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What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm Elvis Presents fifteen Minute Morning Show. Yeah, we're still
recovering from the super Bowl party. Yeah, we had a
good night. It was a good night, right, a good night. Listen,
good night. As long as you weren't expecting a good
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football game, it was or a good halftime show. There
was that. We had a good time. And the only
commercials we liked, of course, were the Norwegian cruise Line
the day we had two of them, and there's our
ship Bliss. Hey, welcome to the fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast.
Around the big penis shaped table, Gandhi, there's Scary, there's Brody,
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there's Garrett at the tip. There's my fiance Alex. Hello,
there's Danielle and a special guest, reptile Matt, So anyway
we call him get Goo. Of course, Alex and Matt
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worked together at the Staten Island Zoo. They're best friends.
They lived together. I didn't know that. It's the strangest thing.
Elvis doesn't know, but I am. I do. Uh. I
live in the bedroom down the hall. Yeah, he lives
in our apartment, and our our apartment is it's so
cavernous run we run out of You actually need a
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passport to get to his bedroom. It's crazy. Anyway, Well,
welcome to the podcast. What do you want to talk about?
You should we talked to to Matt and ask him
why he's called reptile Matt. Go ahead, get in, Matt.
Why are you called reptile Matt? Do you want a
good question? The true reason? Yes, because it's not really
all that great of a story. It is. It is cool. Well,
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there's it's interesting to us. There were when I first
moved here. Alex was literally the second person that I
met when I walked through the You moved from where Tennessee.
I'm okay here a little yeah, just a little bit right?
UM's it with Brooklyn accent red hood, born and raised you.
Alex had dozens I think a friend's named Matt, so
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they each got a nickname. In mine came reptile Matter.
But why a reptile match? Well, because I work at
at the zoo in the reptile department. Okay, and I've
been kitchen livery critters since I was a little kid.
We went to the we went on like a tour.
He let my kids almost catch was an alligator. I
think so. Yeah, and they got to feed it with
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a stick and everything. They beat it with a stick.
You've gotten bitten like a bunch of times, yes, but
not by any not by a venomous snake. But you haven't,
but you have a ton of You deal with venomous
snakes every day. And so why I mean you you
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love snakes? I do I do for those of us
who hate snakes. I mean, I don't know why. I
just I'm afraid of is anyone else afraid? I love snakes?
Gives them? What? Do you love them? I just think
they're so beautiful and so different than all of the
other creatures on this planet. And you just described yourself.
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And they look like they're deceptive, they look like they'd
be all slimy, but they feel really cool. And there's
so many different kinds. Did you hold one with me
at the white one hunded Christmas party? Is that at
the urinal? Okay? So at the zoo? If you are
a hit, they call it hit right by a snake. Yes,
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it's venomous. Yes, what do you do? What do you
know what to do? Yeah? Okay, I hope. So first things, like,
we do have a refrigerator, full of anti venom's BONDI
that is UM that's only administered by a doctor, So
we don't do that. So if I'm bitten, I'm gonna
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let you administer. Is there a doctor on the nod
before you get the one? Not? Well, you're depending on
the snake. You can be sure. So if Matt gets
hit by one, he pushes a button along goes throughout
the whole zoo, and each staff member goes to the location,
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and we will have a role. We gotta keep Matt calm,
We gotta take off jewelry. What do you do? What's
your role? Alex Well. I used to be in the
animal department. I'm not what um. I was a supervisor,
so I would delegate, yell at people, don't go cold
nine one go man the gate. You know crowd control.
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I don't think we have that same system here. For instance,
when the radio station goes off the air. Scary's role
is to panic, and he pushed the last time he
pushed Daniel against the wall. Part of that band panic
at the studio. He ran through a wall like in
the cartoons where you just see the outline of his body.
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Because I feel like the weed of the world is
on my shoulders. It's really great about Matt story and
it's you know, he had this passion for critters when
he was a little boy, I mean bank before you
remember remembering things, and so he turned that passion into
his lifelong, lifelong mission and job, I think that's so cool.
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And Alex, when he was a little boy, you had
all sorts of frog growing up. I had a chameleon, snakes, hurdles, frogs,
everything right when I was a kid, I just played
records and read the weather. Everyone was in the right direction.
And Gandhi, what was your passion when you were a
kid animals? Talking about Daniel, you said, really and truly,
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really and truly, that's what maddoways uses. And I never
hear that when he gets drunk. Okay. So I was
the person who used to go outside and catch anything
I possibly could and then bring it home and I
would try to keep it alive as long as I could.
And then I realized I wasn't good at it, so
I stopped catching the things because they would die. But
I of animals, I just want to touch all of them.
Well you didn't want to or like something like that. Well,
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so I would love to be. That takes a lot
of education. So I just what did you want? I
want you? But Alex is talking me out of it.
He said, it's a terrible plan. Rac Coon's your bad? Yeah, hey, scary.
What was your passion as a kid. It's always been
radio and electronics. To hang out the radio shock in
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my spare time, and look how well they're doing. Now.
You know me too, same thing. The little strip mall
near our house. I would ride my bike over and
buy the latest records for my show, and then I
would go to radio shack and buy the latest whatever
to plug into my little studio. And then I almost
burned the house down when I plug. I plugged my
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little battery transmitter into the wall. Read it in the book,
Hey Brodie, what was your Brodie? What was your passion
when you were a kid. I was going to be
a lawyer. Yeah, all I can see that. I can
see that because you argue everything and people I don't
give up. You guys see that right, Yeah, I see it.
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You still have those skills. Yeah, I was. It was
pre law in college, and I watched every law program,
every law movie. I even read John Grisham law novels.
And I don't even read, just because I just loved it.
I just absorbed everything. And I realized that this personality
would get in trouble in the courtroom. It was too
much research for me. I just wanted the exciting courtroom
part contempt. And then I realized all the legal papers
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and the brief yet to write, and I just not
can't be like Joe Peshy in my cousin Vinny. Yeah,
I've been good for the research, like look at his
picture that man is. You know, I'd be good at reasoning,
but all the looking for precedent and all. I couldn't
do it much. You don't have to hire people to
do all that for you. You'd be a good lawyer,
a good lawyer. Well, this gig doesn't work out. It's
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the days early, Garrett, My dreams still possible. That because
the way that they're playing, I was going to be
on the New York Knicks. Yeah, no, I have I
could move right now and probably try to get on
the team. Get out there. It makes some money. But no, seriously,
it was your question that was my passion up until
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about ninth grade. Were you good at basketball? Yeah? Oh,
I didn't know basketball and swimming. At what age did
you realize you weren't getting that growth spurt? Uh? Well,
I was pretty tall compared to everybody else. But uh yeah,
freshman year of high school, I go not gonna happen.
I love the word spurt. Hey, Alex, was it animals
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that was your passion when you were a kid or
just causing trouble? No animals? But then I wanted to
become a police officer because my dad was, And then, um, yeah,
no animals, you know. But hey, you know I did
it for twenty two years and now I'm doing a
career change and I'm still there. That's cool. You can
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still see Alex once in a while. So if you
start chasing down the peacocks, he's not going to stop you. Now.
Uh what was your you it to be an actress? Yes,
I wanted to be on Broadway. That was what I
wanted to perform at Disney, um as one of the
entertainers at Disney. I almost got there, and then I
got cut right before the last audition. Really I didn't
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know that. Oh yeah, I made it all the way
up to the end. They kept coming. Now they don't
they just tell you when you go for the audition.
We're we already are cat, we already have shows cast.
We're looking to put you in a show that's already created.
We're not looking to create a show around you. So
just know that's what we're looking like. How they deflated
your little bubble, they popped, there's no there's all different
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there's all different stages of the audition process. And then
I got up to the final stage and then I
was cut and they said we're going to put you
on file just in case. But if I had gone,
I would never be here. So things work out for
reasons they do. Yeah, well, if you want to be
on Broadway, it's three blocks away. I'm just going to
walk there and stand good. I could be. It's so cool.
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I mean, I look, it's great to have dreams, and
everyone needs to have dreams, and even if you're not
going in that direction dreaming about it, it it is still
kind of fun. You know, Well, what I wanted from
you know, they have hot people have hobbies and passions
that we're just talking about. But what I wanted and
what my parents wanted from me were two different things
they want and amongst they wanted me to be a
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c P, A so a certified public accountant. So I
started taking these accounting courses in college and I lasted
about three quarters of a year and I'm like, I'm out,
I can so do they think you just didn't have
any direction in their opinions, so they thought they would
help you find some direction their ideas radio for a
parent is like, well, that's exactly my parents rejected that
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for several years. I had to have a come to
Jesus with my dad years later, where he apologized to
me and said, I'm so sorry. I doubt when people
ever come to Jesus do they actually find Jesus. Yeah,
But Gandha, you know your family. You know, you have
a lot of doctors, like people who are very very
well educated, and as you are very well educ but
you're you're the only one in the Gandhi family that
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decided to do radio. I am I'm the only one
that went into any type of arts whatsoever. You have
to have a come to moment with your parents, so
wait not and no, they actually they've really turned recently.
They for the longest time, I would always get when
are you gonna get a real job? When you're gonna
get a real job, and I was like, guys, this
is a real job and it was really difficult to
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get But now they're finally starting to understand it a little,
so it's cool. Now has your dad been listening in again?
She found out her dad discovered how to listen to
the show. And now I'm afraid you're gonna start editing yourself.
I will not edit myself. I had a conversation with
him about it over the weekend how that it was fine. Well,
first of all, he just straight came out and asked me.
He said, so, do you have a boyfriend or what?
What the hell is this I'm hearing? And I told him, yes,
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there's a little bit of a thing going on. I
don't know if I call my boyfriend, but there's a thing.
So then he asked for pictures, and then he asked
if I have to stand on my tiptoes to kiss him,
and the whole thing was really weird. But we got
to a place where he was like, I don't care kid,
Oh you're a grown up. Now live your life, live
your life the way you want to. Mom's the pain
in the ass, not me, And I was like, that's
so true. Yeah. The book Your Parents Listening Brodie. Does
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your mom listen to the show? Absolutely? Yeah. Is she
a fan? Yes, yes, mostly of you guys, not me,
but no my mother. But you guys know my mom.
She's funny, she's out there. She is just a big
she's a one and your mom and Dan the God. Yeah. Absolutely.
My father loves to listen with his morning coffee on
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his way to meet his buddies. You know, that's what
retirement life is like. And my mom listens to any
chance she gets, and anything she doesn't hear, she hears
from the school teachers. School, did you hear what they're
saying about? Your Mother's friends tell her all about the
smack you're talking on the air. She doesn't really listen,
so they tell her and then she goes, what were
you saying about this morning? Like, oh gosh. But my dad,
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he is a one and he loves he loves this show.
But he's so cute because he'll text me and moment
during the show, Danny, remember when you did this? And
Danny remember it? Excute? Explain what one is like a
really big listener. It's preference preference one, know my mom.
I remember when mom and dad finally figured out how
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to turn on the computer and listen to their son
up in New York, and I would gets called Elvis.
I did not raise you to talk like that. You're
daddy and I turn it off. Did that make it
difficult for you? Did you find yourself editing? No, not
at all. No, you can't. We have a show to do. Yeah,
like we've gotten this far doing what we do. I
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can't really change it, even if I wanted to. I
don't think to edit myself because I just assume they're
not listening. And then I told them, don't text me.
I don't want to know. I gotta tell you. Should
my mom and dad are there were much older than me,
and so we really weren't that close as far as
being very personal with each other. So I said, you
know what, they should listen to the show just to
learn about their son that they probably don't know a
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lot about because I haven't told them. It's my fault.
You have the double life. Well yeah, but no, it's
an edited life. Okay, you know I didn't you know?
They know? They knew me. They knew when I was
about they knew that I was gay. We didn't talk
about it. They were the only two people I have
not talked about being gay too, so there was never
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like a moment like coming out of the closet, I'm
talking to my mom and dad. It was just kind
of like this, they just knew. But pantyhose incident probably
was a tip off. Well you know, well that was
a cross dressing thing. Okay, yes, I'm not a cross dresser.
But Alex, by the way, I'm going to tell you something.
I know we're getting married in September. I'm gay. I
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hope that's not a problem. It's not an issue out that.
When you first started dating Alex, I actually thought we
were going to trade for a while. What do you mean,
Alex and I had a little something something, and then
you have something something with my husband's drink. Your husband,
your husband, your husband had a chance with me minute morning, Elf,