, get a stick on a stick? Jesus fucking cry. And then it started with the steak on a stick and two bags of stick on it.
Starting point is 00:46:14 Then there was a liquor store up there. After about a month, these motherfuckers talked them into getting a six-bag. We'll drink two beers and go back. What? Two beers at 10 in the morning. Why? It just didn't matter. and Mr. McGrath would be driving back fucking furious, like these motherfuckers.
Starting point is 00:46:31 I'll not forget one day I was Mr. McGrath in that car, and we were on 39th and Bergen line in that school car. It was like 3.30 in the afternoon. He goes, take a ride with me. I got on the car with him. He didn't know what I had. I had one of those double barrel shotguns with the spoon at the end, and you put the Coke in and put it and sniff it.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Jeez. We're about to cross the Carvel Street in the bottom of the barrel. about to head to New York Avenue. And he goes to turn the car at the park and the car stalls. This McGrath is losing. He's, too, to, tut, tut, tut, too, to. And I'm like, this is a good time for a blast. Now, I'll never forget putting it in there.
Starting point is 00:47:10 He did not see nothing. I just put it in there. And I put the thing to my nose. And I went, and he looked at me, and he goes, he goes, the car is stalled and you want to do a line of Coke. Do I need this in my life? That's all he said, though. And some guy told him to move the car after that.
Starting point is 00:47:28 Like he was going to go, fuck you! And he's like, do you see what you get to? He was fucking on fire when I did the Coke. Like, he didn't not know how to handle it in those days. Then you had that scumbag, the stage crew, that sold weed. When we were kids, the stage crew, Mr. Pearlman, Mr. Pullman? Pullman.
Starting point is 00:47:50 That motherfucker did not like me. No. And I used to bust his balls all the time. He hated me. Then I found out he sold weeds from Hawaii to everybody. He would sell it to tip, and I used to torture him. Dog, when am I getting my hand down the weed? Because I'm not, I have the mailman at your house with the DEA.
Starting point is 00:48:06 I used to fuck. He hated me. That motherfucker. I mean, this is like a real high school. It was fun, man. I loved it. I loved going to high school. And then you had those other lunatics.
Starting point is 00:48:17 You went a different world with the Tabichinos. That's a complete different world. We would be getting out of basketball. We were just fucking drilled for two hours. you look by the stairs and you see these motherfuckers with, you know, heavy artillery on running up and downstairs. Getting whipped, you know. How hot was it down there?
Starting point is 00:48:37 Two thousand fucking degrees down there in the basement. And we always have to lose weight. Yeah, everybody. So we'd always wear sweating our asses off, sometimes lose 10 pounds, sometimes more the day before, you know, 10 pounds overweight and you got to work late and not drink. That's when I came in with those black guys. beauties and shit. A hundred for $30. Forget about it.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Fucking these motherfuckers, I'd see him on the week. Hey, you gotta get me more of those fucking things. But we all hung out, like the groomies, I still remember them. Another guy that was a wrestler that I put in my book because he was so fucking, like I hung out with him behind the scenes. One of the dirtiest fucking people, North Bergen era produced. Mike Denny. The devil. You know what? I was with down with, um, I was, down with, um, I did down the shore with him, right? I was a junior, crystal meth.
Starting point is 00:49:36 And we were, like, I think this was the only time I did it. It was, I felt like I was, I felt like I was, I was, felt I was floating, really. It was crazy. I was like, I was, but. Crystal meth hit around that time. That's 80, 81, 7. Yeah, I think it was, I'm pretty sure it was in high school. Yeah, yeah, because I bought it at Metalands in.
Starting point is 00:50:01 Yeah, Christmas Eve. No, the night before Christmas Eve, I bought a gram of speeds, $65. Yeah, it was crazy. And I did it the next morning at school and I lost my fucking mind. I'm like, right? So, yeah, that was the only time I ever did. You know, I didn't really, I thought about all you guys for a long time. And then it must have been like when I went to prison,
Starting point is 00:50:24 I was lonely in a cell one day and fucking Mike Denny came up and I started hanging out with Mike lightly before my mother died and then once my mother died like maybe six months later his parents had a his father had a
Starting point is 00:50:42 a ship when a ship docked they had barnacles on the ship and things leaks and things were busting so Mike Denny's father with 20 guys to go on that ship They were union. They make good dough, dog.
Starting point is 00:50:56 And they would fucking, you know, clean everything and put new parts and whatever. And Mike Denny, when I was like a freshman, we call me at night and go, I'll pick you up. Where we going? We're going to this place to dock somewhere. Like Newark or something. And we'd be there and he'd be stealing. He would steal the plumbing and everything that was getting delivered to the job for his father's job. And he would do this once a fucking week.
Starting point is 00:51:22 Like he knew when the big. things were coming in like the holes. I don't know what the fuck you call them, guys. I'm no Gilligan. I just know that we were getting like fucking 800 a thing for those, maybe nine. And he'd give me like 50 bucks. I had to carry him,
Starting point is 00:51:36 I'd be sweating. And then he beat you at every level. Like there was three of them, that means you got 150. And then you went to the city and you had to go where he bought him. And the package you gave you was always light. And you always ended up buying $30 extra for his package.
Starting point is 00:51:51 He'd talk you into it. This guy was like, a fucking devil. And I hung with him for about a year and we did the creepiest fucking shit. Like, it was always something with theft or beating somebody for drugs or he was always up to something. And then one night we went to see Erosmith. I'm mind to you, it could have been Erosmith or it couldn't have been the B-52s. And it was New Year's Eve and we came back from the city on the bridge and we hit Kennedy Boulevard. And as we were passing, Sal's that pizza parlor on the right where I tell you guys to go eat pizza
Starting point is 00:52:36 on the on the only north and on Kelly Boulevard Roma we saw something we saw like smoke I was tripping my balls off guys Mike Denny had the RX7 the Mazda RX7 at the time and we're fucking driving back and I see smoke and it's somebody's tires and dog when we pull up up, these people had clocked that pole in front of Morales' house. It was a small car, and it had gone into the pole straight, so the pole came through to the windshield. The dude was dead, like, he was bleeding everywhere, and the chick was yelling.
Starting point is 00:53:24 And I'll never forget being on acid and getting there and, like, walking towards the car scared because my mother had just died. That's how I found my mom. I'm asking me, now I'm going to see some more fucking death. And as I remember walking close, then the fire department came, they would get out of the car. No, they were like, get out of the way, get out of the way. I got scared. And they had to get on top of the car to see.
Starting point is 00:53:46 And the steam was coming out of the fucking engine. It was just scary, guys. And I remember he was like saying, alcohol. And that night I made a constant fucking decision, but I'm not drinking and driving. And I never did. from that night. But on the way home, I go, every time I'm with this guy,
Starting point is 00:54:05 I see bad luck. That's the end of this relationship. He's the devil. And that's why I used to call him the devil. He was the fucking devil. That's, yeah. Well, he wrestled. Right, he wrestled.
Starting point is 00:54:16 So that's how, you know, I think it was doing high, you know, it was so long ago, I think it was doing high school, maybe right after when we did this down the shore. And then, And then out, you know, that I was there, you know, hung out a few more times. That might have been.
Starting point is 00:54:34 I loved them. I loved them. That might have been the last time I hung with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I loved him to death. His brother had the chick that would suck your dick anywhere. Remember, Jimmy had no teeth, but he had long hair, and he walked around with a guitar, and he made believe he was Jimmy Page. And he bumped into this chick that would just suck dick.
Starting point is 00:54:52 And she was good looking. She'd be at the high school, and guys would say, let's suck dick and whatever. she blew 22 guys one night right on Kelly Boulevard Marathon woman She sucked like and I was not there You know when you're 16 You want your dick sucking no and ever
Starting point is 00:55:10 And also next day at school It's all over the airwaves Fucking Marathon woman Suck 22 dicks last night You're like God damn it I usually walk by that street That's the only night I walked on tunnelie Motherfucker
Starting point is 00:55:23 Wasn't your night What do you remember from all that shit, man, all those years. Fun. Oh, yeah. Sadness. I mean. I loved high school. It was great. High school was great. It's fun, man.
Starting point is 00:55:39 Then, looked forward going to high school all the time, you know? So much, so much, so much fun. I remember walking out between this, peeling a beer across the street from Hudson County. I never stole anything.
Starting point is 00:55:54 Yes, you did. I said. You know There was no security You could just walk in there at 930 And the lady would go Hey where you go I'll be back
Starting point is 00:56:05 Call Vinny Call Vinny He'll tell you what's going on I remember Yeah high school was fun But I remember one time I don't know if you I don't know if you were there
Starting point is 00:56:16 But on this one day I hung I shit in a plastic bag Right So I tied it up Right Then I tied a string to a locker So I remember
Starting point is 00:56:26 Ray, Raygo, you know, Darren Raygo, was fucking hysterical, right? So I hung it, I hung it on a locker, right, from one of the top lockers. And during, like, what is it? The changing of classes, right? People are all looking at it. Me, Rago, I don't know if you were there.
Starting point is 00:56:44 But people started squeezing it. What was this? They say if it was clay? What the fuck is this? So, oh, that was so funny. And people are, you know, like squeezing my shit to, you know, excuse my shit to see if it was play. That was fucking great. What great were you in?
Starting point is 00:57:04 Senior. That was, I think it was a junior or senior, a senior with that one, with that Frank. That was, that was one of the better ones. That was, that was a lot of fun. Yeah, so that's where, that's, to go, to go to school. That was fun, man. Who did you date in those days, Jim? Well, when I was a senior,
Starting point is 00:57:26 No, no, actually, that was... Rita Kaffiero. I don't remember. Rita Kifiero. Sweet girl. Girl Roseanne. She was very nice, you know, all nice young ladies. What did they think about this?
Starting point is 00:57:49 Angel Farinola? Angel Farinola. Wow. Farronola. She had a brother, Lenny? Yes. Lenny Furman. Yes.
Starting point is 00:57:59 I went to, we went to the prom. I went to the senior prom. You're a fucking trip, brother. Yeah, so, actually, the best. Yeah, I didn't see you after like 82, maybe. By 81, we lost contact. We're here now. We're here now.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Yeah, but I was always tight with Kurt and his family. I mean, today, Chris called me from Costa Rica to thank me for tickets I left for Tommy Kenny. Tommy Kenny was one of the Irish people that I like Kurt D. Lorenzo's back in the day. And so that's funny. What's he doing in Costa Rica?
Starting point is 00:58:39 Getting his dick sucked. You know anything about him. Well, he's on vacation then. He goes to Costa Rica every six weeks. Him and Eugene. You remember Eugene his buddy? He had the whole body shop. They're still fucking friends.
Starting point is 00:58:53 And now they go to, I think Eugene killed his wife or something. She was found drowning or something. I don't know. It happens. I don't know what happened. What happens? And they go to Costa Rica and I guess... Maybe I know you, Jim.
Starting point is 00:59:05 Chris met a girl down there. Oh, yeah? And he wants to get a passport. He's trying out and I told him. It's like, you know, ice is all over the place. And you're trying to get a passport for a fucking, you know, Chilean refugee or whatever the fuck is going on there. I was in Costa, you know what?
Starting point is 00:59:23 Before my daughter was... Actually, Costa Rica, before my daughter was born, And that was our last, you know, my wife started like seven months pregnant and eight months pregnant. That was the last, you know, when she was pregnant,
Starting point is 00:59:37 that was, we had to go, that was our last time that we can go before, before she had, you know, before it gave birth. So it was in Costa Rica.
Starting point is 00:59:46 It was very nice. There was, only, that was first and only time there. It was nice, very nice. Sound like fun. It was great.
Starting point is 00:59:55 The fuck, probably. You don't like nobody on fire. I'm not, I did. We did like somebody. You still think about Kurt? Of course, yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:03 What are you thinking? You know, we, I got together with him and Louis. In Florida. In Florida. What year? 15, 20 years ago. It was a mess. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:20 We had, it was, it was nice to see that. No, it was nice. Always. I haven't, well, that was like 15 to 20 years ago. And then before that, I haven't seen him. in 15, 20 years. You know, we used to stay in touch every once in a while.
Starting point is 01:00:35 Every once in a while, I talk to Louis and, you know. Yeah, we talk every once in a while. I haven't seen him a long time, but, you know, like everybody's busy, you know. He's tabbed a lot of, I remember me and Louis used to go to his house and do Coke, and Rego would knock on the door.
Starting point is 01:00:52 We would go, we're not letting Ray go in. Because Rego never showed up with a 20. You can't, you got to cut, you know, we were fucking in high school. I can't keep laying out 25 and 25 And now I'm giving you Because one line turns into four And what the fuck are we robbing for?
Starting point is 01:01:06 You know what I'm saying? Like I was working at a lumber yard I don't know what fucking, you know I don't know what Louis was doing I was working at Rendell Lumber Down on Townley Avenue Right where the Dunkin' Donuts is right now Next to Guy Donned
Starting point is 01:01:18 Across the street That was the North Bergen fucking If you knew anybody in North Bergen, you just went in there I need a door Put it on the arm Paul Joe Mocko, Steve Mocko, they got everything covered. All the Mokos. In fact, you don't even need to call them.
Starting point is 01:01:34 Just Mocko. That's it. That's the five-digit confirmation code. Just write that down. You know, Peter's doing a lot, you know, Peter Mocko. He does a lot of, he's, you know, probably a billionaire now. Yeah. He's been buying shit since we were.
Starting point is 01:01:51 And he's building all in Jersey City. Yeah. He's doing it. Did he take the sand bar? Yeah. Yeah. I met him down there. He was sitting at the bar together.
Starting point is 01:02:03 He looked at him out of the bar together. He looked at him out. Oh, yeah. How long have you been? Oh, my God. He just gave me to grin. How long you been out of jail? Oh, my God.
Starting point is 01:02:16 Oh, my God. My father used to be his, uh, his, a committee man. You know, he was, yeah. Yeah. My father was big in politics for, for a little while. while and then he was, my father was his right-haired man for a while and then he was the local, he was the committee man and we campaigned for Marco. Put that microphone closer.
Starting point is 01:02:44 Yeah, he used to campaign. Speaking to the mic. Speaking to the mic, babe. And then, and then I remember my father got all, like, I remember my father told me the story, like he was, my father was giving a speech and he's like, these cock suckers. and all that, you know, something, something, unlike something with you would say. So, and then, and then my father said, yeah,
Starting point is 01:03:09 John, you got a, you got a tone down, you know, told my father, you got, you know, you're good excited, but you can't say cock sucker. Now, was your dad down by Kennedy? He was a committee man down. Yeah, down, yeah. We lived on 9th Street, you know. You know, I was just thinking about another wrestling story.
Starting point is 01:03:28 We used to buy, you know, we, when we were young, we experimented with a lot. This is just to let you know the depth of the wrestling team in my relationship. And this guy was a state champion. You had Renee Cantero who was a fucking animal
Starting point is 01:03:42 when he was a sophomore. First time I saw Renee, he was beating Gizzy up. Not Charlie, a brother, banging his head off a fucking metal bumper in front of fucking five corners. I'm like, that's my guy right there.
Starting point is 01:03:58 He was 15, maybe. He was fifth fucking team. And the other brother of mine that I had from wrestling was Jimmy LeBrono. That motherfucker was a savage, too. Yeah, LeBron. Both of them. I think both of them, right? Mike and Jimmy.
Starting point is 01:04:13 But me and Jimmy used to do crazy shit, you know, like, we were the ones that... That's North Bergen. We didn't tell people we were doing. Like, him and I had a pack. Like, we just... There was shit we did that. We didn't want anybody else to know because they would have a heart attack. So me and Jimmy bought a $10 bag of T.HC. Crystal from 22nd Street and New York Avenue, that bar cross the street from the funeral parlor.
Starting point is 01:04:39 That used to be a hot fucking bar dog. You get shot in their stab, but you get everything you wanted right in the heart of Union City. And we would go down there like on a Tuesday night and buy a $10 bag. And we would do like two little keys and be fucked up and saved the rest for school. And that's Gumby Dust. Guys, that's Gumby Dust. There ain't no coming back. So we did it after school.
Starting point is 01:05:04 And he forgot he had a wrestling match. Tell him to tell you this story. He'll tell you tonight. Because he's right around the corner. George will take you to see him. Fucking, uh... He was wrestling. I guess the kid did something to him, flipped him,
Starting point is 01:05:21 and almost beat him with this move. And Jimmy was so fucking how. He just bit the motherfucker. He just bit him and got disqualified. And afterward, he came up to me and pushed me because of you. You gave me that shit, I forgot. How can you forget? You're in a fucking wrestling match.
Starting point is 01:05:38 But it got out. Somebody said something. Jimmy wasn't acting normal. I don't know like three people came and talked to us and said, what the fuck are you guys doing? Because we were at a different level. I still remember us being sophomores and doing Coke in Mr. Zinks class. Fuck does that.
Starting point is 01:05:57 You got to be a lot. fucking animal. Yes. Like passed a bag to each other. And then Mr. Zink, if you looked at his back, he had snots on his back. Because every day I walked the snout on his fucking back.
Starting point is 01:06:10 And he wore the jacket every fucking day. That's insane. It's insane how we grew up. But I'm grateful. I don't give a fuck what anybody says. I've had arguments of people and they've had judgment about how we grew up and they said we're liars and shit.
Starting point is 01:06:31 We just grew up in a different fucking planet, man. It was a different fucking planet. I bumped into a guy the other night at Uncle Vinnie's. Well, fuck, it took me to see the stones and foreigner when I was in the eighth grade. Like, I just graduated. And then gave me a hit of acid. He was with Vinnie Lynch.
Starting point is 01:06:51 They gave me a hit a window pain acid. Who does that to an eighth grader? Welcome to North Bergen, motherfuckers. You want to party with the big boys. I remember that we had a hotel room and I wouldn't leave. I didn't want to go out there. And when I walked into that Philadelphia Stadium, I almost died. And Fariner was on stage.
Starting point is 01:07:10 And that's what calm my nerves. You're as cold as ice. I don't know if I ever got the seafar. They opened for the stones. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, a long fucking time ago. Maybe that first album. Yeah, it had to be their first album.
Starting point is 01:07:27 Yeah, because the other one wasn't out yet. That's, um, don't, don't. That's War of the Worlds and all that shit. You do me a favorite nephew number one, and you get John Crowley's beautiful artworks where he could show America and put him towards John Crowley's Instagram so he could sell some of his fucking art.
Starting point is 01:07:46 Sure. John, you know how I do it, play. Put it between you guys. Johnny Jizz. Johnny Jiz. Look at this beautiful picture. Look at this, ladies and gentlemen. This is John Crowley's impersonation of me.
Starting point is 01:08:04 And turn, shut up. Interpretation. What happened was, and this is a beautiful thing. He looked at a picture of me at the stress factory in Jersey. But in his mind, he remembered me looking, that's why I looked like an 82. Mouth open, Coke coming out of the left nostril, all fucked up, beady eyes, looking at your wallet, looking at your gold chain. And you're welcome. You're going to sign it for me, John Crowley, aka.
Starting point is 01:08:34 Johnny Jizz. You know what? You see the shiny coating on here? I jizzed on it. Okay. There you go. I'm just kidding. Ooh, tremendous. Cool, ammonia. Yes. This is beautiful, brother. Yes. You're a true fucking artist. You're free. What happened to the other arm? Well, I took it from a picture on the internet's.
Starting point is 01:08:59 Okay. And so it came out pretty good. I did. hanging in the studio or in my home. What do you suggest, John? Well, you... This studio is so nice. I mean, it's... Whatever you want it. We'll put it at the studio.
Starting point is 01:09:13 Wherever you, I think it's a... I think it's a studio piece. Right. Yeah. This is a... Love the studio, dude. It's really nice. Really cool. Uncle George designed everything. He's the master planning. It's really nice. When George retires, I'm going to try that. We're going to become partners on a theater. And George's going to be the artistic art director.
Starting point is 01:09:33 That's what he does. does. No, that's about, yeah. He's done a great job with this. That's for the drums. That's the only thing I still can't figure out why the drums are here and a bicycle from 1922. You know.
Starting point is 01:09:48 Are you been riding the bike or? Yeah, every day. You got to see me. You know the stairs? I ride down the stairs. Oh, yeah. Like pooky and fucking New Jack. Do we have two seconds before we have to go? Yeah, just in case. All right. Do we have two seconds to tell one story from this? weekend?
Starting point is 01:10:05 Every fucking time I leave here and I look to the left and I see the drum kit. I don't even say now, I didn't. I just go, you know what? It's George. But hit it, Lee. Give him the story. I just, it was a great end to the weekend. But the one thing I was worried about
Starting point is 01:10:22 was like, because Joey will leave people. He's, like, the first time it took me anywhere, he warned me. Because you write, you remind me on the plane. You had a, like a ramp it up. Sort of like. Rapido.
Starting point is 01:10:35 So, like, I never left. Like, I went to the comedy store a thousand times. So, like, like, no one performed because I would see, no, I did one person before you, you'd get up and then you'd walk directly to the car. And so I was ready to go. But then as we, like, as we were leaving, someone said, George had to return a ticket. No, I got up and we're all leaving and we're walking. I'm looking at everybody.
Starting point is 01:10:59 And I'm like, what the fuck? I go, where's George? And so I don't know. He went to hand a winning lottery ticket. I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's been sitting here for three fucking hours. And now, everybody knew at 11 o'clock that we're leaving now when he's decided. And again, this is George 100%.
Starting point is 01:11:19 I ain't going to be mad at him. But what George didn't know was, I'm leaving. Okay? Like, we were by the door. If I was to look and fucking George wouldn't have been there. You would have been taking a nubber, George. And I'm sorry, but you know the rules. Wrap it up.
Starting point is 01:11:37 You had all week, if it was something urgent, I could see. But you had three hours, you were back there talking the fucking the chef and asking creepy questions and where are you from? Who gives a fuck, Joins? Just watch the register. I was going to say, it wasn't that much money. It was like $80. I understand. And I don't want to leave $80 behind either.
Starting point is 01:11:58 I can use the $80. Okay. Everybody can use $8. This is a tank of pocket. You go fill up your tank. lately? I know, but what about that they come home? And every day to like a New Jersey gas
Starting point is 01:12:09 has been at his lowest. $60 every time I pull in that. Every fucking time you pull in it and I'm cheap, I get regular. They're like, you got to put, you put it in your fucking car. Fucking $8 a gallon. This is regular. This has been put through hell. But you have a high density. Yeah, good. Put the
Starting point is 01:12:27 fucking regular. See if it don't get me that. Fucking people. John, I want to thank you. in public and Dennis was also here for bringing a lot of laughter to my life when I was a kid because I was never going to kill myself, but dog was I fucking close some days. And you and Louis and fucking, you know, fucking, we got a guy in the room, Dennis, who's been on the church before. But I remember just wanting to go to home room.
Starting point is 01:12:54 Like if I went to home room and Dennis wasn't in a home room, I was sad because I knew I was going to get one fucking laugh out of him. that was going to be fucking hysterical. And my favorite one was when the teacher would go, Dennis, you weren't here for the last three days. I need to note. And he go, I'll whip one up in a second. So this fucking day, that was, you understand, guys?
Starting point is 01:13:24 In those days, those are my little victories. You know, when you got up in the morning, you got a mom, you reach, she ain't there. It ain't going to get no better. You know what I'm saying? Like, it don't get no better. So I still had to walk that hill and still got on that number one. That number one was your first source of entertainment.
Starting point is 01:13:42 Am I lying? How many times you take the number one? Or did your dad, the councilman, drive you to fucking school? Nah, I, I, I've never, always, I had to. How many times you take that number one, Dennis? A million times. At seven in the morning, when you went to the back, and Georgia City had the junkies that was a junk spot right next to the thing.
Starting point is 01:14:00 So that was entertainment on the way up. And then when you caught that bus on the way down after basketball practice, and the wrestlers were on the bus, and some of the track guys and some of the lifters, that bus driver was always in danger. And then you drove past the blue flame, and that's where the projects hung out. So they would throw snowballs and spears and fucking rocks at the buses.
Starting point is 01:14:23 What's up, John Lee? You're looking confused as a motherfucker. I'm good, too. You're good? How's that edible treating you? You know exactly how to treat you? We're going to do another one before. We're going to eat some lemon.
Starting point is 01:14:36 By the way, let me tell you something. Today we have a special night. We're going to do our first NFL, which you guys could, whatever, you'll find out later. It's too late now. But we got it sponsored by Rudy's seafood up on Anderson Avenue. One of my favorite fucking restaurants where I give my loyalty to,
Starting point is 01:14:52 they hooked us up with some chicken franchise and some beautiful pasta with butter. By now it's like a little jello. You just mix that motherfucker up. You could smell the cholesterol in the air, you know what I'm saying? It's a beautiful thing. So when you got a minute, go over to Rudy's on Cliff's, Rudy's Seafood.
Starting point is 01:15:09 As I was leaving today, some kid came up and he goes, I came here because of you. I can't believe I bumped into you here. He made my day. You know, I'm like, hey, man, thank you for fucking coming to Rudy's. He goes, it was delicious. I got muscles. Oh, they're special tonight.
Starting point is 01:15:23 Did you see the fucking special? Inoki with the fucking cream sauce and the peas? And they got soup. They got everything tonight. So they're back. Rudy's is back. All right. All right.
Starting point is 01:15:33 So John Crowley, what's your Instagram and website? Crowley, the artist on Instagram. Okay. Yeah. And that's for my art. And then John the Carnivore for, I produce music, though. So we'll get to the music next time. We've got to wrap this up.
Starting point is 01:15:52 Sounds good. One that I put up. But John, when you showed up to the dojo, that night I was so happy on the ride home. Yes, it was fun. And it just made me. my fucking world because we went out to dinner at the other night. There's not a lot of us left. A lot of us are dead, a lot of these motherfuckers.
Starting point is 01:16:09 And for me, a dentist just to be alive. And George, Jesus fucking Christ. Lee's all right. Lee went through a little Vietnam in L.A., but he didn't go through a little Vietnam. But, John, you always welcome on the show. I love it. Thank you for having me.
Starting point is 01:16:25 I'm sure before you leave, my brother will offer you retail art space at his studio. Okay. So you can sell your art over there. Sounds great. You know what I'm saying? Just let you know. It's a beautiful fucking night.
Starting point is 01:16:37 That's my boy, Joyce. Great. We're going to revamp the fucking All-Star frame, and we've got to do some things. That's it. Things are happening. So now you're the next project that we've got to work on. So thank you very much.
Starting point is 01:16:50 Lee, give me the dates, cock sucker. Bam. Wednesday, Jake's last resort at 8.30. And then on Friday, I'll be in Yardley, Pennsylvania. you had like the Chalani farm or it's the funny farm show and then midnight he'll be back in the city at Bedford Falls. Listen, Lee Syatt is.
Starting point is 01:17:06 Lee Syatt. Thank you. Had the set of his life on Saturday night in front of beautiful people and Saturday night next week. But next week he's performing a bunch of farmers that are going to show up to pay tickets with fucking potatoes and corn. It's a farmer's market. Lee don't even know it yet. Once Lee says, I'm Jewish. Jewish.
Starting point is 01:17:27 You know Jews We're Amish motherfuckers Lee's gonna get in that car And say Fucking Joey Dears He ruined me now I can't be doing these Potato Farms and shit
Starting point is 01:17:37 I'll do everything And then yes thank you Nick September 26 I'll be at the dojo Highlining Headlining the dojo of debt And I'm trying to get I'm trying to get hooked up
Starting point is 01:17:47 On the 24th Of September At the Levity Live In Nyack New York And other fuckers Yeah I'll keep you cock suckers On Point
Starting point is 01:17:57 and that's it and that's that. We love you. Have a great week, and we'll be back, bitches. Yeah.

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