August 7, 2024 • 23 mins
Joe Gatto comes by to talk about his podcast "Two Cool Moms"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Interview lounge. Yep, we are. Hey, thank you Joe Gatto
for coming in and bringing in the expensive baked goods today.
I went to a nice place. I stepped it up
for you. We love it when you come to see us.
I'm just thinking about this. Joe Gatto is here, and
it was how many years ago did we meet?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Ye who?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I won the DJ for a Day contest in two
thousand and one two maybe? Yeah, right, yeah, that's when
I came up here for the first time and I
brought you Canole's then. See, yeah, that's how you get
invited back as long as like Rick treats. Yeah, the
reason I brought it up was this, I mean from then.
I mean it was also in Practical Jokers, huge success
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with that. And now I see you're actually gonna play
Caesars in Atlantic City. Look at where you are. And
we knew you then, Now we know you now it's
pretty cool. I've got my own palladium. They give me
the whole thing. It's great. Crazy. So do you get
nervous and say, oh, Joe, getto look. You got the room. Okay,
Now I got to fill it up. I know that's
the problem, So come on out. Friends. We need people
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to talk to. So Joe Gatto is going to be
there in October, like October nineteenth at Caesar's Atlantic City,
So check that out, all right. We have written many
reasons to celebrate. First of all, great pastries. Love them's. Yeah,
tell a muffins. What an innovation they just stuff a
muffin to tell. I was like our men three times,
I got three. I knew you were going to look
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at those, and I wanted one time. You know, we're
the reason of your gods.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But also a podcast that he does with his friend
Steve Byrne. It's called Two Cool Moms. It's been out, well,
it's been out for season now season two is here,
and of course it's part of the Elvis Duran podcast network.
It's so weird to talk about yourself in the third person,
like your You have your own podcast network. Look at
you talk about you. You've come a long way too.
(01:51):
I don't know. I don't know that this thing it's
so far. It's just it's it's not working this network.
There's no success here at whatsoever. So why'd you join us?
I'm kidding, I'm trying to turn this boat around. Here
we go to to, but we got some great podcasts.
Have you heard Gandhi's podcast? Good God? Well, no, it's
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I I get embarrassed listening sometimes it's that good. It's
so fantastic. So tell everyone in case they don't know
what two Cool Moms is about. With you and Steve. Well,
Steve Burne and I are comedian friends for a long time,
and we wanted to do a podcast together. So we
had gotten together and started just talking, and we eventually
found out that we are both the product of very strong,
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influential mothers who gave great motherly advice, and in our
friend group, we are that for people where each other's confidence.
When I was going through some stuff, I went to Steve.
Steve's come to me a lot. So we started decide
to like, hey, why don't we help the world with
our motherly advice? And it's so fans can submit their
dilemmas and we help solve them as best as we can.
There it's not always good, if I'm gonna be honest,
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but it's always funny, so that's nice. That's all that matters.
I mean, talk about what it's like for you doing
a podcast versus what versus your day job, you know. Yeah,
it was a format. I wanted to get into it
for a little while actually, and I was always looking
I always had fun being guests on one, and then
you know, my boy Sal has had great success with
his and it was like fun to see that, and
I was like, oh, this would be pretty cool. But
I wanted to do one that would feel right in
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something because it takes a lot of time too, and
it's something that you want to dedicate some time to
when you want to do it with a partner that
you like. So that all worked and when Steve and
I started, we actually called it ying Yang Parmesan and
it doesn't We didn't have an idea and it didn't work,
so we stopped and then we restarted and it was
just nice to finally find a format. But it's a
good way to connect with people. I didn't realize like
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so many people are into it. It's such a such
a cool like medium another way, you know, you know
in gandhi. What's your perspective on that, Like you loved
doing your podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, it's so fun. It's nice to be able to
have like a long form to discuss things and really
get into it because a lot of times on the
air were constrained by time. You know, there's a clock
away ticking, whereas in a podcast you can talk about
whatever you want, you can curse, you can be completely self,
you can do whatever you want. It's amazing. But like
with you, because you guys are giving people motherly advice,
which I think is hilarious, is there one piece of
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advice that you always find yourself going back to?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They The question I get we get on the podcast
all the time is how do I make friends as
an adults? Like the number like the number one we want? Yeah,
we get We get a lot of people asking about that,
and I was like, I just started, I want to
like email the people that are asking be like, here's
a person who's looking for a friend connections. Yeah, it's
it's that's That's a big one that we get a lot.
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But I always think about, like my mom always talked
about like that you have to like, uh, catch stuff
on it's small. And that was something that we always
like because people your frustration start falling coming together when
it's too big to handle. So if you start addressing
stuff when it's small, and that's one piece I really
dish out a lot I think.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I got that from my mom. And to get in
front of things. Yeah, get in front of it, movie cars, Yeah,
it's good. I think that's definitely good. Catch it when
it's small. You know what, one of the things I
love about you is, you know Gandhi's talking about being
able to use foul language on the podcast. I don't
think I've ever heard you say a dirty word. Oh,
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you haven't come seen me live.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Show for Happy Jack's right, Let me back, I'll back
that up.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
No, I've seen your show, and that's different. But like
in conversation right now or or when we're just hanging out,
you always have nice things to say. And let me
tell you, Joe Gatto is one of those generous people
I've ever met. I don't nowhere. I'll get a text
from you and you just say something and it's like
you knew I needed to hear it at that moment.
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I think of you often, see just by saying that,
it makes me feel great, even though he never thinks
of me. Ever.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
How many dogs are you up to now?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We have eleven right now? Yeah, we're eleven, eleven of ours.
We have twenty seven at the rescue right now it's
kind of you know what I'm gonna do here, And
you don't have to make them alphabetical. The eleven dogs
you do have give me their name. That's Canoli, Piscatti, Spamoni.
Uh who else? We got Spamoni, Napoleon Cupcake. Then we
got Feccini, Alfredo, the brother and sister, and then we
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have Mocha, who's a little devil who I love. And
then there's uh, okay, two more. Uh who's the other two?
One missing? It gets down to two more? Uh? Nutella?
And I think you said Nutella didn't? No, we did.
Rest in peace? Are bringing it up scary an Italian pastries.
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I appreciate help scary too soon? So you're missing one?
And this is this is my least favorite one. Confuse
them all?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Like, do you call Spamoni?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Nutellaoni is my favorite Spamoni from I know, but I do.
I do call my son at times, Napoleon, I call
my daughter. It doesn't work out sometimes. But what is
the other dog? Now? This is going to drive me crazy?
Oh Joe, I remember I remember anywhere? Yeah, we'll go
find it. Yeah, I'll go find it. Who do I'm
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trying to like picture the whole pack, and they're just oh,
that's the newest one. That's why Chestnut Chestnut Chestnut was
part of the Panera pack. We met a woman who
dropped off a bunch of in a Panera who was
who was giving up a pack of dogs, the father,
Chestnut and all the puppies, and we got rid of
all the puppies to people. We were able to get
them adopted out. And I fell in love with the father,
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so I kept him, but Hazel found a home prey
lean all those puppies they went. We went on a
nut theme for the pack. I love that. And you
know this is Joe Gadam. That's Joe on a cracker Man.
He's just the nicest suite was motivated. I love that part.
And eleven dogs living in the house, what's that like? Uh,
it's it's an adventure, for sure, it's for sure. They listen.
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Sleeping is a little weird, like because they all sleep
upstairs with us. So all eleven sleep on the bed. No,
Struful's got her own bed on the floor.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
And is there always barking going on?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No, they're pretty good. Yeah, well, one spoon is a
little stirror. She'll give a little earth and then they
all just go nuts. But sometimes it happens there. They're
pretty good. It's a pact mentality, you know. That's what
what's crazy? Say? Go outside? They all just follow each other.
Who's the leader? Piscotti, my girl, My girl, Piscotti, she's
my favorite. And Joe tense sleep in a bed, Yeah,
I sleep like tetris, like I have to if I
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have to get up a pee in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
That you get some loving going on, like what do
you do?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I pet the dogs? What are you talking about? I'm sorry,
that's understood, because something, something's licking me. I don't know
who that is. But look at Joe when he's talking
about his dogs. He's just glows. Look they make you
so happy. See we sleep with two and that, and
you wake up with a back cake because you cantort
your body in these weird ways. Because you could easily
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just say, hey, a dog, let's just move him over.
He'll get over, he'll go back to sleep. But you
don't want to do that. Oh no, I wouldn't get
up the other day because one of the dogs is
asleep on my lap. And I asked Bessie, my wife,
I was like, Bessie, could you grab grab me my water?
I left it over that. She's like, you don't want
to wake up the princess. You're sorting about my little dog.
In reality, the dog doesn't care if you wigan. You'll
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just go back to You're talking about the podcast Two
Cool Moms you and Steve Burne are doing. And you
said one of the biggest questions you get asked for
your motherly advice is how do I make friends? What
was your answer? What is your answer to people who
want to make friends? I just think you got to
remember that every best friend starts as a stranger. And
that's we forget that as we're younger, As we get older,
you know, it's like, oh, I don't know these people
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out of whatever. But you just got to get out
there and have conversations with people, you know, talk to strangers.
We have to deprogram ourselves as adults to do that.
I think, are you are you nervous like at a
party or in social gatherings? Are you more of an
introvert and it takes a little while for you to
warm up and go okay, I can do this. Always
that question for it, because that's clearly you made no no.
(10:04):
But Joe, let's say you and I are at the
buffet and you don't know I don't know you, because
that's where he'll find you hang out the buffet. Where's
Elvis way? If you checked the buffet, I know, but
you don't know me. I don't know you. You're gonna
break the eyes. What do you say to a total
stranger who's like, you know, getting green beans in the
tongs and putting them on the plate. What do you
say they? Have you turned it up? Have you tried
the salmon?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, I would say. I mean a lot of people,
it will come from common interest too. I talk about
that too. So like if you're I've met a lot
of friends who are taking pictures actually photographers, because I
like photography. I'm into like amateur photography, like pictures and stuff.
So if I see people taking pictures, I'll talk to
them about their camera in the park or whatnot. I
remember one the one time we were shooting for Jokers
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when we were in the park and I started talking
to somebody to try to pull them in to do
the bit, and I forgot because we were taking pictures
and they had a camera and I just started talking
about the camera and they were like, oh, you're gonna
get started here, like what are you doing? Just like
making a friend in the park. That's so cool. Yeah,
I know. I find that at parties if I'm a
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little nervous, maybe a little sweaty palmy actually go in
but I want to say something to someone, I'll corner them,
trap them, and I'll say, hey, are you having fun?
Is this a fun party? Are you having a good time?
And they'll look at me like this guy actually wants
to know if I'm having a good time, and then
it opens up a conversation. H. I think you're a
genuine I think being genuine is important if you're genuine
about it too, like if you're not just looking for
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something to you know, if you're like if I go
to places by myself a lot too, Like I'll do that.
I'll just go to some place by myself and I'll
be like hi, like it was this weird guy and
you have to work your way around that and then
you're like, oh, forget, this didn't work and you walk away,
like you have to walk away from some weird conversations too.
They're not all going to be friends. No, you know,
you run from some I get that as they run
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from us. I'm pretty sure, yeah, for sure. But we
have this thing. Alex and I have this thing where
we go to dinner at a restaurant. We always eat
at the bar. We never eat at a table. It
feels it feels weird sitting at a table for me, like,
what is this the round thing in the middle of
this room. The bar's over there. You'll sit at the bar,
and you get to know everyone. You get to do
the bartender first and foremost. Some of our best friends
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are bartenders. I've got one to sleep upstairs right now now.
But you meet all these other people from other places
at the bar. A conversation gets started, and it's actually
okay to merge into a stranger's conversation at the bar.
I think I love I love a communal table. You
know how some restaurants do that, right, they do, like
the big table of ten that anybody gets sit at.
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I love those. I'm always like, I'll sit there. Those
are fun because I think I think food brings people
together for sure too. That always absolutely yeah. Okay, So
what other questions? What are the other motherly advice have you?
And Steve hit upon that You're like, Okay, that was good.
I needed to hear that, and I need to tell
people that, Yeah, there are some nuggets sometimes because again
we're not trained professionals, we're professional comedians. We just have
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fun to give our life advice. But I do sometimes
we stumble upon things and I think a lot of it.
We do get like a lot about parenting. We do
get some parenting stuff too because we both have kids
similar ages. My daughter's nine, his is ten, I think,
and we'll get a lot about how do I deal
with you know, my talk to my kids about their feelings.
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I always found out very challenging being a parent and
like trying to like get people to raise their kids
to like deal what stuff. My daughter will get composed
out to me sometimes she's like, I don't know why
I'm why I'm sad, And I'm like, I don't know either.
You have to start talking about it, figure it out,
like why, like what happened. Let's back, you know, like
take a couple of steps back. So we get a
lot of stuff about that. But another another huge one
we get all the time is people ask us like
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what to do to cut somebody out of their life.
You know, that's a fair question. Okay, well, so what
is your advice on that. I say, cut them out.
I say cut them out. I say, you know, I
think that life is too short to be worried about
like trying. Of course, try if it's somebody that's important
in your life. And no, but I've heard a thing
a while back about how friends are like seasons. They
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come in and out of your life, you know, so
if somebody's not you know, it's okay to outgrow people.
And I think that's a hard pill to swallow for people,
especially like you know, and it's weird coming from me
because like my best friends are from high school, you know,
so it's like, yeah, you're clear, but you know, but
there's other people that have come in and out of
my life, and it's just, you know, if you're not
not that every friendship has to be self serving, but
you should be getting It shouldn't feel like a chore,
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you know, it shouldn't be tying up your mind space,
but it can be. I can list four or five
people in my life right now who are a chore. Yeah,
and I'm assuming I'm a chore for a many By
the way, if he's turning us on. This is Joe Gaddo.
You know Joe Gatto, the new poll the podcast season
two that we're talking about is two Cool Moms. He
does with his friend Steve, who could not be here today. Uh,
and I'm glad he's not here. I don't like him.
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I'm like, trust him, Steve, out of your life. No,
we love Steve negative a speaking of a cut of
people out of my life. Sorry, Steve, one cool mom
coming to that. We love you, Steve absolutely. I think
everyone in the show would be great as a guest
on your podcast, because everyone in this show I love
and I trust, and I would trust advice from any
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of them, and I know them so well I could
tell you what their advice would probably be. Yeah, yeah,
they can help you that way. I had conversations with
everybody in this room at one point or another at
a different events I've crashed.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Or because you're always so encouraging and supportive. You don't
ever have any mean things to say, and we're not
used to that.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
At least not in front of our face.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I will tell you leave you here to these those idiots,
Why do I put up with it? All? Right? For instance, Danielle,
what is the best advice or what trail of advice
is best from you? Your topic of advice?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, I just think that, like, you know, you should
be very supportive of your kids and you know, have
like Joe was saying, an open conversation about everything shouldn't
be There should be nothing not on the table that
they should feel comfortable coming to you and talking to
you about. Because if that's the case, and if you,
you know, don't let them do that, then I think
that's but you run into a lot of problems. So
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you really just have to be open to listening and
not right away jump, you know, down their throats or
tell them they're wrong or whatever. You have to be
able to listen and try to actually help them and
help the situation and give you good advice.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, what about you, Gandhi? What would be your best
best advice my best advice or topic of advice? Oh,
Tonig I could rely on I know, I need someone
to talk to me about X y Z. I'm going
to go to Gandhi because she's great at talking.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
About what I think that I am really good at
giving advice on how to just be true to yourself
and not conform to all the things that people want
you to be around you and be authentic. And it
doesn't mean I am authentic. I'm just good at telling
other people that. And I think that it's it's important,
like in this world where you see so many things
and so many different outlets telling you this is what
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you should like, this is what you should be, this
is what you should look like, it's really important not
to focus on all of that. And the more that
you focus on yourself, I think the better you will
do in life in general, and you'll.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Be happier you, you know. And the one word I think
of Joe when it comes to my co host Danielle
and Gandhi is they are both fearless. They really they are.
They're fearless. They love to get out there and put
it out there and take chances. And that's pretty awesome.
You should have them on your podcast. You're serious? Sure?
I mean it's your podcast. I'm not telling you what
it's under your banner? What about you, Froggy, Like, if
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I want advice on what I would need to call
you first, what would it be?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
In your opinion, I'll tell you something I learned less
than a year ago. And my son's twenty one years old.
Is that used to when I would correct him about
things and sit down and talk to him. I would
talk to him and correct him until I got the
response I wanted. And I realized that I was wrong
in that I learned less than a year ago. He
came to me and repeated something back to me I
had said to him a while ago. And I realized
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that now when I have a talk with him, I
talk with him until I say what I want to say.
I am not waiting for a response. I say what
I want to say, I move on. I let him
process it at his pace, and when he gets it,
he'll come back to me and say, hey, I know
what you were talking about. And it took me a
long time to realize that. I wish I would have
realized that a whole lot sooner in life.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Well, never too late. And he turned out to be
such a great guy in spite of me. Yes, he
had about you, scary. Tell Joe if he's ever going
to have you on as a guest on Two Cool Moms.
What what line of advice are you great at doing?
You know, I'm a bit of a shallow guy, you know,
I'm as deep as a puddle. But so food things
like food, travel, don't go to the same.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yelp, don't buy started with three same destinations because life
is short, so start traveling in new places.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, I will say that you are well traveling, but.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I will say if on the serious tip, I would say,
spend as much time as you can with your family,
because until you lose a parent like I did my
mom last last year, you know I didn't think about
those things. Now I try every chance I get to
at least spend a day a week or a couple
of times, and called out some time for my dad
and my sister, my brother and everybody else that's got
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a serious side of me.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And you want to take him to a restaurant, right recommendation.
He's the guy we all.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Go to for all our recommendations.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I will tell you, you know, everyone's well. Will order breakfast
from different restaurants that deliver to the radio station, and
we'll go, God, this looks good. Look at this menu.
He'll go, ooh, that gets a three point eight.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
It's eggs. How can you make that?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
They can make some bad eggs, but we'll get We'll order.
He was like, Okay, we'll order breakfast from the three
point eight restaurant and it will come and it'll be
like the best breakfast ever. He just I don't understand
how there be that around. This is like a four
point eight breakfast. Anyway, it's all great advice. I trust
all of you with all that stuff, all the above. Hey,
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let's talk about the book. You want to talk about?
Where's Berry? Where's Berry? Yeah? Is it Verry? Barry? Yeah? Berry?
Where is Barry? What is this all about? It's a
kid's book I have coming out September third, available now
though for pre order, and it's been it's great. I
wrote a story with my son and then got it illustrated.
It's coming out through Penguin Publishing Group. It's so wold
and yeah, it's it's it's nice. It's it's uh. My
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son lost his stuffy one night and I don't know
any parent knows it could be uh, what a it's
what a travesty And we had to go searching for him,
and we made it into a fun story about how
he had to like cope with it and figure it out.
But I got illustrated by a great illustrator named Luke
Flowers who did such a great job bringing it all
to life. It's a really fun picture book, and he
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put for jokers. Fancy put a lot. He was a
fan of jokers, so he put a lot of like
Easter eggs throughout the book, which is kind of fun cool.
But it's just a really fun, really fun tell And
I'm really excited about to get it into this space
as well, because as I always loved kids books back
in the day when I worked in the baby space,
when I was selling baby stuff. That sounds weird, you
need a baby stuff? I was a guy. It was
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like scary were restaurants. It's like, you know, can you
call my friend Joe? I got what I need? A
half pound of baby stuff? I got the good stuff
four point eight rating.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I used to work for a baby company called Giggle
here in the city, and I used to sell high
end baby furniture gear and there was a kids book
session and I used to read all the books because
I would like to be able to recommend them, and
I fell in love with that a long time ago.
I actually even wrote one back in the day, and
I just had no means to make one, and it
wasn't very good. This one came way better. But yeah,
so I'd always like this space. And then becoming a father,
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you know, you do bedtime and you read and all
these cool books, and I was like, wow, I want
to have one of these on the shelf and be
in people's lives this way. So we have so many
friends who have written kids book, like Jimmy Fowl, and
I'm wondering if we all have a kid's book in it.
I think so, yeah, I think it's not. It's not
if you just want to tell a fun story, because
I think with especially with the four to eight age group,
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like the picture book kind of stuff, it really comes
to life when you partner with a good illustrator and
it comes to alive in a way. It's so fun
to see your kid as a cartoon like or see
like whatever, or even you as a cartoon or whatever
you're imagining. So that was really fun. Gandhi, I can
see you doing your kid's book. Oh I would love to, Daniel,
you could do a kids I'm actually.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Writing one right now with my nephew Andy about a dinosaur.
So yeah, so where he's so cool, he's you know,
he's like the kids, like you know, reading Harry Potter
and he's like, not even in first grade year.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh wow, he's much smarter than I.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Am when it comes to this.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Joe, I love spending time with you and I want
to spend more time with you here and uh, congratulations
on season two. Welcome to the Elvis Tran Podcast Network.
Thank you. Your podcast Joe Gadow and Steve Burne is
called Two Cool Moms and turn it on wherever you
get your podcast. I hope you get them from the
iHeartRadio app. You better, We're gonna find you. And don't
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forget Joe's gonna be an Atlantic City at Caesar's in
October October nineteenth. Anything and everything you need to know
about Joe you can find out on Joe Gado Official
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We love you, Joe, Love you guys. Thank you so
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Interview lounge. Yep, we are. Hey, thank you Joe Gatto
for coming in and bringing in the expensive baked goods today.
I went to a nice place. I stepped it up
for you. We love it when you come to see us.
I'm just thinking about this. Joe Gatto is here, and
it was how many years ago did we meet?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Ye who?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I won the DJ for a Day contest in two
thousand and one two maybe? Yeah, right, yeah, that's when
I came up here for the first time and I
brought you Canole's then. See, yeah, that's how you get
invited back as long as like Rick treats. Yeah, the
reason I brought it up was this, I mean from then.
I mean it was also in Practical Jokers, huge success
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with that. And now I see you're actually gonna play
Caesars in Atlantic City. Look at where you are. And
we knew you then, Now we know you now it's
pretty cool. I've got my own palladium. They give me
the whole thing. It's great. Crazy. So do you get
nervous and say, oh, Joe, getto look. You got the room. Okay,
Now I got to fill it up. I know that's
the problem, So come on out. Friends. We need people
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to talk to. So Joe Gatto is going to be
there in October, like October nineteenth at Caesar's Atlantic City,
So check that out, all right. We have written many
reasons to celebrate. First of all, great pastries. Love them's. Yeah,
tell a muffins. What an innovation they just stuff a
muffin to tell. I was like our men three times,
I got three. I knew you were going to look
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at those, and I wanted one time. You know, we're
the reason of your gods.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But also a podcast that he does with his friend
Steve Byrne. It's called Two Cool Moms. It's been out, well,
it's been out for season now season two is here,
and of course it's part of the Elvis Duran podcast network.
It's so weird to talk about yourself in the third person,
like your You have your own podcast network. Look at
you talk about you. You've come a long way too.
(01:51):
I don't know. I don't know that this thing it's
so far. It's just it's it's not working this network.
There's no success here at whatsoever. So why'd you join us?
I'm kidding, I'm trying to turn this boat around. Here
we go to to, but we got some great podcasts.
Have you heard Gandhi's podcast? Good God? Well, no, it's
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I I get embarrassed listening sometimes it's that good. It's
so fantastic. So tell everyone in case they don't know
what two Cool Moms is about. With you and Steve. Well,
Steve Burne and I are comedian friends for a long time,
and we wanted to do a podcast together. So we
had gotten together and started just talking, and we eventually
found out that we are both the product of very strong,
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influential mothers who gave great motherly advice, and in our
friend group, we are that for people where each other's confidence.
When I was going through some stuff, I went to Steve.
Steve's come to me a lot. So we started decide
to like, hey, why don't we help the world with
our motherly advice? And it's so fans can submit their
dilemmas and we help solve them as best as we can.
There it's not always good, if I'm gonna be honest,
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but it's always funny, so that's nice. That's all that matters.
I mean, talk about what it's like for you doing
a podcast versus what versus your day job, you know. Yeah,
it was a format. I wanted to get into it
for a little while actually, and I was always looking
I always had fun being guests on one, and then
you know, my boy Sal has had great success with
his and it was like fun to see that, and
I was like, oh, this would be pretty cool. But
I wanted to do one that would feel right in
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something because it takes a lot of time too, and
it's something that you want to dedicate some time to
when you want to do it with a partner that
you like. So that all worked and when Steve and
I started, we actually called it ying Yang Parmesan and
it doesn't We didn't have an idea and it didn't work,
so we stopped and then we restarted and it was
just nice to finally find a format. But it's a
good way to connect with people. I didn't realize like
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so many people are into it. It's such a such
a cool like medium another way, you know, you know
in gandhi. What's your perspective on that, Like you loved
doing your podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, it's so fun. It's nice to be able to
have like a long form to discuss things and really
get into it because a lot of times on the
air were constrained by time. You know, there's a clock
away ticking, whereas in a podcast you can talk about
whatever you want, you can curse, you can be completely self,
you can do whatever you want. It's amazing. But like
with you, because you guys are giving people motherly advice,
which I think is hilarious, is there one piece of
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advice that you always find yourself going back to?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They The question I get we get on the podcast
all the time is how do I make friends as
an adults? Like the number like the number one we want? Yeah,
we get We get a lot of people asking about that,
and I was like, I just started, I want to
like email the people that are asking be like, here's
a person who's looking for a friend connections. Yeah, it's
it's that's That's a big one that we get a lot.
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But I always think about, like my mom always talked
about like that you have to like, uh, catch stuff
on it's small. And that was something that we always
like because people your frustration start falling coming together when
it's too big to handle. So if you start addressing
stuff when it's small, and that's one piece I really
dish out a lot I think.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I got that from my mom. And to get in
front of things. Yeah, get in front of it, movie cars, Yeah,
it's good. I think that's definitely good. Catch it when
it's small. You know what, one of the things I
love about you is, you know Gandhi's talking about being
able to use foul language on the podcast. I don't
think I've ever heard you say a dirty word. Oh,
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you haven't come seen me live.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Show for Happy Jack's right, Let me back, I'll back
that up.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
No, I've seen your show, and that's different. But like
in conversation right now or or when we're just hanging out,
you always have nice things to say. And let me
tell you, Joe Gatto is one of those generous people
I've ever met. I don't nowhere. I'll get a text
from you and you just say something and it's like
you knew I needed to hear it at that moment.
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I think of you often, see just by saying that,
it makes me feel great, even though he never thinks
of me. Ever.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
How many dogs are you up to now?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We have eleven right now? Yeah, we're eleven, eleven of ours.
We have twenty seven at the rescue right now it's
kind of you know what I'm gonna do here, And
you don't have to make them alphabetical. The eleven dogs
you do have give me their name. That's Canoli, Piscatti, Spamoni.
Uh who else? We got Spamoni, Napoleon Cupcake. Then we
got Feccini, Alfredo, the brother and sister, and then we
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have Mocha, who's a little devil who I love. And
then there's uh, okay, two more. Uh who's the other two?
One missing? It gets down to two more? Uh? Nutella?
And I think you said Nutella didn't? No, we did.
Rest in peace? Are bringing it up scary an Italian pastries.
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I appreciate help scary too soon? So you're missing one?
And this is this is my least favorite one. Confuse
them all?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Like, do you call Spamoni?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Nutellaoni is my favorite Spamoni from I know, but I do.
I do call my son at times, Napoleon, I call
my daughter. It doesn't work out sometimes. But what is
the other dog? Now? This is going to drive me crazy?
Oh Joe, I remember I remember anywhere? Yeah, we'll go
find it. Yeah, I'll go find it. Who do I'm
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trying to like picture the whole pack, and they're just oh,
that's the newest one. That's why Chestnut Chestnut Chestnut was
part of the Panera pack. We met a woman who
dropped off a bunch of in a Panera who was
who was giving up a pack of dogs, the father,
Chestnut and all the puppies, and we got rid of
all the puppies to people. We were able to get
them adopted out. And I fell in love with the father,
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so I kept him, but Hazel found a home prey
lean all those puppies they went. We went on a
nut theme for the pack. I love that. And you
know this is Joe Gadam. That's Joe on a cracker Man.
He's just the nicest suite was motivated. I love that part.
And eleven dogs living in the house, what's that like? Uh,
it's it's an adventure, for sure, it's for sure. They listen.
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Sleeping is a little weird, like because they all sleep
upstairs with us. So all eleven sleep on the bed. No,
Struful's got her own bed on the floor.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
And is there always barking going on?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No, they're pretty good. Yeah, well, one spoon is a
little stirror. She'll give a little earth and then they
all just go nuts. But sometimes it happens there. They're
pretty good. It's a pact mentality, you know. That's what
what's crazy? Say? Go outside? They all just follow each other.
Who's the leader? Piscotti, my girl, My girl, Piscotti, she's
my favorite. And Joe tense sleep in a bed, Yeah,
I sleep like tetris, like I have to if I
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have to get up a pee in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
That you get some loving going on, like what do
you do?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I pet the dogs? What are you talking about? I'm sorry,
that's understood, because something, something's licking me. I don't know
who that is. But look at Joe when he's talking
about his dogs. He's just glows. Look they make you
so happy. See we sleep with two and that, and
you wake up with a back cake because you cantort
your body in these weird ways. Because you could easily
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just say, hey, a dog, let's just move him over.
He'll get over, he'll go back to sleep. But you
don't want to do that. Oh no, I wouldn't get
up the other day because one of the dogs is
asleep on my lap. And I asked Bessie, my wife,
I was like, Bessie, could you grab grab me my water?
I left it over that. She's like, you don't want
to wake up the princess. You're sorting about my little dog.
In reality, the dog doesn't care if you wigan. You'll
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just go back to You're talking about the podcast Two
Cool Moms you and Steve Burne are doing. And you
said one of the biggest questions you get asked for
your motherly advice is how do I make friends? What
was your answer? What is your answer to people who
want to make friends? I just think you got to
remember that every best friend starts as a stranger. And
that's we forget that as we're younger, As we get older,
you know, it's like, oh, I don't know these people
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out of whatever. But you just got to get out
there and have conversations with people, you know, talk to strangers.
We have to deprogram ourselves as adults to do that.
I think, are you are you nervous like at a
party or in social gatherings? Are you more of an
introvert and it takes a little while for you to
warm up and go okay, I can do this. Always
that question for it, because that's clearly you made no no.
(10:04):
But Joe, let's say you and I are at the
buffet and you don't know I don't know you, because
that's where he'll find you hang out the buffet. Where's
Elvis way? If you checked the buffet, I know, but
you don't know me. I don't know you. You're gonna
break the eyes. What do you say to a total
stranger who's like, you know, getting green beans in the
tongs and putting them on the plate. What do you
say they? Have you turned it up? Have you tried
the salmon?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, I would say. I mean a lot of people,
it will come from common interest too. I talk about
that too. So like if you're I've met a lot
of friends who are taking pictures actually photographers, because I
like photography. I'm into like amateur photography, like pictures and stuff.
So if I see people taking pictures, I'll talk to
them about their camera in the park or whatnot. I
remember one the one time we were shooting for Jokers
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when we were in the park and I started talking
to somebody to try to pull them in to do
the bit, and I forgot because we were taking pictures
and they had a camera and I just started talking
about the camera and they were like, oh, you're gonna
get started here, like what are you doing? Just like
making a friend in the park. That's so cool. Yeah,
I know. I find that at parties if I'm a
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little nervous, maybe a little sweaty palmy actually go in
but I want to say something to someone, I'll corner them,
trap them, and I'll say, hey, are you having fun?
Is this a fun party? Are you having a good time?
And they'll look at me like this guy actually wants
to know if I'm having a good time, and then
it opens up a conversation. H. I think you're a
genuine I think being genuine is important if you're genuine
about it too, like if you're not just looking for
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something to you know, if you're like if I go
to places by myself a lot too, Like I'll do that.
I'll just go to some place by myself and I'll
be like hi, like it was this weird guy and
you have to work your way around that and then
you're like, oh, forget, this didn't work and you walk away,
like you have to walk away from some weird conversations too.
They're not all going to be friends. No, you know,
you run from some I get that as they run
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from us. I'm pretty sure, yeah, for sure. But we
have this thing. Alex and I have this thing where
we go to dinner at a restaurant. We always eat
at the bar. We never eat at a table. It
feels it feels weird sitting at a table for me, like,
what is this the round thing in the middle of
this room. The bar's over there. You'll sit at the bar,
and you get to know everyone. You get to do
the bartender first and foremost. Some of our best friends
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are bartenders. I've got one to sleep upstairs right now now.
But you meet all these other people from other places
at the bar. A conversation gets started, and it's actually
okay to merge into a stranger's conversation at the bar.
I think I love I love a communal table. You
know how some restaurants do that, right, they do, like
the big table of ten that anybody gets sit at.
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I love those. I'm always like, I'll sit there. Those
are fun because I think I think food brings people
together for sure too. That always absolutely yeah. Okay, So
what other questions? What are the other motherly advice have you?
And Steve hit upon that You're like, Okay, that was good.
I needed to hear that, and I need to tell
people that, Yeah, there are some nuggets sometimes because again
we're not trained professionals, we're professional comedians. We just have
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fun to give our life advice. But I do sometimes
we stumble upon things and I think a lot of it.
We do get like a lot about parenting. We do
get some parenting stuff too because we both have kids
similar ages. My daughter's nine, his is ten, I think,
and we'll get a lot about how do I deal
with you know, my talk to my kids about their feelings.
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I always found out very challenging being a parent and
like trying to like get people to raise their kids
to like deal what stuff. My daughter will get composed
out to me sometimes she's like, I don't know why
I'm why I'm sad, And I'm like, I don't know either.
You have to start talking about it, figure it out,
like why, like what happened. Let's back, you know, like
take a couple of steps back. So we get a
lot of stuff about that. But another another huge one
we get all the time is people ask us like
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what to do to cut somebody out of their life.
You know, that's a fair question. Okay, well, so what
is your advice on that. I say, cut them out.
I say cut them out. I say, you know, I
think that life is too short to be worried about
like trying. Of course, try if it's somebody that's important
in your life. And no, but I've heard a thing
a while back about how friends are like seasons. They
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come in and out of your life, you know, so
if somebody's not you know, it's okay to outgrow people.
And I think that's a hard pill to swallow for people,
especially like you know, and it's weird coming from me
because like my best friends are from high school, you know,
so it's like, yeah, you're clear, but you know, but
there's other people that have come in and out of
my life, and it's just, you know, if you're not
not that every friendship has to be self serving, but
you should be getting It shouldn't feel like a chore,
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you know, it shouldn't be tying up your mind space,
but it can be. I can list four or five
people in my life right now who are a chore. Yeah,
and I'm assuming I'm a chore for a many By
the way, if he's turning us on. This is Joe Gaddo.
You know Joe Gatto, the new poll the podcast season
two that we're talking about is two Cool Moms. He
does with his friend Steve, who could not be here today. Uh,
and I'm glad he's not here. I don't like him.
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I'm like, trust him, Steve, out of your life. No,
we love Steve negative a speaking of a cut of
people out of my life. Sorry, Steve, one cool mom
coming to that. We love you, Steve absolutely. I think
everyone in the show would be great as a guest
on your podcast, because everyone in this show I love
and I trust, and I would trust advice from any
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of them, and I know them so well I could
tell you what their advice would probably be. Yeah, yeah,
they can help you that way. I had conversations with
everybody in this room at one point or another at
a different events I've crashed.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Or because you're always so encouraging and supportive. You don't
ever have any mean things to say, and we're not
used to that.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
At least not in front of our face.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I will tell you leave you here to these those idiots,
Why do I put up with it? All? Right? For instance, Danielle,
what is the best advice or what trail of advice
is best from you? Your topic of advice?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, I just think that, like, you know, you should
be very supportive of your kids and you know, have
like Joe was saying, an open conversation about everything shouldn't
be There should be nothing not on the table that
they should feel comfortable coming to you and talking to
you about. Because if that's the case, and if you,
you know, don't let them do that, then I think
that's but you run into a lot of problems. So
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you really just have to be open to listening and
not right away jump, you know, down their throats or
tell them they're wrong or whatever. You have to be
able to listen and try to actually help them and
help the situation and give you good advice.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, what about you, Gandhi? What would be your best
best advice my best advice or topic of advice? Oh,
Tonig I could rely on I know, I need someone
to talk to me about X y Z. I'm going
to go to Gandhi because she's great at talking.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
About what I think that I am really good at
giving advice on how to just be true to yourself
and not conform to all the things that people want
you to be around you and be authentic. And it
doesn't mean I am authentic. I'm just good at telling
other people that. And I think that it's it's important,
like in this world where you see so many things
and so many different outlets telling you this is what
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you should like, this is what you should be, this
is what you should look like, it's really important not
to focus on all of that. And the more that
you focus on yourself, I think the better you will
do in life in general, and you'll.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Be happier you, you know. And the one word I think
of Joe when it comes to my co host Danielle
and Gandhi is they are both fearless. They really they are.
They're fearless. They love to get out there and put
it out there and take chances. And that's pretty awesome.
You should have them on your podcast. You're serious? Sure?
I mean it's your podcast. I'm not telling you what
it's under your banner? What about you, Froggy, Like, if
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I want advice on what I would need to call
you first, what would it be?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
In your opinion, I'll tell you something I learned less
than a year ago. And my son's twenty one years old.
Is that used to when I would correct him about
things and sit down and talk to him. I would
talk to him and correct him until I got the
response I wanted. And I realized that I was wrong
in that I learned less than a year ago. He
came to me and repeated something back to me I
had said to him a while ago. And I realized
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that now when I have a talk with him, I
talk with him until I say what I want to say.
I am not waiting for a response. I say what
I want to say, I move on. I let him
process it at his pace, and when he gets it,
he'll come back to me and say, hey, I know
what you were talking about. And it took me a
long time to realize that. I wish I would have
realized that a whole lot sooner in life.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Well, never too late. And he turned out to be
such a great guy in spite of me. Yes, he
had about you, scary. Tell Joe if he's ever going
to have you on as a guest on Two Cool Moms.
What what line of advice are you great at doing?
You know, I'm a bit of a shallow guy, you know,
I'm as deep as a puddle. But so food things
like food, travel, don't go to the same.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yelp, don't buy started with three same destinations because life
is short, so start traveling in new places.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, I will say that you are well traveling, but.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I will say if on the serious tip, I would say,
spend as much time as you can with your family,
because until you lose a parent like I did my
mom last last year, you know I didn't think about
those things. Now I try every chance I get to
at least spend a day a week or a couple
of times, and called out some time for my dad
and my sister, my brother and everybody else that's got
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a serious side of me.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And you want to take him to a restaurant, right recommendation.
He's the guy we all.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Go to for all our recommendations.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I will tell you, you know, everyone's well. Will order breakfast
from different restaurants that deliver to the radio station, and
we'll go, God, this looks good. Look at this menu.
He'll go, ooh, that gets a three point eight.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
It's eggs. How can you make that?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
They can make some bad eggs, but we'll get We'll order.
He was like, Okay, we'll order breakfast from the three
point eight restaurant and it will come and it'll be
like the best breakfast ever. He just I don't understand
how there be that around. This is like a four
point eight breakfast. Anyway, it's all great advice. I trust
all of you with all that stuff, all the above. Hey,
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let's talk about the book. You want to talk about?
Where's Berry? Where's Berry? Yeah? Is it Verry? Barry? Yeah? Berry?
Where is Barry? What is this all about? It's a
kid's book I have coming out September third, available now
though for pre order, and it's been it's great. I
wrote a story with my son and then got it illustrated.
It's coming out through Penguin Publishing Group. It's so wold
and yeah, it's it's it's nice. It's it's uh. My
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son lost his stuffy one night and I don't know
any parent knows it could be uh, what a it's
what a travesty And we had to go searching for him,
and we made it into a fun story about how
he had to like cope with it and figure it out.
But I got illustrated by a great illustrator named Luke
Flowers who did such a great job bringing it all
to life. It's a really fun picture book, and he
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put for jokers. Fancy put a lot. He was a
fan of jokers, so he put a lot of like
Easter eggs throughout the book, which is kind of fun cool.
But it's just a really fun, really fun tell And
I'm really excited about to get it into this space
as well, because as I always loved kids books back
in the day when I worked in the baby space,
when I was selling baby stuff. That sounds weird, you
need a baby stuff? I was a guy. It was
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like scary were restaurants. It's like, you know, can you
call my friend Joe? I got what I need? A
half pound of baby stuff? I got the good stuff
four point eight rating.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I used to work for a baby company called Giggle
here in the city, and I used to sell high
end baby furniture gear and there was a kids book
session and I used to read all the books because
I would like to be able to recommend them, and
I fell in love with that a long time ago.
I actually even wrote one back in the day, and
I just had no means to make one, and it
wasn't very good. This one came way better. But yeah,
so I'd always like this space. And then becoming a father,
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you know, you do bedtime and you read and all
these cool books, and I was like, wow, I want
to have one of these on the shelf and be
in people's lives this way. So we have so many
friends who have written kids book, like Jimmy Fowl, and
I'm wondering if we all have a kid's book in it.
I think so, yeah, I think it's not. It's not
if you just want to tell a fun story, because
I think with especially with the four to eight age group,
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like the picture book kind of stuff, it really comes
to life when you partner with a good illustrator and
it comes to alive in a way. It's so fun
to see your kid as a cartoon like or see
like whatever, or even you as a cartoon or whatever
you're imagining. So that was really fun. Gandhi, I can
see you doing your kid's book. Oh I would love to, Daniel,
you could do a kids I'm actually.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Writing one right now with my nephew Andy about a dinosaur.
So yeah, so where he's so cool, he's you know,
he's like the kids, like you know, reading Harry Potter
and he's like, not even in first grade year.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh wow, he's much smarter than I.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Am when it comes to this.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Joe, I love spending time with you and I want
to spend more time with you here and uh, congratulations
on season two. Welcome to the Elvis Tran Podcast Network.
Thank you. Your podcast Joe Gadow and Steve Burne is
called Two Cool Moms and turn it on wherever you
get your podcast. I hope you get them from the
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