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Speaker 1 (00:00):
By the way, Tylers, you know what you missed when
you went to the bathroom. Diane's dad, Frank.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Unfamiliar, Frank's grandfather, Diane's great grandfather, Gypsy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
There's a picture of him. So that's my grandfather. This
is my great grandfather. And if you blow it up,
it's this is hanging in our house. This it's it's
a like a painting of an old photograph gold Cooper
ear ring.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
In his Austrian Army uniform, by the way, like I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Gonna be me. The uniform makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's Austrian.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
And I'm just addressed up for Halloween and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
How about that? Diane's got Gypsy in her so reuse
finding yourself drawn.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So the word that was being I had never heard
about any I mean, obviously I never met either of them,
but I didn't know all. I remember my dad saying like, look,
he's wearing an ear ring. He's a gypsy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Now you know not every man who wears an ear
ring is a gypsy.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I feel for that era you were.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
All right, hold on, let me get back to Judy, Judy, Judy, Yes, sir, Hey,
how do you say good morning in Gypsy.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Actually it's all slang, so it revolves around you would
you wouldn't really say good morning to someone in Gypsy language?
You were probably they just you know, I don't know,
you wouldn't say good morning. It all revolves around sort
(01:57):
of sort of looking out for the cops, everything to
do with even basically, so my fellow family member in
Gypsy language, I might say, what's up, Shabby? That means
you know what's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Shabby is a boy, So now I have I.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Have a Chabby on? Hold? Who is? Who is? Who is? Melvin?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Melvin is my cousin.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So are you and he? If I pop Melvin on?
Are you and he going to be able to have
a conversation? Or like you said, is it just going
to be the two of you warning each other that
the cops are coming?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No, not just that they will have a small conversation
that and then we can explain to you and your
audience of what we said.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, Now keep in mind, I don't know if anybody
who works for the FCC speaks Gypsy. So let's okay,
let's try not to say f all.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right, hold on, let me get.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
For a Melvin Hey, Hey, how are you good?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Uh say, well, Judy's on the other line. She's also gypsy.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Yeah. The answer to your question is.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
When you want to say good morning, I would say
to her manish everything cushti. That means hey girl, everything
okay girl, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Okay, So let's start, you know what. That's a good
starting point.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So Melvin I like that, say that to Judy and
then Judy will respond and then just pretend we're not
here and you guys have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So like, hey, hey, Tkoshti or whatever you called her.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
All right, here we go, all right, here we go, Dorty, Dorty,
Dicky kah Manish. This mush is straight dead low.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So everything's cushti. Can you give me some lils?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
No, I ain't got now bungo today?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Did you dig her at the Mushah?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Yeah? I actually rocker to this mush before, like a
few years ago.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
I got chill.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Uh that Shabby's don't get some KOOI in the moy.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Giant.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
But I can make that mush Inger in his I
feel like.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
You can't make him Inger in his ages. Inger and
his ages. He's got to remember that.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
One and when that, and when that Chabby is not dickering.
I'm mature as chalker dick.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
E tyd dick e cod Chabby the stone cold dent
low some almond.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Right, yea, did you did you get all that?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah I did? I did.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I just in my mind saying we are getting Elliott canceled,
That's all I kept hearing.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
No, well, the thing. The first thing Melvin said was
how's everything going? I said, it's fine. Can I get
a few dollars from you? Being a gypsy that I
am always looking for money?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
And I said, no, I don't have any money today exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hey, what was the sing SONGI thing gypsy cod gypsy
cod or whatever?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That was?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh my goodness, like oh no he and he also
said that you angered in your ages. Tell him what
that means, mel without any foul language.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
That means I can make you crap your pants.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So there you go, and our whole family speaks this,
and you can see us at a family reunion. It's crazy,
are there?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Can I can I ask you this?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
If you ran into to lose another I don't know
any other Diane's great grandfather, And you said, and you
started speaking gypsy like, does each family have their own
language or is.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That like universal?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Like if you saw Diane's great grandfather and you were
like Dickie Cod, Dickie Cod, would he would he know
what you were saying?
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Two guys randomly in West Virginia and they were talking
about this girl and how pretty she was behind the counter.
But they were speaking in Gypsy. I understood everything they said,
and when I spoke back to him, they turned in disbelieved.
They couldn't believe that I understood him, and.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
They our whole family knows that we've known it since
we were growing up, and our children know that was
generational because, like they said, our great grandfather was taken
in by a band of Gypsies and he was on
the run back in the day.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I love every I do. I love everything about it.
Is there a is there? Is there a larger Gypsy
population than I think there.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Is Princeton, West Virginia. They tell me that there are
hundreds and hundreds in Princeton, West Virginia. Some of our
language was lost, Like we use the word jiggle, what
does that mean?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Dog?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Dongs a dog, but we don't have a word for cat.
Because throughout the generations cat was lost d See as
the generations go further, the language becomes less and less.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So what would you call it? So if I had like,
let's say, let's say I.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Had a cat and a dog and you you came
over to my house, would you go, hey, amish or
yamish whatever, nice jiggle and cat like? Would you just
use the English word?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, we call them something. We use a yeah, we
use a different word for that hook. We could create
a dialogue by using slaying words that are all of
vocabulary of gypsy words. We can substitute it and we
all know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
That is fascinating to me.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And can we go back to like what we were
talking about, Judy once we put you on hold, the
like being a like saying someone is a gypsy, that's
not that's not negative.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't look at it that much.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It is. It actually is negative. I was at the
MGM casino playing poker one night. In the dealer. She
was from Romania or something. I said, Oh, are you
a gypsy? And she got pissed off didn't want to
deal the cards anymore. She said, that's such an insult,
and I was like, oh no, my whole family gypsy, ma'am.
I didn't know that I had this insult at the play.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But you know what, if somebody asked me if my
family were Gypsies, I would just like, and maybe I'm wrong,
but to me, like, when I think of a gypsy,
it's just somebody who is kind of very, very nomadic
and just kind of makes their way up, like just
like they don't have roots.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
If you will, well, I believe that.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I believe a lot of them think of as thieves
and con artists.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So that's you know that it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Does come in.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
It does come in handy in business though. So when
went like Judy and I are trying to buy a
car from you, so we're going to communicate and she's
going to tell me, oh, this is such a nice car,
and then I'm gonna say, well, I'm going to rock
her to the mush to try to chig the chabby
a little vunger. So what that saying is I'm going
to talk to you about getting you down on the
(09:39):
price so you won't find brand for the car by
the time it's Ober. When we get your car.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
For two grands, Melbourne and I went to the yard
Crawl in Virginia, and he was doing all kinds of deals.
He's how much you want to pay for that? And
then I tell him and he does. He talked everyone down.
He's really good at that. But I put a plug
into my business real quick before we leave.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, die Hockey.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I have a small I have a small concrete company
in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. So if you need some concrete,
just call Strong Concrete. Can't go wrong with.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Strong a man, that's right, and talk him down, talk
him down in the price. But to me, like if
we were all going to buy the car, everybody would
want to talk the price down.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's that's part of buying a car.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But you're not getting less than half off.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
The they're good. You wouldn't do it for half off.
If you can get a five thousand dollars card down
for two thousand, that that's a positive.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's a positive.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Now they can get him down because he knows my
base price because we communicate, so he knows what.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I want to pay.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Hey, tell Judy again that you're going to try to
talk him down. Tell Judy again, Melvin.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I'm gonna try to rock or anger to this mush
and chill the lunger down for Kushti cobe.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
For us in their ages.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Okay, Now, Judy and Melvin stayed with me.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now I have somebody calling me from Princeton, West Virginia.
Hold on one second, Lord, Yeah, hold on one second.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I hope this doesn't hang up.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't exactly know how I'm using the phone here,
Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Hello, this is John from Princeton, West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Hey, John, say, Hi did Judy and Melvin?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Hello Judy and Melvin?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
What can I do for you? Mush?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well?
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I grew up in Princeton. I'm not there anymore, but
I grew up and there were always people that I
was told our gypsies, or were gypsies, or were from
a Gypsy family, and I grew up with them and
went to school with them. I never really knew anything
different other than everybody called them gypsies. And they were
a bit devious. I worked in the restaurant there in
high school, and some of them came in and claimed
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that we had tried to poisoning them with a pill
in their food, and uh, and they looked up what
the pill was after they left. Of course, they got
their mule comped and uh, it was like blood pressure
medicine or something like that, and we're like, nobody in
the restaurant. Nobody working in the restaurant takes this medicine.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
So that was just Melvin trying to trying the Dolly
lock in in Chabby Dent low.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Yep, Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You guys are the best.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Elliott, Y, Elliott, this is Judy. Hey. I took my aunt,
I support a bunch of my aunts and uncles down
to a funeral in Georgia, and you know, I was
trying to help them along the way, you know, pay
for food and stuff. So we would stop at a little,
a little cafe on the way back, and my aunt
goes in. She said, I'm going to take care of it.
I thought, hey, mane. She brung some money with her.
She came out and by the time we left, the
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guy had crumped all of our food. She had went
in and told him this crazy story and everything was free.
So it was it was pretty neat how she had
them skills as well.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Right on, right on, all right, Princeton, I'm gonna let
you go. I think I know how to do this.
Bear with me for one second, can I hang up?
There we go, and then.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Can I go to line one? Hi, Ellie in the morning, Hey,
good morning, Hey, who's this?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
This is Derek Frederick.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hey Derek. Say hi to Judy and Melvin.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Hey, good morning Judy Melvin.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
All right, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I am I'm a gypsy. I'm a different than them,
but some similarly. The guy's a romanell right?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Was that a question for me?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
And I was for the Melbourne and Judy? You guys Roma,
all right, we don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We just yeah, we just gypsies man.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Generations.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, yeah, but we also have some culture.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
There's a there's Rummachell gypsies, there's Luga gypsies, and then
there's Walm gypsies. So they're all kind of different ones.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What are you?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I'm Romanian Romanian gypsy?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Do I rocko A.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Little drumless but not too much. I don't talk y'all? Wait,
I talk, uh basically Romanian. So for instance, when you
guys asked earlier about how you say good morning, we
say good morning and then it's good morning, and then
someone would say back to you, Simon Colle, that means good.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Part of the language.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, I like I like Judy of Melvin's uh gypsy
talk better.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Well, I mean I could, I could rock hot rocker
a little bit of rumless like you know. Uh, let's
see here. Well, I can basically talk bad, but I
don't want to get you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'm already getting canceled by Judy of Melvin. That's fine,
all right, hey, Derek, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Thank you, my friend, thank you. All right. That was good.
That was great A lesson. Absolutely absolutely Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Now, now as as we always want to do, Judy
and Melvin, before I let both of you go, maybe
in Gypsy you can both like tell each other like
some kind how you would leave the conversation.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Okay, Melvin, I would say, see later, Chabby. Elliott, we
don't we don't picked up just the slang of it,
but we can't come here. I see la Chabby, I
would say.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I would say, this is crushie and that mush is moored.
What I just said to her was this was good,
but Elliott screwed.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He did.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
All right, you guys are the best. Melvin.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Hey, both you guys, hold on. I want to make
sure Judy your you are gypsy correspondent. One, Melvin, you
are gypsy correspondent.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Two.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Alrighty, all right, hold on one second, let me do this. Wow,
this perfect. We got two gypsy correspondent That was awesome.
That was great. There's some bad news. Oh, we haven't
been on the air the entire break. No, Melvin stole
our rush tickets.