June 13, 2023 • 15 mins
Spencer joins the podcast today to chat about his upcoming college experience across the pond where he will be playing soccer at Leeds Beckett University
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Like Melvi.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Fifteen show?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Are you ready for this podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
All right, yeah, no Elvis today, but we do have
a special replacement.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes. How are we doing? Spend?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How are we doing? I'm glad to be here, very exciting.
I've only been on this podcast, I think on zoom.
It's like four days before my fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Oh wow, wit a minute, Yeah, what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
From my basement as well? So wow, in person, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's cool to have you in person.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're actually taller than I expect.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm taller. I'm not that tall every day man. Yeah,
he's tall.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
He's going to be eighteen years old in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know, it's insane.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Do you have any big plans for eighteenth birthday? Like
you want to? I don't know, big club or like
when you turn.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I mean, nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We're gonna, I think we're going a couple of cool places.
We're gonna go l A, I think, and then and
then we're going to All Star games.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You buy a scratch off?
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Can I buy a scratch off? Eighteen?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Buy a scratch off, but we're.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Also going to see uh Premier League game?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh yes, we're going to see a English Premier League
games at yea Red Bulls, and then I think some
in Philly you go to see my favorite You're.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Going to see Messy play this summer.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, that should be fun.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yeah, someone's gonna have a good summer.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
Imagine you decided not to go to college, you would
get none of this right exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, one decision. Nothing's happening like this.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, are you prepared for your big move across?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I will be?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Uh? I mean, I got three months until I head
over there, But for now, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm
I'm not not crazy nervous yet. Get nervous later, expect that.
But uh, you know, my parents have done a good
job preparing me for what I gotta do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So yeah, as much as a surprise it was.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, I mean when I made a decision, I
should be should be prepared by the time I go.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
He's talking like an athlete, by the way, he answering
how many times a year will you be able to
come back of?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I know?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think it's only two. I don't know about spring
break because I haven't heard anything about a spring break.
I might only be able to stay over there for
spring break, but for now I got Christmas and then
summer vacation.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I might be going over there for spring break. Nice,
but we're we're gonna go for.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving cool?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
And then yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Then I told him, I said, hey, I'm off in October,
so if you need me, I could come.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Right donald celebrate Thanksgiving the country that I have a question.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
So Spencer comes across as such a kind good boy,
like is he an asshole at home?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Sometimes? Yes, No, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Okay, it's so hard to believe, but all kids are.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
All kids have their moments where they're idiots and then
you don't get along with them, and then they do something.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
With Spencer on this, he seems like a very polite
young man.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
But for the most part he is. He is so
easy when it comes like.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
He's not a party kid.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
He's not going out with a million girls kid, he's
not drama. I don't have to worry about him getting
into fights. I don't have to do he makes the right decisions,
like he is the perfect child.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
So your typical oldest kid he really is is pressing
off the rails.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
Wait wait, so President is a sweetheart. He's got the
kindest heart. He do anything for anyone. He's the first
person if a new kid comes into the school, he's
the first one to sit them at lunch, with them
at lunch and be friends with them. But he's going
to be the partier. He's the one who I'm going
to get the phone calls and we're like, got one too,
same thing.
Speaker 10 (03:38):
I think that's just all the classic oldest youngest. Yeah,
with everyone, I'm the youngest, and my sister's the oldest,
and she's I was the oldest.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I never had a cigarette, I never tried marijuana. I
never drank till I was of age. Like I was
the straight, narrow, straight laced person.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
Yeah, I was too, And I'm kind of I feel
like I'm cheated in all this.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
You were until thirty five, I was. I never got
to like sow my wild oats when I was a kid,
I was.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
So jolts when you got older.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, in my twenties. You knew me in my twenties.
Speaker 11 (04:09):
Yeah, that's true, But but it's true though. I mean
I was always the role model student.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I graduated.
Speaker 11 (04:14):
Magnet, come loudly, I graduated that right, magnet, Magma, Let's
move on totally.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I don't know why I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It is like, you know, three four point, I'm the
smartest getting the class.
Speaker 11 (04:31):
I was not funded victorian. But the point is I
always followed all the rules. But the people that I
know that were messed up then are like making triple
what I'm making.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
These people are like millionaires and retired already. How does
that happen? And they barely went to school.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I know something high rewards.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
That's my life works r Is it high risk high reward?
I suppose the risk takers, but all.
Speaker 11 (04:53):
The people that said you must go to the best
school possible, and you must, you know, follow the instructions.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That doesn't necessarily leave you success.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
My brother never went to college and he does graphics
designs and he does incredibly well.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
He never went to college. He just you know, learned
it very well.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It we were living a lie back then. We were
told these things you said, weren't we were?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
We were?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You're doing okay for yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't think it's a lie, though.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Cash for a car, I don't want to pay cash
for a car you did years ago, he.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Wrote a check, Daniel.
Speaker 11 (05:28):
But it's true if you think about it, right. I mean,
I'm not alone in this hill, am I.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't think we were lied to.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I just don't think anybody really knew.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
I think we all got into fields where you don't
need a college degree, but there are a lot of
places where you really do, and it's important to have
now for sure.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yes, college is just an experience as well.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Would you give back that experience ever? Okay, then it
was money well spent.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
I gotta tell you, I never went to college a
day in my life, and I regret the social aspect
of it. I feel like I missed out a lot
on you know, just fra turning easy craziness.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah. He was telling me about that when we were
at the play a couple months ago. But I just
feel like nowadays, like there's a lot of opportunities that
you could have to be successful that you don't really
need an education for.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But that's just it's come with, you know, time.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So as we've come to twenty twenty twenty twenty three,
now there's a lot of things that you do online
that you don't really need any sort of education for
you can just some people are lucky as well.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, they just fall into the right path.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
So you know where you are.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, I'm not trying to say you don't go to college.
Speaker 11 (06:30):
I'm just saying it's not exactly a necessary prerequisite.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Depending on what you want to do to the right. Well,
did you live at one?
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Doctor, please go to college. Don't operate on me without
that that obization part. Like Tonight's point, it is so
important and it is great. I mean, look what happened
in this run without it.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
But did you stay at home?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Scary?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
When I lived at home, that was another thing I do.
I never got to go and I never got to dorm,
go away to school.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was living.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Vicariously through my friends who went to all the Sunni schools.
I was up at Binghamton every chance I got. I'm like, oh,
look at you guys living this life.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We'll see.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
My mom tried to make me go away, and I
was like that, I don't want to go. I don't
want to go, But now I go. I love Saint John's.
I loved where I went to school.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
But I probably should have gone or at least studied
abroad at some point.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
In retrospect, I went to Brooklyn College. Had I not
gone to Brooklyn College, I probably wouldn't be here, right.
I got a job at my junior year of school
and got to work for a.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Year here at this radio station. So when I came
back in my senior year, who wouldn't know if the
job would have been there. Everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yep, everything happens.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
And with him, he was actually going to commute.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
He was gonna go already go to stay home. And
you know, I wasn't even gonna play soccer for the
first year. I mean I would have tried out for
the club team, but luckily I got a magic chance.
I don't know where it came from.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But it's so funny, like your mom, when I would
talk to your mom about where you possibly would be
going to school.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't think you brought this up once.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
It was a surprise.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
So right in the last four or five months, the.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Last time I saw everybody here was at the play
that we went to Shucked, but I had no idea
what was going to happen. Then I was planning on
going to Iona and that was only a few months ago,
so I was telling everybody.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it's looking like Iona right now.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But I was actually on a cruise ship when I
found out that I could have possibility to go to
ah but he got it was exciting, but I had
like one hundred and three feet for while I was there.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I don't know to come back with an accent like Madonna.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'll have an accent for sure. Was in the first
two weeks of being there.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So he but he got into like what eleven twelve schools?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I mean I got into some cool schools that
I applied to, but I really was only going to
go about.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Brooklyn Community College.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Did you get into that one community college?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Bolyn co it's.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Surrounded in a community.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, I mean I was preparing to stay here, stay
at home, go to Iona, but then train on my
own with my coaches and on my teammates that were
also close by, and hopefully get a chance to go
and play somewhere in my sophomore year. And I was
lucky enough to have a contact at another school who
wanted me this year. It didn't work out this year,
and then maybe for next year. He still had me
in mind, so uh but everything, Yeah, everything changed though
(09:14):
when I got that message so I feel like.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
You manifested it. You look like a European footballer.
Speaker 10 (09:18):
Yeah yeah, you Ali just told me that when I was.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
And then when he wears the little headband like they
on its head, I'm just like, oh dude, you got
Jack Grealish already and you're.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Gonna be the exotic one over there.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh Spencer, you're American.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Acts right, he meets.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
A British girl, he cannot do like his dad did
where he met an American and he moves here.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
You cannot move to the UK, but I gotta move.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
You were moving to the UK.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, what if I got an opportunity to play Poland?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Like if I.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
See, if I got a chance playing Poland, that's my dream.
I can potentially signed a professional contract.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
He actually keeps saying he would love to play and
like like like welcome to Wrexham, like that type of environment.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Somewhere like that. I mean, whatever it is, that's my dream.
And I'm I tell.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
You I never I never hold you back.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I just I know, Yeah, make your mom cry.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
She's gonna be a fucking mess here.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Thank you do.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Tell everybody that I would never like Sheldon and her.
I would never ever keep him from his dreams.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
We want him to do.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Whatever the same way, follow your heart, whatever you think
you need to do, and ignore your mind.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Ye, I'm also.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Happier seeing you happy though. Yeah, of course she'll cry,
but she'll be happy.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
And I also said to him, you know you can
always come home, you can always zoom.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Thank gosh, they have now all these ways to keep
in contact, because back in the day when we went.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Get a letterge getting a letter every three weeks from
your kid like forty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
When I like to.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Sleep away camp drama camp for like weeks, my parents
would write me. It was so exciting when you got.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
The letter in the mail first and take two weeks
to get one back to them.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We didn't have the internet. There was no internet.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Email was invented in my sophomore year of.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Hell and they.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Called us into They called us into the school that
the TV radio office around the computer and they said,
look to see this computer here, we could send electronic mail.
We're all going to share this computer and you could
come on at eight o'clock in the morning and check
your electronic mail. And I was and I was being
gifted this privilege and as in my sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Of school, I'm like, what is this electronic mail?
Speaker 9 (11:37):
Yeah, freshman in high school, we got beeped and had
to go to the payphone.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
It's like a drug deal.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
You see.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
How lucky you are.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
A couple of hours away.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean, okay, it's like half I mean, they are
my family, but I don't know them too well. I mean,
it's going to be like meeting a new person. But yeah,
I mean i've met them once.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Actually, but you're and you're half British, so it's not
like you know you're going you.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Know, yeah, I'll be what I was actually thinking of,
which was a couple of weeks ago, when I sat
down and just looked up look, you know, looked out everything.
It's basically like I'm meeting a whole another version of myself,
like when I go over to England, because yeah, those
people are part of my family, and I spent my
entire life up until now, all my memories knowing one
side of my family. But then I could potentially be
(12:25):
seeing an entire new world with all these you know,
the English side of my family, with my dad's uncle.
My dad's best friend is my godfather. I mean, all
these people learned about them, learn about what they do,
and just figure out, you know what my dad grew.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Up with in England.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's it's gonna change everything so cool.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I'm kind of jealous, Like you're.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
Still gonna listen to the Brooklyn Boys podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I will be able to take with me.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I mean like I won't be able to take my
people with me, but I'll be able to take my
music and my podcast with me.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
So yeah, you know you can leave someone behind too, No.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Us, I look, I'm just like an everyday listener to
the morning show. Like I wake up and six am,
I go to the gym and I'm listening to the
morning show instead of music. So with it being in
the afternoon, now, it's gonna be a little weird. I'll
come back from school and I'll put the morning show on,
or I might have to, like the next day, i
might have to listen to the on demand version from
(13:23):
the day before and pretend like it's six am and
that's what I'm listening to.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
We're an afternoon for them.
Speaker 10 (13:28):
Yeah yeah, wait, okay, so at what point did you
realize your mom was kind of cool and had a
really cool job.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
He still doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I mean, I always knew that she had a cool
job because all of my friends would always be like, oh,
that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I was like, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
But then, like you know, I think once I started
to appreciate everything more, like, you know, the opportunities to
go to the theater or see concerts like jingle Ball
and all that, Like, that's that's an insane opportunity to
be able to do that as many times as I
was fortunate enough to, you know, be able to do so.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I'd say, like probably when I.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Was in sixth grade and I realized what a verified
check mark as well on Instagram was, I was like, oh,
wait a minute, this is pretty this is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, and then all my friends were like, what, No,
that's crazy. It's just very fun.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
She's fake and now you can just buy one exactly
got earned by Twitter.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I have a different colored check mark if you if
you earned it, If you earned it, then you know
you should have like a gold check mark, or if yeah,
you bought it, you should have the blue check mark.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah that's good, I agree, or a red one.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's been a pleasure having you here.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Here's here, let's make him a deal. How about this
your first week month in England. You'll be a guest
on our podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Sounds good. I think the age is eighteen. I'll hit
you up, but I'm leading to old bars.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Number.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Take it to a strip club? Do you hate strip clubs?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I If you can get him to go to a
strip club, I'll give you ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wow, a lot more than that.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You'll be quiet in there.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Thanks everybody, Bye bye, The fifteen Minute Morning Show.
What would you talk about on your on your podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Like Melvi.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Fifteen show?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Are you ready for this podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
All right, yeah, no Elvis today, but we do have
a special replacement.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes. How are we doing? Spend?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How are we doing? I'm glad to be here, very exciting.
I've only been on this podcast, I think on zoom.
It's like four days before my fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Oh wow, wit a minute, Yeah, what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
From my basement as well? So wow, in person, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's cool to have you in person.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're actually taller than I expect.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm taller. I'm not that tall every day man. Yeah,
he's tall.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
He's going to be eighteen years old in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know, it's insane.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Do you have any big plans for eighteenth birthday? Like
you want to? I don't know, big club or like
when you turn.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I mean, nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We're gonna, I think we're going a couple of cool places.
We're gonna go l A, I think, and then and
then we're going to All Star games.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You buy a scratch off?
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Can I buy a scratch off? Eighteen?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Buy a scratch off, but we're.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Also going to see uh Premier League game?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh yes, we're going to see a English Premier League
games at yea Red Bulls, and then I think some
in Philly you go to see my favorite You're.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Going to see Messy play this summer.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, that should be fun.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yeah, someone's gonna have a good summer.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
Imagine you decided not to go to college, you would
get none of this right exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, one decision. Nothing's happening like this.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, are you prepared for your big move across?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I will be?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Uh? I mean, I got three months until I head
over there, But for now, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm
I'm not not crazy nervous yet. Get nervous later, expect that.
But uh, you know, my parents have done a good
job preparing me for what I gotta do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So yeah, as much as a surprise it was.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, I mean when I made a decision, I
should be should be prepared by the time I go.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
He's talking like an athlete, by the way, he answering
how many times a year will you be able to
come back of?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I know?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think it's only two. I don't know about spring
break because I haven't heard anything about a spring break.
I might only be able to stay over there for
spring break, but for now I got Christmas and then
summer vacation.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I might be going over there for spring break. Nice,
but we're we're gonna go for.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving cool?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
And then yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Then I told him, I said, hey, I'm off in October,
so if you need me, I could come.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Right donald celebrate Thanksgiving the country that I have a question.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
So Spencer comes across as such a kind good boy,
like is he an asshole at home?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Sometimes? Yes, No, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Okay, it's so hard to believe, but all kids are.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
All kids have their moments where they're idiots and then
you don't get along with them, and then they do something.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
With Spencer on this, he seems like a very polite
young man.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
But for the most part he is. He is so
easy when it comes like.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
He's not a party kid.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
He's not going out with a million girls kid, he's
not drama. I don't have to worry about him getting
into fights. I don't have to do he makes the right decisions,
like he is the perfect child.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
So your typical oldest kid he really is is pressing
off the rails.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
Wait wait, so President is a sweetheart. He's got the
kindest heart. He do anything for anyone. He's the first
person if a new kid comes into the school, he's
the first one to sit them at lunch, with them
at lunch and be friends with them. But he's going
to be the partier. He's the one who I'm going
to get the phone calls and we're like, got one too,
same thing.
Speaker 10 (03:38):
I think that's just all the classic oldest youngest. Yeah,
with everyone, I'm the youngest, and my sister's the oldest,
and she's I was the oldest.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I never had a cigarette, I never tried marijuana. I
never drank till I was of age. Like I was
the straight, narrow, straight laced person.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
Yeah, I was too, And I'm kind of I feel
like I'm cheated in all this.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
You were until thirty five, I was. I never got
to like sow my wild oats when I was a kid,
I was.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
So jolts when you got older.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, in my twenties. You knew me in my twenties.
Speaker 11 (04:09):
Yeah, that's true, But but it's true though. I mean
I was always the role model student.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I graduated.
Speaker 11 (04:14):
Magnet, come loudly, I graduated that right, magnet, Magma, Let's
move on totally.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I don't know why I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It is like, you know, three four point, I'm the
smartest getting the class.
Speaker 11 (04:31):
I was not funded victorian. But the point is I
always followed all the rules. But the people that I
know that were messed up then are like making triple
what I'm making.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
These people are like millionaires and retired already. How does
that happen? And they barely went to school.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I know something high rewards.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
That's my life works r Is it high risk high reward?
I suppose the risk takers, but all.
Speaker 11 (04:53):
The people that said you must go to the best
school possible, and you must, you know, follow the instructions.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That doesn't necessarily leave you success.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
My brother never went to college and he does graphics
designs and he does incredibly well.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
He never went to college. He just you know, learned
it very well.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It we were living a lie back then. We were
told these things you said, weren't we were?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
We were?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You're doing okay for yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't think it's a lie, though.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Cash for a car, I don't want to pay cash
for a car you did years ago, he.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Wrote a check, Daniel.
Speaker 11 (05:28):
But it's true if you think about it, right. I mean,
I'm not alone in this hill, am I.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't think we were lied to.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I just don't think anybody really knew.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
I think we all got into fields where you don't
need a college degree, but there are a lot of
places where you really do, and it's important to have
now for sure.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yes, college is just an experience as well.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Would you give back that experience ever? Okay, then it
was money well spent.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
I gotta tell you, I never went to college a
day in my life, and I regret the social aspect
of it. I feel like I missed out a lot
on you know, just fra turning easy craziness.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah. He was telling me about that when we were
at the play a couple months ago. But I just
feel like nowadays, like there's a lot of opportunities that
you could have to be successful that you don't really
need an education for.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But that's just it's come with, you know, time.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So as we've come to twenty twenty twenty twenty three,
now there's a lot of things that you do online
that you don't really need any sort of education for
you can just some people are lucky as well.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, they just fall into the right path.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
So you know where you are.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, I'm not trying to say you don't go to college.
Speaker 11 (06:30):
I'm just saying it's not exactly a necessary prerequisite.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Depending on what you want to do to the right. Well,
did you live at one?
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Doctor, please go to college. Don't operate on me without
that that obization part. Like Tonight's point, it is so
important and it is great. I mean, look what happened
in this run without it.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
But did you stay at home?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Scary?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
When I lived at home, that was another thing I do.
I never got to go and I never got to dorm,
go away to school.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was living.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Vicariously through my friends who went to all the Sunni schools.
I was up at Binghamton every chance I got. I'm like, oh,
look at you guys living this life.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We'll see.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
My mom tried to make me go away, and I
was like that, I don't want to go. I don't
want to go, But now I go. I love Saint John's.
I loved where I went to school.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
But I probably should have gone or at least studied
abroad at some point.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
In retrospect, I went to Brooklyn College. Had I not
gone to Brooklyn College, I probably wouldn't be here, right.
I got a job at my junior year of school
and got to work for a.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Year here at this radio station. So when I came
back in my senior year, who wouldn't know if the
job would have been there. Everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yep, everything happens.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
And with him, he was actually going to commute.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
He was gonna go already go to stay home. And
you know, I wasn't even gonna play soccer for the
first year. I mean I would have tried out for
the club team, but luckily I got a magic chance.
I don't know where it came from.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But it's so funny, like your mom, when I would
talk to your mom about where you possibly would be
going to school.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't think you brought this up once.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
It was a surprise.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
So right in the last four or five months, the.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Last time I saw everybody here was at the play
that we went to Shucked, but I had no idea
what was going to happen. Then I was planning on
going to Iona and that was only a few months ago,
so I was telling everybody.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it's looking like Iona right now.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But I was actually on a cruise ship when I
found out that I could have possibility to go to
ah but he got it was exciting, but I had
like one hundred and three feet for while I was there.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I don't know to come back with an accent like Madonna.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'll have an accent for sure. Was in the first
two weeks of being there.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So he but he got into like what eleven twelve schools?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I mean I got into some cool schools that
I applied to, but I really was only going to
go about.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Brooklyn Community College.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Did you get into that one community college?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Bolyn co it's.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Surrounded in a community.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, I mean I was preparing to stay here, stay
at home, go to Iona, but then train on my
own with my coaches and on my teammates that were
also close by, and hopefully get a chance to go
and play somewhere in my sophomore year. And I was
lucky enough to have a contact at another school who
wanted me this year. It didn't work out this year,
and then maybe for next year. He still had me
in mind, so uh but everything, Yeah, everything changed though
(09:14):
when I got that message so I feel like.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
You manifested it. You look like a European footballer.
Speaker 10 (09:18):
Yeah yeah, you Ali just told me that when I was.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
And then when he wears the little headband like they
on its head, I'm just like, oh dude, you got
Jack Grealish already and you're.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Gonna be the exotic one over there.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh Spencer, you're American.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Acts right, he meets.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
A British girl, he cannot do like his dad did
where he met an American and he moves here.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
You cannot move to the UK, but I gotta move.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
You were moving to the UK.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, what if I got an opportunity to play Poland?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Like if I.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
See, if I got a chance playing Poland, that's my dream.
I can potentially signed a professional contract.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
He actually keeps saying he would love to play and
like like like welcome to Wrexham, like that type of environment.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Somewhere like that. I mean, whatever it is, that's my dream.
And I'm I tell.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
You I never I never hold you back.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I just I know, Yeah, make your mom cry.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
She's gonna be a fucking mess here.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Thank you do.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Tell everybody that I would never like Sheldon and her.
I would never ever keep him from his dreams.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
We want him to do.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Whatever the same way, follow your heart, whatever you think
you need to do, and ignore your mind.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Ye, I'm also.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Happier seeing you happy though. Yeah, of course she'll cry,
but she'll be happy.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
And I also said to him, you know you can
always come home, you can always zoom.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Thank gosh, they have now all these ways to keep
in contact, because back in the day when we went.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Get a letterge getting a letter every three weeks from
your kid like forty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
When I like to.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Sleep away camp drama camp for like weeks, my parents
would write me. It was so exciting when you got.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
The letter in the mail first and take two weeks
to get one back to them.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We didn't have the internet. There was no internet.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Email was invented in my sophomore year of.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Hell and they.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Called us into They called us into the school that
the TV radio office around the computer and they said,
look to see this computer here, we could send electronic mail.
We're all going to share this computer and you could
come on at eight o'clock in the morning and check
your electronic mail. And I was and I was being
gifted this privilege and as in my sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Of school, I'm like, what is this electronic mail?
Speaker 9 (11:37):
Yeah, freshman in high school, we got beeped and had
to go to the payphone.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
It's like a drug deal.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
You see.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
How lucky you are.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
A couple of hours away.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean, okay, it's like half I mean, they are
my family, but I don't know them too well. I mean,
it's going to be like meeting a new person. But yeah,
I mean i've met them once.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Actually, but you're and you're half British, so it's not
like you know you're going you.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Know, yeah, I'll be what I was actually thinking of,
which was a couple of weeks ago, when I sat
down and just looked up look, you know, looked out everything.
It's basically like I'm meeting a whole another version of myself,
like when I go over to England, because yeah, those
people are part of my family, and I spent my
entire life up until now, all my memories knowing one
side of my family. But then I could potentially be
(12:25):
seeing an entire new world with all these you know,
the English side of my family, with my dad's uncle.
My dad's best friend is my godfather. I mean, all
these people learned about them, learn about what they do,
and just figure out, you know what my dad grew.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Up with in England.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's it's gonna change everything so cool.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I'm kind of jealous, Like you're.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
Still gonna listen to the Brooklyn Boys podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I will be able to take with me.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I mean like I won't be able to take my
people with me, but I'll be able to take my
music and my podcast with me.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
So yeah, you know you can leave someone behind too, No.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Us, I look, I'm just like an everyday listener to
the morning show. Like I wake up and six am,
I go to the gym and I'm listening to the
morning show instead of music. So with it being in
the afternoon, now, it's gonna be a little weird. I'll
come back from school and I'll put the morning show on,
or I might have to, like the next day, i
might have to listen to the on demand version from
(13:23):
the day before and pretend like it's six am and
that's what I'm listening to.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
We're an afternoon for them.
Speaker 10 (13:28):
Yeah yeah, wait, okay, so at what point did you
realize your mom was kind of cool and had a
really cool job.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
He still doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I mean, I always knew that she had a cool
job because all of my friends would always be like, oh,
that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I was like, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
But then, like you know, I think once I started
to appreciate everything more, like, you know, the opportunities to
go to the theater or see concerts like jingle Ball
and all that, Like, that's that's an insane opportunity to
be able to do that as many times as I
was fortunate enough to, you know, be able to do so.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I'd say, like probably when I.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Was in sixth grade and I realized what a verified
check mark as well on Instagram was, I was like, oh,
wait a minute, this is pretty this is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, and then all my friends were like, what, No,
that's crazy. It's just very fun.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
She's fake and now you can just buy one exactly
got earned by Twitter.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I have a different colored check mark if you if
you earned it, If you earned it, then you know
you should have like a gold check mark, or if yeah,
you bought it, you should have the blue check mark.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah that's good, I agree, or a red one.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's been a pleasure having you here.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Here's here, let's make him a deal. How about this
your first week month in England. You'll be a guest
on our podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Sounds good. I think the age is eighteen. I'll hit
you up, but I'm leading to old bars.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Number.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Take it to a strip club? Do you hate strip clubs?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I If you can get him to go to a
strip club, I'll give you ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wow, a lot more than that.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You'll be quiet in there.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Thanks everybody, Bye bye, The fifteen Minute Morning Show.
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