Rory O’Neill, WOR national correspondent Interview

Mendte in the Morning talked to Rory O’Neill about Father’s Day weekend and how people around the country usually celebrate compared to Mother’s Day.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I thought that my fill in role was going
pretty well today, but apparently it isn't because they're sending
in some heavy duty backup. Okay, it's you know, it's
one thing of it, like taking calls or doing talkbacks.
But when they're sending in Roy O'Neill r WR National Correspondent,
they're sending the wolf. Okay, this is pulp fiction. Apparently
I got myself in a pickle. Mister O'Neill, What do

(00:20):
I need to do? Good morning to you, sir. Yeah,
you know you're the.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
One that has to pay me today, right whoever's stilling it.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's how this works. Well, listen, listen, what's what's a
six pack of meisterer brow gonna set me back?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
These days?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm happy to pay you.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
They'll take it.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's it really segues well into what we're doing because
there's two things going on. We've got California, We've got
Father's Day, and Gavin Newsom has managed to combine them
because all the electronics are free in downtown Los Angeles
right now if you get to the right Apple store.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
But if you do want to spend it and do
it legitimately twenty four twenty for billion dollars in spending
for Father's Day. That's a record high. By the way,
for comparison, it's thirty four billion that we spend on
Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
There you go, is that true? I mean because I listen,
I treat my mom like a queen and take it
to White Castle.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
And then you think about your dad.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
You're like, when am I going to get him?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, the racket is yeah, dad, Dad, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah. We don't do this anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
But back in the day, it used to be that
it was the number one day for collect.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Calls in the country. Was Father's Day?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Do you remember the old school like ten, ten, three,
two one. They were the Usually you dialed them and
it let you you know, bang in. I remember those
commercials back in the day. So obviously the discrepancy in
spending is, you know, the fact we go a little
bit bigger for mom than we do for Dad. And
I think one of the reasons the dad spending is
down in houses like mine is dad is buying the
gifts for mom, and dad is buying the gifts for dad. Anyway,

(01:51):
so you usually tell people not to spend too much
because it's your money. Is that what they attribute that to.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, I think it's.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Also all right, Dad, I'll mow the lawn for you
this week instead, or you know, i'll pressure wash the driveway.
So we sort of do a lot of in kind services.
But her dad, it's actually pretty significant. It's just under
two hundred dollars one hundred and ninety nine dollars and
thirty eight cents according to the NRAT So it's still
a hefty amount of money. Let us, at fifty three

(02:18):
percent planned to buy clothes for dad. Half said they
would get a gift card. But many are planning some
sort of a special outing to honor Dad.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, listen, one thing I want to add to that. Then,
since we got you on a line, roory O'Neil, is,
anyone planning a dad outing needs to make it time friendly.
Here's a quick two second story. My first year of
driving a cab was the year my son was born. Up,
I'm sorry, you're the worst. So the year my son
was born. I'm driving a New York City taxi, you know,
five am to five pm, doing comedy at night. It's

(02:49):
you know, an eighty four hour work week. Saturday night,
I get home for what I think is going to
be my first five hour stretch of sleep since nineteen
ninety two. And two hours into that sleep, I got
woken up by my wife with a happy Father's day.
Hands me the baby, she says, I know you love
horse racing. Let's take Lincoln to see the animals. We'll
go on to Belmont Raceway to watch the morning Job.

(03:09):
So what I thought might have been five hours of
sleep turned into a hostage situation at the Belmont Racetrack.
So if you're planning something for dad that is an event,
you gotta be mindful of time. That's all this.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Dad is asking pause, think of something else quick, and
no gift cards? Can we can? We get no gift.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Card gets a gift card for their dad.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
It is it's so terrible. It is bad. Just yeah,
it's all about subscription services these everyone's getting a beer
of the month, whiskey of the month.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, sausage of the month. That's the new thing for dad.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, that's what I was going to ask you. It's
the steak subscriptions I've gotten. Uh, you know, I've gotten
a stake subscription. Someone gifted me a stake subscription. Dads
do love that because they want to cook. They want
to take it easy, be around the house. I got
the basically, my wife, I'm not kidding, over the years,
has gotten me the cigar, the steak and the whiskey.
She's basically trying to kill me and get some life
insurance out of this, is she not?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I think we've both chipped in for that. Yeah, all right,
that's enough out of you, Rory O'Neill.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
You know what, I knew this was going to be
a scrum. I had no idea how low it was
going to go. I kid, you still got it.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
We're heading down to the seven to eleven. Now we'll
pick up those meister brows. Have a great day, my man.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Thanks Jimmy. Happy Father's Day you too.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
The great Rory O'Neill, who tells you that get dat
get down a subscription. Dad likes a subscription. Okay, It
doesn't want your gift card. He doesn't want a gift
that he knows you bought along with something for yourself.