BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

SAM, GARRETT AND BRODY talk about the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT that Greg T made on the show!

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
What would you talk about on your on your podcasts show? Sam?
They so much they said, um, hey, we're busy, can
you go do the podcast again? That's how it happens

(00:24):
exactly like that pretty much. But it's one of those
things that did we do a good enough job where
it becomes a norm and they just rely on us again.
Douitively speaking, I'm gonna say, yeah, that's Sam keeping it positive.
I'm just looking at the how are we going? Is
this going to become the Sam and Garrett fift team
in the morning show for a very long time? I

(00:45):
don't know, I don't know. They have something better to do. Yes, yes,
So the morning show is a lot going on today
and we can recap that in a second, but a
lot going on with the morning show after the show
as well. Uh so that leaves Sam and I people
that schedule. Maybe we should have some more to do
after the show, but neither here nor there. I had
to have someone sitting to watch my current task. If

(01:07):
that defends me anymore, Okay, all right, No, so you're busy,
so one day it's just gonna be me that's gonna
be bored. See it's weird, like there's there are some
radio shows where it's just one person, but they have
you know, live phone calls coming in so they can
interact with people. When you do a podcast by yourself,
that is literally like talking on stage at Madison Square Garden,

(01:27):
and Madison Square Garden is completely empty, one man show
where you don't know if it's funny, if you don't
know if it's entertaining. But neither here nor there. All right,
so let's talk about the big news. So earlier today
as we record this on September, best friend brother, I

(01:48):
call him the older, uglier brother that I never had.
It is Greg T made an announcement that he is
uh going after something he has wanted for a very
long time and finally had an opportunity and going off
to do his own radio show with a former coworker
of ours, Carolina Bermudez. If you listen to the show

(02:10):
a while back, so a few weeks, Gregg T is
Uh getting kicked out of the clubhouse and off off
to do his own show. He's jumping out of the
club jumping out, and this time he has a parachute. Normally,
normally we take the parachute away and for the laughs,
but he uh, he's he's off to do his own
radio show. How are you feeling? What do you think
I am feeling? So I've only been here for seven years,

(02:33):
so the show is a lot of years. It's a
lot of years. But the most evolution I've seen in
the show at once has happened around now. I feel like,
you know, it's the this is the biggest husk of
time where there's just been a shift, and right now
the most current one is Greg t and it's for
some reason that's really exciting and I'm happy for him

(02:54):
and I'm proud of him, which is weird to say,
because I feel like I have no claim to be
proud of him. I didn't do anything, but I'm proud
of him. You know, you still could be proud. I mean,
I think that's the Jewish mother. Well it's well, yeah,
you you feel love and guilt for everyone. Yeah, you
don't really give the guilt that much, Sam, but but

(03:16):
it creeps in every once in a while, Every every
so often, I can't really help. Are you really going
to eat that? Say I'm not going to eat that? Well,
it's never food shaming you, it's that I want to
eat well, is that why because I always felt like, yeah,
I'm gonna eat that, not knowing that you really want
and then when you put it down and walk away,
I shoved my cheeks like a squirrel. He Uh so, yeah,
greg T is doing something that he's always wanted to do.

(03:38):
And how do you feel about this though? Because he
was your best man at your wedding? My best man
am show together? He like I said, he is the
brother I never really got to have. I always asked
mom and dad for one, and they're like, and I
understand it now being a parent when they're like, uh no,
we're done, I get it. So I get why I
never got a brother. But luckily said eventeen years ago, uh,

(04:02):
gregg T came into my life for I forced my
way into his and uh, it's it's it's been. We've
we've yelled, we've laughed, We've cried him more than me,
ms more crying on gregg tea side crying. Uh and
and it's it's weird, it's you know, but at the
end of the day, he's my brother and I couldn't

(04:24):
be more excited for him, knowing the fact that he's
getting to break out of a mold that he felt
he has been stuck in for a while, and uh yeah,
it's it's it's bitter sweet, but but exciting too. So
are you guys going to stay in touch and be
honest when you meditate on this, how much time do
you actually spend together that's not because of something that's

(04:45):
happening with work? Is that going to change? So last
few weeks, it's funny, like I have felt, it's one
of those things that I think in relationships, to like you,
you really cherish what you had after the fact, Um
we T and I I have talked now you know,
I'm serious. I would just call him Greg because we're friends.
But now knowing that like T is, you know, he

(05:08):
wants to be called I'm calling him t uh. He
him and I have had deep, non work related conversations,
like over the past a few weeks, something that we've
never really have done before outside of the you know,
just talking about sports or you know, the soccer game

(05:28):
that he just went to with his kids or whatever,
non work related stuff, and it made me, has made
me really appreciate him as a more of a person
than than he you know, plays on the radio. Right.
The shift has kind of brought the two of you together.
It's a it's a time of vulnerability. It can't be helped.
So he's feeling much more vulnerable as is. Everyone around

(05:50):
him has feels for him, and this is the time
where those conversations are gonna happen. I think that's really lovely.
So a few a few days ago, it was Friday night.
I'm I'm out at a bar with a few friends
in my wife Ali, and my phone rings and it's
Greg t So imagine ten o'clock. I have a few
white claws in my hand. Uh, the bar is, you know,

(06:11):
decently packed. The last thing I want to see is
the name of a coworker on my call. But that's
the thing. So Greg's calling me at ten o'clock. Last
time Great called me at ten o'clock, it was like,
hey man, I'm not coming in. I can't answer any questions.
That's it. Okay, where's the body now? Right? And I
still haven't gotten the end of that story. But and
he has promised me one day before he dies he

(06:34):
will tell me that story. But as a friend, I said, okay,
no problem. So again ten o'clock at night on a Friday,
phone rings, I missed the call by a few seconds,
you know, when you pick up the call and it's
like hello, Hello, and so I call him back, doesn't
pick up. Twenty minutes go by. So now it's ten,
almost ten thirty in the bar on your fifth white clock. Yeah,
Gregg t a mango by the way, Gregg TI calls back.

(06:56):
I pick up and he's crying. No, I's all crying, Greg,
He's crying on a Friday night. No. I didn't get
where he was. But he started, uh, we started talking,
and he goes, I did it, And I'm like, what happened?

(07:17):
Like he's crying, So I'm like, who's hurt? Are you hurt?
I'm like trying to talk to Lassie. I'm like, where
where are you? Boy? Who's in the well? Is Jada
or Ella in the well? Do I need to help you?
I was. I was like, I was almost at the
point like tap on the phone if you need help.
He goes, I got the job, And I was speech

(07:44):
not speechless in this in the sense of being shocked,
but more speechless in the sense that like it was
proud happiness as is appropriate. But I'm like, and everybody's like,
put down the phone. But down the phone and I'm like,
I can't explain to them. As the music blaring, people
are drinking, taking shots. I'm like my best friends on
the phone and he's crying because he got a new job.

(08:06):
I couldn't do that. I was just like, can I
tell you my trick for that. I start mumbling words
that are not a sentence and there's no words behind them,
So I'll just mouth a bunch of things and if
you go for like two or three sentences worth, someone
will think, Wow, it must be a really big deal.
I can't understand because I'm literally just mouthing watermelon teapot.
I can't really do this after the sock on Saturday

(08:27):
because my sister called me and she just really upset
about the possible back yard. If you just mouth that,
I do this people in the bar, and it's one
of those things where it's one of those conversations you
know that you shouldn't be having in a bar, and
it should be just you know, I should have stepped outside, maybe,
but even so White Claude does that, but but but
even so, it's you know, people smoke outside and I

(08:47):
didn't want to be surrounded by either way, I was
like I didn't know what to say to him. I
was like, hey, congratulations and he was crying like it
was happy tears and he uh he. He pretty much
was kept on going and I was like, hey, man,
let's talk tomorrow and uh, let's celebrate. And so I

(09:07):
called him the next day on Saturday. He's at the
gym as he normally does on Saturday. So he's on
the treadmill. Hello, and I'm like you all right, see
he goes, yeah, what's up. So I'm like, hey, just
want to really say congratulations. Now it goes He's crying
in the middle of l a fitness on a on
a treadmill. U. So it's it's been better sweet for

(09:29):
for for my friend, my best friend, the guy that
gave a best man speech at my wedding, written on
toilet paper. Yeah it's full in character, but full great
t two. He he took a fine tip pen wrote
the entire speech backwards because when you pull uh toilet paper,
it comes a certain way, so if you start the

(09:50):
other way, you'll miss it. Oh my god. Well it's
because he spends most of his time on the bowl.
And then he meticulously rewrapped the the entire toilet paper role.
So it was perfect. And then he got up to
give the speech at my wedding plopped it. He didn't
PLoP down the rolling choice of words. Uh, he put
He put the toilet dispenser holder down in the middle

(10:11):
of the floor, took the microphone, and he gave a
beautiful um speech where only one memory of his of
mine was made up to fit his speech. He made
up he made up a full store. No one knows
this except for Ali because she was like, because she

(10:32):
was like that never happened. Um. Great. He tells my
family friends that were at the wedding that I am
so you know. The whole point was, I am so
lucky I found Ali, I found a great job. Blah
blah blah that uh, I was even so lucky enough
that I went to a Yankee game, which could have
been true, which you know I do go from time
to time, sam um, And that I found twenty dollars

(10:54):
on the floor. Here's where the like come that I
took that twenty dollars and I paid all an usher
at Yankee Stadium to take Alie and I down to
the first row behind home plate. It would cost so
much more than Yeah, especially bribery with it. Let's not
once we were down there that I got a ball
from the Yankees because I was that lucky. He made

(11:16):
up the entire thing. That's not cool. I would be
so pissed. I would be so furious if my maid
of Honor speech was complete and utter bullshit. Now, in
typical great tea fashion, though, you know, he goes, hey, uh,
you know, where did you guys first meet? When he
was we were talking and I told him Ali and
my wife Ali and I when when the first social
media platform was there was my Space? I mean, I

(11:38):
you know, exchange like d ms of my Space before
Facebook to top five. Not yet, no, not yet when
we first met. So I tell great te this, you know,
in typical great tea fashion, what do you think he
does my Space? I'm not going to get up there
and say my Space. I'm going to say Facebook, my
God to touch. Yeah, I have a while ago. So

(12:00):
we're getting married. I go, you can't, you can't change
my story. He goes, it fits my story. I go,
so that those are just some of my memories. I
tweeted out the tatous Future show. Yeah, I want to
play this song. I don't care what they told me,
I have to play it doesn't fit my narratives. Yeah,
so if you missed it, uh, it's on the on

(12:21):
demand channel. It should be uploaded if not already in
a couple of minutes from when you're listening to this,
go listen to Greg ts uh, you know, announcement and
and thoughts out in kudos to anyone else who's actually
going through this, because this is not so uncommon where
someone takes a leap of faith or a leap of
passion or it's just time to take the next step somehow.

(12:43):
In so, this is a really special time for us
because we we don't have Greg t. But you know,
a lot of people are going through this right now.
So I'm really hoping that T doing this on air
in some way it's going to be inspiring or soothing
or comforting to everyone else who feels alone to this.
Oh I'm sorry, who's Greg Tea, the man the man
who literally has been geppetto to Greg Tea at time

(13:06):
for many of his uh bits on the air and
and things speeches that he has given except for my
best man speech. Unless Brodie wants to admit now that no,
I did not write the best man speech. You really
could have dropped the bomb right there. No, no, I
would tell you if I did. No, happily, No, I
I certainly have. Over the twenties something years i've been

(13:28):
here with Greg T. I've certainly worked on him with
a lot of projects. And uh, yeah, there'll be a
lot less to me to write without him here. So
you have your hands for you. This is where Brody
White writes a memoir. He had no idea he has
this much time on his Yeah, I don't know. Good
on my my free time. Now, I'm gonna have to
come with other stuff. Otherwise they gonnao at me, going,
what are you doing? Come not writing stuff for Gregg
Ta what you're just standing? There's keep busy text him them. No,

(13:51):
don't No, I'm not going to help him with this
other show. He's the enemy. I mean, we love the guy.
He's dead to us. Sweet Star Cross lovers, it's better
sweet twenty almost twenty five years seven, that's it. First
time I met him, he was getting pulled over under
a bridge in New York City. Was he naked? The
first time I met Greg T was at um St
Patrick's Day event that I went to I had been

(14:13):
writing for the show, but I hadn't met anybody. So
I went to, uh the St Patrick's Day event at
a bar was a live broadcast. John Stewart was there.
It was great and I met him outside and I said, so,
how did you get in radio? And he told me
about this, Oh you know he uh, he had this
job offer. He was doing radio in Florida for a while.
He hosted his own show, and they and that, you know,
the radio station, begged him to come back to New
York because that was what he told a guy on

(14:34):
the street. He didn't know who he was, you know
now that I know him. The real story is he
quit the one hundred for where we work here in
New York. He quit for a day, drove down to
Florida to Sarah Sara Sota worked on the radio one day,
freaked out and quit and came back breaking records every day.
I'm saying, he lied to me, and I got a

(14:54):
job here. Just to find out the truth. Sift jeen
minute morning show. Yea