Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - Meals By Cug!
Episode Date: March 11, 2024Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast Presents Internet Sensation, Meals by Cug AKA Danny Mondello! You know Cugine from Instagram, Tik Tok, Viral Videos such as Sidetalk, Cooking, and Interviews. As well as... podcasts like Bertcast w/ Bert Kreischer and Jeff FM w/ Jeff Witek. Thanks for watching Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast. Come to a live show! Through the Roof Tour Tickets: https://areyougarbage.com/ Follow Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/kevinryancomedy/ Follow Foley: https://www.instagram.com/hfoleycomedy/ Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Adam & Eve: https://www.adamandeve.com/ Promo Code: Garbage This Show is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/GARBAGE Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans?
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Hey.
Hey.
How are we?
Thanks for having me.
Buddy, thank you so much for coming in.
Happy to have you.
And sitting down with us.
Give us the backstory.
Give us the origin story of the Cooge.
Of the Cooge.
I mean, I gave myself the name.
It was by Cooge Eshwafakujin, his cousin.
Right.
For you non-I-Townies.
They're banged.
We're all Irish.
So.
Watching you like a hawk.
Yeah.
I just started in college.
I had a move off campus during the year.
I was like, I just want to like.
Why did you have to move off campus?
It's like a thing in like, I just want to like. Why did you have to move off campus? It's like a thing in like I went to Newport.
So most people do like two years on and then they move off
for the last two years.
So it wasn't like I got thrown off.
Yeah.
But yeah, I don't know.
I just want to document my food.
OK.
Because I like food.
I was like fucking around, just taking pictures.
And then I did a little video here and there there I did like four years without a view right you know
So we did like ten years and it was just like they thought it was funny
I was like I it gives me a little hobby to do. I wasn't working hard in college. I was just what were you majoring in accounting?
I have an accounting no shit. I'm small
I have an accounting to do. No shit.
No shit.
I'm small.
I like how when I asked him what the origin story hit me
with Cusheen, I meant your origin story,
growing up and all that.
Growing up, Staten Italy, born and raised,
1997, rugged Vans of Roosevelt.
It's not rugged, it's the most white Italian American poet.
Brothers and sisters?
I got two older brothers.
How old are they?
How much older are they?
Oh, like two and three years older.
Two and three years older than you. Oh, like two and three years older.
Two and three years older than you.
Not bad.
What'd your parents do for work growing up?
My mother stopped working when she had my oldest brother.
She was a nurse and my father just retired as a nurse.
Okay.
Nice, both nurses.
Both nurses.
Nice.
Very nice.
100% Italian all the way through the board?
To the board, yeah probably.
Even if he wasn't, he wouldn't fucking say it publicly.
You know what I mean?
He might be a little German in there or something.
What kind of fed question are you attacking the brand?
British accent comes out of a rug.
All right, and growing up, a single family home apartment,
what were you guys living in?
No, we had a two family, so it was like a regular house.
That night it was like suburbs, you know, Brooklyn.
So it's two together, like two? No, it was like a house house. Staten Island's like suburb, it's not like Brooklyn. So it's two together, like two.
No, it's like a house and then we had an apartment
and my grandmother lives in the apartment.
Very traditional.
And that's nice.
That's nice.
Holy shit.
And she had her own setup up there, right?
Yeah, she had her own apartment and her own thing.
Okay, and extended family around the area as well?
No, I mean, both my parents were raised raised in Staten Island, but I moved to Jersey.
That's what you did.
Where the only family left in Staten Island.
If he only wants it stayed.
You get a couple of bucks to go to Jersey.
So your dads are tired, your moms are tired.
What do your two brothers do?
They...
Uh, well, my eldest works for Metta.
He's like...
Oh, shit.
Intelligent or whatever.
Intelligent or whatever.
And my other brother, my middle brother, he's a school teacher, special ed school teacher.
Okay, very nice.
Not bad, not bad. And how are your grades growing up? How are you?
I was good. Yeah, yeah. My parents like, got home from school, do your homework,
and then you could do whatever you want.
Public school, Catholic school, what are you going to?
So we all did public till eighth grade
and then high school, we all did Catholic schools.
They went to the small Catholic high school,
where you had to like try and do homework.
I went to like the all-boy Catholic school
where you didn't have to do anything.
Okay.
Cause I didn't want to do anything.
Sure.
And I'm a lazy piece of shit.
I respect it myself as well.
Any sports?
Yeah, I played basketball. I I stopped like that's JV year
We will stop the entire team just quit
Yes, I don't know eventually you just get burnt down you're like
Okay, you got burnt out on the JV
I'm wearing my knees out, coach.
I'm 13.
I don't have to.
I got to think about life after sports.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't want to get CTE or no shin splints.
Come on.
Man, remember shin splints?
That was like, that was a teenager's worst nightmare.
I remember.
You got those.
First time, I thought I was going paralyzed, dude.
I didn't know what was happening. There was no cure either I didn't know what was happening. Yeah, it was no cure either.
It was like you take Tylenol or something like that.
It's not a disease.
It's not running a 5K for shin splints.
Okay, what was growing up?
What was the food like?
Were you guys eating at home every night?
Yeah, there was always family dinner after school with dinner after, you know, school with the parents.
Mom and dad could cook?
Yeah, they could cook okay.
They cook enough.
My mom was like, she doesn't like to cook that much.
I mean, she did grow it up because she stayed on mom, so, you know, she cooked every night.
My father could cook a little.
See, I can't tell if, I don't know how to grade this.
Like you saying they can't cook, I don't know if that's, they can't cook as if I don't know how to grade this like you saying they can't cook
I don't know if that's they can't cook as far as that night in Italian statin on Italian or as regular or as
You know regular people across the board. I mean they did their job. They could cook. They could make a red sauce
Oh, yeah, they can make a nice red sauce. Okay people's cutlets, you know, so they could cook
Yeah, they knew they were way around the kitchen. But then once I learned how to cook,
I was like, ah, you guys are a little slack.
That's too much garlic, Ma.
He's a real truffles.
Yeah, start losing it.
Always Italian food, like would you do meatloaf?
Would you do?
Yeah, we did like American, like we did meatloaf pork chops,
which I fucking hated,
but my mother just, I don't know.
Guess they were cheap and easy to make.
There's a pork chop to a little kid.
Might as well get it from another planet.
Might as well feed it to the dog.
I know.
They do the applesauce with the pork chops?
No, my mother used to like bread them
and then just throw them in the gut.
It was nice, it was not a good time.
It's weird, when we were little kids,
we didn't realize that our parents were young
and so they were just kind of starting to cook.
Like my mom's money now, her cutlets, everything is unbelievable.
But when I was a kid, I remember her throwing out hamburgers and meatloaf at us and being
like lady.
This is gonna get your fucking age.
It's probably 27 at the time.
Yeah, no shit.
It's strange, man.
Take some minute to get going.
What were the family vacations like growing up?
Any big trips or were you going to the shore? No, we did like cruises here and there.
Okay, where at? We're in it now folks. I don't know, like Bermuda, we only did like two or three
of those. We did like Disney a couple of times, but like once we all got into high school it was like
we didn't really do too many trips because we went to Catholic school so it was like
sure that trip went to the education
Right the family vacation goes to pay. I would imagine two nurses
They did well right they did. They did all right. Okay, they provided
He always goes yeah, yeah, and then undercuts it real quick. Yeah, they could come there's all right
Nothing crazy
Can't wait for my mother to watch.
She's gonna whack me with a wooden spoon.
It ain't like my pork chops.
A couple of cruises, all right.
Now we're starting to get into it a little bit.
A family cruise.
Cause I don't know if you're,
I didn't eat the classiest vacation.
Yeah, the cruises at spring break on a fucking boat.
Anything down the Jersey shore or anything like that. Would you get a house in the summer?
No, not really. Can you swim? I was a lifeguard for my first job, so.
Okay, there you go. The pool? Yeah, the pool. The ocean's like a whole different
map. You actually gotta know how to save a life in the ocean.
Is this a Coast Guard? I don't know. I got a Hasselhoff over here. I don't know. Okay.
Alright, so we're talking about a community pool in Staten Island. Yeah, I got a hassle off over here. I don't know. Okay.
Alright, so we're talking about a community pool
in Staten Island.
Yeah, it was a bunch of Russians.
That's a nice thing.
Whoa.
Half of the place was probably jumping.
Still a bunch of Speedos, it was weird.
Oh yeah, you got the fucking-
Indoor outdoor pool.
It was outdoor.
It was outdoor, so this is your summer job.
Yeah, it was my summer job when I was 15, 16, and 17.
That had to be pretty sweet.
It's a pretty good game.
I imagine a lot of cute girls running around over there.
It was a bunch of old men in Speedos.
Ain't nothing wrong with that either, you know what I mean?
Huh.
All right, fair enough.
And what was the family cars growing up?
Yeah, all the whips.
Let me see.
Usually like Chevy Traverses. Okay.
And uh, what's my father have now? I think like a Chevy Cruze or okay.
Big Chevy cars. Chevy F-Word. Um, at least their own, do you know?
Our own. Always owned. Always owned. Okay. Yeah. You guys have a, did you have a driveway?
Yeah, we have two parking spots in the driveway.
Okay. And, you know, a parking spot in front of the house.
The parking spot in front of the house.
Is that block in the driveway?
Technically yours?
It's technically not always, but we get pissed when someone else shows up.
Of course.
You ever put anything there to save it?
No, because I don't know.
My next door neighbor, they have a fire hydrant,
and they used to put the, like a big yellow cone over the fire
All right, I respect that
All right, I like it. I just like to meet her made coming around like there was a fire hydrant here last week
I don't know what the fuck happened to it
Huh who was cutting the grass over there as a kid?
Were you guys doing it? No, my father used to do it to get away from my mother, you know
Little peace and quiet. Breaking my stones.
And how many bedrooms was in the house?
So, one, three.
Three. So who bunked up together?
My brothers. Because when we moved there, it was like a, just built, because that now it's pretty new.
So it was only like, so I was like a baby baby, newborn, so they just put me in my own room. So you got your own room.
Was it a brand new house when you just moved in?
Yeah, they built it.
Like, I guess when they.
Look at that.
I don't know.
Not bad.
Not bad.
Couple of trips to Bermuda each year.
I know, right?
Folks are doing OK.
Not too shabby.
Not too shabby.
Any injuries as a kid?
You break anything?
No, surprisingly.
Never got surgery.
Never broke nothing. OK. You retired early from No, surprisingly. Never got surgery, never broke nothing. Okay.
You retired early from sports. Yeah, I didn't give myself the opportunity. Staves it all
for broadcasting for later. Who would babysit you as a kid? I guess my grandmother would.
She would come down and she'd watch you. Yeah, she'd watch us. Okay. You know, she
loved it.
What, you say you were a decent student.
You take the SATs?
Yes.
Do you remember what you got?
So that was when they were doing the three part.
The 20, so it was out of 24.
24.
Right, 8, 6, and 24.
Yeah, I did like, horrible.
It was like, 10, 82 part, I think.
Oh, so that's not horrible for the two part.
It was like, 5, 94, 94, 60.
That was one of my three scores. That's all horrible the $5.94 94 60 those are my trees that's all I feel I really really reading right to
And plus I didn't really like just stop yeah
I just did not I think rule of thumb out of the two part anything the four digits if you break a thousand you're a
You know, you're not you're not falling behind and I drew on
I was an 870 at a 1600.
You're doing all right.
You're doing all right.
And then you said you went to college in Newport.
Newports.
Where's that?
Oh, Newport, New York.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like by Poughkeepsie.
What school was it?
What was the college?
SUNY Newport.
SUNY Newport.
Okay, so you went to a SUNY school, stayed there on campus.
Yeah. And then when you when you moved off campus, where did you where did you move to? Um, there's just like a lot of like, like in the town houses. Yeah, you got out of the
dorms and you got an apartment up there. Okay. He didn't buy a single family home in the town.
Start running for mayor or something. Nice little split level in Terry town.
What was your first car, your first personal car?
And what age did you get it?
It was like an O2 Hyundai Accent,
ship box, two door roll down windows,
cassette tape, eight tone.
What year was this that you bought that though?
We bought it like used because it was just, I don't know, we just needed a third car.
So how old are you now?
How old am I?
I'm 26 now, I'll be 27 next month.
Alright.
Okay.
So this was 10 years ago.
Give or take.
Yeah, give or take.
Okay.
Yeah, so I mean, yeah, so the car was 10 years old when you got it.
It was probably 2012-ish.
No, it was 2002 the car. Yeah, but you got it, the car was 10 years old when you got it. It was probably 2012-ish. No, it was 2002, the car.
Yeah, but you got it in 2012-ish, probably.
Probably, yeah.
And they're still doing roll-up windows in 2002?
Yeah, I mean, for a Hyundai.
Yeah, dude, they just got that man last week.
That's coming out on the 2025.
I just got an aux cord.
I got the aux cord.
All right.
And other than lifeguarding, what other jobs?
Your first job was being a lifeguard.
Yeah, that was my first job.
That's in the summer.
Did you do anything in the winter?
No, I just school.
Yeah, just school.
I pretended like I worked hard.
But then I got, I didn't get like fired.
They just didn't rehire me and that's where I got into food.
That's when I started spinning. They just didn't fire me fired, they just didn't rehire me and that's where I got into food. That's when I started spinning.
They didn't fire me technically,
they just didn't want me back.
Company wide layoffs.
So.
So I was looking for a job going into college
for the summer and I just applied everywhere
and this deli just hired me.
Okay.
So that's how you got into food.
And yeah, and I just started like cutting cold cuts and making sandwiches. Deli and Staten Island. Yeah, right around the just hired me. Okay. So that's how you got into food. And yeah, I just started like cutting cold cuts
and making sandwiches.
Deli and Staten Island.
Yeah, right around the corner.
Okay.
This place is Miggy's.
All right.
Shout out to Miggy's.
Miggy's on Staten Island probably knows their way around the Sammy.
Woo!
Well, we go kind of lunch meet where they use over there.
Was it Boar's Head?
Oh, of course.
Are you?
Is that?
Is that?
We're a big lunch meet.
I knew that was going to piss him off.
It's got to be Boas head or nothing.
Do you know Deetson Watson?
Or is that a silly thing?
Yeah, they're coming around.
They're starting to do brand deals with Deets.
Deetson Watson was all right.
If you couldn't get your hands on Boas head, it was a nice substitute.
But it's Boas head or nothing.
For the right price, we'll never mention Boar's Head again.
Yeah, Beats & Watson.
We're also, I'll meet you at the table.
I remember when I was working at this bar
on the Upper East Side, man, there was a couple of guys
that had Boar's Heads routes, and when they were not,
when they would leave, the older bartenders would be like,
guys got a Boar's Head route.
Have it a route in New York, and on anything is there.
Dude, I remember it. Dude, they anything is there. They make a car on a boat.
Dude, I remember it.
They just print money.
They were like millionaires.
That's a million.
They're fat kidneys on a standout and eating ham every day.
It's a no brainer.
Yeah.
They're catching a nice route in the city.
Having like a chip route or something, you know what I mean?
Like I can throw sheep.
So you want hers?
It's gotta be sheep's head bay.
Damn, okay.
Was, were you making, is that, did you start,
were you, because he's always wanted to work
at a McDonald's so he can freestyle
and make his own menu items out of McDonald's.
Were you making your own sandwiches?
Yeah, we actually, it was one of these delis
where there was no menu.
It was just like, you'd go get the bread,
because the bread was like,
it was like a small supermarket,
so you'd get the bread, you'd be like,
hey, give me a fucking ham salami provolone,
let me have mayo, hey, don't.
They make the bread there?
Of course.
Really?
Few more questions like that,
he might fucking slap you.
Might have to get in between you two.
What do you think we'll do?
Come on.
Top notch.
Okay.
That's a wonder, Brad.
So that's how you got into it. But how long were you there?
I did that every summer for, I think, three summers.
And then that, like, the winter break for colleges to come back.
Come back and work it. Yeah.
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So far, the kid's classy, right?
He's got the cruise under, you know, yeah, that ain't great.
I mean, he got a grade on a curve, he is from Staten that ain't great. I mean, he got a great on a curve.
He is from Staten Island.
Yeah. No disrespect, but I got a great on a curve.
What about Christmas?
What kind of lights are we talking on the house?
Are we talking white lights?
Are we talking colored lights?
I guess when we were younger, my father used to put up lights.
I don't know.
That stopped at a certain point.
Yeah, he was just like, fuck this shit.
I'm not doing this.
Really, he doesn't spear to things.
I'm getting on a fucking ladder.
What about the tree?
Was the tree real?
Was the tree fake?
Nah, the tree's fake.
You kidding me?
Tree was fake.
Was it a white tree or was it green?
Nah, green, tradition.
A lot of what we found in our findings,
a lot of Italians go real tacky gaudy.
Hot pink.
They got like the white Christmas tree
or like the real over the top lights at Christmas.
Would you do the seven fishes on?
Oh, I would.
We still do it.
Wow.
Got him.
That's pretty Italian.
Run through what the seven would be.
And who's there at that dinner?
And who's making it?
Before, usually my mother, my grandmother,
my grandmother doesn't really cook too much anymore,
but my mother would make it, my father.
So is it pretty tight with anybody from Jersey come over?
Yeah, my aunts and uncles.
All right, so 20, 30 people, whatever?
Nah, probably like 15.
We have a small family, I don't have too many cousins.
Okay, all right.
And what would be on that menu?
So we would do shrimp cocktail.
Okay.
And then the food of the morning, seafood salad.
Sure.
And then there would be like calamade,
it's congealy.
This is cold we're talking, right?
Cold, calamade, it's congealy.
What else?
Shrimp would be in there.
And then some lobster would be there.
Okay.
And then we would have an octopus salad.
Okay.
Just cause some people just didn't like octopus or anything.
So we'd be up to like five.
And then we'd have lobster tails.
Okay.
Then we would have linguinean clams.
Sure.
And then we would have muscle.
A double bypass and some insulin injections.
And then we would have mussels mad mad.
And then my brother really doesn't like And then we would have muscles mad mad. Uh-huh.
And then my brother really doesn't like fish
or we'd have chicken collards.
Um, and mashed potatoes.
Mashed potatoes.
Mashed potatoes.
Um.
Okay.
Uh, yeah, I think that's it, right?
That's like eight.
Yeah, that's all right.
Sounds pretty good.
Do you remember what your most favorite Christmas gift was growing up?
What was something that you really wanted that you got? Were we into toys? Yeah, I guess we were into toy
I don't really remember too much. I mean I still get the head struck every year
That's trashy
People's retirement on statin I
I just do it because I think my grandfather used to get it for us.
Sure.
And then when he passed away, I kind of just wanted the hedge-drunk.
Who gets it for you? Parents get it for you?
Now there's like no, not a lot of gifts, you know.
I tell you what, man, on Christmas Day though, the lights, that thing was ready to go.
You get the lights, you got the sounds, you get something that comes, you know, a race car or a helicopter that comes off.
That was good playing on Christmas Day. It's nice. Yeah. All right. I'm shabby there and what was your first concert growing up?
Fuck I didn't really go to concerts or done with that even as an adult. What was
I barely go to concerts
What were you listening to I guess like the shit of the day.
Sounds like a fish.
Shit of the day.
Okay, like I mean what year were you?
What year did you graduate high school?
15.
2015.
Young.
Yeah, young kid.
I don't even know what the kids were listening to.
Did they have the Catholic school dances still back then?
No, not really.
They didn't do any of that shit?
It was all phased out.
It was all phased out.
Those were lords.
Yeah, I guess, you know,
the priest's got in trouble or whatever.
Hahaha.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Yeah, you know, just picked up and moved to Minnesota
one day and nobody heard of them.
What were the posters on the walls in your room as a kid?
It was like sports, so it was probably like a net net. I was
a net fans growing up because there's a new jersey. Yeah.
Now I'm like a Nick's fan because the nets really have no
identity. Sure.
What I've been seeing online the next you know, you're probably
cutting your pretty
Yeah, I did some work for them. Yeah.
Season so I'm a dedicated Nick supporter until someone else drops a bag.
Hey.
I'll go eat pizza in any stadium you need me to.
I respect that.
That's a good transition right there.
Speaking of the bag, so you start posting,
you said you were doing this kind of in college.
Yeah, I think it technically 2017, like September 17. Okay. And you said it was, it started as pictures, not videos. Yeah, it think it technically 2017 like September 17.
Okay.
They said it was a, it started as pictures, not videos.
Yeah, cause like that, the videos they took,
they weren't really big.
Yeah, they weren't really big.
That wasn't really like a thing.
And then, you know, I would throw like a video here and there,
like, you know, flip a cut, and be like,
class or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And my friends would just get a kick,
and they were like, I know, do more videos.
So I just, you know, doing it just to deal it.
Yeah. I don't know.
What year in college is this?
Is this your sophomore year?
This is junior year.
This is your junior year.
So were you, did it grow that much over the year?
Were you able to have success in college?
No, I didn't.
No, okay.
It was from, I didn't have a viral video till 2021.
Okay. Right, so like for four years, I kind of just- Just digging around with it. I didn't have a viral video till 2021.
Okay. Right, so like for four years,
I kinda just, I just, I did it for fun.
I liked it, it gave me something to do.
It was like my personal Instagram almost.
Gotcha.
You know, so I would just,
you know, have like three, four hundred followers on it.
You know, it wasn't like,
I wasn't doing it to do this.
I was just doing it for myself.
Gotcha, your friends like that.
And then I almost, like a couple of months before,
you know, got viral, I almost quit.
Not because like I was like, oh my God,
it was just like, all right, it rained at school.
It was like, did you have a proper business?
And now it's like time to move on.
What did you do after college?
Did you move back home?
No, so I graduated semester early.
Okay, pretty good.
Kids a worker?
So I had like that last semester at my apartment
and I was like, let me get a job in accounting.
Okay.
Because apparently I got a degree in that.
I lasted five days.
Why?
Did you want to be an accountant?
No, I was just good at it.
I just, I'm good.
You're good with numbers.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it was just like, it was easy for me.
Okay.
You know, I didn't really have to work too hard at it.
But the whole time I'm like, I'm not fucking doing this.
What am I?
A charcoal fly?
There's no action.
Fucking action Jackson over here.
Yeah, there could be.
You're starting to get in queue with the numbers.
Couple of fake influences.
It catch me as it can.
It catches me as it can.
Okay. So I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. Fucking action Jackson. It could be you start getting cute with
Okay, so I quit this is up there. This is not this is up. This is like still in new pool It's like what are you living with at the time who was in your boys or yeah two of my buddies, okay?
So they were still in college got you bad. There's less semester
So I quit at like three o'clock in the morning
on a Monday.
Well, you sent an email?
Yeah, I was like, hey, thanks for the opportunity.
But this ain't for me.
I literally go, I quit.
Would you have to go into the office every day?
Yeah, I mean.
Every, it was five days.
He was with us.
Yeah, it was with us at five days.
You're acting like he's like got the gold watch or something.
It's like the JV career
I actually paid me. I was like I don't pay me. I don't yeah
I wasn't like what was that setup was that like cubicle? Do you have an office?
You know what it was they put me so it was this it wasn't really a firm
It was this company that owned like 400 gas stations. Okay, so those are but do those are so big around New York
Like yeah, this guy owns 18 Burger King
Yeah, so that was like probably like 15 to 20 accountants okay office and they put me in the cubicle
Let's say it's like right here
I'm listening to everyone
Blowing up the bed to him like this is just down bad for 17
I was like, this is just down bad for 17 an hour. I can't be 17 an hour.
That's a very Italian thing.
I ain't doing this for 2150 an hour.
This is your first day here by the clock.
I mean, the coffee is terrible.
What the fuck's going on?
Yeah, and plus I didn't really know what I was doing
because I didn't study too hard in college.
I didn't learn Excel well.
So that last day, they were like running me through,
all right, this is what you're gonna do,
day to day operations, and I'm just like, yeah, I like.
Yeah.
Buddy, you have no idea I'm quitting Sunday night.
Talk to you at three o'clock tonight.
Suit and tie, Jeff, to wear?
It was like business casual, so slacks and a...
Jeff, to do a tie?
No tie.
No tie.
Do you own any suits now?
Yeah, I own one full suit, a couple of sports jackets, you know, a couple of No tie. Do you own any suits now? Yeah, I own one full suit, a couple of
sports jackets, you know. Okay. Anything of note, the suit? Name brand wise?
Nah, it was like a Caracol. I did a video for him and he gave me a T-shirt, a sports jacket,
couple days of slag. Set me up nice.
Man, I love that you'll do a video for anybody who did the concert.
I was like, I don't got nothing to do with this shit.
So I might as well, you know.
Do you know how to tie a tie?
Absolutely. It was funny. I was at a wedding Sunday.
So I was just like a plus one and I didn't know how to tie a tie.
So I was with my brother.
He was just co-worker and she just wanted me at the wedding
Cause I'm, I don't know, a jerk off on the internet
So I'm like sitting there waiting to go to the cocktail hour
And it's like 30 minutes in and I'm like, yo is any of your friends like know how to tie tie
And then finally like we're standing outside the venue and some jerks are like tying my ties
Another guy?
Yeah Wait hold on, back this up a little bit staying outside the venue in some church. I was like, tie him, tie him. Another guy? Yeah. I don't know.
Tie, tie.
Wait, hold on.
Back this up a little bit.
Is your column dad the rest of the night?
Yeah.
I mean, you get a 20 for the bartender, are you?
Hey, Mr. De La Sandro, can you tie my shoes as well?
So back this up a little bit.
So this Sunday, it's your brother's co-worker's wedding?
Yeah.
And you're a plus one.
Yeah, so my, you know.
Wait, sorry, who was getting married exactly?
My brother, my middle brother, he's the teacher.
Okay.
His friend at work.
His friend at work was getting married.
Okay, and one of his, a girl that was invited
to the wedding wanted to bring you as her date.
Or did you get proper invited?
No, I went as my brother's plus one.
Oh, you went as your brother did?
Because I've done some broad one of this show you want.
I respect it.
That's a guy who likes to party.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but your boys were hanging.
So your brother's like, I'm bringing coos with me.
Let him know what's up.
Yeah, because the co-worker wanted coos.
Why didn't he want me there?
Oh, really? Little star power. Yeah. The classes join up with me. Let him know what's up. Wanted Kooz. Wanted me there. Oh really?
Little sore-powder.
Yeah.
Classes join up a bit.
Fuck.
How to take pictures on a little jerk off.
Yeah, Andy Pettit couldn't make it. Get Kooz over here.
That's fucking awesome.
All right.
All right.
Yeah.
I took some pictures.
I'm here because how to take fucking pictures on that.
Is this a statin' Allen wedding? They fucking pictures on that
This is a stat now in wedding. Yeah, they are from stano, but it was in 30 Jersey
Nice nice joint. It was nice. It was Clis. They definitely cheap that on the cocktail I could have been a little better no lamb chop, so
He's taking pictures all night
Hey, honey, give me a minute, will you?
Okay.
Okay.
That's very funny.
Did you, uh, did you drop an envelope?
Yeah. I mean, I didn't have to. It was like my brother's doing it.
Sure. Your presence was just gift-
I should be invoicing them.
Fuck.
I like how he goes back to your account.
I should drop you an invoice, get a P.O. That airs all the way.
Hey, you know, Boar said, paste for this, by the way.
All right, okay.
If you were going to a wedding, what are you dropping in,
what are you dropping in the envelope?
Depending on if you're alone,
and it depends who you are.
The relationship.
So I had a wedding last summer,
and I was in the party, and I was alone,
and I think I did 600.
That's all right.
That's nice.
That's all right.
But he's like, you know, one of my best friends.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Young kid too.
Young guy, he's already got that fucking figure now.
Also by yourself.
What do you, Italians have always been up on that?
Of course.
He referred to the money as his brother's duty.
Yeah.
Come on.
Yeah.
I was like, I'm not fucking.
I'm not jumping on this one this is one of your
good friends getting married right okay good six is six is good what do you
say you're 26 yeah that's crazy yeah but that's like five G's well we all get
around all my friends we're like hi what are we giving you know yeah you all
talk like we do the same thing it's like I say I'm like what are you giving a
fucking guy yeah whatever I tell him I'm like, what are you giving? I'm a fucking guy. Yeah. And then whenever I tell him I'm giving, I then up it.
You know what I mean?
I'm like, I'll do it before and then I give him five.
Shit.
They gotta do the same thing.
I gotta come out on top, you know what I mean?
Will you dance at a wedding?
Not the one on Sunday.
The bag's right.
It depends how shit-faced I am.
Of course, of course.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 26-year-old uses the phrase shit-faced I am. Of course, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah.
26-year-old uses the phrase shit-faced.
I'm like, this kid's an old soul.
Yeah, you are an old soul, dude.
That's great.
Huh, okay, so maybe you'll dance.
All right, that's pretty good.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaking of the bag, let's talk about the bag.
So we were kind of getting into it a little bit.
You're working the accounting
job. You quit that after that semester's over. What do you do? You move back home?
No, so I quit that and I wanted to stay in Newport. I just liked the town. It was either
I could stay there and I can afford to live up there because the rent was a lot cheaper
when I'm moving with my parents and being miserable.
Sure. So no way.
You still had a lot of friends that were in school, maybe had another year.
And they, you know, I had a lot of friends
that got jobs in the area, so it wasn't like,
I was just hanging out to dry.
So immediately I was like,
all right, let me just get a job at the supermarket,
because I know I could get that in like four days.
And then I could just like figure it out.
Then what at the supermarket?
I think I worked at the deli,
and then I did nothing there,
so they put me in seafood and
I did even less there.
I used to clock in at eight, shovel some ice and go to the bagel store, sit there, smoke
some weed and eat a bagel for two hours, walk back in, put the fish out.
It was a nice life.
Put the fish out.
Sounds like a team story.
A nice grocery store? It was clean. Well, it the fish out. And then, yeah. Sounds like a team story.
A nice grocery store?
It was clean.
Well, it wasn't, if you don't mind.
We were a big grocery store.
It was out of fish, is what it was.
It was upstate one.
They called it Tops.
Tops.
I don't know Tops.
Yeah, so like, the tops was big up there.
Hannah Food is big up there.
OK.
And growing up, where were they food shopping?
Costco, big Costco. Oh, shit. OK. Love okay Costco. All right very smoothly. There's a banging
Would you ever make a trip to stew Leonard's were you a stew Leonard's family? Do you know I'm talking about?
Fuck with that right because it's up on 87 it's up
In Newport we had stewards stewards and they call if he's slam. Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about.
The S is like.
It's like a 7-0-1.
Yeah, gotcha.
It's like a white tray of 7-1.
And we didn't ask you, what grossest, where was your mom shopping when you were a kid?
She was at Costco.
Oh, that's where she was going.
I thought you were going there at New Pulse.
No, what do I gotta call it?
Magazine?
And then Shop Bright, I think she used to go there.
Shop Bright's a good, shout out to Shop Bright. I didn't know it was. And then Maggie's, for just she used to go to. Shop Right's a good, shout out to Shop Right,
they do it well.
And then McGee's, McGee's for just like a quick run.
Yeah.
So you're working at the grocery store,
you're not doing much, you're up there.
Now this is past when you should have,
after that semester, like that summer?
No, this is during that semester.
And then I decided, I used to work at a deli up there also.
So I ended up getting a job there too.
So I was working like.
This kid's living it, huh?
I know.
So I was working like seven days a's living it, huh? I know.
So I was working like seven days a week.
Okay.
I was making, I was making enough to survive.
It wasn't expensive up there.
It was really like, I think my rent,
when I first moved out on my own was like 800 bucks.
Yeah.
Plus electric and-
Sure.
It was like 900 bucks plus food,
but I always worked in food.
So like, it wasn't like I had a like
You're not buying three meals a day right? I was buying maybe one. Mm-hmm. You slice guy thin slice it thin
Of course. Yeah, yeah, probably pretty good on the slicer. I always fucking meant
That's why they let you take the two hour breaks slice is so small you couldn't even see
See right through it.
Dude, I love that, man.
The look in his eyes, yeah, pretty good.
Pretty good.
I respect it.
Okay.
All right, so you're doing that.
And then when did things start taking off?
So things are taking off.
You stay up there this whole time.
You never move home.
So, yeah, so I stayed up there an extra two years.
So not that year, so I graduated in 19.
So all of 19 and all like 20, 20s when COVID happened.
But I was in food, so I had to go into work.
I never got the COVID break.
I never got that extra 600.
I'm still mad about the 600.
I'm still mad about the 600.
I ain't getting broken off.
You got the stimmy though, right? Yeah, but like, not when everybody, dude, I remember I mad about the 600. I'm still mad about the 600. I ain't getting broken off. You got the stimmy though, right?
Yeah, but like, not when everybody, dude.
I remember I only got the stimmy and he was getting
the extra 600 every week.
Yeah, I was like.
Walking around like fucking big baller.
Yeah, he was walking around like John Gotti,
only like a broken down Felicia was fucking terrible.
So then that's happening.
In the middle of 2020, I got a job in the kitchen,
like a restaurant.
So I stopped working at the other two places.
And it was just better for me.
I liked food.
It was like a real kitchen.
It was still in Newport.
So I started doing that.
And then 2021, the next year, July is when the first video
took off.
Started popping. I was like, oh, that's cool.
And then like I started doing it a little more and a little more.
And you know, my buddy was like, yo, just do it.
Like, yeah.
Is this mostly when you were in the car?
Is that?
Yeah, mostly mainly in the car and, you know,
cooking at home a little, that little shitty kitchen,
which I miss.
I wish I just stayed at that,
but not stayed, I moved home once I blew up
just to like figure out my life,
because I quit my job,
but I wish I would have just known
that I could have afforded to keep both.
Gotcha.
But, you know, whatever.
So I just started doing it, my buddy's like,
just do it, you know, see where it goes,
you're not gonna lose anything by doing it.
And if it, you know, it dies, it dies, it dies if it doesn't fuck like you got something good here something
cooking and then I don't know like three four months in I just I had the
San Gennaro Fest right I went down that's the fucking Super Bowl for a for
an Italian dude from like the combine because a good show, it had to see an genero festival.
Yeah, and every flutter write ups about me.
And everyone's like, hey, cool, hey, cool, hey, cool.
And before this, I got noticed a couple of times,
but I was upstate.
Sure.
But here, it was like every 30 seconds.
And I'm like, oh, the views are matching.
People are actually engaging with it.
Engaging with it.
I was like, all right, that's cool.
So I went back to my job, put in my two weeks,
and I'm like, fuck it, I'll figure it out.
I wasn't making a single dollar of social media,
but I was like, something's got to do with it.
Something's here, baby.
Something's cooking.
We got it.
Like living on duty does like the action.
Yeah, it does.
I love that your buddy had to give you
the Goodwill hunting speech of like, if I see you again,
you got to get in your car. You got to eat those sandwiches. You got to drink those tight coaxes. Do it
for the ones that can't do it. I'm stuck here. I'll be here my whole life. That's basically
how it was. What are your parents saying or thinking
as you know before things really started working out. By then they kind of knew my lease was up in like three months anyway.
So I think they were thinking like, you know, he's probably going to like move
home or, you know, figure it out.
So that's kind of why I quit too, because I was like, all right, I could quit.
I'll live up here for three months.
I could really go hard at my content.
Right.
And then I'll just move home.
My parents aren't going to like charge me rent or nothing. Yeah. And then I'll just move home my parents aren't gonna like charge me rent to nothing yeah and then
I'll just figure it out yeah I'll make it and you know I made it work but I was
I'm still lazy like I quit and then like I got on cameo and I was still so fucking
lazy I didn't even want to make 30 second videos and my buddies call me off
of stana are you a fucking jerk or what are you gonna fucking do?
Come on.
Yeah, he's working on like,
he's working in the tunnels or something.
He's building scaffolds.
Yeah, exactly.
He's like, you stupid motherfucker.
Get me to 75, I'll do the goddamn videos.
Whose birthday is it?
All right, all right.
So now the bags are coming in aplenty, as they say.
Yeah, now I'm like, you know, okay, I'm living.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Did you do anything, and I know,
counting responsible guy it seems,
did you do anything crazy?
Was there any stupid purchase?
With the first big payday.
No, I was never.
Anything you look back and were like,
I didn't need that.
You didn't buy like your dad a Cadillac or get a Jetski.
I didn't need that chinchilla or anything like that.
No, I never, I'm a pretty simple guy.
Like I don't really buy, like design and clothes.
Okay. Even my car, I think upstate, I had like a Hyundai Elantra.
She sticks with the Hyundai.
Yeah, I know. That's what my parents got.
Big fan of Roll Down Windows.
What are you whipping in now?
Nothing. Nothing.
Nothing.
No car.
No car, because I live in Williamsburg,
so I don't really need a car.
Gotcha.
Own place over there?
Yeah, one bedroom.
One bedroom?
I got a nice little backyard.
You rent it?
You buy it?
I rent it.
You rent it?
No whip.
No whip.
You're zipping around in the Ubers, though?
Yeah, big ol' guy.
Shout out to it. I've actually been liking the yellow cabs only in the city. You still nice. They'll do it. Oh, you do
You hop in the yellow cab man there they that's culture. They they treat you like you like you're a king
They will they need they want the business. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's true
I had a cab hit a four lane u-turn to get to me
And they like you know, they know how to drive in the city now like these pansies on of four lane U-turn to get to me. I threw my hand up and he was all back. Oh, yeah, you were only fair that week, dude. Yeah, dude.
And they know how to drive in the city,
not like these pansies on the roof.
You ain't from here.
You just started screaming at him.
Dude, I remember the one time I was like, you know what?
Taxis are taking a shellac and I'm going to fucking give back.
I want to be a fucking New Yorker.
I held the taxi dude and then I was going on the West Side.
We got stuck in traffic for like fucking two and a half
hours and I couldn't get out. I'm costing like $318 because that meter
just keeps running. They capping at some point in an Uber.
Right. But I was jamming up. I was like that's the last time I'm doing that.
Alright let's hit him with some cues real quick here. We gotta know a couple of things.
Okay. In the food world are you bagel bites or pizza rolls?
Oh, meh.
I guess bagel bites. Okay. I didn't grow up with the pizza rolls.
I guess once in a while I would eat bagel bites.
Yeah.
But, still bagel bites.
Did you guys have a frozen pizza when you were a kid
or was it always from a pizzeria?
Mostly from a pizzeria, but we didn't shy away from a frozen.
You know, my mom buy like the five pack
What are we talking? Well, brand we talk about God. I don't know that elios was it red Baron?
Well, I still eat elios sometimes shout out to give me some love on that
I bet I don't even know I don't I don't know the brand but it was more like a snack
You know, okay, this is dinner. This is dinner for everybody
It was more like you know, I you guys are hungry shut the fuck up and eat
Where are you shopping over in Williamsburg? Are you going to the Whole Foods? What are you doing?
No, I literally live right across the street from a C town
Like right across the street. So I'm like you think I'm walking any further
Seatowns can be rough though. This one's like nice. Yeah, I figure Williamsburg pretty good. Yeah, hmm
Okay, all right. How do you feel about surprise parties?
Yeah, I'm not like
They're cool. I never had one for myself. Okay. I think my friends know better
One was the first time you had Nutella
That's something you grew up with or No, I didn't grow up with that. I mean, I'm
sure I had it in like middle school or high school here in there. Okay. Like I wasn't
by Pat. Not that my parents were like health freaks, but like, you know, like fast food
was a treat. Yeah, gotcha. What is your favorite fast food? I think McDonald's is the undisputed
champion in the world. Fair enough. Fucking a Fucking heck. What are we doing here? Are you great? What's your order?
Uh, depends where we are.
Obviously excluding breakfast.
If we're just doing regular, I do the two cheeseburger meal.
Okay.
With the fries and a DC.
Are you getting something on the side?
Are you getting them a chicken or anything?
Sometimes I do like a four piece nugget with barbecue sauce.
Woo!
Yeah, you know.
You know, yeah, that's our little appetizer.
That too bad.
What kind of plastic are you throwing around these days?
You got credit card?
Yeah, I got an ammage.
You got an ammage.
All right.
Shout out to it.
Too shabby.
If you had to do, obviously, you're, you know,
this is sacrilegious, but if you had to do a jarred tomato
sauce, you're in a pinch, jarred tomato sauce.
Rayos is not bad.
Rayos.
And the gentleman's answer.
We talk about it all the time.
And Calbone's pretty solid, too.
Oh, I haven't had Calbone. Calbone's good. Shout out, Calbone. gentleman's a we talk about it all the time. I'm called bones pretty solid. I haven't had
Club on get me a table there. What's going on? What's the deal?
Try that try that spicy rigged Tony
Pean in the shower that's disgusting come on you don't really
You might be the only guy that said no to I don't do So I assume you're not brushing your teeth in there as well.
No.
OK.
Whoa.
OK.
That stuff, that might be the first no ever gotten.
What's this apartment looking like?
Is it a 26-year-old apartment, or do you have it set up nice?
Is it like new furniture?
Yeah, new furniture.
It's pretty big.
I mean, I have a nice backyard, too.
You got a nice backyard?
I'm on the first floor.
Decent kitchen. I got nothing on the walls I'm on the first floor, decent kitchen.
I got nothing on the walls, complete, you know.
Psychopath living, nothing on the walls.
You know what it is?
I bought pictures and whatever,
and they just live where I want.
You wear your clothes.
They're cleaning against the wall.
But you did, it has an artistic quality to it,
to be honest with you.
It looks kinda cool.
It's just enough to convince a girl you might change.
Yeah. It's true.
It's true.
Yeah, for the first three months, I was like,
I just moved here, but now it's been three years.
Sure.
Yeah.
What's the TV like?
You got a big one in the living room?
Yeah, I have one in the living room, one in the bedroom.
I don't even know.
70, 60.
I think it was like 50.
I just had like two from before. Got you. Are they mounted
or are they sitting on the coffee table? They're sitting on the table. Are you currently in
any beef with a neighbor? No, I don't really even know my neighbors. Actually my neighbor
next door. I don't ask no questions. I don't want to know what you're doing the way I'm
doing. I don't know my neighbors either. But next door is a bar and sometimes their music gets loud
I'm like your buddy. What the fuck we don't okay. I'm nice about it
You call down or you go down there. I text them like the fuck. Oh gotcha. All right. Does he know who you are?
Yeah, they know exactly
Yokoos is trying to sleep in here
Guys, it's no more karaoke night. Big man sleeping next door. When you get cash back at like CVS,
if you go in and pay with your car,
will you get cash back?
I used to, but now I just go to the bank and...
You go to the ATM.
Do you use the ATM a lot?
Yeah, I always carry cash.
You do, huh?
Cash operation.
A couple hundred, you know.
How do you feel?
A couple hundred, man.
How do you feel about truffle fries?
Are you a truffle fries guy?
I could do it out.
You could do it out of them.
I'm more of a regular fry kind of guy.
Okay, truffles are okay.
I think it's just a scam.
Sure, I agree.
Real truffles is one thing, but that truffle oil.
The truffle oil is trash.
The Parmesan, it really kills the ketchup.
Yeah, sometimes it's too much.
That's fucking claseless.
Since you are the sandwich king,
you get a sandwich, when you dump the chips
onto the paper or eat them out of the bag,
do you put the chips on the wax paper?
Sometimes.
Sometimes if it's like a turkey club,
I put chips on the sandwich.
On the sandwich, yeah, you got to.
But you know, some sandwiches don't warrant that.
Of course.
Of course you can't do that Of course, of course, but
Yeah, usually like I sprinkle it on the and what are the chips is usually a you kettle cook guy your ruffles guy
What are you what I'm feeling that you're okay? I'm not around. I'm not loyal to nobody, okay?
Honey barbecue Fritos maybe in the middle. It was not really type. Interesting. You a Pringles man at all?
Pringles are good.
Trish.
Trish.
Pringles are good.
I think, yeah.
How about a combo?
You like a combo?
Combos aside, I haven't had combos in years.
Get back on.
They're all right.
Are you stopping at gas station?
You getting out of town?
They're all right every now and then.
For driving.
For driving for your stomach.
I've been watching.
I have fucking, actually I have E. Coli right now. What? What the fuck? You didn't tell us that when you came in? I'm on horrible face stomach. Oh, brutal. I've been watching, I have fucking, actually I have E. Coli right now.
What?
What the fuck?
You didn't tell us that when you came in?
I'm on the tail end, don't lie.
God damn it, that's all right.
How do you get E. Coli?
If I were fucking Romaine, I guess,
or like Bayad Meep.
Ah, shit.
Yeah, I was shit in my band.
I'll be Google it right now.
For like a month and then I finally went to the doctor,
sent in some samples and got a bang.
They got me. Who's got the hair these days I go to this I get a shave once a
week you get a shave a hot towel shave a mint you do check Monty man real where's
that at and what's it in East willing's okay and do you shave on your own the
rest of the week absolutely that's it once a week yeah like right now it's a
little it's like once a week once Yeah, like right now it's a little...
It's like once a week, once every five.
It depends like what I have coming up.
No shit.
You know what I mean?
That's fucking old school.
Yeah, it's nice. Thirty minutes. Relaxed.
And he cut the hair too?
And he'll cut the hair.
Just a little trim?
Yeah, that's not every time.
I usually get a haircut like once every other month.
What's the uh...
What do you...
What do you grease and hair?
Yeah, what's the shave set you back?
So a shave's 50 and then I tip them 20 every time.
So that's $70.
Respect gentlemen.
And then the haircut with the shave's 100.
And I think I still give them 20
cause I give them 20 every week.
Yeah, so it's not like,
they're good weeks and a bad week.
I'm always there and someone's like,
they leave and they give the guy five hours.
I'm like, this is a high, it is like,
it's like a fancy.
How you doing?
I'm like, you giving four Fort Isles you cheap fuck?
What you buy, you fucking Budweiser?
What is speaking of, what is the go-to drink?
Depending on where I am.
So a dive bar, you know, just Tito soda, vodka soda.
Like a fancy establishment, usually dirty vodka, martini.
Gentlemen, very good olives.
Tucking a check in his lapel, and that's Tito's vodka.
Nah, it's kettle.
I do kettle for the martini.
I got a real problem with the 30 martinis, man.
They go down so smooth.
Like three and an hour on Sundays.
I could only shot.
It's like nine shots.
It's like each one's like six shots.
I know, but they go down.
So each one is three shots of vodka.
And it's like they really creep up on you.
Couple of those before dinner gets you in a nice position.
Yeah.
You do oysters?
You like oysters on a half-shelf?
I do oysters, yeah.
You like the oysters?
If you're going out to dinner with the boys, with the squad,
who's picking up the check?
How do you guys operate with that?
Are you a split the check kind of guy?
You a Venmo request guy?
No, I'll usually just take the check.
Good man.
Depending on which group I'm with.
Sure.
But mostly I'm like, no.
So like they'll end up like just Venmoing without me accent.
Nice.
But I'm just like, listen, I don't work for a living.
Uh-huh.
And we just do it and then when I get canceled you take care of me.
Sure.
You know what I mean?
That's how I look at it.
I'm like, you know, right now I'm up, so I'll do it.
And then when you're up, you do it.
Man, he's fucking sh-
He's all right.
That's what a crew, I like it.
The kids all right.
Will you sneak snacks into a movie theater?
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK, all right.
Just asking.
Will you bring food onto a plane?
Yeah.
You will.
Not from outside, but I'll like chips and shit at the airport.
Okay.
But like, I'm not bringing like a hero from fucking Tony Hayden.
Gotta keep it up, Brad.
Yeah.
I'm gonna get that.
Uh huh.
And are you flying up front or are you still keeping it, uh, keeping the workins man?
Workins man.
Yeah?
I do the X-L-A-Goo, but that's it.
The X-L-A-Goo.
Okay.
Uh. King size bed at the house?gon, but that's it. The actual waggon. But yeah. OK.
King size bet at the house?
Queen.
You got a queen?
Yeah.
Double queen?
Or is that a thing?
A what?
Double queen?
Is that a thing?
Or is it an actual?
I don't know.
I don't fucking know.
No, I think it's just queen.
Double queen.
Or is it the size?
I don't fucking know.
I think it's not a king.
Not a king.
All right.
Yeah, some stat Nylon master salesman does this a lot.
He's like, good. That's a triple queen right there. Yeah, some Staten Island matcher salesman does this a lot. He's like, He's like,
Catch a triple queen right there.
This is the double queen.
Kooch, Kooch, you can't do just the queen.
You gotta double it up, you kooch.
I was just saying it goes well.
How do you sleep?
You sleep on your side, you sleep on your back?
Side.
Side, holding a pillow?
No.
Not that lonely.
That's gonna be a fair. Holdin' a pillow? No. Not that lonely. Ha ha So when you go to bed, you go to bed?
No, I'll go to bed with the TV.
And then when I'm trying to like, I don't know.
You'll hit it off.
Click it off.
OK.
You're reading anything?
Twitter.
Twitter.
No, I don't read.
Sorry, Kip, I'd be the guy.
What's your favorite flavor or Gatorade?
I think orange is solid.
OK. The light blue is solid. OK.
The light blue is good.
Woo.
Gentleman's answer.
You know what's solid?
The purple, though.
I think it's riptide.
Riptide.
Riptide rush.
Yeah.
Riptide snipe.
I'll change the game.
I'll tell you what, that prime is delicious though.
But they send me a case every month.
No kidding.
Prime?
They're so good.
They're delicious.
That actually goes to my parents' house now, so.
Ha ha ha ha. Uh huh. They're so good. They're delicious. I should go to my parents' house now, so.
Uh-huh.
Have you been approached by any brands that you were like,
they were like, oh, fuck yeah, like something from your childhood,
or like, like...
I'm a six-hour, I'll do whatever.
But you've been listening the whole time when you hit me?
You know, I was trying to, I was going.
Like Diet Coke, I did a deal with them,
so I was very ecstatic with that.
Nice.
All the aspartame you need, baby.
Yeah.
How you doing?
Anybody in your family claim to see UFO?
No.
That's so funny.
He told me some guy with a guinea-tea three times too small.
How are you gonna blacken my eyes?
Are you flossing every day?
No.
Okay.
You brush your teeth every day, obviously?
Yeah, twice a day.
Twice a day?
Mouthwash?
Occasionally.
What are you using?
Scope?
Listerine.
Listerine.
Okay. Blue? Blue or or purple I switch it up. Never the yellow never the original yellow
I got that once
It's like a full like paint thinner. Yeah
Are there any milk crates in your apartment right now?
No, I don't drink no, no, but like different storage or anything. I know I got cardboard boxes
I don't know what's worse to be
anything I know I got cardboard boxes I don't know what's worse than goddamn gentlemen how do you take picture the big bread boxes that's what he has how
do you feel about the double-deck not it not a double-deck person really hmm how
about pigs in a blanket yeah I feel like Super Bowl something but I'm not like
no we gotta get fucking pigs you gotta go to the pigs in a blanket right you're
not you're not getting them in a zap attack.
That ain't like the antiposs at Christmas dinner.
Yeah.
This is something we were talking about yesterday.
What do you think an onion ring should be dipped in?
Ah, great question.
Oh, so you got like,
and how do you feel about the onion ring overall?
Onion ring salad, I think it's underrated sometimes
because I think it's, you know, overshadowed
by the French fry.
Of course.
Obviously, most times I go with fry
Sure, what's in a while you want on you?
I think be a bad it solid okay sure
What else you dip it in flour and egg no, but I'm saying no no no ketchup
Toby was saying yesterday that it doesn't really have it doesn't have a whole
That is actually true. Um, I
Doesn't really have it doesn't have a whole
That is actually true. Um, I
Was saying it's just a little weird cuz it's like you gotta think it's like an actual onion. So like
Ranch, I don't really like ranch to be honest. I think ranch is classless. Okay, sure
Blue cheese I do like with wings, but that's about it. I guess barbecue sauce is okay
With it ketchup's okay. I guess that's pro. There's no real, there's no honey mustard.
We were saying it's gotta have its own thing.
Like I was saying it should be some type
of horseradish remulad or something like that.
Oh, that would be nice.
You know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
But it doesn't really have a, like,
It doesn't have like, you know,
an instant fry, you know?
Yeah, there's no, it doesn't have an instant goat though.
Do you know how to use chopsticks?
No.
No.
Okay. That's why I really don't eat at like
Asian restaurants because I'm too embarrassed to take food for a fool. Sure. Yeah. I'm right there
with you. Or struggle through it. Yeah. Stabbing it with. Yeah. I've done that before. Just pick it up.
How's what's the food like now like weekly you ordering out you making food at the house?
Are you doing what's what's the what's box? Yeah, it's a little of both.
I'm not like a, you think for like a foodie
I got me eating at like all these great restaurants?
Nah, like I'll just, if I'm hungry,
I'll go around the corner and eat a slice of pizza.
Like I'm in Williamsburg, there's great pizzas all around,
but like, I'll just go to the guy next door, he's solid.
Yeah, I'm just saying, that's the one thing about,
I'll go to those spots when I, you know,
when you want to go to those spots.
When I want to go, but like for me, you know, a slice of slice. That's the one thing about. I'll go to those spots when I, you know. When you want to go to those spots. When I want to go, but like for me, you know,
a slice of slice.
That's the thing about New York City.
It's like, there's good pizza kind of,
there's, you know, above average pizza kind of everywhere.
There's real bad pizza too, but it's like,
you can walk down any block and find a fucking solid slice.
What's the order?
Is it two plain slices, a slice of pepperoni,
a slice of Sicilian?
And grandma guy. I like grandma grandma sometimes I like a vodka slice gentlemen and that is
plain is always solid pepperoni it was never bit you know what I like I like the
you have the Prince Street with the little cups yeah the yeah of course I
don't like the big pepperoni I like real you like the fancy but I like that on a
square okay it's all right. Yeah.
All right.
Big square that.
We'll get about it.
You doing karaoke at all or no?
No, I don't do none.
I'm shy, so I don't like to get up there.
Do you have a favorite sandwich in the city?
Um, no, not really.
Depends what week it is and what ad deal he's in.
I'll close this note zap I just opened.
I like this place in Staten Island, Royal Crown. I'm not gonna say nothing.
Whoa, that's your problem.
Yeah, pussy.
Yeah, you ain't even welcome.
We don't want you there, how about that?
I'm not going to Staten Island.
You're gonna have to shovel.
Let's go over there and tune you up in a second.
Now this place in Staten Island called Royal Crown.
Royal Crown, okay.
Very good sandwiches, very good muts.
What's one of your favorite,
obviously I know it's tough to down down,
but what's one of your favorite slice places?
You a Joe's guy?
I like Joe, I like Joe's for what it is.
I think Joe's is just a classic New York slice.
It's the best of what it is, yeah.
I don't think it's crazy outlandish,
but I think if someone from New,
it's coming out of town and they would just want like,
oh, I wanna try New York Beach and just go to a Joe's.
That's why I love about Joe's is like,
you can be in the West Village,
you can be in Brooklyn, you can be midtown,
and it's like, you can get your hands on it good.
It's the same everywhere, yeah.
As a kid, would you, would the family come into the city?
Would you guys go out to dinner in the city
or anything like that?
No, we kind of kept it to Staten Island.
Staten Island.
Stated Staten Island.
Never leaves Staten Island.
And where would they, where would be a treat on Staten Island?
They take you to like a nice Italian place or something like that?
I mean, every place is Italian on Staten Island.
Sure.
But...
Sure.
There's one Polish place, I think, too.
That got egged.
But uh... Man. Yeah, no, there's a nice steakhouse west shore inn that's, That got egged. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha neighborhood people. So we always supported our neighborhood. You go to Tonys or Angelo. What's it like, Ground Round or Ponderosa or TGI Fridays or anything like that?
No, no. It wasn't a change.
They weren't changed yet.
That's the nice thing about Statenown.
But you got pizza from your neighborhood.
You went to your local near restaurants.
Sure.
That's kind of how I grew up.
And that's kind of how I kind of tend to be still.
Okay.
You're going to live in the neighborhood. you got to support the neighborhood, you know
I mean not the most New York since I ever heard that and get the fuck out of my way
Keep the music down. I'm trying to sleep
Yeah, I mean, I mean he's pretty classy kids class. He's you know, he's got some dirt under his fingernails
Obviously a little bit but not easy, you know, he runs a tight ship, which we found the Titans tend to do.
The Titans tend to be very thought out,
very, you know, they're greasing everybody
at the right time.
Are you cleaning the house or do you have a house,
do you have a?
So I get a deep clean every three months,
but then I do like, you know, week to week.
Gotcha.
What kind of vacuum cleaner are you using over there?
You got a Dyson?
No, I don't even know what to do.
I got a vacuum cleaner.
Just a whatever? But yeah. I got wood fluids cause. This guy's classy. Swiffer Wichita. Available at all major retailers by the way.
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Fucking fantastic this was so much fun. You got anything you want the folks
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That's your camera which one this one?
Like
No, I got none coming up, you know just
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Awesome.
I love it.
One of the best, man.
You're killing it.
We couldn't be happy for you.
We love you.
Thank you so much.
This is fucking so much fun.
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We'll see you next week.
Peace.
Take care, bushy head.