January 29, 2025 • 14 mins
What superstitions did your parents force you to believe?! We've got some crazy ones, but not as good as our friend Richie who calls in!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, I know, I'm not the only one.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I was told when I was growing up, eat your food.
You know, they're starving children around the world. And of
course I always thought that same thing. Everyone thought, well, okay,
well then mail it to them. I don't want it,
you know, but it kind of stuck with me, which
you know, led to eating disorder later in life, to
be honest, But you have my other some friends of
mine where yea, my mom said you're a member of
(00:27):
the clean plate club, you gotta eat all that or
these were the rules that our kid that our parents
like instilled deny that kind of stick with us today.
Then we got this text from Jennifer. Let's get Jennifer
on nine nineteen if you can hit that. Hi, Jennifer,
Welcome to Wednesday. How are you feeling.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Good morning, I'm feeling great talking to you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
May I read your text aloud? Sure, Jennifer for you
holding Jersey. I have a topic for you guys to
talk about. What rule or superstitious thing did your parents
tell you when you were younger that still sticks with
you today. Mine was that my parents said if the
phone rang too early in the morning or too late
at night, it only means something bad is on the
other side.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Of that phone.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So this morning when my mother in law texted me
at six point thirty to ask a silly question, I
instantly got anxiety. I think it's changed now with cell
phones and texting, but it still sticks with me. Is
that true when you got an early texture, like, oh god,
I'm afraid to look at it.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
I was driving and the text pops on my phone
on my car and all of a sudden, I'm like,
oh my god, what's wrong?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
And it was a silly question about her dog.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Do you guys have any anything from your childhood, just
like Jennifer's talking about what about you, Danielle?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, I mean mine was the gum tree. My mom
was like, don't swallow gum. You're going to get a
gum tree. And I always thought, if I swallow gum,
I'm getting a gum tree.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But let me ask you, do you swallow gum to
this doy? I do not.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I never swallowed my gummy thrown out because I don't
want a gum tree.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I don't want gum in me either. What about you, Gandhi.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Oh my god, my parents were Everything would make you dumb.
So watching TV is gonna make you dumb. Putting a
book on the floor, Stepping on a book will make
you dumb. You're gonna fail out.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Of school if you do the goodness, Yeah, I would have.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
See, we're coming from an Indian background. There's a lot
of a lot of old world Indian superstitions or something
from an Asian superstitions that we've never heard of.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I think there's just a lot. A lot has to
do with education. You know, study now, play later. Life
will be good later. Everything's later. You're not allowed to
have too much fun. If you had fun yesterday, you
don't need to have fun today.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But in Jennifer's question is does that sort of still
stick with you today?
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Oh yeah, except I just I think about my parents
every time I do the thing that they don't want
me to do, and I think.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
If the fail to do Yeah, see Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Jennifer actually sparked this great conversation with us. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
The best part is my mom is the worst corporate
that now she has insomnia, so she'll text me at
one o'clock.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
In the morning.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
See, now she's the problem. Thanks mom, You're the problem.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Mom, Jennifer, you have a great day at work. Thanks
for Thanks for giving us something to chew on here,
and then thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Most of all, Thank you. Love you guys, Love you more. Yeah,
Froggy has one. What's that?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
My mom and dad used to tell me I couldn't
swim after I ate if it was gonna cause the
stomach cramp and I was drowned. And then another one
that used to tell me is you couldn't like I
couldn't find something in the car. I dropped something at
night in the car. I mean you turn the light on.
Oh you can't. You can't drive with the light on.
You get pulled over. That's illegal.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Wait wait, wait exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's not true.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're finding this out now this day. I thought that
you cannot drive with that light on it and I only.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Tell my kids.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Preston the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Said Mom, I need to check something in my book,
and I said, okay, but you gotta do it quickly
because you're not allowed to drive with the light on.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You are well to be honest though, I mean, it
does mess with your vision a little bit, and so
you know, maybe it's best not to have the light on.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It does It's really not get pulled on. No, No,
it's a fact.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You can see clear, more clear into a dark night
when you don't have light on it car.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Absolutely, I am, but I am blown away right now.
I'm calling my Nate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Nate, I bet you. I bet you on this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's naturally if you're in a room and you have
the light on, you look out into a dark the
darkness outside, you're not going to see outside as well
as you would if the light was often with you.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
And in fact, I was told that by my parents
as well. However, I realized that that was a bunch
of bologny when I was around eighteen nineteen. I'm not
how old are you, Daniel, listen.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I just I never questioned it.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I thought it was but they're not gonna I'm not
saying it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I didn't say that it's illegal. I'd say it is better.
Your vision is better when the light is off in
the car.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I always thought I was gonna get pulled over. I cannot,
but let me tell you, I'm going to start driving
with the light on, just to push myself that I'm
not getting pulled off.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
And you almost have stepped on a book.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I really.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Hey, line too.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Get Victoria on here, she's one for us. I love
these victorious Yeah. Hello, what were you told as a
kid that still sort of sticks with you today even
though it's bogus BSI.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Good morning. I can't believe I got through.
Speaker 10 (05:07):
I've been listening to you guys for years. I love
Danielle's laugh is absolutely contagious.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
We're sending her, We're sending her over.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You can have her.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
What's up there are the only supercision.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I come from a very strict human and a Puerto
Rican background, so my mom needs to always tell me, don't.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
Ever sweep my feet, don't ever sweep my feet.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because you'll I'll never get married again. And I would
just give her a look like you're already married, and
she'd like wink at me.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
And so every time I'm sweeping, she would always tell me,
don't sleep for fee, you'll never get married, or don't
clean that night because it's bad luck. So now she's
getting older, she's in her late seventies. She obsessively cleans
that night. But I'm just looking at her like all
the crap that you gave me as a teenager, now
you're cleaning right.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, she she's in her seventies. She doesn't want to
get married, like, okay, it's midnight, send.
Speaker 10 (05:59):
Her over, I know, divorcing him, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, well that's the thing, you know, they have these
these these superstitions from that their grandparents and their great
grandparents and their great great grandparents, like it passes down
to the family, and there you have it.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I have one hundred more. They're crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well we should get our friend Richie Richie pian on.
His mother is so old school Italian. I mean they'll
open their freezer and find like, you know, like a
frog in there, like a frozen frog. Well you know
you do that because you want to be fertile.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But what.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, I'm exaggerating the example. But that's that's It's like,
we'll get him on. We'll get Richie on.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We'll get him on. Next break.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
We got to talk to him. Hey, thanks for calling
in Victoria. You're the best. Have a great day, Okay,
all right, Uh, Line eighteen is Jenny. Then we gotta
take a break. Jenny from Miami listening to Why one seven.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
How you doing, Jenny, Hi, gooding you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Jenny, you're superstition. I've heard from so many people. Tell
everyone what it is.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Well, my grandmother always said, don't put your purse on
the floor because then all your money goes away. And
so this day, I still do not put my purse
on the floor. I'll have a heart attack if somebody
put my purse on the floor.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, you know, there are some restaurants that have hooks
under the bar for your purse. Also they have little
stools you can put your purse on.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That so obviously you're not the only one. So, Jenny,
have you noticed that your cash is sticking around because
you don't put your purse on the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Do you still believe this?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yeah, I mean so far, I still have cash, so
you know, I think it works.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
All right, thank you very much, Jenny. You and your
purse have a great day. Stay off the floor, all right,
buye See.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I love it. I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Even though a lot of these superstitions are like okay,
really it's kind of cool to pass them down or
you know, exchange them with.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Your friends to pass them down if you're not traumatizing people,
I know, like whatever, what right, I'm still amazed that
I didn't know that. I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Having the car light on the domeline, like my.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Dad's not even here.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
God rest her soul for me to like say, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Right now? Dad?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Like you told me this.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Because he didn't want to turn the light on because
he wants to see better to keep you safe. I guess,
all right, Daniel, all right, you know we're hearing from
our friend Jennifer, She sentenced to text earlier, saying there's
things that her mother instilled in her when she was
a kid, these superstitions, these weird rules that still stick.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
With her today.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And we started talking about the superstitions that we grew
up with that we still sort of believe in now.
And then I remember my friend Richie Piana. Can you
put Richie on Richie Piana's mother? What part of Italy
is she from? Richie's Okay, she's.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Very, very, very year I Italian. She came over here how.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Long ago, nineteen sixty nine, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And she brought everything she learned as a kid with
her and now you as her son are living with
these same superstitions, right.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Absolutely, you have to we all need some good luck
in our lives.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right exactly. But she really goes to the extreme. Are
there any top of mind? This is great. So Richie
and Mikey married good friends of ours, Mikey Russo, Riche Piano.
So when you move in together in a house, there's
like a list of superstitions your mother has to follow
to keep you lucky, right.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yep, yep, we can give us some.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
So the little hot redhead Sicilians when me and Mikey
moved in, She's like, the first night you sleep in
the house, you have to cook fish. The house has
to stink like fish. I'm like, but why Moscars is
going to bring you good luck and prosperity into the house.
So I was joking with her and we didn't even
unpack yet. So and Mikey, how we're going to cook
fish in the house. So we looked for we looked
(10:03):
for whatever we could find, and there we all were cooking.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
And it can't be salmon. It had to be like
something like a real fish, like you're looking at Brenzino.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Like a Mediterranean fish. How did you do that? You
guys don't even cook.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Elvis. You're not supposed to tell everybody a little secret.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All right, So you had to cook a fish. Now,
what about the weird stuff you find in your freezer?
Like your mother will put things in your freezer and
you're like, what the hell is this?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
This is a this is really funny. So when me
and Mikey first started dating, my mom didn't approve of
all this, you know, of all this, because she's stuck
in her old little ways, right. So I went to
go get ice cubes in the freezer and there was
something weird in the freezer and it was a picture
of me and Mikey. Wait, okay, in like a big
(10:53):
ice cube. Yeah. But I tricked her because she thought
that putting a picture of me and Mikey in the
freezer in a big ice cube would freeze the relationship,
like you know, make it like go away. But I
found it, and I found the flower. So I put
the flour in there and melted it, put a back
in the freezer flower, and I didn't tell her I
(11:14):
found it, But then like a month later, I'm like, wow,
what is this. There's a frozen flower. So in her
mind she thinks that the pick the picture of me
and Mikey turned into a blooming.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Flowers all for it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I know, But we go out, we go with Mikey
and Richie, and Richie will go on for hours about
all the incredibly cool things his mom does. I mean, okay,
when you moved into the new house, what did what
did Mikey have to do in the flower beds outside
of you to do something?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Oh my god, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You just sprinkles something in the in the beds or
something what we did?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
So then this is another thing that we did at
every house that me and Mikey have we moved into.
My mother always says, you have to get the container
result and pour it around the whole house like a barrier,
and you can't bring that. You have to finish the
whole container. But you can never bring the container back
in the house. You have to throw it out because
that also is going to protect your house from any
(12:16):
evil or anything. So every house he was into this,
Mikey running around the property on the house, pouring salt everywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Why does she carry a salt shaker in her bag
and I throw it over her shoulder every now and.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Then she's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No, maybe she's the same one and we're crazy.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
She I don't know. But one other thing that is
that I do you know? She turned me a bay leaf,
a bai leef. I always keep a bay leaf in
my pocket or I put one underneath my cell phone
cover that's supposed to also protect you. And now I'm crazy.
Now all my friends are getting crazy because Josh sayes
it too. Bay leaf under his floor are in his phone?
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Hey, can I bring up something that happened with other
night and I'm a little embarrassed about this.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You guys went to see uh and.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Juliette, you know, with your friend Joey Fatone, who by
the way, Richie grew up with Joey Fotone, right, And
you guys were all out getting drunk and you FaceTime
me and I.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Called uh Ajj.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I called him how because I was kidding and he
got really offended. I felt awful. Did you apologize to
him for me?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Absolutely, He's such a great guy, such a great It's
such a nice thing. He said. Elvis is the best.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And he did not crack.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
This.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I was drinking a little bit. I'm kidding you not
at all, and they do. They do look alike a
little bit. You know, they have two eyes, nose in
two years if you're drink and howie they look do
resemble each other? About that, well, you weren't there. You know,
(14:02):
maybe he's lost some weight or something.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
I don't know, you guys.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
I'm going to send you guys all bay leaves and
bay leaves has to go in your wallet or in
your purse, don protected forever?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
All right, you do that. You tell your mother we
love her. She's a beautiful soul.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
We love her. And tell Mikey we said, Hi, okay.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
He's still sleeping. I'll wake him up.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
But all right, you do that, all right, you can
go poo now, all right, Yeah, we took him off
his pooh schedule.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Richie gets very upset about that. Anyway, Danielle, let's go,
all right, let's get your report going. Isn't he great?
I love Richie?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, awesome, that's so funny
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, I know, I'm not the only one.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I was told when I was growing up, eat your food.
You know, they're starving children around the world. And of
course I always thought that same thing. Everyone thought, well, okay,
well then mail it to them. I don't want it,
you know, but it kind of stuck with me, which
you know, led to eating disorder later in life, to
be honest, But you have my other some friends of
mine where yea, my mom said you're a member of
(00:27):
the clean plate club, you gotta eat all that or
these were the rules that our kid that our parents
like instilled deny that kind of stick with us today.
Then we got this text from Jennifer. Let's get Jennifer
on nine nineteen if you can hit that. Hi, Jennifer,
Welcome to Wednesday. How are you feeling.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Good morning, I'm feeling great talking to you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
May I read your text aloud? Sure, Jennifer for you
holding Jersey. I have a topic for you guys to
talk about. What rule or superstitious thing did your parents
tell you when you were younger that still sticks with
you today. Mine was that my parents said if the
phone rang too early in the morning or too late
at night, it only means something bad is on the
other side.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Of that phone.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So this morning when my mother in law texted me
at six point thirty to ask a silly question, I
instantly got anxiety. I think it's changed now with cell
phones and texting, but it still sticks with me. Is
that true when you got an early texture, like, oh god,
I'm afraid to look at it.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
I was driving and the text pops on my phone
on my car and all of a sudden, I'm like,
oh my god, what's wrong?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
And it was a silly question about her dog.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Do you guys have any anything from your childhood, just
like Jennifer's talking about what about you, Danielle?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, I mean mine was the gum tree. My mom
was like, don't swallow gum. You're going to get a
gum tree. And I always thought, if I swallow gum,
I'm getting a gum tree.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But let me ask you, do you swallow gum to
this doy? I do not.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I never swallowed my gummy thrown out because I don't
want a gum tree.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I don't want gum in me either. What about you, Gandhi.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Oh my god, my parents were Everything would make you dumb.
So watching TV is gonna make you dumb. Putting a
book on the floor, Stepping on a book will make
you dumb. You're gonna fail out.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Of school if you do the goodness, Yeah, I would have.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
See, we're coming from an Indian background. There's a lot
of a lot of old world Indian superstitions or something
from an Asian superstitions that we've never heard of.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I think there's just a lot. A lot has to
do with education. You know, study now, play later. Life
will be good later. Everything's later. You're not allowed to
have too much fun. If you had fun yesterday, you
don't need to have fun today.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But in Jennifer's question is does that sort of still
stick with you today?
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Oh yeah, except I just I think about my parents
every time I do the thing that they don't want
me to do, and I think.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
If the fail to do Yeah, see Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Jennifer actually sparked this great conversation with us. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
The best part is my mom is the worst corporate
that now she has insomnia, so she'll text me at
one o'clock.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
In the morning.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
See, now she's the problem. Thanks mom, You're the problem.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Mom, Jennifer, you have a great day at work. Thanks
for Thanks for giving us something to chew on here,
and then thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Most of all, Thank you. Love you guys, Love you more. Yeah,
Froggy has one. What's that?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
My mom and dad used to tell me I couldn't
swim after I ate if it was gonna cause the
stomach cramp and I was drowned. And then another one
that used to tell me is you couldn't like I
couldn't find something in the car. I dropped something at
night in the car. I mean you turn the light on.
Oh you can't. You can't drive with the light on.
You get pulled over. That's illegal.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Wait wait, wait exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's not true.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're finding this out now this day. I thought that
you cannot drive with that light on it and I only.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Tell my kids.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Preston the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Said Mom, I need to check something in my book,
and I said, okay, but you gotta do it quickly
because you're not allowed to drive with the light on.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You are well to be honest though, I mean, it
does mess with your vision a little bit, and so
you know, maybe it's best not to have the light on.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It does It's really not get pulled on. No, No,
it's a fact.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You can see clear, more clear into a dark night
when you don't have light on it car.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Absolutely, I am, but I am blown away right now.
I'm calling my Nate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Nate, I bet you. I bet you on this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's naturally if you're in a room and you have
the light on, you look out into a dark the
darkness outside, you're not going to see outside as well
as you would if the light was often with you.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
And in fact, I was told that by my parents
as well. However, I realized that that was a bunch
of bologny when I was around eighteen nineteen. I'm not
how old are you, Daniel, listen.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I just I never questioned it.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I thought it was but they're not gonna I'm not
saying it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I didn't say that it's illegal. I'd say it is better.
Your vision is better when the light is off in
the car.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I always thought I was gonna get pulled over. I cannot,
but let me tell you, I'm going to start driving
with the light on, just to push myself that I'm
not getting pulled off.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
And you almost have stepped on a book.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I really.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Hey, line too.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Get Victoria on here, she's one for us. I love
these victorious Yeah. Hello, what were you told as a
kid that still sort of sticks with you today even
though it's bogus BSI.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Good morning. I can't believe I got through.
Speaker 10 (05:07):
I've been listening to you guys for years. I love
Danielle's laugh is absolutely contagious.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
We're sending her, We're sending her over.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You can have her.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
What's up there are the only supercision.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I come from a very strict human and a Puerto
Rican background, so my mom needs to always tell me, don't.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
Ever sweep my feet, don't ever sweep my feet.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because you'll I'll never get married again. And I would
just give her a look like you're already married, and
she'd like wink at me.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
And so every time I'm sweeping, she would always tell me,
don't sleep for fee, you'll never get married, or don't
clean that night because it's bad luck. So now she's
getting older, she's in her late seventies. She obsessively cleans
that night. But I'm just looking at her like all
the crap that you gave me as a teenager, now
you're cleaning right.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, she she's in her seventies. She doesn't want to
get married, like, okay, it's midnight, send.
Speaker 10 (05:59):
Her over, I know, divorcing him, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, well that's the thing, you know, they have these
these these superstitions from that their grandparents and their great
grandparents and their great great grandparents, like it passes down
to the family, and there you have it.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I have one hundred more. They're crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well we should get our friend Richie Richie pian on.
His mother is so old school Italian. I mean they'll
open their freezer and find like, you know, like a
frog in there, like a frozen frog. Well you know
you do that because you want to be fertile.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But what.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, I'm exaggerating the example. But that's that's It's like,
we'll get him on. We'll get Richie on.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We'll get him on. Next break.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
We got to talk to him. Hey, thanks for calling
in Victoria. You're the best. Have a great day, Okay,
all right, Uh, Line eighteen is Jenny. Then we gotta
take a break. Jenny from Miami listening to Why one seven.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
How you doing, Jenny, Hi, gooding you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Jenny, you're superstition. I've heard from so many people. Tell
everyone what it is.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Well, my grandmother always said, don't put your purse on
the floor because then all your money goes away. And
so this day, I still do not put my purse
on the floor. I'll have a heart attack if somebody
put my purse on the floor.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, you know, there are some restaurants that have hooks
under the bar for your purse. Also they have little
stools you can put your purse on.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That so obviously you're not the only one. So, Jenny,
have you noticed that your cash is sticking around because
you don't put your purse on the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Do you still believe this?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yeah, I mean so far, I still have cash, so
you know, I think it works.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
All right, thank you very much, Jenny. You and your
purse have a great day. Stay off the floor, all right,
buye See.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I love it. I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Even though a lot of these superstitions are like okay,
really it's kind of cool to pass them down or
you know, exchange them with.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Your friends to pass them down if you're not traumatizing people,
I know, like whatever, what right, I'm still amazed that
I didn't know that. I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Having the car light on the domeline, like my.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Dad's not even here.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
God rest her soul for me to like say, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Right now? Dad?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Like you told me this.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Because he didn't want to turn the light on because
he wants to see better to keep you safe. I guess,
all right, Daniel, all right, you know we're hearing from
our friend Jennifer, She sentenced to text earlier, saying there's
things that her mother instilled in her when she was
a kid, these superstitions, these weird rules that still stick.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
With her today.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And we started talking about the superstitions that we grew
up with that we still sort of believe in now.
And then I remember my friend Richie Piana. Can you
put Richie on Richie Piana's mother? What part of Italy
is she from? Richie's Okay, she's.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Very, very, very year I Italian. She came over here how.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Long ago, nineteen sixty nine, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And she brought everything she learned as a kid with
her and now you as her son are living with
these same superstitions, right.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Absolutely, you have to we all need some good luck
in our lives.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right exactly. But she really goes to the extreme. Are
there any top of mind? This is great. So Richie
and Mikey married good friends of ours, Mikey Russo, Riche Piano.
So when you move in together in a house, there's
like a list of superstitions your mother has to follow
to keep you lucky, right.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yep, yep, we can give us some.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
So the little hot redhead Sicilians when me and Mikey
moved in, She's like, the first night you sleep in
the house, you have to cook fish. The house has
to stink like fish. I'm like, but why Moscars is
going to bring you good luck and prosperity into the house.
So I was joking with her and we didn't even
unpack yet. So and Mikey, how we're going to cook
fish in the house. So we looked for we looked
(10:03):
for whatever we could find, and there we all were cooking.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
And it can't be salmon. It had to be like
something like a real fish, like you're looking at Brenzino.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Like a Mediterranean fish. How did you do that? You
guys don't even cook.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Elvis. You're not supposed to tell everybody a little secret.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All right, So you had to cook a fish. Now,
what about the weird stuff you find in your freezer?
Like your mother will put things in your freezer and
you're like, what the hell is this?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
This is a this is really funny. So when me
and Mikey first started dating, my mom didn't approve of
all this, you know, of all this, because she's stuck
in her old little ways, right. So I went to
go get ice cubes in the freezer and there was
something weird in the freezer and it was a picture
of me and Mikey. Wait, okay, in like a big
(10:53):
ice cube. Yeah. But I tricked her because she thought
that putting a picture of me and Mikey in the
freezer in a big ice cube would freeze the relationship,
like you know, make it like go away. But I
found it, and I found the flower. So I put
the flour in there and melted it, put a back
in the freezer flower, and I didn't tell her I
(11:14):
found it, But then like a month later, I'm like, wow,
what is this. There's a frozen flower. So in her
mind she thinks that the pick the picture of me
and Mikey turned into a blooming.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Flowers all for it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I know, But we go out, we go with Mikey
and Richie, and Richie will go on for hours about
all the incredibly cool things his mom does. I mean, okay,
when you moved into the new house, what did what
did Mikey have to do in the flower beds outside
of you to do something?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Oh my god, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You just sprinkles something in the in the beds or
something what we did?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
So then this is another thing that we did at
every house that me and Mikey have we moved into.
My mother always says, you have to get the container
result and pour it around the whole house like a barrier,
and you can't bring that. You have to finish the
whole container. But you can never bring the container back
in the house. You have to throw it out because
that also is going to protect your house from any
(12:16):
evil or anything. So every house he was into this,
Mikey running around the property on the house, pouring salt everywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Why does she carry a salt shaker in her bag
and I throw it over her shoulder every now and.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Then she's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No, maybe she's the same one and we're crazy.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
She I don't know. But one other thing that is
that I do you know? She turned me a bay leaf,
a bai leef. I always keep a bay leaf in
my pocket or I put one underneath my cell phone
cover that's supposed to also protect you. And now I'm crazy.
Now all my friends are getting crazy because Josh sayes
it too. Bay leaf under his floor are in his phone?
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Hey, can I bring up something that happened with other
night and I'm a little embarrassed about this.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You guys went to see uh and.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Juliette, you know, with your friend Joey Fatone, who by
the way, Richie grew up with Joey Fotone, right, And
you guys were all out getting drunk and you FaceTime
me and I.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Called uh Ajj.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I called him how because I was kidding and he
got really offended. I felt awful. Did you apologize to
him for me?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Absolutely, He's such a great guy, such a great It's
such a nice thing. He said. Elvis is the best.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And he did not crack.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
This.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I was drinking a little bit. I'm kidding you not
at all, and they do. They do look alike a
little bit. You know, they have two eyes, nose in
two years if you're drink and howie they look do
resemble each other? About that, well, you weren't there. You know,
(14:02):
maybe he's lost some weight or something.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
I don't know, you guys.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
I'm going to send you guys all bay leaves and
bay leaves has to go in your wallet or in
your purse, don protected forever?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
All right, you do that. You tell your mother we
love her. She's a beautiful soul.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
We love her. And tell Mikey we said, Hi, okay.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
He's still sleeping. I'll wake him up.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
But all right, you do that, all right, you can
go poo now, all right, Yeah, we took him off
his pooh schedule.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Richie gets very upset about that. Anyway, Danielle, let's go,
all right, let's get your report going. Isn't he great?
I love Richie?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, awesome, that's so funny
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