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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My first ever radio quote unquote appearance, and the gentleman
working get the account executive who worked it. Today we
celebrate his life. He passed away this weekend at eighty
three years old. This is for real, this isn't And
his daughter reached out to me and she said, we're
going to be at this restaurant raising a glass to
(00:22):
my father. I haven't been drinking. It was not planned,
but I'm liking it. I feel like inflammation's going down,
not like I was a real boozy because I want
I drink white wine. We all know this. But then
you get to the point, Jim, where I'm able to say,
it's been twenty eight days, it's actually been more. Last
time I had a glass of wine, I had a
(00:43):
glass of wine on Christmas Eve? So how do I
raise a toast to celebrate the life of a man?
I love? This guy's the last of the great gentlemen,
one of a kind. I was suspicious of him at
first because I'm like, this guy's so absurdly nice. He
must go home and kick like a small dog. He
(01:05):
couldn't be this night. It's just a nice He's old school,
like he never changed with the times. Four of the times,
wasn't a slave to the times. And he passed away
beloved his two daughters beside him, his wife having already
passed fifty years of marriage. A slew of clients that
he called friends, and they called him friend right back.
(01:27):
And they'll be there today too. Now, Jimmy Jay says
to me here. Then he's like, you are the second.
Two times today Jimmy called me weird. I don't. There's
a lot of words, it's not weird. And Jimmy's like,
just drink a non alcoholic beer. Is that celebrating the life? Though?
What do alcoholics do? And there's a genuine question, and
(01:50):
I'm not what is an alcoholic? They gotta drink, you know,
we're raising a glass. They gotta drink what ginger ale
whatever have to celebrating the light? You know, that Catholic upbringing,
that Catholic school upbringing, it they left its mark. Man,
I feel like it's it's not legit. If I don't
(02:15):
drink too a lett say the truth, sip on a
little scotch, not that I don't even doubt. It was
old school. He was like mad men. Larry Drago was
like mad men. Well, I didn't watch that show enough.
That might be a horrible thing to you know, John
Haven there. They might have been horrible men in that show,
but he was an old school He probably ended his
(02:35):
day with some bidders. Yeah, three fam trying to think,
you know, gimlet what I don't know? Do I do?
I I have to today? It can it's dry January,
no more to raise a glass and celebrate the life
of a great man. I have to drink today? Do
(02:55):
I not? One? Drink? One glass of wine? Eight? Four four,
fourteen ten? Really want your help? Let's start with line one.
Should I drink or should I go?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hi? Then?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So it's not so much about what you have in
the glass, it's what you have in your heart for
this man. And it sounds like you have a lot
in your heart right, a lot of love for him.
I do. So who cares if it's water in the
glass or you know, it's actual alcohol. If you're on
you know, a little trends not drinking, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, so it is. I stumbled onto it and I'm
liking it. But I feel like it's not a legitimate toast.
Is that a odd? I feel like it's some substitution
and it's not for a re an excuse for you
to drink what I'm doing. You know, let's get deep
my feed, dear. I don't know, but let's be honest
(03:48):
like it think of it and anointing and if you
found out it wasn't holy water, like I really believe
it's that Catholic school upbringing in me really has ingrained.
Like you know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Think I don't think it has anything to do with religion.
I think it has to do with what's in your
heart for the man. Like if you were an alcoholic, right,
and you're going to if you're going to and you're
not obviously right, but let's just say you were, and
you're going to go celebrate someone's life and they're like, oh,
let's raise a toast. Are you not? Are you not
(04:23):
celebrating that man's life because there's no alcohol in your
in your glass? You know?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, Because the fact of the matter is there's going
to be people there today who are who don't drink,
and they're going to raise the glass and they would
probably think this question is really ridiculous. You know, Glenn
Beck hasn't had a drink in over thirty years. He's right,
he raises the glass to people's lives. But I swear
I've got this Catholic pang of this isn't for real.
(04:51):
I'm not holding up the blood of Christ God.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I really I think you need to dig down deep
and really ask yourself. Is that the reason? Are you
trying to make an excuse me? That's the way I
think it's going on here.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think, well, look it's possible. I don't know, and
I know myself, you know, I barely do feel. But
in the past year I've surprised myself a few times.
I was sharing something with Jimmy earlier. This morning, I
discovered by myself that I'm like, damn, I never knew
I was that traditional and something I've I've found kind
(05:25):
of off putting to me. So I don't know what's
up here. It's either Catholic like this isn't legit, or yes,
deep down I need a little Pino Gricio. I don't know,
my dear, I wish I knew. I don't know how
it's going to play out. I'm gonna have a lot
of peer pressure there too.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Everybody's gonna be watching you now.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, and there's one guy there who said to me,
your drinking. He worked with this gentleman even longer than
I did, and he's like he's he's been saying to me,
he's bad news. His name's Ross, Ross Cooper. I'm gonna
call him out. And he said to me, we're we're
having a drink can Larry's honor. He said that, So
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Now, you gotta be careful of those drink pushers runs
like food pushers, right, you gotta be careful. Yeah, because
one drink way it leads to two. Then and then
where's that gonna lead to?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And then I don't get to say anymore. It's been
twenty eight days. It's actually been more, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I onta right now.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Since Christmas Eve. That was my last cocktail. We'll see
how it goes. I'll be honest. You can count on
me telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I'll have to listen. We'll have to listen to
see what you did.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I appreciate your insight. You might be onto something too.
We'll see. All right, Ben, take care of there, have
a good day. You too, need some more calls on
this eight four four nine sixty fourteen ten. Jamie's holding
up here it's been thirty three days now, we've given
a number to it. The fact is I've probably done
thirty three days before. Just didn't it because I mean,
(06:49):
I usually drink with dinner, like I'm just or when
making dinner. I can't even think of the last time
it was, let's all meet for drinks. I can't even remember.
That's the stuff of the eighties and the nineties and
people don't even do that anymore. But I mean, so
think about it. What if your child was baptized and
(07:15):
the water wasn't yeah, and you found out the priest
wasn't drinking wine, and he's like, I don't drink wine,
that's grape juice. Now my kid's not baptized. I believe
that's really legitimately something going on with me. So you
have to do the dumped a lot on Jimmy this morning,
even off the air because he said you are weird.
(07:37):
But that is my thought process, like that priest better
be drilling that better not be grape juice. If you're
baptizing my kid, you gotta be drinking wine. There's gotta
be a communion wafer, and I don't want them to barget,
you know, Costco wafers.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Your commitment to the ceremony, right, because that's what really is.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah right, it's legit. It is legit. I mean, I
mean I do.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I was raised Catholic as well, and I understand what
you're I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Like the uh, A lot of the uh. I hesitated
to use the word guilt, but the stuff, ty, it's
dogged me my whole life, Jim, that that Catholic bringing.
H I loved it. I loved my childhood. I loved
my upbringing. I loved being an Ultimore I mean I did.
I realized the scandal this and that. I mean whatever,
(08:24):
my life was, what it was, it was a great father.
George is my main man. He was, you know, a
key figure in my life. He was always drinking wine,
you know what I mean. That's what we loved him.
I shouldn't say that's what we loved about him, but
I mean he was. But the underpinnings are very strong,
very strong. They kind of baffle my kids. They're like,
(08:44):
we heard you talking in the other room. What were
you talking to? And I'm like God, And they're like, oh,
does he talk back? And I'm like he has it
in a while. But we have a very close relationship.
It's it's very strong, Jim. You can't start every day
saying the Our Father and doing the Rosary at the
(09:05):
age of three and four and do that until you're sixteen,
church every Sunday and then decide, Man, you know what
life happens. I don't know all my beliefs. This I
got questions. It's still there. It doesn't go anywhere. This
is legitimate. I'm not saying she might not be onto
(09:26):
something that I'm The thought of a nice ice cold
glass of Savion Blanc today with a little soup free.
I mean, it sounds delightful, but it also seems like
sending off a great man. That's the way you and
me being in there on a diet and not drinking
alcohol as that doesn't celebrate the life of a legend.
(09:48):
That's that's me. And then all I can say is
this is me. This is let me Jay. It gives
you a pass to have one drink.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It doesn't count, it does It doesn't count because you're staying.
You know, you're just staying in that ceremony. One drink
and I know I've done thirty three days. I mean,
I just know you're not you know, you're not out
there having drinks. You're celebrating the life of a man,
right with that one drink. So I think you should
get a pass for one drink.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, one, you have two. Then let's grab another phone
call on this. But that leads me to a foot.
We got to revisit this. Let's grab another line. Good morning,
Welcome to the show. What do you think? What am
I doing here? What do I do? Hello?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I heard Vinny talking about Larry in the drink. Yes,
it was what the high school with Larry is is
in my home room and a great farm and a
great man. But re mind Vinnie that Larry never drank alcohol.
He was a non alcoholic person. We go out to
lunch many times. He never would have a drink of anything.
(10:51):
So I don't think he's gonna mind whether.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That is so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Uh, you know, I was thinking of the last that
I went out to lunch with Larry, and in my
head I was trying there was something nagging at me.
I'm like, I don't know if Larry was he was
either a sophisticated cognac drinking man, or maybe he didn't
drink at all. Because he was just always so put
together and so gentlemanly. I actually, you know, I want
(11:18):
to send him off, right, But I feel like Larry
Drago was the kind of man who like, it's fine, Vinnie,
you don't need to drink in my honor. I think
you're right.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, listen, God bless Larry when I'm rest in peace.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, I'm sorry for your loss too, sir. That's that's
something when you have to say, you know, he was
in my homeroom. So I don't know that that that
informs things a bit more. Certainly, he was the kind
of man who would be like he wasn't a crack
up guy. He was just too too gentlemanly. But I
could see him being like, it's fine, Vinny, you don't
need to it's me though. Still, I don't feel like
(11:51):
I'm It's like Viking. Let me be honest with you.
It's like, I know, Jim, because you're probably thinking you're
no vinn. I've seen you in here with a migraine
and holding your head. You're not a warrior. But I
feel like if we're going to send the body out
to sea and shoot the arrow of it, I am
(12:11):
that kind of person. It doesn't feel legit to me.
My first ever radio quote unquote appearance, and the gentleman
working get the account executive who worked it. Today we
celebrate his life. He passed away this weekend at eighty
three years old. This is for real, this isn't And
his daughter reached out to me and she said, we're
going to be at this restaurant raising a glass to
(00:22):
my father. I haven't been drinking. It was not planned,
but I'm liking it. I feel like inflammation's going down,
not like I was a real boozy because I want
I drink white wine. We all know this. But then
you get to the point, Jim, where I'm able to say,
it's been twenty eight days, it's actually been more. Last
time I had a glass of wine, I had a
(00:43):
glass of wine on Christmas Eve? So how do I
raise a toast to celebrate the life of a man?
I love? This guy's the last of the great gentlemen,
one of a kind. I was suspicious of him at
first because I'm like, this guy's so absurdly nice. He
must go home and kick like a small dog. He
(01:05):
couldn't be this night. It's just a nice He's old school,
like he never changed with the times. Four of the times,
wasn't a slave to the times. And he passed away
beloved his two daughters beside him, his wife having already
passed fifty years of marriage. A slew of clients that
he called friends, and they called him friend right back.
(01:27):
And they'll be there today too. Now, Jimmy Jay says
to me here. Then he's like, you are the second.
Two times today Jimmy called me weird. I don't. There's
a lot of words, it's not weird. And Jimmy's like,
just drink a non alcoholic beer. Is that celebrating the life? Though?
What do alcoholics do? And there's a genuine question, and
(01:50):
I'm not what is an alcoholic? They gotta drink, you know,
we're raising a glass. They gotta drink what ginger ale
whatever have to celebrating the light? You know, that Catholic upbringing,
that Catholic school upbringing, it they left its mark. Man,
I feel like it's it's not legit. If I don't
(02:15):
drink too a lett say the truth, sip on a
little scotch, not that I don't even doubt. It was
old school. He was like mad men. Larry Drago was
like mad men. Well, I didn't watch that show enough.
That might be a horrible thing to you know, John
Haven there. They might have been horrible men in that show,
but he was an old school He probably ended his
(02:35):
day with some bidders. Yeah, three fam trying to think,
you know, gimlet what I don't know? Do I do?
I I have to today? It can it's dry January,
no more to raise a glass and celebrate the life
of a great man. I have to drink today? Do
(02:55):
I not? One? Drink? One glass of wine? Eight? Four four,
fourteen ten? Really want your help? Let's start with line one.
Should I drink or should I go?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hi? Then?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So it's not so much about what you have in
the glass, it's what you have in your heart for
this man. And it sounds like you have a lot
in your heart right, a lot of love for him.
I do. So who cares if it's water in the
glass or you know, it's actual alcohol. If you're on
you know, a little trends not drinking, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, so it is. I stumbled onto it and I'm
liking it. But I feel like it's not a legitimate toast.
Is that a odd? I feel like it's some substitution
and it's not for a re an excuse for you
to drink what I'm doing. You know, let's get deep
my feed, dear. I don't know, but let's be honest
(03:48):
like it think of it and anointing and if you
found out it wasn't holy water, like I really believe
it's that Catholic school upbringing in me really has ingrained.
Like you know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Think I don't think it has anything to do with religion.
I think it has to do with what's in your
heart for the man. Like if you were an alcoholic, right,
and you're going to if you're going to and you're
not obviously right, but let's just say you were, and
you're going to go celebrate someone's life and they're like, oh,
let's raise a toast. Are you not? Are you not
(04:23):
celebrating that man's life because there's no alcohol in your
in your glass? You know?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, Because the fact of the matter is there's going
to be people there today who are who don't drink,
and they're going to raise the glass and they would
probably think this question is really ridiculous. You know, Glenn
Beck hasn't had a drink in over thirty years. He's right,
he raises the glass to people's lives. But I swear
I've got this Catholic pang of this isn't for real.
(04:51):
I'm not holding up the blood of Christ God.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I really I think you need to dig down deep
and really ask yourself. Is that the reason? Are you
trying to make an excuse me? That's the way I
think it's going on here.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think, well, look it's possible. I don't know, and
I know myself, you know, I barely do feel. But
in the past year I've surprised myself a few times.
I was sharing something with Jimmy earlier. This morning, I
discovered by myself that I'm like, damn, I never knew
I was that traditional and something I've I've found kind
(05:25):
of off putting to me. So I don't know what's
up here. It's either Catholic like this isn't legit, or yes,
deep down I need a little Pino Gricio. I don't know,
my dear, I wish I knew. I don't know how
it's going to play out. I'm gonna have a lot
of peer pressure there too.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Everybody's gonna be watching you now.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, and there's one guy there who said to me,
your drinking. He worked with this gentleman even longer than
I did, and he's like he's he's been saying to me,
he's bad news. His name's Ross, Ross Cooper. I'm gonna
call him out. And he said to me, we're we're
having a drink can Larry's honor. He said that, So
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Now, you gotta be careful of those drink pushers runs
like food pushers, right, you gotta be careful. Yeah, because
one drink way it leads to two. Then and then
where's that gonna lead to?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And then I don't get to say anymore. It's been
twenty eight days. It's actually been more, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I onta right now.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Since Christmas Eve. That was my last cocktail. We'll see
how it goes. I'll be honest. You can count on
me telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I'll have to listen. We'll have to listen to
see what you did.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I appreciate your insight. You might be onto something too.
We'll see. All right, Ben, take care of there, have
a good day. You too, need some more calls on
this eight four four nine sixty fourteen ten. Jamie's holding
up here it's been thirty three days now, we've given
a number to it. The fact is I've probably done
thirty three days before. Just didn't it because I mean,
(06:49):
I usually drink with dinner, like I'm just or when
making dinner. I can't even think of the last time
it was, let's all meet for drinks. I can't even remember.
That's the stuff of the eighties and the nineties and
people don't even do that anymore. But I mean, so
think about it. What if your child was baptized and
(07:15):
the water wasn't yeah, and you found out the priest
wasn't drinking wine, and he's like, I don't drink wine,
that's grape juice. Now my kid's not baptized. I believe
that's really legitimately something going on with me. So you
have to do the dumped a lot on Jimmy this morning,
even off the air because he said you are weird.
(07:37):
But that is my thought process, like that priest better
be drilling that better not be grape juice. If you're
baptizing my kid, you gotta be drinking wine. There's gotta
be a communion wafer, and I don't want them to barget,
you know, Costco wafers.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Your commitment to the ceremony, right, because that's what really is.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah right, it's legit. It is legit. I mean, I
mean I do.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I was raised Catholic as well, and I understand what
you're I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Like the uh, A lot of the uh. I hesitated
to use the word guilt, but the stuff, ty, it's
dogged me my whole life, Jim, that that Catholic bringing.
H I loved it. I loved my childhood. I loved
my upbringing. I loved being an Ultimore I mean I did.
I realized the scandal this and that. I mean whatever,
(08:24):
my life was, what it was, it was a great father.
George is my main man. He was, you know, a
key figure in my life. He was always drinking wine,
you know what I mean. That's what we loved him.
I shouldn't say that's what we loved about him, but
I mean he was. But the underpinnings are very strong,
very strong. They kind of baffle my kids. They're like,
(08:44):
we heard you talking in the other room. What were
you talking to? And I'm like God, And they're like, oh,
does he talk back? And I'm like he has it
in a while. But we have a very close relationship.
It's it's very strong, Jim. You can't start every day
saying the Our Father and doing the Rosary at the
(09:05):
age of three and four and do that until you're sixteen,
church every Sunday and then decide, Man, you know what
life happens. I don't know all my beliefs. This I
got questions. It's still there. It doesn't go anywhere. This
is legitimate. I'm not saying she might not be onto
(09:26):
something that I'm The thought of a nice ice cold
glass of Savion Blanc today with a little soup free.
I mean, it sounds delightful, but it also seems like
sending off a great man. That's the way you and
me being in there on a diet and not drinking
alcohol as that doesn't celebrate the life of a legend.
(09:48):
That's that's me. And then all I can say is
this is me. This is let me Jay. It gives
you a pass to have one drink.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It doesn't count, it does It doesn't count because you're staying.
You know, you're just staying in that ceremony. One drink
and I know I've done thirty three days. I mean,
I just know you're not you know, you're not out
there having drinks. You're celebrating the life of a man,
right with that one drink. So I think you should
get a pass for one drink.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, one, you have two. Then let's grab another phone
call on this. But that leads me to a foot.
We got to revisit this. Let's grab another line. Good morning,
Welcome to the show. What do you think? What am
I doing here? What do I do? Hello?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I heard Vinny talking about Larry in the drink. Yes,
it was what the high school with Larry is is
in my home room and a great farm and a
great man. But re mind Vinnie that Larry never drank alcohol.
He was a non alcoholic person. We go out to
lunch many times. He never would have a drink of anything.
(10:51):
So I don't think he's gonna mind whether.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That is so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Uh, you know, I was thinking of the last that
I went out to lunch with Larry, and in my
head I was trying there was something nagging at me.
I'm like, I don't know if Larry was he was
either a sophisticated cognac drinking man, or maybe he didn't
drink at all. Because he was just always so put
together and so gentlemanly. I actually, you know, I want
(11:18):
to send him off, right, But I feel like Larry
Drago was the kind of man who like, it's fine, Vinnie,
you don't need to drink in my honor. I think
you're right.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, listen, God bless Larry when I'm rest in peace.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, I'm sorry for your loss too, sir. That's that's
something when you have to say, you know, he was
in my homeroom. So I don't know that that that
informs things a bit more. Certainly, he was the kind
of man who would be like he wasn't a crack
up guy. He was just too too gentlemanly. But I
could see him being like, it's fine, Vinny, you don't
need to it's me though. Still, I don't feel like
(11:51):
I'm It's like Viking. Let me be honest with you.
It's like, I know, Jim, because you're probably thinking you're
no vinn. I've seen you in here with a migraine
and holding your head. You're not a warrior. But I
feel like if we're going to send the body out
to sea and shoot the arrow of it, I am
(12:11):
that kind of person. It doesn't feel legit to me.
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