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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, ladies and gentlemen, the big oh new
episode you don't want to miss. It's a big one.
Now the Tarsi along with the Goddess of music herself, Caroline,
and we have a very special guest.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, actually a legend.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Well when you say especially me like short bust special. Yes, yes,
I left my hockey olement at home. I'm sorry for like, yes,
don't say that. And it's okay to call him a douche.
Ste You can call me a douche all day long.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, one and only Steve Douche Gorilla.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And we'll explain to all about the douche stuff in
a bit. But Steve is an honor to be for
you to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Actually, you know, the that whole story that took place
like just ten blocks from here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, we're gonna talk about that too. So with that,
w TF TV starts.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Now, all right, all right, all right, all right, coming
(01:13):
to you from.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
The Hudson Yards even Times Square in New York City,
where everything is happening, anything that happened here. We have
a very special guest here tonight, coming on in just
a few moments, all right, now, the tourist this week
as always, Ladies and gentlemen, Joon along with me is
Caroline Stewart.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hey, how's your hole there? This is Caroline Stewart in
the city so nice they named it twice New York,
New York. Not that far from the Jacob Javits Center,
not that far from the center of the universe, that
is Time Square.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have here our very
special guest. Once again, we have the one and the only,
Steve Grello.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Hi, Hi, how you do. I'm not even supposed to
be here today, son, honor. I appreciate you. I appreciate that.
It's very flattering. I'm like Dante from Clerks, Although you
know I should. I give out a big shout out
to my boy Brian O'Halleran, who was nice enough to
read the book and give me a nice compliment on
(02:07):
the book. But he's also on that new show on
Fox the Floor, yes, airing I think kind of right now,
and he's just a very good friend and very smart person,
and he's always been nothing but nice to me. So
big ups to Brian O'Halleran. I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Here today, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I appreciate you here yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, this
is not your first appearance on the show. You've been
here before. You the last time you were here, actually
you were here when the show was live. We were
on fifty Nice Street at the time that legendary is
talking about legendary. Yeah, yeah, we were live and we
had the champion big time.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Jason's that guy. I remember him.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's so funny, like, I love your connection to professional wrestling.
And oddly enough, the guy that I co wrote a
book with, Jason, who's wrote a play. It's a rock
opera for professional wrestling called The Last Match.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think it was in Queen somewhere, right, Yeah, yeah,
I couldn't go that night.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's kind of amazing that I love the fact that
you have that connection. And uh, you know, maybe next
time I'll have it. He couldn't be here to time,
but that next time I'll have him on your just
because you guys have the professional wrestling thing. He's so
cool and uh he got professional wrestlers that are singers, Like,
how do you like getting those giant guys that could
like take you and throw you across the ring, and
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then they really got great voices.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It's like pretty amazing, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Like you whipped my ass by a baritone.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, that wild So Steve now the last for those
who don't know who Steve is, and here's a lot
of people, but you will, yeah, you will. You were
actually a intern for Howard Stern many many years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, I don't say many too many times.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes, Howard Ster And for those who don't know what
that is, the Howard stereoar Show was a absolute mecca
for nighttime TV.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
At least for me it was, and it was an
absolute honor watching that show. Well that's yeah, and it
was for so many people, just not anymore. I unfortunately,
I was lucky enough to be there from like nineteen one,
ninety ninety one to like almost nineteen ninety eight, it
was after ninety eight, and I got to experienced some
of the most amazing groundbreaking radio that was ever created
(04:16):
in God's Green Earth.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Now, speaking of which, like you said, you've done it
since the nineties, and obviously you're seeing this now because
we have the technology. Like, what is your thoughts that
knowing that this is.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So advanced, it's so advanced, it would have made my
life a lot easier back in the day. Because there
was a lot of research that we had to be
done that was actually like where I had to go
to a newspaper and actually read something. Yeah, yeah, where
now you could just pick up your phone and everything
that is it's just so accessible. Yeah, it would have
been a different world. But back then, when things happened,
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it happened live, and it happened for real, and there
was no bullshit or phoniness about what happened. And it
was just an amazing, just shit storm of perfectness, you
know what I'm saying, Like like the amount of like
the just like between you know, Jackie a Joke, man
Fred Norris, Robin Quivers, Howard Stern, like you know, even
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Scott the engineer, Billy West. There was all these like
great people that were a perfect you know, like Mike
Gandy and then the E Crew came in. It was
like Scott Einjinger and Doug Goodstein and Mike Gangy they
we all were part of making history and it was
such an amazing, amazing time in my life. I was
so lucky.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I was I was so young, nothing nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I was one of those viewers myself as a teenager,
even in high school, I would say yeah, and that
was something I don't think be replicated at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It was just I literally just got out of high school,
like I was literally like freshman in college and Hunter.
I got in because wrestling, and then I found out
that six hundred Madison Avenue was down the block. When
I found out that six hundred Madison Avenue was down
the block, I literally like Howard was on the air
and he was like, send your letters is six hundred
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Madison Avenue. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
I'm on Lexington Madison. So I literally got up out
of class and I walked down Madison Avenue and walked
into six hundred Madison Avenue, and uh, the day I
walked through those doors and choose Wow, Yeah, that is class.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean, like you know, you know, submitting your internship,
you know, resume, through that, through that, especially saying it
on the air, Hey, submit your emails, I mean submit
There was no emails then, no, no, you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Didn't say anything about emails yet. It was just like
I just foun the address. You had to set a
physical letter, yeah yeah, yeah yeah. But then it wasn't
until like maybe like maybe like a month or so
later where I did hear they were looking for interns.
And now I was a fan, Like you know, I
used to was listening to my you know, in my
senior year in my car, like there goes the late
bell and I'm still in the car, go to commercial
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damn it, you know, I couldn't stop listening. And then
all of a sudden I used to hear Gangie and stuttering.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
John on there, and I'm like, you know, those motherfuckers
could do that, so can I? Yeah the hell today?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Man? You know? Yeah? Yeah, well I guess John got
a startup with like Ganji, who was you know, became
my roommate for five or six years, who was the
most wonderful person in the planet.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I was like, why have GANGI is there? Why can't
I be there?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And then I found that that they were down the block.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I was like, yeah, yes, exactly, you know like
I said, I remember, I said, you know, they didn't
do emails.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
They even had Lincoln then, So this is nothing that
was a phone call, a phone call or even like
a physical letters that's phone books. No, But like well
that's that's sort of like the story again all this
I can't believe. I'm promoting a book. I wrote a book.
You have a book, but we're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But show but this is all in the book.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I originally when I heard, I sent the professional resume
and like one of my answers, like you know a secretary.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I went to her house.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
She wrote this like she printed out, not even printed,
she typed up this like professional resume.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That I dropped off, and I went down and I
dropped off.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
The radio station. And then I didn't hear anything nice,
and I got like I was annoyed. But that was
like sort of the into my freshman year. And then
at the beginning of my technically freshman second year, like
freshman yeah, yeah, I heard that they were looking again.
It was like in the fall. So this time I
decided I was going to do a little something different,
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little something real. So I hand wrote a letter in
my spiral notebook and I misspelled things and did everything
possible that can make it look pathetic in hopes so
maybe the professional one didn't go well well the first time,
maybe my pathetic second chance will help me get to
the next level. And I ripped it out of the
(08:37):
spiral notebook, kept all the phrase on it, so like
when you ripped it out, remember the spiral notebings.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It was just like it was like and I stuffed
it into.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
An envelope and I went down to six hundred Medisine
and I dropped it off had Nancy the receptionist, and wow.
Two days later I told my you know, my sisters
like six years younger than me, and this is like,
you know, so I was like, if somebody calls, please,
I was very nice about it. I love my little sister,
Like yes, yeah, but I was very nice about it, Hypertricia.
(09:06):
We just got to do an argument anyway, someone else. Yeah,
I had the glitter before we got even anyway. No, no,
there's much love between me and my sister. So I said,
just do me a favorite, like if someone close, could
you just please write down the number number? Yeah, right,
And I'll never.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Forget because I can't tell you what happened last week.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't is today Thursday, Today is Tuesday, Tuesday, something
like that, so it's not it's only Tuesday. Okay, So
so that's the joke. But that you get what I'm saying.
I can still recall exactly because I lived in Kinasley, Brooklyn.
I wasn't allowed to have a leather jacket. Oh really, well,
because my I guess I was gonna get jumped. You're
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gonna get robbed if you got a leather jacket. Oh
that was a different time. Yeah, yeah no, but you know.
And so I my friend's mother worked at Alexander's at
King's Plaza. Then she got like forty five percent discount,
and there was this dope ass three quarter length leather
jacket that was on sale from like three hundred and
fifty dollars that I got off for like fifty bucks.
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So I came home rocking that leather three quarter of
leather jacket. Because now I'm in college, I do nothing
to my mother. Coul dude, it tell me I can't
have a leather jacket anyway. So I walked in rocking
that leather coat, and I said, anybody called she Goes? Oh,
I think somebody called? I said, what do you mean
you think someone called? Who called she Goes? Some guy?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I was like?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
What guy?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
She was?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Like?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I think his name was Gary? I go, did you
take a fucking number?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
She Goes?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
No, I asked you one goddamn thing. So there I
am screaming.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
At my little sister, and I never forgot. She was
on that like the recliner chair and I jumped on
her and I was grabbed. I grabbed my shoulder.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Are you sure wasn't Gary?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
This is that My mother just grabbed me by the
back of the air when I had it. I don't
know if you had I don't know you remember, but
the back Yeah, at the very base of your neck.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Man, you're just like a kitt and you're just like paralyzed.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I know when I had hair, but I know to me, Mom, I.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Got the flying fuck off your sister?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Who do you take turns of? It was Gary Della
bade Eric Gary Della Parte known as and that was
That was the phone call that changed my life. That
almost didn't happen. Wow, my little sister was lazy.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And I was.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I was at Alexander's buying my first three quarter length
the best of the jacket. Yeah, well exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well so since so from that, for those years that
you were on the Stern Show, you you actually appeared
as well to not just you know, being an intern.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Not not. I didn't go on there to be famous.
I just knew while I was there that this was
the place, This was the joint. Well, almost every staff
member was on the air sound dude. I really didn't
like get embarrassed in front of twenty million people on
the daily basis.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It was not fun like some people did. They got
off on it.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I didn't. I just wanted to do a good job,
and I just knew how lucky it was to be there,
and I just wanted to stay there and do a
good job and stay as long as I possibly could.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
That of all the years that you have been there,
what or who was your favorite guest.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's a tough one, and it goes down to like
almost like old school comedians. I would have to say, possibly,
God rest, they're all fucking dead now. Richard Simmons. Richard Simmons,
when he came in the room, he literally filled the
room with joy and happiness. He was the epitome of gay.
He was, obviously because what you see is what you get, Yeah,
(12:34):
but his his joy and and and caring and loveliness
filled the room. He'd come in and sit on your lap.
He he'd bring a basket of bagels. I remember used
to come out like it wasn't like given like a
bag of bagels. It was like a wicker basket full
of bagels and stuffing like, and he was just and
he filled the room and he was just run around.
Good morning. Everybody knew everybody's name.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Uh there was Pat Cooper, Pat Cooper, I remember Pat.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Pat Cooper was one of my favorites because he was
just he happened just happened to like me. But he
was just so angry. And Howard just knew how to
get underneath the skin. And it was so funny.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, he would get so angry just the littlest things.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I remember that, possibly the funniest person ever who we
literally couldn't even answer the phones because we were hysterical
laughing in the back. We couldn't Breathe was fucking Gilbert Goffrey.
Oh that's another one. Gilbert Gofrey.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah, I know, but I'm friends with his wife.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I've known Gilbert for so long. We actually dated one
girl that we sort of saw the same girl. Yes, yeah,
it's in the book, and uh, like everything a book.
Giliery come in.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
He was so weird.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He'd have his backpack on and even good morning. Yeah,
and then you got so too. Joe's going to a bar,
you know, like he turned it off and they got
Joe a katack and a black guy goes into the bar,
and the bar to this.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Says, what is this a fucking joke?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You know, like sounds like a Gilbert go for each
out there, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
And Dracula Godfreed like ship like that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
We were just like in the office, we couldn't even
pick up the phone because we were hysterical after and
like Gilbert, look.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, he would do ship like that.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Man. He it was so sad that he passed. Uh
he had. I couldn't believe that he actually got married
and had to his kids. I follow his wife on
old social media and the kids she's She's could sort
of sort of backed away a little bit since I
got his passing, But it was like his son looked
just like his son was just like him, you know
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what I'm saying, And then they both have like the
great they have his personality and uh yeah, like Gilbert.
And I wrote that because I worked at this restaurant
called Bernelli's Wow, and it was uh on the seventy
fifth in York, and it was pretty much at that
point it was like a mafia restaurant.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, at some.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Point and it's heyday. It had, you know, because I
got Tony Bennett's daughter to sing there. So like, you know,
these like all these heavy hitters started hanging out there.
So one night Gilbert came in with a bunch of
people from the sopranos. It was like, these are all
people I work with because I was Anthony Junior standing
and so there was my.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Buddy speak of which you were the stand in for,
you know, Robert Eiler, which is a soprano.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah. Yeah, how was that experienced bat Well, we'll get
to that in the second.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Like Jeff Marqutty and Vinnie past Story came in and
somehow another Gilberg Goffrey was tagging along for a freemale
because he was definitely a cheap drew.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
There's no oh yeah yeah, yeah, oh no, he was
extremely cheap.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But that is Ron Jeremy. But oh whoa, we can.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Get into that too.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He's in the book.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So but Gilbert stand there and I go and I
just I just I knew look around, man, He's like
what what I She's that guy over there, that guy
did thirty years for keeping his mouth shut. She that
guy over there, that guy said murderer. I said, you
better not step on anybody's shoes. Hi here man, because
put you right in the trunk.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Wooo.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Like there were all my friends and it was all true,
but like, uh it was uh, there was some heavy
hitters there. But when I told him that he was, he,
uh he didn't stay too long. He took his female
and he left. Yeah, I was surprised you didn't pack
it up in the Yeah, exactly. No. But Gilbert was
h Yeah, he was definitely someone that complete opposite if
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you met him on the shoet.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, I can imagine that because I heard he had
a reputation of walking for where he lived in Chelsea
to the studio, went out taking a subway or nothing,
just to avoid paying just to get there.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah yeah no, yeah, like I said, I dated somebody
that like was at his point. She said that he
had a closet full of pennies, like like like a
closet full of pennies, Yeah, like rolled off pennies, like
got like a closet for and then he was paying
like like twentred and fifty dollars a month in rent
because he was uh it was rent control. Yeah. So
then when they found out that he was a multi
millionaire you know actor.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
They were you're ready here?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah yeah, I mean yeah you think it got the
hit when yeah, pretty much exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
You know you're a parrot.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah flack yeah, half flat the money right here, motherfucker. Yeah.
So but eventually they figured out that he was making
millions and paying tunes and fifty dollars. Run much respect
to Gilbert got rest his soul. I can't believe he
passed away. Oh did you ever watch that that one
documentary they did, But that one joke that went on
forever and Gilbert just like he just took it to
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another level where there there's no human beings.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Should ever think like that?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, because it's it's like if one joke turned into
something a totally different thing.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And then they brought in the cool whip, you know,
like it was like, where.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Is this coming from? You gotta love Gilbert shout out
to Yeah. So so my favorite guests, uh yeah, you know,
of course I can go. But he wasn't on a
frequent guest. But like Mark Hamill, Mark Hamill, I'm a
big Star Wars fan. The fact that when he came
on and he knew who I was I almost literally
blacked out nice I mean by listening to the show.
Of course you hear your name Steve Grello, Like, who
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is that? But the funny thing is, I see one
of the few times I could probably say maybe I
don't even remember asking for an autograph from anybody ever,
because that's why I stayed as long as I did.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
But but when Mark Hamill came on, I was like,
can I can I can I like some stuff? The
guy was cool.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He goes, look, I know you're a big fan, he said,
But because I heard Mark's a fan, he said, but
I got we gotta feel him out. And he came
in with his his wife Mary Lou and his son
Nathan Griffin, and his daughter Chelsea, and Chelsea had to
be like four, Chelsea is now his manager. She was
like four, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
So it turns out he was a huge fan.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, And but he he left his uh book in
the studio, oh wow, and he was like. I was like,
I could have went in and got it, but I
was like, I gotta wait for a commercial break. Can
I take you and your family for a little on
the radio?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Sta And I did, and uh it was like, that's
where I kind of like got.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
To know them. But the one most amazing thing that
I'll never forget for the rest of my life is
I was standing there waiting for HOWRD to go to
break and Mark goes, I didn't get your name.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I was like, oh, Steve Grillo. He goes, Oh my god,
you're Grilla.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I was like, like, what, Luke Scarworker knows where the
funk I am? That's hilarious. That's great.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god, yeah yeah, that is great,
And it's funny so many ways, because you know, you
wouldn't expect somebody like him to say, oh no.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Never never, you know, like I you know, it was
like to go home and tell my friends, I was like, oh, yeah, well, Luke,
who I am?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Looks like I was like, I rubbed it right in there,
you know. So it was pretty cool. So I uh,
I wanted to becoming friends with him and his family
over the years.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And one of my favorite stories that I tell in
the book is that, uh, you know, but a lot
of people probably don't realize is Mark is actually an
accomplished theater actor, right, and he's done a lot of
Broadway and so back right, after he got done with
Star Wars, he did a lot of Broadway and uh
so they had this really dope best apartment on Central
Park West that was like five bedrooms that had like
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maids quarters and shit like like when Mark really cashed
in from Star Wars, he invested into an apartment where
he could be closer to the Broadways. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, but one quick thing because before anything else, because
I mentioned earlier, you're known as a douche.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
So do you want to give context of what what
that is? Because yeah, no, no, there's there's a fucked
up story behind that. And it just goes to like
it really goes to like ingrateful people, people that are
just not like the people that like they think that
you know, you guys want to go to dinner, right,
I'll take you to dinner. Right. If I say I'm
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taking you to dinner, that means I'm paying, right, So
if I'm paying, right, So, are you gonna order twenty
five drinks? No? No? No? Okay, okay, great? Maybe two? Yeah,
that's respectful r right, But yeah, you don't know one
of the fucking staking lobster you wrote the chicken pummes on.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Right, So you're just just what.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
That's good to know.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
So thanks Caroline for mentioning that. So I uh I
I did the intern show. I guess because you know,
when Howard went this series, he I think he was
it was it was his dream to have like two
channels of programming twenty four hours a day. I think
he overstepped his boundaries on top of the fact that
he also got a truckload of money and just didn't
really want to work that hard when you have to
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realize you're programming twenty four hours of two channels, right,
So in the beginning, if everybody remembers everybody that Jackie
had to show, Chuck Zito had to show, you know,
like the interns had to show everyone. So because he
was had he had to fill twenty four hours of
the day of like and they drove him nuts because
he had no control. And when you were you're an
egomania ag narciss says billionaire, and you don't have control,
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that'll that'll that'll bug you out. So he spread himself
way too thin in the beginning, and so the interns
had a show, and I was the one intern that
wounded up staying there was I forget his name is
Steve or so I think it might have been Steve.
Steve the Intern. Yeah, Steve the interne he not con
confused with You know, I'm a douche, remember that. But
this is where that, this is where the douche comes from. Yes,
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Steve the Intern invited me onto the show with that
group of intentions. I were for that season and my
friend just happened to get a job manager mister Biggs,
which is ten blocks from where we are right now
on tenth Avenue and ten and forty and forty third Street,
less than ten blocks. I would say, we'll go there,
but no, I'm not buying you guys drinks. Sorry, things
(22:38):
are a little thing right now until.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
The book comes out.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, exactly, I'm kidding, but I'm not anyway, I said
to the interns, I said, my friend just started managing
at this placed, mister Biggs. If you want to come
down there, I'm going there for drinks. So these self
rightous douchebags, like literally for real thought by me.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Inviting them down.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I just said, I'm going there for drinks if you
want to meet me, right It doesn't mean I'm buying
you drinks. Okay. I didn't say exactly like I do.
What am I saying to being I'll take you to dinner?
That means I'm taking you to dinner. That means I'm paintreained.
I didn't say I'm taking you for drinks. I said
do you want to meet me for drinks?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So these uh, these interns assume that because I said that, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
But instead of just.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Going, oh, I'll have a couple of drinks, they were
ordering top shelf liquor. Like everything was patron like. I
was like, this is before, but like, but this is
one Patron's like now eighteen dollars a shot. Back then
it was like fourteen dollars a shot. It was kind
of a hurdle, like if you ordered Petron, you had money. Yeah, okay,
these kids, I was like, wow, these kids must be
(23:47):
fucking rich. They keep ordering all this expensive fucking liquor, right,
and not on that that they're ordering, Oh, let's get
another order of wings. Oh I'll have two more burgers.
I'll take a burger home I go, but not realizing
I was gonna be on them. Yeah, So I was
like wow, because nothing nothing. If you're over twenty one
years old and you're out with me. That means you
(24:08):
are able to take care of your own shit. Yeahume, No,
when the bill I bought around the drinks, which costs
me a missed one hundred dollars. Okay, my friend who
was the manager, gave them like a twenty percent discount,
took one hundred and sixty something dollars off the bill,
but in the end the bill was still like almost
five hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Because they thought they were like, they thought they were
taking advantage of me.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
So and I'm going I thought your kids are rich.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So she had they had to call Tracy up, who
Tracy Millman, who I infinitely she had to fight with
on the air. She had to come down here and
pay the bill. Oh so that's why she was mad
at me. But she thought that I took advantage of
the interns, which yeah, in reality, these kids took advantage
of me. So when not only that, So when I
went on the air to she was going off on me. Okay,
(24:58):
that's where the doucee came in. Okay, and the top
shelf liquor thing came in. But I didn't realize until
I heard later on that Howard turned my mic off.
Oh so I didn't have any He just lets Tracy
go off.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
On me and my microphone was off. Oh and I
didn't realize that, and.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It just made you look like a chance exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So and he was he was. I was there defending myself,
screaming and calling her horrible names that I wouldn't call
her now. But exactly that. That's how the whole douche thing.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Came right exactly in thought they were taking advantage of me,
right exactly so.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
But before we go.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Shout out to ninety four photos, first things first, and
he's there, you know, doing the controls, and we shot
some behind the scenes. Yeah exactly, So we shot some
behind the scenes you know, of what we've been doing here,
and Steve coming into the building.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So let's just check that out and we'll be right back. Cool. Hey,
(26:15):
Steve ain't doing man much better now than I'm here. Mother, alright,
let's do alright, here we go. You I didn't watch
your brothers.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm got a set send back, says.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Ry.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You can't see second shot I.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Amazon, I'm so publishing it, and a little bit of
a seat back. But still it wasn't I have real sex.
That's wrapped. Yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
All right, guys, welcome back. That was a great behind
the scenes you know, just Steve coming into the building.
What do you think of this building?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
By the way, because smoking bro, this is a dope
at studio and got a bit. I'm a little goddamn jealous.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, it's from better than the fifty ninth Street when
I tell you that, Well, it's no longer.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Like short of opened. This is more definitely like a
podcast forum. Yes, you know, this is kind of what
I had before the pandemic I had. I had a
nice setup on fiftieth Street. It was it was just
as nice as this. I had Like someone like that
was a producer, my friend. It was his spot and
he uh was kind enough to like let me do
everything for free. That's where I did my after Shock
(27:49):
XCEL radio show from I had some great guests I had.
I was getting like one hundred and twenty thousand views
in abers. Yeah, after Shock it's still on YouTube if
you yeah, I'm gonna be after Shock exceloge Uh, it's
coming back. I got to coming back. Now that I
see something like this, I'm a little more I meanable
to like maybe guy making something like this happen for you,
like I missed doing it. It's sort of just like
(28:10):
my second nature. Like I always say, like, you know,
uh uh, doctors go to school for eight years. I
went through the Harvard Medical Radio School of eight years.
So this is my background. This is where I feel
the most comfortable.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So and I remember after shot one of my favorite
parts is where you were talking about Rodney Dangerfield and
his inexperiencing and Caddy shops, which I love a good
caddy shot story.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So, oh yeah, so if you if you if you
didn't know Carolyn, He he didn't. He was so used
to being doing a stand up He like when you
tell the Joe, people laugh. So the first day on
set he was like, it was, oh, my arm is broken,
you know, like so nobody laughed, and he said, I sit,
I'm quitting.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I'm walking out of here. And they're like why, They're like,
nobody laughed, I'm not funny, and he goes, but they
were like, Rodney, the sound is rolling.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
The whole crew was hysterical laughing.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Chasing that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Because he's not used to being around a film set.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
He was more around a crowd in the comedy club.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, so everybody, Yeah, exactly. So that was his first
feature role, that was And so what I do love
about the Roddy days Felders fact but apparently he always
had like a vile of cocaine around his neck.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
That makes yeah, yeah, he was like he always had.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
So I here's another little interesting So, like I don't
know if you remember, there's an infamous story about me
and Mike Ganji. Our first apartment was like first it
was Jackie the Jokeman's, and it was Starting John's, and
then it was Whining Gangs and we even fence got thrown,
like the building found out that we were there illegally
to believe. But before it was Jackie the joke Man's
And if you remember where was this was sixty fifth
between First New York down the block was Dangerfields Comedy Club. Yeah,
(29:49):
so one of the main comics there was a gentleman
by the name of Dennis Blair, and that was Dennis
Blair's apartment. So when we had to move, I went
through like this closet and I guess who wrote Easy Money?
Dennis Blair. Oh, and I found a bunch of scripts,
handwritten corrections of Easy Money that I still have my
That's Crazy Money is possibly one of my favorite movies
(30:10):
of all time. Yeah, that's the one with the dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
So Rose, there's a mister Smid in the kitchen. Go
clean it up.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So now with that said, we're here.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You're here to promote this book that you've been talking
about for some time with me.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah. And that part, yeah, goriller parts, Well, yeah, I
had to.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I had to give a little.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
A little few to Howard, you know what I'm saying,
a little smage, private parts, guerrilla parts. At first, there
was gonna be public parts, but I started to understand
at some point that I'm going to have to incorporate
these words that are viral, like douche and gorilla and
top shelf and somehow into yeah. Yeah, so you could
(30:53):
see uh, you know top shelf stories from the world
most famous you know. Yeah, see there it is right here.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So now the funny part.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
That's the picture of me when I was twelve years old,
little fucking wise ass, right, because that's where that's why
your ex wife is she's goed, she goes me lbs
little boy, Steve. Oh so that picture my one of
my very dear friends, Jonathan Martinez God, he's a combat
veteran army ranger, right, So he goes to a lot
of physical therapy.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
So I have my place up state and he was
at the physical.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Derpists and he was like, oh, I was at you know,
normal conversation on him Tuesday, like what would you do
this weekend? Oh? Is that my friend's place up state?
And the Catskills where Wurtzboro really Wurtzboro Malvernon Road. Yeah,
turns out that girl took that picture of me when
I was twelve years old, is physical deropist.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, because my last name is Gorilla, but my mother's
maiden name is Cox. And that we were that was
we were the big Irish Yeah. No, it's not the
first time, but but we were the big Irish family there.
And she goes, I don't remember you. I go, well,
you probably remember my aunt Maureen, my aunt Doreen, my
and Karen. I was the little I was a nephew
that they used to have to like, that was the
tag along. She goes, oh, my god, I have a
(32:05):
picture of you. Oh my god, and that's the picture. Wow,
that's awesome. So yeah, and I'm gon go and take
the fucking picture like I was being I was like
I was annoyed, and look I have sing Jude on
my shirt, right, Saint Jude.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
So anyway, so with that, the book is coming out
very soon on March first, right, yeah, you're data As
of right now, I.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Should be able to pre order on an Amazon and uh,
I'll have the audible up before the whole entire big release.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
It's supposed to be March first.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We had a couple of correction things that it could
be still March first or the IDEs of March, which
had kind of fun day to say, uh so in
March fifteenth. But it's it'll be out there. It's all
those stories I told and a lot more. It's so
funny because I had to, Uh, I had my day.
I called them my nieces. They're not blood nieces, but
(32:54):
like you know, they're like fifteen years old, and they
even they were like eagerly awaiting each chapter. They kind
of like would my little part of inspiration. And then
and then then then I got to rate it R
and I was like no more, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I had about good and six chapters in before it
got filthy, and and my mom and my mom had
to read it. Too. Yeah, exactly, so Steve, this book
(33:16):
is coming out soon. Looking forward to him. Man, but
thank you, Steve, had been coming on. You're awesome thing
you ever want know.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
We always put me in the subway.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, it's always meant to be so, Kerolyn, Where can
we find you? First?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And you can find me on linktree dot com forward
slash Goddess of Music eighty seven where you can find
all of my social media content, including my band in
the Next Life at linktree dot com forward Slash in
the Next Life.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And she's in the band. Steve, you're in the band.
I would definitely come and check you out. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And Steve, where can we find you on social.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I'm Gorillavator on Instagram, TikTok. I think it's just Steve Grillow.
Facebook is Steve Grillow? Uh and uh action is Steve
Gorilla gotch cool. I don't know why. I didn't know what.
I didn't know that it was gonna be just important
when it comes down to that that the social media
I would have been a little more consistent. I didn't
(34:02):
really pay attention to it. Now all of a sudden,
it's my goddamn life.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, exactly, so with that, thank you Steve for coming
on once again, hopefully come on again. And when the
book comes on.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
For Gorilla Parts not Private Parts, Gorilla not Private Parts
by Howard Stern, Guerrilla Parts by Steve Grillo, there you go,
coming out in March, very very soon, all right, So
with so much for having me, no problem.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Will see you guys next week and it's all new
episodes of WTFTV and Steve once again for coming on.
Thank you, thank you, all right, Well, see you guys
next week