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Speaker 1 (00:00):
By the way, Tyler, you know what you missed when
you went to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Diane's dad, Frank.
Speaker 1 (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 Coop
ear ring.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
In his Austrian Army uniform, by the way, like I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Gonna be me.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
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.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
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 1 (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 1 (01:25):
All right, hold on, let me get back to Judy, Judy, Judy, Yes, sir, Hey,
how do you say good morning and 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.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It all revolves.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Around sort 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? Now? Shabby is
(02:17):
a boy, So.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now I have I have a Chabby on?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Who is?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Who is?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Who is? Melvin?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Melvin is my cousin.
Speaker 1 (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 1 (02:47):
Okay, Now keep in mind, I don't know if anybody
who works for the FCC speaks Gypsy. Okay, let's try
not to say f all. Right, hold on, let me
get for a Melvin.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Hey, Hey, how are you good? How are you good?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Uh say, well, Judy's on the other line, she's also gypsy.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The answer to your question is when you want to
say good morning, I would say to her manish, everything cushi.
That means, hey girl, everything okay girl, you.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Know, okay, so let's start, you know what. That's a
good starting point. 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.
So like, hey, hey, Koshti or whatever you called her.
Speaker 2 (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 CUSTI can you shive me some lills?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I ain't got now bungo today?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Did you dig her at the musha?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah? I actually rocker to this mush before, like a
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I got chill, Uh that shabby don't get some KOOI
in the MOYI. But I can make that mush inger
in his I feel like you can't make an inger
in his ages anger in his ages. He's got to
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remember that one.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And when that and when that Chabby is not dickering.
I mature as chalker.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Dick e Ti dick e tyd Chabby the stone cold
dent low some almond.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Right, Ye did did you get all that?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah I did? I did.
Speaker 1 (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 2 (05:11):
And I said, no, I don't have any money today exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Hey, what was the sing SONGI thing gypsy cod gypsy
cod or whatever?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
That was? 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 2 (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 out a family reunion. It's crazy,
are there?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Can I can I ask you this? If you ran
into to who's 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
that like universal?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Like if you saw.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Diane's great grandfather and you were like Dickie Cod, Dickie Cod,
would he would he know what you were saying?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes? Absolutely, 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 and disbelieved. They couldn't believe that I understood him.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And our whole.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Family knows that. We've known it since we were growing up,
and our children know it. Go 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 1 (07:01):
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 2 (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 dog? Dongs of dog, but we don't
have a word for cat because throughout the generations, cat
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was lost.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
D see as the.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Generations go further, the language becomes less and less. So
what would you include?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So if I had like, let's say, let's say I
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, well, we call it.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Or something we use a plan. Yeah, we use a
different word for that hook. But we could create a
dialogue by using slang words that are all of vocabulary
of Gypsy words. We can substitute it and we all
know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That is fascinating to me. 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 4 (08:30):
I don't look at it that much. 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. I was like, oh no,
but my whole family gypsy ma'am, I didn't know that
I had some insult. It's a poor lady.
Speaker 1 (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 4 (09:07):
If you will, well, I believe that. I believe a
lot of them think of them as thieves and con artists.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So that's what you know that it does come in.
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 hive the chabby
(09:33):
a little vunger. So what that saying is, I'm going
to talk to you about getting you down on the
price so you won't five grand for the car by
the time the two when we get your car for
two grands.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Melvin 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 put a plug into my
business real quick before we leave.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I have a small I have a small concrete company
in Upper Marlborough, Maryland. So if you need some concrete,
just call Strong Concrete. Can't go wrong with Strong, Amen, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, and talk him down, talk him down in the price.
But if we were all going to buy the car,
everybody would want to talk the price down. That's that's
part of buying a car.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But you're not getting for less than half off.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The well, 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 2 (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 well, he knows what.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I want to pay.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Hey, tell Judy again that you're going to try to
talk him down.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Tell Judy again, Melvin, I'm gonna try to rock or
anger to this mush and chill the Vunga down for
Kushi combe.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
For us in their ages.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Okay, now, Judy and Melvin stay with me. Now I
have somebody calling me from Princeton, West Virginia. Hold on
one second, Lord, Yeah, hold on one second. I hope
this doesn't hang up. I don't exactly know how I'm
using the phone here, Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Hello, this is John from Princeton, West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Hey, John, say, Hi did Judy and Melvin?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Hello, Judy and Melvin?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Mush?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well?
Speaker 5 (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 that 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
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claimed that we had tried to poison 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. We're like, nobody in
the restaurant, nobody working in the restaurant takes this medicine.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So that was just Melvin trying to trying the Dolly
lock in in Chabby Dent low Yep, yeah, right, guys
are the best.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Elliott, Yes, Elliott, this is Judy. Hey. I took my aunt,
i Esport 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 man, 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 can I go to line one.
Hi Ellie in.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
The morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Hey, who's this Derek Frederick? Hey Derek.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Say hi to Judy and Melvin.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Hey, good morning Judy Melvin.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
All right, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I'm a gypsy. I'm us all different than them, but
some similarly. You guys a roumanshell right?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Was that a question for me?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I that was for Melvione and Judy. You guys rummaje.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
All right, we don't really know what that is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We just yeah, we're just gypsies man.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Generations. Yeah, yeah, but we also have some culture.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
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.
What are you? I'm Romanian Romanian gypsy. Do I rocko
a little rumless but not too much. I don't talk y'all. Wait,
I talk uh basically Romanian. So for instance, when you
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guys asked earlier about how you say good morning, we
say good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And then good morning, and then.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Someone would say back to you, Simon Collin, that means good.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Part of the language.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, I like I.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Like Judy of Melvin's uh gypsy talk better.
Speaker 6 (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 1 (14:50):
I'm already getting canceled by Judy of Melvin. That's fine,
all right, hey, Derek, I appreciate it. Thank you, my friend,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That was good. That was great a lesson, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (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 to see Chabby.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I would say, this is cushie and that Moosh is moored.
What I just said to her was this was good,
but Elliott screwed he did.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
All right, you guys are the best. Melvin, Hey, both
you guys, hold on. I want to make sure Judy
your you are gypsy correspondent one. Melvin, you are gypsy
correspondent too alrighty, all right, hold on one second, let
me do this.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Wow, this perfect.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We got two gypsy correspondents.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That was awesome. That was great.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
There's some bad news. Oh, we haven't been on the
air the entire break. No Melvin stole our rush tickets.