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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And he we go, We're ready to rock and roll,
aren't we? Ronny bad rock and roll?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
But look at that.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I am ready to rock and roll, ready to Jude,
Dirty Deans and thunder cheap.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh, I got that one too, Dirty Deeds and they're
dune dirt cheap, dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I can do all of the ac DC catalog. Nice.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I think they set a record with some kind of
a c d C event. I saw the headline and
I didn't expect you to be wearing an ac DC
shirt or I would have the knowledge. But they played
uh uh they played an ac DC song.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I think they set a record with bagpipes or something.
I don't know now.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, it was in Scotland. It was like in Glasgow.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Okay, what was the song?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Do you know? Isn't there a song with bagpipes?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't know. There's a few, yew I don't know.
Let me say to a couple of people, these are
our regulars. These are the people that keep us going.
Ron Ron Nick, good morning, good morning, Ted Pelawana. Yeah,
give him away, Ron, give him away. Scott Watson up
the river, you know, mister Watson.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hi, Scottie boy, Gloody, it's Gloody.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But this is Ron Berman, my friend. He's a comedian.
We like to call him Ron the way.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So listen, this is what's you know. I watched the
news in the morning. What are we going to talk about?
And this is all they're talking about. We're gonna have
a vote on the Epstein files today and then we
will go to Trump's desk. Okay, do you understand the
smoke twreen we're getting. He doesn't need the House to
vote on it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You can literally he has the power to go, yeah,
release it. It's all theater.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You beat me to it, because I was literally gonna
start with that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Trump was, you know, defending against He didn't want that
stuff released for the longest times. Now he sees the
pressure and he's like, I better be on the right
side with this thing. So now encouraging them to release
the files. But the whole time he could have released
the files. He doesn't need anybody, He's the president.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It is a smoke show. And was the delay?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Did Trump go, uh man, just give me some time
get those get get my name out of the files.
How much time do you need? And they're like, I
don't know at least a year, and he's like, all right,
let's fight this for a year. And then he probably
got the phone call, Hey man, there's no mention of
you in these files in any uh in any bad way,
so you could officially say you release the file.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's what I think is what's going on, if you
want to know the truth.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What they're saying is he's getting real bad advice because
initially he's saying, you know, fuck you, I'm actually going
to investigate the Democrats like Larry Summers and all that,
and then he completely reversed and said, you know what,
give it to him. Why did he do that because
it looks like at the moment one of the House
(03:08):
Republicans are going to vote yes to release the files.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So he just gave then.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, he had to because he had to. He would
look bad with his own party voting for it, and
he's the one like it that's resisting. So yeah, that's
a huge story man, New York Today.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
MAGA, the Magabase is is a uh like que and
on conspiracy theorist group and they voted for Trump and
Trump campaigned on Really one of the main issues is, hey,
(03:50):
idiots vote me in fucking office, and I'll give you everything, of.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Course, of course, but I.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Do have to defend my maga friends.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There are a bunch of people out there that are
just they're just normal conservatives, and you know that was
their choice and they and they voted and support the
Trump as well. But yeah, there's a lot of there's
definitely a bunch of q nins in the base, that's
for sure. That's for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think what is really starting to scare the base
and the Republicans is, hey, they didn't they did not
expect to see these new emails from the Epstein estate.
These are emails from state that have never seen the
light of day before. So the Republicans didn't they got blindsided.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Of course, these are so damning.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Jeffrey Epstein said, the only person who doesn't have a
single good cell in his body.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He's dirty to the marrow.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
He goes as Donald Trump, he goes Donald Trump is
a serious fucking problem because he's pure fucking evil.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is this is coming from epste.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Crazy. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You want to know what headline I was I focused on?
Besides the Epstein files, there there's a big thing. It's
a big thing ron and you live in New York City,
so you're seeing it yourself. The headline is, is it
too early for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Christmas started two weeks before Halloween in New York City.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It did. And you have you have these people in
your life. Do you have the people that come up
to you go, oh, it's just too early, it's too early.
And I look at them and I go, who gives
a crap, that's some idiot that's putting their holiday decorations
up around Halloween.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Who it's the same uproar every year. As soon as
Starbucks comes out with the Pumpkins spice latte, you know
the season has begun. They came out with that in
the beginning of October.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, well, well you weren't here yesterday. But I got
I got this, I got this theme in my life
and pumpkin spice Lotte should be added to that list.
If pumpkin spice latte is that damn good, they should
serve it all year long.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Anything they serve only a little bit. I'm looking at you, Turkey,
the stupid turkey thing in Thanksgiving. None of us fully
enjoy turkey. We drowned the shit with the with the
gravy to make it, you know, tolerable. And if turkey
was that damn good, they would be serving it all
year long. They would be on the fucking special list
(06:35):
at the menu. Oh we got turkey today, and you're like,
you got turkey? Oh my god, what did I do
to deserve this? And the pumpkin spice lattes on that
list too. If it was so damn good, they would
be serving it all year long.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Go screw. And I don't give a shit. It's not
too early for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We eat turkey year round, like, okay without having a
roasted turkey, But you don't have a nice turkey sandwich.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You can't even find turkeys in the in the supermarket.
Yeah you'll have that. You'll have a turkey. Yeah, having
a like a turkey and swiss beautiful. That's different.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I'm talking about a stupid big bird you gotta cook.
We only do that once a year because we know
it sucks.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Wait, don't you do it on Christmas?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, don't you supposed to have a fucking goose on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I don't know what you're supposed to do on Christmas, ron,
but you know what we.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Do on Christmas?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You know what we do on Christmas? What Chinese food?
In a movie? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, sure, from from the Lamp from the leg Lamppost movie.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
What the hell was that called?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
With Ralphie?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
With Little Ralphie?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
A Christmas Story?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
A Christmas Story? And then I like when you lean in,
I want to start leaning in, like round the way
the a Christmas Story? I uh yeah. And then you
got the TV stations that on a Christmas Story twenty
four hours over and over again. It's our it's what
we do every holiday.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
They run it for t NT and TBS for Christmas,
run it for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So here's now, I'm not making this up. I am
not making this up.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You make up a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I dated a girl named Mana Friedman. She's from Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
We talked about this. It's a it's an exclusive suburb
of Phoenix. Remember her next door neighbor was Alice Cooper.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Is she the is she the Stephen Tyler girl?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh, this is the girl that Stephen Tyler probably banked.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Probably they went to rehab together. If I remember sex addiction.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, for sex run.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The waiter went out with a girl that had a
sex addiction.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I didn't come home.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
She would come home and she would be walking a
little wobbly.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I would come home from class to North University and
it looked like she had just been like a heavy
day of like lifting like leg squats. She'd be walking
funny and she, oh, I just gave myself thirty in
a row. I'm like really, and she's like, yeah, my
muscles and her muscles will still be twitching.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That's see, that's a that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And then she would need more when I would come in,
of course, rd you know what she would do. She
would like very wealthy, but like she would she would
like what never mind. She would kind of like me
to like hide if she was coming home and not
know I was there, and then like I never mind
really role play, Yeah, oh she she liked to have
her like clothes ripped off and stuff and that's twisted. Yeah,
(09:34):
she really sucks that. Here's listen to this. Yeah, so
guess who she went to school with? Just guess who
she went to school with in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Alice
Cooper's kid, No fucking Ralphie from the Christmas store.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I really there. They they were.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
They grew up together, going to school from the same neighborhood, Ralphie.
I don't know what's real name, No do. He kind
of still looks the same.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, I would imagine.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
He just recently did a commercial reenacting a scene. By
the way, guess who else did that, mccaullay Culkin. Yeah
he just reenacted home alone.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that one's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And it's so weird because his younger brother is way
more famous than McCauley now, way more famous.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Karen Culkin, first of all, is my buddy. We followed
each other. Karen Culkin and I are buddies.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Then let's get him on this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah yeah, let's see if he does it. I can
ask and do you know how I know where buddies?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Because he lives here. He's actually he he lives. He
lives in the Syria, so he will occasionally with his
wife and children. H freak with the big guy, dude.
He couldn't be more down to earth, more like super witty.
He's got that English dry wit. When you talk to him,
(11:12):
you can tell you'll be on your toes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Bro. This guy's super smart. He's super smart.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
He's you can see, he's very quick, he's very sharp.
It's not a coincidence. He just won the Oscar. It's
not a coincidence before that, he won the Emmy.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You got all that from from him saying, hey, sir,
can I have another round? You got all that from him?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Now? You know? Sir?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Are you are you guys serving wings tonight?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You don't understand we are We are union brothers, oh Dan,
we are. We are solidified union. But we're the same
union man we talked about. That's my union brother.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He was great.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He was great in secession man. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But anyway, Uh, it's it's not it's not it's not
too early for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It's it's just shut your mouth. Who cares?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Oh my god, why hold on? You have a tree already?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Uh No, but you know what, my daughter, My daughter
asked if we could get the Christmas thing going a
little earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So I think I think we're going to roll into
Thanksgiving and.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Really really think I go real okay, because everything this
is what they were saying. When it comes to Halloween decorations,
Christmas decoration.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I know this one too. Ron don't.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Coming from China.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
So they're saying, if you want to buyer an artificial
tree this year, they're only coming from China, and you're
going to spend almost on average.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's you're spending seventeen percent more. I think it's Christmas tree.
You think it's higher than that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I think it was higher than that.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But but whatever, I mean, Yeah, the cost of Christmas
has gone dramatically up, and they.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
All so the cost of a Thanksgiving meal right has
gone up one hundred and twenty four dollars compared to
the same amount.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Of food last year.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, so are you trying to I'm going to agree
with Marjorie Taylor Green. I can't believe I'm saying it
because she's very anti Semitic.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
She says, we have Jewish lasers in space. I like that, dude.
I like that one though.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So what I like that's because that's badass, because I
can fucking evaporate you. But she she hey, she's got
some balls on her ovaries. I love the fact that
she said Trump is gaslighting America on the economy, saying,
what are.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You talking about? Everything's perfect? And Mardari terror Green one of.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The biggest magaz supporters publicly said Donald Trump is gaslighting America.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's serious stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, I mean for Trump to say that things cost
I don't know one person in my life that is.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Roaming around going, oh my god, everything is cheaper. Finally,
because Trump's no one's feeling that. He could say it
another hundred times. No one is feeling that things are
cheaper since he became president.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So they they were on the on the on the
news this morning. Apparently there's two point eight million New
Yorkers who are running out of money before they can
buy more like they're running out of food, yes, and
they don't have the money, like the money's not coming
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back in yet.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
To buy more food.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And this is what they said, the two point eight
million New Yorkers who are going food in security.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
They're literally running out of money to buy food.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
A lot of them are making six figures, a lot
of them are making one hundred thousand dollars and they
can't afford to support their family.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I live in New York City, Ron, and this will
blow the minds of anyone watching their nothing. That's what
I was gonna get at. And people will look at
this and go You've got to be out of your.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Mind, right. If you make one hundred thousand dollars a
year in New York City, you are fucking broke.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You're living paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Really, you're broke. You're living with roommates.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You're in like maybe like a little two bedroom, and
you're sharing a room with a stranger because it was
it's the only way you can make against meet. I'm
not talking about sharing an apartment with a stranger. Some
of these apartments are set up in a way where
two people that don't know each other in this are
in the same fucking room, almost like it's a dorm room.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
One hundred thousand gets you nothing, do you know that?
I mean, it keeps going up.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
But the average apartment in New York City, for one bed,
one bedroom apartment is close to a million fucking dollars
for one fucking bedroom.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Hold on, in Astoria, people are renting out rooms right,
just the room, you know, I mean just the room,
and it's you know, it's going for like, you know,
eighteen nineteen hundred a month, right, almost two thousands for
a room.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
So that brings back your memory when I first moved
back to Long Island. I wasn't making much money. I
just got a pretty decent gig at WBAB, which which
was the job that set me on my way. But
I had to prove myself before they were gonna give
me real money. And I was living with my parents
and I started looking around for an apartment, and I
looked at situations where you live in these houses with
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strange families that were renting their room and they're like, look,
we will bother, you can come and go. And I'm like, wait,
so I got to walk.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Through your kitchen, your living room, up the stairs and
take a right to my room. How is that gonna work?
But people do this all the fucking time.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
One of the guys I worked with, he rented a
room in Astoria.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He was paying eleven hundred a month.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, and he wasn't allowed to like hang out in
the car many areas Like yeah, like he like you
weren't like he wasn't allowed to hang out the living
with the family or the kitchen, like you go go
to the bathroom, go to the kitchen, eat your food. Yeah,
he wasn't actually allowed to be in the living room
to watch like TV with them. So you're you're isolated
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in your room eleven hundred, eleven hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It sounds horrible.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Did I ever tell you about the roommates? My parents
had no so they did exactly that. And I was the.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Fortunate one because i'm I'm I got an older sister.
But then the rest of us, the six of us
that are very close in age, I was the first
one out. So as as kids were leaving this big
house on Long Island, the rooms opened up, and my
mom started runting them to fucking whack jobs. So my
younger brothers, my two youngest brothers, they they lived with
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some crazy ass fucking people. My one brother famously discovered
one of the roommates in the woods.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
She odeed. He said there was another there was another
guy that by my uh, I was gonna mention his name.
They don't really whatever. Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
My other brother was befriended one of the roommates, that's
what I should say. Okay, And this guy stole his
fucking bike to bike drugs and then and then all
of a sudden, my mom I would I would go
and visit. You know, at this point, there's like two
or three tenants in the house, strangers just walking around.
They were allowed to sit on the couch as long
as they were paying their rent.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
My mom didn't care. And my my mom comes to
me and goes, something weird is going on. Uh, all
my spoons are burnt. They were cooking drugs. And then
they were your house.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
They were cooking drugs in my fucking room because they
rent in my old room that had the posters of
Pete Maravich, my my Beer Can't Collection, and just you know,
just a typical kids room.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
And I went out there to check on this room
after this particular tenant left, and uh, and there were
burn barks in my fucking rug.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Little burn barks in my fucking rug. They were they
were cooking up drugs using my mom spoons.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
They're they're shooting up.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And then I'm trying to remember
some of the other ones, but uh, well, we had
the one that was so paranoid and thought my brother
was Cia or FBI. I told that story recently.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Uh and then uh, and then the final tenant. Did
I tell you about the final tenants?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Ron? No?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
All right, so now you fast forward a whole bunch
of years. My mom had one last tenant that was
in that house. I would say probably ten years probably
so my dad pretty much died in a car accident
right in front of the house we grew up in.
And then after that my mom lived alone with this
one tenant that was it. And and we would try
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to visit my mom as much as we can before
we moved her into assistant living.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And the last tenant, this is this is how that ended.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Knock knock, knock on the door, Suffolk County Police Department.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Are you blah blah? Yes, does blah blah live here? Yes?
Can we see his room? Why? Why do you want
to see his room?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, man, he just committed suicide on the railroad tracks
in Green Lawn and we want to check his room.
He fucking parked his car on the tracks with a
suicide note on the dashboard. And then uh, and then
they I don't I don't know, I don't remember. They
found another note in his room. But that's that was
the end of the tenants of my mom. The last
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one killed themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
This is all I'm thinking.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Your mother, uh needs a better screening process.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Drug addicts.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And yeah, know what her screening process was for roommates?
If you could fucking pay. That's all she gave a
shit about. Yeah, that's all she cared about. But anyway,
where were we with this? Uh ah, the cost of
living Trump? Trump trying to say everything is cheaper. I don't.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't know a person around me that agrees with
Trump as far as things being cheaper.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We're not seeing it.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
So they just they have the three indicators of like
things aren't good. Price of eggs is up, like over
twenty percent, it's up twenty percent, right, Beef is up
eighteen percent?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And what was it? Oh? And bread it's I think
it's beef eggs. Oh and milk. Beef, eggs and milk.
Those are the three indicators.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So everything's up fourteen percent, eighteen twenty percent. Those are
the three indicators. Those are the three main ingredients. Milk, bread, meat,
milk and eggs. Bread, milk us up, meat us up.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Eggs are up.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And Trump is saying it's the it's the it's the lowest.
It's eggs and meat is the lowest it's ever been.
That gaps flighting. And then the other thing that's he
he bailed out like the Argentine Argentinian uh battle business
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he remember he gave like a couple of billion dollars.
He gave four billion dollars Argentina to to save their
meat industry. Meanwhile, American cattle farmers are.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
They can't pay their bills. Let me explain it.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
He's bailing out cattle farmers in Argentina and the cattle
farmers in America are absolutely suffering.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's coupled with the tariffs he wants.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh my god, this is where we lose half the audience.
He wants America gets to suffer. He don't. He don't.
He don't give a shit about anybody. He cares about himself.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
He doesn't even give a shit about his billionaire friends,
if you want to know the truth, because they talk
about All he cares about is himself and his billionaire friends.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
He doesn't care about his billionaire friends. He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
He apparently, he just on the side made made like
a hundred million dollars, like a little side hustle with
some bitcoins. Right, he did another side hustle with bitcoins
and made a quick cool one hundred million.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, well, no one.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Even hear about it. I only heard about it because
it was a little whisper in the news and Trump,
Uh Trump. I think when it's fully disclosed, I think
the Trump family is just they're raking it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Of course. Do you think Trump has a friend? Ron?
Do you think he just has a friend.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
A little he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's like a little friend. I'm not talking about business associates.
It sounds like he doesn't really hang out with his
family much in general. Does he have a friend?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Just just anyone that he's called over the years, even
before he was president.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Does anyone know if he ever had a friend?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
He had won? But that guy uh took his own life?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Which one?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Epstein?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh Epstein? Of course, duh, duh, duh. All right, listen,
Richie Rich is here with who the man?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Who?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
De man? Who?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The man?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Who?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
The man?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Who? De man? Who?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
De man? Who?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
The man? Who? Deman?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Who the man?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Ryan? Do you got one?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You know what? Fuck it?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I'm gonna go back in time a little bit because
I wanted to talk about it because I find it
so interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Go ahead, And.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I used to be a member of Air Force one.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Here we go again, Here we go. So I want
to bring up two things about so Who's my man? Yeah?
You fucking write it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Steven tell Erico aka Stephen Tyler aka the Screaming Demon right,
aka the frontman of arrow Smith. So here's a couple
fun facts about who's my man, Steven Tyler.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, remember that big fucking hit they had. Dude looks
like a lady.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Dude looks like the lady.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, yeah, massive fucking hit.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That was a great song.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So at one point bally Crue was on tour with Arrowsmith,
opening up for Aerosmith the first time Aerosmith and by
Crue met Steven Tyler thought vince Neil was a was
a girl. And he's like, Steven Tyler thought Vincenil was
was a groupie, like he thought he thought she was
(25:42):
a groupie blowing the blowing the band and and he goes, oh,
he goes the dude looks like a lady. And they
go no, no, no, that's Nce Snail, Stephen Steven. That's
Thenceneil that you're not gonna have sex with that person.
And that's where and that's where the song dude looks
like it came from. Now Desmond Child, who's a very
(26:02):
very famous music producer, right sure, sure.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
No, I say sure because I don't I know the name.
I wouldn't tell you, I couldn't tell you what he
produced or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So Desmond Child produced that song dude looks like a Lady,
And they thought dude looks like a lady, Uh, was
a little too like maybe homophobic. So they were gonna
go cruising for a lady. And Desmond Child, who produced
that song, said, what are you giving in? You're fucking
(26:33):
your folding. You don't want to stick to your guns.
He goes, I've also produced Van Halen and they would
never fucking give in like that, and and uh, they
wouldn't even they wouldn't even put that song on their
worst B side to change the title. And he said
he essentially called Ariics Smith punkas bitches because Van Haley
(26:55):
would never give in.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So that's the story of that. That's the story if
you looks like a lady.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But cruising for a lady sounds a bit more homophobe, right,
doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Cruising for a lady sounds like Epstein's theme song.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It sounds like you're like cruising for a twink or so,
I don't I don't know that sounds worse than dude
looks like a lady. Yeah, it's I lived, Uh, you know,
when I was, when I was uh you know, as
I like to say, at times, putting up numbers, trying
to figure out, trying to figure out who I was
gonna fall in love with. You know, you gotta you
(27:30):
gotta get out there to figure out who you're gonna
fall in love with. Right, I'm I'm so thankful that
I didn't have to. I didn't have to dress up
like a chick. That was the culture, dude with the
hair bands, guys dressing up like chicks, And I'm like,
why are you dressing up like a chick? You don't
have a hit song.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
If you don't have a hit song and you're dressing
up like a chick, that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All those all those like metal hair bands.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
They were girls, and the women were losing their mind them.
I never understood that were you're sharing makeup with your
with your girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Eyeliner.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
They had hairdoes like like girls from like Revere Beach.
They had big fucking blonde he had dudes, they had
makeup on, they had eyeliner.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Don't forget don't forget the waterfall ron. Some of the
women had the waterfall in front.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I mean they dressed like bisexual Essentially, it.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Was the thing and girls and girls ate it up.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And then guys were like, well, if these rock stars
are getting girls dressing up like girls, then I guess
I gotta start dressing like a girl. And I'm here
to say, you'll never find a picture of me dressed
as a girl. Thank god I didn't have to do that.
I think it was because of my blue eyes back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
What do you mean you never dressed up as a
girl for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I don't think so. I don't think so. No, honestly, No,
what am I saying? I don't think so? No, No,
The answer to that is no.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
You know, honestly, the first major major rock star to
really become and dragging us is that the word kind
of like are you male?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Female? I got David Bowie.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I was gonna say, David Bowie.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
He's David Bowie and dragging us. You really couldn't tell.
He was like that from s NL you were a girl.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Right exactly?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
So uh so, so Steven Tyler is the mand because
he didn't cave on.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Dude, looks like a lady. And here's Vince Neil de
Man for dressing like a lady.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, so you know how Steven Tyler and Joe Perry
were called the toxic twins. Sure because like nobody did more,
nobody parted hotter than fucking Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I would put Ozzie up there, You put Motley Crue
up therein up there?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Do they all?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
First of all, they were they were all doing the
h Eric Clapton uh mentioned.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Clapp did uh clapt In in the Eagles if you know, Ron,
if if you want this lovely relationship of ours to
you don't want they were Clapton Ah God, slowhand. No.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I like the layla and I I did like uh,
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Like really.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Like uh you know, dude. You know like in Vietnam
it said Kilroy was here. They had that in England
and the Clapton is gone.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Like this is not a popular opinion. I just don't
like Clapton. I don't know what it is about him.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Matter of fact, h was such a factor in music
in that time that the Eagles maybe one of their
biggest hits ever was about h R. California I know
is a out entering and never leaving that song.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That song is.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Good, I guess, but but the Eagles that every song
sounds the same to me.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
After a while, they put out a country western album.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
But here's.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I'm a little confused by the Eric Clapton because I
do like I like the cream stuff I liked.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I like cream.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Derek and the Dominoes.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Uh yeah, a little Derek and the Dominoes.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
He's very talented, but I don't know what it is
about him.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I just when I hear an Eric Clapton song on
the radio, I'm like, oh my god, enough already.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
You know it's weird because you kind of look like
him a little bit. You guys could be like first cousins.
Maybe that's the reason. Maybe he looks too too much
like you. You kind of you kind of.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Could be like an Eric Clapton body double.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
All right, So I got who to man?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Okay, Tosh, do you know anything about this Billie Eilish
ron Ron.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
This is what I know about be I. She whispers
when she sings. Yeah she does, That's all I know.
And she has hot though.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And she has a creepy relationship with her brother.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Oh yeah, they do it.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I don't know what that's about, but it's creepy. I
love my sisters, but we don't hang out like that.
They hang out in a weird way. And now they're older,
so they have no excuse.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
When you get older and you're still hanging out in
a bedroom with your sister writing songs, it's creepy.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You never hung out with your sisters in their bedroom.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
After twelve years old?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
No hold on? Are your sisters rough than the same
age as you.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I have one sister that's a couple of years younger
than me, and I got well, she's about three years
younger than me, and then I got an older sister.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
She's my half sister, but she's my sister. Of that.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
But you're trying to tell me growing up as a preteen,
you never liked said hey, you never like showed each
other your body pots.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh my god, Ron, No, I'm gonna child.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I don't know your your thoughts of how people were,
you know how they lived?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Because only look I got Sally, I got a fire hose, Sally.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Where's your fire hose?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Oh mommy, is it lonely or only?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I think both work. You were an only lonely child.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It makes sense, Ron, I had to use my imagination.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh god, we didn't do ship like that would Oh
my god, no, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No, your sisters, that's natural. No natural.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't know, ron, Ron.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You get all the hormones coming up.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
So this is Billie Eilish, right, she's worth a few
bucks and she was an accept she was accepting.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
A war down there on Wall Street. You ever been
to the Wall Street? Yeah. I was on the floor
of Wall Street once with stockbroker Dave.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
He brought us there for the day. It was absolutely amazing.
Everyone on the floor was out of their fucking minds.
And this was at the this was during the heyday
of Opien Anthony.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So everybody on the floor was like, holy shit, Opian
Anthony are here and they're just trading stocks. And they
all looked like they were out of their fucking vines.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
They all, I can say this much, they all looked
like they were on something. I have no idea, but
they all walked around with Altoyd tins.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I remember they all had Altoyd tins.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I know for a fact.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I had a friend who supplied Wall Street one of
one of the.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Firms, really one of the firms.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
He's like, you remember the what was the movie with
Leonardo DiCaprio, And he has a quick scene with Matthew
mcconiughey was at the Wolf of Wall Street probably and
Matthew mcconniey.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
There's a scene to the beginning of the movie in
Matthew Honey.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
He talks about like, you want to be successful in
the Wall Street business, right, you gotta you, you gotta
keep the lizard pumping or something like.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That's a great scene.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But all right, well that's that's definitely that's definitely part
of the culture. Get back to Billie Eilish. Scout Watson
up the River says, as a singer, Billie Eilish has
great hits.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
She's got to anchor him down, ron, She's one of
these gals. She's gotta ancher him down.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah. And her tiptostal whisper.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You like to call him torpedoes, right, right, she's hot,
She's got torpedoes. So Billie Eilish, she's accepted a ward
down to Wall Street. This is why she's a demand today.
The man could be a female. Yes, And she's accepted
this award. And there's a whole bunch of billionaires down there.
It's Wall Street, right.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
And I wrote the quote down she uh, She looks
at the at the Billionaires. There's a lot of billionaires
in the room, and she goes, if you're a billionaire, why.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Are you a billionaire? No, hate, give your money away.
So she solved the problem. She solved the problem in
America because of Billie eilidh. Now all the billionaires are
just simply giving their money away. So if you're on
the streets in New York today, you might be lucky
enough to get money from a billionaire because because Billie
Eilish said it, and they just started doing it.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I guess yeah, I'm sure that went over well.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And the cat and the and the and the the
capital center of the world.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, no, hate, give your money away, she says.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
But in all fairness, she backed it up because then
she turned around and she donated money from her uh
recent concert tour.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Guess how much? Guess how much she donated? Ron how much?
Eleven dollars fifty cents?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
No, no, no, no, Also, mom, donnie, eleven point five
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Let me get the real amount out. Eleven point five
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
So besides telling the billionaires give their fucking money away,
she turned around and made a huge donation.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
He gave a eleven million away.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Eleven point five. Not ignore the point five. I'll take
the point five.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
If someone turn away eleven point five, I would raise
my hand and go.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Hey, I'll take the point five. Yeah right, yeah right,
what are we gonna say? There?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I forgot I lost my thought. I lost my thought
on Billy I.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Oh, I was gonna say, you know, not only does
Billy I always say, hey, billionaires, why don't you share
the wealth and and you know, you know, help humanity.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Joh god.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I think he wants to put a four uh, he
wants to two or three percent tax on billionaires in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And I think Hocal said that ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
That's not gonna You're not gonna like, uh two percent
it went for was it one two percent?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Apparently that's a huge. Uh, that's a huge.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
This is what people don't understand, these idiots that are
in the street. I put up a I put up
a video recently on my YouTube channel.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
I got another YouTube channel for my New York City stuff.
Mostly it's called Opie Unleashed NYC.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And one of the videos I put up was, you know,
I would I went to a few of these protests
over the years.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
And there's a guy he just has a shirt homemade.
He just put a piece of paper on a green shirt.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I think it was green, and just says, tax the rich,
tax them all.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
And the point to your point, and to Kathy Hockle's point,
I agree with her on this, And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
If you tax these idiots too much, they take their
business and they go somewhere else. And that's what really
hurts the city. Tax these billionaires to a point where
they're like, fuck you, man, I pay enough already, and
you want more from me.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I'm taking my entire company out of New York City.
But that's why someone like Kathy Hockel says no to
that shit.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
By the way, that's that's the criticism is gonna you're
gonna run business out of New York City.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
And also where is Wall Street? Wall Streets in the middle,
Wall Streets in Manhattan. So you have a New York
City mayor who's who has control of Wall Street?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Who wants who wants to give, who wants to take?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Like Robinhood, I guess right, take the money from the
rich and give it to the poor. Sure, I guess
that's an Hey, so I guess that theme's been been
around for thousands of years.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I guess you need the billionaires to want to do
something like that on their own.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You if you force their hand too much, they just
take off. They simply just take off.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
There will be other states saying, come to us and
we'll give you all the tax exempt you want.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Of course, of course that's what you're competing with. It's
not an easy solution on paper. On paper, it sounds amazing.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
If you want to know the truth, there's billionaires out
there that will die. Family will die, their families, families
will die, right, and that money will still be there.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
They have so much money they.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Could easily give away a ton of it and their
lives will never be affected. And there and their kids
families will never be affected, and their grandkids' families will.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Never be affected.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
They need to do it on their own somehow, but
with their hand, they're just gonna go somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
But yes, and there are states to do that, like
if you come to our state, there's no corporate tax.
If you come to ours eight, there's no property taxes
because I know.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
You know who does that.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
All these fucking like millionaires, high celebrity actors and sports
stars there are going to states where they're saving millions
of dollars in taxes, either in sales tax or income tax.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
Right, what happened? Opiy obey? Okay, what you do?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
What happened? Opie o pay?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Did you hear me? Now?
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Now? Yes? What happened?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I had to plug you in my stupid computer? And
then uh oh, I see what happened. Go ahead, talk Roy,
I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Oh my god, you need an assistant.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Technical issue in a while, give me a break, you
know what.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
For Christmas. Let's see if we can get you an assistant.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I don't need an assistant. I reached for a cord
and I unplugged something else. Let me go back to
the other audio, and we're back right where we were.
Pays you in a while? All right, we're back. Sorry,
we're back. My computer had two percent, so I panicked.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
I reached down for a cord and I knocked au
and I yanked the cord out.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
That's all all right. Continue, I was listening the whole time.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Honestly, I can't work under these conditions. This is this
is crazy.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
I mean, doing a show for my window sill and
you're you're in a wood paneling room.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I think I think they need to lower their expectations.
I'm at the very bott it's gonna be a mic
problem every once in a while, all.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Right, So just quickly because I find this so interesting.
So we were saying before, who's my man? Steven Tyler
the Toxic Twins. I love this story. This is my
favorite Arrowsmith drug story.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
In nineteen eighty four, a Boston DJ played the ballad
you See Me Crying from Arrowsmith Toys in the attic.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Right, So Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The song comes on.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
I think it's WBCN, and Steven Tyler goes, holy fuck,
I love that song. We should cover it, hey, Joe,
find out who's sang it, and.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Joe Perry goes, I'll get the quote hold on.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Wait now you're holding on. You can't hold on after
I had to hold on. We can't have two holds
in one in one live stream. Rin.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
So Stephen Tyler goes to Joe Perry, yo, I love
that song. Let's get the rights to record it. And
Joe Perry goes, Stephen, are you fucking joking with me.
You sang that song, you fucking idiot. That's your song, Steven.
That's how fucked up they were. Steven Tyler goes, dude,
(43:24):
I love that song. Let's get the rights to it.
Joe Perry goes, you fucking idiot. You you are singing
that song.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
That really, Honestly, I'm gonna be honest with you, I've
never heard that one.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I've never heard that one. My my thing with Arismith,
you know their biggest hit, don't want to miss a
thing right from Marmageddon?
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Well, I mean, that's not my biggest hit from them.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
That's I hate, I hate, I hate the older I could, but.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
If you look it up, I think it's their number
one song.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I know number numbers, but I tried like.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
They had that that. I forgot her name already and
I saw her documentary. That's what's said about songwriters, because
you don't remember their fucking names after a while.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
But she wrote a ton of hits for a ton
of people, and she wrote that song for Arrowsmith.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
It's not an Arrowsmith song. They needed a song for Armageddon.
She wrote this beautiful song. Her name's Diane something I think.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
And then she She handed it to Steven Tyler, saying,
I think your voice would be perfect for this, and
your daughter's in the goddamn movie.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
This works, And then Joe.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Perry had to sit there and play just goofy basic
guitar on and stuff. It's not an Arrowsmith song. I
know it's in their catalog, but it has nothing to
do with them as songwriters.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
They're the second half of their career after they got sober.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, ah, too clean, too poppy.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
You need dirt, you need.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
I need fucking I need diamonds, I need uh toys
in the attic. What's what's the other one? There's a
couple I don't know well, first.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Of all, just to get the info out there, Yes,
her name is Diane Warren. This this broad wrote so
many fucking songs that you know, let's be honest, A
lot of people know in love and she was the
one that wrote Don't want to Miss a Thing for
Armageddon and handed it to Arismith.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Thank you, Nathan Bremer.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Hey, by the way, can I can I chime in sure?
Speakon of like who who wrote what?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
You know? I'm gonna bring in what I talked about yesterday.
This is a perfect segue. So Diane Warren wrote the
song for Armageddon.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Two Aarsmith right, right, So there's a lot of very
famous people who have By the way, there's very famous
musicians who have wrote very famous songs for other people.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
I think printed a lot of that. Rich wrote a.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Lot of super fucking hits for other people. That's how
talented Prince was. Yes, yes, who else wrote a very
very famous jingle?
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Oh? So you ever heard of Barry Manilo.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
We all know the Barry Manilow.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Nice Jewish boy.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
By the way, what do you think his biggest hit was? Like? Like,
what the name? Some of his biggest hits.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
At the Kopa copa Ke music is always would ye.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Be singing about another dude so badly? But you know
America wasn't ready for the Barry Battelow Aleegendly.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Here's not a question.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
We know his last name is not man Alow because
he's it's probably like lipshits. It's like very Barry, like
lipships or something. Well, Ralph Florid is Ralph slip ships.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Oh that's nice. What about the Barrier manlog? I'm trying
to remember some more Barry Manilow hits. He had a
few hits, didn't he Ryn.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Let me tell you something. He still sells out.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
He sells out and it's all the fucking he the
senior circuit, they love him.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
He had the song Mandy, Oh huge, and you want
to be singing about Randy, But he had to sing
about Mandy.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
How to go?
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Because right it was the seventies. He couldn't sing about Randy.
He had to sing about Mandy.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
However, biggest hit not his big as hit. You want
to hear his biggest hit.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
His biggest hit was the Coppa I would.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Say, no, no what.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Barry Manilow's biggest hit came out in nineteen seventy one
and it's been playing for forty fucking years and it's
still on the air.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
How about your math sucks seventy one to twenty five?
That's fifty four.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Oh my aud you've improved my point.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Barry Manilow's biggest hit has been on the airwaves for
over half a century.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Now do you know what it is?
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (48:12):
So let me do it. Barry Meadalos Mary meadalows biggest st.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Recorded it in nineteen seventy one and it's still on
the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Let me let me do it some justice, all right,
Like a good neighbor SKay barm is there?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
That's fucking Barry Manilo the greatest hit, Why neighbor, state
farm is there?
Speaker 1 (48:37):
That's very many I actually know this, I forgot. Yes,
Barry Madilows started out as a jingle writer for commercials,
I think, yeah, and his biggest one was state Farm.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
He the good neighbor, state farm is there? That's Barry Manilow,
my friend.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
And I love how you say it with the Boston accent.
State farm is there?
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, state Farm?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
State farm is his biggest hit that you're stupid, very bad.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Oh my, it's going that jingle. Oh by the way,
no fucking royalties. He only made five hundred dollars off.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
That for real.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Yeah, he got paid five hundred bucks. No royalties. Can
you imagine we got royalties off that?
Speaker 1 (49:18):
That would be uh, that would be insane to go
for half a century'd be it's it be he would
have a few more million on top of his hundreds
of millions.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
They would be unbelievable, you know, speaking of royalties.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Yeah, Sidefeld friends, Right, so that's okay for the cast
of Friends.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
They still make about twenty million a year royalties.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Each way way away, each person or the show itself.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
No, each person is making roughly look it up royalties.
And I'm going to tell you why, go on a table,
go on any go on any news, Go on any channel.
You'll find a rerun of Friends. You'll find a rerun
of Eindfeld.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Well, my young daughter discovered Friends, so we there was
a period there before she went back to the Gilmore
Girls where she was binge watching Friends episode. So yeah,
and they're around the clock. You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
What I'm saying is you can go at any time
you will. You'll be able to find on two or
three channels si Feld reruns or Friends reruns.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Right, it's on all day every day.
Speaker 5 (50:31):
Shit.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Gonna list the day that you say right now. Right,
I thought, I'm like, come on, Ron, you're pretty my friend,
Ron the waiter is pretty well read.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
How about do they make?
Speaker 1 (50:44):
I have gotten that number wrong. The Friends cast earns
an estimated twenty million per year each in royalties.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Ron. I know I'm backing yup because I didn't believe.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
I didn't believe it to be true. So it's so crazy,
I AI did it. You don't say Google anymore. If
you say I google it, you're you're dating yourself. You
gotta say, I AAI did it.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
I made ready for this. So they made twenty million
per year each in royalties, a figure that comes from
two percent two percent of the shows estimated one billion
annual syndication and streaming profits. The fucking show Friends is
still making a billion dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
And probably Seinfeld even more because Seinfeld's on more than Friends.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
You know, you know Ron, I'm I'm uh, there's there's
no secret here. I'm running out of money. I'm running
out of money.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Wait a minute, don't you get don't you get royalties
from that bro?
Speaker 1 (51:45):
It drives me nuts to this to this day. I
can only speak for myself. I didn't have a relationship
with Anthony, so when he was negotiating with our agent,
I have no idea in general what they said. But
I told my.
Speaker 4 (51:58):
Agent back in the day when I had when I
had enough money, I was paying all my bills, I
was putting it into financial accounts. I didn't need any
more money at that time, and I went to my agent,
Robert Eatman, we were signing another contract with Serious except.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
I said, I said, Robert, I don't we don't need
I I'll speak for myself. I don't need the big
salary coming in.
Speaker 4 (52:23):
I got enough, So let's lower what I'm gonna make
doing the Opian Anthony Show and buy our fucking catalog
because I saw, I saw the Beatles and all these
other rock groups and stuff, but you know, getting their
catalogs back and making stupid money off it or selling
the catalog to big companies.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Right. I went to my agent, Bob. I love the guy.
He did so much for me. He's no longer with us.
He said, Bob, I'll take less money, buy our fucking
catalog because that'll live on forever. And now fast forward.
We haven't done an Opian Anthony show and what over
ten years, but people are listening to this sh shit
every single day. I have to compete with don't being
(53:04):
Anthony with my new shit. That's how popular it still
is to this day. And I don't get a penny
from it. Anthony doesn't get a penny.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
From who owns the rights to Open Anthony.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
It's kind of just uh. I guess if Serious Exam
wanted to put the hammer down.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
You know, they own it, but basically fans, there are
fans out there.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
What what about WBCN do they have any rights to that?
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Well? BCN is no longer and so you have to
go to the company that was, you know, own BCN,
and that would have been CBS Radio. There are fans
and fan sites making decent money off the Opian Anthony material.
Speaker 2 (53:43):
So you can't, like, don't you have an attorney.
Speaker 3 (53:45):
You can't like say hey, I'm actually Opie from Opien Anthony.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
This is my stuff. You can't legally do something.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
We don't own it. We don't own our material. So
to see friends making twenty million in the year to
just sit on their assays. Look, I think honestly, if
we owned our material, I think we could have been making.
Speaker 4 (54:08):
An easy I mean an easy million dollars a year, uh,
from the old material easily. And Robert, you know, I
could only speak for myself, like I said, I don't
know the discussions that Anthony had with the guy.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
But Robert, you know, he just wanted the money, honey.
He wanted just the money.
Speaker 4 (54:27):
The big salary they were gonna offer us. And I'm like, oh,
it drives me nuts to this day, you know, like
you could have been. I don't like the Howard Stern,
but you know, he's a smart businessman. He owns his material.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
That that fucking guy doesn't have to do another show
in his life. He owns his material. It's worth, it's worth.
God knows how much Howard Stern's catalog is.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Actually how like, how deeply in conversation do you get
about buying your buying your stuff like.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
It was an ongoing conversation with me and my agent,
And I don't I honestly think he never even approached
that with the bosses at Serious Exam.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
That that's what my gut says.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
And and let's say it went further. And how much
would it caught you to purchase your own stuff?
Speaker 4 (55:20):
How they would have probably gave us, you know, way
less money to get Curious Exam. But but in our
contracts they say, you know, but we'll give you your
old catalog. And then we could have monetize the shit
out of that.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
That would have been way worth, that would have been.
Speaker 4 (55:36):
Worth way more money than anything Serious Exam was given us.
And now I have to sit here at to compete
against Opien Anthony. Fans make the money off the Opien
Anthony stuff. It's it's hard to build an audience when
when they're like, ah, should I listen to Opie solo
stuff or Anthony solo stuff, or should I go and
and and and check out the you know, the.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
The radio goal they call it of Opiate Anthony. It's
it's so frustrating that you bring it up.
Speaker 4 (56:05):
The friends thing just triggered me because it's it's something
I saw.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
I saw the vision. It was already happening while we
were still doing Opian Anthony. People were listening to our
ship all over the world on the internet because they
didn't get satellite rate.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
It was there for the you made.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
If you could have made that work, ude, you, you
would never have to worry about money again.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
It frustrates me to this day because like you know,
at the time, we didn't officially need the big the
big money coming in. You know, I was trying to
plan for the future because I do the shelf life
on Opian Anthony. Oh my god, we were we were
way past the expiration date of the Opian Anthony show,
way past well lasted.
Speaker 1 (56:52):
As long as we did.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
You know, who else just bought their bought their own
catalog or bought their own stuff. Uh, your your buddy,
your buddy's girl, your me head's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (57:04):
From the podcast Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
Taylor Swift. Yeah, she went back and bought her catalog.
The best one, the best one was when Michael Jackson,
when he was still with us. You know the Michael
Jackson story, right.
Speaker 2 (57:18):
He bought the Beatles anthology. He bought the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
He owned the Beatles. So every time somebody used the Beatles,
saw that money did not go to the Beatles. It
went to Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (57:31):
Jesus.
Speaker 3 (57:33):
The amount you know, the the Michael jack and a
hate the amount of money they make on his fucking royalties.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
It is insane. Hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
All right, Ron, we got to start wrapping up. Give
me one more thing before we go.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
I'll tell you what we can do. All right, you
picked the category. We can talk about the Rock and
Ball Hall of Fame inductees. We can talk about now
you mentioned your brother got bit by a tick. We
can talk about the staph ever in New Jersey from
a tick bite.
Speaker 2 (58:02):
What do you want to do?
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Well, we can do both quickly. I think you're talking
about the lone star tick. My brother was bit by
a lone star tick.
Speaker 4 (58:09):
And what you know, some of these ticks will give
you the lime disease, which is a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
But it is curable if you get on it quickly,
even if even if you uh oh well. I don't
want to give medical advice, but if there there there are,
there are you know, things you can do to cure
your lime disease or or make it less severe. Let's
just put it that way, less severe.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
Here's here's here's the thing about ticks. It's not all
the same illness.
Speaker 1 (58:39):
There's it's so weird. You get different things from different ticks.
You know, we're pulling ticks off our dog and ourselves
all summer long out there at the beach. But my brother,
he got bit by the lone star tick. I know
where you're going with this because a guy got bit
with uh by a loan Star tick in Jersey and
he died from it. Because I think I know why
(59:00):
he died too, Because the loan Star ticket, if I'm
not mistaken, that's the one that makes you allergic to me.
Speaker 3 (59:05):
Right, So, a healthy forty seven year old male airline piot,
like seriously, like he wasn't he didn't have underlining health conditions. Yeah,
he got bit by a lone star tick. Right, he
went out and had a steak dinner. Right, got severely ill, Right,
(59:27):
got rushed to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yep, symptoms were away. They never put two and two together.
Speaker 3 (59:33):
Oh really, So he didn't die the first time the
first time he had a steak, he got rushed to
the hospital. A month later, he's at a barbecue and
has a.
Speaker 2 (59:47):
Hamburger and fucking died. Can you imagine dating from a hamburger?
Speaker 3 (59:52):
So what's happening is he goes into I think it's
called alter, he goes he.
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Went into shock. Yeah, because the lone star tick.
Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
It changes the sugar molecules of the meat.
Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
I don't know, I don't know the funk. We're not
we're not medical people.
Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
All you all you need to know is the lone
star tick.
Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
And uh, I'm not sure if if it happens in
all cases, but it'll make you allergic to me. This
actually happened to my brother. I don't know where his
status is, but for the last oh, I think he
told me recently that.
Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Huh can he eat? Can he eat meat.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Now, I believe. I believe so I could. I'll uh,
I'll talk to him after the after the lionder.
Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
I wonder if that goes away, like I'm wondering if
like over time.
Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
So I went fishing with him over the summer with
my kids, and I think he said that he could
eat meat again. But I'm not positive. I gotta I
gotta ask him.
Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
But first, this is why. So it's called alpha Gal's syndrome.
Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
And what happens is is it changes the d NA
he of your like sugar molecules. Yeah, and you go
to the APHA filastic shark.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I get whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
However, super scary, right, But my cousin got bit by
a tick and the left side of her face trooped
like she had a stroke.
Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
It looked like like it was like like dish like that.
Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Can you imagine, like like like a teenage girl like
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
It eventually went away, but it looked like you had
a stroke.
Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
It her ticks her No joke, man, I mean when
we when we find a tick at the beach house,
we handle it. I love when people use as an
example which I'm going to now.
Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Use, we handle it like it's platonium, Like we all
just casually platonium. But I guess we all assume this
is how you would handle platonium. And you just have
to get how do we get rid of the tick?
And I just flush him down the fucking toilet. Let me.
I was just I'm like, at that point, it's somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Hold on, let me, let me have to touch.
Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Down the toilet. The thing will come back back up
out of the pipes and then you stab it. You're
trying to burn it, and the thing will, like you
will start walking around on fire. They're indestructible, these damp things.
Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
So let me ask you something. So are you checking
your dog for ticks all the time?
Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
But hold on?
Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
What but here's the one This is where uh are
you checking your dogs gums and teeth for ticks? That's
That's what I'm asking Ah, not really, yeah you should.
That's the real problem area is the kicks get under
you know, in between the gum and the tooth. That's
a real problem because dogs are what are they doing
with their nose?
Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Right right right?
Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
You need to check your dog's mouth. I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
And they're nostrils, they're not.
Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
No the ticks will get here.
Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
And also it's common for ticks to get in between
the gum and teeth of dogs.
Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Yeah, so you should check your dog's mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
I'm too busy checking its ball bag.
Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
That's but that's for other reasons. Yeah, his ball bag.
Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
I want to make sure there's no ticks on his
freckly ball bang.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Here's the other problem with ticks.
Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
And also now you got that, you got that that
all that other bloodsucker from Texas, the uh, the one
that bites you in the lip.
Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Oh right, we talked about that. What was that again?
Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
The whisper whatever, they're all coming, they're all coming south
up because the fucking global warming.
Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Dude, what do you find why we had like Serrie's
accumulation of snow.
Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
Look, we got along today, just kind of nice, but
it makes it a little boring when we get along.
To be honest with you, I need turboil in my life.
Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
I'm actually kidding, but we went over this. You're talking
about a bug. It bites your lip and then you're
in all sorts of problems, sorts of huh.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Yeah, it's like the hit. It's it's a it's another
blood born ticks sort.
Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Of right, But and you're like, this thing is heading north. Yeah,
he's somewhere in America right now. They're dealing with it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
So can't we go to those places and go, how
are you dealing with the lip biting bug? Because eventually
it's gonna make it up to the you know, Boston.
Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
If people are living with it south of here, how
could it be a real problem? I don't know. All
I know is you can't just say I don't know
and move on.
Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
No, no, no, I'm saying apparently Connecticut is like the
epicenter of all this shit. I know so many I
know a lot of people Connecticut or rather than like
serious health issues with tick bites, oh yeah, for some
reason Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
I don't know what the fuck's going on in that state.
Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Dude, where do you think the term line came from?
Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Lime disease Connecticut?
Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
I think there's a town called Lime, Connecticut. If I'm
not really and that's where the lime disease comes from? Really,
I think, how do you know the line?
Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
There's like a bond, there's a public health hazard in
Connecticut for texts. I don't it's I don't know what's
going on geographically in that in that area.
Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Here it is. There's a town in Connecticut called Lime,
And I believe that's why they called lime disease because
they did, like it started in Lime, Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
They they had a statistic at one point like one
out of four houses had some sort of tick born illness. Yeah,
that's how it was affecting the entire community.
Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Oh yeah, someone say lime disease. Someone, I'll give you
a credit.
Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Here he says, lime disease is man made. I have
no idea about that. All right, look up the story
if you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Creeped out by L Y M Lime Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Wait, let me look up the story. And then I
got I really gotta go. But are we doing tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Hold on? Uh you could say something because I gotta
find this story. I don't know how I find it.
Moose ticks story. How do you spell ticks? T I
c K t c K moose yeah tick news story?
Uh uh ah, I'm not gonna find the actual story.
(01:06:15):
Maybe i'll I'll try to find it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
There's a moose that had so many fucking ticks on
it it killed the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
It yeah, sucked.
Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
All the thing was infested with so many ticks, and
it took down a moose. Ticks took down a moose.
Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
I've also seen bed bugs take down people.
Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
That I had bedbugs once. It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
I know one guy, he fucking became anemic because he
was so many bed bugs.
Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Really, I had bedbugs.
Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
I lived in a fucking single Remoca Pacy on the
Upper West Side. I'd wake up with like thirty forty
fucking red bites on me. Really, I'd wake up in
the middle of the night, you know, when you wake
up and you're tired.
Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
I would see him crawling through my chest hair.
Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Yeah, honestly, I just go back to bed. I would
see them calling on me my chest hair.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
I Uh. The worst for me was I got infested
with fleas by a furral cat that I brought in.
A kitten.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
It was a street kitten storygo I've told him many times.
But when I was working in radio and Buffalo, we
our radio station was in a house and there was
kittens outside or one and we brought it in and
we decided it was gonna be the radio station's kitten
or cat. And the morning guy hated This guy was
really nice and cool in general, but he hated cats.
(01:07:39):
He would throw the.
Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
Fucking thing and I was like, all right, you know what,
this cat is being abused.
Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
It was a kitten at the time.
Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
I'm taking it home, and this thing was infested with fleas.
I had to bomb my apartment two three times to
try to get rid of these things.
Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
And you you would see them on the rug bouncing.
Have you ever seen fleas on a rug bouncing? And
I had so many it was like a show was
going on around my feet. My ankles were getting destroyed
by these things. They would bounce about I want to say,
about six inches off the off the rug, like that's
exactly right.
Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
That's where flea circus came from. Back in the chickens
in Europe. They would they would it's called the flea circus,
and they would have these things like jumping up and
down and being un fucking and.
Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
I don't know what it was with the fleas, but
all of a sudden, you think you're good, you shower,
you're going out, whatever, and all of a sudden you
would get a bite on your arm or something. I
couldn't get rid of these things even after I bombed.
Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Them and these for whatever reason, a flea bite is
so irritating, so itchy, and takes forever to calm the
fuck down.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
I don't know what that's about.
Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Bed bugs, Well, it's it's it's the saliva they you
to bite you, and and that's what's irritating you in
the city. So I told you I had bed bugs
in the Cigarette Moccas hotel on the upper west side,
right the same floor. On the other on the other side,
on the same floor, the guy had fleets and he
(01:09:11):
he ended up having a mental a mental breakdown in
the middle of the night, screaming they had they took
him away, they like, they took him to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
He went crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
I fully get that. I've told this story over the years,
and I felt like the fleas were driving me absolutely
insane because I couldn't get rid of him.
Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
And then every bite, I'm like, that's gonna be three
or four days of just irritation on my whether it
was my ankle, my shins, my forearms.
Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
I remember this guy, he he came out of his
room cause in his underwear covered in red bikes scratches.
Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Screaming, I can't take it anymore. Look screaming, I can't.
I'm gonna kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
They had the call, like they took him to the
hospital having a breakdown.
Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
I saw his doors open, right.
Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Oh you see is that's all you see is these
little black things jumping up and down.
Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
It was everywhere, like on his bed.
Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
It looked like a trampoline, a little a little fleets
where the flea.
Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Circus came from.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
The gypsy would go from town to town.
Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
All right, Ron, God, you know, for the people that
are our regulars, we try to start earlier.
Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
And uh now I think we gotta start even.
Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
Earlier, Rod, so we can get more done because I
gotta go. I gotta get the kids to all right.
Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Well, we'll finish up tomorrow morning, and then we got
to GiB pots at night.
Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
Oh we have gab hots tomorrow, all.
Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Right, Yeah, and then I gotta start getting ready for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
Yeah, let's talk about Thanksgiving tomorrow, because you're going back
to Boston.
Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
I'm going up to Boston next week. Matter of fact,
next Tuesday, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Up and you're and you're going to see people you
haven't seen in a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
I haven't been back in three years because three years
ago my father's sister, who is.
Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Wait is this the tea? Make this the teas for tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Here's the teeth for tomorrow, and I'm gonna hit wait
wait wait, I'm gonna hit end stream right after the tees.
Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
So my friend Ron, I call him Ron Ron. Sometimes
we call him Ron the Waiter. His name is Ron
Berman and he's Ron Berman Comedy on all the socials.
Here's the teas for tomorrow's livestream.
Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Go.
Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
The tease is I haven't been home in three fucking years, right,
because it was a there was a loss of life.